Golden Bead Open House / Tagore Tribute Aug 2010

This year the Open House was combined with a program commemorating Tagore's 150th birth centennary. Rabindranath Tagore - one of India's great luminaries, a literary giant, poet, artist and dramatist was born in 1861 and died in 1941 at age 80.

On this occasion, Golden Bead Elementary children, dressed in traditional Bengali attire, prepared a tribute to Gurudev. The program consisted of :

• Opening Note by Nikita

• Invocation Song by children and staff
• A talk on the Montessori Method by Hema Srinivasan (Both Tagore and Montessori philosophies strongly believe in education lead by the child)
• Rabindra Sangeet - songs written and composed by Tagore - performed by the Hindustani Music group lead by Kajari aunty. Ananya throughtfully provided a brief synopsis of each song for the benefit of the audience

 

• Short pieces on Tagore's life
• Ambar spoke of Tagore's childhood and love of nature
• Rehaan spoke of Tagore's education and his belief that education lay not in textbooks but in freeing the mind of its shackles
• Trisha and Ethan spoke of Tagore's achievements

• Dhanya recited Tagore's famous poem - "Where the Mind is without Fear"

The program concluded with the National anthem and was followed by an interactive puppet show by Time-Life publishers which the children enjoyed.

As part of the Open House the school environments were opened up to parents and guests to explore.

The elementary children also put up a series of presentations on animals, plants, geography, science, mathematics, answering all questions posed to them by the audience.

Alongside the presentations, was an exhibition and sale of books and material by Time-Life, Sutradhar and Rajan Book House.

Pre-Primary Visit to Cubbon Park

 The Pre-primary sections visited Cubbon August end. Here are a few pictures capturing the fun!

Onam

Onam was celebrated with the usual festive fervour at Golden Bead ...

Independence Day

Golden Bead children celebrated Independence Day on Monday, Aug 16 2010. The whole school was decorated with the tricolours of Indian National Flag and it was a day of music, drama and patriotism.

Some of the children dressed up as freedom fighters and spoke of the bravery of these past heroes : Dhanya and Trisha were Rani Laxmibai, Hriday and Nikita were Bhagat Singh, Ramiro was Gandhiji. Others portrayed their views on India through chart presentations.

The Hindustani Music group sang the well known patriotic songs - Chodon Kal ki Baatein and Saare Jahaan Se Achcha.

The elementary children made a map of India using tri-coloured salt with Aparna Aunty's help and Rehaan, Trisha, Thea and Saniya performed a small skit on National Unity. The day ended with the children pondering on whether it was good or bad that the British came to India!