Saturday, March 1, 2014

THINKING DAY

THINKING DAY   CELEBRATIONS   - 2014
The Thinking day was celebrated in our vidyalaya on 22nd February  in a befitting way, as per the instructions of KVS and  BS&G.
The celebration was started with a special Morning Assembly programme by the department of  Scouts & Guides. The thought for the day, new word, special programme etc were related with the Movement. A special talk was made by Kumari. Nimisha S Pradeep (class- X) in the assembly. 

This was followed by an All Faith Prayer in the multi-purpose hall at 8.45 AM in which all the Scouts and Guides up to class XI participated. Principal and District Commissioner (G): Dr. Smt. S.Nalayini  gave the thinking day message. The prayer was led by Mr. Narayanan, the music teacher.

A Quiz on Lord Baden Powel and the movement was conducted by Mr. Biju PV  and Mr. Arun Prasanth, Scout Masters in the computer room, in which 16 selected volunteers represented various classes. There were four rounds of quizzing.

Display of gadgets prepared by the scouts was the next event in the agenda.

After that the KIM Games was conducted with slots for touching, smelling and tasting objects followed by a  memory test in two groups with more than 24 different items were kept in boxes.

It was followed by a Poster designing competition in the multi-purpose hall in which more than 100 posters were prepared by scouts and guides  by selecting various topics related with the movement. All the posters were exhibited properly.

A total number of 130 members (55 Scouts and 75 Guides) participated along with all Scout Masters and Guide Captains in the thinking day celebrations.
List of prize winners:
event
names
position

Memory test
RB ABHIJITH- IX-C
first
JAYKRISHNAN. S IX-D
Second
AMAREESH M IX-D
Third
VISHNU. S IX-C
third

Quiz
Team Ganga 4 scouts
first
Team Yamuna 4 Guides
Second
Team Kavery 4 scouts
Third

An Adventure trekking was conducted to VEEZHUMALA RESERVE FOREST AREA, (Alathur Forest  Range) with prior permission from the department. A team of 50 scouts and guides were taken in a bus to Alathur , 37 KMs away from school for the trekking. 

The Cubs and Bulbuls conducted Utsav as part of the celebrations at Malampuzha gardens.

A.      Abdul Shumz
In charge, Dept. of Scouts.