Post-Admission Orientation Session
New Parents of Foundation Year and Nursery for Academic Session 2023 - 24 were invited for a Post-Admission Orientation Session on December 7, 2022. It was aimed at building a shared understanding of our vision, values and establishing a lasting connect with the child's alma mater.
The orientation began by welcoming the new parents, presenting them a platform to interact with the Senior Leadership CEO - Col Gopal Karunakaran and Director Principal - Mrs Anju Wal.
An overview of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, its philosophy, and ethos were shared with them along with the journey from the inception to the newest upcoming campus of Shiv Nadar School at Chennai. During the Orientation we also shared with the parents what we do and how we do things at Shiv Nadar School.
Ms Bhagya Sinha - Head Parent Partnership shared the 'Parent Partnership program' with the parents, emphasizing on the strong connect and association between the school and the parents. At Shiv Nadar School, the parents are valued as ambassadors and spokespersons through a shared vision. This association is an endeavour to build a strong bond and support system which has been a testament to the founding principles of Shiv Nadar School.
From the Principal's Desk - July to October
Children learn and grow everyday. Different influences and experiences touch their lives and make them richer as people, in knowledge and skill set. The impressions of school life are indelible and most significant in their growing years.
As a School, we want to continue to build and fortify in our children universal values and skills that are the bedrock of our Educational design:
Critical Thinking
Creativity
Collaboration
Communication
Compassion
Citizenship
Gilmpse of July to October at Shiv Nadar School Faridabad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIGbgbZfH50
Parents’ Trident - 6th Edition
Parents’ Trident is only an effort to engage parents productively and to acknowledge their creative thoughts and expression. It is a magazine by and for the parents. We intend to publish the magazine 4 times in a year.
This is the Sixth Edition of the Parents' Tident.
Editorial Members Mrs. Neelam Narula and Mr. Madhur Prabhakar
Scinapse - Science Week
'The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment'
The Middle and Senior school students celebrated Scinapse – a week-long immersion in Science, which culminated in the Science Fair on 29 November 2022.
EDUCATION FOR LIFE THEME: Sustainable development.
We at Shiv Nadar School believe that apart from academic excellence our children need knowledge, skills, and attitude to face a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world. Keeping up with the same idea we relaunched our education for life programme after two years. This programme aims at providing exposure and engagement to navigate and succeed in life beyond school for Grade IX and IX students.
A workshop based on our EFL theme of sustainability was conducted by Ms.Jayati Talapatra focusing on sustainable development goal 12 i.e: responsible consumption and production in order to understand how individual thinking processes impact an individual’s as well as the community’s chances of surviving in the face of resource limitations. Ms. Talapatra’s been working on Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change. Her focus is on generating awareness within corporates on the impact of business actions on the Planet and consequently, Humans. She teaches Business Sustainability in TERI School of Advance Studies and her course on Businesses and Biodiversity is a first of its kind in Indian Business-schools. She started Dilli Meri Jaan Walks, an initiative to restore Delhi’s ecology. These are designed for creating awareness of ecosystem services and taking action to regenerate biodiversity. The walks ensure that each participant takes back a concrete action item, to reduce their carbon and resource footprint and another to improve the quality of air, water, and soil of their city.
The session started by collecting a wider understanding of how fast fashion has over-consumed and how as responsible consumers we can promote both economic development and social and environmental improvement side by side. She reflected upon the basic idea of bringing small lifestyle changes to move towards a larger goal and help the earth regenerate.
She explained how the greatest global challenge is to integrate environmental sustainability with economic growth and welfare by decoupling environmental degradation from economic growth and doing more with less. Resource decoupling and impact decoupling are needed to promote sustainable consumption and production patterns and to make the transition toward a greener and more socially inclusive global economy.
To ensure sustainable consumption and production practices necessarily entails respecting the biophysical boundaries of the planet and reducing current global consumption rates in order to fit with the biophysical capacity to produce ecosystem services and benefits. Bringing minor changes in our lifestyle right from sending acknowledgment emails to sustaining gadgets and electronics and switching to brands that promote sustainable consumption will eventually limit the depletion of resources and trigger the process of regeneration at a much faster pace. The session was enthralling and gave a lot of insight into the best practices for making sustainable development more impactful.
Namaste Deutschland
Our students participated in an event called Namaste Deutschland which took place in DPS Gurgaon in collaboration with Goethe Institue, New Delhi. Around 75 schools participated in various events and competitions. Our school put up an exhibition stall on the theme of "All about German breads", Knock-out Basketball competition and other learning by doing workshops.
