New School Timetable To Stress On Sports, Art, Co-Curricular Activities

Chennai: School Education minister Rajmohan on Tuesday announced that the time-table of school students had been changed so that there is a Physical Education Training, arts and other co-curricular activities every day.

Addressing the media in the city, the minister said there would be three periods for Physical Education Training, one period for language laboratory and another period for library for the students from class VI to VIII. The time-table released by him for classes gives 7 periods each in a week for Mathematics and Science while providing six periods per week for Tamil and Social Science. For classes VI to VIII, there will be 5 periods for English in a week while it would be allotted six periods for ninth and tenth standard students.

Ninth standard and tenth standard would not have a period for language laboratory but one period for library and three periods for Physical Education Training is common for all the school students. For the TN SPARK scheme to provide education on Artificial Intelligence and internet, two periods would be allocated for students from class VI to IX.