Christmas Celebration

December 22, 2022

Christmas is the jolly time of the year celebrated to remember the birth of Jesus Christ. It is observed on 25th December all across the world and holds a religious significance. Christians celebrate Christmas with traditions and practices that are religious.

This year on 22nd December, GCTE has organized a program to celebrate Christmas. The celebration was held in our college auditorium. The entire auditorium was beautifully decorated with flowers, ribbons, lights, posters, and models. All the students and faculty members were very excited and full of enthusiasm for the celebration. Most of them wore red and white color dresses. The ceremony began with prayer at 10:00 am. After that, various programs were organized one after the other. One of which was a performance where a group of first BEd students presented a beautiful play on the theme of Christmas. After that, a man disguised as Santa Claus comes with a bag containing several gifts. Santa Claus was roaming all over the auditorium giving presents to all the little children. Also, the song Jingle Bells was playing in the background. The student teachers, brilliantly presented melodious  After that, a father named Sunil M John gave a detailed speech on why we celebrate Christmas. Along with this, the principal sir wished everyone a very happy Christmas and also gave a short motivational speech.

After the program, our first BEd batch took a group photo.

This photo represents the first BEd dance team. 

Christmas-related Nativity Play organized by the first BEd batch.

The Christmas program ended with a treasure hunt. I also participated in this game. I was in the pink group and we became the winner of this game. 

First time in my life I participated in different types of programs including Christmas dance, nativity play, games, treasure hunt, etc. So I am very happy and excited today. 

Christmas celebration makes the end of the year a beautiful one. It spreads love and harmony among people of different religions. The ending of the Christmas celebration marks the beginning of the New Year celebration.

Traffic Awareness Programme

December 21, 2022

Road safety and traffic awareness are the keys to the prevention of road accidents using all road safety measures. This is to save people while traveling on the road. These are meant to keep all road users safe, such as pedestrians, two-wheelers, four-wheelers, multi-wheelers, and other vehicle users.

A road safety awareness program was organized to make people

aware of the importance of Road Safety and how we can reduce

the deaths/ injuries due to road accidents in the district Thiruvananthapuram of

state Kerala. 

This Traffic awareness programme was organized and conducted by Biostar, Natural Science association.The chief guest of this program was Mr. Yethi Prakash , a Senior civil police officer. The program convenor was Dr. Rajasree Assistant Professor, GCTE. The student coordinator was Angitha Giri G N. Kavya Sagar was the anchor of this program. Revathy welcomed the guest and students. Dr. Roshna ma'am invited the chief guest. 

Yethi Prakash sir was given detailed information about road safety 

awareness and were made aware by showing posters and explained 

why there is a need for road safety, what precautions should be taken 

while traversing the road and what is the standard of road safety You 

can save your own life and your family’s life, as well as the new 

rules coming from the Ministry of Transport, Government of India was 

being made aware, of how to avoid driving, what to do if an overloaded 

the vehicle is seen, check the smoke continuously, save pollution, wear 

seat belts, wear helmets, do not rush or walk on the side, follow traffic 

rules as well as tell the children about the dire consequences of a road 

accident, what are the problems that occur after the accident, how the 

common people can see each other He should help, what is the 

condition of the house of the person who died in the accident, how the 

common people can see each other He should help, what is the 

condition of the house of the person who died in the accident, how the 

an accident can be reduced, and premature death can be avoided. 

The side effects of Drunk Driving were explained separately and 

included schemes of the Indian government and the state government.

International Human Rights Day

December 10, 2022

International Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 annually. The main aim behind celebrating this day is to improve the physical, social, cultural, and spiritual well-being and welfare of the vulnerable group of people globally.

GCTE celebrated Human Rights Day. The celebration was jointly organized by the Department of Social Science. The event was organized offline mode. Principal sir shared his valuable message with us. He further motivated the students that respecting the rights of others and performing their duties with full sincerity will make relevance to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, given by the United Nations, and the related rights, given in the Indian Constitution. Teachers enlightened their student-teachers through thought-provoking speeches on human rights. Moreover, human rights day is celebrated to raise awareness about people's social, cultural, and physical rights and to ensure the welfare of everyone. Social science association also conducted poster-making competitions and Quiz competitions. The students from each department showcased their talent by preparing posters on the theme of human rights. 

