The Seeds of Learning: Listening Walk
To explore the environment using our auditory senses, the students of Nursery along with their teachers went for a Listening walk in the school premises. The purpose of the walk was to develop their listening skills. The children heard the story ‘The Listening Walk’ by Paul Showers. They put on their listening ears, a piece of craft created with paper cutouts of ears and a hairband and went for a walk within the school premises. They listened to different sounds in the environment and had to identify them. Back in the classroom post a discussion they illustrated the different sounds they heard. An enriching activity, thoroughly enjoyed by the children.
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Letter to Parents from Chairperson CBSE
Please find attached a letter addressed to the parents by Chairperson CBSE to sensitize them on various recent initiatives undertaken by the Board.
World Dance Day
"Have feet, will dance". Give the world a reason to dance.
On account of World Dance Day all the AHA dance basket of Grade 1 &2 students with the teachers gathered to shake a leg accompanied with different kind of music..Every move they made was adorable going with the flow of the music lost to the world
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Shiv Nadar School’s endeavour has been to promote different art forms, be it dance, music or visual arts. We invited the famous Odissi dancer, Ms. Vidushi Kavita Dwibedi, who captivated the young audience with her graceful movements and expressions. She started with a small introduction to the Odissi dance form, one of the oldest surviving dance forms of India. History tells us that like some of it’s contemporaries, Odissi too was a temple dance performed by the "Devdasis". The "tribhangi", i.e., the independent movement of the head, chest and pelvis is what sets this dance form apart.
Earth Day Celebrations
For the past 40 years, Earth Day has been celebrated around the world to call attention to some of our most pressing environmental and social problems, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and dwindling natural resources.
The day started with a beautiful message where students were reminded of 5 actions towards safe earth. The whole school, whether it was the students, support staff, teachers, guards, admin staff or helpers took part in this endeavour and initiative. Each one of them took a pledge to save Mother Earth by doing simple doable actions. Our continuing effort in our daily life will make this beautiful planet thrive.
To understand - the magnitude of the problem, students celebrated Earth Day on April 22nd, 2019
Grade 1 Activities: To emphasize the importance of food and water shortage, the students conducted a food drive in the dining hall of the school. They requested their peers to serve themselves small portions of the food rather than piling their plates and return for seconds, thus avoiding wastage. The students discarded the waste in the biodegradable and non-biodegradable baskets. They also made a list of any leakages observed. A glass "Earth Jar" was placed in the dining hall for the students to write why and how they should, could and would save food and water.
Grade II-IV Activities: The students took the responsibility of managing the indoor plants, setting up a schedule with the help of their teachers to water the plants. They planted seeds of Aloe Vera, Coriander, Lemongrass and Tulsi. Students wrote poems and shared why it is important to take care of our home, Planet Earth.
Grade V Activities: They announced the Earth Hour and took on the initiative to unleash a week-long crusade to encourage the entire school to switch off electric lights and ACs in favour of and using natural light for an hour. They made posters and campaigned vigorously to motivate the entire school. The electricity consumption data was shared in the assembly as a proof of their contribution to a larger goal of conserving our precious resources.
Grade VI to XII Activities : Our Environmental conservationists from the Middle and Senior school contributed by doing various activities
- Slogan writing – Grades VI to VIII Visual Arts students
- Poster making- Grades VI to VIII Visual Arts students
- Poetry writing – Grade XII
- School Assembly – Grade XII
- Classroom Conversations and Dialogues – Grades IX and X
- Making Toys from wastes – Craft students from Grade VI to VIII
- Role Play – grade XI
- Song on water – Western Vocal students
Afsana by Rituparna Ghosh
On 27th April 2019, children's of age group 6-8 years ( Grade 1-3) of Shiv Nadar School, attended a story telling session titled as Afsana by Rituparna Ghosh at Radisson Blu , Faridabad . Rituparna Ghosh has an eminent personality and was so real into her character while narrating the story to the students. The story began with a song where few lines were said by the narrator and then humming was done by the students and the audience present in the hall. She even used props to introduce certain sounds like of rain, and by herself she produced sounds of different animals that were the part of the story. Not only this she even chosen few people from the audience to play the characters of the story which she was reciting.
The story was all about being of what an individual is and not thinking to be perfect, because every time there will be some imperfections which one would have. Like a lotus flower blooms in the morning and then closes it's petal at night , knowing that it can only bloom in the morning , similarly one should be happy and satisfied of what the individual is rather than questioning it.
The students enjoyed the story shared by Ms. Ghosh and had a great time over there. They even received a small token of gift by the team of the story telling session organizers and they were happy at the end.
'Our Planet'
As a part of building their understanding about the theme for this year's Wild Wisdom Quiz, students went to WWF auditorium, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi for an official screening of first episode of Netflix series, ‘Our Planet’. Apart from our school, there were representatives of few reputed Delhi based schools like Manav Sthali School, Springdale School.
Students learnt about the biomes of Earth and the flora and fauna which flourishes in these biomes. The video was not only knowledge gaining but also reflecting as to how this flourishing species of flora and fauna is diminishing and in turn our planet is being affected due to human intervention. Students made notes and also participated in the quiz based on the episode. Few of our students won bookmarks for giving correct answers to the questions.
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The “Protean” tour
The "Protean" tour
International exposure and good mentoring go a long way in shaping the budding talent of our young cricketers into tomorrow’s professionals. In our student version of the “joint military exercises”, we sent a team of 12 players under the tutelage of 2 teachers to learn and maybe teach a thing or two to the Proteas.
