A school to remember Malayalam writer Vaikom Muhammad Basheer with 52 story telling sessions in 52 classrooms

Udayamperoor SNDP HSS students near Kochi City will remember the legendary Malayalam writer Vaikom Muhammad Basheer quite uniquely.

Many divisions, 52 students from the V Classes to X, two days after the anniversary of the author’s death on July 5, before the class hours on Monday, July 7, this year, a holiday, a holiday was a holiday.

School Principal Deepa S. Naradanan, “Basheer Memorial Day was observed by the students dressed by the students dressed. This does not do much good about being familiar with the author’s works. So we found the idea of ​​telling the stories,” he said.

Not an event of an event

Basheer commemoration will not be a one -time event, but rather a part of a new initiative called “Vidalayam Kadha Parayunnu ((Stories that tells a school), which coincides with the Reading Day on June 19 and will last during this academic year. Within the scope of this program, the first 10 minutes before the courses will be dedicated to the story about each working day. The school uses 30 minutes added to school hours this year.

Ov Saju, School Principal, “In this way, 52 departments in all 52 episodes of all 52 students will tell a story in all classes. The roll numbers of the students will be followed in the storytelling.

Storytelling will not be limited to students and teachers. For example, the school organized a session last Friday where students’ grandmother came together for a storytelling. One of them, Leelamma Cherian, even read a poem he wrote. The school plans to bring together parents who are interested in telling stories.

Malayalam faculty member Smitha Karun said, uz We are looking at the rope in people from all walks of life. The concept is not only the great literary names that everyone with passion can tell stories only, and not only the great literary names. ” In fact, last year, he organized a similar storytelling program in his class, which was later shared in the WhatsApp Group. Obviously, parents were very pleased to see that their children appealed to a full class.

The school is now based on similar video documentation of vidalayam Kadha Paraynnu sessions. In addition, the student writes the morality of the story they tell on the board recorded in a book. At the end of the academic year, the possibility of publishing as a book is also being investigated.