Email Exchange Project

Language Learning is a difficult business without it involving a third and fourth language.

The email exchange project has been an activity that the school has tried to work on in fits and starts for more than a year without much success or consistency. Setting up and maintaining an exchange with another school/ class in another location can be a logistical nightmare, especially as, conventionally, it involves scanning students’ work, taking and sending digital images and a matching of schedules. Given the nascent computer skills of the teachers and students at present, the focus of the project then gets diverted toward logistics and coordination rather than language learning. Thus, it has now been decided that the email exchange board will become an extension of the Student’s Parliament.

The board will become one more avenue of exchange between the students and teachers or management. Students’ questions received in the letter box will be answered here. The minutes of the Bal Panchayat meetings will be posted here. Interesting news and urgent announcements concerning students will be posted here. It will be like a wall newspaper, in terms of content so that the interest in reading it is kept alive in the students. Meanwhile, teachers’ skills are being developed further so that an inter-cultural exchange project can begin very soon.