Tips on life skills & team spirit

 

 

Films and more

On the third day of the 15th Anjali International Children’s Festival in Bhubaneswar on Thursday, Yonten Jamtsho, the escort from team Bhutan, spoke to children followed by a deliberation from Prabir Das, resource person of the ventriloquism workshop. Krishnagati Prabhu, head of Iskon, Bhubaneswar, spoke  on the aspects of Holi. The morning programme included the cultural performances. Students from mainstream schools visited the camp along with their teachers. They visited Nandita Cinema, where various disability-awareness movies were screened. They were also exposed to simulation activities to help them understand the difficulties faced by the differently-abled. 

An  interactive workshop and Swayam Festival were held. Biscope, Children’s Film Festival, was inaugurated by actor Sabayasachi Mishra at Bhanja Kala Mandap, where the film Gattu was screened along with short film The Present. It was followed by a quiz competition on the movie and the felicitation of the guests. Children were also  taken for a city tour to State Museum, BDA Park and Dhauli Peace Pagoda. The children took part in live roller skating and followed by cultural programmes in the evening. 

Little India

Children in Nilagiri of Balasore took part in a series of competitions to mark the birth anniversary of the country’s first education minister Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad. The kids took part in drawing, painting, and singing competitions. The event organised by Being and Becoming aimed to encourage creativity among rural children. Called “Budding India”, the initiative  aimed to address the issues of child rights and education by introducing themes such as “Hygienic Sanitation and Habits”, “I Want To Be”, and “My House and My Family”. The competitions were  held under three categories - two to six years (sishu) , seven to 10 years (taruna),11 to 16 (yuvaa). More than 90 children, along with their parents, took part in the programme, said Anup Kumar Behera, who organised the event.

Books on values

“Thinking About Values”, a series of books on values and life skills for children of classes I to V, was launched at the Principal Leadership Programme in Bhubaneshwar on Thursday. The series, based on NCERT’s values framework, is a unique contemporary take on values and life skills for children. 

The books were launched during Tata Class Edge’s programme on leadership for school principals. “In today’s rapidly changing world, increased exposure coupled with nuclear families and lack of guidance at home have made values and life skills a very important topic for discussion with children. However, these discussions are often seen as ‘preachy’ by children. Instead of a list of rights and wrongs, children need to be taught about confronting situations or ethical dilemmas when they have to decide on what action to take,” Sanjay Radhakrishnan, chief commercial officer of Tata ClassEdge, said. 

The books include visually rich stories and poems, exercises that encourage children to make decisions, easily accessible videos of the story and a journal section that involves discussion with family. Moreover, it covers contemporary topics such as needs versus wants, sportsmanship, use of gadgets, dealing with strangers, helping at home, civic sense and more, all told in child-friendly ways. 

Score a basket

The Sahodaya Schools Complex organised an Inter-school Basketball Tournament at Unit-1 Mother’s Public School. Schools such as Mother’s Public School, DAV Public School, Unit-VIII, DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, DPS Kalinga, and many others took part in it. The opening ceremony of the tournament was presided over by Poly Patnaik, principal of Mother’s Public School, and Suryanarayan Parija. 

The tournament was held to promote the spirit of team work, competition and zeal to win among young students. In a nail-biting final match, Mother’s Public School emerged winners and lifted the Champion’s Trophy while DAV Chandrashekhar finished runner’s up in the boys’ category. In the girls’ category, Mother’s Public School clinched the Champion’s Trophy while DAV Chandrashekhar got the runner’s up. Poly Patnaik awarded the winners.

Sports meet

The annual sports meet of the BMPS Takshila School was held on its premises. Home secretary Lalit Das inaugurated the event as chief guest of the occasion. Student participated in various sports events such as ring drill, yoga, pyramid, daradevil and many more. On the concluding day, Das  distributed the prizes to  the winners and appreciated the efforts of the students and of those in the field of education and sports culture.

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MY ROLE MODEL

I want to be like Biocon chairman

My role model is Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. She is a great example for today’s Indian women. She is the chairman of Biocon, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore. 

She has been named the 85th most powerful woman in the world. As a global influencer, she is ranked in Fierce Biotech’s list of the World’s 25 Most Influential People in Biopharma, Forbes’s 100 Most Powerful Women and Fortune’s Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Asia-Pacific. Recently, she was featured in The Worldview’s 100 list of Biotech Visionaries in the US-based Scientific American magazine. 

She has been received the Padma Shri (1989) and the Padma Bhushan (2005), two of India’s top civilian honours. Biocon is a foundation that focuses on areas such as health, education and infrastructure, especially in the rural areas of Karnataka. Her hard work and dedication towards this cause makes her an excellent philanthropist.
Her compassion and kindness blends perfectly with leadership and ambition and makes her a woman to be admired. She is the perfect example of an empowered woman. I have an ardent desire to be like her and meet her once in my lifetime.

 
Anshika Mohapatra,
Class IX, 
Future Bhubaneswar School

 

MY MOMENT 

I love to paint and have been bestowed with several awards during my school days. My parents discovered my love for art and enrolled me at the Artech Acadamy at the age of four.

It was there that I learnt the nuances of painting and with a strong foundation and regular practise, I  continued to take part in all competitions that came my way, including national level, state level as well as school level competitions, and excelled in each of them.

With each award my confidence took a leap. I have been told that I am particularly good at drawing portraits and landscapes. 

I was also fortunate to be conferred the title of Young Environmentalist of the Year - 2015. 

This being said, I am equally serious about my studies and wish to pursue MBBS as a career and regularly put in about seven hours into my studies.

As I am in I Class X, I have considerably reduced the number of hours I put into painting and it is no longer an everyday activity. These days, I turn to painting as a stressbuster. This apart, I also play badminton and music. 

Satabdi Debadulari,
Class X, 
DAV Public School,
Chandrashekharpur