Category: Medavakkam

Teacher’s Day Celebration

Teachers all over the world change the lives of millions of children every day and it’s in these challenging times that we truly recognize and appreciate how our Nation’s Educators play such a pivotal role in our Children’s lives. This year, Teachers’ Day was all the more special for us at SJPS. Children made sure to express their gratitude loud and clear through multiple platforms like Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Google Classroom. From the tiny tots to the Senior Students, each and every child had his/her own style of celebrating their Teachers and thanking them for all their efforts! The ‘Thank you’ videos, the Letters of Gratitude , the beautiful poems & paintings and the Digital Greeting Cards were indeed special little treats to our entire Teaching Fraternity!

 

In commomeration of the Teachers’ Day, a special online symposium was also conducted for the Teachers on the Theme: “Teachers – The Future Architects”. The session witnessed brainstorming speeches by three Speakers including  Dr. R. Kishore Kumar, the School’s Correspondent and Chief Mentor,Mrs. Vasanthi , the Director of Future Captains and Dr. Samuel Sukumar, Former Principal of Kings Cornerstone International College, ECR. The speakers were given topics through which they shared their knowledge, skills and expertise and motivated teachers by introducing new approaches. The Teachers felt fortune to take part in such a unique and meaning Online Symposium.

Independence day celebrations

St. John’s Public School decided to go the virtual way to mark India’s 74th Independence Day and employed several innovative ways to honour the Freedom Fighters who brought Independence to our country. Various activities were planned for students, Class-wise to celebrate Independence Day. Some of these activities include making Flag Badges, singing partiotic rhymes, dressing up as Leaders and paying candle light tribute to them, live debate sessions and live interactive sessions. In addition to these activities, all students were shown Independence Day special Patriotic Musical presentation sung by singers of our School from all Classes and a vibrant Dance Presentation which was made by collating the individual dance performances of the various dancers of our School. Though students could not be present in School campus physically, the School was overwhelmed that they were able to experience and be a part of the meaningful Independence Day celebrations online.

KG Theme day

Celebrating Theme Days are fun and activity based approaches to bringing broad and abstract concepts to the understanding of little minds. By relating different thoughts about a single theme, children get varied experiences and exposure and thereby widen their thinking skills. Our Kindergarten Children got to witness various themes in their Online Classes such as Colours for Pre KG, Jungle Safari for LKG and Camping for UKG. The Kindergarten handling Teachers used stories,  art and craft, songs and rhymes,  dance, animation and virtual tours to enhance the children’s experience in these themes. Catch some glimpses here..

Life skills at SJPS

Excellence is not a gift, it is a skill that takes practice, we do not act rightly because we are excellent in fact we achieve excellence because we act rightly.- Plato


Life skills is a term used to describe a set of basic skills acquired through learning and/or direct life experience that enable learners to effectively handle issues and problems commonly encountered in daily life and sometimes adapt to face and meet challenges.


The ability to communicate and collaborate, along with personal and social responsibility that contribute to good citizenship – all essential skills for success in the 21st century, both for healthy societies and for successful and employable individuals.


The Ten core Life Skills as laid down by WHO are:
Self-awareness, Empathy, Critical thinking, Creative thinking, Decisionmaking, ProblemSolving, Effectivecommunication, Interpersonalrelationship, Coping with stress and Managing emotions
The Life skills programme at SJPS is unique in that, in addition to have it integrated with all the subjects, we have exclusive classes once a week for the classes 6 to 10, with an exclusive Life skills trainer as well.


These classes are highly interactive and activity based classes, where learners are engaged in thought provoking activities such as debates, pair work, discussions, role plays and case studies.


In addition to broadly following the Life skills manual provided by CBSE covering the ten core Life skills, we also encourage learners to express themselves freely in work books provided for each learner. Life skills trainer facilitates these activities and brings out the 3 ‘c’s – creativity, collaboration (team work) and communicationskills in the learners.


Learners are also shown thought provoking short films and TED talk and they are encouraged to talk about their take on the video clips. Many learners are challenged by these video sessions and take very important and firm decisions. Topics such as bullying, social issues like child labour and environmental cleanliness have struck very important chords with our learners.


