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Children need plenty of opportunities for creative play and creative thinking. Keeping in mind students’ interest, students of standard 8th were given an opportunity to express their ideas and interest through Jingle making activity.

Children were peered up in groups and were asked to compose Jingles. They were given ample of examples on how to compose an effective jingle. A step wise approach was taught to them on how to compose an appealing jingle. It was a 5 step approach:

1. The children were asked to choose a product for example Nike, Colgate, Cadbury, KitKat etc.
2. Then children were asked to describe the products characteristics, features, appearances and benefits for end user.
3. The next task was challenging, intimidating but interesting. They were asked to write single words which would describe the above mentioned points and write rhyming words for the same.
4. Next task was to write the lyrics with the help of single words and rhyming words obtained from step 3 and step 4.
5. Last step was to come up with a small act and tune of the lyrics that they had written.

The outcome of this activity was really praiseworthy. Children came out of their comfort zone and set higher bars of writing lyrics, acting and composing the tune. The children themselves gave a big round of applause to all the performing teams after their performances. This shows that children not only praise the best, but have also learnt to give credit to efforts and creativity of others. Indeed the expression and creativity of all the children were at their best through this activity. This activity not only brought joy to the students but also helped them to grow in confidence, express themselves in gorups and accept and share ideas with each other.

Creativity is the freest form of self expression. There is nothing more satisfying and fulfilling for children than to be able to express themselves openly and without judgment.

From academic advancement with Continuous and Comprehensive evaluation to artistic reinforcement through creative assemblies and soft board display along with meticulous and rigorous training in sports and games students of Atmiya Vidya Mandir are blossoming in total equilibrium. 

Contributing to the same are the academic competitions. Adding to it, one such competition was organised across all classes was Inter-House English Competition. This competition was designed and organised to serve the very purpose of promoting Language Skills and to enhance spoken and written language abilities of students. The AVM English Department formulated many activities for participants of various classes of this competition. These activities were based on speaking, listening, pronunciation, reading and writing skills. It helped participants to develop and test their vocabulary, syntax, and rhetorical patterns used in academic subjects as well as public communication. An all-inclusive summary of this competition is as follows:

Class	Name of Competition-Activity	Satyam	Shivam	Sundaram	Suhradam	Out of
1	Poem Recitation and Story Telling	26	22	22	22.5	40
2	Poem Recitation and Story Telling	23	22.5	25.5	19.5	40
3	Show & Tell	41	33.5	31.5	45.5	50
4	Pick & Describe	30	31	34	36.5	50
5	Cut Words & Frame Sentences	19	17	10	12	25
6	Slogan Writing & Turn Coat	85	87	99	81	110
7	Poem Writing (I wish…)	24.5	15	11	10.5	28
8	Jingles (Group Activity)	82	98	86	86	100
9	Story Writing	31.5	5.5	15	17	35
10	Persuasive Speech Writing	35.5	32.5	35.5	39	50
	Points Earned	397.5	364	369.5	369.5	528

	Positions
Class	1	2	3	4
1	Satyam	Suhradam	Shivam, Sundaram
2	Sundaram	Satyam	Shivam	Suhradam
3	Suhradam	Satyam	Shivam	Sundaram
4	Suhradam	Sundaram	Shivam	Satyam
5	Satyam	Shivam	Suhradam	Sundaram
6	Sundaram	Shivam	Satayam	Suhradam
7	Satyam	Shivam	Suhradam	Sundaram
8	Shivam	Suhradam, Sundaram	Satyam
9	Satyam	Suhradam	Sundaram	Shivam
10	Suhradam	Satyam,Sundaram	Shivam
Over all	Satyam	Sundaram, Suhradam	Shivam

This competition was purposed to prepare students to combat the challenges  in context of the academic, social and professional expectations of the outside world.Through this competition, students got a comprehensive head start to understand the rigorous academic, social, and professional requirements while using English.