Vocal and Instrumental

The school encourages students to develop an interest in music. For the benefit of the students, the school has a large variety of musical instruments including western instruments like the guitar, drums, congo and keyboard and Indian instruments like the dholak. The school also encourages promising singers to take up voice training.

It is important for children to be creative, to be able to express themselves and to gain understanding of the world. Drama education provides a safe place for children to practice creativity and take personal risks in a venue that celebrates success with every production or performance, and builds self-confidence by allowing children to express themselves to others – whether that is on a stage or in everyday relationships. Drama can be a terrific medium for keeping children active and healthy. It can boost self esteem, improve public speaking, and provide a place to practice creativity.

Drama education is a powerful teaching and learning tool with profound positive effects on a student's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. The benefits of regular drama education spill over into all school subjects and everyday life.

Out of all the splendid forms of art, the one that expresses beautifully through the use of human body, it is dance. Dance soothes eyes, it not only adds aesthetic beauty of human form in front of you, but a combination of music and body movement together in harmony indeed creates magic – a magic that leaves one in awe.

Dance is a powerful ally for developing many of the attributes of a growing child. Dance helps children mature physically, emotionally, socially, and cognitively. The physical benefits of dance are widely accepted, but the emotional, social and cognitive attributes have only recently begun to be appreciated.

Children of Dikshant are being exposed to various folk dances and western dances.

At Dikshant International School, we teach children the skills and etiquette associated with public speaking. It is an important component of our teaching and learning programs. Public speaking skills help children learn how to express their beliefs and opinions to the public and also build confidence. When teaching public speaking in class, we encourage our students by giving them feedback on their speeches and do this in a way that does not belittle or frustrate them .

Show and Tell. This is a daily activity where children are asked to bring along something from home and talk about it in front of the rest of the class. Children benefit enormously from the opportunity to talk on a topic of their choice, to organize their thoughts, to inform and respond to an attentive audience.

Pottery as an activity in school provides a creative outlet for children of all classes. Most children show keen interest in pottery sessions held in school. All children Have imparted knowledge and taught techniques in using the pottery wheel. The steps in Pottery-making include, moulding on the pottery wheel, then allowing drying time for up to a week and then is the colourful glazing. With several pottery sessions in school, children have enjoyed learning about the skill of pottery making and have made some magnificent pieces! Over the years, children have we made many items with clay, including diyas, pen-stands, pots, plates, bowls and cups.

Art and painting for kids is a truly enjoyable activity for children. Many students take to painting while at Dikshant and gain a lot of expertise under the guidance of our Art Faculty. The best paintings are on display in the school corridors and are also specially exhibited during Parents-Teachers Meet. Students are given special lessons on how to make good posters, collages, and cartoons. Other than crayons and water-colours, students also learn to use oil-bounds, pastels. Art plays an important element in formative minds and encourages creativity and alternative ways of looking at objects.

Reading and writing development are intertwined in early learning. The physical act of writing letters and early words enhances the child's ability to read. The complementary relationship between reading and writing continues long after these early efforts, so Dikshant enhances the children's skills dramatically by encouraging the writing habit in childhood.

The School provides tools and opportunities for writing:

• Pencils and pens and plenty of paper are available for spontaneous writing activities.
• The key in getting kids excited about writing is to give them something exciting to write about.
• At Dikshant, we make children practice, not by forcing them to sit and write but by giving them some exciting activities related to creative writing, which will develop their interest in writing.

It is very important to teach a kid develop his/her own opinion about something. And most importantly it should be taught well to the kid how to express their opinions through word. Children are made to watch a movie, or a cartoon, or are made to read interesting short stories and ask them to right a review telling whether they liked it or not.

Helping students to achieve their creative potential

Crafting is one of the most interesting activities students enjoy in school. The school trains its students from a young age to be involved in craft making. By making crafts, students can build their imagination. Apart from having endless fun, they can express themselves creatively and achieve the sense of accomplishment. Crafts that involve drawing, coloring, painting, cutting, gluing, and even stamping excite students.

At Dikshant, Art and Craft covers paper tearing and pasting, freehand drawing, shading, painting in oil and water colours, landscape painting, collage making, stenciling, printmaking, paper folding, decorative craft, three-dimensional design, flower making, pattern making.

The joy in using one's own hands to create something beautiful out of waste material is incomparable. Students have learnt the technique of Papier-mâché. They create Papier-mâché themselves by recycling old waste paper. These Papier-mâché objects are then enhanced by various means like oil painting. The experience and joy of utilising waste material to create something useful helps students understand and appreciate the simplicity and beauty of nature.

