Congratulations to Our First Grade X - Batch
During the ravages of the Pandemic and switching to Digital Online Learning, our First batch of 33 grade 10 students and tireless teachers have done us proud.
Our children have shown exceptional resilience, grit and stamina to learn through new tools and in the most adverse and unforeseen of circumstances.
Our tireless teachers have navigated through their homes and work, been mother, brother, sister, guide and counselor to each child to keep the ship sailing on an even keel. Our grade 10 parents have battled with the adolescent temperaments, expectations, aspirations and family commitments to support and guide the children through these tumultuous times.
We congratulate every single child who has crossed this milestone in their academic career today. Each one of them has worked to the best of their competency, capacity and ability. I am certain that the journey has been a learning one and rewarding in every way despite the turbulent times. The possibilities to learn in multiple ways have been enormous.
There were some guidlines issed by CBSE to cap the scores of a first time grade 10 batch of a school.
As you read ahead, keep one thought in your mind. This Result is not about Scores or Marks. It is about an undeterred Resolve, Patience, Courage and Combativeness.
The School Average stands at 84.6%. Students in the Range of 90% to 100%
| SUHANI SHARMA | 94.4 |
| NIRVANI JAIN | 93.8 |
| NIPUN JAIN | 93.8 |
| SAHAJ GARG | 93.6 |
| MANSI AGGARWAL | 93.6 |
| ARSH KUMAR EDKE | 93 |
| GURNOOR KAUR | 92.6 |
| ARNAV SACHDEVA | 92 |
80 to 89% Range- 17 Students. No student is below 71%.
Over 90% of our Batch of 33 have been in the school since 2017 and 15 of them since inception.
Heartiest Congratulations to the entire SNS Family.
Joy of Sharing 2021
The Joy of Sharing week marks the birthday of our founder, Mr Shiv Nadar, and brings alive his vision of sharing joy, compassion and the philanthropic spirit with the community of our school. The essence of ‘Joy of sharing’ was imparted to the children through various activities. The celebrations began with a discussion on the meaning of the word –’Sharing’, understanding “Who is Mr. Shiv Nadar?” and “Why do we celebrate Joy of sharing week at Shiv Nadar School?” Sharing is one of the most important virtues which bring happiness in life.
Grade 1
Students conducted various art and craft activities like spray painting, origami, card –making, pencil pop-ups and drawing. Intriguing science experiments on surface-tension, turning primary colours into secondary colours, pop-rocket were also led by our little learners.
Parents also came forth to celebrate the joy of sharing by conducting various activities like art and craft (book holder from waste material, landscape painting, snake craft, pencil pop-ups), fire-free cooking (club sandwich, Nutella fruit sandwich) and storytelling session (Giraffes can’t dance).
The joy of sharing was continued as teachers engaged learners in interesting activities like elephant mask making linked to the English story ‘Gajjapati – Kullapati’, science experiment (balloon activity), storytelling sessions and other games.
Grade 2
The Joy of sharing week commenced with the narration of an insightful story ‘The Giving Tree’ by the HRT’s during the Circle Time. This was followed by an engaging discussion on the meaning and the reason behind celebrating the Joy of Sharing at Shiv Nadar School.
The children enjoyed various craft activities like raised salt art, origami composition, hand puppets etc. conducted during the week. They were very excited to share their birthday messages for Mr. Nadar on his 76th birthday and made beautiful handmade cards for him.
Celebrating the spirit of sharing, 4 children from each section collaborated with the teacher for a storytelling session for the kindergarten children. The story ‘Nobody Laughs at a lion’ was appreciated and liked by all. On 16 th July the week culminated with a special morning assembly. The highlights of the assembly were a melodious song- Gift to you by Music Teacher Mr. Dennis and a Hindi play - ‘Ekki Dokki’ by the grade 1 teachers which shared the message that the ‘real joy in life is not in what we get but in what we give’.
Grade 3
Grade 3 conducted several activities as part of the Joy of Sharing Week. We discussed the importance of communities, of standing by each other and how we are grateful for connecting virtually despite our distance. The class led several activities – Joy of Eating together, Joy of Making together, Joy of Compliments etc. Students taught each other different recipes, gave each other compliments, made crafts to decorate and celebrate.
Grade 4
Grade 4 celebrated the ‘Joy of sharing’ week with so many different activities. Focusing on inculcating the values of giving, sharing and social responsibility in our children and experiencing the joy in doing that, we had various sessions throughout the week during our circle time like Fire-free cooking sessions and knowledge sharing led by children, creating useful items using materials available at home (craft activities), sharing a compliment, exercises for eyes, making eye soothers etc.
We unfolded the plan for the following day a day prior to keep the excitement going and the children well prepared before the sessions. Our children participated with all their hearts and brought forward certain skills that were hidden from each other.
Grade 5
Grade 5 celebrated 'Joy of Sharing' enthusiastically with a multitude of activities. Students engaged in fire-free cooking exploring delicious delicacies like coconut laddoos, sandwiches, Dora cakes, oreo balls, etc, purely student-led. Their circle time was filled with joy as students discussed their pets and how they care for them. Art and craft activities were also student-led along with some presentations, it was an amalgamation of sharing and exploring.
