Notification of Reading Festival at Primary School

 

Paschim Banga Samagra Shiksha Mission

Memo No 78 7/18 /Ped/PBSSM

Date: 13.04.2022

To

The District Education Officer, SSM All Districts.

Sub: 

Organization of Reading Festival at Primary level School

Madam/Sir,

In connection with the above subject, you are requested to inform all the primary level schools (School management code 1,2,3,12,15,90,97) to organize a Reading Festival at school premises where parents and community may be invited to exhibit the learning and reading skills of the children. The activities and duration of the Reading Festival to be decided and designed by the children themselves with the help of teachers.

In the Reading Festival, children are encouraged to design and decide on a variety of activities in the form of games related to reading books, words, crosswords, storytelling, skit, poems which can be exhibited in the Festival. It will help children to build skills and gain confidence, as well as cultivate an appreciation for the world around them and foster creativity and critical thinking. In this process, children will be able to develop the zeal to learn and create activities and at the same time express the joy of reading in the schools in which teachers, parents and the community may also be involved.

List of Activities may be as follows:

• Story reading / Story telling / Recitation by the children, selected from each of the grades.

• Enactment of stories by a single child / group of children.

• Storytelling / reading by community members / parents / guests.

• Extracted part of any read text from the main text book may be displayed for louder reading on which competition may be held among the children. 

• All the parents, teachers from nearby schools, children & workers of adjacent ICDS centres, members of MTA/ VEC/ SMC, Siksha Bandhus and local Educational Administrator ,Inspector of Schools may be invited to the programme.

An amount of Rs.1000/ (One thousand) may be utilized for organizing the Reading Festival in each school. Financial support may be incurred from LEP( Learning Enhancement Programme) head of Samagra Shiksha budget.