Arts and crafts can help a child to feel, to imagine, to share, to understand how things work. They learn to dream, to build, to create and learn to be caring and giving people. It aids with their sense of generosity when they can make things for others, like cards, gifts. It promotes compassion, makes them feel for others and gives them the satisfaction of knowing the joy that they have brought to another with their creativity.

Clay Modelling is an interesting activity in the school. Children of classes Pre-Nursery to KG model freely with clay. The atmosphere in the classroom becomes peaceful and contemplative as the children become absorbed in their task. From class I, clay modeling lessons begin, first with simple geometric solids and their formation into animal forms such as a sleeping cat and resting deer. Lessons are designed to integrate with the topics of the main lesson and so children will find themselves modeling various natural forms from animals, plant forms and human figures, to mountain landscapes and geological formations.

Interface with Society

Students at Dikshant contribute to create awareness amongst people about environmental awareness as well as take up social issues on a regular basis. Students find their voices as they hold rallies to save the ozone layer on the World Ozone Day, Exhibit Paintings on issues like Women Empowerment, Tree Plantation Drives, Conservation of Water and Corruption, Cleanliness Drives, and also Display Working Models of Energy Conservation.

Students realize that they can make a difference and change the world. They learn what it is to be a contributing citizen and carry these citizenship skills forward throughout their lives.

The School bears in mind the physical and mental age of its students when planning their football training sessions. Activities are picked that fit the developmental needs of the students, rather than trying to make the students participate in activities that are developmentally inappropriate for them.

In a game like football - players are moving around constantly and the environment is constantly changing which requires players to constantly make decisions. The game can be divided into separate, distinct areas: technique, rules and basic strategy. This sees the game as isolated components that can be learned separately in practices and reassembled later on in the game. It employs three different parts in a practice. A warm-up, the lesson and finally a scrimmage.

Students learn techniques such as passing, shooting and dribbling, tactical concepts such as spreading out, proper support, defending angles and rules such as proper throw ins, penalty kicks and so on.

Young children can't play competitive team sports. They lack the experience to understand cooperative play and the real meaning of winning and losing. Therefore, football is a way to introduce social and motor skills to young children who are just beginning to experience the world outside of home.

The School gives cricket coaching sessions using the drills, skills, and techniques used in cricket. All sessions are structured based on the capabilities of students and keeping their age in mind. Students are trained for batting, bowling and wicket-keeping by a qualified and experienced Sports Instructor. The School spends time developing the ability of students to cope under pressure through practice matches as well as real matches.

Children derive enormous benefits from yoga. Physically, it enhances their flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness. In addition, their concentration and sense of calmness and relaxation improves. Doing yoga, children exercise, play, connect more deeply with the inner self, and develop an intimate relationship with the natural world that surrounds them. Yoga brings that marvellous inner light that all children have to the surface.

When yogis developed the asanas many thousands of years ago, they still lived close to the natural world and used animals and plants for inspiration—the sting of a scorpion, the grace of a swan, the grounded stature of a tree. When children imitate the movements and sounds of nature, they have a chance to get inside another being and imagine taking on its qualities. When they assume the pose of the lion (Simhasana) for example, they experience not only the power and behaviour of the lion, but also their own sense of power: when to be aggressive, when to retreat. The physical movements introduce kids to yoga's true meaning: union, expression, and honour for oneself and one's part in the delicate web of life.

It's not just about punching and kicking - it's about life.

The School has Karate compulsory for all students from Class I onwards. Our mission is to equip students with the mental tools to reach their potential in whatever field they choose. We teach that there is no such word as ‘can’t’; that there are no problems or barriers blocking our way, only challenges which can be embraced and conquered. Training in control leads to better decision-making – whether it is handling stress, studies, competition with just the right amount of thought, energy and responsibility.

Karate lessons help inspire students into learning discipline, self-control, goal setting, exercise, and self-confidence.

The School provides Table Tennis coaching as it is the perfect sport. The core skills involved in Table Tennis, such as hand eye co-ordination, concentration and body positioning, are skills that are important in most other sports. Table Tennis improves reflex, eye-hand co-ordination, mental alertness and speed of movement. Using a ball that weighs only a few grams, table tennis is practically a risk-free sport. Students learn the about the speed, spin and the placement of the ball. It's aerobic, uses both upper and lower body and makes many different areas of the brain to function. The mental alertness encouraged by the sport’s tactical challenges is particularly good for children.