SACRED HEART CONVENT HIGH SCHOOL, ANCHUTHENGU (History)
The CCR (Congregation of the Carmelite Religious) Congregation founded by Ven. Mother Veronica at Bayome in France. In the year 1868 she came to Calicut. She founded St. Joseph’s Convent Quilon, Mount Carmel Convent, Tangasseri, Holy Angels Convent Trivandrum etc. The school belongs to the Congregation of Carmelite Religious, the Head Quarters of which is the C.C.R Generate All Saints Campus Thiruvananthapuram. In 1916 Sacred Heart Convent L.P.S was established. This School is a Catholic Educational Institution. It is an aided School. Later on the School was split into two sections ie. Aided LP School and Unaided English Medium High School. The first Batch appeared for the SSLC Examination in March 2005.
Sacred Heart Convent English Medium High School is situated near British Fort or Anjengo Fort. Light House is at the Southern part of the convent.
Anjengo is a Historical place. The British Fort, Light House, the Arabian sea on the west and the lake on the East give beauty to our School. Though our aim is to empower the girl child through holistic learning we do admit boys. So we have co-education. Eco friendly campus provides a better strategy for the students. We give importance to Value Education and faith formation Quality Education and Academic Excellence is our hall mark.
Curricular and co-curricular activities go side by side. A striking aspect of our steady academic progress has been the S.S.L.C Results. We secured 100% success over the past five years. Our students also performed splendidly at the various Scholarship Examinations and the Talent search Venues.
Realizing the need for bringing about all round development of pupils, the school regularly organizes extra curricular activities. In this context, the programmes like counseling, value education, arts festivals, sports events, quiz, public speaking, study tours and health education deserve special mention. The Various clubs and related activities have always tested the interest, involvement, ability and attitude of the students in science, social science, Maths, I.T and Language Lab. Students are encouraged to read up on the life of great National leaders to keep alive their principles of truth, service, co-operation and peace. Many a times our children won top places in youth festivals at District and Sub- district levels.
We have ECA classes like Karate, dance, Yoga, MPT Sports, Games, School Band we do have computer Lab, Science and Smart classes. To improve the spoken English we have set up a language laboratory. Thus School is flourishing day by day. Thanks to the Almighty God.