Middle and Senior School
The week’s line up featured guest speakers from various fields in sessions led by the students, for the students and parents of the grades 6-11.
12 July 2021:
Mr. Shivang Mehta, an internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer and Canon India ambassador joined Aryan Veer Goenka (Habitat Conservationist, Senior school) and Ria Singh (Environment and photography enthusiast, Grade 11) for a conversation on the power of photography and its role in conservation in India.
A former journalist and PR professional and now an author and one of India’s leading wildlife photographers – Mr. Shivang Mehta has worn many professional hats. His love for the forests of Kumaon pushed him to choose Corbett as his main area of work and he left the cozy comforts of corporate offices to work on the field with his organisation Nature Wanderers which he started in 2007.
The conversation candidly covered stories from his adventures and students’ questions around photography as a career, conservation and the need of sensitivity towards the rich wildlife of our country.
13 July 2021:
The senior school counsellor Ms. Manisha Massey facilitated a panel discussion with student panelists Sadhya Gaur (Grade 10), Suhani Sharma (Grade 11) and Madhuanisha Katoch (Grade 11) and child psychology expert Ms. Sarika Kumar, who is also a parent of the school.
The discussion addressed student survey questions raised anonymously on adolescence, keeping a healthy mindset while coping with the pandemic, generation gap and other sensitive student issues.
The panel touched upon perspectives from the experts and how students perceive and work their way through the various challenges that come up in online learning, including homework and assessment anxiety.
14 July 2021:
Disputandum 1.0 , a two-round parliamentary debate was held on the 14th of July., Disputandum was led by the MUN secretary Yagna Gupta (Grade 11) and Mannat Kaur (grade 11).
A neck-to-neck competition was held between participating student teams and eventually the audience voted through mentimeter to pick the team Golden Jackals as the winner of Disputandum 1.0. The parameters of voting included matter, manner and the most creative name.
An expert panel of students Aarav Balyan, Yashvi Midha and Krishiv Khatri, who have been trained under the Behes program, were the jury members who were called upon for a decision when there was a tie between two teams.
15 July 2021:
On Thursday, Cultural secretary (senior) Avni Thapliyal and House Captain (Tiger House) Tia Jain led a conversation with Ms. Dhwani Vij. Dhwani is one of the founding members of theatre group ‘The Third Space Collective’ in Delhi and is an actor, director and educator of Theatre.
The conversation was studded beautifully with excerpts from her previous work, and explored the depths of production, lighting design, casting and community involvement with Theatre along with addressing the student audience’s queries about the field.
16 July 2021:
The culmination of Joy of Sharing week was marked by Siyaahi 2.0, a poetry slam event started in the year 2020, where parents, students and teachers alike, all came together to share their self-composed poetry and recite other beautiful works by famous poets. With a line-up of more than 20 participants, the evening culminated into a beautiful shared space for the love of language and explored themes from comedy, satire to the depth of blues.
We believe that this celebration and its tradition speaks volumes of the culture at SNS, a culture that students, teachers, management and parents build together. We would like to thank our parent community for being equal partners in this journey.
These extraordinary times compel us to think differently and therefore our aspirations for JOS unfolded with a unique flavour and nuance.
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E Pluribus Unum - June Edition
E Pluribus Unum-which means "One out of many" or "One from many" is an E magazine with articles by the students of grades 9 to 12 of Shiv Nadar Schools of all the three campuses. The magazine not only showcases the creativity, research skills and writing skills of our students but also gives them a platform to air their views on a plethora of topics.
It has articles published from the following students of Faridabad Campus
- A well researched article by Lakshita- Covid-19- Pandora's Box of Wuhan
- Two lovely poems by Anvi Behl
- Another well research article by Akshay Bhatia- Israel-Palestine Conflict
- A nostalgic narrative by Gayatri Iyer- The Earth Magician
- A philosophical article by Nipun Jain- The Truth
Enjoy Reading!
Investiture Ceremony - Middle and Senior School
The investiture ceremony was an occasion to celebrate the indomitable spirit of resilience and empathy and felicitate the new torch bearers of the student body. The Middle and Senior School student body elected their student council virtually for the first time. The whole process of the democratic elections was held in an organised and seamless manner. The candidates shared their vision in their manifesto videos and campaigning was kick started by showing these manifesto videos to the students during the circle time slots. A google doc was shared with the students and they voted for the candidates of their choice virtually on the 19th of June 2021.
The newly elected Student Council was sworn in at the Investiture Ceremony held on the 26th of June, 2021. Before that, the service and leadership of the previous council members who had led by example, holding themselves, those around them and the SNS core values to a higher standard, was lauded.
Viren Choudhary and Nirvani Jain were elected as the School Captains for the year. Along with School Captains, House captains, Sports Captain, Vice-captains, Prefects, Literary Incharges and Cultural Secretaries, this year, several new posts were introduced namely - MUN secretary, Heritage and History Anchor and Habitat Conservationist. The elected students gave their acceptance speeches and thanked their peers for voting for them.
