73 Years of Freedom
The Shiv Nadar School family at the Faridabad campus ensured that the fervour of patriotism lives on, and hence the Independence Day celebrations went virtual for parents and children.
Sharing a glimpse, of the celebration: https://youtu.be/cxKTVSg8hR4
Another glimpse of the Nationl Anthem by students of Grade 9 and 10 - Aha! Indian Classical Music. https://youtu.be/FcqnA-R0U0g
Source: https://youtu.be/FcqnA-R0U0g
Gift of Love
Sharing a small video of a beautiful song by students of Grade 1 and 2 in AHA! Western Music
A Gift of Lovehttps://youtu.be/HIivOtRBtyc
Joy of Sharing
We, at Shiv Nadar School, have always believed in imparting everlasting learning to our students, and what better premise to do so than the birthday of our founder, Mr. Shiv Nadar. Every year, the school celebrates the ‘Joy of Sharing’ week around the special day, 14th July, wherein we all come together like tributaries forming a river of knowledge that is based on ‘sharing’. We intend each member of the school, students and staff, to partake in the revelry of joyous sharing and take a leaf out of the book of life of a legendry person, who has tirelessly worked to give thousands a better future. We wish each child to embrace and contribute to the unflinching belief that forms one of our greatest strengths – knowledge grows by sharing.
This year not only enhanced our celebrations by extending them to the entire month, it also cemented our belief further, thanks to the honest undertakings of our innocent young learners! Be it gardening or cooking, craft or music, exploring age-friendly apps or authoring their own stories – our students proved their mettle across a plethora of fields. Here’s how their endeavors at sharing their knowledge with their peers became our privileged opportunity to gather a sea of timeless memories!
E Pluribus Unum, July 2020: The Manhattan Project
The cover page of July Edition of E Pluribus Unum pays homage to the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945, the fatality counts of which totalled 213,000. The Manhattan Project, written brilliantly, details out what went into the making of the atom bomb that shook not only Japan, but the entire world, and also the legacy of the US government’s research project. The piece concludes with Excerpts from the letter addressed by Einstein to American President Roosevelt.
The edition rightly has an article that entails how the pandemic is proving to be building blocks for international relations, how the pandemic has changed the lives of people and the rising tensions between China and the other superpowers of the world.
The edition offers varied forms of readings ranging from articles on Feminism Today, Clothes & Appearances: A Story Based In The Times Of Industrial Revolution, Aurangzeb: The Life & Legacy Of India’s Most Controversial King. In this age of fake news, one of the young writers has penned down his thoughts in The Golden Age of Miscommunication: When People Can’t Trust News.
The two well-written book synopsis shows the depth of reading of the young learners. The two synopsis are of the books The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn and Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping The World by Clive Hamilton & Mareike Ohlberg.
The edition closes with nationalist sentiments of this generation in My idea of a Nation.
The pandemic is a great time for this read here.
Summer Live Personal Project
Summer Live Personal Project (SLPP) is a part of our "CONNECTED LEARNING" endeavour committed to the Philosophy of Inquiry in Concept Based Curriculum which is supported by a blended learning approach. The instructional designs created by our educators are focused on developing highly enriching learning experiences.
During the period 11th May to 12th June, we had our “Summer LIVE” engagements where our young learners from Grade 6th to 9th were engaged. With the objective to foster the important approaches to learning age appropriate personal projects were chosen by each individual with the guidance of their mentor teachers. The SLPP was an independent learning engagement.
Learners were provided with a handbook detailing the learning process, user guide on how to create a reflection journal and an assessment criteria checklist to self check their learning progress. Each student was also assigned a mentor who guided them in their learning journey.
The SLPP provides an opportunity for Student Voice and Choice to develop an independent work of their own interest. It gives students immense scope to develop: The Six Cs of Learning for the 21st Century; The Approaches to Learning Skills; Apply these skills to a work of their own interest. Doing the SLPP also helped students to learn the importance of being responsible, empathetic to others and the need to take appropriate actions.
The SLPP culminated into an outcome, reflection journal and presentation by each student.
Work submitted by the students were assessed by their mentors and would form part of their report cards.
To know about SLPP and get a glimpse of student work, please visit our SLPP@
CARPE DIEM: SEIZE THE FUN, TODAY!
G. Stanley Hall regarded Adolescence as a period of storm and stress, an age experiencing significant changes in the pattern of growth and development. Every individual has varied experiences and coping strategies to accept, overcome, and find novel ways to interpret the world around them. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our ecology and the lives of our young learners are severely impacted.
From the perspective of wellbeing, our children are experiencing turbulence in all domains of development and that is impacting their whole being. As a school community or as a close-knitted clan of nurturing caregivers, the mentors designed a day that would attempt to help our learners cope, relax, de-stress, unwind and connect with their peers beyond the subject domain. The HRIs and Co-HRIs were the facilitators of the session. The day was aptly christened "Carpe Diem", – seize the day (of fun).
The first phase of Carpe Diem, which was bursting with teamwork and power-packed performances, was completed last week and was well-received by the students and the parent community. The program design of Carpe Diem, by the Counselling (Psychology) Team, is extremely engaging and has an energized set of activities. The support from the School Leadership Team has been a force to reckon with.
The year leads of grade 9-12 present to you a detailed account of the first-ever Carpe Diem. Witness, seize the day (of fun)- Carpe Diem
EARLY YEARS PEDAGOGY SHARING SESSIONS UNDER THE NEW NORMAL
Orientation Sessions on ‘Junior Math Pedagogy and ‘Language Teaching Pedagogy’ were conducted for Early Years Parents in the month of June through the virtual platform of Google meet. The session was broadly on the common agenda of sharing an understanding of the Junior Maths and Languages approaches through hands-on activities.
