Summer Happiness Programme The Vasant Valley Summer Happiness Program in Senior School began on 17th May, 2021. It featured a curated selection of programmes run by expert facilitators from across the country as well as the globe. The programmes offered ranged from robotics, science experiments, coding, entrepreneurship and innovations! The children who joined these sessions described them as fruitful and invigorating. |
Classes 6-8 Become a Published Author |
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The Published Authors Workshop
5th June, 2021
The Published Authors Summer Workshop was everything we expected and more. We started with a simple brainstorming session, which soon allowed us to create impromptu one-minute stories. Then we moved on to 'What-If' statements, questions relating to those one-minute stories, around which we wove structured plots. Building on those plots, we came up with storylines, and then characters. After making mind maps detailing the characters' traits, the setting of the story, and the finished plots, we put pen to paper, or fingers on the keyboard, and began to write out our stories, adding dialogues and descriptions.
Alongside the experience of discussing our writing as a group, and having one-on-one sessions with our teacher, our stories grew from rough plots to whole and interesting stories, within two weeks. The wonder and joy of seeing our thoughts morph from simple ideas to well-articulated stories is not something that we will easily forget.
We thank the initiators of this novel summer workshop for turning us from aspiring writers to Published Authors.
Kavya Mukherjee Saha and Meera Shukla - Class 8