Faculty - Chettinad Hari Shree Vidyalayam

Aarthi Bhargav

Primary Educator

Aarthi Bhargav is a biomedical instrumentation engineer by qualification. She handles Purna Vidya at Harishree. She is excited about it and believes it has a deep and meaningful impact on the lives of children. She considers it important that children know about their culture. She feels every child is inspired to live a life based on dharma, compassion and contentment through these classes. Aarthi endeavours to make her sessions interactive, absorbing and fun for the children.

Bala Srinivasan

Primary Educator

Bala Srinivasan has been with Harishree for over 17 years, as a Math teacher. Passionate about her subject and keen on working with children, she constantly endeavours to make learning creative, innovative, thorough and enjoyable. She believes children are her greatest source of energy and inspiration. Along with Math, she also strives to impress upon them, right values and attitude towards learning.

Deepthi Srinath

Primary Educator

Deepthi Srinath holds a Bachelor’s in Education and a Master’s degree in Communications. Coming from the corporate world, Deepthi’s passion lay in engaging young minds. She believes that learning gets more interesting when students get to apply their learning to real life. She emphasizes on the ‘How’ and ‘Why’ of things, to open up the child’s mind and make learning interactive.

Gayathri Vijay

Primary Educator

Gayathri teaches Computer Science at the primary level. She is keen on motivating her students to enhance their digital skills, function effectively in today’s digital world and also develop their computational thinking. She is an engineering graduate. She believes that the project based learning activities help children develop their creativity, critical thinking, team spirit and communication.

K. Sasikala

Primary Educator

Sasikala is a passionate teacher with over 17 years of experience. She is a bachelors in Psychology and is pursuing her Master’s degree inTamil. She believes language is the bedrock for all development and encourages her students to communicte effectively. She uses innovative teaching strategies and motivates her students to read widely. She is an ardent story teller and dramatizes Tamil stories for her students effectively and creatively.

Kalvikarasi B

Primary Educator

Kalvikarasi is a passionate and energetic teacher. She has a Master’s degree in Mathematics. Being a math educator her goal is to make her students ‘think and work mathematically’. She also makes sure that the children enjoy her math classes by participating in hands-on math activities. She encourages initiatives from students in the classroom.

Latha.K

Primary Educator

Latha is a passionate teacher and facilitator. She strongly believes that the future of the world is in her classroom and a teacher is the person who makes a difference in a child’s life every single day. She has a background in Science and works to create an open and supportive learning space for her students. She feels children in primary school are naturally curious and vocal. They should be encouraged to be themselves, which will make their learning more effective.

M.Sudha Umayal

Primary Educator

Sudha Umayal is a passionate teacher and enjoys teaching Tamil. Her deep love for the language and children helped her give direction to her career. She encourages her students to express themselves in Tamil and uses fun activities/games to emphasize grammar concepts. She endeavours to instill enthusiasm in her students to learn and use Tamil for creativity and communication. She holds a bachelors degree in Pharmacy and Tamil.

Mala Aggarwal

Primary Educator

Mala is an enthusiastic and dedicated educator who wants all students to be successful learners. She has completed her Masters in Counselling Psychology and also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Learning Disability for Dyslexia. She likes to promote a happy and positive mindset in her students through joyful learning. She also believes in individual and progressive learning and strives hard to promote interest amongst her students for the same.

Mariam Ali

Primary Educator

Mariam Ali found her calling in learning and facilitating learning. With a double Master’s in Botany and Psychology, she is pursuing her teachers’ training. She encourages her students to think and reason out what they learn. She strives to incorporate activities and methods that would prod them to think and inquire, learn and evaluate, thereby paving a complete path for the learning journey.

Mitali Suvadarsin

Primary Educator

Mitali is a passionate teacher and enjoys teaching Social Studies and English. She likes conducting quizzes for students across grade levels. She holds a Masters degree in English and Bachelors degree in Education. She believes in promoting independent thinking and encourages her students to express their thoughts with confidence. Interacting with young minds and engaging with students motivates her.

Narmada Kesavan

Learning Lab

Narmada Kesavan is a special educator and is passionate about teaching. She loves to be a catalyst in their well-rounded development. She believes in holistic learning to address the emotional, social, ethical, and academic needs of students.She is a keen promoter of integrated and inclusive learning to make them capable of facing challenges. Certified as Socio Medical Faculty by The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R Medical University, she has done her masters in Psychology and a postgraduate diploma in Learning Disability. She has over 12 years of experience and always endeavours to create lesson plans that capture the diverse learning styles, interests, imagination, and abilities of all students.

Pavithra V

Primary Educator

Pavithra has completed her Masters in Business Administration and also has a Diploma in International Teaching. She is a dedicated and enthusiastic educator. She sees it as her responsibility to help children grow up to be accountable, self-reliant adults.

Pooja Sharma

Primary Educator

“Pooja is passionate about teaching and looks for interactive and practical teaching strategies for teaching Hindi in class. She has completed her Bachelor’s in Commerce & Education. She believes that Hindi is more interesting to learn when students talk and make it come alive in their environment. Her classes include games and activities, that kindle young minds and inculcate enthusiasm for learning.”

