A Visit to Parle G Biscuit Factory By TJIS, Kanpur On Tuesday, 23rd April, 2018
Nothing beats an exciting hands-on-experience to deepen learning. The magic of a field trip is not just the subject. It’s the break in routine and the adventure that opens up children’s minds to new things
A Visit to Parle G Biscuit Factory
By TJIS, Kanpur
On Tuesday, 23rd April, 2018
There are many ways to educate a child. School Field Trip is one such effective educational activity for students that helps facilitate fast and effective learning. Instead of just reading and writing in the classroom, schools are taking the effort to offer creative learning to students through educational field trips. Field Trips are important to help bridge the gap between education and hands-on experience. However, students have an educational experience that they never could have had in the classroom.
The students from classes 3rd to 12th of The Jain International School had a propitious visit to the Parle Biscuit Factory at Dada Nagar, Kanpur on Tuesday, 24th April, 2018. Parle G (the G in which incidentally stands for GENIUS) is one of the oldest biscuit brands in India and the largest selling biscuit in the world
The children were very excited on the bus ride from the school to the factory. On entering the premises, the students were taken to the auditorium where they enjoyed a documentary related to the origin of the brand ‘PARLE’, its founder and various products manufactured by Parle. Soon after, an official took the students to the manufacturing unit, where students got to know about various processes like kneading, mixing, shaping, baking, cooling to the final stage of packing. The students were also shown the printing section. Overall, it was an informative, knowledgeable and memorable trip for the students. It was an introduction to the world of manufacturing, made even more palatable by the packets of biscuits distributed at the end. It is really important for us to know where the products they eat come from. The children will have many stories to tell when they got home.
However, the school field trips give equal opportunity to the students to experience things outside the classroom and inspire them to take quantum leap when it comes to facing challenges of the present and the future.
‘Creativity is now as important in education as learning’
