Club Activities

Club activities offer opportunities for students to learn the values of teamwork, individual and group responsibility. They learn to appreciate diversity and culture, besides recognising global issues. Extracurricular activities provide a channel for students to apply their talent and skills in a real-world context, and thus the education becomes a wholesome one. It is mandatory for students to be a member of one or more clubs.

The activities given below are offered once a week and form a part of the School’s co-curricular program:

Grades 6, 7 and 8:
Environment Club: The student-led environmental club members work together to identify environmental issues in the School and community and plan to solve the issues through awareness activities and school events or programs, under the guidance of teaching faculty from Science and Social Science Departments. Activities include making posters, conducting debates, nature walks, documentation of tree species, skit performances in the school assembly, visual displays and environmental messages on the school bulletin board, conducting waste and energy audits and celebrating special occasions such as Earth Day.

Craft Club: Creativity and imagination are unleashed as children immerse themselves in crafts like papier mache, decopage, lithography, hand puppetry and pottery.

Music: Nearly everyone enjoys music, whether listening to it, singing, or playing an instrument. The Music Club was initiated to nurture and kindle the children’s latent musical abilities. Club members are encouraged to come up with their favourite numbers and are being trained to sing as a choir. Individual instrumentalists have been identified to accompany the singers. The club provides children with a means of self-expression. They learn to coordinate and synchronise with one another, and it is a well-deserved break from academics.

Dance: Spear-headed by two of our very own students, this club meets every Wednesday to learn the nuances of a variety of forms of Western dance, including breaking, locking, popping and salsa.

Heritage Club: The Club runs with the support and under the direction of INTACH. Club members enjoy walks and visits to local sites of historical, cultural, architectural, environmental and social importance. Pupils document their visits through photography, interviews, sketches, written and oral reports and through creative outpourings inspired by these visits.

Silambam Club: The traditional martial form has been introduced as part of clubs for Grades 6-10. The word “Silambam” means either a mountain or merely to sound (as verb). While the Silambam fencers are fighting, the weapon makes sound. There is an overwhelming response from the parents and a large number of students have signed up for this activity.The beginners are introduced to the basic rotating of the sticks .The intermediate students are introduced to the complex moves.

Reading Club: The aim of the reading club is to foster the enjoyment of reading as a recreational activity in students and to develop awareness on the importance of books and other resources as a means of recording and sharing human achievements, failures and aspirations.
As an initiation into the club, a quiz contest was conducted for the students and they were encouraged to design creative book marks. Activities such as publishing a school newspaper are also in the offing to inculcate student interest in literature and reading.

Traditional Indian Board Games: There are traditional games like Pagade, Nondi, Pallanguzhi, Lippa,Moksha Patam,Pandi Attam,Lakhoti and Satoliya that have been played since time immemorial in India and have been an integral part of Indian culture However, with the advent of video games and gadgets, people, especially the younger generations, have forgotten these games. In order to revive these games we have the Traditional Indian Games Club.

Grades 9, 10 and IB-I :
Public Speaking: The club conducts a variety of public –speaking activities like debate, elocution and extempore. Children have an opportunity to exhibit and hone their language skills and put forward their views on subjects ranging from the Rio Olympics to the finer points of cooking.

Quiz: The objective of the Quiz Club is to encourage students to look beyond their textual knowledge and to add their knowledge, ideas and awareness about many things happening around the world. Quiz competitions enable students to think from different angles or simply ‘to think out of the box’ and promote a healthy debate amongst participants in order to learn from each other and aids in the team building process as well.

Music: Nearly everyone enjoys music, whether listening to it, singing, or playing an instrument. The Music Club was initiated to nurture and kindle the children’s latent musical abilities. Club members are encouraged to come up with their favourite numbers and are being trained to sing as a choir. Individual instrumentalists have been identified to accompany the singers. The club provides children with a means of self-expression. They learn to coordinate and synchronise with one another, and it is a well-deserved break from academics.

Dance: Spear-headed by two of our very own students, this club meets every Wednesday to learn the nuances of a variety of forms of Western dance, including breaking, locking, popping and salsa.

MUN (Model United Nations) Club: Model United Nations is a simulation of the UN General Assembly and other multilateral bodies. In Model UN, students step into the shoes of ambassadors from UN member states to debate current issues on the organization’s agenda. While playing their roles as ambassadors, student “delegates” make speeches, prepare draft resolutions, negotiate with allies and adversaries, resolve conflicts, and navigate the Model UN conference rules of procedure – all in the interest of mobilizing international cooperation to resolve problems that affect countries all over the world.

Silambam Club: The traditional martial art from Tamil Nadu has been introduced as part of club for Grades 6-10. The word “Silambam” means either a mountain or merely to sound (as verb). While the Silambam fencers are fighting, the weapon makes sound. There is an overwhelming response from the parents and a large number of students have signed up for this activity.The beginners are introduced to the basic rotating of the sticks .The intermediate students are introduced to the complex moves.