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CHILD HELPLINE AND EMERGENCY CONTACTS
Apollo Children’s Hospital ..................................... 2829 6262 (Ad - Back inner wrapper) 2829 6300 / 6302 / 6303 15, Shafee Mohammed Road Thousand Lights, Chennai – 600 006 CHILDLINE India Foundation ................................. 2815 6098 Second Floor, No.2, Dr. Nair Road 2815 8098 T.Nagar, Chennai- 600 017 www.childlineindia.org.in Child Trust Hospital ............................................... 4200 1800 12A,Nageswara Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai - 600034 Department of Social Defence .............................. 26426421 Govt. of Tamil Nadu 26427022 300, Purasawalkam High Road, Chennai - 600 010 http://socialdefence.tn.nic.in/ Institute of Child Health & Hospital ....................... 2819 1135 Halls Road, Egmore 2819 1137 Chennai – 600 008 Neo Life Children’s Hospital ................................. 4598 9890 14/1, Second Street, Kannan Nagar, 4556 5555 Madipakkam, Chennai - 600 091 St. John Ambulance .............................................. 2819 1707 1, Mayor V R Ramanathan Road Chetpet, Chennai – 600 031
CHILD HELPLINE
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Chennai Kids Directory, a family resource guide is the effort of YOCee - www.yocee.in, a news website for Chennai's young people.
NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
We are happy to bring you the fifth updated edition of the guide. Yocee.in was launched in 2006 to motivate children in Chennai to share news from their school campuses and neighbourhoods through their own news reports. To train the children report the news in a professional way, YOCee introduced the annual Student Reporters Programme in the summer of 2007. The focus of the programme is on good observation, news writing and reporting, communication skills and encouraging the young people to be aware of the society around them. The idea to bring out this handbook came from the huge information of interesting resources we came across when the children gathered story ideas for their reports. The growing database of resources and places we get at YOCee keeps us motivated to bring out the guide year after year. As we know, a directory of this kind cannot be comprehensive. While we have taken enough care to provide a fairly representative listing in various categories and major areas in Chennai, any omission or error may kindly be excused. We welcome the resource persons and activity centres to inform the updated details, contact addresses & phone numbers so that we include the correct details in the coming editions. The listings are mainly of permanent activity places and resource persons updated as on March 31, 2014 The information on holiday activities, summer camps and events for children are updated on the website www.yocee.in, regularly. Please add www.yocee.in to your favourites and subscribe to the free weekly e-newsletter to know the latest on the website. We hope you will find this handbook useful. Revathi R Publisher April 2014
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ABOUT THIS DIRECTORY AND HOW TO USE IT
2. Use the Index section to browse through the categories of the listing. There are also special sections on centres for special children, libraries and a representative list of major academic institutions for ready reference. 3. Under each category, the listing is area-wise. A reference to the advertisement page is given if the resource person or centre is an advertiser in this book. 4. The details about the centres are arranged area-wise. If you do not find an area under a particular activity, it means that we do not have any data of the resources in that area. 5. This directory has a few spaces left blank intentionally to help you note down information on centres / resources you maycome to know in course of your search. 6. We have tried our best to provide the mobile phone numbers and websites wherever possible. 7. There is an Index of advertisers in the directory. These advertisements include specialised services for children. Since they contain many information you could use for your children and family, we recommend you go through them. 8. If you find our information useful and contact the resources, please tell them that you found the information on Chennai Kids Directory. Make us feel proud of our work!
ABOUT THE DIRECTORY
1. First of all, this is a directory of activities for kids, schoolgoing children in Chennai. This book does not list the other pediatric services and shopping for kids related products.
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Chennai Kids Directory is a result of the efforts of Team YOCee in and out of its office.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Credits: Project Manager Layout & design Cover photo Printing & production
: Deepa Sekar : M. Fairy : Jeevakaran Photography, Cycling Yogis : Yogesh Graphics
We acknowledge the support of the resource people and centres and the support of the advertisers in this directory.
Disclaimer: While every effort is made to ensure the information in Chennai Kids Directory is accurate, YOCee does not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage resulting from omission or inaccuracy of address / phone numbers, wording, spacing, positioning of any listing or any material in the directory. Any listing under any particular category does not necessarily indicate that the advertiser or the service provider is professionally qualified and / or legally entitled to carry on the particular activity or provide the service. Users of this directory are recommended to make appropriate enquiries before entering into any dealing with the advertisers or the service providers. The publisher does not vouch for any claims made by the advertisers and hence cannot be held responsible for any loss, damage and / or any adverse consequences in whatsoever form. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any manner in whole or part is prohibited unless by prior written permission from the publisher.
