The Central Board of Secondary Education organized a Master training programme on “Happy Classrooms” at St Edmund’s School, Jawahar Nagar. More than 85 principals, Vice principals and faculty members of esteemed institutions from all over India participated.
Dr Monika Mehan, Principal (Principal ML Khanna DAV Public School Delhi) and Prof Rishi Pal(Prof. of pedagogy dean humanities& elite sciences in Shri Vishwakarma skill university Haryana) were the resource persons for the workshop.
The resource persons emphasized that school-going children spend a greater part of their day in classrooms, and for teaching and learning to be truly effective, it is important that teaching should be student-centred, classrooms are safe, happy and welcoming spaces. They laid stress that the students can be inspired through constructive activities in-classroom skills.The objective of the workshop was to train the leaders of the school so that it can be shared with the teachers.
It is seen that the knowledge of the students is enhanced by systematically knowing what is written in the book, but when the same knowledge is conveyed and shown through interesting activities, and creating happy environment with empathetic vision, then not only 100% of the student's participation would be there. At the same time, there is a feeling of happiness and confidence on their faces which can really help them to become confident successful citizens.
The school joint director Dr pooja Singh and Principal Mrs Anu Bhatia extended thanks to all the principals and faculty members who participated in the workshop.

Students of St Edmund’s School, Jawahar Nagar were given the opportunity to display their talents in Reflections International 2019 organised in association with City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow. Seventy teams from various countries including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal participated in the competition in which they learned about other countries, shared their own culture and national heritage and exchanged ideas. The events organized were as follows: a cultural event, in which the participants represented their state’s dance style; the creation of brochures and models of heritage sites to understand their importance and beauty; making movies about world unity, in which the students played the roles of famous personalities like Martin Luther King Jr. and Margaret Thatcher. Additionally, debates and various other competitions were organized. Princy Ghiya and Kanishka Saini made St. Edmunds proud by winning First Prize for their brochures. Both girls, along with Kanishka Sharma, Pari Jain, Hari Shankar Jha, and Rushika Dubey earned Third Prize in the dance competition.
The event allowed the children to experience different cultures and to meet students from regions both near and far. It was a great success.