A bazaar school
SOUVIK CHOUDARY
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Check this out kids, a school after your own dreams...
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Creations and the creators...
HYDERABAD
Now this is a school where Botany is taught on the plant you pot, and Indian mythology and Jewish songs are essential components of the school syllabus. Here, children make their own textbooks and play in sand pits. Sometimes, the school becomes a bazaar and students, shopkeepers. Well, there are about 950 such schools worldwide that are based on an 86-year old concept by Rudolph Steiner of Germany. Abhaya at Secunderabad is one such.
Playing the game well...
Going by the unconventional nature and practices of the school, Sunday's bazaar was bound to be a unique event, where children sold self-made craft items, paintings, stuffed toys, cards, candles and ethnic diyas. Teachers and guardians were seen selling pav bhajis and chaat, while a few others busied themselves in playing fun-games with children. The atmosphere was representative of an urban market scene. "The whole idea is to create camaraderie among parents and teachers, and infuse more fun in learning for the students," explains the school's founder-member Vijay Kumar K. "We plan to turn the bazaar into an annual event, where the proceeds will go to a corpus. It will be left to parents' discretion as to how to use the fund," he adds.
The bazaar in full swing...
Students made majority of the articles and artefacts showcased in the bazaar, as part of the curriculum that emphasises on creative leanings till Std. VI.
"The belief is to bring a coordination between the right and left brain through all these creative pursuits, which will help the child bloom better," says a parent, who relocated her daughter from a main-line school to Abhaya recently. From Std. VII, students are integrated into I.C.S.E syllabus and conventional education begins from then on. Music is a central element at Abhaya. The fact was well reflected as a group of students strummed their guitars and sang songs, in Jewish, German, French, Italian, Latin, in addition to English, and other Indian languages. A fairly larger group was at their favourite activity — the sand pit.
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