Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram

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Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram
Crest of Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram
Location
Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram 695017, Kerala
IND
Coordinates 8°32′29″N 76°54′41″E / 8.5413, 76.9113
Information
School district Thiruvananthapuram
Affiliation(s) CISCE, CBSE, SCERT
Principal Fr. Varghese Anikuzhy, SJ
Vice principal Fr. Joseph Edassery, SJ,
Fr. M. M. Thomas, SJ
Houses       Apollo Pioneers
      Gemini Giants
      Jupiter Jetsetters
      Sputnik Spacemen
School type Jesuit, Private, All boys
Medium of Language English
Campus Suburban
Campus size 11 acres
Song Cheer Loyola's sons
Sports Basketball, Cricket, Football, Table tennis
Patron saint(s) Ignatius of Loyola
School Colour(s)       Maroon and
      White
Yearbook The Loyolite
Publication The Loyolite, Loyola School Newsletter, Loyola English News Service (LENS)
Founded 1961
Homepage loyolaschooltvm.com

Founded in 1961, Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram (LST) is a private Jesuit school for boys. It is situated in a large, leafy campus in the suburb of Sreekariyam in Thiruvananthapuram city, in the Indian state of Kerala. The school offers continuous education from the upper kindergarten to the higher secondary level. Students of LST are called Loyolites.

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[edit] Affiliations

From the beginning, LST has been affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi. Later, LST also started offering high school students the option of choosing the syllabus of the Kerala state government in preparation for the SSLC examination. Recently, LST has started a new CBSE section too, with the first tenth standard batch graduating in 2007. Despite offering teaching in these multiple streams, LST is constituted as a single school with a single principal.

[edit] School symbols

[edit] School song

Cheer Loyola's sons is the school song of LST. It is written in the form of a hymn comprising three verses and when sung, each verse is followed by a refrain.

Verse 1:

Cheer Loyola's sons!
Cheer till day is done,
Till the game is won,
For our school.
As her banners soar,
Let the echoes roar
Round the golden shore
Of India's rule.

Refrain:

Virtue shielding us,
Knowledge for our weapon
Onward, on, Loyola’s sons.
Let us march asinging,
Send the echoes ringing
Giving our best till the game is won.

Verse 2:

Loyola’s sons, acclaim,
Brave Loyola’s fame,
Proud to bear the name,
O’er the field.
Always brave and true,
Pledge each day anew,
Aye to dare and do,
Ne’er to yield.
(Repeat refrain)

Verse 3:

Oh, thou God of all,
Hear us when we call,
Help us one and all,
By Thy grace.
When life’s game is done,
And the victory won,
May we wear the crown
Of joy and grace.
(Repeat refrain)

The music and parts of lyrics of this song are adapted from Sound the battle cry, a hymn written and composed by William Fiske Sherwin, a nineteenth century American composer.[1][2] The lyrics of Cheer Loyola's sons are replete with sport imagery and call on Loyolites to cheer till the "game is won" for the school. This imagery is a legacy of the original song (Sound the battle cry), written in the form of a battle hymn connoting spiritual warfare. Verse 3 of Cheer Loyola's sons is nearly identical to verse 3 of Sound the battle cry, which goes like this:

O! Thou God of all, hear us when we call,
Help us one and all by Thy grace;
When the battle’s done, and the vict’ry’s won,
May we wear the crown before Thy face.

[edit] School flag

School flag
School flag

LST's school flag consists of the school crest emblazoned on rectagular bands of white and blue. The use of the school flag is reserved for ceremonial occasions, like weekly school assemblies where it is hoisted, preceding the singing of the school song, and at the head of the march past of houses during the annual Sports Day.

[edit] Cultural activities

LST encourages cultural activities considerably, and over the years this has paid rich dividends. LST students have notable achievements in various cultural events, especially in quiz competitions.

[edit] Quiz

In recent times, LST had notable achievements to its credit in quiz competitions, with its teams winning many national level events. In 2006, LST won the inaugural edition of the National Aerospace Olympiad conducted by the Aeronautical Society of India in Chandigarh, winning both the quiz rounds in the process.[3] From 1999 to 2003 LST maintained a winning streak in both the ICSE and ISC Kerala state level quizzes. In 2000, LST won The Hindu Young World quiz competition (a national level quiz for school students), and followed that up with runners-up finishes in 2001 and 2002, and a third place finish in 2003.[4] In The Hindu Young World quiz competition, LST has maintained a winning steak in the Thiruvananthapuram leg of the contest, by finishing first in all years from 2000 to 2007.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] In 2002, a team from Loyola was one of the three national finalists in the ESPN School Quiz, after having topped both the south zone finals and one of the two national semi-finals of the competition.[12] Loyola has also had some good performances in the Kerala leg of the TCS IT Wiz, with runners-up finishes in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006.[13][14][15][16]

[edit] LA Fest

Since 1996, the higher secondary students of LST have been organizing an annual talent show called LA Fest (abbreviation for Life Arts Festival). Successive editions of this single day event have been attracting substantial participation from other schools in Kerala. The eleventh edition was held on July 23, 2007 and attracted a wide audience. Unlike many other high school talent shows in Kerala, LA Fest is planned and organized almost entirely by students on a shoe-string budget provided by the school. Students from the host school do not compete in any of the events.

