Committee Reports: Child Welfare 2020-2021
Director: Rtn. Meera Alreja
Chair: Rtn. Rajesh Shah
Co-Chair: Rtn. Charu Agrawal
Members: PP Ramesh Narayan, Rtn. Madhusudan Daga, Rtn. Alok Sekhsaria, Rtn. Sunita Mandelia, Rtn. Dilip Dalal
This past academic year has been a steep learning curve for all of us – teachers, students and parents. We, at Lighthouse, ensured that though classrooms remained locked, learning continued undisturbed.
As online classes started in June 2020, after experimenting with sending weekly language assignments on Whatsapp, we progressed to Zoom. We are proud to share that between July 2020 and April 2021, students from classes 3 to 5 attended around 110 hours of online class, stds 1 & 2, 75 hours while our K.G. tots logged in 60 hours of online sessions.
With regular schools omitting extracurriculars from their online schedule, our experiential/ hands-on activity like art and craft quickly became popular. Our enthusiastic parents supported us and, by June-end, Sunday morning yoga classes had started to keep our students and their parents fit and healthy.
All national holidays were celebrated online with a special assembly where children spoke, sang and performed just like in offline events. Festivals were celebrated with equal gusto, be it Ganesh Chaturthi, Diwali, Dussehra or Christmas.
RCB contributed greatly to keeping our students happily engaged and occupied during the lockdown, by sponsoring tickets for the Rambo Circus show and connecting us with Rotaractors from various colleges. Cloth bag painting, creating 3D diyas and keeping a gratitude journal were the highlights of the Rotaract Club of HR’s sessions while a two-day workshop on staying healthy was organised for Lighthouse students and their parents by the Hinduja Rotaractors.
As stories aid in language development, storytellers were invited to conduct sessions and later, bimonthly story sessions were conducted by the respective class teachers.
Young volunteers from ITM Business School educated our parents on app usage and financial literacy in the digital age while St. Xaviers Social Involvement Programme invited our children, from time to time, to participate in activity workshops.
February 2021 saw the introduction of the Vedic Maths course to help students hone their maths skills. The year ended with a 10-day long Disney-themed summer camp for all classes as usual.