66th Annual Day Celebrations

2012 is the 66th year of inception of Rural High School, Thumboor. This year the management, staff, students and Parent-Teacher-Association decided to felicitate some of the old students who have risen to illustrious positions in the society and at work. This, according to the Headmaster Mr.K.S.Gopinadhan, was to motivate the present students. I was lucky enough to be a student of RHS Thumbhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifoor and to be felicitated this year. My grandnephew and the grandson of a First Batch SSLC student (E.M.Annam) of this school Mr. Jose Aricatt obliged to take some photographs of the function. They are uploaded at Picasa. Some sample pictures are given below.
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RHS Thumboor 02- 02- 2012

Some of the former Teachers & students of Rural High School, Thumboor

Prof P C Thomas Former St. Thomas College (Tcr) Professor & Entrance Examination Educationist honouring our school mate Rt. Rev. Dr. James Pazhayattil, First & Former Bishop of Irinjalakuda RCSC Diocese










Prof P C Thomas Former St. Thomas College (Tcr) Professor & Entrance Examination Educationist honouring our Physical Science teacher Kunjumuhamed Maash





P S Aravindakshan Former Director of Ttechnical Education



E M George, Former Scientist 'SF' of Indian Space Research Organisation

Starting the school

It was way back in the pre-independent era of India that a hand-full of farsighted farmers of Kottanalloor-Thumboor-Kaduppasserry-Puthenchira area felt the need of a High School in the locality. After, probably, preliminary discussions surveys and inquiries a dozen farmers who had the vision and who could afford to, joined hands, raised funds from themselves (Rs 1000. each) as shares and started the Rural High School in 1946 - before the independence of India.

Since there was a Middle School already functioning at Thumboor, it would have been found appropriate to have the High School also there itself. Surprisingly the buildings of both the schools touch each other - the north eastern corner of the RHS and the south eastern corner of the AUPS. This may be considered as a pointer to the harmonious social fabric of those days.


Those days the classes of high school were known as FOURTH, FIFTH & SIXTH FORMS. Those who passed out successfully in the final public examinations were popularly known as SIXTH PASSED.

Later on the high school classes began to be known as Standard (Std) VIII, IX and X and same nomenclature continues now.

Those days schooling was eleven (11) years - 5+3+3.

It was Std I, Std II, Std III, Std IV and Std V MalayalaM, in the primary school,

Std V English, Std VI and Std VII, in the Upper Primary (UP) or Middle School, and

Std VIII, Std IX and Std X.

Std X pass/fail is known as Secondary School Leaving Certificate - SSLC - pass/fail.