Fun for all: Parents, children throng learning festival

The event aimed at providing educational and healthy activities for children.

LAHORE: The Beaconhouse School System held a one-day learning festival at several of its branches across the city on Sunday. The event was aimed at promoting a healthy life style and to provide educational activities for young children.

The festival, which is a part of a series the Beaconhouse School System will organise across the country, lasted six hours and attracted both parents and children. Activities focusing on early childhood development were also offered at the festival.

The Les Anges Montessori Academy, a campus of the Beaconhouse School System, held five activities on e-learning, creativity, communication, sports and health-based activities.

The festival also included several events for young children featuring music and crafts.

Several children participated in an activity in which they would buy toys with fake money. The purpose of the activity, the organisers, was to build awareness in children regarding the purchase of items from shops and to teach them value for money.

Les Anges Montessori Academy Principal Saira Rizvi said that the festival aimed at highlighting the importance of the role parents could play in educating their children.

She said that information technology was being used a tool for learning all over the world.

She said that she too believed that information technology should be taught to children in their formative years of learning. She said it was very important for parents to be involved in their children’s lives from the very beginning.

This makes children feel valued, she said.

“It is great to be here with my children. I have learned a lot about how I can play a productive in my children’s lives,” said a parent attending the festival.

One of the children at the festival said, “I participated in almost all of the activities for children and had a great time. I especially enjoyed having my own purse of money to buy toys and fun things with.”

The participating children were awarded certificates by the school administration at the end of the festival.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 24^th, 2014.