10 Lines on Children's Day in English for Students

10 Lines on Children's Day in English for Students

Three sets of ten lines on Children's Day are below, for different classes, plus a set of 10 lines on Chacha Nehru. Start with the set that matches the age of the speaker, not the one that sounds most impressive. A Class 2 child saying short sentences clearly will always do better than one stumbling through long words.

Children's Day 2026 falls on Saturday, 14 November.

10 lines on Children's Day: Classes 1 to 3

Short words, short sentences. This set takes about forty seconds to say.

1. Children's Day is celebrated on 14 November.
2. It is the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
3. He was the first Prime Minister of India.
4. He loved children very much.
5. Children called him Chacha Nehru.
6. He liked to wear a rose on his coat.
7. Our school has a special programme on this day.
8. Our teachers sing and dance for us.
9. We play games and share sweets.
10. Happy Children's Day to all my friends!

10 lines on Children's Day: Classes 4 and 5

A little more detail. About a minute.

1. Children's Day is celebrated in India every year on 14 November.
2. It is also called Bal Diwas.
3. The day marks the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who was born in 1889 in Allahabad.
4. He became the first Prime Minister of India in 1947.
5. He was very fond of children, and they lovingly called him Chacha Nehru.
6. He believed that children are the future of the country.
7. He wanted every child to go to school and to have time to play.
8. On this day schools hold programmes, games and competitions.
9. In many schools, teachers perform songs and skits for their students.
10. Children's Day reminds us that every child deserves a happy childhood.

10 lines on Children's Day: Classes 6 to 8

For a student who can handle longer sentences. About a minute and a half.

1. Children's Day, or Bal Diwas, is celebrated across India on 14 November, the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
2. Nehru was born in 1889 at Allahabad, now Prayagraj, and studied at Harrow and Cambridge in England.
3. He joined the freedom movement under Mahatma Gandhi and spent more than nine years in British prisons.
4. When India became independent on 15 August 1947, he became its first Prime Minister and served until his death in 1964.
5. In 1928 he wrote a series of letters to his ten-year-old daughter Indira, later published as Letters from a Father to His Daughter.
6. Children loved him, and he is still remembered as Chacha Nehru.
7. He believed that the way a nation brings up its children decides its future.
8. Children's Day was already being celebrated on his birthday in the 1950s, while he was Prime Minister.
9. Schools mark the day with special assemblies, cultural programmes, games and competitions.
10. The day reminds us that every child has a right to education, safety and a happy childhood.

10 lines on Chacha Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru)

For when the topic is Nehru himself rather than the day.

1. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad.
2. His father, Motilal Nehru, was a well-known lawyer.
3. He studied in England and returned to India in 1912.
4. He joined Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for India's freedom.
5. In 1929, as Congress president at Lahore, he led the call for complete independence, or Purna Swaraj.
6. He was sent to prison many times for taking part in the freedom movement.
7. He wrote the famous book The Discovery of India while in prison.
8. He became the first Prime Minister of India on 15 August 1947.
9. He died on 27 May 1964, after nearly seventeen years as Prime Minister.
10. His birthday, 14 November, is celebrated as Children's Day.

The hard words, explained

If a younger child is saying these, check they know what the words mean. A word said confidently but not understood is obvious from the audience.

• Chacha: Hindi for uncle (a father's younger brother). Children used it as an affectionate name for Nehru.
• Bal Diwas: Hindi for Children's Day. Bal means child and diwas means day.
• Prime Minister: the head of the government of India.
• Birth anniversary: the birthday of someone who is no longer alive.
• Purna Swaraj: complete self-rule, or full independence. Say it POOR-na swa-RAAJ.
• Independence: being free to rule yourself.

How to rehearse ten lines

Ten lines feel easy, which is exactly why they go wrong. The child races through them in twenty seconds and sits down before anyone has heard a word.

• Practise out loud, not in your head. Three times is the minimum.
• Put a finger down for each line. Ten fingers, ten lines. It gives a nervous speaker something to hold on to and stops lines being skipped.
• Breathe at every full stop. Not a dramatic pause, just one breath. It slows the whole thing to the right speed.
• Say the last line more slowly than the rest. That is the one the audience remembers.
• Practise the greeting separately. "Good morning, everyone" is where most young speakers freeze, because it is the first thing out of the mouth.

When a child can say ten lines comfortably, the 1-minute Children's Day speech is the natural next step: about 130 words in short paragraphs, with a greeting and a clear ending already written in. For a Hindi-medium class, the बाल दिवस पर भाषण page has 10 lines in Hindi with their English meaning.

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