Joy of Sharing Week @ Primary School
Joy of Sharing Week is an integral part of the school curriculum at Shiv Nadar School. The week represents and celebrates the core values of the school and the joy which we seamlessly weave into everyday learning. Drawing inspiration from Mr. Shiv Nadar, a philanthropist, students shared things that spark joy in the lives of others and created items to raise funds to share with NGO’s. The celebration reaffirms our idea about social responsibility and brings it into concrete action.
Year 2
To ensure we do our bit to save the Earth from getting warmer every year, Year 2 students pledged to take up a project of planting saplings of trees like Arjun, Peepal and Neem. Concerned about the Air Quality Index dropping down every day, students also felt the need to create a more conducive environment for the inhabitants in and around the school space by doing their bit. The saplings were planted in and around the identified spots in the school campus. In congruence with the EVS theme, ‘Sharing Our Planet’, students will now ensure the sustainability of the same by adopting the trees planted by them and taking care of them at a regular basis.
Year 3
Food is an essential part of our life. It speaks how interconnected and interdependent we all are. For the Joy of Sharing week, Year 3 students focused on one of UN Sustainable Development Goals on ‘Responsible Consumption’ that allows us to make healthy food choices as part of our lifestyle. The tag line for their project is, ‘Save Food, Share Food and Share Joy.’ It is divided into a yearlong project involving a Food Wastage Investigation and the other is a fundraiser wherein students will prepare fresh fruit marmalade and chutney from seasonal fruits. The prepared items will be put on sale on August 16, 2019 during the Unit-end celebration of Theme 2.
Year 4
We are all blessed with the different skills that can be of help to someone. Year 4 students introspected and stated their strengths such as story-telling, singing, vocabulary, art etc. and led to the creation of the ‘Helping Hands’ board. This information helped in creating a collaborative learning environment in the homeroom. Students also organized a ‘Chabeel’ and shared non-aerated homemade drinks like Glucon-D, tang, lemonade etc. with the passersby and support staff in the school.
Year 5
Year 5 students started the ‘Gullak Challenge’ with each homeroom placing a ‘gullak’ (piggy bank) in the homeroom. Students donated denominations (less than Rs.5/-), which they got in lieu of some labor done by them at home. As a yearlong project, every month end, the money will be collected from all the five sections and handed over to Goonj, which promises to educate one child in the rural area for Rs. 700/-
Students also collected old story books and novels from Year 2 to 5 with a short message for the new reader. The books will be sold at nominal rates to raise funds on August 16, 2019 during the Unit- end Celebration of Theme 2. The funds collected will be handed over to an NGO.
