Paro Anand Visit at Shiv Nadar School
The new session begins with opportunities for our students to explore different genres and meet authors who create magic through books and their myriad story telling skills. As part of our first Library-led event for this session, students of Year 2 and 3 got an opportunity to meet and interact with the renowned author Ms. Paro Anand on April 15, 2019.
Paro Anand is a Bal Sahitya Puraskar winner and often described as a fearless writer with a big heart who has written for early years to adults.
During this interaction she conducted an animated story telling session from her acclaimed book ‘Wingless’, which has been performed nationally and internationally. While she read excerpts from this book, students were mesmerized with her narration style, yearning to hear to the whole story!
2nd Interschool Badminton Tournament
Shiv Nadar school Gurugram hoisted the 2nd Interschool Badminton Tournament under the age category of 11,13 and 16.Schools from different parts of NCR participated. The two days of tournament brought out some fantastic talent in the field of badminton. Aum Karan of Shiv Nadar school Gurugram won the first position under 13 boys and Hiyanshi Makkar won 1st position under 13 Girls category. Krishanv Puri won 2nd position in Singles under 11 boys category.
Familiarization Day - Grade Nursery
Eager eyes, curious minds ,beaming smiles and few teary eyed students of Nursery attended the much awaited Familiarization Day. A process where students are escorted by the parents to the respective class so that they settle in the new environment before they take off on the school journey.
The day started with the bond building activities conducted during the Circle time. There were name games and rhymes which the children were familiar with, happily clapping and enjoying songs in spite of the new faces of friends and adults all around. The teachers read a story to comfort them and keep them engaged. Every child and parent loved and enjoyed the story time and resonated with the same.
Delicious and yummy snacks were given before dispersal and their eyes sparkled with joy to see chocolate cupcakes and lemonade, which they all relished.
Towards the end they all left with smiles and waved at their newly made friends and teacher saying “ see you on Monday” and they all moved out with parents feeling more assured.
Author Visit: Ms. Nandana Sen
Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad hosted the award-winning actor, screenwriter, author and child-rights activist, Ms. Nandana Sen on Monday, 15th April to talk about her new book, Talky Tumble of Jumble Farm. Just like her distinct filmography and pronounced presence on screen, Sen introduced the kids to her book with zealous energy. She took the children on a journey through a farm of antonyms, anagrams, synonyms, and much more with the protagonist of her book, Talky. The energy in the room was palpable after Sen started her presentation and the students immensely enjoyed the illustrated narrative.
SPIC MACAY: Padmashri Ranjana Gauhar ji
Shiv Nadar School Faridabad in collaboration with SPIC MACAY experienced a unique lecture demonstration of Odissi by eminent Odissi danseuse Padmashri Ranjana Gauhar ji on 25th April 2019, 11:10 am. The eminent artist enthralled the audience of grade 4 to 7 along with few parents who grabbed the opportunity of witnessing this program.
The program began with lighting of lamp followed by invocation rendered by the students of Hindustani Classical Vocal basket. Ms. R. Bhargavi briefed children about Spic Macay and its vital role in promoting art and culture of India. And the program began with introduction of the artist who was accompanied the veteren artist Sri Saroj Mohanty on vocals, and Sri Praful Mangraj on mardal. She enchanted the children with a brief introduction of Indian classical dance form, and emphasized on Indian art forms and the uniqueness which merges beautifully with the cultures of India. She talked about Odissi extensively and began with her demonstration, she simplified the technical pieces for children and explained the essence of learning the dance form. She, along with her disciple Vinod Kevin Bachan engaged the audience with her playful and intriguing patterns through dance where rhythm plays a vital role. She established connections between the architectural, historical and geographical contexts of Odissi Dance and explained how it evolved.
Our Principal, Ms. Anju Wal presented her vote of thanks and honoured the artist with token of appreciation. The artist made a mark in the lives of young minds and it will be continuously cherished and admired by the ones who witnessed the show.
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.
Up, Up and Away!
While learning about Air transport during the theme I Love Transport, the children of Pre-Primary experienced meeting a Pilot who visited our school and the process of taking a flight. With a lot of excitement, the children asked the Pilot many questions they wondered about, such as “How do you fly the plane?” or “What happens when a bird hits the plane?” Along with answering their questions, the Pilot used a model of a plane and told the children the main parts of a plane and other things associated with flying, such as Air Traffic Control (ATC) and runway. He demonstrated how the plane takes-off and lands using the different wings.
For a more holistic learning, an Airport was set-up in KG corridors. The children chose a destination, filled their boarding passes, and made their own passports. They started the process by Checking-in and getting security tags on their bags. They then proceeded to Immigration counter and got their passports stamped. Thereafter, they reached the Security check where they got themselves as well as their bags scanned. They waited in the Boarding lounge, after which they boarded the flight. They experienced the inflight announcements, the safety demonstration and ordering their meals. The children had a truly enriching experience, with many aspiring to be Pilots.
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".
Sports Day for Grade 1
“Talent wins games, but team - work and intelligence wins championships”.
Sports Day for Grade 1 was organized on March 05, 2019. Mr. Shivalingesh K.K and Mrs. Parul Arora, our esteemed parents were the guests of honour who graced the occasion. The programme began with a welcome speech by the Head of Primary School, Ms. Soniya Mawani and the programme was declared open by our guests of honour. To set the spirit of sportsmanship soaring, students from grade 1 lit the torch, representing strength and grit giving the day a head start.
Multiple activities were conducted through the day involving students enhancing their sportsmanship and parents who re-lived their school memories.
