Playpen Celebrates Her Cultural Day in style

Playpen wrapped the term with a splendid cultural activities day. For Pupils, parents and members of staff of Playpen School, Isolo, Lagos, celebrating Nigeria’s rich cultural heritage is not only necessary, but of utmost priority. This is what informed the celebration of Cultural Day in the school, where everybody was dressed in gorgeous indigenous cultural attires. Various songs were rendered in Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and other local languages. We have Interesting cultural Poems, dancing, greetings and introductions but the children. 

A section of Different Tribes sited together in Joy and Harmony 

culture is so broad that it includes language, dressing, food, buildings, religion and music, among others.

The Hausa Traditional Group ready to for Hausa Tribe Activities

“We must ensure that our culture is transmitted to our children, otherwise, it will be lost and by implication, we would have lost our identity. Every young Nigerian is expected to understand his or her local language in addition to English as a second language.”Our Playpen enthusiast, who lamented gradual decimation of Nigerian culture due to craving for foreign lifestyles, however, commended some state governments that have made it compulsory for every child to learn at least one major Nigerian language at primary and secondary school levels.

The Yoruba Traditional Group Ready For Yoruba Tribe Activities

The Igbo Traditional Group ready for Igbo Tribe Activities

Our Playpen Enthusiast opined that “Our political and social values have some cultural heritage that are transmitted from one generation to another. Culture is dynamic, which is why history and historical artefacts would continue to be relevant in spite of modernisation.

OUR CHILDREN DISPLAYED SOME INTERESTING TRADITIONAL SHOWS

Our Excursion to FAAN (Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria)

Playpen Children ready for the Aviation Experience. The weather was favourable

An Excursion to FAAN

Playpen organised a field trip for her pupils to the FAAN (Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria) on the 4th of April. The purpose of the excursion was for observation, education, non-experimental research and to provide pupils with experiences outside their everyday activities.

The Children were delighted and fulfilled at the end of the day. They had first hand experiences with an aeroplane exterior and interior, they met with air hostesses and pilots and entered the terminals. Our children have a checking in and boarding experience.

Playpen Children at the Airport Terminal

 Our pupils were in the aeroplane to have a travelling feel and what it looks like in the aeroplane. They were delighted at the aura and aesthetics of the aeroplane interior. Some of our children had stories to tell and really felt like they were actually flying in the air. The cockpit, and other parts of the aeroplane interior brought a lot of questions to the mind of the pupils which they got answers too.

Playpen Children in the Aeroplane

Our Pupils Benefited a lot form the FAAN experience; here are some of the feedbacks we got from the excursion.

1-  The excursion provided a direct source of knowledge and acquainted our pupils with first hand information about aviation.

2-  The FAAN excursion provided an opportunity to the pupils for development of their aesthetic sense.

3-  By such excursion our pupils became interested in the exploration of their environment.

4-  The FAAN excursion helped to develop in our pupils love for aviation and acquainted them with the real happiness in the outside world.

5-  The excursion helped our pupils in the development of power of observations, exploration, judgement and drawing inferences, problem solving abilities.

6-  Their qualities of resourcefulness, self- confidence, initiative and leadership were developed.

7-  The excursion helped in developing cooperative attitude within our pupils and various others

8- Their leisure after their exams was properly utilised

9- Playpen pupils were motivated for self-study and self-activity after the visit to FAAN.

10- We at Playpen are sure that after the excursion our pupils will develop their creative faculties.

Fulfilled Playpen Pupils in an Aeroplane arena

Our Guardians, and Teachers were not left out of the fun too. Everybody had a lesson to learn and a story to tell.

Teachers and Organisers having fun too.

We at playpen are already looking forward towards another field trip for our Pupils; the learning will not stop, the fun will continue, the experiences will not stop as we prepare our pupils for a stronger correlation with the real outside world as they grow into the realities of their immediate society and the world at large.

P.T.A Meeting Notification (Sat. 6th April, 2019)

The P.T.A Community at Playpen has been a success over the years

According to Wikipedia Parent–Teacher Association/Organization (PTA/PTO) or parent–teacher–student association (PTSA) is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a school.

Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) are an active part of school life for schools across the country. Many thousands of parents volunteer to join in with PTA activities at their child's school, giving their time and energy to fund-raising and working in partnership with the school.

The role of the PTA

PTA activity will vary from school to school. Some PTAs are involved in fund-raising and most will agree on social events for parents and children. some provide helpers for outings and special events and a large number run clubs for sport, music or drama. Most PTAs will organise meetings to inform parents about education issues, too, particularly when changes are taking place.

A successful PTA will bring together parents and teachers who are interested in supporting the school. Meetings are usually very informal with event planning and organising the main focus. PTAs tend to meet a couple of times each term. Meetings may be held at school but some PTAs get together at a local pub to make it more of a social gathering.

The importance of involving parents

Research has shown that parental involvement has a very significant impact on a child's achievement and attainment at school.

A successful PTA provides parents and teachers with the opportunity to exchange views, work together and to develop mutual trust and confidence. 

In a world where everyone's time is precious getting people to join a PTA can be a daunting task but all parents and teachers can get involved, even if they only have a small amount of time available.

The life-cycle of a PTA committee will vary. Some members may stay involved for ten years or more - particularly if they have subsequent children attending the school. Others may stay for a few years and then move on.

Notification of our PTA Meeting

This is to inform our valued parents that the PTA meeting of Playpen comes up on Saturday, 6th April, 2019. Please, Kindly make every effort to attend. Thank you for your Cooperation.