Conservation of nature highlighted

Hyderabad: The little children of The Play School, exclusive wing of Sister Nivedita School, Ameerpet, celebrated a week-long programme for the conservation of Nature in relevance to the Nature Conservation Day that falls on 28th July of every year.

This celebration named 'Nature Play Week' included games that people played and entertained themselves in the olden days. The age old games that we played when we were children have taken a back seat now and are almost forgotten. The games like Hop Scotch, Snakes and Ladders, Astha Chamma, Dog and Bone were played by the children in the school, which had a vast exposure to the children to mingle and understand each other freely.

A fancy dress competition for 'mother & child' or the 'father & child' was organized to give an opportunity to make the child's very first stage performance a memorable one as the child shared it with his/her parents in school. The children could understand how relationship is very important to us in all stages.

The attempt was to make the parents work in duo in making their child's learning easy and memorable. No bondage can be stronger and sincere than the one between a child and a parent. The parents enthusiastically participated in the event. The programme began with invoking god by a prayer and lighting of the lamp. The Director of the school, Hari Hara Prasad, the Principal, Jayanthi Venkatraman and the Vice Principal, Anuradha Pramod were present for the World Nature Conservation Celebration.

Two of the parents were called upon to judge the competition. The week-long celebration that included games of various kinds made us aware that learning can happen naturally in the nature's lap which our present day's kids are missing in this technological world. Addressing the audience, Principal, Jayanthi Venkatraman highlighted the fact that children should be groomed and nurtured in harmony with nature so that they learn the values, for the Holistic development.