Explain how co-curricular activities in school can forge friendly relations among diverse students.

Explain how co-curricular activities in school can forge friendly relations among diverse students.The PresentersSiti Nur Fatin bt Mohd DarusNur Syahirah Md NasirNurul Atiqah Mohd JaafarWhat is co-curricular-activities?Co-curricular activities (CCAs) earlier known as Extracurricular Activities (ECA) are the components of non-academic curriculumthat helps to develop various personality development of the child and students. For all-round development of the child, there is a need of emotional, physical, spiritual and moral development that is complemented and supplemented by Co-curricular Activities.How co-curricular activities in school can forge friendly relations among diverse students?By making the students to corporate with one another in all the activities.Making the students to be in different group for each activities.The Co-Curricular Activities programme also promotes social integration, by providing avenues for students from different social and racial backgrounds to engage in the same activities. Students train side by side in sports, organise club activities in committees, and participate actively in house competitions. In the process, they get to know one another better and learn to support one another in their common endeavour. This enriches students' social experiences and enables them to have a better understanding of the spectrum of our society.Successful co-curricular programs encourage the development of friendships, a sense of belonging, enhanced intellectual awareness, improved academic performance, an appreciation of different perspectives, and close interaction with organisation and its members Organize an activity that will make the students to explore about others culture as well as theirs.Organize an event for each festivals so that the students will get to know each others festivals.Conducting a forum about each others culture.Making the students to have two-way interaction among themExamples of activitiesThere are numerous examples of how our schools have been able to foster comradeship, and to foster closer rapport among students of various ethnic backgrounds. Schools within the same cluster can also come together to organise joint projects and activities.

Schools on their own have also embarked on various initiatives to knock down barriers between students of different races. A primary school in KL sets up a multi-racial "gamelan" Malay Cultural Ensemble Group. Another secondary school, encourages its Malay and Indian students to learn Chinese calligraphy and Chinese painting.