Year: 2020

Folk Dance

Western Folk Dance at Sahyadri School “How beautiful are the feet of the messengers living atop a hill, bringing good tidings, and proclaiming peace.” That’s how Mahesh Pande, Mahesh sir to us, translates the lyrics of ‘Manavu’, the Israeli folk dance that brings our Saturday Folk Dance evenings to a close. “There’s a flame burning …

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“Farms on the Hill Top” – An in depth view at the Rural Outreach program

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The following account speaks of the rural outreach program at the Sahyadri School. The program is both simple and complex depending on the lens and depth with which we look at it. At the first glance, it is a simple natural farming program, trying to advocate the blessings of the process to the nearby farming …

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Natural farming (beyond academics)

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It has always been felt that lifeskill needs to be an integral part of the childrens’ growth in the school’s environment. To a great extent it gets taken care upto the middle school years as part of the curriculum and natural farming being one of the essential components of lifeskill programme.