Inter school literary festival

Competitions play a role in motivating students to perform and excel and offer a reward far greater than just the winning prize. Competitions offer a chance for participants to receive exposure, experience, showcase skills, analyse and evaluate outcomes and uncover personal aptitude. Competitions also encourage students to innovate and develop their own ideas and skills.

G. D. Goenka School invited our students to participate in their Goenkan Literazzi, an inter-school literary festival on 3rd August 2017. There were 5 categories at both the junior level (classes IV-VI) and the senior level (classes VII- IX). The categories were Poesy slam, Unveil the script, Report it, Spin a yarn and Shakespeares sermon.

Poesy Slam was a recitation event for the juniors which saw participation by Anthariksh Nair of class VI. The poem chosen by him was Crocodile and The Dentist by Roald Dahl. The next category, Spin a Yarn was a story writing competition. Aryamaan Goswamy of class V represented our School at this event. 'Report it was an event for the seniors where participants were required to put together the front page of a newspaper with titles, headlines and advertisements. The children were given access to the internet, to enable them to surf for information relating to politics, current affairs etc and write an article for their newspaper. Samaara Ravish and Aarya Khanna of class VIII participated in this event.

Shakespeares sermon was played by Aryan Sungh of class IX. Kartikeya Mehra, Channak Dang, Arv Dimri , Vedanshi Sagar and Kush Kalra of classes VIII and IX participated in the senior category, in the event, Unveil the Script. The theme of the act was One mans trash is another mans treasure.

Last but not the least was Unveil the Script for the junior category. Here, Mustafa Safi of class V and Rudra Punj, Mannsi Agrawal, Maanya Arora and Yahavi Rishi of class VI took the third prize.

Ms. Vandana Tewari.