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Senior members of the iconic Birla Family, leading philanthropist and linguist Jayashree Mohta, illustrious educationalist Pranab Mukherjee, R K Dalmia, senior governing member and other distinguished guests honoured Birla Public School with their presence recently.
Recollecting the moments of inauguration of the school in the year 2004, Mohta showed immense gratitude to the Patron HE Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al Thani for his constant support and for providing the opportunity to grow and prosper.
The renowned guests were taken on a tour of the school accompanied by Chairman Lukose K Chacko, Vice-Chairman Gope Shahani and other management members.
Mohta observed the remarkable changes and progress achieved by the school since her earlier visit in the year 2012.
At a special programme arranged by the Sustainable Development Goals Committee of the school, the guests were entertained with a plethora of informative and entertaining performances in the auditorium.
Master of Ceremonies Shijo Pullen, secondary school English language teacher, took the audience through the function.
A musical ensemble led by the school choir was followed by a description presented by Hamna Fathima, student campus correspondent, on the subsequent dance presentation which was related to SDG. The performances regaled the guests providing them the opportunity to experience the creative skills of talented and socially proactive Birlites.
Addressing the audience, Chairman Chacko said, “What you had given us fifteen years ago, we have
increased manifold.”
He dedicated the prosperous growth of the school to the greatness of the magnificent Birla family.
On his part, Mukherjee spoke on the ‘five finger exercise’, encouraging the students, “to always ask difficult questions”.
He directed attention of the teachers to the changing face of the twenty-first century education, applauding the teachers for keeping abreast of all the day-to-day developments in the field of pedagogy.
In the special session arranged with English language teachers, he emphasised the need of a
resonating vocabulary.
“A student’s exposure to communication on a daily basis is always through the par-excellence linguistic ability of the teacher,” he said.
The session covered all valuable lessons on teaching the English language artistically.
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