Exploring the art of story-telling beyond geographies
The ancient art of story-telling is especially well-suited for student exploration spreading across all ages and abilities. As a learning tool, story-telling can encourage students to exhibit their unique expressiveness and can heighten a student@aps@s ability to communicate thoughts and feelings in an articulate, lucid manner. These benefits transcend the art experience to support daily life skills.

GIIS, in its fast-paced, media-driven approach towards learning, used video-conference to connect its Class III students from campuses of Singapore, Indore and Ahmedabad to participate in a wonderful project of elaborating and articulating folklores. This session of Global Knowledge Exchange between GIIS students of Singapore and India was a way to remind children that their spoken words are powerful, that listening is important, and that clear communication between people is an art. The programme helped in forging group identities and creating a sense of common culture and understanding.

GIIS-Queenstown Campus
The students of GIIS Queenstown, Singapore narrated the tale of ‘King Singapura’ and how the place got its name. The students used paintings and powerful narration to depict the story. The audience of transported to a world of wonders.

GIIS-Indore Campus
The tale of ‘Flying High’ from age-old folklore of ‘Panchatantra’ was presented by the students of GIIS Indore. They used a backdrop depicting the scene of a king’s court and abird sanctuary as a prop. The students were dressed as characters from the story to recreate the environment of the magical world full of talking animals. The moral values of the story was well-captured by the students from other campuses.

GIIS- Ahmedabad Campus
GIIS-Ahmedabad selected a story from Indian mythology. The story was based on the respect and dedication shown by Lord Ganesha towards his parents. The students were dressed in the getup of Lord Shiva, Parvati, Ganesha and Kartikey. The value of respect and humility was beautifully translated from the story.

Listening to stories is often a known, safe and culturally relevant method of imparting knowledge and important values. The story-telling exercise from folktales, myths and legends gave the students an overview of works from various cultures. It was also a platform to foster confidence and showcase talent as a group and also learn to appreciate and understand the context from others’ perspective.