Student Circle and Club
Goals for Students
1. Students will learn to value and regularly use pro-active, positive ways to build and maintain a peaceful classroom community.
2. Students will develop and enhance positive and supportive connections with peers.
3. Students will develop an understanding of the principles and vocabulary of restorative justice.
4. Students will learn how to participate in circle dialogues, including the four circle guidelines.
5. Students will learn to use and respect a talking piece.
6. Students will learn how to use restorative questions to support conflict resolution and other types of communication.
7. Students will learn to identify who is affected by misbehaviors, and how.
8. Students will contribute to developing appropriate ideas for how to make things right when harms have occurred.
9. Students will learn how and when to ask for a restorative circle.
10. Students will learn to communicate how they are affected by given situations using affective statements and restorative questions.
Goals for Teachers
1. Teachers will understand the core principles of restorative justice and restorative practices and how they differ from traditional or punitive approaches.
2. Teachers will know how to use restorative practices in many situations where punitive discipline
approaches might have been used in the past.
3. Teachers will know how to introduce and lead circle dialogues.
4. Teachers will know how to transition into and out of “circle time” and can switch roles between circle keeper and teacher effectively.
5. Teachers will have an understanding of the principle of “connection before content” as it applies to restorative circles.
6. Teachers will know how to sequence activities to build trust among students so they become more willing to communicate authentically.
7. Teachers will know restorative questions and how to use them.
8. Teachers will understand affective communication and will experience how it supports classroom discipline and community building.
Goals for Classroom Community
1. The classroom community will have established agreements about how to participate in circle.
2. Community members will share a sense of responsibility for maintaining agreements and many members will do so proactively during circle time and at other times, including out-of-classroom time.
3. The classroom community will identify specific issues to address and will have honest, authentic discussions about these issues.
4. Procedures will be established for calling attention to issues and conflicts and for requesting help.
5. Procedures will be established for engaging in restorative dialogues around issues and conflicts.
6. It will be emotionally, psychologically, and physically safe for students to share concerns about conflicts, issues, and behaviors that are affecting them.
7. There will be high participation by students in circle dialogues, with little or no passing.
SUNRISE English Club
An English Club was set up at school to increase the awareness and skills of students in the English language. The club was conducted for the students of std. VII to IX. The following activities were carried out.
Bio-data writing.
Newspaper reading.
Story/ Essay writing.
Learning new words.
Joke collection.
Riddles
Puzzles.
Use of thesaurus.
Spelling contest
Activities related to create English environment.
The students participated actively in all the events. The club helped in increasing the interest of students in the English language. It also introduced them to new ideas and concepts. The English Club operates within the framework of school. The Club is led by schoolteachers: the Principal of the school is the Patron of the Club, and one teacher, usually the one teaching English, is the English Teacher, having the main responsibility for guiding the Club members. Executive committee is of 11 to 15.
SUNRISE ECO CLUB
Eco Clubs play an important role in creating environmental awareness amongst the future generation. Activities of Eco Clubs include planting trees, holding campaigns for cleaning up the environment and awareness-raising programs for members of local communities. In the Clubs, there are also quizzes and various competitions on essays, songs, paintings, speeches etc. related to conservation. Among the children, this is regarded as a way of learning with fun. Study tours are also conducted for the Eco Club members to enhance their knowledge and understanding on conservation.
The Eco Club operates within the framework of school. Eco Club are led by schoolteachers: the Principal of the school is the Patron of the Eco Club, and one teacher, usually the one teaching Environment, Health and Population, is the Eco Teacher, having the main responsibility for guiding the Eco Club members. Executive committee is of 11 to 15.
The activities under the scheme include:
1.
Motivate the students to keep their surroundings green and clean by undertaking plantation of trees.
2.
Promote ethos of conservation of water by minimizing the use of water.
3.
Motivate students to imbibe habits and life style for minimum waste generation, source separation of waste and disposing the waste to the nearest storage point.
4.
Educate students to create awareness amongst public and sanitary workers, so as to stop the indiscriminate burning of waste which causes respiratory diseases.
5.
Sensitize the students to minimize the use of plastic bags, not to throw them in public places as they choke drains and sewers, cause water logging and provide breeding ground for mosquitoes.
6.
Organize tree plantation program, awareness program such as Quiz, essay, painting competitions, rally, Plays, poster competitions etc. regarding various environmental issues and educate children about re-use of waste material & preparation of products out of waste.
7.
Organize Nature Trail in Wild Life Sanctuaries/Parks/Forest areas to know about the Bio-diversity to create enthusiasm regarding issues pertaining to Plants/Forest/Wildlife/Bio-diversity and Nature.
