OVERVIEW

“Learners are most successful when they are mindful of themselves as learners and thinkers in a learning community”. For many years, Sri Sri Suryadeo Singh Smriti Gurukulam School, Dhanbad has had a strong focus on innovation in teaching and learning. In guiding the learning process, we have concentrated on developing students’ ability to think both critically and creatively; to set goals; to manage and reflect on their learning; to work both cooperatively and independently; to have sensitivity and awareness about when to apply these learning skills appropriately. These skills being transferable to all aspects of life, the explicit teaching of identified 21st Century skills and learning dispositions is vital to ensure that concrete understandings are ingrained and then continue to develop throughout a lifetime.

1. LEARNING AND INNOVATION SKILLS:

Increasingly, learning and innovation skills are being recognized as what separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future. The skills include:

  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Communication and Collaboration

2. INFORMATION, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

Today, we live in a technology and media-suffused environment with: 1) access to an abundance of information, 2) rapid changes in technology tools, and 3) the ability to collaborate and make individual contributions on an unprecedented scale. To be effective in the 21st century, citizens and workers must be able to create, evaluate, and effectively utilize information, media, and technology. The following are necessary in this direction:

  • Information Literacy
  • Media Literacy

3. LIFE AND CAREER SKILLS:

Today’s students need to develop thinking skills, content knowledge, and social and emotional competencies to navigate complex life and work environments. P21’s essential Life and Career Skills include:

  • Flexibility & Adaptability
  • Initiative & Self Direction
  • Social & Cross-Cultural Skills
  • Productivity & Accountability
  • Leadership & Responsibility

GAMES AND SPORTS OVERVIEW

Games stimulate physical growth, promote friendship and are a source of mental recreation in young children, providing a sense of well-being and fulfillment. They promote the development of motor skills and further hand-eye coordination allowing for participants to master difficult skills associated with particular sports. Sports have both recreational and competitive value. They help de-stress students who are usually engaged in challenging academic pursuits requiring great mental effort often leading to exhaustion. Games help recharge the system and enable students to maintain equilibrium of mind and body so essential to overall health. At the competitive level students develop physical, mental and social skills. Good sportsmanship, team work, discipline and leadership qualities are all enhanced on the games field and in the arena of competitive sport. In view of the above, SRI SRI SURYADEO SINGH SMRITI GURUKULAM provides a comprehensive sports programme at every level. Weekly games lessons are a part of the academic schedule for every student from play school onwards and may take place indoors or on the games field and in the sports arenas. All students are given the opportunity of participating in Inter-House sporting competitions in a wide variety of disciplines. Organized instruction and coaching in a large number of sports is conducted at the school in the evenings and is open to all. The school participates in district, state and national level competitions in a variety of sports.