Apeejay School, Saket hosted it’s annual inter-school competition, ‘Chunauti’ on 26 April, 2012. The occasion comprised competitions in dance, drama, art, music, computers and vegetable/ fruit carving.

Students from our School participated in vigour with the motive of learning and as well as pitching to pick up a prize. Tejasvi Arneja and Devika Gupta of class 11 chose to contest in the section of the competition, named ‘ veggie art’. They were given a task of creating any 4 animals from vegetables and fruit. The students underwent training in the art department for basic carving skills. At the event the students created an underwater scene showing several sea creatures happy together in their habitat. Thankfully, without gender issues or caste ones! Infact Tejasvi and Devika made a convincing case to take the second prize competing with 36 other schools! D.P.S Vasant Kunj came first and Tagore International followed us at third position. The experience was an elation for it’s win and it’s learning.

As filed by Ms. Atiya, accompanying art teacher.

On 7 May 2012, Amrita Dutta, class 12, Gaurav Aswani, 11, Pavas Navani, 11, Palak Aneja, 10 and Ojasvi Jain 10 attended a concluding workshop under the auspices, as above, organised by CBSE and Expressions’ India at the National Science Center. The participants were to be felicitated for their involvement in the 6-month long workshop and Wellness Summit. The event was presided over by Dr. Jitendra Nagpal, mentor and guide during the entire session, and Ms. Sadhana Parasher, Education Officer, CBSE.

The 4 hour long convocation included the awards of certificates and Peer Educator badges as also a long and interactive discussion on varied topics ranging from anger-management to sexual health. Inputs were received from Dr.Nagpal as well as from the students and isues that had been raised in the preceding sessions were carried to comfort and constructive conclusion here.

We, as Peer Educators of The Indian School, took a pledge to act as moderators at  our School and help our friends and classmates to resolve issues for which we have been trained. We also worked out strategies to spread awareness in our respective schools specifically on substance-buse, sexual health, risk-taking behaviour, disturbed family relationships, anger-management, peer-pressure, first aid etc. We came back with a confidence and conviction of making a difference.

As reported by Amrita Dutta, class 12C.

On 22 April, our students exhibited enthusiam and spontaneous participation in the various competitions organised at the National Science Centre on the occasion of Earth Day. 24 students from classes 6 – 9 participated in the different competitions. accompanied by their teachers. Quiz, Painting and Essay writing were offered and were all set upon the theme of Climatic changes’ and Mother Earth.

Several important personalities associated with the Centre also enlightened the participants and reinforced the responsibility of their generation towards Mother Earth.

Other participating schools were Bal Bharti, Army Public School, Noida, Mahavir Senior Model School among many others. Our Arunima Bhutani, 9C and Urja Chhabra, 9A took first and second positions in the essay writing competition respectively!

Participating Indianites were

Essay-Writing: Mehar Kaur 9C, Pranati Haldi 9B, Ritwik Arora 9A;

Painting: Snigdha Verma  9A, Jhanvi 9A, Raunaq 9C, Tushar Bhalla 9C, Jasmine Wadhera 8A, Siddhart Mehra 8B, Gunika Bhalla 8C, Anoushka Anand 8C, Akshat Choudhary 8B, Shreya Sinha 8C;

Open House Quiz: Samarth Saxena 6C, Yuvakshi Narang 6A, Manav Arora 7A, Kshitij Mohan 7B, Aanshaj Gupta 7C, Niket 7D, Ritwik Arora 8C, Swapnil  8C, Pratishtha Kohli  8B, Bhavna Arora 8B.

As filed by Ms. Farzana Zafar, teacher.