This document summarizes the history and goals of Design For Change at the Panchayat Union Middle School in Koothakudi, Tamilnadu, India. The school was established in 1967 with 1 teacher and 12 students and was upgraded to a middle school in 2010, now having 6 teachers and 74 students. It discusses how the school previously lacked a playground but through the Design For Change program, the students identified this problem and worked to convert unused land within the school campus into a playground by taking action and working together. The conclusion states that the students successfully completed their project of creating a playground and demonstrated that anything is possible when you work as a team to solve problems in an innovative way.

1. Design For Change
Design For Change
Panchayat Union Middle School
Koothakudi

2. Kallal Union
Sivagangai District
Tamilnadu
Education

3. “By Education, I mean an all
– round drawing Out of the
best in the child and man –
body , mind and spirit”
- M.K.Gandhiji

4. History of Our
School
O
Our School was Established and
started in the year 1967 with 1 teacher
and 12 Students. The School was

5. Upgraded from Primary to Middle in
the Year 2010 . Now ,at present our
school has 6 Teachers and 74
Students.
Feel
Think For a Minute…….
Meaning of Education:
“ The Creation of Sound mind in a Sound body . Education
Should develop the body ( i.e ) the physical Capacities of the
mind which means his intellectual , emotional , moral and
Spiritual Values “ .

6. “ Education will be incomplete when there is no Physical
Development “
Our School is without a play
ground
Imagine…..

7. Unused Land – With in
Our School Campus
Do

8. Learning by Doing……
Unused Land Turning into a
Playground.

9. Share….
Conclusion
“Winners don’t do different things , but they do
things Differently.”
Nothing is impossible in the world when you
think it possible “
We identified Our problem, We believed it is
possible and We have done it “.
“Now We have a play ground of Our Own “

10. “I Sincerely thank Our School Headmistress
Mrs.Vasanthal , Staff , and my dear dedicative
Students for making an unused land into a
wonderful playground”
- A.Arul Dass
Thanking …..
M.A.B.Ed.,
English Teacher

11. P.U.M.School
Koothakudi
Kallal Union
Sivagangai Dist
Tamilnadu.