Annual Day session 2019-2020
Channel: Meera Mathur
Date: 31/03/2023

Annual Day: Session 2019-2020
Evidently a school Annual Day  is something presented once a year. But does the audience realize that it  is an outpouring of pure love from the students, that it is the perfecting of all that they have learnt over the course of that year and the previous ones? 
Every year, I as the School Principal and my team merely looked into the details of selecting an appropriate theme, the nitty-gritty of dramatization, choreography, voice overs, graphics, invites and other administrative issues. As school head I also ensured that there was 100% participation of students as per their talent, skill and age appropriateness. 
But, as adults we merely contributed as per our experience, our skills and competencies. Let's dwell on what the real heroes and heroines: i.e. students from the age of 3 to 17 contribute. No one can gauge their excitement as they look forward to play host to their beloved family, as also to a wide array of guests and luminaries. It requires hours and hours of practice, going through the motions: mouthing dialogues while simultaneously emoting, coordinating their dance moves, remembering to cover the stage while not fouling another's moves; this for those on stage. While those who are not a part of the enactment contribute as Masters of Ceremony, digital work, tech inputs, lighting, graphics, props, backdrop, stage management, prompters, for dress and make up , for stocktaking, accounting for distribution of refreshments, ushers, escorts, duties at dispersal time--all leaders in the making. I can just stand by and admire.
For this particular annual day we had selected Lord Hanuman's life as the theme. The heroic life of "Rambhakt Hanuman" is full of life lessons, like the purity of devotion, the faith that conquers all, allegories , dreams, the forgetting of one's latent powers, the visualization leading to the realization and fructification of one's dreams after drawing upon those dormant and latent powers. The students surpassed themselves in encapsulating it into a 40 minute dramatization. I'm eternally grateful to them for that!!!