Thursday, September 24, 2009

Collection drive for Goonj-Initiative by Grade 5

Hi team

We all are aware of the joy of giving week and the goonj initiative .let me just share what g5 has started to do in that respect.Parul came to our grade and gave all of us an opportunity to be a part of the collection drive for goonj Parul shared her goonj visit and a story to inspire students. So today 4 students of g5 went to spread awareness of the collection drive to 3 local schools.

The first school was Xaviers ,Hansol.The principal graciously obliged us and called g8 students for the interaction .g5 then got to know that they had to speak in Gujarati as the students were
guj.med.students.Dhrumil took over the charge and spoke well while the rest chipped in.

Next was Rachana school.The principals were on leave but students managed to interact with g5 who were having their sports time.Sejal and Kshitij were the speakers here.

The last stop was Rosary school. As they had exams students talked to the principal .She was pretty happy and appreciated Riverside for all what is being done!!!!!Shubhangi spoke here.

They all came back smiling and shared their experience with the rest of the class.It was a question .How would people believe the efforts of goonj ?have they visited the center ?(A teacher in one of the school had asked them )It led to a discussion and a collective understanding was built.

As i had accompanied the students ,i witnessed teamwork,collaboration,patience,persistence,confidence,improvisation,and
rigor spread in front of me..........am in awe of my students
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!They are real gurus.....

Sulekha
Grade 5

2 comments:

  1. Dear maam,
    this is a wonderful way of interacting with the teachers and making other people aware of this. you have summarized the whole journey easily helping me and others who read it connect. thanking you.
    yours,
    Vasu

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  2. I have been living in UK for last 5 years and planning to get admission for my child in Ahmedabad with a good school. I really appriciate your idea on developing such a good website with quality content about school. It shows the professional approach and pride of the school. This kind of websites might not make much of a difference there in India for parents but it certainly does make a huge difference here in UK (an countries like this).

    Keep it up. Pleaes convey my regards to the principal, all teachers and whoever has designed the content of the website. Please show my message to them. If you wish, please respond to me here on your blog. Thanks and Regards.

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