The School Captain of the previous council, Arnav Sachdeva, led the Student Council in taking the oath to do justice to the responsibilities entrusted upon them. Col Gopal Karunakaran, CEO of Shiv Nadar School and President of Shiv Nadar University, inspired the council with his motivating words about leadership. Our Director Principal Ms. Wal congratulated and motivated the council to be the voice of the student body and learn the true essence of leadership.
A lot of hard work, technical expertise, creativity and innovative thinking had gone into planning what finally culminated into the Investiture ceremony.
World Music Day
Music gives soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
The Musical project is a compilation of videos shared by students, parents and teachers.
It is time that we all rejoice in the rhythm, music and positivity.
We hope that you will experience the same sense of joy and exuberance that the Co-Scholastic Teachers have felt in stitching this together for you.
Dance Challenge
We have come across a wonderful way to channelise our minds towards optimism available at such dynamic times. To help students break free of the pressures created by the pandemic and engage in a fun, collaborative and creative activity in these challenging times, Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad decided to respond to the Dance Challenge which has been trending these past few weeks.
Here is a glimpse of the Dance Challenge - https://youtu.be/EGurRm-rBuw
An Update from the Principal's Desk
Dear Parent
I hope for wellness and good health in your family.
I write to inform you that there is an exponential rise in Covid infections in my team, in their families and immediate community. We are struggling to keep our online classes regular and uninterrupted for the Foundational grades. Many parents who are sailing through the same storm, have also written that it is challenging for them to support and enable their child during the online classes.
We are constrained to inform you that we will be suspending online classes for Nursery to Grades 2 from April 28th to 30th May and consider this as their summer break. On 15th May we will review the situation and let you know how we will proceed in the given circumstances. Communication will be regular and seamless from our end.
That said, offline work, asynchronous engagement, Aha engagement and Holiday enrichment will be sent to you as frequently as possible. You may take some time out whenever you have the window and relive the sense of joy of doing engaging, interesting learning activities with your child.
I assure you that the year will not result in a gap year for your child. When 2020 hit us, we invested in training, technology, reskilling and more to make sure our online learning model led to rich, meaningful learning for each child. We will do the same, again. There will be no loss whatsoever of academic milestones and children will continue their journey to learn with joy and learn for life. The Holiday enrichment and offline work will also be designed with these objectives in mind.
At present the priority is health. To stay afloat and get out of the eye of this storm keeping our resilience, equanimity and combativeness intact. We wish the same for you. Just hold on and let us journey together and see better times soon.
We will stay connected. Be assured that you can reach out to the teachers, me for any assistance, support whatsoever.
My prayers for your family and all loved ones. May our community be safe again and our fellow citizens experience wellness and good health.
Best Regards
Director Principal - Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad
Secretary Sahodaya (South Delhi Schools)
+911294615000/01
Education for life.
From Good to Great
Newsletter from the Principal's Desk...Closing the Year
Dear Parent
The year has been phenomenal, unpredictable and extraordinary in every sense. I remember writing to you at the beginning of the session in April 2020, where I quoted Lenin, 'There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen', describing the revolution of a 100 years ago. His words deftly encapsulated the situation in the world at the dawn of 2020 and continue to pulsate in our lives.
The structural and strategic changes we have witnessed in Education in this last one year have been remarkable. What stands out most is that we have much to be thankful for.
Our children are blessed to be in homes that have a stockpile of supplies, secure, loving environs, digital devices, uninterrupted internet, a clear pathway and possibility to continue their learning that has saved them from a ruinous gap year, which is the unfortunate destiny of many children in our country; children who lost out on learning, reading, schooling, and above all lost their childhood.
I feel compelled to write this in my year end letter to you, it is imperative that our children count their blessings and focus on the gains of the year than the gaps. It is important they remain grateful and humble. It is crucial. you'll agree, that they remember how privileged and fortunate they are.
The year has built immense reservoirs of patience and resilience in us all. Children have become more self reliant. empathetic and displayed a maturity that defies their young years.
Every child has been heroic in his/her endeavours and adapted to a novel way of living, learning, evolving.
Whilst all children have scaled many mountains in this year, I am happy to share with you certain defining accomplishments of the year gone by.
Click on the links and savour the Faridabad SNS journey from Disruption to Consolidation.
https://youtu.be/HXc2tB4DWqg - Student Accomplishments
I will write to you again, soon, to welcome you to the new session which promises to have it's own share of ambiguities and uncertainties.
With my Prayers for you and your families & Best Regards
Anju Wal
Principal
Anandam - 2021
Culmination of the joyous journey of year-long Aha Arts Programme marked as 'Anandam'. Click on the vidoes to witness the culmination.
Grades 1 & 2
Group 1: Grades 3 to 5
Group 2: Grades 3 to 5
Part 1 Grades 6 to 10
Part 2 Grades 6 to 10
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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