They Drop Everything And Read….at Secunderabad school.
HYDERABAD, Apr 13 (The CONNECT) – DEAR -Drop Everything And Read, a novel initiative of a city school witnessed an overwhelming response with more than 1200 kids and parents of pre- and primary classes participating on Saturday.
D.E.A.R. was a celebration of reading, conceptualized by St Peter’s High School, Bowenpally, to remind parents to make reading a priority activity in the lives of their kids.
The programme provided students with much more than a just-sit-there-and-read experience. The entire school campus was transformed into several creative reading arenas, corners, and places. All were decorated very attractively.
“Looking at the response and enthusiasm we have seen from kids and parents, we will roll it out the first Saturday of every month from now on,” said Dr K Suvarna, Principal of the school.
There was a beach corner for leisure reading for which a swing and a hammock were set up. A jungle reading corner was another attraction.
Reading corners are the perfect place to get lost in a good book, said T. Alphonse Reddy, Correspondent of the school.
Theme-based reading corners were set up, where children read books along with their parents.
The dreamy reading corners the teachers painstakingly created offered unimaginable reading corners the children loved to spend time and immerse in a reading experience, said Lilly Rebecca, a parent.
Reading was never made so exciting, said Alin, a 4th standard student.
To distract the attention of the kids from devices, and digital gadgets and teach them a very important skill, reading must be introduced as a compulsory subject in schools, opined many parents.
“We all know how important reading is. So, they made reading fun by transforming open spaces into amazing reading corners for kids to look forward to exploring through their books,” Pavani, a mother.
Some reading corners had a library which housed books, magazines, and periodicals.
With so many electronic devices such as Mobile, TVs, tablets, PC, Laptops, notebooks, OTT, Movie screens and others, “TEENAGERS” have become “SCREENAGERS”. This should change, opined many parents who took part in the initiative, observed a parent.
