Jayansh Dhingra Shines at the SGFI Haryana State Chess Championship
Jayansh Dhingra of Grade 7 at Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad, played a pivotal role in helping the Faridabad U-14 team clinch the SGFI Haryana State Chess Championship title.
Demonstrating remarkable focus and composure, Jayansh won all five of his matches, maintaining an unbeaten record throughout the tournament. His stellar performance contributed 5 crucial game points, propelling the Faridabad team to victory with a total of 15 game points.
The SGFI (School Games Federation of India) Haryana State-level Chess Championship brought together top young chess talents from across the state, with each team comprising four players. Jayansh’s consistency and strategic depth stood out as defining factors in his team’s championship triumph.
Avni Sethi’s Paper Published on One Young India
Avni Sethi, a Grade 11 IBDP student of Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad, has had her insightful paper titled “International Monetary Fund: Helping Nations Recover or Regress” published on the One Young India platform.
Through her article, Avni critically examines the role of the IMF in shaping global economies — exploring whether its interventions truly aid recovery or inadvertently deepen disparities. Her analysis reflects the depth of inquiry and global awareness nurtured within our IBDP programme.
Read her full article here:
International Monetary Fund: Helping Nations Recover or Regress
Hitejas Vijval Excels at the National Stage — Selected for the Asian Cadet Cup and Khelo India Youth Games
Hitejas Vijval, Grade 11, Shiv Nadar School Faridabad, has once again brought great pride to the school with his exceptional performance at the Cadet National Championship 2025.
For the third consecutive year, Hitejas has secured a medal at the national level — this time clinching the Bronze Medal, a remarkable feat that reflects his dedication, composure, and mastery of high-difficulty techniques. His performance drew praise from coaches, dignitaries, and representatives from the Sports Authority of India (SAI), who personally met him after his bout to commend his skill and record his details for future reference.
His outstanding show at the Nationals has earned him selection for the ‘Asian Cadet Cup’, an international tournament that will see him represent India on a larger stage.
Continuing his winning streak, Hitejas also bagged top honours at two other major events — the CBSE National Tournament 2025 held in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, where he won the Silver Medal, and the Khel Mahakumbh 2025 in Panipat, Haryana, where he clinched the Bronze Medal. These achievements mark his fourth national-level medal, underscoring his consistency and excellence across competitions.
Dominating several of his bouts with emphatic 5–0 victories, Hitejas has now earned an All India Rank of 8, after narrowly missing the top eight earlier by a single point. His relentless drive and sportsmanship have also qualified him for the prestigious ‘Khelo India Youth Games’, where he will compete against athletes from across the nation, including senior categories.
Hitejas embodies the spirit of perseverance, skill, and discipline — continuing to inspire his peers and make the Shiv Nadar School Faridabad community proud.
Rising Star on the Tennis Court - Mysha Prabhakar
Mysha Prabhakar of Grade 5 Shiv Nadar School Faridabad won the Runner-Up Trophy in her very first tournament — the PadMaya Open Tennis Tournament – Season 5, held at KR Mangalam World School held in August.
She remained undefeated until the finals, where she faced the same opponent she had overcome in the earlier rounds. Competing among 20+ players in one of the toughest district-level tournaments, Mysha’s exceptional performance marks an inspiring start to her sporting journey.
Tashna Agrawal wins Gold and Silver at the CBSE Zonal Skating championship
Tashna Agrawal from grade 2 has won Gold medal in 300 Mt. time trial skating and Silver in 1000 Mt. at the CBSE Zonal Skating championship. This was held at Shephire International School Noida from 24th October to 26th October 18. She has also qualified for the CBSE National championship which will be held at Krishna Public School, Chastisgarh from 28th November to 30th November 18.
1:1 Digital Program: Live Demo for Parents
With 45 days into the commencement of Digital Ecosystem Program, Our children are well versed with the new technology in classrooms.
As committed, we conducted demonstration sessions for parents of Grade 6. Parents were invited to school to be a part of our classrooms to witness the iPad led classes.
Teachers conducted different activities on different applications like Nearpod quiz for recapitulation of states of matter, Nearpod doodle to draw stone tools of Palaeolithic Age, iMovie to describe character sketch of main character of the story. The objective was effective utilisation of technology to enhance teaching learning process by ensuring 100% students’ participation through collaboration and real time feedback.
We gathered the Parents’ responses and happy to announce that Parents were satisfied with the classes. They found sessions "interesting, interactive and engaging" through digital platform. They were glad to experience the "fun-filled process" of learning channelised through "effective time-management".
Everybody felt that the "blend of learning with technology" not only enhances the learning outcomes but also increases "students responsiveness".
Parent's Collective Visit To KNMA
Our endeavour is to connect with parents through various engagements and build a strong ethos vis-à-vis art and culture. Towards this end, the Parent Art Collective of the Shiv Nadar School visited the KNMA – Kiran Nadar Museum Of Art.
Parents and children did a walkthrough of an exhibition by a septuagenarian artist Arpita Singh. This exhibition gave us an extraordinary opportunity to view the six decades of her art practice and is the first retrospective organized by the KNMA. Her art speaks about the strife of women and society at large. Each of her work is as intimate as a diary-entry, documenting the everyday trepidation that surrounds her: thoughts, voices, events, news, and evokes different locales. One sees the psychological and political merging in her paintings. The use of flowers, text, guns and airplanes underlines her depiction of violent histories, mourning, or maybe negotiations with trauma.
A few of the canvases that fascinated the adults and children alike was a scene with lotuses (upon closer look – tanks), the map of Delhi and the depiction of the ‘golden deer’ from the Ramayan.
Post the curated walk the parents and children were treated to a ‘Coffee Workshop’ where a KNMA artist walked us through the activity.
Inter-House Elocution Competition
An interhouse elocution competition was recently organised in Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad. Students from grade 3 to 6 participated in this event aimed at encouraging fine public speaking skills. While grade 3 and 4 spoke on ‘spring’ as their theme, the senior grades inspired the audience by giving speeches on ‘courage’.
The Sanskriti MUN 2018-19
The Sanskriti MUN 2018-19 commenced on the 26th of April, 2018 with much fanfare at the Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri. 5 of our Grade 8 students participated in the MUN.
1) Aryan Misra – Disarmament and International Security Committee, Chile
2) Samarth Agarwal - League of the Arab states, Yemen
3) Smayan Singh – United Nations Special Committee, Palestine
4) Akshansh Bagga - Social, Cultural and humanitarian rights committee, Chile
5) Yukrant Yadav - AIPPM
Visit to National Museum
To take a deeper dive into history and special focus on Indus valley Civilization students of grade 6 were taken to the National Museum located at Janpath Road New Delhi.
The enthusiastic students were oriented before embarking on their visit and given an activity booklet on Harrappa. The activity booklet designed as a treasure hunt activity compelled students to view the artefacts and find answers to the questions given in the booklet. Students scanned the Harrappa Gallery and displays in a focused manner to know and understand and answer the questions given in the activity booklet.
The students looked at the presentations with interest and awe. Thy appreciated the designs on the clay pottery,the small scales and weights and the skeleton diaplayed spurred their curiosity and many questions were put to the teachers.
The booklet had questions on the various tools excavated from the various sites of Indus valley civilization and their uses. The students were very satisfied on being able to find answers and complete the treasure hunt. The students were then taken around the Shunga, Mauryan ,Kushan,Gupta and Buddhist galleries.
The visit culminated with a visit to the Anubhav Gallery designed for persons who are visually challenged and visitors are allowed to touch the artefacts for an experiential learning.
