Basant Baithak 2021, Celebrating SOUL: The Spirit of Unlimited Learning
Basant Baithak at Shiv Nadar School Noida has always been a space for sharing learning in all spaces, a time to reflect and rejuvenate ourselves as we celebrate the Gods and Goddesses of Learning, such as they may be. As winter frost gave way to the warmth of spring, parents, students from and staff members came together in the school field to celebrate this time with the entire community of learners - through song, dance and poetry!
In keeping with the colours of Saraswati and Kamadeva, The Gods of Learning and Love - who represent Basant, everyone came dressed in whites and yellows.
The celebrations saw participation from students right from the youngest learners of Nursery to the outgoing batch of 12th Graders, teachers, parents all artists in their own right. Bhajans, thought provoking poems, including some original verses from teachers and students alike, folk songs from India, Yoga Asana & Mudras, a musical jugalbandi along with abundant sunshine made it a perfect celebration of the Spirit of Unlimited Learning, a coming together of the community of learners after almost a year of the pandemic.
Watch the highlights of the celebrations: https://youtu.be/9kQNz7WEs7Q
In Conversation with Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
In Conversation with Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, who is a professor at the Harvard University Extension School in a course called the "Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health and Education"
Sharing a glimpse: https://youtu.be/Qyg4k0ulEW8
71 Years of The Republic
On 26th January we celebrated celebrate 71 years of our Sovereign, Socialist, Democratic, Secular, Republic enshrined in our Constitution 'ad infinitum'.
We beamed it live for our students, teachers and parents, so that they could join us their your homes to celebrate the Republic Day.
A glimpse of the same: https://youtu.be/SrPZAn9VhdA
Pre-Board of X at the Campus
A remarkable and joyous occasion unfurled when we at the school welcomed the X grades back on the 8th of January ,after a 10 month hitiaus from the campus.The school was prepared with all safety protocols to receive the students.A lot of planning and meticulous preparation went in to organize the successful preboard examination from the 8th to the 18th of January.
The journey continues with the advent of class 9th beginning 01 February.
Colloquium - The SAFE
Colloquium is project based learning challenges aimed to solve a real world problem. The teams apply tech learning to solve these challenges. It not only displays the technology skills gained through different tech baskets offered at School but also harnesses entrepreneurial skills in students. Thus, offers enriching learning experience to students. Our Grade 10 students explored these projects for the first time. One team of Grade 10 came up with the project named "SAFE".
SAFE is a Self-sanitising Automatic Futuristic Effortless bench aiming to solve the sitting problem as it’s the most basic activities which has become a huge hassle and a danger to health due to pandemic. With the rapid increase of diseases to be seen, this bench can also contribute significantly in the future to combat other communicable diseases and create an overall clean environment. It focusses to solve the close contact and sanitising problem especially in the older people and children as they face more significant risk due to their weaker immune system.
Students bagged runner up position at the event. Names of the students are:
Nirvani Jain
Suhani Sharma
Mansi Aggarwal
Gurnoor Kaur
Arshia Jaitli
A Glipmse: https://youtu.be/wXqX-Adt9EI
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Biodiversity - Justice for Wildlife Conservation
Zoya Arun, a student of grade 6 Gir initiated a wildlife justice fund, being inspired by her experiences in the Orikalankini teen fellowship.
After her expression of interest, our principal Ms. Anju Wal launched a series of webinars to raise more awareness on wildlife conservation.
4 young panelists from Grade 6: Zoya Arun, Aarav Kathuria, Sana Bose and Anurag Kukreja, researched and worked with their mentors over a month to lead the discussion on justice for wildlife on 24th December 2020.
In their first webinar, they showcased their own insights from the research, facts about various biomes and ways to live more sustainably.
They also invite Ms. Xavier, from HCL and interviewed her on her experiences with the Habitats trust and her current role.
