Keeping alive the spirit of the on-going festive season that has just kicked off with Diwali last weekend, the village students of Akal Academy, Ratia are keeping the campus and the village abuzz with their enthusiastic spirit and some really exotic creative work activities to welcome with full gusto, the upcoming-lined-up festivals and GurPurab, Christmas […]

Keeping alive the spirit of the on-going festive season that has just kicked off with Diwali last weekend, the village students of Akal Academy, Ratia are keeping the campus and the village abuzz with their enthusiastic spirit and some really exotic creative work activities to welcome with full gusto, the upcoming-lined-up festivals and GurPurab, Christmas & New Year events.

Past week, starting-off with Diwali itself, has been full of interesting activities including best of arts – be it Rangoli, in which girls from the school made a beautifully designed Peacock that stole everyone’s heart; or creating fancy Diyas that infused the spark of celebrations into the campus.

Diya Making Competition
Diya Making Competition

Besides ‘Rangoli’, it was the Notice Board Decoration that grabbed everyone’s attention. To make things more interesting, fun-filling and to add-on to the excitement of the students, the Academy organized a series of competitions – the teams, divided into houses & categorized into different class-based level groups’ i.e.  1st Class III-V,  2ndClass VI-VII,  3rd Class VIII-X, for competition events like Poetry, Creating Socially Useful & Productive Work from Waste Material, Diya Decoration, Notice Board Decoration, Greeting Card Making and Rangoli Making.

Notice Board Decoration Competition
Notice Board Decoration Competition

Different themes were allotted to each group – Level 1: Diwali, Level 2: Christmas, Level 3: Gurpurab.
Participants of each house, at each level, worked dedicatedly in full festive spirits & with great creativity both to compete and prepare the best work for decoration.

For the event concluding ceremony, special guests were invited to judge the competition; panel of Judges included Sh. Jitender Singh, Principal Govt. Sr. Sec. School Ratia, Sh.Krishan Singh, arts & drawing Teacher, Govt. School Ratia and also Sh. Lokesh Gupta, Sr. Manager. Axis Bank, Ratia. They all appreciated the talent and creativity of the students whilst giving their judgment and announcing winners.

~ Deekhsa Singh
~ New Delhi, 12th Nov ’13

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