The facilitators demonstrated few activities which helped in demystifying Languages and Mathematics learning processes. The idea was to showcase that these applications beyond Homeroom setting are possible, by enabling parents to support their child at home with related practices.
The Nursery parents were made aware of the school’s partnership with ‘Jodo Gyan’ in Junior Math Program. The facilitators also gave an insight into different activities encompassing the key language skill of Listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The facilitators went on to demonstrate and explain how parents can be enabled to support children at home with language-related practices.
Parents of grade 1 students were given demonstrations of few activities that were delivered during the first phase of CLS and how those learnings would be consolidated further and taken towards meeting the future mid-term Goals. The facilitators went on to share a blended and integrated approach towards Language development, that were delivered during the first phase of CLS and how those learnings would be taken further towards meeting the future mid-term Goals.
The session was fruitful for the Early Years parents as it helped them to understand the unassuming efforts to be implemented at the home front combined with the online learning done by the facilitators for a successful learning pedagogy.
Kahaani Palampur Ki: An Attempt Towards Arts Integrated Learning
Kahaani Palampur Ki 2.0 is a novel attempt towards arts-integrated learning. The brainchild of Ms. Anisha Madhukar, supported by Ms. Manjima Chatterjee, the project brings Social Science alive through the story of Village Palampur.
This reinvigorated module takes the learner to Palampur, its characters, contexts, and contradictions. The module also brings together Action Research into Arts integrated learning. The module has been an immense learning journey for the team.
The objective of this endeavour is to understand the complexity of coordination in transactions, between infinitely varied activities of a number of individuals each of whom has their own private goals; and rights in a Politico-Economic system; and thus to examine the possibilities of negotiating the status quo or, look at alternatives.
The outcome statement for the students’ understanding is for the three key principles of No Free Lunch Principle, The Cost-Benefit Principle, and the Principle of Margin.
The first stage of research involved students who were introduced to contexts and situations which required their intervention as experts to offer solutions. Thereafter the strategy involved the teacher and student getting into a fictional space to engage with the topic of learning. The teachers’ role in this endeavour was to merely help students engage with the situation and not about getting the delivery right.
The entire team was highly encouraged by the school leadership by being the ever encouraging pillars of support.
To read more about this much interesting attempt, you may access the live report here
Safeguarding our Mental Health in Covid times - Webinar Series
Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad hosted the first of its 3-Series Webinar on _Safeguarding Mental Health in Covid Times_ on the 4th of June, 2020.
The first episode of the webianr was held for the parents of our students ranging from grades 7-10.
Our three panelists- Mrs. Anju Wal (Principal, SNS-F), Mrs. Mamta Sharma (Parent partner, Mental Health Coach), and Ms. Manisha Massey (Senior School Counsellor, SNS-F), with Mrs. Geetika Jatta as the moderator, answered pre-received questions thematized under "Academics, Behavioral, and Emotional" aspects, as well as live questions that we received during the 90 minutes of the webinar."
The panellists spoke about accepting and adapting to the the new normal.
The new realities of working from home, temporary unemployment, online-schooling of children, and lack of physical contact with other family members, friends and colleagues take time to get used to. Adapting to lifestyle changes such as these, and managing the fear of contracting the virus and worry about people close to us who are particularly vulnerable, are challenging for all of us.
They spoke about the important that a routine at home both on weekdays and weekend. Mrs. Anju Wal stressed on the fact we need to mind shift to know what is in our control - Exercise our circle of influence. Children our observing us 24x7, hence Role modeling as parents is important. It is important that we acknowledge the feelings but not mandatory to provide solutions. Talking to the children about facts of Corona virus is good but we should make sure that it is not only talking the virus- It should be controlled information. For our mind to relax, it is vital that we should cut off from screen at least two hours to prior to bed time. A very interesting activity was shared by our counsellor called - Jar of Activity.
These activity jars are packed full of simple, easy to prepare ideas to help kids make their own choices, direct their own play and keep them busy.
The webinar focused on few strategies to deal to mental well-being. Our purpose is to stay connected while distanced.
Father's Day Celebration Early Years
Early Years celebrated Father’s Day for the very first time on a virtual platform on 19th and 20th June, 2020. The children were excited to have their fathers with them for the session. It was lovely to see the father-child duo sitting together in colour coordinated T-shirts.
Nursery Children along with their fathers had much fun creating their individual steps for an action song “Everybody Do This” which they performed together. The children joyfully cheered for their father’s as they sportingly participated in various games. A special story on fathers, “What makes my dad special” was read out to the children. The fathers were delighted to see their children perform a special father’s day song “Daddy you’re my superhero” and embraced and hugged them as they wished them a Happy Father’s Day. They made a small snack by mixing ingredients to prepare a fruit / aloo chaat and relished eating it together.
KG children along with their fathers enthusiastically participated in bonding exercise session that included jogging on the spot, passing the ball, throwing and catching the ball. After the exercise session, they performed fun activities as per the act written on the slip picked by the teacher. It was fun to see the fathers doing different things such as dressing up their child as themselves, sharing a joke, drawing a sketch of their child to name a few. The children giggled and enjoyed the acts performed by their fathers. After the game, they prepared a sandwich using the ingredients of their own choice and participated in lemonade making activity. It was delightful to see them working together to make the snack and lemonade. It was a feast to the eye to see them relishing the food items they prepared.
The children hugged their fathers and said a big thank you to them for all the things they do for them. The session concluded with the fathers thanking the teachers for an engaging session and the efforts put in by the teachers.
