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!
Baisakhi Celebration - Early Years
We, at Shiv Nadar School, believe that learning is not restricted to books and instructions. We aim to imbibe in our children the values and ethos of very culture and community. To make our children aware of the spring harvest festival in all its essence, the children of Early Years celebrated Baishakhi on Friday, April 12, 2019.
A special musical assembly was arranged for the children and the facilitators presented a role play followed by Homeroom discussions on Baisakhi.
The Nursery children carried back home memories in the form of self-made craft. They made impressions of maize plant by finger painting.
The KG children also made a take away craft. They have wheat plant and added wheat grains using potter’s clay. The activity was integrated with Junior Math.
The Grade 1 children made their own ‘Phulkari’ art and added colours to the intricate design.
Capstone Project
As a part of the Robotics and IT classes in school, the students are introduced to the concept of conceiving and designing a project “Capstone Project” It was great to witness how they translated the classroom knowledge to solve a real life problem
Posture Perfect Device
Four students of grade X developed a portable,cost effective and user friendly Posture Perfect Device which sends alerts for sitting in wrong position but also notifies the number of times people sit in that posture.
The brain child of Taniska Sahay, Navya Sachdeva, Aryan Verma,Tejasv Rastogi,the device works on the artificial Intelligence in correcting the posture of those who spend long hours sitting in the wrong position resulting in "text neck".the device consist of mountable cameras which capture the live video stream of body posture in the form of image frames, which is then processed by an AI computer system. It calculates the distance and angles between the different body parts like nose,neck ,left and right shoulder .After an interval of 30 minutes the user is notified about their correct and incorrect posture.
The project has won
PHD Chamber of Commerce – Junior Asthithva Sanman.
IIT Tryst Delhi -1st prize in Technovations 2019 - The Science of Innovation and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligent Traffic Light System.
A team of 4 students Shreya Raju, Om Shelat, Ira sidhu and Soumya juneja designed an intelligent traffic management system that works on real time sensing and image processing of traffic to reduce the wait time of commuters at the traffic lights. It is a simple adaptable Artificial Intelligent based traffic light using a camera and micro controller which can modify the red/green distribution time at each junction dynamically. This would cut down the fleet time of commuters, reduce air pollution and also avert potential accident due to frustration and road rage.
This low cost compatible project received significant media attention.
Awards : The project bagged different prestigious awards
PHD Chamber of Commerce – Junior Asthithva Sanman.
CSIR Innovation Award
Pramerica Spirit Of Community Awards 2019
चिट्ठी का सफ़र!
On May 15, 2019 grade 5 culminated their first Hindi theme - चिट्ठी का सफ़र | The unit was about the timeline of communication and the various modes of communication. It felt so good to see the students presenting their work in fluent Hindi with confidence. Students showcased flap books, timeline of communication etc. They also presented a role play about the journey of letter from post box to home. It was eye catching to see students dressed as postmen and postwomen.
One could not miss scrolling through all three stamp books which had an interesting collection of stamps dated as old as those during India's Independence era.
There was a post master stationed in his post office explaining about the types of letters. Students also showcased their final draft of the informal and formal letters in Hindi in all three sections.
Students in 5 Corbett also expressively recited Hindi dohas on communication explaining their meaning also.
Letter to Parents from Chairperson CBSE
Please find attached a letter addressed to the parents by Chairperson CBSE to sensitize them on various recent initiatives undertaken by the Board.
Save Planet 'Earth' Campaign
Since forty-nine years, Earth Day continues to bind people together to lead groundbreaking ideas. Earth Day continues to challenge ideas, ignite passion, inspire and motivate people to act mindfully. Though Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 every year, it entails action for the whole year. Keeping this passion in their hearts, students of grades 2 to 5 started with their special assembly on 18th April. It started with a prayer, followed by an inspiring thought by a student of grade 5. To update everyone with the happenings around the world, the news was read out followed by sharing of facts on ‘Earth Day’. Grade 2 students sang a meaningful and inspiring song. The final leg of the assembly held a surprise quiz by Grade 5 students which was followed by a Hindi poem, English poem, and a pledge. The assembly concluded with the national anthem.
A Day of Musical Mystic Transcendence
Under the aegis of SPIC MACAY, Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad presented Lecture -Demonstration by Pt. Bholanath Mishra ji for the young scholars of Grade 4 to 8 along with some musically inclined parents. The school witnessed the magical rendition at the Dance Room North Block of Faridabad School.
Pt. Bholanath Mishra ji along with the disciples were accompanied by, Pt.Jayashankar Mishra ji on Tabla and Pt. Bharat Bhushan ji on Sarangi.
The program not only provides exposure for children towards classical music and dance but also inspires them to appreciate the intrinsic value of our National Culture and Heritage.
The auspicious day began with lighting of the lamp by Pt. Bholanath Mishra ji, Principal and other parents which was followed by Ganapati Vandana rendered by the students of AHA Indian Music Grade 6 to 8.
The Musical emanation took the children through understanding the sublimity of Hindustani Classical Music. He began with the rendition of a bandish in raag Ahir Bhairav set in ek taal and followed by a Hori geet and concluded with a popular Meera bhajan "Payoji maine am ratan dhan paya".
The students were fascinated when they were invited to sing with the lead artist. The participatory lecture demonstration gripped the young audience making them to sway along with the melodious rendition.
It was truly an enriching and refreshing experience to witness Pandit Ji’s jugalbandi along with other instrumentalists.
Our Principal, Ms. Anju Wal honored the artist with token of appreciation and expressed her gratitude to the artists.
