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Play & Learn School!' Disha Development Trust, a Solaris Initiative
The Play & Learn School!' by Solaris Group offers a great opportunity to underprivileged children to experience, learn and enjoy activities such as craft, art, drama, painting, drawing, meditation, sculpture making, reading & writing skills, breaking superstitions just to name a few.
Here the Play comes first and then comes Learning. The fun activities rejuvenate the children to learn difficult concepts easily and that too without any fear of the subject.
In May 1999, Disha Development Trust (a Solaris group NGO) conducted its first 5-day residential camp at Loni Kalbhor. Since then every year large groups of children have been participating in these camps full of fun activities.
From August 29th 2010, Disha Development Trust has started "Solaris Play & Learn School!" at Club Solaris in Mayur Colony, Kothrud. The underprivileged children from the surrounding area and Municipal Schools are given the opportunity to discover and explore their hidden skills.
No books, no writing: simply choose from many games like tennis, table tennis, squash, badminton, rock climbing, high-wire adventure, swimming, cycling, roller-skating, cricket net practice, mini basketball, Carom, puzzles and games seen in the POGO television program !
Maharashtra Board approved syllabus in all subject will be taught in an Animated format from Kg to 10th standard. The software and the special computer device cum projector were developed at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Children are bound to pay far better attention while learning challenging subjects such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics because each concept is demonstrated in interesting animation.
WHEN:
Every Sunday starting on 29th August '2010.
WHERE:
Club Solaris, Mayur Colony, Kothrud, Pune. (Banquet Hall)
WHAT:
The activity would include following things:
2 sessions of Games for 45 minutes each (Tennis, Swimming, Badminton, Table Tennis, Roller Skating, Rock Climbing)
2 sessions of 45 minutes each for study using Animated / Computer assisted projector (Maharashtra Board approved syllabus)
HOW:
We will start with Standard 5th and 6th from 29th August '2010 and increase the number of students from other standards gradually.
This will be on a first come first serve basis only.
Maximum number of students per class will be 20.
Total number of hours will be 3.
Mr. and Mrs. Raut head the whole program and activities.
Ganesh Raut, M. Phil. (History & Journalism) stood 1st in Journalism in 1991 from Pune University. He is16 time Elocution & Debating competition winner, has written 15 textbooks from fourth standard to MA. He is also SET qualified. He will obtain his PhD in History in 2010.
His wife, Jyoti Raut, MA, B.Ed. and SET qualified, has written several Marathi books. She is also the winner of prestigious Sir Dorayswami scholarship.
Since the inception of our parent company in 1965, we continue to encourage and support many deserving individuals who are ready to go that extra mile. Over 1500 children have participated in our camps over the past 10 years. We realize that our efforts are just a drop in the ocean but then again as they say
"A JOURNEY OF THOUSAND MILES MUST BEGIN WITH A SINGLE STEP".
