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Cultural competitions, quiz and debate marked the three-day silver jubilee celebrations of the Ramanath Secondary School (NSTL) last week. The students of Delhi Public School, Abhishek, Reetik Kumar and Kartik bagged the first prize while K. Sai Krishna, D. Srinivas and M. Aditya of the host school bagged the second prize. The quizmaster was S.V. Ranga Rajan, Scientist-`G' in NSTL.
The pupils of Ramnath School won the first prize in dance for their song on `Bharata Mata' with rhythm in Kuchipudi style. The second prize went to Smt. Godavari Devi Saraf High School, Garividi and the third prize was bagged by Kendriya Vidyalaya-II, Nausenabaugh, for their patriotic song in Kathak style.
In debate, Jyotirmayi Lenka and Gowri Verma bagged the first place while M.V.R. Murthy and Sweta Naik of DPS, Ukkunagaram, stood second. The third prize went to N.K. Srinivas and K. Vineel of Bal Bharati School, NTPC.
The pupils of Sri Krishna Vidya Mandir School won the first prize in the patriotic singing competition. The second and third prizes went to Naval Public School, 104 Area and Ramnath School respectively.
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THE NIE programme has fulfilled and covered all aspects for developing language skills. The information about language development has impressed Prakashites. Our students are inspired to do something new and innovative in the field of education.
The NIE consultants have motivated our students to read a newspaper better. If students can read with pleasure, it will enliven the mind and stimulate the brain.
Nazma, Vice Principal, Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan.
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Students of Siva Sivani School, Marripalem, bagged a good number of ranks at the 4th National Cyber Olympiad conducted by the Science Olympiad Foundation, New Delhi. Suraj Kumar Sampathy (Std. IV) bagged the third rank at the State level and the 38th rank at the national level. Vedavyas Vedhula (Std. III) and Ramya Deepthi (Std.IV) bagged the fourth and eighth rank respectively. Y. Pavan Teja (Std. IV) and Neeraj Namburi (Std. V) bagged the 13th and 29th respectively, according to the school correspondent, Neeraj Kumar Sampathy.
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The Hindu `Newspaper In Education' (NIE) programme brings awareness among children. Though we are aware of the advantages of reading newspaper, we don't make a conscious attempt to read them regularly. Due to the NIE programme, we not only get habituated to reading newspapers but we also come across various things that we would never observe in the newspapers otherwise.
M.Srijan, 9th B, Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan
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The NIE programme has immensely improved my speaking skills and my vocabulary as well. Learning English have never been so enjoyable before. Along with loads of fun, we learnt grammar, pronunciation, cross words and many other things.
Disha Anand, 9th D, Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan
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Anita Dua
Sometimes I wonder, why the `child' has suddenly become the cynosure of all eyes. In olden days, families were virtually football or cricket teams with at least ten children being the average offspring per couple. They were all accepted as God's `blessings' and no second thought was given to them. And they would all grow up, get married, multiply to make further families and the story continued.
Today it's the age of nuclear families, one/two child homes, and the age of scientific advancement. The world ought to have become a better, more efficient, trouble-free place, but has it? When we boast we have created a near-Utopia, we find newer problems rearing their heads, and the one person who is the most victimised is the child.
Today the child is in a most complicated world. Once it leaves the cocoon of mother's body, all problems begin. Let us see how it is literally made to walk the tight rope from infancy onwards.
Owing to the population explosion, competition has become cut-throat. So the child is taught by parents and teachers to learn and `compete'. In their zeal to equip the child with all the skills necessary to make it well-settled in life the parents work with an almost missionary fervour to not only make it `excel' in studies but in co-curricular activities as well, so a child blessed with more than average intelligence finds it caught in a web of pressures.
The child's life becomes a roller coaster one with 16 to 18 hours of mind-boggling activities - school, tuitions, gym, dance or music classes, karate, yoga and what not. In this flurry of activity where has the child time to stand and stare?
Even its holidays are curtailed. With the so-called summer classes, the child goes in pursuit of yet another timetable, encroaching into its precious vacation when it ought to be enjoying freedom? Compare this with our own holidays two to three decades ago. What about the long lazy afternoons spent playing with friends, chasing butterflies, stealing fruit from mango groves, playing `make-believe families', reading our favourite stories, etc.?
Where is the child of today experiencing the joy of exploring its natural instincts, of being just itself?
And what he or she experiences in school days is just a foretaste of what pressures one will have to face later on. Once out of school, the going only gets tougher.
For every problem the world is facing today the child is taken as the yardstick. Population explosion - curb the number of children, increase in crime rate - curb child delinquents. Best money spinners... open more schools, growth in Militancy - `catch them young' and give them value education ... the list is endless.
The bewildered child of today finds all the flood lights focused on it and it can do little except blink in confusion. And it's a shame that in our zeal to make it the best, we drive it to the depths of desperation.
Anita Dua, principal, Delhi Public School
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