In order to prepare the learners for a challenging life style in all levels we have introduced basic life skills and to learners right from kindergarten to class five. These include person grooming and self management skills.
These skills are also reinforced through special focus programmes for primary and middle school classes. Here learners are exposed to sessions covering these topics in depth with visual and auditory inputs .These sessions happen in the school auditorium.


Helping the learner prepare for the everyday challenges of life has been the crux of this program. We also collaborate with the school counsellor who gives valuable support and inputs when dealing with the emotional skills of learners. Infact emotional skills and self awareness forms the back bone from which all other skills take root and branch out. A learner who is confident about his strength and aware of his weaknesses will be able to make good decisions ad will be well equipped to solve problems. An emotionally balanced learner will be free to allow his mid to think critically analytically and creatively.


Hence the Life skills education at SJPS is a seamlessly integrated programme that equips our learners with the skills and attitude that one requires to overcome barriers and expand the boundaries of the ever evolving tapestry of life.

Excellence In Co-Scholastic Activities At St.John’S Public School

St.John’s Public School lays a balanced and integrated emphasis on Scholastic and Co-Scholastic domains of the School. Firmly believing the fact that Co-Scholastic Activities are essential for enriching, broadening and enhancing the learning experiences of students, St.John’s Public School has an exclusive full-fledged Department called the Co-Scholastic Department which makes the School stand out from the rest of the Schools in the City. The Co-Scholastic Department complements the formal education and contributes to the holistic development of the students.


The School and the Co-Scholastic department offers a range of extra-curricular events where in students are introduced to a whole new horizon of activities that gives them a better insight and lets them choose from what they enjoy and what they wish to learn.


HEALTHY ASSOCIATIONS WITH OUR SCHOOL
St.John’s Public School has associated with many External Organizations and Education Institutions to serve the students a buffet of opportunities in educational and co-scholastic arenas. These include School’s association with SPACE India Pvt Limited, Cambridge British Council, Allen Career Institute, SpellBee International, EDWISE Overseas Education, Science Olympiad Foundation, National Teachers Council, Silver Zone Foundation, English Learning Foundation (ELF), SIP Abacus Academy,Prayatna Educational Society and many such useful programmes.


OLYMPIADS AND OTHER COMPETITIVE EXAMS
Olympiads and competitive exams are undertaken side by side with the curricular activities at our School to provide greater opportunities and educational exposure to Students. The SOF Olympiads of various Subjects, All India Talent Search Exam, National Level Math Olympiad, Pre Regional Math Olympiad(PRMO), TERI Green Olympiad,Cambridge British Council Exams, International Olympiad of English Language,French Word Power Contest, International SpellBee Contest, Maruti All India Child Art Competition, National Talent Search Exam, Global Art Creative Star Contest, SIP Arithmetic Genius, BYJUS School Super League Contest are few among the plenty competitions conducted at School.


CREATING QUIZ MANIACS
Our School has given adequate importance to Students’ Quizzing Skills and has developed many passionate quizzers at all ages. Students were given opportunity to participate in various famous Quizzes across the City including Galaxy Science & Technology Quiz, CBSE Heritage India Quiz, TCS ITWiz, National Safety Science Campaign Quiz, Murugappa Madras Quotient Quiz etc and bagged prizes in many of them.


CLUB ACTIVITIES
There are almost 30+ Clubs that are actively functional in the School. A proverb rightly states “Teach me and I may forget. Show me and I might remember. Involve me, and I will never forget.” According to this saying, at SJPS, students are actively involved to a very great extent through the various club activities in the School such as the Talent Promotion Club, Music Club, Hobby Club, Theatre Club, Fine Arts Club to highlight a few. Under the umbrella of the various club activities, SJPS promotes creative thinking and artistic expression among its students.


There are dedicated teachers for extracurricular activities and special period is allotted for the same for all Classes from I to VIII that seamlessly dovetails extra and co-curricular activities curriculum with the academics.
In addition to all of these, we at SJPS provide ample opportunities bytaking our students to various external competitions or Inter School Competitions and workshops to develop the profile of individual students and toenhance and showcase their skills at a broader forum.


These are a few of the many things that set our school apart from the rest. Through a very active Co-Scholastic Department at our School, students also feel a sense of belonging to the School and have higher self-esteem and confidence by participating in the Co-Scholastic Activities, which leads to a happier, healthier and more cohesive school.

