Welcome children with balloons, sweets in decorated schools: SED to schools

 

Srinagar, Mar 01: While the schools in Kashmir division reopened today after a gap of nearly 11 months, the School Education Department has said that educational institutions shall be decorated with balloons and the sweets shall be offered to students.
Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK), Tassaduq Hussain Mir in a message to students and teachers have said, “The school opening day is the day when our children shall again find their knowledge-spring and come to drink from it.”
“It is joy all over. But while we celebrate going back to school, we must make sure that we give children reasons to celebrate this return, so decorate school for them with balloons. Offer them sweets,” Mir said.
The director said that after many seasons of separation, our children shall be back with us and our empty school compounds shall lit up and come alive again. “It is a great feeling and has been a period of complete academic quiescence and stress for the children who could not learn up to the mark during the period.”
Mir has asked to create an air of festivity in the schools.
“Let us break the ice. Pass on a message that this week it will be more play, more fun. We should make small groups of children so that they share the experiences of long pauses, the woes, the happiness, the stress keeping Covid Appropriate Behavior (CAB) in mind.”
“There must be children who lost their parents to the cruel pandemic and some must have been unwell. Share their agony. Share your goodwill,” he said.
Mir said, “There must be some children who left their books long back and will touch them again now. Tell them not to worry. Tell them this pandemic has thrown up a new norm, teach them and align them to the new normal. Reassure them,” Mir directed the teachers
“Let students write small paragraphs on memories of the home stay in a language of their choice. Let them paint and draw. Let them organize skits, write poetry, do a field activity on science, meet and interact informally with teachers and their fellow students,” the director said.
He also asked the teachers to organize one to one counseling with students, each child getting around 10 minutes- talk to them, listen to their difficulties.
Mir also informed the teachers to welcome students. “Console and comfort them and don’t stress them with exams. Let these exams be delayed for the first two weeks.”
Pertinently, April-03-2021 was the last working day for the regular offline classes in schools of Kashmir division.
However, in the session at the end of the academic year 2021, the schools briefly opened for restricted offline classes.