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emphasis on developing, nurturing and connecting each individual by means of interaction,

peer learning and other skill building activities. Activities like planning an advertisement,
making a comic strip, poster making, role playing a critic, TED talks, interview sessions,

thinking and presenting a start-up idea, enacting and reporting a crime scene, press
conferences etc. were undertaken. In this way, the talents of the students were enhanced to

develop communication skills, encouraging them to express their feelings and to venture
beyond the frontiers and introduce various career opportunities in mass media to the

students.

MUSIC CLUB

It is said that music is the language of the soul. It gives wings to the mind, flight to the
imagination and life to everything. The Music Club functions with an objective to foster and
promote a lifelong interest in music and to enhance the musical skills of the children. In the

club, interested students are trained and guided to play instruments of their choice like
drums, guitar, keyboard, bongo, harmonium and flute. The children are also exposed to both
western and Indian classical music. The club also provides a platform to the students to

enhance their skills and to showcase their talent. The event - Junior Raag Ras – “Aradhna”
which was organized for the first time for classes 1 to 4 was one such event that provided an
admirable opportunity to the children to showcase awesome vocal and instrumental talent

and was highly appreciated for the concerted efforts of the children.

NATURE CLUB

Nurture nurtures. Here at RFS, the students are given every opportunity to appreciate the

beauty and value the importance of nature. Nature club plays its part to inculcate the green
attitude towards the environment amongst students. The students are sensitised about the
day today issues concerning of environment. The club aspires the students to be nature

friendly, to observe and to absorb it within. The students were shown videos on waste

management, forest fire, afforestation, fossils etc. They made speedballs in the club and also
did leaf printing and tracing also and came up with wonderful designs. The students were

taken for nature walk within the school complex many times. They were shown different
plants and were asked to observe it carefully. They were shown nest, pupas etc. The students

The Media Club aims at nurturing and motivating the creativity and inculcating writing drew their version of the pink trumpet tree which blossomed beautifully in our school. The
skills in students. The club gives them hands on experience of the real world, behind the student students were shown real specimens of certain herbs and indoor plants which keep

scenes with many diverse types of activities planned and designed to understand the the air fresh. The library resources were extensively used in the club. Students were given
importance of journalism and media. It worked as a talent pool for the students and laid

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magazines like National Geographic Kid and Sanctuary Kids and were told to go through
them. The topics of the magazines were thoroughly discussed and the students took great

interest in sharing their views. Those colourful books really held their attention well and the
students were in glued to those wonderful pictures and amazing facts related to animals and

nature. The students felt connected individually and communally with the environment and

were happy to observe outdoors whenever they got a chance.