Dear Parents,
My greetings of the season!
We are in the thick of the academic year, with myriad events and activities unfolding everyday on the School calendar. It's an exciting time and the students are happy and charged up for new challenges!
We began the new term with athumping class 12 and class 10 result! For class 12 ( batch 2016-17), we achieved a batch average of 90% marks, standing tall amongst schools of Delhi-NCR for 3 years in succession. We had 13 cases of a perfect 100 score.
We believe the average score achieved is the finest indicator of the effort gone in to lift the levels of the weakest in the class. We believe that it is when the weakest links lighten, can the class be held aloft.
In class 10, 17 children achieved 10 CGPAs. We are naturally proud.
The summer holidays had the School administration working overtime to get the infrastructure in best order for the children. Air conditioning has been upgraded in several areas of School, like the computer lab, auditorium, library etc. Power lines have been reviewed and distribution improved, new classrooms organised, as also 2 large new halls with ample lights, fans and natural ventilation. Numerous extra close circuit cameras and a battery of new fire safety systems have been added for better surveillance and safety on the School campus.
On the inter-school competitions front, our students have been making their presence in a big way. They have carried back the rolling trophy at several inter school events, besides countless other group and individual prizes. Some of the honours carried back since April are as follows.
Our School lifted the Rolling Trophy at QUEST, an inter-school competition held at Air Force School on 25 and 26 April 2017.
At the 3rd National Roller Skating Meet, 2017 held at Bawana from 29th May to 1st June 2017, also our children brought home the Overall Trophy.
Our School basketball team lifted the Silver at the 3rd Students Olympic International Games held near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 30 June to 3 July 2017.
At the inter-school Indian Music Competition at St. Thomas School, Mandir Marg on 25 July 2017 our team took the Overall Best School award, besides many individual prizes.
Each year during the summer break, School organises internship programmes for class XI students. This gives students a hands'- on experience of working in a field they feel inclined to choosing for a career. This year, internships were arranged with NDTV, Pearl Academy, Catch ( manufacturing), ITDC, IIIT DELHI, Hope Foundation, a CA firm and Moolchand Medicity.
This month we are feverishly busy gearing up for the prestigious The Indian School-Girton College ( Cambridge) Essay Writing Competition 2017, that we are hosting this year, alongside our annual Dr. Amidas Goradia Debate. We first collaborated with Girton College at Cambridge University, UK, in 2008, when we hosted the essay competition for the first time. We are delighted that schools from several cities across the country have registered to participate. Both the Debate and the Essay competitions have now become national level school events.
As you know the Annual Exhibition is just past us on 12 August. As customary at our School, this is our annual homage on the occasion of Independence Day. We strongly believe that strides of science and thought are what will truly free our motherland in the modern world. Here, students across the levels, spared no study or spontaneity to celebrate the brief. Each exhibitor strived to work one notch more than his neighbour! The energy was infectious across the exhibition and we sat back to observe with fulfilment, this spectacular sample of our citizens of tomorrow.
We recently also hosted AEON 3.0, an inter-school IT competition on 10 August 2017 for our young technocrats. Here our alumni joined hands to design an 'edutaining' ( education through entertainment) contest, incorporating exciting aspects of IT. The response was large like the previous years and the contest was keen between top Schools of Delhi/ NCR.
An invaluable aspect of our School is the opportunity given to students to be widely exposed to the world in general. Perhaps you are aware that our School chairman, Mr. Prafull Goradia regularly spares time for lively interactions with the children across the age groups ( classes 4 to 12) on interesting issues. The subjects are varied like The Purpose of education, Partition, Secularism, How to write a book, Naziism, etc. He feels strongly that the children must be exposed, age- appropriately, to ideas and happenings beyond their School curriculum. They must know and question and thereby grow holistically, is his belief and thereby our School ethos.
To entreat more students to engage with sport, School has now empanelled the Chetan Chauhan Cricket Academy, the MV Bisht Academy of Badminton and The Royal Sports' Basketball Academy to train students.
The School eco park has been occupied with the planting of an urban forest by students. Over 500 Indigenous species clubbed with shrubs have been planted in July. A herbal garden, lotus pond and a butterfly park are on the anvil. By turn the children have been visiting the eco park for a special breath of ' fresh farm air' and a feel of the earth. They plant new foliage, pick vegetables, have a hand at the life size Physics' models in the science park and happily languor in the company of the rabbits, geese, ducks and fish, amidst the flush of flora and fauna.
The Citizenship Programme has been active with Spotfixing of vandalised public spaces beneath the Moolchand Flyover and on Ring Road. They have also been empowering young girls with the skills of candle making at the Vocational Training Centre of Palna ( NGO) in Dakshinpuri.
Come September, exams/ assessments will be upon us. Once again extra curricular activities will temporarily take a back seat as revisions get underway.
Here I would like to remind parents that the children must be encouraged to participate in one or other extra curricular activity. There are countless opportunities to choose from. Unless the children sample options, they do not recognise what they like doing best. Discovering aptitudes is a fundamental responsibility of our School and for this a manifold palette of activities is on offer, to choose from. Indian and western dance and music ( vocal and instrumental), drama, elocution, debate, quiz, craft, citizenship, outdoor games ( basketball, football, cricket, judo, athletics, throwball etc), indoor games ( chess, table tennis), yoga, botany, etc.
One word of caution. Please ensure the children are well covered in the dengue season. Full sleeved School shirts and the School trousers is recommended, ideally with a mosquito repellant dabbed on too. On our part we fumigate the School every evening.
As usual, banking upon your cooperation and with my best wishes,
........................................ Ms. Tania Joshi, Principal.
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