THE LANGUAGE FEST 2011-20121

The event is back which stands as a centralized platform for reinstating the colours of the Languages and to motivate the students to know the value of Languages. This is the first inter-school event in Abhyasa's academic calendar, every year. Team Languages worked with a great pace to see that all the three important elements (Tradition, Culture and Literature) are covered in the event. This time the event had an excellent mix of items which enthralled the audience. The list of the items is as follows:

In the competition, Photo Caption, the students were given a photo for each language in which they had to write captions in three categories like a Two Words Caption, Four Words Caption and Seven to Ten words caption where in the best among would be picked and three prizes were given to the participants. This competition was held in the Katyas Korner. In the event Character Discovery the students were provided a list of characters across all the languages with all the required information about the charecter. Characters from Bible were taken for English, Characters from epics like Mahaa Bhaarata and Ramaayana were taken for Telugu and Patriotic Characters were taken for the Hindi Character Discovery. As Elocution and JAM (Just A Minute Talk) were special items for the language English and Hindi, it was Quiz for the Language Telugu. As a cherry on an ice-cream, a competition in Funny News Reading was added to the list of competitions which added colours of humour to the fest.

10 schools including Abhyasa participated in the event. Once again, the event started with lighting the lamp at the lotus of feet of Bhagawan Sree Sathya Sai Baba followed by offering prayers to Lord Ganesh with the traditional song “Sree Vighna Rajam Bhaje”. The dance had touched everyone in the play pen. Sree Ankaraju Sai Bhaskar, Sree Krovvidi Venkata Balarama Murthy who were known for their genius in theatre were the judges for the Telugu Competitions, Mr.L.Ravi Chander (most renowned Lawyer at the Andhra Pradesh High Court) and Mrs.Shashi Kala (a genius in Drama and Theatre Arts) were the judges for the English Competitions and Dr.Prabhakar Tripathi and Dr.Kailash Singh (most known and renowned personalities for their service to theatre arts) were the judges for the Hindi competitions.

As the competition Photo Caption was held at the Katyas Korner, all other events took place at the Play Pen. All the participants were excellent in their participation and brought a momentum to the competition. It was a very tough time for all the judges to declare the winners. Students from different schools showcased their talents especially in the competition of Character Discovery. Telugu Quiz was very interesting and there were some twisters for the students to answer. The pre-lunch session with the humour filled item, Funny News Reading.

During the post lunch session, all the participants and teacher in-charges were requested to share their opinions. All the participants expressed their happiness and thanked Abhyasa for hosting such competition which enhanced the quality of a student in the field of languages. Teacher in-charges from different schools were in praise of Abhyasa for creating such a platform which would give a chance to the students to showcase their talents. The judges expressed that all schools should take up such type of activities to provide better quality of education and appreciated the efforts of Abhyasa for conducting such kinds of fests.

After the judges and participant’s remarks, all the winners and runners of the event were given away the prizes by the judges. In-charge Principal, Mrs.Murthy thanked all the participating schools and appreciated the spirit of all the participants. The programme ended with National Anthem followed by a group photo session at Anubhav, the Amphi Theatre. The following schools participated in the Language Fest for the year 2011 – 2012 along with Abhyasa.St.Joseph School, King Koti.

The following are the results of the events in the Language Fest – 2011-2012.