[edit] Sports

[edit] Basketball

Basketball is considered the school's official game, and enjoyed immense popularity among students until the late 1990s. The annual Loyola Junior Invitation Basketball Tournament, with participation from several schools in Thiruvananthapuram, has been a regular fixture of LST's calendar over several decades. Till 2005, LST often had basketball teams comprised of noted state level players, but in recent years, there has been a general decline in the standard of the school's basketball team. LST has been unable to win a single basketball tournament since 1998.

[edit] Cricket

Though LST used to have cricket teams up to the early 1980s, the game lost official patronage in the 1980s and the 1990s. However, coinciding with the declining popularity of basketball, cricket experienced a resurgence in official patronage from the turn of the century. LST now has a full-fledged cricket training academy called Loyola Cricket Academy (LCA). The LCA team is known to participate in regional cricket tournaments.[17][18][19] Trainees of the academy have been part of regional and national level junior cricket teams.[20] Cricket teams from the school have toured Sri Lanka and in turn hosted tours from that country.

[edit] Football

Football too enjoys immense popularity in the LST. During lunch breaks, the main football ground in LST is the scene of several simultaneous football games. Formal football coaching began in the summer vacation of 2003.[21] The fruits were borne quickly, when in November 2003, LST's football team entered the semi-finals of the sports festival held at the Christ Nagar School.[21] Recently the LST football team won the Shri. Sasidhara Kurup Memorial Interschool Football Tournament in Thiruvananthapuram.[22][20]

[edit] Publications

The Loyolite cover - 2007 edition
The Loyolite cover - 2007 edition

[edit] The Loyolite

LST publishes an annual magazine named The Loyolite. The purpose of this magazine is to communicate the management's perspective on events in the previous academic year to the LST community (management, teachers, students, parents and alumni), and to provide students with an avenue to get their literary works published. The principal's annual report, group photographs of all classes, photographs of office bearers and major events, and English, Malayalam and Hindi language articles written by students, teachers and alumni are standard features of the magazine. The editorial board of the magazine usually comprises around 10 teachers, and is traditionally headed by the seniormost English language teacher in the school. The editorial board is usually assisted by a handful of student editors.

[edit] Alumni

Alumni of LST are called ex-Loyolites or Loyola old boys. The school has an active alumni association called Loyola Old Boys' Association (LOBA) that is part of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni(ae).

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Classes of 1970-79

[edit] Classes of 1980-89

[edit] Classes of 1990-99

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ ashok.loyolites.com - Loyola’s Original Music Sir
  2. ^ cyberhymnal.org - Sound the Battle Cry
  3. ^ The Hindu (November 4, 2006) - Loyola wins National Aerospace Olympiad
  4. ^ The Hindu (November 2, 2003) - Kochi duo wins quiz contest
  5. ^ The Hindu (September 17, 2001) - Loyola winners in 'Young World' Quiz
  6. ^ The Hindu (September 29, 2002) - The Hindu-Young World quiz: Loyola wins
  7. ^ The Hindu (October 18, 2003) - Quizzing we will go
  8. ^ The Hindu (October 1, 2004) - Loyola School emerges winners
  9. ^ The Hindu (October 7, 2005) - Young World - Who is the brainiest of them all?
  10. ^ The Hindu (October 6, 2006) - Loyola teams win Young World quiz
  11. ^ The Hindu (November 7, 2007) - Loyola tops Young World quiz competition
  12. ^ NOBLES: News from School (Archives) - Loyola's Best Quizzing Performance in 41 years
  13. ^ Tata Mail (tatamail.com) - Sarvodaya School bags TVM edition of TCS Quiz IT Trophy
  14. ^ The Hindu (November 14, 2004) - Sarvodaya wins IT quiz title
  15. ^ The Hindu (October 17, 2005) - Sarvodaya gets to keep its IT crown
  16. ^ The Hindu Businessline (September 26, 2006) - School wins TCS IT Wiz prize
  17. ^ The Hindu (September 1, 2007) - Sport - Loyola CA in final
  18. ^ The Hindu (August 24, 2004) - Sport - Second win for Loyola
  19. ^ The Hindu (February 19, 2007) - Sports - Mixed day for Loyola
  20. ^ a b Loyola School Trivandrum - Achievements
  21. ^ a b The Loyolite 2004 - "A Ronaldo from Loyola?" by Linto Mathew, p. 15
  22. ^ Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom - Loyola wins Shri. Sasidhara Kurup Memorial Interschool Football Tournament
  23. ^ ashok.loyolites.com - Politics in Loyola
  24. ^ ashokrchandran.com - Ashok R Chandran : Writing - Prathap Suthan
  25. ^ Indiainfoline.com - Cheil Communications appoints Prathap Suthan as National Creative Director
  26. ^ ashok.loyolites.com - P.M. Ajayan: Science Hero from Loyola
  27. ^ Rice University - Faculty page of Pulickel M. Ajayan
  28. ^ Government of India - Ministry of Finance - Contact List
  29. ^ NOBLES: Special Articles - Getting It Just Right: A teacher's lessons still ring true
  30. ^ ashok.loyolites.com - Loyola’s Arundhati Roy: Anand R
  31. ^ Chinese University of Hong Kong - Faculty Page - Chandra M. Nair
  32. ^ Lakme Fashion Week 2008 - Vivek Karunakaran Profile
  33. ^ ashok.loyolites.com - A Loyolite in Fashion
  34. ^ viia web site


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