An educational expert confirmed that it improves the psychological state and mood of students
Schools use 'recreational activities' to ease pre-exam stress
Fun activities included a day for "future careers" and educational games. From the source
Dr. Ahmed Eid: "Recreational activities are important in the educational process, and it is necessary for schools to resort to them throughout the year."
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Private schools have allocated the period before the end of the third semester exams to hold a number of recreational activities for students, with the aim of relieving pressure on them in terms of classroom activities and revisions, as well as holding activities for kindergarten children and first-cycle students, to enhance their ambition, and provide them with the opportunity to explore future careers.
An educational expert stressed that recreational activities relieve pressure on students, enable them to continue their learning better, and improve the psychological and mood of students.
A private school announced the organization of the "Future Careers" day for first and second grade students, noting that choosing a future major is a difficult decision, but thinking about it and discovering the things we love is important, because it leads us towards the right direction to choose what we deem appropriate from the specialization in the future.
The school asked students questions in an announcement about what job he wants to fill when he grows up, the reason behind that choice, and how the child can achieve his goal, inviting them to come to school in the uniform of the job they want to work in the future to participate in the "Future Career Day".
Another school opened a week of curricular and extracurricular mathematics activities, which includes a number of educational and recreational games, and a number of competitions between different grades and stages of the school.
A private school in Sharjah organized an entertaining day called "Career Day" for kindergarten students, especially as such activities help children think about what they want to work in the future, and enhance their ambition.
In turn, a private school launched the Little Scientific Expert Day, where young children rely on themselves to present various scientific projects in various sciences within the school's laboratories.
Another private school organised the first-grade pet shop, a multidisciplinary activity where children can apply what they have learned in English, math, science, arts and social studies.
For his part, educational expert Dr. Ahmed Eid said that recreational activities are an important part of the educational process, and it is necessary for schools to resort to them continuously throughout the year, not only in the pre-exam period, because of the repercussions of utmost importance on students.
He added to "Emirates Today" that recreational activities help relieve pressure on students continuously, enable them to continue their educational programs better, improve the psychological state and mood of students, open the way for them to foresee the future, and contribute to improving students' preparation for exams as they approach.
He continued: «As for children and young people, they do not have exams, so recreational activities help them adapt to the school environment, create a permanent readiness for them to learn, as well as enhance motivation to anticipate the future, and define a future vision of what the student can reach after graduation, as is the case in future career activities».
Eid pointed out that such activities do not benefit the student only at the time, because the student begins to prepare for such activities early by buying the clothes and tools necessary for the activity, which stimulates his mind and helps him think about how to appear and look at the models that he seeks to emulate in the future, stressing that recreational activities are one of the important measures for evaluating schools, and therefore holding them continuously throughout the year is one of the measures of the success of schools.