Extracurricular Activity

Creative

• Puppetry: Puppets are a natural and fun extension of the pretend play that young children engage in readily. It enhances a child's creativity and fine motor skills.
• Pottery: Pottery making is a wonderful enrichment activity for children as it enhances their creativity and spatial intelligence, nurtures their ability to create, improves their fine motor skills, encourages out-of-the-box thinking, develops their 3D visualisation ability.
• Tribal Art: Tribal Art involves Warli and Madhubani art forms. The aim of the programme is to nurture the artists in young minds. The programme focuses on providing the best aesthetic sensibility to the children through form, colour, surface and the design fundamentals.
• Craft: Our Craft programme includes many hands-on activities like Origami, Best out of Waste etc. This is a module where children improve their coordination and fine motor skills. It also helps in visual processing abilities.
• Origami: What do pizza boxes, paper bags, and fancy napkins have in common? -- origami. Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, has applications in everyday life.
• Cookery: When we cook, we understand the effort that goes into creating a dish. Students learn to cook simple food without use of fire. Basic chopping skills and eating etiquettes are also learnt.
• Science Modelling: The aim here is to create a curious mind which uses reason and logic to find answers. As Einstein has said, 'The important thing is to never stop questioning'.
• Tabla: Tabla is one of the most basic and versatile percussion instruments. It helps children develop physical skills, cultivate social skills, refines discipline and patience, and boosts their self-esteem.
• Dance: Through dance students engage in collaborative process, strengthening their creative skills in live performance through the study of craft and technique. Students are also exposed to critical studies and histories of dance with rigour and curiosity.

Literacy

• French Language: The aim is to inculcate amongst students a fondness for the language and practice basic verbal communication.

Sports

Sports as a whole gives an opportunity to experience a wide range of specialised activities.

• Outdoor Sports: activities include Cricket, Basketball, Football and Athletics.
• Indoor Sports: activities include Chess, Table tennis, Martial Arts, Skating

While children are gaining expertise in these activities, they develop confidence and competence in performing skills individually, as part of a group and, where appropriate an audience.

Science Club

Objective: To practise and develop intriguing experiments based on science concepts in order to improve knowledge and assist students in aligning themselves with science concepts in their daily lives.

In the form of activities, the science club will channel the students' energy and assist them in honing their skills and visualising concepts more clearly.

Some of the projects executed by students in this club include making compost, graphic and wired circuits. Making Compost raised awareness about waste management, healthy plant growth, and soil structure. The observations and experiences were recorded on a regular basis, which assisted the students in becoming more proactive observers of the experiments they conducted at home.

Students were directed to work on another branch, which is electricity. With minimal equipment, students could create their own graphic circuits, circuits, and wired circuits. The experiments relate to concepts learned in electricity and magnetism.

Magazine Club

The magazine club gives the young and talented writers an opportunity to feel intently, observe keenly, think deeply and thereby express themselves in a distinct way. It plays a very important role as it channelizes the budding talented writers and helps in encouraging their writing skills by appraisal which inspires and motivates them to read and write much more.

Insperia contains a number of articles, poems, artwork, activities and stories that are written by the students. It is published annually through the digital platform bringing together the many voices of the Trio students.

In fact, the young talented writers find their first exposure through this specific medium only. This has a great educative value. It helps them in developing their power of thinking and strengthen their imagination. It also helps in teaching the students the value of co-operation, collaborating on ideas, setting goals, problem solving, use of technology and in acquiring the habit of reading and writing. So, looking at the bigger picture, the magazine club also helps in minimizing the students' digital addiction and makes them utilize their time at hand, more constructively.

These are in fact a source of self-help and self-confidence for the students. Students are usually overwhelmed when they see their articles published in the school magazine and it gives them immense self-satisfaction. And this helps in developing self-confidence as well.

ECA Classes (Class I - VII)