“When I bring sweet things to your greedy hands, I know why
there is honey in the cup of the flower, and why fruits are
secretly filled with sweet juice-when I bring sweet things to your
greedy hands.”
secretly filled with sweet juice-when I bring sweet things to your
greedy hands.”
The day schools received the mail from the regional office about the competition the coordinators were flooded by telephone calls from administrators and teachers asking “when and why” like Rabindranath Tagore would really have wanted. It was like treading through the unknown and the excitement that’s waiting at the end of the mystery.
Then was the stage of ransacking the library for Tagore books. The librarians were asked by the Principals to procure as many books as they could. The overwhelming response of the students made the principals to get the novels and short stories to be xeroxed. All the English and Hindi teachers were assigned the responsibility of guiding and editing the students work before students could upload the same on to the school project page.
Apart from the competition announced by the KVS and Think quest the schools also arranged plays, recitation and painting competition based on Tagore’s work. All these activities surely have brought our children closer to Tagore, the Renaissance man, the educator………
Though the participation in Group D competition was allotted to one vidyalaya short listed by the Tagore Mahotsav in-charge, Education Officer, Shri Manivannan there were frantic calls from vidyalayas for participation. Some of the vidyalayas went ahead completed the video recording of the play and were sent to the Regional Office.
As the deadline neared for school level winners to be announced it was again an amazing work for the teachers to select the best entry as each school wanted to be the winner. Each school had to face a lot of hardship while uploading and added technical problems. Where in some of the Vidyalayas sent the links to coordinators personal site.
Team Chennai would like to proudly say that 42 schools from our region participated, where each entry was excellent. Even the PowerPoint presentations prepared by the primary students were mind-blowing.
The first stage of the competition leads us to the second stage where we had to select the regional entries for national participation. So our goal was set.
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, which must fervently believe in, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
This quote reminds us of the day before school level result were announced , our Education Officer, Shri Manivannan D, KVS, CHER., asked one of the Regional Co-ordinator, Mrs.Sudha P,PRT, KV CLRI, Chennai to his office. His office became our den for meticulous planning. Sir wanted the coordinators to complete the whole process virtually, most effectively and judiously. He outlined step by step plan of action and also set the timeline for completion of judgement for various competition under KVS-Tagore Mahotsav.
The matter was conveyed to our other regional co-coordinators Mrs. Rajeswari, TGT(Math), KV Wellington and Mrs. K P Suma, PRT, KV Thrissur. We all put our thinking caps together and began our journey. The way we all started our work reminds us of Norman Vincent Peale’s quote “Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.” Here we hit up on an idea of using Think quest platform for judging the regional entries too. We created a new account under KV CLRI. The username and password were shared by the Education Officer, the coordinators and the judges. The pages were designed for making it convenient for judges to complete their work without any hardship. All the entries in different categories were downloaded from respective administrator’s page and uploaded in the site created for judgment.
The next stage was to decide upon judges. “Thanks to Graham Bell”. All the three regional coordinators along with Manivannan sir from Tamil Nadu and Kerala with mutual consent decided the panel of judges picking the best from different vidyalayas.
Competition | Hindi | English |
Group A Essay writing | Mr. Harishankar, PGT, Hindi KV Thrissur | Ms. C b Nisha, |
Mr. Y C Pandey, PGT Hindi, K V Anna Nagar. | Ms. S Shanthi, | |
Group b Book review | Mr. Sadanandhan, | Mrs.SudhaSridharan, |
Mr. R k Pandey, PGT, Hindi, KV No. 1, Ttrichy | Mrs. Casilda Nimmy, | |
Group c Powerpoint presentation | Mrs. Tandra Reddy, | Mrs. Nagalakshmi, PRT KV |
Mrs. Mani meghalai, PRT KV Coimbatore | Mr. Satheeshan, Lib, KV NAD, Aluva |
The panel of judges list was then mailed to their respective schools and the judges like the ignited Olympic torch started their marathon duty sincerely and earnestly. They were given the deadline of
Then was the task of compiling and preparing the result sheets. This was also virtually completed effectively. Getting the approval of Manivannan Sir, the results were uploaded for the national participation.
Under the able guiding force of Shri Manivannan, the sarathy of our region, wonderful team work by the coordinators and the judges the whole program was successfully completed.
The KVS- Tagore Mahotsav took students closer to Tagore through his work. They learned to read, understand, analyse, reflect and present their views through think quest. We would like to thank KVS for initiating Tagore Mahotsav, Our Assistant Commissioner for his support, Team Think quest for the crystal clear guidance and encouragement and all our judges. Last not the least we would like to say a “JAI HO” to communication technology. The extra effort that we put in made us realize what Roger Staubach means when he says “There are no traffic jam along the extra mile.”
Team Chennai
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