Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan

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Location
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan

"Knowledge is Power"
Chennai,Bangalore India
Information
Affiliation(s)	Central Board of Secondary Education, India
President	Dr. (Mrs.) Y.G. Parthasarathy
Staff	500
Students	8000+
Type	Co-educational
Grades	Kindergarten to Grade 12
Campus size	Large
Established	1959
Students called	PSBBians
Technology Used for Teaching	SmartClass™
Homepage	http://psbbschools.ac.in

Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB) is a group of schools located in Chennai. It is ranked as one of the best schools in India by the Outlook Express Magazine. [1]

1 Branches
2 History
3 Trivia
4 External links
5 References

[edit] Branches

Chennai

P.S.B.B Nungambakkam (PSBB Lake Area).
P.S.B.B T.P.Road (T Nagar), which is an annexe of the afore mentioned.
P.S.B.B K.K.Nagar.
P.S.B.B Millennium School (Grand Southern Trunk Road).

Bangalore ( J.J.Nagar)

[edit] History

In 1958, when the PSBB School in Nungambakkam was established by an enterprising group of housewives of the Nungambakkam Ladies Recreation Club. The first step was taken with 13 students in a thatched shed on the terrace of the residence of the Dean & Director of the school, Dr. (Mrs.) Y.G. Parthasarathy. Today the school has three branches with 8000 plus students and around 500 staff members.

One year after its inception in 1959, the school shifted to a campus of its own to the present premises in Nungambakkam following the Madras Matriculation System unit of the hoary Madras University. As the school grew in strength, the need to extend its branches arose and thus emerged the T.P.Road Junior School in 1971, as an annexe to the school in Nungambakkam. In 1978, this school was affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.

In 1976 another branch of the PSBB School, affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education was started in a residential area of K.K.Nagar with 5-acre surroundings. The K.K.Nagar Branch initially had four sections of every class from Pre-KG to Std. X. Today it has a total strength exceeding 5123 students with ten sections in each of these classes. Standards XI and XII have seven sections each.

PSBB was compelled to adopt the shift system in the history of the school, in the '70s and the '80s, to satisfy the growing demands of the residents of the city.

Few retired teachers still continue to lend their valuable support to the schools. The Futurekids programme which is currently implemented from Standards I to X.

Pre-KG was introduced to later.

The school is also equipped with Libraries, Maths, Science, English and Computer Laboratories.

The (school)s conduct classes under the aegis of the Cultural Academy. A qualified instructor trained by the Madras Dyslexia Centre identifies and guides children with learning disabilities on a personalized level to help them join the mainstream.

[edit] Trivia

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The K.K.Nagar branch has 2 music bands, one official and another unofficial, namely Zinx and Esion(respectively).The former won the "Ooh La La" program aired on a regional cable TV operator, Sun TV. They are one of the six winners all over from Tamil Nadu.
The basketball team participated in the National Tournament held at Agra in 2006.
Its football team played won the south-zone games. They also played in the nationals held at Calicut in 2005.
The school's cricket team has a very good record as well, and has a good history of winning tournaments(in whatever age group category).
PSBB has also been visited by President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.^[1]
MS Vaibhav, a former Indian Football team substitute is known to have completed his formal education here.
The music group has won the first prize in the All India Radio [ AIR ] and were finalists and went to Kolkata to perform.
The dance group has also bagged the RAJ Television first price and received it from Mr.Chidambaram.
The school counts several notable people such as AR Rahman^[2], A Sharath Kamal and Chetan Baboor as alumni.
It had been ranked as the fourth best school in India by Outlook magazine, in 2001, see external link below.
After the horrifying December 26, 2004 Asian Tsunami, the school raised huge funds and donated the funds to the victims.