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'Kaath' by ThinkArts- Early Years

On Thursday, May 9, 2019, a percussionist and a performer of Kaath took our children from Early Years on a fascinating journey into wooden pictures and the sound of wood. The children explored the world of wood, music and tales. The children not only got exposure to theatre but also developed the need for appreciation of things in their immediate surroundings. It also nurtured the artistic sensibilities of our children.

Beach Party by Early Years on May 9, 2019

To beat the heat of the sun and help our children unfold the mystery of water games, Early Years organized a ‘Beach Party’ on Thursday, May 9, 2019 for the Nursery and Kindergarten children on Friday, May 10, 2019.

Coffee Morning for Nursery Parents

Shiv Nadar School believes that the development of the child depends on the chemistry between the school and the parent and both should work in collaboration to reach the desired milestone.

The school believes that strategies adapted and designed in collaboration with parents, who carry them out at home, yield better outcomes. Thus, we initiated a collaborative effort - “Coffee Morning” for Nursery parents, to celebrate the wonderfulness which our children possess and thus know them better.

'Shramdaan’ by Early Years on May 1, 2019

To recognize the contribution of Community Helpers in society and to imbibe the value of fellowship in our children, the Early Years children celebrated ‘Shramdaan’.
There was a special musical assembly and the facilitators presented a role-play in the Circle of Love. The children cleaned the surrounding, served Aam Panna and Rose drink as a gesture of gratitude to the support staff of the school.
Year 1 learners showed their gratitude by putting up a special assembly on - ‘Gratitude Day’ for them. Each habitat prepared a musical presentation for them in the Activity Centre. They also created a ‘Wall of Gratitude’ with messages written for all the community helpers.

Passion. Commitment. Dedication

Education is one field which is ever growing and ever changing. To keep up the pace, teachers must be life-long learners to be equipped to teach new set of children. Shiv Nadar School firmly believes in a structured professional development for our mentors as it is a key component in creating an effective/joyful learning environment for young children and to enhance or better ones teaching.

With this thought, our teachers Ms. Priya Bansal (Primary Teacher), Ms. Monica Rishi (SEN Pre-Primary) and Ms. Tatiana Arteyeva (Counsellor) conducted a session on Thursday, 23^rd May, 2019 for the Primary Teachers. The session was on Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning is an innovative education program developed by Emory University and supported by Dalai Lama.

SEE Learning™ provides educators with the tools they need to foster the development of emotional, social, and ethical intelligence for students and themselves.

SEE Learning™ represents the state of the art in education by enhancing SEL programming with key additional components, including:

Attention Training
Compassion and Ethical Discernment
Systems Thinking
Resilience and Trauma-Informed practice

This program provides educators with a developmentally-staged curriculum consisting of easy-to-implement lessons, the conceptual framework used to design the curriculum, and resources for educator preparation and development. SEE Learning empowers students to engage ethically as part of a global community and provides educators with the tools to support student well-being.

The teachers were introduced to the SEE Learning curriculum, and experienced the impact of its activities. They got inspired to implement them in class for the better being of the students, teachers and people around. The topics discussed:

Exploring Kindness - We all want kindness shown to us, because we all want happiness and well-being, and none of us wants sadness, troubles, and difficulties.
Class Agreements - We all need it and benefit from it by creating a mutually agreed-on list of class agreements that will support a safe, productive learning environment.
Practicing Kindness - What does it look like when we…?
Resourcing - Personal resources are internal, external or imagined things that serve to bring about sensations of greater well-being in the body. They are unique to each person.
Creating a Treasure Chest - Thinking about a personal resource tends to bring sensations of well-being to the body. It is good to have more than one resource, because a particular resource might not work all the time.
The Resilient Zone - The resilient zone refers to when our mind and body are in a state of well-being. When we are in our resilient zone we can handle the stresses that happen during the day and react with the best part of ourselves. Stress can bump us out of our resilient zone into our high or low zone.

Culminating activity for Human Body and Communication

Learning at Shiv Nadar School is experiential and hands-on. In sciences and social sciences/EVS, we follow a project based approach, where curriculum objectives are summarized into a ‘driving question’. Students then discuss ideas, brainstorm and meditate upon the question, post which they carry on investigations in their independent groups. Collaboration and Critical Analysis are key components of PBL. It is also an approach in which text-book learning is contextualized to the real world.

