Category: Hear from Our Students

#ArtistsAtEkya: Book Review – Naruto

MY DRAWING OF NARUTO UZUMAKI Hey everyone! I decided to give my critical point of view on an anime. Most of you might be wondering what an anime is, right? Well, Anime is a style of Japanese film or show...

/ December 4, 2020

#Poetsofekya -P H O T O G R A P H

Her hands through my hair,  Weaving through strands of gold,  Formed an intricate pattern, only she could bear.  Ridding me of all my insecurity,  Only she knew how to make me feel pretty. All the ice creams and candies after...

/ December 4, 2020

#PoetsOfEkya – When life took me by surprise

I remember the times, I used to feel, Life is always going to be, Lived this freely. But then came a Virus, To prove me wrong, For months, we got shut in our homes, During “the great lockdown”. Never did...

/ October 7, 2020

#TeacherBlogger: The power of connections!

Teaching, and being an educator…. What a beautiful feeling it is! … A journey of discovering new connections! I have had around two years of in-class experience with the pre-primary children and have absolutely enjoyed and cherished every bit of...

/ October 6, 2020

#TeacherBlogger: Why mothers are considered as good teachers?

Are there qualities we could imbibe and make teaching-learning meaningful? A student once asked me, ‘What inspired you to become a teacher?’ From my perspective, every woman has inbuilt qualities of a teacher that includes love, compassion, passion, dedication, sense...

/ October 6, 2020

#StudentBlogger: Autobiography of a Diary – Beyond

Every life has a starting point. Mine was at the paper factory. No actually, my life started as a tree, in a beautiful evergreen forest. I was a small spruce tree amongst my family who by the record, was more...

/ October 6, 2020

#TeacherBlogger: The Art of Learning

I strongly believe that “sharing knowledge is gaining knowledge”. Teaching was never a dream or wish for me! It all started when I volunteered to facilitate arts to students and in this process, I learned a lot and took all...

/ October 5, 2020

#TeacherBlogger: Virtual storytelling- A powerful educational tool for online learning

Children have an innate love for stories. Fulfilling this need requires meticulous planning in a class curriculum.  Preparing myself for storytelling class would require me to visit our school library and choose books as they are plenty  – fairy tales,...

/ October 5, 2020

#TeacherBlogger: My Pre-Primary Online Learning Experiences at Ekya

At Ekya we teachers and educators are perennial learners. Ekya provides us a platform to learn new things and helps us get better at what we do. It was the same this year too and that helped us prepare well...

/ October 3, 2020

#TeacherBlogger: Pre-Primary Children and Online Learning

Online teaching for pre-primary rather than imagining ways and strategies, many of us picture as to how the class would be. I think it was the same with school parents too. They were even more worried, as they had to...

/ October 3, 2020