HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK

 Every year we have a long holiday twice a year in our school, summer vacation and winter vacation. This is a time when every kid plans a holiday with their parents to visit their grandparents or a new city or country. Even though there are many good things about the holidays, it always comes with holiday homework which comes as a nightmare for many students because they just don’t want to study during the vacation.

After a survey, it was proven that it is very essential for the students to practice the things that are taught in class because otherwise, they will forget it. Holiday homework is designed in a way that student gets a chance to explore their imagination and also revise the things they have been taught in class.

The holidays can be a long break for the students from their daily schedule. Homework gives them the motive to do a little study each day so that the time they return to school, they are not completely blank. Holiday homework are good until the time they are designed not to burden the students.

हम आपके जानकारी के लिए बता दे कि Holiday homework एक ऐसा काम होता है जो छात्रों या बच्चों को उनकी छुट्टियों के दौरान पढ़ाई करने के लिए दिया जाता है। इसका मुख्य उद्देश्य छात्रों को उनके छुट्टियों में भी उनके पढ़ाई लिखाई को जारी रखने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करना होता है।

Holiday homework के रूप में छात्रों को अपने विषयों के बारे में अधिक जानने और समझने का अवसर भी मिलता है। Holiday homework बहुत सारे रूपों में होता है जैसे कि writing, maths, Science, drawings और इत्यादि चीज़ों का अध्ययन और विद्यालय की अन्य विषयों के लिए question answer आदि।

छात्रों को इसमें अपनी गतिविधियों को अधिक मजबूत बनाने का भी अवसर मिलता है जैसे कि समूह कार्य, रिसर्च, सर्वेक्षण, उपलब्धियों के आधार पर अनुमान लगाना, और आदि।

Holiday homework देने का एक यह भी मुख्य कारण है कि जब बच्चे Holiday पर जाते हैं तो वह पढ़ाई बिल्कुल भी नहीं करते हैं। और ना ही उनके ऊपर कोई pressure होता है तो वह अपने पीछे किए हुए पढ़ाई को भी भूल जाते हैं। इस लिए उन्हें revision के तौर पर उनका Holiday homework दिया जाता है ताकि वह रोजाना कुछ ना कुछ पढ़ते रहें और वह जो पीछे पड़े हैं उनको वह याद रहे।

Importance of Holiday Homework

Gone are the days when kids used to spend their vacation time in a care-free manner, without a worry in the world! With flats and apartments becoming the norm of the day and with most parents becoming working parents, more and more it is seen that kids are being left to their own devices, to find entertainment and engage themselves. Thus, with time on hands and without any constructive activity to involve themselves in, children are turning to the TV, their computers and their mobiles to spend time. There are also instances when parents themselves are asking the school and teachers to give their children Holiday Homework, so that they can be gainfully engaged for sometime at least. Hence, Holiday Homework has become inevitable and what’s more it is here to stay!

Is Holiday Homework really good? Does it serve any good? What purpose does it serve? Let us take a look at the advantages of setting children Holiday Homework during vacations.

Delhi School of Excellence, enjoys a top ranking position as one of the best CBSE schools in the Twin Cities of Hyderabad. It was one of the forerunners amongst the schools in the Twin Cities to adopt the online system of education and thus enjoyed the privilege of being able to offer the best online classroom experience.

Holiday Homework has always been a tradition at Delhi School of Excellence. The Management and the Faculty opine that Holiday Homework reinforces the concepts taught and makes learning and comprehension of difficult concepts easier. We list out the various reasons, showcasing the benefits of Holiday Homework.

Quality learning time: Holiday Homework helps students learn and practice difficult concepts taught during the year that have life-long importance and will benefit the students in their future years. They can deal with this learning without pressure and at a steady pace.

Ensures Continuity: Research has proved that students who attend to a little academic work every day, steadily, find it easier to cope with the challenges of academic work when compared with those students who tend to do away with academic work completely during vacations. Thus, Holiday Homework ensures that students attend a certain amount of academic work for a fixed time regularly.

Healthy Routine: Attending and attempting a fixed routine always ensures good health, both physically and mentally. Following a routine ensures that children adhere to a fixed schedule which will keep their minds away from confusion.

Teaches Value of Time: ‘All play and no work makes Jack fritter away his valuable time’! Rather than allow your child to spend the entire day in play, a certain amount of academic work is set at a fixed time every day which will help your child learn the value of time. He will learn to respect both his play time as well as his study time if you introduce him to a fixed routine. Setting realistic, achievable academic targets for him to realise would be even better! This would help him learn to honour deadlines and learn and appreciate the value of time.

Teaches Independent Work: At home, your child is working alone and independently without the supervision and guidance of the Mentor and the support and companionship of his classmates. So attending Holiday Assignments calls for creativity and independence from the student and fosters a sense of freedom in the minds of the students. It teaches your child to work independently. This can prove to be a great confidence booster, particularly when it is coupled with positive results and can encourage the child to work independently.

Fosters Togetherness: Holiday Homework can be fun family time! Your child doesn’t have to sit in a closed room to do his homework. He can sit at the dining table to do his homework or in the verandah with the family around him. This will ensure the warmth and the much needed family time that is so essential. Sometimes, the parents can get involved and help their child do the holiday homework and this will ensure that the bonding between family members becomes stronger. Hence, we find that Holiday homework is a great way to nurture quality family time.

Students Forget Valuable Information Over the Summer. When students are no longer in school for a month or so, they are no longer learning new information or being challenged to discover new things and learn what they ought to learn to maintain a healthy skillset and a well working intelligence. Summer homework helps students work on their own terms and pushes them to get things done with an approaching deadline, and helps them retain the important information they may otherwise forget a few short weeks after they have been released from school. I, for example, am going to be enrolling in an Advanced Literature course and have been assigned two books to read this summer, an essay to write, and several passes from the UPNISHAD to cover. This pushes me to find out more information about the subject matter , and also helps me remember some of what I learned in my last classes to make sure I don’t forget what is very vital.

Summer holiday homework provide a way to be connected to studies during the long time period. Students generally don’t like to study during the holidays, and don’t even sit to study. If this continues to happen, then the student will forget his past studies. And this should not happen. So the homework helps the students to be connected to his studies, beside enjoying his holidays.

By Manveer Singh