St. Xavier’s Public School (Senior Secondary, CBSE Affiliation No: 930590)
Primary School
Classes 1 to 4: Instilling the spark of knowledge in kids
Upper Primary School
Classes 5 to 8: Gains necessary skills and values
High School
Classes 9 to 10: Preparing to meet challenges and succeed
Higher Secondary School
Classes 11 to 12: Future-ready students with clear outlook
Swimming is a great workout because you need to move your whole body against the resistance of the water. Swimming is a good all-around activity because it: keeps your heart rate up but takes some of the impact stress off your body. builds endurance, muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness.
Advantages of Swimming
- Improves Social Well Being
- Teaches Goal Orientation
- Kids Become Active Adults
- Makes You Smarter
- Teaches Team-Building Skills
- Burns More Calories than Jogging
- Slows Down Aging
- Good for Asthma
- Confidence Booster
- A Sport that Requires Minimum Gear
Roller skating is the act of traveling on surfaces with roller skates. It is a recreational activity, a sport, and a form of transportation.
Benefits of roller-skating
- It burns calories
- It builds muscles
- It’s good for your heart
- It’s low impact
- It’s good for mental health too
Chess is one of the oldest and most popular board games. It is played by two opponents on a checkered board with specially designed pieces of contrasting colours, commonly white and black. The objective of the game is to capture the opponent’s king.
Benefits of playing chess
- Develops perspective
- Improves memory
- Deepens focus
- Elevates creativity
- Boosts planning skills
- Increases self-awareness
- Protects against dementia
- Helps ADHD
Karate, (Japanese: “empty hand”) unarmed martial-arts discipline employing kicking, striking, and defensive blocking with arms and legs. Emphasis is on concentrating as much of the body’s power as possible at the point and instant of impact.
Benefits of martial arts
- Teaches Self-Defense
- Building reflexes to stand up to a threat
- Builds Confidence
- Hones Leadership Skills
- Develops Character
- Encourages Self-Discipline
- Promotes Healthy Body and Weight
Music is a collection of coordinated sound or sounds. Making music is the process of putting sounds and tones in an order, often combining them to create a unified composition. People who make music creatively organize sounds for a desired result, like a Beethoven symphony or one of Duke Ellington’s jazz songs.
Benefits of learning music
- Improved well-being and enhancement of intellectual functions
- Breeding of new friendships
- Increased self-confidence, belief, discipline, and tolerance
- Heightened creativity
- Better connection and teamwork
Western music is a form of country music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada.
Characteristics of Western Music
- Fewer lyrical melodies than other periods
- Dissonant Harmonies
- Complex rhythms
- Percussiveness
- Greater use of percussion, brass, and woodwind
- Uses synthetic and electronic sounds
Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.
Health benefits of dancing
- Improved condition of your heart and lungs.
- Increased muscular strength, endurance and motor fitness.
- Increased aerobic fitness.
- Improved muscle tone and strength
- Weight management
- Stronger bones and reduced risk of osteoporosis
- Better coordination, agility and flexibility
Yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind and mundane suffering.
The power of yoga in school
- Reduces Stress And Anxiety
- Improves Memory And Attention Span
- Helps To Manage Weight
- Improves Flexibility, Balance And Posture
- Teaches Correct Breathing Techniques
- Promotes Mindfulness
- Encourages Self-Love And Self-Care
- Helps To Bring Peace Of Mind
Drawing and Painting is a human activity, and the resulting product involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
Great benefits of painting and drawing
- Improve Communication Skills
- Enhance Creativity
- Increase Emotional Intelligence
- Improve memory
- Self-esteem Booster
- Reduces Stress