Observation of World Mental Health Day in MVM
Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Senior Secondary School, Chetpet observed, “World Mental Health Day”, on 10th October’24. This was with an objective to promote positive mental wellbeing and to create an awareness on the importance of issues around mental health of our day to days lives. In order to make the students understand this objective, the school organised various events for classes 6-12. A chart was presented portraying various emotions, a short story with a theme based on various emotions and ways to handle them were presented by the students. The other programmes included a debate on, ‘Impacts of Social Media’, dance, Pantomime and creating placards. An ‘Emotion Board’ was kept with various emotions represented by specific colours. Parents were invited to express how they felt at the moment by painting their fingers with the colour that resonated with their current emotion and then imprinting it on the chart. The interactive exercise achieved the aim of creating awareness about emotional well-being and fostering an open and supportive environment for discussing feelings.