How Have You Designed Your Bagless Days?

The National Education Policy 2020 (#NEP2020) recommends Bagless Days in schools — days that move away from textbooks and rote learning, and bring children closer to real-world experiences.

But here’s the real question for every school leader:

👉 Are our bagless days truly designed to unbox a child’s mind — or just to unburden their back?

 

🎯 The Purpose Behind Bagless Days

The NEP 2020 vision isn’t about “no books for a day.”

It’s about building skills for life — critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication — through play, projects, and practice.

When thoughtfully implemented, Bagless Days can:

• Encourage experiential learning beyond the classroom walls.
• Help teachers assess students through application, not memorization.
• Connect subjects to real-life experiences — maths at the playground, science in the kitchen, language in conversations.
• Strengthen teacher-student relationships by shifting roles from “instructors” to “facilitators.”

 

🧩 UNBOX by Launchspace — Helping Schools Bring Bagless Days to Life

At UNBOX by Launchspace, we design learning-through-play games and workshops that turn NEP 2020’s vision into everyday practice.

Our experiential toolkits — including Z Strategy Cards, Operation Endgame, and Design Thinking workshops (PAANCH SA Methodology – Suno, Socho, Samjho, Suljhao, Samjhao) — are being used by schools across India to:

• Conduct mathematics- and logic-based skill sessions without traditional textbooks.
• Run Design Thinking and ideation days for Grades 6–12.
• Organize “Fun Fridays” or “Unbox Days” as part of their Bagless Day calendar.
• Build teacher capacity to plan activity-based assessments and reflections.

Over 350+ schools and colleges have already experienced UNBOX sessions that align learning with fun, logic with imagination, and curriculum with creativity.

🏫 For Principals & Educators: A Framework to Design Bagless Days

Here’s a simple framework to make every Bagless Day purposeful:

Component	Purpose	Example with UNBOX
Theme	Anchor the day to a life-skill area	“Thinking Like a Designer” or, “Numbers Around Us”
Game/Activity	Replace lectures with structured play	Operation Endgame for arithmetic operations, Z Cards for integers & strategy
Group Challenge	Encourage teamwork & communication	Doodle Brawl for creativity and design thinking
Reflection	Capture learning outcomes	Short Samjhao sessions where students explain what they learnt through play

 

🌿 A Call to Action

As educators, we have the opportunity — and the responsibility — to make Bagless Days more than just “fun breaks.”

They can become powerful incubators of:

• Imagination
• Curiosity
• Collaboration
• Real-world learning

At UNBOX by Launchspace, we are partnering with schools to co-create Bagless Day programs that align with NEP 2020’s experiential learning goals — while keeping joy and curiosity at the heart of education.

If your school is planning Bagless Days this term, let’s collaborate to make them truly meaningful.

📩 Write to us or visit www.unboxgames.in to explore how our tools and workshops can help you unbox young minds.