Hyderabad School introduces Happy Hour

Hyderabad: City's St Peter's International Residential School located at Dhulapally introduced recently "Happy Hours", between 3 pm to 3.30pm every day for more than 280 students in the school. They have a school radio called "Happy Hour".

Children sing, speak, recite poetry, tell jokes, give amusing facts, information during that hour on their School Radio. Students sit in their class and listen to them. Thus they want to break the monotony of studies from 9 am to 4 pm and refresh students.

Happiness is evading all of us because of various reasons. Whatever may be the reasons, but, nowadays Governments, Private Organisations IT Companies and Schools have set up special ministries, departments, specially designated staff, training, and classes in pursuit of happiness.

We have heard of a school in Delhi doing the same thing. And we are only following that small thought of their shares Saroja Reddy, Director of St Peter's International Residential School.

Mayur, a student of the tenth class says, it is boring to have classes after classes right from morning to evening. We look for a break. And the Happy Hour came as big sigh of relief from the mundane school schedule.

Noura, "their Egyptian teacher time to break from the routine is what children look for in pursuit of their happiness in the school. A new piece of information, an amusing fact, a wow factor, playing with friends, being on their own for a while, all these are what I observed students look for."

Noura hosts the Happy Hour Radio program besides teaching English and Communications to the students Students life is full of stress. Getting ready, travel to school, doing homework, performance, parents and peers pressure, lack of physical activity, all these add up to our stress level. I listen to music. Read books and beat the stress and make my life happy, she adds.

For those students who can't deal with their stress, periods like Happy Hours, come as a whiff of fresh air, she adds. Hemanth echoes with his friends. We must learn by playing. I need playfulness in whatever I do. We learn more. We must learn by doing. Then we not only learn but also beat stress and be happy, he states.

Are you happy if you are qualified to go to the next class without writing exams? they say no. We need exams. They are fine. But, there shouldn't be pressure to perform better than others. No parents want less than 100 marks. How is it possible? He questions. Even if you get 100 out of 100, what will you do with those marks? Marks and Grades won't change your life. Your personality, he says.

Everybody wants to be happy, but happiness is evading most of us. UAE and Bhutan are the two countries which have introduced the Happiness Index in their countries. They Happiness Ministries. Madhya Pradesh has set up Happiness Department. Andhra Pradesh in the past was thinking of setting up of Happiness Commissionerate.

Many Corporate Houses and IT Companies have created a new post called Happiness Officers, People Officer etc. Now it is the turn of the schools to have happy hour. Lodge Keys No. 297, a primary wing of Freemasonry has a unique theme for their Silver Jubilee Year, "Be The Reason, Someone Smiles".

Several Bars do have Happy Hours. But, they are for a different purpose. Why happiness is so important? Between money and Happiness, what do you prefer first? Between good health and money, what do you choose? Between a good post with a lot of stress or no post and happiness, what do you choose? The answer invariably is Happiness.

We need money, property, relationships, comforts and even things of luxury. But, what extra do we get being happy? Why does happiness matter? Happiness is much more than. That is the reason why we need happiness in our life. Happiness doesn't just feel good. Happiness doesn't give you success. But, happy people are more successful across many areas of life – marriage, friendship, income, work, charity, and health says TV Reddy, Secretary and Correspondent. St Peter's Engineering College.

Adds Saroja Reddy, Happiness relates to how we feel. Feel good factor is very important. A world full of comforts and luxuries, also have full of hatred. That is why Happiness is evading. It is for us to search for happiness in whatever we are doing. While falling is inevitable, don't forget to enjoy nature while falling, said a Himalayan climber.

It is up to us, how we keep our life contended. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." Be happy with what you have, be excited about what you want that is what I tell my students. Whoever is happy will make others happy, we need to nurture this unique quality in children right from a young age.

They will make the whole world happy when they grow up and start living their future life. Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain. But, you can't have a rainbow without a little rain. Happiness is enjoying little things in life, Saroja Reddy adds.