THIS RESOURCE GUIDE IS PUBLISHED BY: YOCee – www.yocee.in New no. 15, ‘Sri Padma’, First Main Road Karpagam garden, Adyar, Chennai – 600 020 Phone: (044) 4205 4377, 9840544629 Email: editor@yocee.in
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Child helpline and Emergency contacts . . . . . . . . . 9 Note from the Publisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 About the Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 List of advertisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Aero modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Angling & Sport Fishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Archery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Arts and Crafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Badminton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Billiards and Snooker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Computer and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Creative writing / Journalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Cricket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Culinary classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Dance – Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Dance – Western . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Day care – Creche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Golf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Horse Riding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Karate / Martial Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Language – Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Language – Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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Libraries – Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Libraries – Toys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Lifestyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Math Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Music – Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Music – Western . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Play school / Pre school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Quizzing Clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Rowing / Sailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Science Clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Skating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Soft Skills Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Swimming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Table Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Tennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Trails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Trekking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Yoga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 For differently abled & Special Children . . . . . . 126 CBSE Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 ICSE Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 International School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
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Akalpita – The Green Store Apollo Children’s Hospital Arun Ice Creams Bamboola Bisleri Cavin Care Milk Shake Chennai Gaga Cookieman E-Kids Harsha Toyota Hippocampus Home Serve
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Kandee Factory Kids Holiday Camps Kinder Gluck Kutti Baba Little Nathella Jewellery Money Wizards Nu Teez Party Hunterz Passionate Baking Pitch ‘n’ Camp Purple Bee Reynolds Sanjeevanam Shraddha Snapshot Memories Sporty Beans Sri Priya Sculpture Stemade The Yellow Bus Toyz Day Out Vanilla Children Place WeeBees Whims n Fancies
Retail outlet for organic products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Children Healthcare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inner Back cover Ice Creams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Play School, Activity centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Packaged drinking water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Nutrient packed milkshakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Exclusive Chennai souvenirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Baked Australian Cookies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Computer based curriculum for schools . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Toyota car dealers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Library & activity centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Service Solution for repairs & maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inner Front Cover Gourmet Candies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Holiday fun activities for kids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 After school activity centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Traditional clothing for young boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Jewellery for children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 and 87 Money education for children & young adults . . . . . . . . . 