Having observed
a vast spectrum of issues owing to the infamous digital boom and its impact over the last few years
on students and teachers alike, People’s high School has introduced several fun
yet creative activities and modifications in their daily routine to help
students overcome the influence of digital screens.
At the end of every
Science class the students are given a Rubik’s cube to solve, a Sudoku or a
Vedic Mathematics exercise after every Maths class, and a little game of
scrabble or crossword after an English class. This way the students try to have
a little fun at the end of every class. The motive behind having such exercises
is to help children improve their attention span.
The school management
has closely monitored the influence of mobile phones and the Internet on
students in the last few years and realised that their attention span is not
more than two minutes whereas an average period lasts from 30-45 minutes. Also
children today need something exciting and interesting to keep them hooked.
When asked if these
activities would affect the time allotted to complete the syllabus, Managing
Trustee, Rahul Deshpande said, “We have assigned five minutes of every period
for these activities and the time table is designed in such a way that there is
no compromise with the teaching schedule. Besides, the activities seem to serve
the purpose as we often see our students try to solve the Rubik’s cube during
their free time.”
Stating from this
academic year People’s High School has also started a new initiative called the
‘Achiever’s Programme’ where professionals from different fields have an
interactive session with students about prospective careers in an array of
subjects.The subjects include art appreciation, sewing, photography, cinema
appreciation, karate, boxing, robotics, cooking, etc. The programme was
essentially introduced to help students understand the endless possibilities of
fruitful careers in creative fields besides the popular career options like
doctor engineer, etc.
When it comes to choosing their specializations and graduation subjects leading to their careers, students are usually influenced by what their family suggests or friends choose. Later they realise that it is not what they want to do. The Achievers’ Programme will help them learn and try out a different subject every year starting from class 5 to class 12. This way, by the time they finish their class 12, they would have tried a range of creative fields first-hand that would help them decide if they would want to pursue a career in them.eople’s High School has 1,350 students across KG 1 to 12th standard.