NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, JAN 23
Student exchange programme of Government schools in Chennai received well among the students. The programmes were held under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
About 20 students from the Chennai Middle School, MMDA Colony experienced a different kind of experience in the sprawling green campus of the Government Hobart Muslim Girls Higher Secondary School in Royapettah on Thursday.
The students were visiting the school in Royapettah for a partnership programme under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and had a day filled with interactions and activities.
The exchange program initially used to be between government schools in rural and urban areas. But with students in both schools part of the exchange programme from schools in the city, the focus was more on their interaction and camaraderie.
Soon after the students from Chennai Middle School arrived, they joined hands with their hosts and planted trees on the campus.
“The school here has a lovely campus and we had a class outdoors as well. We also visited the school’s library and interacted with the teachers here,” said Mona Varshini, a class 8 student from Chennai Middle School.
The visiting students and faculty were also taken on a field trip to the Amir Mahal in the evening.
Twenty students from Hobart School will be visiting the Chennai Middle School on Friday as a part of the exchange programme.
