Values For the Yatra' JUNE 14

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O nce again, we pledge to make a new start. We had reached an end, not just to a chronological moment in a scholastic year, but perhaps, to an end to lethargy, hopelessness and valueless living. Our journey needs to take us higher and farther. Back to School is a dreaded journey, if not embraced with joy, purpose and a quest to live life meaningfully. Values for the Yatra comes to you once again, as signposts along the journey, to enable you to get up and start a new move-ment in the spiral of your life.

Our theme, this year is My Life: A Valued Journey. Everyday we tag value to things we possess. We forget that the greatest gift given freely to us is Life! We take it for granted and, in the bargain, begin to live meaningless lives. As a result, our human nature is traded for lesser animal instincts. A Culture of Death is the norm that becomes accepted. Violence, murder, rape, human trafficking, substance abuse and acts of terrorism are daily facts of life that are ever on the increase.

We recall, the 22 year old Californian University student, Eliot Rodgers who brutally killed three while injuring 13 others, in an act of well planned revenge, on 25 May 2014. His pre recorded digital footprints and a 141 page manifesto reflected in My Twisted World highlighted his struggles to find love, and acceptance. I will kill them all and make them suffer. It is only fair, he wrote. Too many young people, sitting in our classrooms, are also caught up in this Twisted World space. A twisted world, for sure, and caused by degrading value systems, unethical busi-ness deals, flooded with cheap entertainment fatigue, fanatical religious observances and failing credibility of role models. The journey of our young students is chaotic, meaningless and direc-tionless. AVEC hopes to bring a new sense of direction and meaning, this scholastic year, through its My Life: A Valued Journey Cam-paign. The journey metaphor is always dynamic, adventurous and open to the incredible. Through this year, AVEC will focus on four journey capsules: Journey to SELF, SCHOOL, SOCIETY and the SACRED. We hope these four journey capsules will add a meaning-ful and value based approach to every student. We encourage every school, teacher and student to join hands in Untwisting the World and to create a new humanity through Values. Together we can, a new world is possible! Lets build it on solid Value foundations.

- Fr. Glenford Lowe sdb

My Life: A Valued Journey


Question for Personal

Reflection and Action

Never Rarely Sometimes Often Always

1. Do I know myself?

2. Do I get ticked off easily?

3. Am I confident about myself?

4. Am I self reliant?

5. Do I forgive others and more importantly myself?

6. Do I think of myself as a loving person?

7. Do I take care of myself?

8. Am I good at expressing my views in affirmatively?



School days were truly the days of enjoyment and freedom to now all the grown-ups out there! The reason being: we just had a carefree life and our parents taking care of us was the most inanely satisfying feeling ever! Back to school was so much fun! Back to being with friends, the classroom and playground environment and even new friends, all these were things we looked forward to when the school began.

The most hectic and tiresome week of the summer vacation would definitely be the last week, wherein, we would go shopping for new uniforms, monsoon- wear, stationery and a whole lot of shopping and more shopping! Once this task is done, covering and decorating the books as per our likes was the next, just to stand out in the class and to make our books look more in-teresting. The last week before the academic year commenced was like a preparation for bat-tle at most of our houses.

Finally came the D- day, our parents who were usually calm were worked up on this day as they had to ensure we reached on time on the first day of school. This was going to be their routine for the rest of the year! They managed winning in the first attempt which would follow for the rest of the academic year.

As we entered our school in anticipation, we always looked out in the crowd for familiar faces and ran to our friends and hugged them, questioned them about their summer holidays and other details we could think about. The anticipation only grew as we would go to our re-spective classrooms to receive a list of our teachers and the time-table for the rest of the year and our seating arrangements. Once the day would begin the joy of being back in school would multiply as soon as the recess bell would go off!

Memories of running or exercising on the playground for a breath of fresh air, to the cooler for water, the recess period, the zero periods, the annual day and sports day preparations,

competitions held in the school just seem so nostalgic. Every adult still does wish of that one day we could go back to just being kids!

- Angel Abraham



Holidays have come to an end and school has begun. Going back to the normal routine of school life may become a stressful experience for many

of you. So here are some tips to get into regular school atmosphere.

Reset your body clocks; bump into your bed earlier than you would during holiday so that you can rise early in order to be fresh for the new day. Value an early start to the day!

Have a positive outlook; look at the year as an opportunity, not as a burden. Value Time!

Create and Celebrate an atmosphere of a new year. Value the joy of new beginnings!

Have no preconceptions. Value openness !

Value participation in all school activities

Value Punctuality. It is one of the keys to success so be in time for every activity,

Keep your books, pens, pencils and all the other stationery that you need for school in place

Pack your bags the previous night and be prepared for the next day

Value the property of the school and others.