The Proteas or The South African Cricket Team is a team to reckon with. Their student version lived up to that repute, but our “Pride” were no less. Despite the tough competition, of the 8 matches played we won 6! The feather in the Shiv Nadar School cap was the stupendous achievement of playing matches of 40 overs. A feat applauded by the hosts and their mentors too. The hosts were represented by 4 prominent schools and 2 clubs, KZN and Chatsworth Club.
Chatsworth Club is famous for its star player AB DeVillers, a cricketing legend.
Team Shiv Nadar School was mentored by the current Director of South African Cricket Board Mr. Shaun Warner and CSA level 2 coach Mr Craig Yelverton from Ireland.
Along with the honour of playing with worthy opponents, our students also won some distinguishments, like T-shirts and caps.
Aarav Desai scored 2 centuries against The Hillcrest High School and a half-century against Chatsworth club
Sanket Agarwal scored a hattrick against Winterton Primary School.
Krishang Sehrawat earned the best wicketkeeping cap.
Siddhanth Biswal, at 11years, was the youngest player across all the teams.
Aryan Vadera scored 225 runs and took 2 wickets.
Soham Dawar scored 135 runs and took 8 wickets.
The culmination of the fortnight visit to Durban, South Africa, was the chance to play at the Oval at Petersburg, the 2003 world cup final stadium. The grand finale match was against a team of senior players, some of whom play at County level, our boys stood up to the challenge and were victorious.
All work (play) and no sightseeing would leave the tour incomplete, on their way back from Durban to Johannesburg the teams visited the Oshaka Beach jungle safari and Dolphin show. An apt end to a successful tour.
NMUN 2019
A team of students - Aditya , Navya, Vyom , Grade XII at Noida - travelled to New York City to participate at the NMUN 2019 as members of Team Alma ( NMUN is a Conference reserved for College and University students only). NMUN is the oldest , largest and most distinguished College/University MUN Conference in the World. Delegates participating at the conference also get the rare opportunity to attend a plenary session at the General Assembly Hall at UN Head quarters.The Conference is 96 years old and came into being as an aftermath of the First World War.
Around 5500- 6000 brightest students from around the world participate each year.
We are delighted to share that each of the 3 students earned high laurels - OUTSTANDING DELEGATION - as co-members of Team Alma .
Capstone Project
As a part of the Robotics and IT classes in school, the students are introduced to the concept of conceiving and designing a project “Capstone Project” It was great to witness how they translated the classroom knowledge to solve a real life problem
Posture Perfect Device
Four students of grade X developed a portable,cost effective and user friendly Posture Perfect Device which sends alerts for sitting in wrong position but also notifies the number of times people sit in that posture.
The brain child of Taniska Sahay, Navya Sachdeva, Aryan Verma,Tejasv Rastogi,the device works on the artificial Intelligence in correcting the posture of those who spend long hours sitting in the wrong position resulting in "text neck".the device consist of mountable cameras which capture the live video stream of body posture in the form of image frames, which is then processed by an AI computer system. It calculates the distance and angles between the different body parts like nose,neck ,left and right shoulder .After an interval of 30 minutes the user is notified about their correct and incorrect posture.
The project has won
PHD Chamber of Commerce – Junior Asthithva Sanman.
IIT Tryst Delhi -1st prize in Technovations 2019 - The Science of Innovation and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligent Traffic Light System.
A team of 4 students Shreya Raju, Om Shelat, Ira sidhu and Soumya juneja designed an intelligent traffic management system that works on real time sensing and image processing of traffic to reduce the wait time of commuters at the traffic lights. It is a simple adaptable Artificial Intelligent based traffic light using a camera and micro controller which can modify the red/green distribution time at each junction dynamically. This would cut down the fleet time of commuters, reduce air pollution and also avert potential accident due to frustration and road rage.
This low cost compatible project received significant media attention.
Awards : The project bagged different prestigious awards
PHD Chamber of Commerce – Junior Asthithva Sanman.
CSIR Innovation Award
Pramerica Spirit Of Community Awards 2019
Different Strokes
To the artist there is nothing ugly in nature. They have been created to create. The statement resonates for the Shiv Nadar School Teachers and Students .Our two teachers from Art Department exhibited their paintings at Kochi & South Korea.
Ms Veena Karki our art faculty participated in two International Art Fair held at Gwangju and Seoul in South Korea.It was great matter of pride for Veena Maam since her co participants were world famous artist like Takashi Murakami, Kusama Yayoi from Japan along with many reputed art galleries from different parts of the world .
Mr Sukesan kanka our Art teacher exhibited his paintings titled Returning Echo at Gallery 27 in Kochi .His paintings focused on variety of topics ranging from migration to the after effects of natural disaster and war. One of his work with floods as theme shows plastic bottles floating on the floodwater that received lot of appreciation from the art lovers.
Under the guidance of mentor Mr Pradip Duary a student of grade II exhibited his paintings titled “Unlimited Sky” on the World Autism Day. Twenty Eight pieces of his painting were displayed. They were an eclectic mix of cityscapes, nature and bikes. He received adulation and appreciation from his peers and teachers.
Aarav Verma student of Grade VIII participated in the fifth edition of World Art Festival at Dubai. He was one of the youngest award winner in the competition as Emerging Artist of the Year. He started painting at the tender age of three. He has been exploring various medium and styles. As an artist, he is socially responsible, his painting were auctioned to raise funds towards cancer treatment, flood relief in Kerala. He has raised close to 5 lakhs through his paintings for different causes. He also participated at the India Art Fair at New Delhi
