THE BUTTERFLY TIMES December 2020
From the magical world to Mythology, from flora to fauna, from social and environmental issues to wobbly tooth and Santa, our future writers have an innate thirst for the quest for everything they see in their surroundings and this edition gives the readers mind to travel along with them in this journey.
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E Pluribus Unum January 2021
This edition marks the beginning of the second year of E Pluribus Unum. The articles in this edition give a peek into the past and present of the United States of America. The world watched the transition of power after the US Presidential Election, so did our young authors, who nonchalantly wrote their views on this transition. Enjoy the book and movie review you may consider to read or watch.
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71 Years of The Republic
On 26th January we celebrated celebrate 71 years of our Sovereign, Socialist, Democratic, Secular, Republic enshrined in our Constitution 'ad infinitum'.
We beamed it live for our students, teachers and parents, so that they could join us their your homes to celebrate the Republic Day.
A glimpse of the same: https://youtu.be/SrPZAn9VhdA
THE BUTTERFLY TIMES: November 2020
Children’s Day is celebrated on 15th November as a tribute to Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru who was fondly called ‘Chacha Nehru’. In this November edition of The Butterfly Times the children pay tribute to him by penning down about his life. They have also written well informed articles on environmental issues and entrepreneurship. Poems and short stories by our little poets and story weavers make the reader want to read more!
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Pre-Board of X at the Campus
A remarkable and joyous occasion unfurled when we at the school welcomed the X grades back on the 8th of January ,after a 10 month hitiaus from the campus.The school was prepared with all safety protocols to receive the students.A lot of planning and meticulous preparation went in to organize the successful preboard examination from the 8th to the 18th of January.
The journey continues with the advent of class 9th beginning 01 February.
Colloquium - The SAFE
Colloquium is project based learning challenges aimed to solve a real world problem. The teams apply tech learning to solve these challenges. It not only displays the technology skills gained through different tech baskets offered at School but also harnesses entrepreneurial skills in students. Thus, offers enriching learning experience to students. Our Grade 10 students explored these projects for the first time. One team of Grade 10 came up with the project named "SAFE".
SAFE is a Self-sanitising Automatic Futuristic Effortless bench aiming to solve the sitting problem as it’s the most basic activities which has become a huge hassle and a danger to health due to pandemic. With the rapid increase of diseases to be seen, this bench can also contribute significantly in the future to combat other communicable diseases and create an overall clean environment. It focusses to solve the close contact and sanitising problem especially in the older people and children as they face more significant risk due to their weaker immune system.
Students bagged runner up position at the event. Names of the students are:
Nirvani Jain
Suhani Sharma
Mansi Aggarwal
Gurnoor Kaur
Arshia Jaitli
A Glipmse: https://youtu.be/wXqX-Adt9EI
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Biodiversity - Justice for Wildlife Conservation
Zoya Arun, a student of grade 6 Gir initiated a wildlife justice fund, being inspired by her experiences in the Orikalankini teen fellowship.
After her expression of interest, our principal Ms. Anju Wal launched a series of webinars to raise more awareness on wildlife conservation.
4 young panelists from Grade 6: Zoya Arun, Aarav Kathuria, Sana Bose and Anurag Kukreja, researched and worked with their mentors over a month to lead the discussion on justice for wildlife on 24th December 2020.
In their first webinar, they showcased their own insights from the research, facts about various biomes and ways to live more sustainably.
They also invite Ms. Xavier, from HCL and interviewed her on her experiences with the Habitats trust and her current role.
The students talked about the importance of interconnected food webs and it’s relation to the pandemic. They also invited Kshitij from Grade 4, who has made a portable resuscitator inspired by the lack of ventilator devices in the pandemic.
In Conversation with Dr. Gagandeep Kang
In Conversation with India’s most senior, most highly regarded and top vaccine scientist, a professor at the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, the first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, Dr. Gagandeep Kang.
The Webinar session was conducted on 16th January led by 2 students of Grade 9 Manaasvi Vij and Lakshita along with our Principal Mrs. Anju Wal.
The session was informative and engaging.
Sharing a glimpse: https://youtu.be/kibUZPKIo_8
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COLLOQUIUM 2020
‘Change calls for innovation and innovation calls for progress’
Colloquium encapsulates this spirit and gives students a platform to display their yearlong projects as part of their integrated IT curriculum. The Colloquium conference serves as a culmination to these Capstone Projects in the form of a product, project presentation or performance through debates competitions and collaborations.
The students of Grade 10 across the three campuses of Shiv Nadar participated in Colloquium 2020 and showcased their technology projects online. Capstone is a multifaceted long term assignment with an aim to identify and address a social problem. The students extensively work on social, economic or environment issues and come up with solutions, applying technology in real world context. The solution could be social or entrepreneurial in nature.
The students participate in this annual competition, presenting their projects to a jury. The competition follows a two-tier selection process, where student projects are first examined by a sub-jury, followed by a presentation and interaction with an external jury who judge the efficacy and viability of the projects. While 18 projects from Shiv Nadar School, Noida, Faridabad and Gurugram were presented to the sub-jury, seven projects made it to the final jury round.
The external jury comprised of Mr.Varun Chaudhary, Executive Director, CG Corp Global, Mr.Ajay Bakaya, Executive Director, Sarovar Hotels & Resorts and Ms.Ramya Venkataraman, Founder & CEO of Centre for Teacher Accreditation(CENTA)
The program helps students to connect with community issues and integrate outside of school learning experiences. It allows them to think critically and solve challenging problems, develop skills such as research, teamwork, planning, goal setting and project management during the process.
Team Postura from Gurugram School secured the first position and Team Safe from Faridabad school secured Second Position.
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NEW PARENT ORIENTATION 2021
Nursery parents for the Academic Year 2021-22 were invited for the first Online Orientation session on December 4, 2020. It 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, providing them a platform to interact with the Senior Leadership and to know each other. It was followed by sharing the journey of the foundation, its philosophy, ethos and about all the initiatives taken by the foundation.
The Parent Partnership Program was shared which emphasizes on the strong connect between the school and the parents. The program values our parents as ambassador and spokesperson through belief in the shared vision and also welcomes their feedback in its endeavour to work towards school’s health and happiness.
