Rammohan Mission School

A team of academicians from Rammohan Mission School visited the Yaas-hit Mousuni island in South 24 Parganas to interact with the villagers and encourage the children in continuing their studies. The principal, four teachers and some officials spent a day in the area and distributed relief materials such as tarpaulin, drinking water packets, bleaching powder, ORS and medicines. Jnan Ranjan Chakraborty, a retired academician of St Xavier’s College, also accompanied them. “The school is closed and the children there have almost lost the habit of studying. When asked, many were not sure if they would go back to school at all. So we decided to offer schoolbags as a reward to those who don’t give up. Two teachers from our school will visit the island later to check which children indeed return. Those will get the promised goodies. The children were also given stationary items this time,” said principal Sujoy Biswas.

Birla High School, Moira Street

Primary and senior sections of Birla High School, Moira Street, celebrated International Yoga Day separately on a virtual platform, spreading awareness on the physical and mental health benefits of the practice.

Nursery kids engaged in an activity to make stick figure yoga images besides doing yoga postures and breathing exercises, while Kindergarten children performed simple yoga postures such as triangle pose and chair pose. Students of classes I, II, III, IV and V observed the day by performing breathing exercises, meditation and various asanas under the guidance of individual yoga instructors.

Students of classes VI to XI performed different asanas at home and shared the videos that were posted as a compilation from the school’s social media handle. “In a year full of stress and anxiety, yoga comes as a solution for our mental and physical fitness. We must make it a part of our daily routine to recognise its benefits. Even during the online classes we have been conducting regular yoga classes,” said principal Loveleen Saigal.

Headmistress Farida Singh said: “Yoga has always been an integral part of our curriculum. Keeping the mental and physical well-being of our students in mind, yoga classes continue even today through the online mode. The experience was an enriching one both for our students and teachers.”

Calcutta Business School

Calcutta Business School, a unit of Shikshayatan Foundation, recently organised a webinar on women empowerment. A panel of five speakers — Rupali Basu, managing director of Woodlands Hospital; actor Richa Sharma; Swati Gautam, founder and CEO of Necessity; Ruchika Gupta, executive director of Sanmarg; and Nilanjana Chakraborty, entrepreneur — shared their journeys and discussed the strength and difficulties that cropped up along the way to empowerment. Oindrilla Dutt, founder-entrepreneur of Open Doors, moderated the session. This was an open webinar, streamed live on Facebook and YouTube from the school’s social media handles. “In this webinar women speakers from different walks of life and work fields came together and talked about everything that one woman can face and experiences while empowering themselves,” said the foundation’s secretary-general Bratati Bhattacharyya.