SOCIAL SERVICE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

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Title: SOCIAL SERVICE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
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COMMUNITY HEALTH CELL
47/1, (First Floor)St. Marks Road
BANGALORE - 580 001

SOCIAL SERVICE FCR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

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OBJECTIVES:
1, To provide opportunities to thepupils for a full and balanced
development of their personality, bearing in mind the fact
that such development is possible only in a social context.'
2. To make the pupils aware of social problems, social action and
the right direction of social change.
3. To provide opportunities to the pupils for coming into contact
with the various sections fa of society.
4. To include the pupils to take active interest in various social
problems and to participate in efforts to resolve them in
order that social consciousness may develop in their minds."
5. To create in the pupils a liking for community living and to
provide them with opportunities for living, working and
taking decisions in a spirit of co-operatation.
6. To create in the pupils a liking for self-reliance, manual
work and a simple and hard life.
SYLLUBUS FCR VIII, IX, AFP X:
Proper alternatives should be a/ailable in this syllabus in
order to acheive the objectives of social service. It is also
necessary to select activities of social service in keeping with
the pupils’ environsment. Hence only an outline of the pro
gramme of activities in this subject is suggested here.
MANUAL WORK:
1, Sweeping: To sweep, the class room, the school building, the
school compound, the village and the town.
2. Decoration: To decorate class rooms and different parts of
the village or town.
3. Cleanliness: To do all work involved in keeping the class roams
streets in the villages and towns, public places, drinking
water and sanitary blocks clean.
4. Gardening* To do the gardening in the school garden and public
gardens, to plant trees etc.
5. Civil works:- To make and mend roads to dig soak-pits, to build
movable sanitary blocks, to repair the play
ground, to build school rooms.
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES:
1. To conduct a literary class, to organise programmes like story
telling, newspaper reading and discussions in the community
in the neighbourhood of the shcool.
2. To introduce a small saving scheme among the school pupils
or in the neighbouring community.
3, To help in conducting pre-primary classes.
4. To conduct self-study classes.
HEALTH ACTIVITIES:
1. To organise a cleanliness campaign."
2. T o first-aid classes.
3. To instruct different sections of the community in topics like
child care, health and public cleanliness, and to do pra
ctical work connected with these topics in the community/
4. To give information on topics like personal cleanliness
balanced diet etc.,
5,’ To co-operate in topical health activities and to help in
fighting epidemics.''
ENTERTAINMENT PROG1AMME:
1. To organise programmes of g ames, sports and entertainements
2. To organise entertainment programmes like story-telling,
play acting, singing etc.
3r To organise programmes of community prayers, bhajans, kirtans
ballads etc.,
4 To organise.programmes like excursions and hikes*
SOCIAL SERVICE:
1. To attend on the sick, to entettain them and to keep them
company
2. To give all kinds of help to the handicapped* ’

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To adopt a villaae where possible:
PROJECTS:
1. Civil defence
2. Labour camp (ond week’s duration). Out of the 64 periods
alloted to the subject during the year, 32 periods
should be utilised for the labour camp. The- camp
should be held for week in the vacation after September.
The site of the camp should be selected after visiting
two to three villages.
3. Health and cleanliness of surroundings and
4. Social survey.

The projects outlines under Head (7) should be compulssory
for all students of secondary schools. As regards programmes
outlined under the remaining six heads it should be seen that the
pupil regularly participates in at least one of the programmes
under each hr: ad.
EQUIPMENT:

Every sbhool has to provide the equipment necessary for intro
ducing the subject of Social Service. It is not feasible to make
a complete list of all the equipment needed for this subject.'
However, a list of the new items of equipment that will be required
for some of the activities in this subject is given below.
Buckets, brooms, shovels, spades, ghamelas, water sprinklers
rope, drums for storing water etc.
In addition, the following equipment should also be made available.
a) First aid aquipmerrt.
b) Equipment necessary for attending the sick.
c<7) Equipment necessary for maintaining cleanliness eg: D.D.T.,
Fhenyle etc.'
d) Equipment necessary for organising a camp.
e) Musical instruments,
f) Equipment necessary for a literacy class.
g) Equipment necessary for cleanliness drives etc.

EVALUATION
Once the svllubus in social service is introduced in secondary
schools, it will be neces>sar£ to devise tests for evaluating
pupil achievement. The following means should be used in the
process of evaluation:
Rjpils *s diaries.
Group leaders • diaries.
Teachers reports.
To facilitate evaluation pupils should be divided into groups.
Each group should consist of six to eight pupils.'

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