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Golden Bead is a Montessori School for children between the age of 2 1/2 years (Pre-Primary) and 12years (Primary).The School was started with the aim of providing a healthy environment for children to engage in interactive learning, carefully prepared by the trained Montessori educator. In Golden Bead the environment provided is to facilitate thinking, imagination and creativity to remove the fear of learning and foster a confident child. You are welcome to call/set up a visit: Golden Bead Montessori House of Children 157,Richmond Road, Rathna Avenue(Behind old Kids Kemp, MG Road), Bangalore-560 025. PH: +91 9739905787 - 9916915092

August 31, 2010

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.
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