Inter House Painting Competition
On 14th May, 2019, an Inter House Painting Competition was organized at Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad. The students of grade 3 to 9 participated, started at 9:10 am post breakfast and worked till 10:30 am. Homerooms of Grades 3 to 9 were lively with creativity and artistic expression with the help and supervision of subject teachers and homeroom incharges.
Practicing, contemporary artists Ms. Sunita Mendiratta and Mr. Sanjay were invited to be the esteemed judges for the Inter-House Painting Competition to be held in school on 14th May. Ms. Geetika Jatta from career counselling cell was also part of the jury. They arrived and were welcomed at 10 am, they were taken on a round to see the artistic pursuits of the students following which the jury started the selection process which took about an hour.
Topics were given and judgment was made in 3 groups,
Group A - Class 3-4 – ‘My Home, My Family’ OR ‘The Underwater World’
Group B - Class 5-6 – ‘My School, Where I Belong’ OR ‘The Future World’
Group C - Class 7-9 – ‘My Favorite Indoor/Outdoor Sport’ OR ‘The Portrait of my Idol’
Results of the Competition:
After a very tough judgment, 5 positions were given in each Group.
Group 3-4: Shivansh Grover – 1st Position
Suhana Jain– 1st Position
Aaliya– 2st Position
Avik Agrawal– 3rd Position
Anaya Mittal– 3rd Position
Shaurya– 4th Position
Aarna Edke–4th Position
Vihaan S–5th Position
Arnav Modi – 5th Position
Group 5-6: Delphea Tanwar-1st Position
Vardaan – 1st Position
Manthan – 2nd Position
Devkaran- 3rd Position
Edwin- 3rd Position
Rahini- 4th Position
Simar- 5th Position
Aanya Singhal – 5th Position
Group 7-9: Devanshi- 1st Position
Rashmita – 1st Position
Swinzal – 2nd Position
Yagna – 3rd Position
Manaasvi Vij – 3rd Position
Gurnoor Kaur – 4th Position
Shreya Garg– 5th Position
Leopards stood first with ten positions.
Grades 3-4: Aaliya
Grades 5-6: Delphea Tanwar, Vardaan Sethi, Manthan Varshney, Edwin Ajish, Rahini Anand, Aanya Singhal
Grades 7-9: Devanshi, Rashmita Gandhi, Shreya Garg
Tigers stood second with 6 positions.
Grades 3-4: Aarna Edke, Suhana Jain, Shaurya, Arnav Modi
Grades 5-6: Devkaran Sidhu
Grades 7-9: Yagna Gupta
Panthers stood third with 5 positions.
Grades 3-4: Avik Agrawal, Shivansh Grover,
Grades 5-6: Simar Sharma
Grades 7-9: Manaasvi Vij , Gurnoor Kaur
Judges were very happy being part of our Competition, and appreciated the students a lot. Post the results, judges were presented by a token of thanks in the form of children’s paintings from Principal ma’am.
All in all, Inter House Painting Competition 2019-20 went really well where over 400 students participated and joyfully expressed their ideas through art.
Summer Bonanza: Fun under the Sun
What better way to enjoy the last day of school and welcome the Summer break other than having some fun under the sun!! The students of pre-primary had an exciting day participating in the event Summer Bonanza. The highlight of the event was the children in their swimwear, running to wet themselves and play with water, flowing out from the water sprinklers in the middle field.
A day filled with treats started at Breakfast where the children were served sandwiches and macaroni. After they which they all took turns and participated in the different activities that were planned. These included music and dancing, creating a craft, playing with water from the sprinklers, eating ice cream whilst sitting under umbrellas in the summer sun, getting colourful tattoos painted on their hands and finally a movie with pop-corn and lemonade.
Loving hugs, bye byes and off they went home. Not before saying, “I will miss you ma’am. Happy holidays”.
Grade IX students educational tour to New York
The National Model United Nations 2018 conference conducted in Hotel Hilton and Sheraton from 25th-29th March in New York was an educational, enlightening and enthralling experience. Since it is an event in the world at a college level, it hosted around 5000 students this year. The sheer magnitude and diversity of the conference and students participating, credits the participants and organizers with the quality of mindfulness, responsibility and eagerness to sustain and develop the world we all reside in. Interacting with other participants, as delegates of member states and as students of Grade IX Shiv Nadar School Gurgaon and from different parts of the world increased our knowledge about the world and gave insight to the different perspective of people. The whole experience also improved our debating and negotiating skills.
At the opening ceremony we had the honor of meeting Professor Luis Moreno-Ocampo and other personalities who are active global citizens. The theme for this year was “Transform Our World”, in order to promote the Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals and to find solutions to problems effecting the fulfillment of prosperous lives for all.
Since this conference requires weeks of preparation, research, writing as well as embodying the diplomatic and collaborative spirit of the United Nations, the participants were seen to be united and collaborative without much competitiveness hindering their progress towards finding adequate solutions to current global problems. There were certainly attempts to gives ones best to distinguish oneself from the majority during committee sessions, be it through speeches, leadership, quality of content and also ‘clothes’.
The NMUN was different from the Shiv Nadar School MUN in terms of size, involvement of students, creativity and also diversity.. The creative solutions incorporated in the resolutions of the NMUN delegates was eye opening. They viewed the problems with an open mind and different perspective. As mentioned before the participation of people from different countries and cultures provided diversity in views. Delegate seminars were conducted where topics ranging from a media panel to discussions on climate change, disarmament etc. were addressed.
The closing ceremony held at the (real) General Assembly Hall were very exciting as few civilians actually get a chance to visit the Hall. We were addressed by high-level speakers of the United Nations organization who gave an insight on what a global citizen actually is. It was truly an inspirational and enjoyable experience which increased my knowledge a ten fold times and stretched my capabilities.
