School clubs are integral part of school activities. All the students are part of either Reading Club, Science Club, or Eco Club. The clubs are functioning at two levels. One at school level and another at community level. The clubs organize events at school and in community. The organization of events and taking part in them provides opportunities to the students to integrate their learning in multiple platforms. In addition to that, the club activities bring out qualities required for responsible social activism, and provide motivation and context for learning.

Reading Club

On Sundays, club organizes open reading sessions, movie and documentary screening, story telling, drama, quiz, sessions on science experiments etc. Similar events are also organized on several holidays. School students as well as other students from the community join in these events.

Reading sessions are also organized during different day celebrations. Reading club hosts book stalls for the visitors during school events like Baal Shodh Mela, Days of national and international importance like Science Day, Mathematics Day, World Environment Day, World Heritage Day etc.

Reading club also hosts events at the community. The club has conducted more than 10 events between 2017 and 2019 in the community. It is planned that we will conduct at least 10 reading club sessions in community every week once lock down is lifted.

Reading club coordinators: Radhika Mehrotra and Pramod Kandpal.

Science Club

Azim Premji School’s science club is “Vigyan Prayogshala”. The club is revived and restructured in the year of 2018 and applied for registration in VIPNET in the same year. The club got its registration number VP-UK0050 of the Vigyan Prasar Network of Science clubs (VIPNET) in 2018. The club is placed in the category of Gold Club by Vigyan Prasar, Government of India.

Students of grade 5 to 8 are now current members of science club. Science club works in collaboration with other clubs in the school.

Monthly or fortnightly meetings are held among the members, science club coordinators, and with the other teachers.

Science club mostly engaged in organizing and taking part in readings sessions on science, different day celebrations and awareness program, regular quiz events at school assembly, organizing and taking part in Science day, Mathematics day, Nutrition week etc.

In the academic year of 2019-20, the science club has organized around 30 events in school as well as in community. At present science club is organizing online events. It is projected that Science Club will organize about 8 events every month once lockdown is lifted.

Science club coordinator: Saurav Shome.

Eco Club

Azim Premji School’s Eco club is “Clean and Green Earth Club”. The club is revived and restructured in the year of 2018 and applied for registration in Paryavaran Mitra in the same year.

Students of grade 5 to 8 are now current members of Eco club. The club works in collaboration with other clubs in the school.

The club organizes regular meetings, decides its work flow, set targets, review the targets set. Till date the Eco club focuses significantly on school greening, reducing waste and water use in school and reuse the waste materials. Eco club members also took active part in community cleaning, waste segregation, survey in the community on plastic use and disposal practices.

Eco club members decided that, in future, club will take more comprehensive action plan in the area of environment, energy, water, and soil conservation, waste management, promotion of and innovation in indigenous technology and culture. The club has organized more than 15 independent events in the academic year of 2019-20. Other events are organized in collaboration with other clubs.

Eco club coordinator: Archana Dwivedi.

Relevant publications:

1. Saurav Shome and Archana Dwivedi (2019). What it takes to run an eco-club? Teacher Plus, October, 34-36. [ResearchGate link][Teacher Plus link]