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Overview

The campus was designed by noted architect Laurie Baker and includes facilities such as a swimming pool, basketball and volleyball courts, a football field, an 800-seat auditorium, and various platforms for theatre and other performing arts. The school has a full-time faculty for sports, drama, music, dance and other arts. Visitors who have contributed to Pallikoodam included Sanjana Kapoor and the Prithvi Players, Jaan Freeman, Atul Kumar, Phyllis Bose and Anila Malkani. The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... An architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... Laurence Wilfred Laurie Baker (March 2, 1917 – April 1, 2007) was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost reduction and low-cost housing. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... In basketball, the basketball court is the playing surface, consisting of a rectangular floor with baskets at either end. ... In volleyball, the court refers to the playing surface/floor. ... An Australian rules football match at the Richmond Paddock, Melbourne, in 1866. ... An auditorium is the area within a theatre, concert hall or other performance space where the audience is located in order to hear and watch the performance. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artists own body, face and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some... This does not cite any references or sources. ... // Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. ... Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to movement used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. ...

The school has partnered with various activist organizations including Greenpeace, EXNORA, and several NGOs in Kerala for various projects. Victim relief efforts have been organized by the school in the wake of disasters such as the Orissa cyclones and the 2005 Tsunami. The school was a subject of a documentary by the Indian broadcaster Doordarshan entitled "Mary Roy and Corpus Christi". In addition to this, projects of the school have been featured on BBC World and Star News. Greenpeace protest against Esso / Exxon Mobil. ... The term non-governmental organization (NGO) is used in a variety of ways all over the world and, depending on the context in which it is used, can refer to many different types of organizations. ... Radar image of a tropical cyclone in the northern hemisphere. ... The tsunami that struck Malé in the Maldives on December 26, 2004. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... Doordarshan (sometimes DoorDarshan; ) is a Public broadcast Terrestrial television channel run by Prasar Bharati, a board nominated by the Government of India. ... BBC World News ident, currently used after relaunch in December 2003. ...

Although pallikoodam today is being criticized for having declining standards by the advent of the nextgeneration of management including the new Vice Principal Mariamma Paul who is often criticized for being unreasonable and extremely pessimistc by the student community, Pallikoodam remains to be on of the best schools in kerala. Pallikoodam's recent decline is also owed to the fact the ill health and old of Mrs Mary Roy has prevented her visonary approach to become reality in the ground level.

External links

• Pallikoodam's official website
• Russell Parsons regarding his experience at Pallikoodam

as mrs roy has become very old and weak the future generation of teachers such as mrs paul running the school will be a disaster. it is no longer of what it used to be.mrs paul is not mature enough to run the school as a principal. pallikoodams fate will be rested on who will become the next principal after the death of mary roy.