The report on preperations

Our brainstorming/action plan

Our topic was Indian school culture. Daan was given the position as leader of the group, and Vicky
and I were the members. We were each given our own tasks. Daan decided to write most of the
script and edit the video, Vicky was going to voice over the script, I was given the task of collecting
video footage for out documentary.

Our show's script

let's talk about Indian school culture:

Very long time ago there wasn't really any official school structure, instead people would go to wise
people with a lot of knowledge known as guru's, the student would live with the guru and help with
everyday tasks, in return the guru would teach them whatever they wanted, from Sanskrit to holy
scriptures, from basic math to metaphysics, the journey of learning was closely linked to nature and
life and went far beyond simple memorization of facts.

Currently india's school system is one of the largest in the world, having to manage a population of
1.3 billion people, however it ranks in the top 40 of school systems worldwide, however only 70% of
children attend public schools, and because attendance is poorly enforced only about 50% of
children actually go to school.

India's school system is often referred to as a 10+2+3 system, meaning the first decade is mandatory,
usually until age 14, after which the student can choose to continue or stop it

At age 5 students will usually go to a form of preschool, followed by lower primary school at age 6-
10, then upper primary from 11-13, from here the student can choose to stop or keep going to
secondary school at age 14-16 and finally upper secondary at age 17-18.

The preschool isn't mandatory, but most parents choose to send their children there anyway.

Most Indian children get sent to public schools even though private ones are also accessible. The
reason behind this is that public schools have better facilities.

Most primary schools choose to educate children in Hindi, the official language of India. Some teach
their children in one of Indias 122 local dialects. The second official language of India is English.

The grades 9 until 12 make up their secondary school. This is entirely funded by the government. The
common subjects in Indian secondary school include 3 main courses: English, the local dialect, and
one more elective subject. Other subjects incorporate math, science, tech, art, social sciences, and
physical education, there are also extracurricular activities such as aerobics, dance, as well as more
PE or art, there are also some fests like Ibri and Delhi.

Most schools start their years in april and continue to may, but some schools start in june and go
through to may, or sometimes July until may.

Questions:

Why have we decided to choose our topic?

We eventually chose for the topic Indian school culture because this interested us most out of all the
topics. We first had some difficulty choosing our topic since all options were quite appealing. After
some discussing, we had made our final choice. Our topic being the most interesting to us was not
the only reason for our choice. We personally felt a lot more drawn in by school culture in India. We
felt like there was a lot of information available on the school culture in India. In the end, we were all
rather content with our choice and our script.

Translation of the script in English

Our script is already written in English.

Research about the topic/communication with your partner group about this topic

We used multiple websites to find out how the school system in India looks like. We actually made
use of the online meet with our partner school an asked questions about their school system, so we
gained more knowledge about the topic.

Description of the studio

As studio or anything fancy was not necessary for our TV show since we made a documentary. This
made things a lot easier for us and we could work from home.

The actual recording of the TV show

The recording part of our documentary itself was surprisingly easy. We had Vicky narrate our script, I
found the footage and sent it to Daan, he created the video.

Editing of the video(subtitles)

As was mentioned previously, Daan created and edited our documentary.

How we communicated within our group

We communicated via WhatsApp, where we had a group chat dedicated to our project. We filmed
our introduction video on school grounds. That was also the only time we actually met up for
something regarding EU mind. In general, we worked from home.

Daan Vos, Vicky Piotrowska, Naël van Schaik, v3b