Our very own Book Club

Kumararani Meena Muthiah Mat Hr Sec School

No. 4, Crescent Avenue Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar, Chennai 600 020

Our Design

To get students more involved with the

school by creating new opportunities that

they can identify and relate with.

How it all started

Brainstorming

A gush of ideas

A inter-school football match, an intra-

school culturals, car pooling?????

All were at loggerheads

How do we make any of this work????

Inner Peace

We put each of our ideas on paper to

check how implementable it is.

But hey….Can’t we start small???

We finally found our Inner Peace and as

Master Oogway states in Kung Fu Panda

“There are NO accidents”.

So what is it that we started small????

The Answer

Shouldn't change begin within???

Thus, began our quest

Our own fellow students were our targets

What is it that we wanted to add to

ourselves apart from marks?

Fun and creativity…..

The ones that don’t hamper our studies

The Change

We wanted our own activity clubs

Communication, Literary, Health, Art &

Culture….

Could we not revive something that’s

dying????

The spirit of the book rose and spoke to

us: “Imbibe me in you and you will see a

change”

The Implementation

How many of us read anymore? Lets do a survey…

And sadly, the results weren’t too pleasing. But,

nothing to deter us from the mission.

We rampaged the library, hassled the librarian, spoke

to our principal and gained their support to start Our

very own Book Club.

We initiated the book club through a formal ceremony

with only our staff members and we, the core

members.

The Implementation

We then set out to find students who would be

interested to join the club.

We put out charts and ads for a book review

competition…

Teasers were put up on notice boards that made

students keep guessing as to what this is all

about? Yes, until now, the book club is a tightly

guarded secret.

The Results

We had around 40 entries coming in and

the good ones were shortlisted

The ones that did not make it will be

paired up with the shortlisted students

This we hope will encourage them to read

more

So, how does our club work??

Week 1 First Wednesday of every month: Collect books from the library, distribute it amongst the membersFollowing Thursday & Friday: Have 15 minutes of group book reading sessions

Week 2 & 3

Members to take their books home and finish up on reading the books and write a short synopsis on the book

Week 4 Last Wednesday of every month: Members to discuss their synopsis and collectively come up with a “Must reads list” Following Thursday: Publish the “Must reads list” on the notice boards, the current set of books to be returned to the library

The Future

As Mary Kay Ash once said:

“Enthusiasm is contagious. You can start

an epidemic.”

With this experience, we aim to start other

clubs to address other areas of interest

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Fin

Thanks a lot for your time and patience

KRMM Book ClubAditya BalajiSavanth RajSuhail Bilal

Pranav DwaraknathSai Prabha

Ashwini KarunaRamasubramanianMohammed Yasser