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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Parents’ Trident - Vol. 2
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 Second Vol.
Editorial Members Mrs. Neelam Narula and Mrs. Urvashi Kaul
We hope going through this newsletter is as enjoyable for you as it is for us bringing it to you.
Cherished Moments - Guardian’s Day
The Early Years' Father’s / Guardian’s Day celebration was a heartwarming event that beautifully honored the unique relationship between fathers/guardians and their children. The day commenced with spirited activities like "Percussion" and "Team Building," actively involving parents. The children's performances, featuring songs, rhymes, and joyful dance routines, showcased their love and appreciation. A standout feature was the collaborative co-creation takeaway craft, which allowed fathers/guardians and children to share a creative bonding experience. Feedback from fathers/guardians, including Vishrut’s Father's anticipation, Maanvir’s Father's enthusiasm for drums and clay, and Suvana’s Father's joy in dancing with the kids, encapsulated the event's essence. This heartening celebration not only strengthened familial ties but also created lasting memories, fostering a strong sense of community within the Early Years' cohort.
The “Protean” tour
The "Protean" tour
International exposure and good mentoring go a long way in shaping the budding talent of our young cricketers into tomorrow’s professionals. In our student version of the “joint military exercises”, we sent a team of 12 players under the tutelage of 2 teachers to learn and maybe teach a thing or two to the Proteas.
The Proteas or The South African Cricket Team is a team to reckon with. Their student version lived up to that repute, but our “Pride” were no less. Despite the tough competition, of the 8 matches played we won 6! The feather in the Shiv Nadar School cap was the stupendous achievement of playing matches of 40 overs. A feat applauded by the hosts and their mentors too. The hosts were represented by 4 prominent schools and 2 clubs, KZN and Chatsworth Club.
Chatsworth Club is famous for its star player AB DeVillers, a cricketing legend.
Team Shiv Nadar School was mentored by the current Director of South African Cricket Board Mr. Shaun Warner and CSA level 2 coach Mr Craig Yelverton from Ireland.
Along with the honour of playing with worthy opponents, our students also won some distinguishments, like T-shirts and caps.
Aarav Desai scored 2 centuries against The Hillcrest High School and a half-century against Chatsworth club
Sanket Agarwal scored a hattrick against Winterton Primary School.
Krishang Sehrawat earned the best wicketkeeping cap.
Siddhanth Biswal, at 11years, was the youngest player across all the teams.
Aryan Vadera scored 225 runs and took 2 wickets.
Soham Dawar scored 135 runs and took 8 wickets.
The culmination of the fortnight visit to Durban, South Africa, was the chance to play at the Oval at Petersburg, the 2003 world cup final stadium. The grand finale match was against a team of senior players, some of whom play at County level, our boys stood up to the challenge and were victorious.
All work (play) and no sightseeing would leave the tour incomplete, on their way back from Durban to Johannesburg the teams visited the Oshaka Beach jungle safari and Dolphin show. An apt end to a successful tour.
