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E-Pal's Club Exchange Program- Regarding Education
( Comparing & contrasting India & U. K.)
In the month of November - our school along with school of UK named Westwoodside Primary School started the exchange program. In this program- the students of class V of our school made the E-pal club. 30 students of our school and 30 students of Westwoodside Primary school, UK started writing letters to each other. They exchanged their photographs also. Students exchanged views on education system of their own countries. Students of both countries are very excited to know about culture, education, places of interest in both the countries.
We are further planning to let the children interact through Skype. Overall everyone felt that the students are the best medium of creating harmony between the eastern and western countries.
Exchange for change – Routes 2 Roots
On the 17th of December, two NGO’s – Routes 2 Roots and (CAP) Citizen’s Archive of Pakistan launched an exchange programme between India and Pakistan with nearly 2400 students from Delhi and Mumbai (India), Lahore and Karachi (Pakistan). It is a sixteen month long exchange programme starting from January. The schools from Delhi are St. Paul’s School, BR Mehta Vidya Bhavan and Sanskriti school. From Mumbai the schools are Shishuvan and Gandhi Memorial. Schools from Pakistan are City school, Link, ILM school, SMB Fatimah Jinnah and saving group school. This programme is divided into four phases –
1. Written postcard exchange
2. Children’s everyday lives picture
3. Monument’s picture exchange
4. DVD audio messge exchangeLast of all everyone will make a scrapebook of the collected information. Apart from the founders (Rakesh Gupta and Tina Vachani) and the principals, others who were present were Manish Tiwari ( official spokes person of congress) and Irfan Ahmed (councilor of Pakistan high Commission). Everyone expressed their views about this initiative programme. Overall everyone felt that students are the best medium of creating harmony between these two nations and since both of them have common bonds of history and culture this will only make our job of removing differences easier.
New Activity For Routes 2 Roots
On Thursday 18 August 2011 the members of Routes to Roots came to our school to conduct another activity. They visited classes 8 & 9. Every section of these classes was divided into groups of 4 & each group was handed out a photograph that had been posted by the students of ILM School, Pakistan. Behind every photograph there was a description about what that particular photo indicated and why they had chosen that photo. A student from every group was asked to stand and show the photo to the whole class & then read the description written behind it. After that activity, students were handed out forms in which they had to answer some questions which were mostly about the similarities between India and Pakistan.
AFS Intercultural Programs
Another new initiative of St. Paul's School in inculcating over all development of Personality in students.
AFS or American Field Service is committed to intercultural learning. Through AFS program, students are removed temporarily from their home environment and introduced to differing values, ways of life and patterns of thought in completely new environments. Learning through an AFS experience involves growth and change in terms of personal relationship building, intercultural knowledge and sensitivity to global issues.
Hosting a student from another country is a challenge and an opportunity. Involvement with an exchange student challenges a host family to become familiar with another culture, while providing the opportunity to share the students hopes and ambitions.
Last year St.Paul's School had taken the initiative of hosting 2 students from Italy, for a year. They were Carolina Giacomel and Giuditta Mazzi. Carolina stayed with Akansha Aggarwal of class X and her family while Giuditta stayed with Megha Rai of class XI and her family.They both studied in class XI in St.Paul's School.
It was heartening to see that many of our students are interested in going to a foreign country under the A FS program.If they meet the requirements, very soon a few of them would be able to go abroad to study and stay with the host families abroad either on a short term or a long term exchange program.
AFS Program This Year
This year we continued International students exchange programme in our School in collaboration with AFS.
Under the AFS Intercultural Scholarship programme we are also pleased to host Jennifer lynn Mauro from Chicago, illinois, USA. She is on Kennedy - Lugar youth Scholarship through yes abroad and will be in the school for one year. She is at present in class XI Humanities Stream.
Gifty Samuel of class XI A was selected for one year Scholarship programme by AFS. Gifty left for Alaska, USA for one year in the first week of August. She is hosted there by a family and would be continuing her education in USA.
In Gifty's Words: " Hi I am fine here . This is a very nice place and resembles Kerala, but the lifestyle is totally different. My school has started and the subjects I have chosen are Alaska studies, Chemistry, Pre calculus and trigo, English , Marine biology and Oceanography and Basketball. The choice of subjects here is very flexible. My host family is great, with Mom and one more exchange student from Ghana. My mom is very nice and we went for hiking for 4 miles which was great fun. In totality I' m having a nice time.
I would like to hear about any news of my school and please keep praying for me.
Thanks and bye."