 Social science association organized "Expression Wall: Express yourself" in connection with International Human Rights Day. All participants in this program wrote their rights and wishes without any restrictions on that expression. This was the most impressive one in this program.  

ICT

November 10, 2022

“ICT” means Information and Communication Technology and refers to the combination of manufacturing and services industries that capture, transmit and display data and information electronically.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Schools was launched in December 2004 and revised in 2010 to provide opportunities to secondary-stage students to mainly build their capacity on ICT skills and make them learn through the computer-aided learning process.

ICT CELL's inauguration was held on November 10, 2022, in the college in general hall. But the workshop related to this program was conducted in the technology room. Praveena teacher and Jayakrishna teacher were the resource person of this program. The event was formally inaugurated by the lighting of a lamp by the Principal in the presence of the college academician, HOD, other staff members, and the students of GCTE. Revathy from the natural science department welcomed the gathering. 

The inaugural speech was given by the principal Santhosh Kumar. In his speech, he enlightened the minds of young hearts by delivering speeches based on the importance of ICT. 

The keynote address was given by Dr. Rajasree, the college academician and a natural science teacher. It was followed by a felicitation delivered by Praveena teacher. After that Jessy, the first BEd English department delivered the vote of thanks and the formal function came to an end.  

After the formal meeting, an orientation session was taken by Dr. Praveena Maheswary and Dr. Jayakrishna. The workshop session of this program was very informative to us because most of the students don't know how to make a google form, Google classroom, PowerPoint slides, etc. So it was a good session.

Triangle Tribute

December 19, 2022

 Association program Triangle Tribute was conducted by Mathematics Department. This program was conducted in conjunction with National Mathematics Day. Keerthana, the association coordinator, came up with this idea. They have given an instruction in this regard the previous day. The only condition was that, we should draw only triangle shape on the chart. 

Not only drawing in the chat, we can also make some shapes using the chart in the form of a triangle. They formed 5 groups of 10 each. Each group member got a chart and started drawing pictures with their ideas. This program started after three and a half. 

Our group drew a picture related to Christmas theme. Only the triangle was included in it. That's why we got third place for it. So we got Sharpner as a gift. 

Inauguration of Guidance Cell And Talk on Stress

December 9, 2022

The formal inauguration of the Guidance Cell 2022 at GCTE was held on December 09, 2022, at 11:00 am. by the Principal. This program started with a prayer song sung by Chinju S Nair. The principal delivered a welcome address. Falicitation of this program was delivered by our vice principal Dr. Joli S. This was followed by the lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries thereby officially inaugurating the Guidance Cell. The guidance cell program coordinator was Assistant Professor Asha Krishnan.

Our today's resource person was Shri Jithin Prem, psychology apprentice, Jeevani cell. He made a wonderful session by explaining about Stress. He also spoke about the importance of stress management. Keerthana from the physical science department proposed the vote of thanks. 

WORLD AIDS DAY 1 Dec 2022

December 1, 2022

World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. World AIDS Day 2022 is being marked under the theme Equalize.  

Today's program was organized by BIOSTAR, the Natural science Association at UGC hall. The UGC hall was decorated with red ribbons, charts, and banners.  Small pieces of red ribbons were provided to all as a symbol of AIDS. This program started with the arrival of the chief guest at 9:45 am. The program began with a prayer song sung by Gowry Venu. Pledge was executed by Rakesh. The anchoring was done by Kavya Sagar. Our Rajasree teacher welcomed the Resource person Sri Subathira. 

The purpose of this program was to make people aware of AIDS day. There was great enthusiasm among the student-teachers and they were looking highly spirited. It was a unique experience to be there.

The chief guest gave a very motivating speech on this occasion about the role of youth in the eradication of AIDS from this society. The program ended with a vote of thanks from the Student coordinator. She thanked the chief guest in name of the GCTE family and the student teacher for making the program a grand success.

Today I got an opportunity to draw a poster related to AIDS. So I am glad to do such things.