SCHOOL CLUBS
Sonshine School offers its students a wide variety of co-curricular activities such as music, board games, dance, dramatics, art, discipleship and even science club. It is mandatory for each student at Sonshine School to join at least one of the clubs.
CLUBS AT A GLANCE:
ART CLUB
Visual language is one of the vital ancient languages and plays a pivotal role in a student’s development. The study of art can be an outlet and can provide quite a few significant benefits to students. Art can relieve stress, which can be a new and intense emotion for secondary school students. Once ensconced in an art club, students may need to brainstorm for new activities to stoke their creative fires.
An art club is a place where students can practice the arts and hone their individual skills. From mixed medium to water color and traditional oil painting, students can find where their unique talents lie and explore new avenues of enrichment and expression.
Teens do collaborate with other artists in the school and further develop their techniques and learn new ones, expand their portfolio and more. Students are often required to work in small groups and learn to work together.
The art community is often tight knit. Students can create life-long, important relationships with others who share a thirst for art.
BOARD GAMES CLUB
Board games are games of mind and talent and are truly a sport for all. Playing board games is a great way to enhance your mental capabilities.
The Board Games Club aims to promote board games as a recreational activity that boosts strategic thinking skills and social interaction. Through playing games, students are able to cultivate a hobby which stimulates the mind towards proactive and rational thinking, encourages decision making skills given the challenging environment, and also inspires self-discipline since the games are time-bound in nature. This club is a platform for students with a common interest in board games to come together to have fun and to build relationships. Board games are intellectually stimulating and fun to play.
Students are equipped with basic skills and strategies for playing at different levels. Students who have achieved the required standards are encouraged to participate in competitions at inter-school and community level. Basic rules and regulations of the games are taught to those students who have had no previous experience.
DRAMA CLUB
Drama is a collaborative form of fine art that sees live performers presenting the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through a combination of gestures, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Keeping these traditions of drama in mind, the students of the Dramatics Club at Sonshine school meet every Thursday just like any other club to hone their thespian skills.
The students are introduced to drama and the evolution of stage through a presentation. Lessons on the art of dialogue delivery and the importance of pronunciation while rendering dialogues on stage are presented as well. All this is done to instill confidence in the members and also help them manage stage fright.
An art club is a place where students can practice the arts and hone their individual skills. From mixed medium to water color and traditional oil painting, students can find where their unique talents lie and explore new avenues of enrichment and expression.
Teens do collaborate with other artists in the school and further develop their techniques and learn new ones, expand their portfolio and more. Students are often required to work in small groups and learn to work together.
The art community is often tight knit. Students can create life-long, important relationships with others who share a thirst for art.
LITERARY CLUB
The Literary Club is a place for students with a passion for writing, reading, and creativity. Students converge to not only read and write but also discuss books and the craft of writing. Some members choose to share their writings during the meetings, therefore starting many discussions. At times they critique each other’s work and offer suggestions. Others make an oral presentation of the books they read. They speak about their favourite characters, important events and incidents in the book. Besides that, they speak about whether they recommended the reading of the book or not and why. The club also held group discussions about the books that had been read. In this manner, each child not only read several different books, but also learnt to appreciate different genres of writing. The club is founded on the creativity skills it takes to be a writer.
MUSIC CLUB
Music plays an important role in our lives as it soothes our problems and provides entertainment in certain way.
The Music club offers guidance and brings together any students who have the talent of singing or playing instruments to hone their skills. Members explore different types and styles of music and become a source of entertainment for the school community. Through performances at the music clubs students improve their talent and become confident to face masses and perform on big stages
MAJORETTE CLUB
The club enables students to display an understanding of expressions and rhythm. It helps them in developing a multifaceted physicality by way of providing training in various dance techniques
The club is open to one and all the female students, irrespective of whether they know to dance or not. The Majorette club believes that anybody can dance, and all you need is the heart to dance. Dance is a way to express one’s emotions and feelings.
SCIENCE CLUB
Self – expression, independent research, constructive activities, etc., are some of the opportunities provided by the science club. Students learn more through the activities and their own experiments and clarify general scientific concepts. The coordination between the classroom and the science club aid the students to complete their curriculum in a subtle way. Science club members also take part in yearly inter zonal JETS competitions in Lusaka Province.
DISCIPLESHIP CLUB
Discipleship Club is designed to help pupils explore the Bible and live out the Christian faith. The club provides a place for young people to ask deep questions and explore their faith. Material and resources are provided to offer guidance on key components of the club such as Bible Study and Bible lessons, devotionals and others. Above all, Christ if the centre of all the club’s activities.