BY MAAS, Kathmandu, August 14:
Kavya School believes that practical and skill-based education is essential to prepare students for the 21st century. Kavya has been enhancing students’ holistic development by conducting various co-curricular and extracurricular activities since its establishment. Students at Kavya School are involved in various activities every Friday with club activities for the mental and physical growth of students. Students are engaged in a variety of Extra Curricular Activities such as; basketball, cricket, football, taekwondo, dance, arts and crafts, acting, singing and dancing and many more.This week students prepared house calendars and house magazines, learned sewing skills, participated in Mental Mathematics and got orientation on the mensuration problems and their social and mental impacts on students. They also studied the cell structures of onions and senior students participated in the class debate competitions.
‘Book Free Friday’ is a Kavya culture and now schools in The Kathmandu Metropolitan City have started celebrating it after the Department of Education of the Metropolitan made a formal announcement for the same.
On Friday, grade four and five students of Kavya School prepared the house wall magazines and learned sewing in their classes. Similarly, grade six and seven students participated in mental mathematics and menstruation orientation. Whereas; grade eight students studied the structures of the onion cells in the Biology lab. Further, the grade nine students practised reciting the poems and grade ten students participated in the Nepali debate competition in their respective classes. There was a monthly meeting and interaction among school management, representative members from students, teachers and community police on the issues and current affairs. The meeting decided to take students to the Kennel Club of Nepal Police on how the dogs are trained for criminal investigation.
Students are very delighted as they are learning life skills beyond the books every Friday. Annya Badal of grade nine student is learning badminton every Friday. She shares, “I am happy to learn something else besides the academic course at the school”. “We practice dance, music, debate, and learn arts and drawing every Friday,” said Simran Pokharel of grade nine. Agrata adds, “It electrifies me and I get a break from our regular classes. I even started learning to draw portraits and pictures in my free time.” Milip Aryal of grade nine expressed that Fridays are more like fun days with skill-based activities when students get to practice music, games, and other ECA and CCAs freely.
Jagannath Koirala, a Nepali teacher at Kavya School, added that the book-free campaign Kavya is helping students to polish their creativity, critical thinking and life skills.
Date : 2023-08-15