Grade 4

As a part of their first theme, ‘Human Body’, students of grade 4 learnt about various concepts such as skeletal system, muscular system, digestive system, functions of these systems, process of digestion, healthy food habits, how does the body work . Students were deeply involved in researching about various exercises that help us keep our body fit. Based on their research work and classroom study, students' presented their learning in the form of a health camp. As a part of closure to this theme, students were divided into teams and each team had a role to perform. One group was involved in the skeletal rap, another in talk about our body parts and healthy food habits while other groups set up whole body checkup (eyes, ears, face, nails, weight, height and BMI) and exercise room.

Grade 5

As a part of their first theme, ‘Communication’, students of grade 5 studied about what is communication, means of communication and its timeline, ethics of communication such as soft skills and interpersonal skills, netiquettes, plagiarism and how advertisements affect us. Students as a part of their culmination, prepared presentations, speeches, street play, shadow play, skits, lap books, posters and they also depicted their learning of themes through info-graphics. Students were quite engaged throughout the culmination. Students also presented the power of communication through a motivational speech as a sports coach and a politically influencing speech as a politician

FUTURE READY LIFELONG LEARNERS

Shiv Nadar School Career Guidance Centre (CGC) is very nascent in Faridabad campus. It is a non-judgmental, open-minded space to connect and collaborate with students to make them future ready in the ways that best resonate with each child's personality. The CGC gives concrete shape to students' goals and interests, options for higher studies and ultimately, career choices, in a supportive environment.

The CGC has a clear mandate to create a cadre of young people well-equipped to decide their paths forward into the world beyond school. It provides excellent tools, programmes and platforms so that children make confident and informed choices.

Walk the Talk is one such initiative wherein experts from different fields come to talk to students. Such sessions serve to dispel existing queries regarding certain career choices, as well as to inform students on new and emerging professional and academic domains.

You will be happy to know that we hosted our first 'Walk the Talk' session with RJ RAHUL MAKIN wherein he shared his journey, experiences, challenges and various opportunities that came his way.

He talked about the importance of reading and to be updated about the world around. He spoke about his success mantra with our young scholars i.e. one should follow his/her passion with complete dedication, hard work and right attitude. He shared some really great insights and real-life stories which had a positive impact on our children. He said “Just be yourself, as you cannot mask yourself for too long’. He stated that every individual should identify that one innate talent that he/she is born with and pursue it wholeheartedly.

There were two special things about the session, one that we had RJ Rahul Makin on board and second that the show was hosted by and for the students of Shiv Nadar School.

Our Grade 9 students found the session an enjoyable learning experience.

Learning Walk – Year 3-5 – 17th May 2019

Students of Year 3 presented their learning journey of Unit 1, 'Working Together' by participating in a learning walk. The key focus this year is ‘Student Voice and Choice’. Students were provided with various opportunities to express their thoughts and make choices. The design of the learning walk showcased how each learner took charge of his or her own learning and presented it to their parents and visitors with utmost pride.

Under the theme ‘Water’, students of Grade 4 culminated their understanding of the unit through creative, hands on activities and informative displays. The boards showcased the students’ work and solutions presented by them.

As a part of the culmination of the EVS theme- ‘Communication’, students of Grade 5 prepared the learning walk to explain the conceptual understanding to their parents. Students displayed their learning through newsletters, advertisements using persuasive strategies and a letter writing session with their parents.

चिट्ठी का सफ़र!

On May 15, 2019 grade 5 culminated their first Hindi theme - चिट्ठी का सफ़र | The unit was about the timeline of communication and the various modes of communication. It felt so good to see the students presenting their work in fluent Hindi with confidence. Students showcased flap books, timeline of communication etc. They also presented a role play about the journey of letter from post box to home. It was eye catching to see students dressed as postmen and postwomen.

One could not miss scrolling through all three stamp books which had an interesting collection of stamps dated as old as those during India's Independence era.

There was a post master stationed in his post office explaining about the types of letters. Students also showcased their final draft of the informal and formal letters in Hindi in all three sections.

Students in 5 Corbett also expressively recited Hindi dohas on communication explaining their meaning also.