Development in the child of adequate personal hygiene habits, neuro-muscular coordination, emotional health and healthy community living is an important concern of education. Apart from various activities related to larger and finer muscles, adequate attention is paid to activities like regular visits to toilet, washing hands before and after meals, brushing! cleaning teeth regularly, taking regular baths, combing hair, keeping self and surroundings clean and the like.
Many activities and programs are undertaken so as to develop in the child neuro-muscular control and coordination basic motor skills, desirable social behavior, and attitudes and positive self-concept in addition to habits of community living. Some of the activities that are aimed at working of finer muscles are tearing and pasting, cutting, threading, painting and printing, clay modeling and buttoning clothes.
The main objective is to make the child aware of the good and beautiful in his environment and to express his feelings through simple performing Arts like music, dance and drama etc. spontaneously. The aim at this stage is to provide to the child an integrated learning experience of various forms of art-drawing, painting, printing, college, modeling, music, dance and drama. Emphasis is also be on sharpening the sensibilities of seeing, hearing, touching and moving.
We adopt different strategies directed at the development of non-scholastic dimensions of child's personality. A long list of such activities could be prepared under various categories, viz., school assembly programs, cultural and recreational activities, activities in community living, creative activities, auxiliary activities, celebrations of special days/weeks, and celebration of days of national importance.
Vedanta International School has considered the limitations of the existing evaluation system, which relies mostly on one-shot, end of -the-year impact evaluation. At Vedanta International School evaluation is treated as an integral part of the classroom teaching/learning process. Furthermore, evaluation, conducted periodically, provide the type of feedback on student achievement that enables teachers to improve their methodology, if required.
One hour every week for literary and cultural activities encouragement and guidance for participation in Inter School Competitions. Encouragement and Guidance to speak from public platforms, Programs by eminent artists and speakers. Manuscript magazines and printed school Annual to bring out the hidden literary talents.