The students talked about the importance of interconnected food webs and it’s relation to the pandemic. They also invited Kshitij from Grade 4, who has made a portable resuscitator inspired by the lack of ventilator devices in the pandemic.
In Conversation with Dr. Gagandeep Kang
In Conversation with India’s most senior, most highly regarded and top vaccine scientist, a professor at the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, the first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Dr. Gagandeep Kang.
The Webinar session was conducted on 16th January led by 2 students of Grade 9 Manaasvi Vij and Lakshita along with our Principal Mrs. Anju Wal.
The session was informative and engaging.
Sharing a glimpse: https://youtu.be/kibUZPKIo_8
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COLLOQUIUM 2020
‘Change calls for innovation and innovation calls for progress’
Colloquium encapsulates this spirit and gives students a platform to display their yearlong projects as part of their integrated IT curriculum. The Colloquium conference serves as a culmination to these Capstone Projects in the form of a product, project presentation or performance through debates competitions and collaborations.
The students of Grade 10 across the three campuses of Shiv Nadar participated in Colloquium 2020 and showcased their technology projects online. Capstone is a multifaceted long term assignment with an aim to identify and address a social problem. The students extensively work on social, economic or environment issues and come up with solutions, applying technology in real world context. The solution could be social or entrepreneurial in nature.
The students participate in this annual competition, presenting their projects to a jury. The competition follows a two-tier selection process, where student projects are first examined by a sub-jury, followed by a presentation and interaction with an external jury who judge the efficacy and viability of the projects. While 18 projects from Shiv Nadar School, Noida, Faridabad and Gurugram were presented to the sub-jury, seven projects made it to the final jury round.
The external jury comprised of Mr.Varun Chaudhary, Executive Director, CG Corp Global, Mr.Ajay Bakaya, Executive Director, Sarovar Hotels & Resorts and Ms.Ramya Venkataraman, Founder & CEO of Centre for Teacher Accreditation(CENTA)
The program helps students to connect with community issues and integrate outside of school learning experiences. It allows them to think critically and solve challenging problems, develop skills such as research, teamwork, planning, goal setting and project management during the process.
Team Postura from Gurugram School secured the first position and Team Safe from Faridabad school secured Second Position.
To view the Colloquium Conference click here
Computer Science week
We marked Computer Science week from 5th Dec to 13th Dec,2020. Students of Grades 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 participated in the same by getting involved in different coding/programming modules done in the class.
Grades 3 to 5 students experienced online coding modules in a fun and creative environment to understand concepts of computer programming. It instils computational thinking in students thus helps students logically organise and analyse the steps.
Grades 8 to 10 students explored RoboMind which is a simple educational programming environment with its own scripting language that allows students to program a simulated robot. It also aims at offering insights in robotics and artificial intelligence. Students could design and animate simultaneously and pick up the methodology in one go on applications like Construct 3, Tinkercad and Autodesk expression editor.
Computer Science week was an enriching experience for students.
Funkaar 2020 -21
At Shiv Nadar School, we firmly believe in ‘Learning by Doing’. Experiences play an important role in a child's life by enhancing their social skills, intellectual skills, personality progress, and character appeal. We bring to you the digital version of Funkaar with the hope that you will experience the sense of joy and exuberance that the children have felt in stitching this together for you, while being in their homes removed by distance but aligned by the same ethos, artistic bent, appreciation for beauty and love for each other.
Both Grade 1 and 2 students explored the culture and art of the state of Telangana over the last few weeks. They chose one theme from each domain and explored the various concepts through many engaging activities. The creative demonstrations of their learning are stitched together in the form of puppet shows, songs, music, play, dance, presentations, reflections etc.
Grades 3 to 5 - This year, our students explored the culture and art of the state of Telangana. A theme/ topic was chosen from two or more scholastic domains and was explored through different art forms- Visual arts, Dance, Music and Theatre. The creative demonstrations of their learnings have been stitched together in the form of group presentations, songs, art work, dance, role plays and reflections.
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