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ST JOSEPH’S CALENDAR MOTIVATES STUDENTS TO THINK POSITIVE

 By P S SUNDAR 

 

After prolonged lockdown and online classes, when the 133-year-old St Joseph’s Boys’ Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School as also St Joseph’s Academy (for ICSE and ISC) re-opened for Tenth and Plus Two classes following Government orders, the school has welcomed each student with a wall calendar for 2021 on the theme ‘Positive Thinking’.

This is highly relevant in the current Covid-19 pandemic to uphold the morale of the students and keep them focussed on winning in life.

 

“We are paying special attention now to motivate the students to replace negative thoughts, especially arising from Corona-related issues, with positive ones to get positive results”, St Joseph’s Principal Bro Solomon Alexander told me.

“Underlining that ‘positive thinking’ changes our behaviour, we are counselling the students that even the darkest nights will end as the sun rises and optimism is a ‘happiness magnet’.  If you stay positive, good people will be drawn to you, we repeatedly tell the students”, he said.

“With this thought, we have designed this year’s calendar devoting each page to a positive aspect like leadership, dreaming vision, forethought, synergy, innovation, changing future with technology, exquisiteness, Art and Culture and compassion”, he disclosed.

“We also focus on contemporary aspects of hygiene and well being”, he added.

 

The calendar measuring 27 inches x 17 inches carries pleasing pictures of the infrastructure of the school hailed as an icon of Coonoor.

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