The students and staff members of Kendiya Vidyalaya Pattom have dropped everything and read under the “Drop Everything And Read” (D. E. A. R.) campaign organized by the Readers’Club, on 8th February 2018.
DEAR, the whole school mass reading programme was formally inaugurated in the school assembly by S. Ajayakumar, Principal. The event began with a bell, alerting everyone to leave aside everything what they are doing and start reading exclusively for the following 30 minutes. Text books and They were asked to drop all their routine work and dedicate the time for extra reading. They could read any book besides their textbooks. The Readers’ club volunteers distributed reading material also.
The DEAR campaign was conceived to instill reading habit among the students and staff members and make the whole school to dedicate sometime for reading, keeping everything aside, said, S. L. Faisal, Librarian and coordinator of the programme.