Innovative Practices of Teaching AT SJPS

St. John’s Public School can rightly claim to be an innovative school. An innovative school is one that approaches education from a new perspective: a school that sets high standards for students and staff alike.

Innovation has improved productivity, it has meant changing the existing model and adapting changes to impact better education . The innovative has led the teachers and students to explore, research and use available resources to find something new. Thus it has worked to improve the level of thinking and analysis of the students and teachers as well .Following are the practices that have made the classrooms of SJPS interesting and interactive inducing in the students an imagination to innovate further:

1. Audio video Tool : Every classroom has a mart board with built in lesson module as per the CBSE syllabus. There are tools available in it that facilitate teachers to prepare lesson plan in the module format. They can also add videos, documentaries etc. to support their explanation thus making an effective supplement for the text book lessons.

2. Seminar/PPT Presentation/Slide show etc are the different technology involving practices that the students are made to present that the students are made to present in order for them to improve their comprehension and application thus making students to use technology to empower selves and transform to life-long learners.

3. Story board Teaching and Puppet : Story board teaching is an effective teaching technique in the kindergarten and primary classes. This eases those processes of teaching which involves step by step memorization.

This teaching strategy helps the students to track the main idea and the surrounding details . Story board also helps in visualizing highly conceptual ideas such as of life science and computer science Puppet is also a teaching tool mostly used in the preprimary classes .

Other practices include : Role Play : This model helps in the development of the students as it help to build confidence, creativity, communicative skill and problem solving skill . The teachers must clarify the expectation to develop the achievable goals.

Picture talk : Using a picture; questions are Posed to focus a group discussion. Discussion thus provides an area for collaboration and exchange if ideas Case study This model combines two elements the case itself and discussion of the case this helps in

Puzzles : This is a cooperative learning technique which promotes team work and mental agility . Mental math. This practice is used to improve the ability of estimation through the usage of basic arithmetic tools Debate: Classroom debates can nurture rational thinking, citizenship, manners , organization of thought persuasion and public speaking. Homework’s are given URL link- based and from the “Young World “of Newspaper.

Most of the homework is research based inducing in students the Urge to acquire knowledge. The Labs of Science, Math and English & Comp Science make way to experiment, calculate and compute better. The art of listening and speaking is bettered at the English lab .

Art Integrated Learning : This ensures that teaching can be supported by the art and made interesting for the student.

Study Trip :This is another form of out of the classroom teaching /learning wherein the students visit a place observe and record the knowledge accumulated. These trips come in handy on increasing their life skill and provides exposure to real life learning .The real life learning is them tested in the Assessments through Value Based Question which further their analytical skills and provides them an opportunity to express their rationale .

Remedial Classes : Guided learning is provided to the students whose academic performance is lacking and need help and individual attention to improve their academic performance this practice help the senior school students specially to map their abilities and focus for better. Thus all these practices add to the factor of providing education to students which is not just for survival but instead to live a life that is qualitative and beneficial to the world community

Mental math. This practice is used to improve the ability of estimation through the usage of basic arithmetic tools
Debate: Classroom debates can nurture rational thinking, citizenship, manners , organization of thought persuasion and public speaking.
Homework’s are given URL link- based and from the “Young World “of Newspaper. Most of the homework is research based inducing in students the Urge to acquire knowledge.


The Labs of Science, Math and English & Comp Science make way to experiment, calculate and compute better. The art of listening and speaking is bettered at the English lab .
Art Integrated Learning : This ensures that teaching can be supported by the art and made interesting for the student.


Study Trip :This is another form of out of the classroom teaching /learning wherein the students visit a place observe and record the knowledge accumulated. These trips come in handy on increasing their life skill and provides exposure to real life learning .The real life learning is them tested in the Assessments through Value Based Question which further their analytical skills and provides them an opportunity to express their rationale .


Remedial Classes :
Guided learning is provided to the students whose academic performance is lacking and need help and individual attention to improve their academic performance this practice help the senior school students specially to map their abilities and focus for better.
Thus all these practices add to the factor of providing education to students which is not just for survival but instead to live a life that is qualitative and beneficial to the world community