Report on SUPW manual work service at Illithodu Govt. UP School

 

Report on SUPW manual work service at Illithodu Govt. UP School

 

    One of the essential curricular activities in B.Ed Curriculum is SUPW, it creates self-sufficiency among student teachers by taking different programmes and different commodities. SUPW may be described as purposive, meaning full, manual work resulting in either goods or services which are useful to the society. As a part of SUPW in our B.Ed curriculum we the students of Adi Sankara Training college, Kalady went to Illithodu Govt. UP School for doing manual work as service.

We arranged the programme on 17^th August, 2022 Wednesday, which was a special day for Keralites. According to Malayalam calendar this day Chigam 01, the new year day, which is celebrated as Farmers day. Hence the college decided to celebrate the farmers day with Illithodu UP school. The school also celebrated this day by welcoming us in the morning and arranged a public meeting with AEO by respecting a model farmer in the afternoon. They also arranged an exhibition of old paddy farmers tools. We together made the day beautiful and fruitful.

We, the vice principal Prassetha Miss, teaching staff, and 98 students, started our journey by two our school buses to school at 9.30 from college and reached the school around 10 am. The school HM, Srimathy Liji V. Paul, the teachers and students cordially welcomed us. As we went there, we unfurled a banner in front of the school gate, that made everyone aware of the purpose of our visit especially the local people.

The teacher in charge already gave us the instruction to make an herbal garden, vegetable garden and a flower garden. Therefore, we purchased the plants and seeds from the nursery of plants and had brought all the equipments for planting. Here in the school, we prepared the ground and planted vegetables and seeds in one side the way of school and on the other side we planted herbals. We also made a beautiful garden with plenty of flower plants and ornamental plants with pots through the way and in front of the school. For the memory of our visit we planted a nellimaram (gooseberry) in front of the school. We also cleaned the school ground by plucking grass, removing waste and dry twigs. The school PTA gave us a snack at 11 am and a vegetable meal at lunch.

The public meeting was started at 2 pm, the AEO of Angamaly Srimathy Ambika P. was the chief guest who honour the farmer Sri. Kumaran. School HM made the welcome speech, Sri. Praveen V.P presided over the meeting and Sri Subhair Arukutty gave the main speech about environmental activities and cultivation. Our Vice-principal gave a short message which was an appreciation to them for their great achievements in environmental and farming activities. Our Programme student coordinator Muhammad Adhinan gave the vote of thanks to all especially their warm welcome and cooperation.

At 4 pm our SUPW Programme was finished by taking a group photo with school in front of the school and newly planted gooseberry tree. The whole programme was very well arranged, a special thanks to natural science students and teachers, who are persons behind the curtain, and it was effective to us for learning planting and manual works. It also increased our cooperation, social skills and paved the way to work for the society and its importance. Afterall, learned much how to practice the students to do these extra-curricular activities when we will become teachers.