47 Knitted cotton leisure-wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Party supplies & Event planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Baking supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Camping gears and travel accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Hands-on activity kits for children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Writing instruments and pens . . . . . . . . Outer Back Cover Vegetarian Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Homework help and mentoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Handcrafted Scrapbook albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Multi-sport program for preschoolers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Creative mouldings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Dental Stem cell preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Play School & Activity Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Edutainment Library & Party place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Daycare, activity centre, store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Playgroup, preschool, activity centre, party place . . . . . 42 Kids clothing & accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
LIST OF ADVERTISERS
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AT VARIOUS CENTRES
SELAIYUR
Perambur Aero World Aero Modelers . 94443 84975 5 / 83 Foxen Street 98411 58558
Aeons Academy for Science Enrichment ............. 98404 92073 17, Sundaram Colony, 98412 75565 Camp Road www.a2se.in
Academy of Radio Modellers of India Prabhakar ............................ 98840 73277 www.armofindia.com
AEROMODELING
ADYAR AET Android Lab ................. 94455 30757 7/3, 7th Main Road, Kasturibai Nagar
ANNA NAGAR Chandrasekhar Ravi ............ 99529 66660
T. NAGAR MPower Shopping ............... 98414 27333 Rajendra Bhavan, 16 (Old 25) Sivaji Street
THIRUVOTTIYUR RC Build Fly .......................... 90030 33595 No : 12B/25, 7th Street, Jothi Nagar www.rcbuildfly.weebly.com
Ekkalaivaa Academy ................ 2615 7414 W-395 School Road, 99529 66528 Annanagar West 98408 80558
VADAPALANI
The Hobby Club ................... 92831 98818 1359/1, 11th Street, 18th Main Road Vallalar Colony, Anna Nagar (West)
Eagle Aerosports ................. 99620 28061 23/28, West Sivan Koil St. 96551 58509 www.eagleaerosports.in
CHOOLAIMEDU
WEST MAMBALAM
I Flights Rc Tech .................. 98404 02269 34, Bajanai Koil street 95516 22677 www.iflightsrc.com
AET Android Lab ................. 98945 19351 No.12 Jothi Ramalingam Street, West Mambalam
EGMORE Aerodreamerz .......................... 43592820 121/1, First floor, 92831 98818 Egmore High Road www.aerodreamerz.com
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ANGLING & SPORT FISHING MAHALINGAPURAM
ROYAPURAM
Anglers Club India ............... 98400 28553 New 6, Saraswathi St, Mahalingapuram http://www.anglersclub.in/
Anglers Fishing Tackles ...... 96772 77776 34, Chennai Fishing - Harbour
The Wild Tribe Ranch ............... 27994687 21 & 22 Singapore Estate, 96770 67706 Andarkuppam Village, Near Velammal International School
Bluewaters Sport Fishing ......... 42102287 4, RR Flat, Marine Waves, 9500032669 Anthu Street, Santhome High Road
T. NAGAR Barracuda Bay Sport Fishing ........................ 98410 72072 44, Prakasam Street
ARCHERY ANNA NAGAR
CHROMPET
Chennai Archery Academy . 90940 91231 Bajanai Koil Street
Sriram Archery Academy .... 97883 07080 SRDF Vivekananda Vidyalaya 86959 89196 Chennai District Archery Amateur Association - R. Kesavan
Eagle Archery Academy ..... 98415 49192 62, Guijie Main St, Anna Nagar East The Sun Smart Foundation .. 91506 27135 123, Z block, 8th Ave, Anna Nagar West VILL Archery Academy ....... 81489 22992 At C.Kandasamy 90940 91231 Naidu college
BESANT NAGAR HU Mission ........................... 98416 18386 T-16/2, Kalakshetra Colony 2491 7744
KELAMBAKKAM Head Shot ............................ 98847 44400 168/17, Pattipulam Village
PALAVAKKAM VILL Archery Academy ....... 81489 22992 At Kalpataru, 4/222, ECR 90940 91231
VYASARPADI Chennai Archery Assn. ....... 97883 07080 3rd Main Road, MKB Nagar 90032 98219
ANGLING, ARCHERY
SANTHOME
PONNERI
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ADAMBAKKAM Annai Meera School of Arts & Crafts ....................... 99401 08692 No. 10 Shri Lakshmi Flats F-1, New Colony 6th Street ArtGong ............................... 89397 29268 Arthi K 95662 77921
ARTS AND CRAFTS
Shiv Shankar (Global Art) ... 98412 97044 1. West Karikalan Street Swasa Art ........................... 97909 41394 6 A, Mahalakshmi Nagar, 2nd Main Road Sree Lakshmi Ganapathy Crafts ................................... 92832 56266 45, Kambar Street, Nilamangai Nagar V B Arts & Crafts ................ 98405 89373 Old No 13 New No 1, Surendra Nagar 6th Street, 1st Cross
ADYAR
