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
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
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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Computer Science week
We marked Computer Science week from 5th Dec to 13th Dec,2020. Students of Grades 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 participated in the same by getting involved in different coding/programming modules done in the class.
Grades 3 to 5 students experienced online coding modules in a fun and creative environment to understand concepts of computer programming. It instils computational thinking in students thus helps students logically organise and analyse the steps.
Grades 8 to 10 students explored RoboMind which is a simple educational programming environment with its own scripting language that allows students to program a simulated robot. It also aims at offering insights in robotics and artificial intelligence. Students could design and animate simultaneously and pick up the methodology in one go on applications like Construct 3, Tinkercad and Autodesk expression editor.
Computer Science week was an enriching experience for students.
