Our Young Champions: Basketball - Under 14 (Girls)
Shiv Nadar School, FBD hosted its very first Under 14 Girls (Sub Junior) District Basketball Championship on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th July, 2019 organized by the Basketball Federation of India.
A total of 11 teams participated in this tournament:
- DAV Sector- 14, Faridabad
- Vidya Mandir School, Sector -15, Faridabad
- Delhi Public School, Sector - 81, Faridabad
- Bansi Vidya Niketan
- Modern Vidya Niketan, Sector- 17, Faridabad
- Delhi Public School, Sector - 19, Faridabad
- Modern Vidya Niketan, Aravali hills, Faridabad
- Grand Columbus school
- St. Anthony's School
- DAV, Ballabhgarh
- Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad
We won the finals against St. Anthony’s Secondary School with a scorecard of 35 – 8. Suhana Gupta was adjudged as the Most Valuable Player and Paavani Goel as the Most Promising Player. We played against DAV- Sector 14 in the qualifying round (Score: 24- 10) and against Bansi Vidya Niketan in the Semi-Finals (Score: 48 – 16).
7 girls from our school are selected for the District Faridabad Camp.
1. Suhana Gupta
2. Paavani Goyal
3. Ada Khemka
4. Saadhya Gaur
5. Siddhi Mayank
6. Shreya Garg
7. Kyra Gupta
It was delightful to watch our young scholars play with complete dedication and true sportsmanship. The atmosphere was electric with the cheers of the students, parents and the enthusiasm of the participants. Kudos to our coaches Mr. Jagdev Singh and Ms. Raspreet Sidhu for there constant support and guidance to children to put their best game forward. Congratulations!
A Budding Shooter
It gives us immense pleasure to share that Viraj Singh Goel, student of Grade 4, has won GOLD Medal in the "Air Rifle NR Under 12 Men’s Category” organized by the prestigious Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Memorial Shooting Championship 2019, held from 12th June to 15th June in Delhi.
Viraj secured 393 points out of 400. Currently, Viraj is attending a Shooting Camp at Jaspal Rana Institute of Education & Technology in Dehradun, Uttrakhand, a distinguished institute for Physical Education and Sports.
The Sri Debate
The Junior Shri Debate is a debating event for middle school students at TSRS Moulsari attracting the best of schools from Delhi NCR to compete in the Oxford style of debating. This year the topic of the competition was “If social media has done more harm than good”.
Vyoma Lal and Maanya Malhotra of Grade 8 participated for and against the motion respectively.
A group of debating enthusiasts accompanied the team for support and encouragement. While both girls spoke with confidence and poise, Vyoma Lal bagged the third Best Speaker Award.
Faridabad District Chess Tournament
Aarush Sharma of 3 Gir secured Second Position (in Under 9 category) in Faridabad District Chess Tournament held on 27th - 28th April in Surajkund International school.
Inter School Skating Competition
Maira Sikka of 3 Sariska, secured Second Position in the Inter School Skating Competition held at Modern School, Greater Faridabad. She was awarded with a Silver medal and a Certificate.
‘Outstanding Performance’ in ASSET Winter Round
3 students of Grade 6 of Shiv Nadar School , Faridabad made the school proud by getting certificate of ‘Outstanding Performance’ in ASSET Winter Round. The ‘Outstanding Performance certificates’ are given to Top 1% students per class countrywide.
Agastya Iyer bagged the certificate in English, Math and Science and also certificate of outstanding performance for overall performance in ASSET. Krishiv and Kanav also bagged the certificate for their performance in Mathematics.
We congratulate them on their exemplary performance !!
The 2019 Pramerica Spirit Of Community Awards.
We are proud to announce Om Shalat of Grade XII bagged Silver Medal in the Individual category of Pramerica Spirit of Community award 2019. He was awarded for designing the Artificial Intelligence based smart traffic light system which would reduce fleet time and air pollution. The Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards is a school level recognition programme for volunteer community service. The objective of the award is to encourage the efforts of school children who have made a difference and inspired countless others. Over last 9 years when the awards were introduced 40,000 students have applied which has grown in strength and stature
Grade 8 Initiative for Research, Inquiry & Creation of Academic Paper
Great accomplishment in nascent beginnings of MUN @ Faridabad school.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) regularly evaluates the competencies of 15-year-old students around the world. Key focus of the survey is Research and Inquiry.
Since October 2018 , 60 Grade VIII students from all 3 campuses have voluntarily engaged with the GRADE VIII INITIATIVE FOR RESEARCH , INQUIRY , AND CREATION OF AN ACADEMIC PAPER.
This initiative was not designed as a competition . Rather, it was about faculty-mentors guiding and supporting students to create Quality Academic Papers .
Purely incidentally, Acknowledgements were part of the initiative - to motivate students.
Ms. Anjana Ramdev and Ms. Meenakshi Sharma from Faridabad were the faculty mentors spearheading the Initiative.
Total 16 Academic Papers were shortlosted.
>Ria Singh, of Shiv Nadar Faridabad, has delivered an outstanding Academic Paper on the Topic 21st Century India Should Learn from the World and the World Should Learn from India with a word count of 2839 and earned the First Position.
By way of Acknowledgement , Ria Singh will receive
i) A Certificate of Excellence from Alma College , Michigan :
ii) The Alma Medal of Honour:
iii) Academic Grant of Rs 15000 from Alma College which can be used for buying Books / educational materials , subscriptions to Periodicals etc.
Water Digest Award- 2019
Shiv Nadar School Gurgaon was awarded the BEST SCHOOL IN WATER MANAGEMENT in the NCR region. It is for the second time the school has received Water Digest Award. The award is presented every year by a renowned Global Magazine Water Digest which is also recognized by UNESCO.
DELF Certification
DELF (Diplome d' Etudes en Langue Francaise)
DELF Diplomas are awarded by Institut Français, Inde for various levels of proficiency in the French Language, namely A1, A2, B1 and B2. These diplomas are recognised internationally. 11 students of Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon appeared for the DELF Junior A1 exam, conducted in DPS, Gurgaon in July 2018 and all of them have cleared it with flying colours.