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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Gandhi Memorial Vedic Pupils joyfully celebrate World Read Aloud Day

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Pupils of Gand­hi Memo­r­i­al Vedic School en­thu­si­as­ti­cal­ly cel­e­brat­ed World Read Aloud Day with guest read­ers.

This oc­ca­sion is ded­i­cat­ed not on­ly to the act of read­ing but al­so to the art of read­ing aloud.

Long be­fore the ad­vent of writ­ing, sto­ries were trans­mit­ted oral­ly from one gen­er­a­tion to the next. Oral sto­ry­telling served as the ear­li­est means of pre­serv­ing hu­man knowl­edge, in­sights, and cre­ativ­i­ty.

This day serves to re­vive this tra­di­tion in read­ing while fos­ter­ing lit­er­a­cy. This ini­tia­tive aligns with the school’s ded­i­ca­tion to de­liv­er­ing a high-qual­i­ty ed­u­ca­tion to its stu­dents.

Au­thor Mary Cuffy en­gaged the young chil­dren by read­ing from her book, “Lo­la and the Mag­ic Sticks”. This sto­ry in­tro­duces chil­dren to the na­tion­al in­stru­ment, cap­ti­vat­ing them as Ms Go­ra the grasshop­per and Mr Bo­la the bee­tle ed­u­cate the la­dy­bugs about the steel­pan.

The chil­dren were en­thralled, hum­ming and danc­ing along as they learnt to play the al­pha­bet song with Lo­la. The pre­sen­ta­tion ef­fec­tive­ly cap­ti­vat­ed the au­di­ence by seam­less­ly in­te­grat­ing mu­sic in­to the realm of lit­er­a­cy.

Lit­er­a­cy serves as a fun­da­men­tal in­stru­ment for the de­vel­op­ment of a more pros­per­ous na­tion.

The stu­dents at Gand­hi Memo­r­i­al Vedic School pro­vid­ed Guardian Kids with a glimpse of their World Read Aloud Day ac­tiv­i­ties.

Some of the pupils who took part were Al­ice Mo­hammed, Shiv­an Sam, Aryan Ram­nanan, Sumayya Raza­ck, Nan­di Sar­ran, and Chloe De­osingh.

This is what the chil­dren had to say:

Nan­di Sar­ran, “I like the sto­ry be­cause I like the steel­pan.”

Al­ice Mo­hammed, “I love the steel­pan and the mag­ic sticks.”

Sumayya Raza­ck, “I love the cute la­dy­bugs from the sto­ry.”

Mary Cuffy is an ed­u­ca­tor and lo­cal chil­dren’s au­thor. Ms Cuffy is the au­thor of the La­dy­bug book se­ries. Ms Cuffy be­lieves the best in­vest­ment we can make in chil­dren is in the ear­ly years. Email: mary.cuffy@ya­hoo.com • IG: marycuffy • FB: mary cuffy/Lo­la and the Danc­ing La­dy­bug


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