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Government Higher Secondary School – Thuneri

LLAOutreach, celebrating the Joy of Giving, decided to collaborate with the Government Higher Senior Secondary school, Thuneri, to launch a social work programme in 2015, with the aim of helping the children of the school explore subjects that are unconventional, which help bolster self-confidence and creativity. The objective was to help children discover and nurture talents that are usually not given too much importance in the education system.

The LLA students set out to form different groups based on Interest:

Group 1: Food

  • Rediscover the traditional food of the region
  • Impart Nutritional knowledge to the students.
  • Making avenues for displaying the talents and the work done, such as creating a food festival.

Group 2: Literature

  • Create Expressionists

Group 3: Art

  • How to inculcate art in the young minds, with the available resources.
  • Focus on the importance of art and its forms

Group 4: Movie

  • Showcase different cultures
  • Understand and critique the movie

Group 5: Sports

  • Create awareness about importance of sports
  • Encourage women in sport
  • Showcase talents

Group 6: Music

  • Encourage music as a form of art and communication
  • Provide avenues for students to explore their musical talents.

The programme and its importance was an instant hit, amongst the children and the faculty of the school. The principle, along with the teachers of the school realized the importance of broadening the children’s horizons and creativity and provided all the support required to make this collaboration a success.

Once a fortnight,  one day (Friday) was dedicated to this effort and the children flourished. Not only did they benefit from being part of the various groups, in terms of exploring their other interests, this resulted in a positive impact in their core subjects offered in the school too! Suddenly, the students appeared to show more interest in their subjects, while knowing that in the coming days, an avenue to explore their other areas of interest would arrive.

The children also realized that there may be other areas, outside of what is taught at school, that they could be good at, and explore these areas with the help of the students of LLA.

Overall, the program was a great success and took the children a step closer in terms of being prepared for the world outside.

Vikram H – LLA Student

Kids understood art as an important learning tool in classroom.  Self-expression, freedom of interpretation of art was shown. Usage of colours, textures and use of local material for art was well taken.  Grasping power of the kids is amazing.  Understanding and usage of scale at micro and larger scale was well received.

Vikram H – LLA Student

Shwetpriya – LLA Student

Sports is important in our day to day life to be fit. Organizing and running a sports group at a government school can be a challenging and very time-consuming task. But as Light & life Outreach team, we as sports group could deliver and all-inclusive bespoke knowledge about the games in an unique way which fulfilled their needs for games and being with the kids, the team relived their childlike moments.

Shwetpriya - LLA Student

Manieesha – LLA Student

It was really fantastic to see so much of enthusiasm from the children. Their response was very overwhelming and i really loved teaching them some sequences (for Dancing). I felt i should be more prepared the next time wheni meet them to do something more for them

Manieesha - LLA Student

Rejoy Krishnan

After a long time I got an opportunity to interact with these small children –   Initially it was  like an escape from class for them – later as days went by they got so much engrossed in the singing and the interest they showed made us to do more and more for them .On the last day they insisted that they want to do a music performance, come what may and that touched each one of us

Rejoy Krishnan

Mrs Malliga

The students from yesterday were much waiting for Friday to come  as they think that it is their day of being happy and enjoyful. The way Manieesha teaches each step with patience is commendable. The training given now in dance will definitely help us in our school annual day culturals.

 

Mrs Malliga

Savithri Mam

It is a very useful programme- It is a good opportunity to improve their skills. Students are eagerly waiting for every Friday to enjoy and learn new new things.  They gave many tips to improve their skills.

Savithri Mam

N Akash – LLA Student

We understood to make the stories in different ways . They gave us 8 different ways of writing stories – We were very interested and interacted with you. all the students are enjoying the class.

N Akash - LLA Student

Subhashini – LLA Student

We learnt about the cleanliness – this class is so interesting. This class is very useful for our future use.

Subhashini - LLA Student