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A seminar on the theme “Education Now and Beyond” was held in SRMPS in the first week of February. Prominent Educationists had been invited to address the audience. The day started with the lighting of the lamp followed by a prayer and a welcome address by our Principal Mrs. Kochitty. Principals and teachers of various institutions participated in the seminar.

The first session began with a presentation by our director Mr. Piyush Agarwal who enlightened us about the new era in education followed by a short tea break. The second session started with a talk by Dr. Archana Mishra who spoke on innovative teaching. Use of semantic maps for composition writing was suggested by her. Case study of Pallavi, who has undergone a total transformation of personality, was shown. Mr. Shashwat Tiwari showed various methods of making Maths more interesting for the students. Mr. Sushant Srivastava discussed the buddy system i.e. to divide the class into groups under the leadership of a mentor.

“To make a building strong, stress should be laid on making the foundation strong” was the thought conveyed by Dr. Sunita Gandhi, Director CIS. She added that though roots are not visible they are the most important part of a tree.

The post lunch session was taken up by Mr. Balasubramanian Ex. Director CBSE. ‘A single word can make or break a person’ was the thought conveyed by him. He said that a teacher should be a master of communication.

‘Words can make a half dead person alive or kill a person who is fully alive’. The fourth session ended with a talk by Mr. Denzil Godin who introduced new technologies in education.

Day two was even more interesting than the previous one. After a mesmerizing prayer by our music teacher Priyanka, there was a short but effective presentation by our Principal Mrs. Kochitty on ‘What’s missing in Education’. ‘What do we live for if we do not try to make the world a little easier for each other’ was the message conveyed by her. Mr. Balasubramanian took over and discussed learning/ teaching life skills. He stressed on making the lessons more interesting for the child by encouraging the child to learn independently, by accurate repetition and giving him exposure to tone modulation. The child should learn to listen carefully. Teachers were suggested to relate the lessons to real life situations. Session three, was about ‘Art of living’ taken up by Mr. Tanuj and Ms. Tanu Narayan. They gave the mantra of ‘love – prem’ and inspired every body to join the course. Their divine personality passed on the message of ‘peace’.

Mrs. Geetanjali Kumar a renowned psychologist and counselor from Delhi spoke about the problems generally faced by adolescents. She informed that in this age of modernization adolescence starts at an early age of nine. When the child doesn’t know about the physical changes that are taking place within him / her, he gets annoyed, confused and impatient and starts reacting indifferently. Parents and teachers should cooperate and encourage him on a regular basis, helping him to make adjustments in the family, school as well as in the society. Some of the incidents discussed by her were hair raising and brought tears to everybody’s eyes. She also made us aware of the fact those children especially adolescents add up to 22% of our total population. They need to be guided in the right direction by parents and teachers. There was a question and answer session where she answered some of the questions put by the Principals and teachers.

This seminar was a manifestation of the commitment by the Principals and teachers who participated. The interactions and discussions of the resource people will surely help us to mould the lives of students in a better way so that they grow up to be better citizens and human beings.

Workshop on Laughter – A workshop on “Laughter” was conducted by Mr. Jaideep Dhondiyal (NIE), on 19th September, 2005. The children learnt the various techniques and benefits of laughter.

Workshop on Manners & Etiquette – Workshop on Manners & Etiquette was conducted by The Times of India group in the month of November, 2005. Mr. J. Dhondiyal was the workshop coordinator. He introduced some new ways as to how a person can carry himself/herself. It was an interesting workshop and the students learnt a lot of things from it.

Work Shop by The Times of India – On Friday, 27th January, 2006, a workshop was organized by The Times of India group. The topic was “How to prepare for Exams”. Mr. Dhondiyal, the workshop coordinator gave very useful tips to the students as to how they should manage their time while preparing for exams, and also while giving an exam. He shared with the students the importance of re-checking the answer sheets, marking the questions attempted, and attempting those questions first, the answers to which can be confidently answered so that the teacher while checking the papers gets a good impression. The students were interactive throughout the session, and benefited from the workshop.

Workshop by Mr. Arun Prakash – Mr. Arun Prakash conducted a workshop on “Clay Modelling”, on Saturday, 4th February, 2006. It was a very interesting and fun-filled workshop where children learnt how to make different objects using clay. Children practiced the same models after learning in their art & craft classes. Also, they used the same technique taught to them and made different models using their own ideas. The same models were exhibited by the students in the Craft Exhibition held in the school.

Science Exhibition – The Science Exhibition, held on 11th February, 2006 was extremely informative. It was attended by parents and they were proud to see the performance of their wards. The only student of class III displayed and explained an experiment on ‘The Types of Soil’. ‘Food’ was the topic exhibited by the students of class IV. The students of class V experimented with ‘Air’ and explained the properties of air. ‘The Physical Methods Separation’ – Sieving and Hand-Picking, was displayed and explained by the students of class VI through experiments.
Other classes put up experiments like ‘Exothermic Chemical Reactions’, ‘The Properties of Acids’, and ‘Refraction’. All the students explained the experiments confidently with reasons, with the help of presentations using computers. Cross questions by the parents and visitors were brilliantly answered.

Art & Craft Exhibition – The Art & Craft Exhibition held on 11th February, 2006 revealed the talents and creativity of the students of SRMPS. Classes I, II, III and IV prepared funny ‘Jokers’, beautiful ‘Flower Sticks’, different kinds of ‘Face Masks’, colorful ‘Butterflies’, lovely ‘Rakhis’, decorative ‘Lanterns’, fluffy ‘Rabbits’, and artistic ‘Birthday Caps’.
Classes V to IX displayed colorful 'Cross-stitch Mats', creative 'Glass-Paintings', artistic 'Block-Printing' on pillow covers and table mats. Students had been working on these in their Art & Craft periods included in their course curriculum and the amazing results were witnessed by the parents personally.

Tree plantation by students at the school premises – Students and teachers together planted Ashoka saplings on the school premises. A lecture on the important of plants and trees was given to them. Many students could relate their regular science classes curriculum with the lecture given to them and they shared their own knowledge with others. Students enjoyed the moment.