News Paper in Education

 Newspaper in education is a morel concept started by "Times of India" Newspaper, which helps the students for all round development of personality.

The NIE helps the students to develop various skills, like communication skills, Vocabulary-improvement, Examination-skills, Memory-improvement and improvement in spoken English etc. and also provide an opportunity to the students to expose their inner talent by publishing their work.

Under the NIE programme students had their first training programme in school on the topic of writing skills and improving their handwriting in such a way that it attracts the attention of the readers. They received the tips from the NIE experts Ms. Shehre Banu

Promotion of Clay Ganesh Idols - A workshop

Oxford Grammar School conducted a workshop on Promotion of clay Ganesh idols without paint on 16th September, 2004, in the school premises on the occasion of Ganesh Chathurthi. Keeping in view of the pollution caused by the paints that are used in making the Ganesh Idols to look attractive and beautiful,  at the time of  immersion. The samples collected from Hussian Sagar Lake by the government of Andhra Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board have found to have high metal content because of the 'lead colors' used to paint Ganesh idols which are made of Non-degradable material like steel, is harmful to the human beings and aquatic habitat and due to which the lake is shrunk by 40% as of now.  So, they have taken measure to create awareness among people to combat the water pollution by making clay idols and to use the idols, which are colored with the natural, and dyes instead of synthetic dyes like lead chromium and lead peroxide.

As an Annual Programme under the auspices of Oxford Nature Club we hold this workshop every year to create and promote awareness among the students about the harm caused by the synthetic colors and immersion of idols in the lake.  Students are encouraged and trained to exhibit the creativity in making Ganesh Idols by using natural colors and clay, and also to spread the awareness among the neighborhood.

Workshop of Heritage Awareness

A Workshop on Heritage Awareness for school teachers was held on 9^th & 10^th August, 2004 at Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet.  Teachers from 23 schools have participated in the workshop including Oxford Grammar School.  The workshop was inaugurated by Dr.J.Geetha Reddy, Hon’ble Minister for Tourism, Government of Andhra Pradesh.  Lectures were given by eminent resource persons of INTACH.  The programme was to bring awareness among the teachers regarding the protection an preservation of Heritage buildings, monuments, rocks etc.,

Group discussions were held among the teachers to motive the children and many activities were also discussed like – gathering information about old buildings on their way to school, visiting any particular heritage building or monument and study about it in different angles i.e., geographically, biologically, mathematically historically etc., 

In the workshop the teachers acquired the knowledge regarding different historical monuments situated in different parts of our country, their importance and responsibility to protect them.

Our school  is proud to say that a student of III standard, Rohit Bhat also gathered information regarding museum and explained it to the visitors.

More activities are taken in this direction, our school children were divided into groups and asked to collect the information by visiting the places of Hyderabad.

In this way efforts will be put in to bring awareness on Heritage and culture of our country among the students.

HRIDAY & SHAN

(Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth and Student Heal Action Network)

The programme was co-ordinated by Care Hospital doctors, under the project – Involving Youth for implementing policies, related to tobacco control in India.  Involved students of class VII & IX, who were asked to carryout various activities like, Hotel survey (to bring awareness about the law under which tobacco is banned by the Government).  Collective student and parent activity where they were asked to write slogans, to become a member and in turn spread the message in their community.  Debate, essay writing, drawing competition were conducted.  All these activities aim to spread the message of evil and hazards of tobacco consumption.  So as a part of the activity the Doctor, Mr.B.K.Sreenivas Shastry, (M.B.B.S., Dm., Cardiologist) working as a senior consultant cardiologist of care hospitals, Nampally has visited our school on 19^th August, 2004.

Doctor, stressed on the evils of smoking and explained to the students that consumption of tobacco in any form cause damage to many organs like brain, respiratory tract, heart & lungs.  He also explained how Heart attack occurs and how the smokers are prone to the heart diseases and mouth cancer.

Doctor asked the students to join hands and actively  take part in controlling and spreading the message of evils of tobacco.  He also advised the students, not to get answered the queries put by the students related to the topic.

Students, being the future citizens of India, have taken just an initial step in spreading the message on evils of Tobacco by taking part in various activities.