Cocurricular Activities

We believe that what goes on outside the classroom is as important as what goes on within it. Our regular academic timetable is therefore complemented by a variety of cocurricular courses, clubs and activities.

Cocurricular activities like sports, music, art, drama and debate are essential to developing a well-rounded personality and gaining a complete education. This applies whether the child is an actual participant or is assisting and observing on the sidelines. Being involved in these activities offers multiple benefits—it helps youngsters discover latent talents, opens new avenues of interest, creates team spirit and collaboration and fosters self-esteem, motivation and academic success.

The entire school—from Standards 1 to 12—benefit from our cocurricular courses. Even though they have a full schedule, students of Standards 9 to 12 enjoy participating in at least one Sport and one Art/Performing Art/Club activity.

Our students are given an opportunity to participate in inter-house and inter-school competitions, and showcase their talents at school functions.



Sports

With three experienced Physical Training instructors, special coaches for basketball, football and swimming, a band master and excellent facilities, sports are obviously an important part of our school life.

The Brigade Millennium enclave has outstanding sports facilities which are available to the school, including a covered, heated swimming pool. The three-acre Millennium Park, adjacent to the school, has a floodlit mini-stadium, with a synthetic running track, and an amphitheatre.

Other sports facilities include ample grounds / facilities for individual and group sports, including football, volleyball, basketball and kho-kho. Athletics also have pride of place, with spaces for track events, jumps and throws.



Art and Performing Arts

Rich in history and cultural tradition, the arts play an important role in education—both for their intrinsic value and their ability to enhance the overall development of a child. Exposure to music, dance, theatre and the visual arts enables personal, social and intellectual growth; allows for new ways of communicating ideas and feelings and improves cognitive capacities and motivations to learn.

At The Brigade School, cocurricular activities in this sphere include art and craft, music, dance and theatre. These are conducted as group activities, rather than on an individual basis. School outings to the theatre and places of cultural and historical interest are organised regularly.




Mindspace

Academics and cocurricular activities are two points of the triangle. The third is Mindspace—which completes the picture and ensures the overall well being and happiness of the child.

A team that includes trained counsellors and specially trained teachers to address learning disabilities, take care of this section. Mindspace includes Yoga, Lateral Thinking, Learning to Learn and special training for slow learners.

Giving a comforting and confidential ear to the problems/aspirations of each and every child, Mindspace addresses careers; the physical, mental and social dimensions of growing up; and intra-and inter-personal skills. We also have reading lists so that each child reads a minimum number of books. Children are also taught Spoken Kannada, so that they are not alienated from the society around them.

In addition, general knowledge, special computer workshops, life skills, debates and seminars are all conducted under this section. Our activities here are targeted at both teachers and students. We aim to include parents under this programme by organising talks and activities for them in the future. Other future plans also include our aspirations to work with an institution for less fortunate children.