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Story Telling
Walkathon by DART
Bangalore Storytelling Society, BSS, a body of
story tellers, is dedicated to reviving, A walkathon was organized by DART
promoting, nurturing the art of storytelling (Dystrophy Annihilation Research Trust)
and popularizing it as a Performing Art. in association with DPSBN to raise
DPSBN in association with the BSS organized awareness about DMD in India. Students
a storytelling session for students of classes and staff of the school participated in great
VII and VIII in which Rosemarie Somiah, Jeff numbers to show their support for the
Gene and other members mesmerized the cause.
audience with their performance .
Walk for a Cause
The staff and students organized a
‘Walk’ in the month of July at GKVK.
The aim was to spread awareness about
Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Revised Curriculum
The revamped class 1 and 2 curriculum
for English and Maths was extremely Walkathon Programme to create
successful. The greater stress on health awareness
language has made children more
articulate and confident
Read to Learn Contest
Evidences of Assessments The Kindle “Read to Learn” contest designed
exclusively for students from primary to
A session on Evidences of Assessments was secondary segment motivated the students
conducted at DPSBN in which the Scholastic to convert their passion for reading into
and Non-scholastic evaluation was discussed presentation and public speaking skills.
on an open forum. The Resource person for Bookflix
the same was the school Principal
Mrs. Manju Balasubramanyam who A pilot programme “Bookflix” for students
highlighted the importance of of class 1 to 5 was launched. This has
documentation to maintain the transparency helped better the reading habits of
in the assessment of evidences. children.
Kavi Sammelan
A Kavi Sammelan was
organized at DPSBN by the
Hindi Department in association
with Anjuman , a Hindi Poetry
Group. Among those present
were Theatre professionals
Saurav Rai and Deewas Gupta.
The talented group of poets kept
the audience entertained with
their poems on different themes,
mainly social issues.