Aanya Bhatia, Grade-8, won the 1st prize in Knock-out Basketball competition. Veer Mehndiratta, Grade-8, participated too and did really well.
Advik Bhanwala, Rishabh Burman, Avik Agarwal, Abeer Bhandari, Samar Raj Sharma put up an exhibition stall in DPS Gurgaon on the theme "All about German Breads". The exhibition stall was a huge success. Our students put efforts in preparation of the content. Abeer baked 3 kinds of German breads (not to forget that this idea was his own to bake the breads) Bauernbrot, Seed bread and Stollen. Abeer, Samar, Samrat and Mehak participated in other workshops on Drama and Informative sessions.
Many colleagues from the German fraternity came and personally shared with me that our students are well mannered and have high values, their content is well researched and they are very welcoming too. They prepared a rhyme impromptu to welcome people to their stall. I feel honoured to share that our stall had a massive footfall. Students and teachers from the Shiv Nadar Gurgaon visited our stall too. Students from other schools enjoyed the games prepared by our students and of course, the bread. Ms. Puneet Kaur, Head of Educational Services came twice to see our students present and appreciated their work and Ms. Veronika Taranzinskaja, Project Head South Asia Goethe Institute told the students that she tasted a slice of German culture at our stall and told Abeer that he should have his own bakery in Germany one day.
“Imagination is the research laboratory of discovery.” Steven Magee
Grade 12 Physics students of SNS Faridabad visited SNU on November 15, 2022. It was an excellent educational opportunity to use the Physics Lab facilities at SNU and conduct experiments as a part of their individual investigatory projects.
Under the direction of Professor Dr. Sushant Sinha Roy and his team of Professors and Ph.D. Scholars students were guided and mentored in the best way.
The students got a wonderful exposure and were genuinely motivated to advance their experimental abilities.
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Parents’ Trident - Vol. 6
Parents’ Trident is only an effort to engage parents productively and to acknowledge their creative thoughts and expression. It is a magazine by and for the parents. We intend to publish the magazine 4 times in a year. So this is the Sixth Vol.
Our Editorial Members Mrs. Neelam Narula and Mr. Mr Madhur Prabhakar
अंतर्सदनीय हिंदी वाद-विवाद प्रतियोगिता
विद्यालय के परिसर में 10 नवम्बर 2022 को अंतर्सदनीय हिंदी वाद-विवाद प्रतियोगिता का आयोजन किया गया जिसमें माध्यमिक विद्यालय (Middle School) के कक्षा 6 से 8 के चारों सदनों के विद्यार्थियों ने अपनी भागीदारी निभाई| प्रतियोगिता का उद्देश्य बच्चों के सार्वजनिक मौखिक कौशल को निखारना और उन्हें अपने विचार और राय व्यक्त करने हेतु मुखर होना सिखाना था| सभी प्रतिभागियों ने आत्मविश्वास के साथ अपने विचारों को व्यक्त किया|
प्रतियोगिता का विषय - मानसिक स्वास्थ्य के लिए 'धीमा जहर' है सोशल मीडिया।
प्रतियोगिता के परिणाम निम्न प्रकार से हैं –
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स्थान |
प्रतिभागी का नाम |
कक्षा |
सदन |
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I |
वंदिता अरोड़ा और आयुष्य विरमानी |
6 कान्हा और 8 गीर |
Lion & Panther |
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II |
शब्द सचदेवा |
7 सरिस्का |
Leopard |
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III |
हिमाक्षी अधाना |
6 सरिस्का |
Panther |
SPARK MUN
SPARK MUN consisted of a small team of young people who desired to bring a change and were to become future leaders who can make this place better to live in and find themselves in the midst of the pandemic, climate change, wars, etc. There is an urgent need for powerful leaders at the moment more than ever. The world today requires a young brigade of active, empowered, quipped, value-oriented, enlightened leaders who can engage themselves fruitfully in pulling the individual, society, the nation and ultimately the whole world out of conflicts, disputes, digressions, tensions
and reconstruct the world order on the foundation of harmony, peace and fraternity.
In this spirit, 7 students from grade 8 participated on 4th & 5th November 2022. to hone their debating and researching skills.
All the students spoke very well. Swati Shandilya and Samar Sharma won the High commendation award and Verbal mention respectively.