Club Activities
Clubs are formed right from literary club, heritage club to thespian club.
The students enroll themselves into club of their interest to hone their skills.
Formers Club
Cookery Club
Literary Club
Integrated ECO Club
The Importance Of School Student Clubs & Their Benefits
A school may not be the favourite place for many teens. But within those walls is where young teenagers discover who they are and what talents they possess. That is why many CBSE higher secondary schools in Chennai make talent clubs and sports a part of after-school activities.
The pressure of school work is no walk in the park. Children today hardly find the time to chat with their friends during lunch breaks or spend a fun-filled free period. School clubs, however, offer the perfect outlet for students to express their hidden talents and skills. After all, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!"
The pressure of school work is no walk in the park. Children today hardly find the time to chat with their friends during lunch breaks or spend a fun-filled free period. School clubs, however, offer the perfect outlet for students to express their hidden talents and skills. After all, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!"
Why Are Student Clubs Important In CBSE Higher Secondary Schools?
Schools today are all about providing a holistic education that perfectly balances academic and extracurricular activities. It is one of the reasons behind the growing popularity of school clubs. It is more than just a place where children of various age groups spend time with each other, learning and honing their talents.
A good school club can help students:
- Receive insights from their peers, seniors, club advisers, and teachers.
- Gain fresh perspectives about various ideas and skills.
- Learn to respect another person's viewpoint.
- Develop and improve social skills
- Collaborate with students from various social backgrounds
- Step out of their comfort zone and learn new skills
- Form meaningful, life-long friendships
- Bond over shared goals and interests
- Learn to deal with wins and losses
- Learn the value of participation
- Derive a sense of accomplishment Besides these aspects, students are also awarded medals, cups, and certifications for participating or winning in school club activities. These recognitions improve the student's chances of getting into good colleges and jobs later on in their lives.
Popular Types of Clubs in CBSE Schools
Some CBSE higher secondary schools in Chennai operate separate academic and extracurricular activities. Academic clubs comprise the following:
It's Not Just a Club, It's a Way of Life
SRV FARMERS CLUB
The mission of the after-school club Young Farmers is to develop an appreciation for agriculture and build agriculture skills. Students acquire skills that can lead them to have a future in farming or agriculture. Students care for seven chickens and two goats on the school property as well as manage the garden. The community and school are support by the vegetable and flowers grown in the garden are donated to the community. Students are also encouraged to start gardening at home. This club provides the basic skills needed for students to learn about a future career in farming or agriculture.
SRV integrated Eco-Club:
Eco clubs in schools will empower students to participate and take up meaningful environmental activities and projects. It is a forum through which students can reach out to influence, engage their parents and neighbourhood communities to promote sound environmental behavior. It will empower students to explore environmental concepts and actions beyond the confines of a syllabus or curriculum. While everyone, everywhere, asserts the importance of ‘learning to live sustainably,’ environment remains a peripheral issue in the formal schooling system.
Objectives of Eco-clubs in school:
- Motivate the students to keep their surroundings green and clean by undertaking plantation of trees.
- Promote ethos of conservation of water by optimizing the use of water.
- Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
- To develop skills of observation, experimentation, survey, recording, analysis, reasoning needed for conserving environment through activities
- Organise seminars, debates, lectures and popular talks on environmental issues in the school to motivate the students to keep their surroundings green and clean.
- Promote ethos of conservation of water by optimizing the use of water and cleaning of water body in the adjacent area.
- Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
- Educate students to create awareness amongst public and sanitary workers, so as to stop the indiscriminate burning of waste which causes respiratory diseases.
- Sensitize the students to minimize the use of plastic bags, not to throw them in public places as they choke drains and sewers, cause water logging and provide breeding ground for mosquitoes.
- Organize tree plantation programmes, awareness programmes such as quiz, essay, painting competitions, rallies, etc. regarding various environmental issues and educate children about re-use of waste material & preparation of products out of waste
- Campaign against use of loud speakers, motivate students not to use crackers and fireworks, recycling of glass and metals, use of unnecessary horns.
- Field visit to environmentally important sites including polluted and degraded sites, wildlife parks, etc.
- Organise rallies, marches, human chains and street theatre at public places with a view to spread environmental awareness.
- Action based activities like tree plantation, cleanliness drives both within and out side the school campus.
- Grow kitchen gardens, maintain vermin-composting pits, construct water harvesting structures in school, practice paper recycling etc.
- Prepare inventories of polluting sources and forward it to enforcement agencies.
- Maintenance of public places like parks, gardens both within and out side the school campus.
- Mobilise action against environmentally unsound practices like garbage disposal in unauthorised places, unsafe disposal of hospital wastes etc.
- Beautify selected road side area with plants and flowers and put campaign boards to generate awareness.
- Any other innovative programme on environmental issues.
On one side, the Youth club will provide a platform for individual student to translate knowledge, attitude and values into action/ behaviors and develop healthy life styles and emerge as confident and responsible citizens. The Eco Clubs in schools will play an important role in creating environmental awareness amongst the future generation. Together these two activities will fulfill students desire to have joyful learning and be productive while meeting with friends and to make a positive impact on their local environment and the country.
SRV COOKERY CLUB
The Club aims to encourage everyone to have an understanding of food hygiene and food safety, have the opportunity to try new cuisines and understand the importance of a healthy and balanced diet. Students are trained to prepare easy and healthy recipes.
Literary Club
Nurturing the English, Tamil and Hindi literary activities in School
Objective :
The objective of this club is to promote the literary zeal amongst the students. The activities undertaken by the members of the club would encompass the following areas;
- Promotion of students’ debate.
- Work closely with members of staff regarding the organization of literature competitions and festivals.
- Develop listening skills
- Develop writing skills
- Draw inferences and conclusion
- To learn to be a part of Group Discussions and other such speech related activities like
- Impromptu speech / Extempore speech
- Literary Jam
- Arguments and Counter Arguments
- Declamation
