Christmas was celebrated with a festive spirit on 23rd December at the school premises. Soaking in the spirit of Christmas, sub juniors, juniors, middle school and the senior students celebrated the festival in advance on the school campus on 23rd December. The school wore a festive look with the entrance of the school, the corridors and the open areas festooned with colourful streamers and with snow white beard faces of Santa claus pasted on doors and soft boards made on paper dishes and with a few brightly adorned Christmas trees adorning the reception area.
To explore the creativity of the students, the school had organised many activities for classes I to XII and students have quite enthusiastically participated in these activities two weeks prior to Christmas celebrations.
Classes I &II students made Christmas cards with secret santa and decorated them with beautiful threads, bindis and with other decorative items. These cards were then given to a student whose name appeared in the chits prepared by the teacher and drawn through lucky lot. Classes III to V prepared Insignias for all the students in the school out of printouts and cardboard sheets. The students were free to add details to their insignias as per their choice. Classes VI to VIII were engaged in making Santa Face from paper plate and cotton balls. Students quite meticulously followed the instruction given in the module and made beautiful faces of Santa with different expressions. As a part of group activity students made cribs and Christmas trees out of waste materials with great enthusiasm and displayed them in their classrooms. Classes IX to XII made heart shapes out of red chart papers, white doves out of white papers and smileys out of yellow chart papers and wrote attractive quotes on love, peace and happiness and decorated their soft boards with them. These cut outs also carried messages on how to spread peace, love and joy to one another to bring about harmonious co-existence in the world.
On 23rd December, as students of class IX to XII were engaged in taking their PT3 and 1st Pre-board exams, other classes who had completed their PT3, had the first three periods teaching and around 10 a.m. the whole school had potluck party. There was a festive mood in the classrooms as the school had completed their exams and were free to enjoy the day. Children clad in decent colourful attires became busy sharing their delicacies with their classmates and teachers. Every class decorated paper plates with the variety of food items brought by them and carried it to their Principal whom they all adore and look upon for novel ideas for celebrations which mostly suited to their aesthetics. They always knew that she certainly touches their pulse or seem to understand them more than anybody else. Then the students had their adorable Santa Claus visiting them and sharing sweets from his gunny bag and even swaying to the jingles sung as he visited all the classes of the school on all the floors. The children sang in a very festive mood "Jingle Bells" and danced to the numbers like "We wish you a Merry Christmas" etc. The whole school echoed with the holy hymns recited by the students. Overriding every emotion, a wave of cheer enveloped the school depicting the true essence of love, joy and peace. After the carols, it was ‘Happy time’ for children and they had Christmas songs again and children danced to its tune. At 11.:50 a.m. children were taken back to their classes where they recited their dispersal prayers and then dispersed floor and class wise all beaming and full of life wishing ‘Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.’to their friends, teachers including their beloved Principal madam who is always present at the exit to bid a safe and sound journey back home. On the whole it was an eventful day.
