Student Initiative
The Beginning: The initiative originally started with the Earth Day activities which we celebrate every year with an entire week of creating awareness about the environment and the need for conservation.
We didn't let lock-down deter our spirit of Environmentalism and launched an ‘all school week long online program’, with activities for awareness building of environment conservation, leading to action orientation, integrating the need to Recycle and Upcycle through Art & Craft, Quiz and other competitions. The program received an overwhelming response from our students, Heads as well as parents.
Empowered with the first-hand experience of conducting online sessions, the students of grade 10, under the guidance of the Round Square Reps, worked to build a bank of engaging activities aimed at helping all those who were feeling constrained by the lock-down. This was the Launch of 3L – Leisure Learning in Lockdown.
Peer Teaching: As the activities planned were productively engaging, the school decided that these activities should be conducted with our Middle School students as phase I. Thus began the journey of fun filled sessions conducted by senior school student volunteers for the middle school students, to keep them productively engaged in online teaching sessions. These sessions were aimed at providing respite from screen time, instead engaging students in skill building activities like Art & Craft, Singing, Dancing, Fitness and Debate.
The Core Team: The student volunteers who conducted the program were part of the planning and coordinating team. The lead volunteers were chosen based the core skills related to the activity and in turn trained more volunteers to help out in the planning, coordination and execution of the online sessions. The lead volunteer planned the activities, discussed the flow of events during sessions, conducted demo sessions, did mock calls etc. to ensure that the final session would be seamless and engaging for all participants. Each activity had the lead volunteer, who was responsible to provide the feedback to The Core Team on the effectiveness of the session. Further sessions were altered according to the needs and reactions of the participants.
The Core Team set up various sub groups to conduct specific tasks such as: Data collation of participating schools/students, Assign activities as per participating students choice, feedback circulation, writing the minutes of each meeting and maintaining a data drive of all information. They would also manage the recording of the sessions, taking photos and ensure that the activity leaders submitted reports of each session.