R Lakshmi

Primary Educator

Lakshmi is an inspiring, hardworking and dedicated teacher, who holds a Master’s degree in education. Apart from classroom teaching, she also believes in inculcating moral values in children. She has a passion for writing compositions, poems and giving speeches.

S Pon Kalyani

Primary Educator

Pon Kalyani has completed her Masters and a Bachelors in Education. She is also a certified Montessori Trainer. She started her career as a preschool teacher. She has 4 years of experience in preschool teaching. She believes that teaching adds more purpose to her life and helps her become a better person. She believes that teaching opens up new opportunities for both the teacher and the learner.

S. Shehanaz

Primary Educator

Shehanaz is an engineering graduate in Information Technology and comes from the IT sector. She is a passionate and enthusiastic teacher. She promotes a positive and happy mindset in her students and believes in making learning fun. She believes children remember their learning better through interactions and experiences, and works towards creating a participative, experiential learning environment.

Sangeetha B

Primary Educator

Sangeetha is an MCA graduate and has worked as a corporate trainer. She is a passionate teacher and has 9 years of experience in teaching. She loves to create an engaging classroom environment which not only makes the children understand concepts but also enables them to enjoy learning. She believes that every child has a unique learning curve and a variety of activities will keep everyone engaged and interested.

Santhanalakshmi A. S.

Primary Educator

Santhanalakshmi is an enthusiastic teacher with over 5 years of teaching experience. With her educational qualification in engineering and business administration, she completed her teachers’ training program and is pursuing her career as a teacher. She believes teachers are learners too, and constantly makes an attempt to draw inspiration and insights from her students. She endeavours to make learning fun for her students and derives great satisfaction from their happiness.

Saranya R

Primary Educator

Saranya took to teaching to make a difference in the lives of children. She engages actively with her students and promotes a healthy, joyful, responsible working environment. An engineering graduate, she found her calling in teaching. She makes an attempt to connect with every individual child and provide what he/she needs to pave the way for effective learning.

Savitha Sathish

Primary Educator

Savitha is an energetic and exuberant teacher who enjoys working with children. A graduate in English Literature, she has over 16 years of teaching experience in Primary. She is currently completing her Bachelor’s in education. She endeavours to make her class sessions lively, interactive and positive for the children.

Shanti Sekar

Primary Educator

Shanti is a primary educator who has been with Harishree for the past 11 years. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Indhira Gandhi Open University. Also trained in the Montessori method of pedagogy, she believes every child is unique and this uniqueness is his/her power. She is committed to building a nurturing and supportive space where children can grow and blossom in their own unique ways.

Sindhuja Srinivasan

Primary Educator

Sindhuja is an experienced teacher who has a Master’s degree in Commerce & a management degree in Human Resource. She is pursuing her Bachelors in Education and is passionate about teaching Maths and Science. She is a warm and caring teacher who wants to create a classroom atmosphere that is stimulating, encouraging and adaptive to the varied needs of the learners.

Subashree L

Primary Educator

Subhashree is an early childhood educator. She believes in incorporating play & inquiry based methods that make teaching and learning interesting for her students. An engineer by qualification, she constantly challenges herself and her students with new things. She encourages curiosity and the spirit of inquiry in them.

Sudha Narayanan

Primary Educator

Sudha Narayanan is a passionate teacher who looks for interactive and practical teaching strategies for teaching all subjects, science in particular. Besides her core qualification in Chemistry and English, she is also a certified Miontessori and Cambridge educator. Her mission is to make Science interesting and fun for children. Her classes focus on the ‘How’ and ‘Why’, of things that kindle curiosity and inculcate the enthusiasm of learning.

Swathy Srinivas

Primary Educator

Swathy Srinivas holds a Master’s degree in Commerce and is pursuing her Bachelors in Education. She is also a certified Montessori & Child Care educator. She is a highly motivated, enthusiastic and goal driven professional with many years of teaching experience. She seeks learning opportunities from everyday life. She believes in imparting knowledge to children by creating a classroom atmosphere in which children can and will learn effectively and efficiently.

Tharakeswari Anguswamy

Primary Educator

Tharakeswari is a compassionate teacher, who believes that learning is a continuous process. She practices collaborative teaching methods for effective understanding of concepts. She applies active learning strategies to engage young minds. As a primary educator, she creates a joyful learning environment in her class.

Vinitha Narayanan

Primary Educator

Vinitha Narayanan is a Master’s in Math with 12 years of teaching experience. With a postgraduate diploma in early childhood education also to her credit, she is passionate about teaching Math and Tamil. She believes that ‘powerful minds are in her classroom’ and her responsibility is to nurture them and keep them growing.

Yashi Shukla

Primary Educator

Yashi is a Master’s in Chemistry. Her love for languages prompted her to acquire a Master’s in Hindi Literature as well. She has been a teacher for more than 14 years and promotes a cheerful, positive learning environment. She encourages her students to speak their minds, with politeness and the right spirit. She believes in the immersion technique to learning a language well, and calls for all activities to be done in Hindi in her sessions.