'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.
Author Visit: Ms. Nandana Sen
Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad hosted the award-winning actor, screenwriter, author and child-rights activist, Ms. Nandana Sen on Monday, 15th April to talk about her new book, Talky Tumble of Jumble Farm. Just like her distinct filmography and pronounced presence on screen, Sen introduced the kids to her book with zealous energy. She took the children on a journey through a farm of antonyms, anagrams, synonyms, and much more with the protagonist of her book, Talky. The energy in the room was palpable after Sen started her presentation and the students immensely enjoyed the illustrated narrative. Talky
Beginning of a new journey…
We are delighted to inform you that the Nursery children fared fantastically well on their first day at school. With welcoming warmth and widespread smiles, it didn’t take much time for them to settle in their classes. Singing and swaying, the children were brought closer to begin the day with Circle time. A simple ‘Name game’ was played and shared names to familiarize the children with each other and also with the teacher. This was followed by a hearty breakfast of jam sandwich, pav-bhaji and roohafza milk which they relished and some even asked for a second helping. The highlight of the day was the Puppet Show based on the story- Webster J Duck. They seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed the show and also engaged in creating a craft of a duck based on the story. The also enjoyed playing with cubes, play dough, in the jungle gym and in the sand pit. The first day in the ‘Big School ‘ ended on a happy note.
Our Kindergarteners were happy to be back at school and we were delighted to see all the children well settled in their homerooms. They warmly welcomed their old and new friends and enthusiastically participated in all the activities during the day. As a part of getting to know each other they played 'Name Game', listened to the story of Chrysanthemum and made a craft depicting themselves and as always all of them had a fabulous time playing at the outdoors.
Grade – VI – A TRIP TO THE PARLE – G BISCUIT FACTORY
19th March'18 - Grade VI students visited to the ''Parle'' factory in Neemrana. In the factory, we were taken into 3 rooms where we saw the process of the famous Parle-G biscuit being made. The rooms were sealed with glass on one side for hygiene and security reasons. A factory employee was accompanying us and explaining the process of biscuit making. After we had seen the machinery at work, we were also shown a video on how other Parle products are made. It was a great learning experience. As a token of thank you the students were given the biscuits which they all enjoyed very much on the way back to school.
LE PROJECT EXILES – A Short Report
Introduction-The word 'Exile' goes beyond the realm of being just another word from the English language. A sentiment, a thought, a feeling so deep that perhaps even when the dictionary describes it as ‘the state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons’, it is unable to bring forth what a lost home or a lost childhood or what a family forced apart could mean to people who have experienced it.
The Exiles Project
In an attempt towards understanding this sentiment, students from the Shiv Nadar School, Noida has been engaged with ‘The Exiles Project’ for over a year. The Project that started in April 2017 is a global attempt to understand and introspect the horrors of the World War I and how we are still trying to cope with lessons that the human race refuses to learn. 2018 marks the hundredth years of this war and this project articulates the effects of war that creates ‘exile’.
The project combined history and contemporary realities through the lens of puppetry, film and object theatre. This was done in collaboration with the French puppetry group Le Tas de Sable Ches Panses Vertes and the Indian puppet theatre group, ‘Katkatha’, reviewing the First World War on its centenary, focusing particularly on the exiles and migrations caused by war. In its first edition, in 2013-14, children from across the world came together in France to look at the causes of the war, and the ways towards peace.
In its second edition, the project focused on the end of the war, its outcomes and the millions of humans it pushed into permanent exile. Students from the Shiv Nadar School, Noida looked at the subject not only through personal stories and conversations with those who have experienced it, but also researched the travails that war can create for those who create war-like situations, as well as those who get caught into it unwillingly.
Representing not only their country and school, but Asia too, the eight students travelled to Amiens, France from the 15th to the 19th of May, 2018, where they presented ‘Faslein’ or distance using the mediums of shadow puppetry and theatre. For this tremendous effort, the team received a standing ovation. Several students from France, South Africa and Morocco who were also part of the project participated in the culmination at the Le Safran Theatre Hall at Amiens too. Some students from Brazil and Argentina who were unable to attend in person shared their experiences of the engagement through films etc that was shared with the audience present.
The sensitive portrayal of ‘exiles’ by the students was highly evocative and won the hearts of those present, resulting in connects with people from across the world. It remained an absolutely befitting culmination to a long engagement with war, peace, people, displacement, families and friends. Many transcended the confines that borders can create only to remind themselves and those around that colour, race and nationalities do not always divide, but if diversity can be celebrated with the creation of ‘Vasudev Kutumbakam’ – The world is one family, a tradition that our country has long been part of, can very much be a possibility.
To these torchbearers from the Shiv Nadar School, Noida, the harbingers of a better world today and tomorrow, the work has only just begun!