MUKAMAI Tamil School – School Charter
MUKAMAI Tamil school is a non-profit, non-religious independent organization established in 2021 to promote Tamil language, literature, and culture. MUKAMAI was formed to instill the values of the Great Tamil culture and teach the Classical Tamil language through various art forms like dance, drama, and songs. Mukamai Tamil school is run by volunteers who share a deep love for the Great Tamil Language and who are keen to spread its roots to the younger and future Australian generations.
Mukamai Tamil school is supported by the community, Department of Local Government, and office of Multicultural Interests.
Mission
MUKAMI Tamil school was founded to create an interesting educational platform to teach the Classical Tamil language through various art forms like dance, drama, and songs for the children living in Western Australia. The student will learn to read, write and converse the language through fun activities includes dance, drama, and songs. With the help of the language, they will understand the Tamil culture better and Tamil arts includes dance, drama, and songs.
Vision of MUKAMAI Tamil School
The desire of taking the Tamil language to our next generations of the children living in Western Australia and create an opportunity for the children living in Australia to continue practicing Tamil language and perform Tamil culture of dance, drama, and songs in their lives to integrate, share and contribute our classical cultural heritage with the wider WA community.
Objectives
- The main objective of MUKAMAI Tamil school is to instill the values of the Great Tamil culture and teach the Classical Tamil language through various art forms like dance, drama, and songs.
- Promote Tamil language, literature, and culture.
- Teach Tamil language through various form of arts to young children and adults
- Encourage participation of community with MUKAMAI Tamil school
- Encourage community volunteerism
- MUKAMAI is committed to providing an environment free of harassment and discrimination includes sex, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, religion and any other legally protected harassment and discrimination will not be tolerated.
MUKAMAI Tamil school Model
- Founded by the community
- Managed by the community
- For the community
Management Team
- The school management team is an integral part of the school.
- This team makes all decisions regarding the day-to-day activities of the school.
- Current school management team members are listed below,
| School Board Members | |
| School Principal | Selvakumar Padalam Lakshminarayanan |
| Safety coordinator | Sankara Subbaiyan Arumugam |
| Treasurer | Nachiappan Nachiappan |
| Teachers Coordinator | Kalavathy Govindarajoo |
| Member/Teacher | Kannan Lakshmanan Yegappan |
| Member/Teacher | Ezhilarasi Moorthy |
| Member | Uma Muthukrishnan |
Volunteers
- At Mukamai we have support from the community to assist in the regular operation of the school as and when required.
- Full time volunteer teachers are key part of school for the success and long-term sustainability of Mukamai Tamil school.
- At Mukamai Tamil school event volunteers will help to support and create an energetic environment for the events and its success.
- Community volunteering support is always encouraged at Mukamai.