On the occasion of the second anniversary of the NEP 2020 ,CBSE has announced the CBSE Budding Authors Programme in partnership with Central Square Foundation, Pratham Books ’StoryWeaver and National Book Trust. The CBSE Budding Authors Programme aims to provide students a platform to engage in different types of stories and learning to write effectively. Five (5 ) short stories are published in the CBSE portal under Budding Authors Programme.
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The Bhufesto is India’s biggest storytelling festival that celebrates the best storytellers from around the world and folk performers from India.
The festival director of Bhufesto 2023 was Sujit Mahaptra, the founder and Volunteer of Bakul Foundation, which has been trying to promote reading by setting up libraries, publishing children’s book and organizing storytelling events.
Cadets of Sainik school Bhubaneswar had attended the Bhufesto Bhubaneswar Storytelling festival 2023 on 14 and 15 of January. A total of 93 cadets from classes 6 to 9 have witnessed the mesmerizing performances of storytellers from different countries of world .
Cadets had immensely enjoyed the puppetarian show.Stories were narrated in English, Hindi and Odia languages.The colorful appearances of the storytellers had created a beautiful atmosphere. Everyone had been immersed in imagination and reached to a different world.Every Storytellers has a unique way to tell their stories from different land. Some of them depicted their story with pictures while others used some instruments and music to tell their tale. As an outcome our cadets also learned to express themselves in various ways
“The one who tells the story rules the world”
Cadets are using Hand-Puppets for telling the stories to make their stories more lively and expressive
Cbse has launched the Budding Author Programme 2022.This is a two phased program.Six of our cadets selected for the second phase.Five among them submitted their stories in online platform.Their stories got published online under Storyweaver community.
Glimpses of Phase I of Budding Authors which was conducted in School
Cadet Priya Ranjan Nayak of class 7B receiving an appreciation certificate from the Principal, Sainik School Bhubaneswar as his art work makes a place on the cover page of the special issue of ‘The Hindu in School’ published on 26 June 2022.
Cadet Priyanshu Satyapragyana Rout of class 8A receiving appreciation certificate from the Principal Sainik School Bhubaneswar for writing maximum articles in ‘The Hindu in school e-paper’
Cadets were appreciated for their excellent work of writing and publishing journals in the ‘Hindu in school’ children magazine by his excellency the Governor of Odisha Shri Ganeshi Lal during his visit to the school
Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.
——Ayn Rand
Cadet Vinayak Kumar’s article published in The Hindu in school magazine dated 28 November 2021. His entry is selected on the topic “My favourite negative character would be…..” . Let us see what Vinayak says about the villain without a nose!!!!!
Artwork on the topic:”If i could change one thing/ending of my favourite book , it would be……” by Ansuman Mohapatra class VIA published in ‘The Hindu in School’ Dated 07.11.21.
Artwork by cadet Arpit Abhishek Pradhan published in ‘The Hindu young world’ dated 05/11/2021
Article written by the cadets Omm Kumar Sahu and Tushara Kanta Sahu on the birth anniversary of Dr. A.P.J Kalam published in ‘The Hindu young world’ dated 10/10/2021.
Sainik School Bhubaneswar Library 