Value Signposts for your Journey

Value Belongings: Yours & Others!

Value Participation & Punctuality



Keep your note books neat at tidy. Get into the habit of practicing your writing which you probably had given a long vacation

Avoid junk food . Value your health while at the school canteen!

Listen to the teacher; ask and answer questions

Be well - behaved and polite always. A good impression can take you a long way

Do not complain around others. Nobody likes to hang around a complaint box

Value sincerity. Exams are occasion to test you and not to break you.

Reconnect with old friends; talking to old friends and spending time with them can help getting back to school life quicker

Make new friends. Mix around with every-one. Make new students feel welcome too.

Avoid toxic company.

Value Order, Cleanliness

Value Good Behavior

Value School Friends forever




201415 : Rules for My Life: A Valued Journey Competitions

The Archdiocesan Value Education Centre (AVEC) , Mumbai invites students in the schools

affiliated to the ABE to participate in the

MY LIFE: A VALUED JOURNEY Competitions.

The following Rules are to be kept in mind: The competitions are held within the school at

a convenient time and conducted by the Value Education Coordinator.

To promote greater participation, the students will be divided into Three Categories:

Juniors (Std IV VI) Inters (Std VII VIII)

Seniors (Std IX X)

Only the best three entries in each category will be sent to the AVEC office before the 24th of the month. From among all participating Schools, the best three in each category will be declared. All winners will be awarded with certificates from the AVEC. At the end of the scholastic year, DIAMOND TROPHY AWARDS will be given to the best overall TEN par-ticipating schools.

All winning entries submitted to the AVEC office must have: * The Full NAME of the Student and the Class/Division

* The SIGNATURE of the Value Education Coordinator

* The OFFICIAL SCHOOL STAMP.

Entries without the above, will not be considered !

For the Poster/Collage Competitions: Please use an A3 Size paper only. For the Songs / Poem: A minimum of 6 verses and maximum of 10 verses.

For School Skits: A cast of maximum 10, and time allotted 15 minutes All entries should be ORIGINAL WORKS by students.

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To facilitate greater participation among students and schools, and understanding that there are already a number of extra-curricular activities within the school, this year, AVEC has re-

duced the yearly competitions from NINE to just FOUR.

MY LIFE: A VALUED JOURNEY Competition 2014-15 is broadly classified under FOUR JOURNEY CAPSULES mainly: Self-School-Society-Sacred.

The Students are invited to be CREATIVE , REFLECTIVE and INSIGHTFUL in the presentations of these VALUES either through Skits/ Poems/ Songs and Posters.

For the Four Journey Capsules, a number of VALUE FOCUS THEMES have been presented. Students are free to choose their most needed Relevant Values

Each Journey Capsule has been allotted a TWO MONTH period: Journey towards Self: (JulyAugust 2014, last date 24th August)

Journey towards School: (SeptOctober 2014, last date 24th October)

Journey towards Society: (November December 2014, last date 21th December)

Journey towards Society: (JanuaryFebruary 2015, last date 24th Feb)

My Life: A Valued Journey Competitions have been sent to you early enough to enable the students to prepare well for it and to schedule, in advance the competitions during

a convenient school time.

My Life: A Valued Journey could also be used for your SCHOOL PROJECT during the school assemblies or annual

Value Education day. We leave the choice to you!

The purpose of these competitions are to make VALUES more attractive to the enable them to imbibe them freely. Your encouragement will go a long way in creating

value directed citizens for society.

The AVEC Values for the Yatra E-Letter each month will also focus on the various Journey Capsules presented in the My Life: A Valued Journey Competitions.

AVEC wishes you all the best and encourages you to cooperate whole heartedly in this

years projects/ competitions!!!

For any enquiries, please contact the AVEC office as soon as possible.

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AVEC E-Letter Values for the Yatra is an initiative to provide Animation Resources for Teachers involved in Value Education in the ABE schools/ Jr. Colleges .Values for the Yatra will be published every month and is for Private Circulation only. Your valuable suggestions are most welcome to assist us in making Values for the Yatra a useful tool of animation and bonding among the teachers and students of the ABE schools in Mumbai. CONTACT: AVEC Team Fr. Glenford Lowe, SDB / Rochwyn Fernandes / Sr. Vera / Alan Dsilva / Ms. Angel Abraham AVECDon Bosco Youth Services, Matunga 400019 , MUMBAI Ph: 24154477 e-mail: [email protected] Blog: avecmumabidbys.blogspot.com / facebook: avecmumbai


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