CBSE comes out with parenting calendar
Aiming to foster stronger bonds between parents, students and schools, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday launched its parenting calendar for the 2025-26 academic session.
The CBSE’s initiative aligns with the National Education Policy (NEP) and aims to promote student well-being by empowering schools, educators and parents to recognise and nurture each child’s unique strengths. It believes the calendar will encourage holistic development of students.
The calendar aims to strengthen parent-teacher partnerships and promote open dialogue to enhance student outcomes for holistic development.
By implementing this calendar, schools can expect to foster collaborative relationships between parents and students.
Grade-wise activities for holistic development
- Nursery and kindergarten: Storytelling, music, puzzles
- Grades 1-2: Outdoor learning, traditional games and STEM-based challenges
- Grades 3-5: Science experiments, cultural activities and role-reversal days
- Grades 6-8: Skill swaps, collaborative projects and sustainability challenges
- Grades 9-10: Career mentoring, digital detox activities and arts participation
- Grades 11-12: Career guidance, financial literacy and family value discussions
CBSE Secretary Himanshu Gupta said the board gave a lot of importance to parenting.
“There are three layers in education—principal, teachers and parents. If we want to give holistic education, it is important that parents get to know about their duties and rights and what sort of interaction schools should have with parents. If schools start engaging with parents in a healthy manner, we believe that a lot of positive engagement will happen. The CBSE gives a lot of importance to academics and curriculum and we feel that parents play a very important role in a child’s co-curricular activities. So parents, teachers and students have to come on a common positive platform,” Gupta said.
Anuradha Joshi, Principal of Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and convener of the committee that was formed to design parenting calendar, said educators were aware that to work efficiently, continuous dialogue between various stakeholders was imperative.
“This committee was tasked to build a framework for the parenting calendar. We drafted a survey form to seek information from parents and schools to add to our own information. The survey sought to enlist as to what kind of interventions would be beneficial and what kind of support would help schools, parents and teachers,” she said.
