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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on October 1, 2012 at 5:19pm

parents pls give your inputs

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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on October 2, 2012 at 12:18am

Co-Curricular activities have a number of values like educational value, development of social spirit, character training education for leadership, worthy use of leisure time or recreational value, team spirit, development of civic virtue, physical development, improved discipline, aesthetic development and development of cultural values.

Co-curricular activities provide numerous situations in which students may gradually get increasing responsibilities for their own direction.

Co-curricular activities are a means of channelising students' instincts into healthy and fruitful channels

Physical activities in the form of sports, games and athletics are important not simply because
they provide physical exercise, but for a number of other reasons also. They develop qualities
of sportsmanship, self-confidence, perserverance, judgement, foresight, judiciousness, fair play etc. Through team games and competitive games, sociability, co-operation, team spirit, sp3it of self-sacrifice and attitude of healthy competition develop. In short it can be said that these activities ensure an all-round development of the personality of students.

On a playground students become fresh and active. Physical, mental and moral development are possible through sports. They will learn to concentrate on academics, develop good hobbies, get opportunities to exhibit hidden talents and develop control over emotions
and aggression.

Qualities like initiative and leadership are not always developed in a classroom. On the playground, students get opportunities to develop leadership qualities like initiative, decisionmaking, judgement, tolerance etc. These qualities are required for a democratic society.

By providing a number of co-curricular activities, we can ensure the expression of potential capacities of each individual e.g. writing, public speaking, dramatics, painting, different games and sports, organisation of functions etc. which provide training in different aspects of personality of students. According to finance level of schools form different clubs like horse riding, swimming etc with proper infrastructure. Some schools keep all this activity as recreation sports and collect some huge money per hour.

Hence co-curricular activities cater to the development of a child's entire personality, draw out the latent powers of children of different temperaments, supplement academic work, develop social and civic sense. Without these activities students would be mere book-worms.

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Permalink Reply by Vibha Malhotra on October 3, 2012 at 10:05am

Indeed a very enlightening response, thx again Lathaa..

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