Life & Art .............................. 98400 53133 50/52, 2nd Floor 98404 51111 3rd Main Road, Kasturibai Nagar Play Coop ................................. 4205 4989 15, 4th Main Road, Gandhi Nagar Rajalakshmi Vasantharaj ..... 98404 33022 Rukmani Apts, 40, Kasturba Nagar 2nd Main Road Shemrock ................................. 2440 5277 64, 2nd Main Road, 98844 22797 3rd Cross Street S V Arts & Crafts .................... 2445 4026 19, Indira Nagar, 3rd Avenue 94445 21327
Swamy’s Academy .............. 9884170124 19/39, Kamaraj Avenue 2nd Street
ALWARPET Kalaa Manjari ........................... 2431 2676 6/12, 1st Street, Venus Colony
Anu’s Creations ................... 94448 35876 6, 22nd Cross Street, Indira Nagar
Kalakar Studio .......................... 2433 4890 Lav-Kush, 4, 96770 52044 Venus Colony 1st Street
Asha’s School of Visual Arts ... 24918810 108, Padmanabha nagar 9444376054 5th Street
Kid Zone .................................. 2499 8181 New 31 C, Abiramapuram 3rd Street
Forum Art Gallery .................... 4211 5596 57, Padmanabha Nagar 5th Street Farida Barbhaya (Global Art) .......................... 98400 56218 6, Second Canal Bank Road, Gandhi Nagar
Thoolika Rachana .................... 2499 5290 10, Subbaraya Avenue 98412 98848
ALWARTHIRUNAGAR Sampath (Global Art) ........... 93805 60668 63, Lambert Nagar 1st Main Road
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ABC Crafts .......................... 99400 67875 3/373, 12th Main Road, Kambar Colony Aradhana Arts & Crafts ...... 94440 62818 402/7, Manasa Apartment, 2nd Avenue, 12th Main Road Art N Soul ............................ 80560 99599 R 62, 14th Street 98412 68097 Artrobe ................................ 98840 38868 Shakti Apartments, 98847 45248 K 30, 2nd Floor, B-5, 6th Avenue B5, Anna Nagar East Lekhas Arts & Crafts ............... 2626 3649 No. 19 J Block, 94444 50276 3rd Avenue, Anna Nagar East Chillies Fun Zone ...................... 2626 8111 No. AD-64, 2nd Street, 98940 12103 95435 68885 Creartive .................................. 2615 8186 No. 3 & 4, Gandhi Nagar, 99520 99871 Anna Nagar West Dessin Academy ..................... 4550 0206 304, N Block, 26th Street, 98417 61002 Anna Nagar East DRS Kids .................................. 4555 8505 9, 12th Main Road, 98840 14141 Plot No: 2163, L Block, Anna Nagar West MS Arts and Graphs ................ 4353 1517 72-H 2ND Floor L Block, 98404 93183 2nd Street, Anna Nagar East Nivetha Institute of Arts & Crafts ....................... 99943 59060 162,1st Floor, Flat 10, Golden Jubilee Apts, Padi Kuppam Road, Anna Nagar West
Sampath (Global Art) ........... 93805 60668 Y-49, 9th Street Shravarsh Arts & Crafts ......... 2628 1036 Flat 6, Bharani Kailash 99402 54379 A84, 3rd Street, Anna Nagar East Sonam Craft Classes .......... 99406 22452 Mukta Vashisht Apt, 9th Cross Street, Anna Nagar East Sri Nandu Academy ............. 95000 40869 W 921, 97890 89076 Syndicate Bank Colony, Anna Nagar West Thapasiya School Of Arts ....... 2620 5371 AE - 113, 10th Main Road
ARUMBAKKAM Vinaya Student Space ............. 2363 4582 19, SBI Officers Colony 98402 88511 2nd Street
ASHOK NAGAR Chennai Arts School ............ 98410 19100 1/6, 41st Street, 6th Avenue Kids Academy ...................... 98409 61822 13/B, 11th Avenue Kriyative Kidz ........................... 2474 4623 No. 6/22, 2nd Street, 99419 99005 Ragava Reddy Colony Virgo Hobby Centre ................. 2489 2798 20, 54th Street 99410 18210
ARTS AND CRAFTS
ANNA NAGAR
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KANDANCHAVADI
Studio 41 .................................. 2491 9902 A-2, Seapoint Apt, 41 A, Beach Road, Kalakshetra Colony
Mamta Creations .................. 98407 24819 FF2, Lakshman Salai, 91716 45389 CBI Colony
Nisha Rajaratnam ................ 98410 03232 (Global Art) H-8/6, Arundale Beach Road, Kalakshetra Colony
ARTS AND CRAFTS
CHETPET Ilango’s Artspace ..................... 4208 5180 Auditorium Building, 4266 4151 Lady Andal School, Harrington Road
CHOOLAIMEDU Yash Kids Children’s Activity Centre ........ 2472 3256 12, 2nd Street, 99623 49932 Athreyapuram
CHROMEPET Avni Arts & Crafts ............... 99419 02213 2/24, Radha Nagar, Elemalai St. Bumble Bee Academy ......... 98844 24626 36, Church Road, 97515 61623 Radha Nagar Saraswathi Arts & Crafts Academy ............................. 99620 36669 5, Nehru Nagar, Ramakrishna St.
GOPALAPURAM Minerva After School Activity ................................. 98410 21611 17 & 19, 1st Street
K K NAGAR Ravi (Global Art) ...................... 4353 0046 Plot no. 350, Lakshmanasamy Salai Sri Annai Kamakshi Kalai Kudam ............................. 2474 0429 Plot no. 998, Door no. 19, 97898 04001 74th St, 12th Sector
KILPAUK Abi Arts .................................... 4201 5745 41, Taylors Road Pogo MAD Arts & Crafts ..... 89393 96760 21/22 1st cross street 99422 19947 Kilpauk Garden Road Siksha .................................. 98840 27739 140/75, 8th Street, 98845 65061 Secretariat Colony Thapasiya School of Arts ....... 2647 3028 No. 3, Halls Road Wordly Wise ............................ 4285 8992 4, Landons Road, 98840 52220 Behind Ega Zaahid Creations ................. 99414 22848 9, Apsara Apts, 1st Floor, Ponnappa Street, Mandapam Road
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