SMK Vivekananda or SMKV, also known as SMK VIVE among the local students, is one of the oldest school in Brickfields

Brickfields

Brickfields is a small to medium-sized town and residential neighbourhood located just outside central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is known as Kuala Lumpur's Little India due to the high percentage of Indian residents and businesses.- History :In 1881, a flood swept through Kuala Lumpur following...

. It was previously known as Sekolah Menengah Tamil Vivekananda.

History

SMKV was officiated By Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, the first Prime Minister of Malaysia

Prime Minister of Malaysia

The Prime Minister of Malaysia is the indirectly elected head of government of Malaysia. He is officially appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the head of state, who in HM's judgment is likely to command the confidence of the majority of the members of that House of Representatives , the...

.

Principals

1. Mr M T Pillai 1960-1962
2. Mrs I. G. Yogam 1962-1964
3. Mr K. Purushotamam 1964-1979
4. Mr G. Ramalingam 1980-1983
5. Mr B. A. Deimudu 1983-1988
6. Mrs Padmavathy Chee 1988-1989
7. Mr R. Ganesan 1989-1998
8. Mrs Suseela Nair 1998-1999
9. Mrs Pushpa Leela Mahalingam 2000-2004
10. Mrs Sumam Velayudhan 2005-2007
11. Mrs Yogarathai C Nagalingam 2007-2011(May)
12. Mr. Mohgan Shanmugam 2011(June)-Present

Buildings

There are 4 blocks in SMKV: Block A, B, C and D, and three halls.

Block A compromises:

• 12 classes
• A Chemistry laboratory
• A Physics laboratory
• 2 staffs' rooms
• An admin's room
• An office
• A principal's room
• A prefect room
• A band room
• 2 Sports stor room
• 2 K.H. workshops
• A setting room
• A stor room

Block B compromises:

• A class room
• An art room
• 2 Science laboratories
• A setting room
• A library
• A computer laboratory

Block C compromises:

• 3 class rooms

Block D compromises:

• 1 class rooms
• A hall

Sports

SMKV has several achievements in sports, notably in cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 and athletics

Athletics (track and field)

Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...

. Other sports include soccer

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

, American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, badminton

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

, Hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

, volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 and table-tennis.

Houses

Four sports (Red

Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye...

, Blue

Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...

, Green

Green

Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; it is considered...

 and Yellow

Yellow

Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S cone cells. Light with a wavelength of 570–590 nm is yellow, as is light with a suitable mixture of red and green...

) houses compete against each other on sports day

Sports day

Sports days, sometimes referred to as Field Day, are events staged by many schools and offices in which people take part in competitive sporting activities, often with the aim of winning trophies or prizes...

 which is held annually since 1960.

Uniformed services

Examples include:

• Police Cadet
• school band, The VSS Band
• Red Cross
• Red Crescent Society Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah (PBSM)
• Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia
  Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia
  Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia is an organisation for boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 17, based in Malaysia. Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia is part of the global Scouting movement and national member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement...
  
   (Boy Scouts)
• School Youth Cadets Kadet Remaja Sekolah (KRS)
• Persatuan Pandu Puteri Malaysia
  Persatuan Pandu Puteri Malaysia
  Persatuan Pandu Puteri Malaysia is the national Guiding organization of Malaysia. It serves 73,915 members...
  
   (Girl Guides)
• Renjer puteri
• Prisoner Cadets (Kadet Banduan)
• Taekwando
• Janggo Boyz
• Chunni Payye Club
• Kuddikaran Klub

Prefects

Vivekananda has the oldest prefects' board

Prefect

Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition....

 in Lembah Pantai. it was formed in 1n 1962
The maximum number of prefect

Prefect

Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition....

s in the board at any one time cannot exceed 20 in afternoon session and 40 in the morning session. There are Two Head of prefects one in the morning and one in afternoon

Librarians

There are about 20 librarians in the afternoon and around 35 in the morning, where the Head of Librarians is present for both morning and afternoon sessions.

"Teknopen" prefects

There are about 5 "Teknopen" prefects from Form 4 and 5 only, whose job is to maintain school computers & sound systems for the school

Arvind.C 5sc1

Sameul Jerimiah 5sc1

Nedunilavan.N 5sc1

John Ravindran 5sc1

Nagulen.P 5sc2