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| Natrang Weekend Club becomes ultimate destination of Children | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 28: Natrang Children's Weekend Club is all set to achieve International standards of new experimentations in education.
Aimed at providing the similar opportunities which the children have in the Summer Schools of Oxford and Cambridge of UK, the Natrang Children Weekend Club is all set to transform younger generation of the town with creative and innovative experiments, using the art of theatre and other artistic devises.
Giving details, Balwant Thakur explained that this new concept Natrang Weekend Club initiates a new trend in the city which has never been witnessed in the annals of our state.
When the whole world is coping with the overwhelming fear of competition and exam stress, experts from Natrang have developed a package that focuses on not only development of children but also overall excellence, self-fulfilment and self-actualisation of a child. In this weekend club there are few key points that have been the keystone of the workshop. The first principle that we focus on is the drive that flourishes human life, 'curiosity'.
Sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball dance, where we did not hear the music, the dancing that we see there would appear insane. This is the power of imagination; it can make us see things that we hardly notice in our mundane life. The second principle Natrang focusses on is'imagination'. The children are encouraged to think beyond a certain point, beyond a certain horizon, something that they are not encouraged to do at school. Children are not only encouraged to build ideas from their conclusions and their premises but also from the internal imaginative power of their soul. In this regard various improvisations are done on weekly basis and children learn storytelling, acting, direction and script writing in this process.
The third key point in this workshop is 'Healthy Competition'. The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning but the part of the problem is that the dominant culture of education has come to focus on not teaching and learning, but testing. Now, testing is important. Standardized tests have a place.
But they should not be the dominant culture of education. They should be diagnostic. Natrang focuses on healthy competition that encourages the kids to create something better.
The students are divided into various groups and they have to present different skits and short plays. This gives them a spirit of winning and encourages them to do better at every step.
The faculty of Natrang Weekend Club include Sumeet Sharma, MA Theatre Arts and a National Awardee, Asheish Nijhawan of London International School of Performing Arts and Aarushi Thakur a product of St. Stephens College, New Delhi who has to her credits, Masters from University of Leister and specialized course from Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London besides Padamshree Balwant Thakur. |
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