Children of classes five to nine in the schools of AP Residential Educational Institutions Society (APREI) will have a compulsory project work as part of the curriculum which will carry weightage in the final evaluation from this year.
A certain percentage of marks to be recommended by the State Council for Educational Research and Training in its upcoming report on continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) will be allotted for the project work and they will go into the year end marks, APREI secretary G. Gopal Reddy said.
Elaborating on what kind of projects the children would be required to take up, Mr. Reddy said they could be practical assignments from their textbook lessons. For instance, there was a lesson on family in class five which could be used to ask the children to draw a family tree and establish their relationship with other members.
Similarly, there was a lesson on types of houses in the same class. This lesson was good enough material to ask children to go round their village and list out pucca and kutcha houses and material used in them.
Mr. Reddy added that the project work would be introduced in all the 93 English medium residential schools and the 200 Telugu medium Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas of the society.
A pilot project in a few schools last year showed that the children actively participated in the projects. It helped them overcome language barriers in interaction and writing reports.
