Class IX excursion to the School eco park.

On 30th December 2016, students of class IX accompanied by their teachers visited the School eco park. It was a novelty for our city-

dweller students to spend a morning in a rural farm setting, 'far from the madding crowd', as it were.

The vegetable beds looked abundant and the children were shown how winter vegetables are sown and harvested. They marveled at the sight of the carrots, radish, spinach, brinjal and coriander and even got a chance to pick some to carry home.

The students were guided around the life sized interactive science models specially developed to give a hands'-on experience of several basic principles of science. There were the musical tubes, parabolic dishes, a DNA model, reflecting mirrors, the double-ended cone and a crystal structure which they spent time 'reflecting on'.

Some of the children in the group were motivated enough to even pull up their cuffs to soil their hands with a try at sowing new crop, manuring and even watering. They observed the large compost pit where earthworms work through piles of leaves and farm waste generated everyday to produce organic manure for the vegetable beds. Finally we spread ourselves in the welcome winter sun with our tiffins, and albeit reluctantly, thereafter, collected ourselves to return. We delightedly loaded our sacks of vegetables for home, and settled back on the bus to School. Ms. Ekta Chitkara, Ms. Pooja Bahl.