Can extra-curriculum activities ever integrate the class to make it more interesting and lively? The use of teaching extensions can create a school culture to which students; teachers and even the parents will form part. Some private schools have already started with the use of teaching extensions. One example is that of the International Preparatory School (IPS). The school organized a scenario, which the students were unaware of, on their literacy day. To bring light to what was happening, some policemen, scientists and a journalist were invited to the school to investigate the matter. The students were also asked to write about the event. The scenario was made to look so real that the children could never imagine that, beside the literacy day, it was also an ?April?s fool? scenario organized by the school.

In State schools, the use of simple as well as special acts and activities to make the class livelier is left to the teacher?s personal choice. ?The teacher must not only restrict to books and to himself. This will break the monotony as well as enrich the students. However, there are some teachers in State schools who think it is a waste of time as there is already a fixed curriculum ?, says Leela Roy, a teacher at Queen Elizabeth College.

Where many students have been uninterested with the formal, boring and even frightening classes at schools, the use of teaching extensions can really change the situation. Students will be more interested in a dynamic and fun class while developing a good relationship with teachers and a sense of belonging to the school. Change is really going to do good both to teachers and learners.