Integrating curriculum with co-curricular activities, endeavour to enhance our students’ experience and aid their overall development. Our goal at GIIS is to motivate each child to grow and foster skills that lead them towards success and holistic growth. We believe this happens through the development of intellectual, mental, physical, emotional, and social abilities among children.
To instil confidence and promote holistic development, each child at GIIS is encouraged to take up at least one co-curricular activity that fosters confidence from grade 1 onwards. To help them discover their aptitude and interests, we have different CCA clubs to help them find new talent and develop a specialised skill in the genre of their interest and participate in activities on a weekly basis to perfect their skill.
Some of the Co-curricular activities we offer at GIIS Noida are
Yoga & Fitness Club
Yoga is grouped into sessions of physical, mental, and spiritual practices that help in controlling/balancing an individual’s mind, body, and soul. It inculcates self-discipline and enables good health, improves mental wellness, and demonstrates proficiency besides increasing physical flexibility and strength. Students are trained by professional instructors in sessions conducted virtually this year, where they are prepared for future events and competitions for a chance to showcase their skills.
Dance Club
Dance is the joy of movements and the heart of life. Our Dance Club helps students learn different forms i.e. classical and western which helps them learn about teamwork, focus, and improvisational skills. Students get an opportunity to demonstrate their craft and represent the school at various national and international competitions, like GIIS Jhankaar and Global Indian Star where they won many accolades for themselves and the school.
Information Technology (IT) Club
IT Club is perfect for teaching our students technological skills and giving them a sense of belonging along with inculcating a high level of thinking. The regular IT classes enable students to become well versed with basic tools of applications like Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Word. They are also able to use various software applications that aid the development of their creative and logical thinking along with staying competitive and updated with the digital age of today. Students from grade 1 onwards are exposed to basic levels of coding and for the senior students, an intermediate level of coding along with Artificial Intelligence is also offered as a part of this club. After honing their skills throughout the year, students get a chance to exhibit their technological talents in presentation fests that take place annually.
Art and Craft Club
Every child is an artist. Art has the power to transform, illuminate, educate, inspire and motivate. It enhances observation, curiosity, exploration, creativity, and free expression among students. It helps in the development of hand-eye coordination, thinking skills, and an opportunity to transform abstract ideas into something concrete and visual. At GIIS, children are engaged regularly in activities that give their creativity and imagination the much-required boost to create out-of-the-box works of art which are displayed during special events and activities throughout the year.
Music Club
There is music in every child. We just have to find it and nurture it. It fosters a sense of rhythm and melody that helps in the development of analytical, creative, and intuitive understanding of music and musical instruments. At GIIS, children with a musical bent of mind are trained by our in-house trainers. Children have vocal and instrumental options to choose from, which take the form of regular classes and are conducted as part of the curriculum. Students who are gifted and have a flair for music also get access to the GIIS Shekhar Ravjiani School of Music through a rigorous selection process conducted by the renowned Bollywood music composer Shekhar Ravjiani himself.
Cooking Without Fire Club
A recipe has no soul; you as a cook must bring soul to the dish created. Cooking is the art of making food delicious by adding ingredients in the right proportion. This club allows the students to enhance their culinary talents and explore new areas of interest. It also creates awareness about nutritional values and health benefits of food cooked without fire and helps in enhancing the creativity and imagination of the young minds at GIIS. The students get an opportunity to display their craft on special days and assemblies. Helped by their teachers, the students put up stalls to share mouth-watering delicacies with their fellow students, teachers, and staff.
Dharohar Club
We firmly believe that heritage education is important to bring history and social science curriculum alive for the students through active learning and doing. It also promotes awareness and involvement in heritage to inculcate a respect for diversity, tolerance, mutual understanding, and peaceful co-existence in our children along with encouraging them to build a future through an understanding of the past and the present. This is what we plan to achieve through the various activities done throughout the year by the proud members of DHAROHAR. This club is an amalgamation of IT, Literary, Drawing & Painting, Music & Dance Club. Students get to learn about different types of traditional paintings, GI Tags, monuments, cultural customs, diverse cultures, etc.
Eco Club
Eco Club is to raise awareness about nature around us and sensitize students to explore and appreciate outdoor life and the ability to work independently in order to protect our environment. To encourage eco-friendly habits and engrave its importance in their day-to-day life, weekly activities are held to enhance their creativity along with exploring the natural world. Students are given interesting activities like preparation of Milk Paint, Nature Photography, preparing ornamental objects using paper, making solar water heaters, etc.
Journalism Club
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It’s the force for progressive social change. With an aim to enable its students to gain mastery in four basic skills of language learning i.e. Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking, GIIS Noida started the Journalism Club. The students learn about the basic components of journalism. The major focus is laid on their speaking and writing skills. Debates, Group Discussions, Storytelling, Advertisement creation are a few activities that are conducted. Students learn public speaking skills and gradually overcome their stage fear. They gain mastery over the language, eventually becoming confident and flawless orators. It allows students to experience a variety of journalism types and to gain real experience and build confidence for a career in journalism.
Aryabhatta Club
Mathematics as a subject always has to work extra hard to grab a student’s interest. They usually don’t think of mathematics as a part of their lives and this makes the Mathematics Club of great importance. This club offers excellent opportunities to develop mathematical skills, helps in developing heuristic and problem-solving attitudes among students. It provides opportunities to use theories in practice and apply them in daily life situations. Mathematics Club extends learning beyond the limits of a classroom. All the activities are designed keeping the purpose of arousing and maintaining an interest in Mathematics.
All these activities are conducted once every week by professionally certified trainers who prepare the students for their chosen activity. Despite the pandemic, our students have been able to pursue their passions and interests through the virtual CCA activities and clubs where there was equal enthusiasm along with the participation of both the students and the trainers. At GIIS Noida, we believe our students' safety is as much a priority for us as their holistic growth and development, so we urge everyone to be safe, stay aware and take every precaution during this pandemic.
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