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    Co-curricular activities are programs supervised by the school that complement classroom learning. They provide experiences connected to academic lessons that support students' emotional, physical, spiritual, and moral development. Co-curricular activities strengthen theoretical knowledge and help students develop skills like leadership, cooperation, and public speaking. They also encourage values like respect and decision making. There are many types of co-curricular activities, including academics, leisure, social, physical, cultural, civic, and arts/crafts.

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    Co-curricular activities are programs supervised by the school that complement classroom learning. They provide experiences connected to academic lessons that support students' emotional, physical, spiritual, and moral development. Co-curricular activities strengthen theoretical knowledge and help students develop skills like leadership, cooperation, and public speaking. They also encourage values like respect and decision making. There are many types of co-curricular activities, including academics, leisure, social, physical, cultural, civic, and arts/crafts.

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    Co-curricular activities are programs supervised by the school that complement classroom learning. They provide experiences connected to academic lessons that support students' emotional, physical, spiritual, and moral development. Co-curricular activities strengthen theoretical knowledge and help students develop skills like leadership, cooperation, and public speaking. They also encourage values like respect and decision making. There are many types of co-curricular activities, including academics, leisure, social, physical, cultural, civic, and arts/crafts.

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    Co-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

    CONCEPT: A co-curricular activity is defined as a program or out-of-class activity, supervised


    and/or financed by the school, which provides curriculum-related learning and character building
    experiences. Co-curricular refers to activities, programs, and learning experiences that
    complement, in some way, what students are learning in school—i.e., experiences that are
    connected to or mirror the academic curriculum.

    Co-curricular activities (CCAs) earlier known as Extracurricular Activities (ECA) are the
    components of non-academic curriculum helps to develop various facets of the personality
    development of the child and students. For all-round development of the child, there is a need of
    emotional, physical, spiritual and moral development that is complemented and supplemented by
    Co-curricular Activities.

    ROLE & IMPORTANCE OF CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

    Co-curricular activities are the true and practical experiences received by students. To a greater
    extent, the theoretical knowledge gets strengthened when a relevant co-curricular activity is
    organized related to the content taught in the classroom. Intellectual aspects of personality are
    solely accomplished by Classroom, while aesthetic development, character building, spiritual
    growth, physical growth, moral values, creativity etc. are supported by co-curricular activities.
    Frankness and clarity in language and personality is supported by these activities. It helps to
    develop co-ordination, adjustment, speech fluency, extempore expressions, etc. among student
    both at the school as well as college levels. Importance of Co-curricular activities is evident
    from following points:-

    ● Co-curricular activities stimulate playing, acting, singing, recitation, speaking and


    narrating in students.
    ● Activities like participation in game debates, music, drama, etc., help in achieving overall
    functioning of education.
    ● It enables the students to express themselves freely through debates.
    ● Games and Sports help to be fit and energetic to the child.
    ● Helps to develop the spirit of healthy competition.
    ● These activities guide students how to organize and present an activity, how to develop
    skills, how to co-operate and co-ordinate in different situations-all these helps in
    leadership qualities.
    ● It provides the avenues of socialization, self-identification and self-assessment when the
    child comes in contact with organizers, fellow participants, teachers, people outside the
    school during cultural activity.
    ● Inculcate the values to respects other’s view and feeling.
    ● It makes you perfect in decision making.
    ● It develops a sense of belongingness.
    ● CCA provide motivation for learning.
    ● CCA develop the values like physical, psychological, Ethical, academic, civic, social,
    aesthetic, cultural recreational and disciplinary values

    KINDS OF CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: There are different categories and types of co-
    curricular activities in school. These are mentioned below:

    Academic Related Co-curricular Activities


     Book clubs
     School magazine editor
     Poetry recitation
     Story-writing
     Debates
     Organizing exhibitions
     Preparing charts

    Leisure Related Co-curricular Activities


     Model making
     Coin collection
     Stamp collection
     Train enthusiast
     Museum
     Monument excursion
     Gardening

    Social development Related Co-curricular Activities


     Scouting and guiding
     School council activities

    Picnics and excursions Related Co-curricular Activities


     Hiking
     Special visits
     Trekking
     Visiting places of historical and geographical importance

    Physical Related Co-curricular Activities


     Outdoor and indoor games
     Mass drill
     Mass P.T
     N.C.C

    Cultural Development Related Co-curricular Activities


     Dance
     Music
     Folk dance
     Folk songs
     Fancy-dress competitions

    Civic Values Related Co-curricular Activities


     Organizing camps, such as first aid camp, cleanliness week.
     Celebration of social, religious and national festivals, school parliament election, co-
    operative stores, cleanliness drive, AIDS awareness programme, drug and liquor/alcohol
    abuse programmes, World Environment Day celebrations, environmental protection
    drive, etc.

    Arts and Craft Related Co-curricular Activities


     Album making
     Doll making
     Cooking
     Photography
     Flower decoration
     Clay modelling
     Collage making
     Basket making
     Knitting

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