The students of the Sarvajana Government Higher Secondary School at Sulthan Bathery in Wayanad celebrated the 61st Republic Day in a different way. Thirty students of the school made a five metre long greeting board on the walls of the school before the celebrations started.
As many as 150 small replicas of the National flags made out of paper were used to make the board. They also attached a beautiful picture of the padayani to commemorate the padayani float of the State which was staged on the 61st Republic Day parade in Delhi. Raveendran, a drawing teacher of the school was the inspiration to make the greeting board, V. Aijitha, a IX standard student of the school said.
All the small flags were made by the children with paper and coloured with crayons within a day, Mr. Raveendran said. “In my experience this kind of innovative activity has always attracted children and it would also incite patriotic feelings in the young minds,” he added.
