Clubs and Extracurricular Activities
Extracurricular activities are highly encouraged in Athena. They can be voluntary, and they offer students an opportunity to explore their interests, develop new skills, and socialise with peers who share similar passions. These activities provide students with a chance to develop leadership skills, teamwork, time management, and other important life skills that can prepare them for success beyond the classroom.
Here at Athena we have various “Clubs”, “Work Education” and extracurricular activities.
Math Club
Maths club is dedicated to extra-curricular maths get-togethers that breathe new life into maths beyond the classroom. They come in all shapes and sizes and there is no one model that works for every school. However, they all focus on two things: having fun with maths and learning.
- Mathematics club is a powerful tool to remove mathematics phobia among students.
- It helps in arousing and maintaining students’ interest in mathematics.
- It provides the students with opportunities to develop their explorative, creative and inventive faculties.
- It inculcates the habit of self-study and independent work among the students.
- It helps in developing heuristic and problem solving attitudes among the students.
- It provides opportunities for students to translate the theory into practice and to apply their learning in daily life situation
- Club activities provide first hand experiences to the learners as they participate in model making, arranging for exhibition, field work, laboratory work and so on.
Science Club
Science clubs channel the energies of students and make use of their skills and talents, which satisfy their instincts and urges and help in their overall personality development. Science clubs work in association with classroom instruction of science subjects.
- To improve scientific attitude and provide opportunities for practice in the scientific method.
- To actively encourage the use of engineering technology in learning science.
- To better understand scientific knowledge through science experiments.
- To help students to develop a scientific way of learning.
- To develop students’ awareness and concern for scientific issues in personal, social, environmental and technological contexts.
- To encourage students to participate actively in the activities organised by the science club.
- To understand scientific knowledge through experiment.
Social Science Club
Social Science Club is formed to promote academic excellence among the students and develop cohesiveness outside the academic settings and to volunteer our time to community service.
- To involve students with extracurricular activities ahead of the academic part.
- To serve the society in its possible need and perform the responsibilities to the society.
- To generate opportunities of learning by doing for society.
- To develop leadership skills among the students.
- To create a welcoming space for members and guests
- To contribute to school life by creating positive experiences for members through organised activities they enjoy.
Literacy Club
Literary Club explores the various dimensions of Literature. The club intended to motivate the students in preparing them for real tasks outside the classroom, making them proficient in communication skills, oratorical skills and providing the opportunity for students to showcase their talents as in the case of dramatics. Students are groomed to confidently express themselves in all activities .
- The aim of English is to enable students to use, understand, appreciate, reflect on, and enjoy the English language in a variety of texts and shapes.
- Meaning to words in ways that are imaginative, Interpretive, critical and powerful.
This not only enhances the ability of writing but also brings out the innate creativity in students.
It is an attempt to identify the emerging literary skills in students and to foreground their creativity with the language.
Health and Wealth Club
The Health & wealth Club focuses on generating awareness about various lifestyle diseases, their detection and prevention. The goal of the club is to promote healthy lifestyles via health education and campaigns. Diversified health promoting activities planned by the club are:
- Basic health screening from time to time, imparting information about various diseases prevailing in a particular duration of the year and various preventive steps.
- Conducting First aid classes to impart basic information and application of FIRST AID.
- Celebration of different health days.
- Conducting various workshops and awareness talks.
- Various competitions like poster making, quiz, powerpoint presentations, just a minute, street plays etc.
Photography Club
Photography club is formed at AGS to debate the students in this field and find out one’s self creation in a certain domain thereby extending their learning.
“A picture speaks a thousand words”
Students in the photography club learn the art and technique of photographing with a single-lens reflex camera. The objective here is to teach them the nuances of focus, shutter speed, aperture, etc. This develops knowledge and their internal power and imagination by showcasing the photos with what elements to exclude, what angle to frame the photo, to express an impression of an object in a subjective form.
