The Cultural Programme.
The school's largest performance event, staged in the multipurpose hall. The year's music, dance and drama build towards it.
Music, Dance and Drama run as regular activities through the year, and the programme is where they come together. The 2023 programme was the Elementary and Junior Section's; the 2024 programme has an album of its own.
In February 2024 a group dance team from the school took first position at the 13th Bangla Olympiad.
The date of the next programme is announced as a notice.
Albums and the event page
Pohela Boishakh.
The Bengali new year, 14 April, celebrated across the school and centred on the courtyard.
In April 2025 an alpona, a pattern painted on the ground, covered the courtyard floor. There were stalls with clay pots and crafts, dance for the new year, and the school came in red and white. A paper tiger mask and a red elephant, mounted on a board, were on show.
The album from April 2025 has the day in full.
Source: the school's album Pohela Boishakh 1432 and the home page.
The days the school marks.
Four days in the national calendar (three national days and the Bengali new year), in calendar order, and the Annual Milad. Each has its own page.
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Shaheed Dibosh and International Mother Language Day
Flowers are laid at a Shaheed Minar on the school field. The Ekushe February album
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Independence Day
The national day, marked with a school function and an art competition. The art competition album
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Pohela Boishakh
The Bengali new year, in the courtyard: the chapter above.
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Victory Day
Commemorated every year.
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Each year
The Annual Milad
A gathering for prayer and recitation, part of the school's calendar. Its date comes from the school.
Community service.
An ongoing practice at Playpen, and one of the events the school names as annual. Every year students serve their communities in one form or another, in four kinds of work the school lists.
Helping the poor and the needy.
Donating clothes during winter.
Volunteering with social organisations.
One album shows a visit to the residents of an old people's home.
Designing and building small homes for low-income families.
For senior students, service connects to the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, which the school lists among its programmes. On 14 October 2023 three Class IX students were first runners-up for Best Presentation
at an Eco-Schools programme session.
Source: the school's community service page and its list of student achievements, 2023. Names are left out.