Support Staff Session by Early Years
The support staff was engaged for a two hour session for three days. The session was for them to reflect on what went well last term and what could be improved. They had a story telling session, music session and choice time.
Early Years Offsite
The facilitators from Early Years went for an offsite to Kanechi from Monday, May 20, 2019- Thursday, May 23, 2019.
Session with Dr. Ravindran for KG and Year 1 parents
The renowned Educational Psychologist, Dr. V.S. Ravindran, addressed the KG and Year 1 Parents on the very purpose of ‘Education for Life’ on Friday, May 17, 2019 in the Wild Cats Hall.
I Blossom Showcase
Students of Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad, put on display the various skills and learning they had acquired as a part of Aha! I Blossom activities. I Blossom is one of two divisions of Aha! programme, which goes beyond art and sports to create experiences which instil life-skills in students.
The Ishara International Puppet Theatre Festival
Let the celebrations begin! 17th "The Ishara International Puppet Theatre Festival" has started its performance from Faridabad Shiv Nadar School. They celebrate the 17th anniversary with a diverse range of breath-taking performances, which communicate across language barriers & define the social, cultural & emotional bonds humanity shares together.
We had a great puppet theatre show from Germany on 1 st February, 2019 at Amphitheatre.
Play: EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE
Performed by: The Fifth Wheel Marionettes
Directed by: Dmitry Nomokonov
Language: Musical, Non Verbal
Medium: Marionettes, Actors,
Duration: 45 minutes
Grades: 3 to 5
Summary of the play
Bursting with excitement, this exuberant whistle-stop tour around the world voyage is a lot of fun & a trip worth making. We travel the high seas in a big white ship, & along the way meet our global neighbours the Arabs, the Spaniards, the Gypsies, the Mexicans & even Indians. Each place the ship visits is a new musical number, filled with big, colourful, imaginative puppets, dance, & foot tapping music from that part of the world. Learn about interesting places, their traditions & lots more! Utterly enchanting, this family treat of a show should leave you & yours wide-eyed with wonder.
Our little audiences were extremely excited by looking at the puppets and also when the puppets became alive little minds overwhelmed and involved in the show.
The actors were amazing and spread lots of energy to the students and it was a kind of participatory performance. Our grades 3 to 5 were witnessed the performance. It was a marvellous experience for all of us to witness the show. They started on time and finished it on time too. Our students were really energized and enjoyed the performance.
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.
Visit to the historic Lal Qila
Students of grade 8 and 7 visited the strategically important monument of Delhi being the capital city for a good two hundred years of the Mughal rule later taken over by the British. The citadel Lal Qila or Red Fort was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in 1638 with red sandstone, took nearly a decade to complete along with the new city named as Shahjahanbad. Students experienced the grandeur of the monument in the one kilometre walk along it to the entrance of the monument from Lahori gate.
They were interested to know about the moat around the fort the purpose of constructing them. The great height of the wall with vents and towers used by soldiers to keep guard and vigilant eye on the city surrounding it fascinated the students. To their right they were shown the towering minarets of Jama Masjid, the rising steeples of the Jain Bird Hospital and the Gauri Shankar white and gold Nagara style temple beside it.
Students were excited and awed by the structure as they assembled at the entrance.Students visited the First War Of Independence Museum in the vicinity and got interested in the visuals and facts they were learning from the presentations. The vast expanse of the fort with the Diwan- a-Aam and the difference in architecture in comparison to Diwan-a-Khas was discussed with the students. It was a very fruitful visit for the students
Sanskrit at Shiv Nadar School, Noida
Sanskrit is just not a language, it is a storehouse of many firsts in origins of knowledge.
Our children were aired on DD news during a weekly Sanskrit program Vaartavali. It is a great initiative of DD News team which covers Sanskrit news, interviews of famous personalities, their contribution to the realm of Sanskrit, global aspect and various methods of teaching the language.
Xpress Fitness Half Marathon at Shiv Nadar School
On the 31st of March, Shiv Nadar School Noida played host to Xpress Fitness Half Marathon - an event to propel a culture of fitness in the city. The event is themed around ‘Commit to be fit’.
Participants included people across age groups as well as teachers, students and parents of Shiv Nadar School.
Middle School visit to TERI-GRAM
79 students from grades 6-8, accompanied by teachers visited the TERI-GRAM campus to learn about Sustainability.
The visit to TERI was marked by the lush green campus, with beautiful trees and different varieties of plants. They were taken to the ‘RETREAT’, which is a self-sustainable building designed by TERI.
The students were shown two short movies on sustainability and then they were taken around the RETREAT, which included the conference room and the reception, and also two blocks of rooms.
The entire building was made up of huge glass windows with and a glass roof photovoltaic cells interspersed in a way that it also allowed natural light to enter. The rooms had the Earth tunnel technology where cooling and heating both were done using fans and machines 4 feet below the Earth. This eliminated the use of any extra air conditioning or heating that is generally required.
The area was also lined with deciduous trees that provide cool shade in the summer months, but shed their leaves to allow the passage of natural light in winters. Also, all the waste water produced was taken to the Root Zone, which was lined with Phragmite plants, whose roots absorb impurities in waste water, making it suitable for irrigation purposes.
This helped them understand different components involved in making a building sustainable building. The students really enjoyed being in the surroundings and learning about the components.
They were then taken to the biogas chamber where they learnt how kitchen and agricultural waste were being turned into usable biogas. The medicinal plant area and the vermi-composting pit were also very intriguing to the students. They were shown how different varieties of fruit plants were grown in the lab and then transported to the fields.
The students also had a lot of queries, which the TERI officials solved.
