Language Festival 2025 Guidelines- Schedule -Activities

Language Festival 2025 Guidelines- Schedule -Activities in AP Schools, Conduct of Language Festival at Secondary and Sr. Secondary level – Issued the certain guidelines – Orders – Issued Rc.No.2708522/SS-15024/6/2025-SAMO-SSA Dt:10-02-2025.

AP Samagra Shiksha – Quality Initiatives – Conduct of Language Festival at Secondary and Sr. Secondary level – Issued the certain guidelines – Orders – Issued – Reg Rc.No.2708522/SS-15024/6/2025-SAMO-SSA   Dt:10-02-2025.

Read: Minutes of the PAB 2024-25.

All the Regional Joint Directors of School Education and all the District Education Officers and all the Additional Project Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha in the State are hereby informed that to implement the innovative programs like conduct of language festival in all Secondary and Senior Secondary Schools.

The Project Approval Board has approved the budget for an amount of Rs.36.34 lakhs @ Rs.500/- per school to 7268 schools towards conduct of language festival for Secondary & Sr. Secondary Level.

This is to cultivate habit of reading in students to make them independent reader to create awareness on using of e-book and digital libraries wherever such infrastructure is available, to involve teachers actively in improving reading skills among students, to create awareness among the community and make them to involve in the process, arranging a school book bank in the school for collecting books from teachers, students and donors. District may share report including videos, case study etc.

The Language festivals are to teach and provide information about the Indian languages to students and to show the wealth and diversity of language. The aim of the programme is to create friendly and entertaining atmosphere, encourage students to learn languages and promote multiculturalism. Guidelines are herewith annexure.

The Following guidelines may be communicated to districts for the conduct of language festivals.

Objectives of the Language Festival

•  To create an interactive environment among students
• To encourage students to solve unstructured problems, develop communication skills, and use of the second language effectively
•  To encourage students to learn independently as well as work collaboratively
•  To enhance creativity and develop ability to present information in different languages
•  To influence students’ achievement as well as promote culture among students
•  To bring more children, youth, women and community members into the festival space.

Implementation Process:

All the District Project Officers, Samagra Shiksha, Andhra Pradesh is directed to issue suitable instructions to District Academic Monitoring Officers and Assistant Academic Monitoring Officers, MEOs and HMs in your purview for conducting Language Festivals for Primary and Upper Primary Students as per schedule which is mentioned below:

Language Festival 2025 Programme Schedule:

Activities for Students in Language Festivals:

English Language:

English has become very important in today’s world due to its International importance. The following activities should be conducted for promoting English language among students on 18th February, 2025.

Conduct different Performances and games with primary school students for developing multi-sensory activities by using puppets, fairy tales, singing, and quiz.

•  Reading competitions (short stories which can be read within 5 minutes or 7 minutes)
•  Short story writing
•  Debate on Importance of English Language  Dramatized Storytelling (English)
• Role play among students  Rhymes and Spell check
• Preparation of TLM with utilisation of Local resources

Hindi Language:

The following activities should be conducted to class 6th to 12th class students for promoting Hindi Language on 19th February, 2025

•  Rhymes and Spell check
•  Reading competitions (short stories which can be read within 5 minutes)
•  Short story writing
•  Debate on Hindi as a national language  Dramatized Storytelling (Hindi)
• Conduct different Performances and games with children
• Role play among students

Sanskrit Language:

Sanskrit has played a great role in the Indian tradition of the quest for knowledge. The draft of the New Education Policy 2019 has recommended that Sanskrit should be offered at all levels of school and higher education. The following activities should be conducted for 6 to 12th class student’s on 19th February, 2025:

• Short story writing
• Slokas telling
• Debate
• Preparation of TLM with utilisation of Local resources

 Urdu:

The following activities will be conducted for minority students for promoting Urdu language in Madarasas as well as Primary and Upper Primary Urdu Medium Schools on 19th February, 2025:

•  Rhymes and riddles in Urdu language
• Ghazals
•  Short story in Urdu
•  Preparation of TLM with utilisation of Local resources

Tribal Languages:

The following activities will be conducted to students on Savara, Konda, Kuvi, Adivasi-Oriya, Sugali and Lambada tribal languages in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Guntur, Kadapa and Kurnool districts for promoting tribal culture and language in schools which are located in tribal areas on 20th February, 2025.

• Rhymes and riddles
• Dance performance (Tribal culture related)
• Songs (Tribal culture related)
• Short story on tribal culture
• Preparation of TLM with utilisation of Local resources

Border languages: The following activities will be conducted to students for promoting Odisha, Tamil, and Kannada etc languages in Secondary & Secondary schools on 21st February, 2025

• Activities will be conducted for promoting Odisa language among students in schools which are located in nearby districts to Odisha border (Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts)
• Activities will be conducted for promoting Tamil language among students in schools which are located in nearby districts to Tamilnadu border (Chittoor district)
•  Activities will be conducted for promoting Kannada language among students in schools which are located in nearby districts to Karnataka border (Ananthapuram district)
• The activities will be conducted on 21st February, 2025 in above mentioned districts for promoting Odisa, Tamil and Kannda etc among students

Telugu Language: The most fragrant and sweetest language is Telugu. It is our pride to celebrate the significance of such a beautiful language on 21st February, 2025.

• Speech and skit added to the glory of the language.
• Short story writing on Mother tongue has a prominent role in our lives
• Poems and vocabulary test in Telugu
• Songs and debate on Telugu language
• Preparation of TLM with utilisation of Local resources

Outcome of the Language Festivals:

• Language festival can help the students to make and sustain the effort of learning.
• It should provide language practice in the various skills i.e. – Listening, Speaking, and Reading and Writing among students
• It encourages students to interact and communicate. It creates a meaningful context for language use.

The District wise approved budget as shown hereunder:

All the Additional Project Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha in the State are hereby instructed to release the above said amount to the concerned schools towards conduct of language festival for Secondary & Sr. Secondary Level.

Further any queries or information contact Smt S.Kalpana, TPO, SAMO Wing of this office.

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