The Orchid School celebrates literacy week to encourage and teach students to participate and inculcate a sense of responsibility and hone new skills to make them up breast with changing interpersonal relationships. This year the annual theme of The Orchid School is Peace therefore the literacy week focused on numerous aspects of human skills. This time the literacy week’s topics were – Cultural Literacy Course, Climate Literacy Course, and Emotional Intelligence for Leadership.
Each of the literacy courses was curated to develop the future readiness of students. To deepen their understanding about these three core courses that affect human relationships with oneself and the outside world. The reason for conducting these courses in Literacy week is to make them ready for all the future milestones of life and to create self-believing, compassionate, and openminded generation.
Cultural Literacy Course by Ms. Pratha Shetty and Ms. Jill Sheldekar focused on an overview about understanding of world cultures and ways to deal with cultural differences within as well as outside the country. The focus of this workshop was to make students know the impact of stereotypes and bias impact one’s thinking, behavioral, and working styles. Further, the workshop offered ways to develop best practices for cultural literacy and to be more open minded when faced with new experiences.
The climate literacy workshop conducted by Mr. Vinod Shreedhar and Ms. Neha Kandalgaonkar focused on enabling the students to make conscious choices that improve the quality of life. The workshop gave a basic understanding to the students about the climate systems, factors causing the affecting it, fundamental relationship between climate and human life, way the climate affect human life, and most importantly ways to conjunct computer modelling with climate observations and records to get scientific knowledge about climate.
Emotional Intelligence for leadership course conducted by life coach Ms. Trupti focused on unlocking your leadership potential in our students through emotional intelligence. The workshop helped the students to understand, manage, and leverage their emotions to help them in becoming an inspiring and effective leader. The key components of the workshop were to help students understand emotional intelligence, developing self-awareness, cultivating selfregulation, and harnessing motivation and empathy as these qualities will help our budding leaders to build trustworthy relationships and make effective decisions starting from now.
