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Students visit heritage sites

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YOUNG SCIENTISTS: Students of DAV Public School, Neredmet, at the ‘Spectra’ exhibition. (Right) Kakatiya Vidya Niketan High School students at an expo.

HYDERABAD: The students of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Public School, Jubilee Hills, had an interesting peep into the history when they visited heritage sites in the twin cities.

The students visited Raymond’s Tomb, Gun Foundry, the British Residency (OU College for Women, Koti), Victoria Memorial Home for Orphans and the Paigah Tombs.

The field visit certainly made history lessons more interesting and exciting and the students did their own study capturing the distinct features of the heritage sites. They also interacted with local people and authorities to elicit more information through their questionnaire and later participated in a discussion on the need to maintain and preserve the heritage sites.

DAV Public School

The DAV Public School, Neredmet, celebrated its silver jubilee on January 4 with ‘Spectra’ exhibition.

The Director of School Education, S. Balasubramanyam, who was the chief guest, inaugurated the exhibition.

The stalls with exhibits, projects and models based on different themes and concepts attracted a good number of students.

Besides, there were also stalls offering a variety of games, activities and snacks.

Kakatiya Vidya Niketan

The Kakatiya Vidya Niketan High School, Kakatiyanagar, organised an exhibition covering all disciplines on its premises.

OU Vice-Chancellor Suleiman Siddique inaugurated the exhibition while school principal Prasanna gave an overview of school’s achievements. Each and every department came up with useful themes making the exhibition both educative and informative.

While Telugu department highlighted poets of Telugu literature and their greatness and contribution to literature, Hindi department brought out ‘Unity in Diversity’ concept of India.

English department focused on how and why English language was introduced in the country and importance of dictionary.

While the Mathematics stall made different concepts easier through display of models and charts, Social Studies stall captured freedom movement and reflected India’s 60 years of Independence, besides geographical phenomena. The science stall had about 150 exhibits. The stalls featuring computers and art and craft were another attraction. The three-day expo attracted students from around 46 schools.

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