We are free

"Every child comes with the message that god is not yet discouraged of man."These are the words of Rabindranath Tagore. You will find so many great thinkers who have said many things about the children. Garrison Keillor once said that,"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting,our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."

When we decided that we will be doing a inter school competition on August 15th , these words were there in our minds. We conducted four competitions,i.e., debate, drawing, essay writing and song. The themes of all the competitions were independence day. Some 50 participants from 5 schools participated which was a good number as we thought that most of the students will not come due to the outbreak of swine flu. But we were wrong.

We are the champions

Zig Ziglar is his book" The little book of big quotes" stated that,"our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future" So one thing is sure its we who will build their future so that they can build our future.

The future of our nation

Eleanor Roosevelt's words are coming to my mind at this point of time,"the future belongs to those who believes in their beauty of their dreams." And the dreams of these children is unquestionably beautiful.

  We are the train

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children." The above words of Mahatma Gandhi can be reflected in the above picture.

Roja, Swati and Mala from Patikota UPS

Zig Ziglar once said that,"Children go where their is excitement. They stay where their is love." Certainly there was love in CSREM today.We started our event with drawing competition.The theme of the competition was Independence day.

A participant from Gaurachandra UPS

Patikota boys

I did not understand why all of them started drawing the Indian national flag. some 30 students participated in the drawing competition from class 4, 5 and 6.

Harsha from CPS

The song competition was a absolute treat. just enjoy this four lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

God sent his singers upon earth

With songs of sadness and of mirth,

That they might touch the hearts of men,

And bring them back to heaven again.

Wonder kid from R.Sitapur

 This boy from R. Sitapur UPS is a wonder kid. When he came to the stage before starting the song, he said that, "If I commit any mistake, please forgive me." And the song which followed was absolute pleasure.

Such songs have power to quiet

The restless pulse of care,

And come like the benediction

That follows after prayer.

I am not nervous

He won the first prize and our guest of honor Director sir asked him to sing the song again. Haim Ginnot, a teacher and a child psychologist said that, "If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others." I am damn sure this kid will go up if he chooses singing as a career.Some photos of other participant are below,

What to draw!

This little boy from CPS won the first prize.

The Great Indian Flag

participant from Patikota UPS

 The essay writing, debate competitions were held in both English as well as Oriya. As students from both Government and private schools were participating we did not consider Language as a criterion, but confidence, presentation of Facts and figures, presentation of supporting information , conclusion were taken into consideration. And while all of us were thinking that the students from Centurion Public School will take all the prizes, the students from R. Sitapur UPS surprised us completely as they won majority of prizes. 

I won........

Wow, I won too

Prof. Patro sir sharing some thoughts

There is a korean pro verb which goes like this,"no matter how perfect one is, there will always be imperfection with in it."  Some might feel that today's event was not a perfect one , but we will look into that and in future rectify those mistakes. Thank you for reading. Please give your valuable suggestions.