INTER HOUSE HINDI DRAMA COMPETITION

CLASSES IV – XII

31^thAUGUST, 2015

Inter House Hindi Drama Competition for classes IV – XII was conducted on 31^th August, 2015 to develop the dramatic skills of the students. The participants were selected on the basis of their performance in the drama club activities.

The plays were as follows:

SHASTRI HOUSE: ‘CHIKITSA KA CHAKKAR’

TILAK HOUSE: ’RAM SINGH KI TRAINING’

BOSE HOUSE: ‘NIMANTRAN’

TAGORE HOUSE: ‘BHASMASUR KA VARDAAN’

Tilak House stood first with 188.5/195 followed by the Bose House with 183/195,Shastri House with 181.5/195 and Tagore House with 176/195 points.

Prashant Chaudhary of class X-C and Vasundhara of X-A were adjudged the best actors (male and female) scoring 58.5/60 and 59/60 respectively.

Last but not the least, our Principal Mrs. Peter spoke a few words of encouragement to the students appreciating them for their hard work.

 SANSKRIT WEEK CELEBRATION

AT ARWACHIN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL,

DILSHAD GARDEN, DELHI

^28th August, 2015 

To encourage the learning of Sanskrit, the mother of all Indian languages, Sanskrit week was celebrated with much fanfare at Arwachin International School, Dilshad Garden, Delhi from 24^th to 30th August, 2015. The entire school was decorated with the posters with Shlokas and Suktis written on them. Student started their day by reciting hymns and Shlokas from the Vedas every morning. The activities of the week included speech contest, Shloka recitation etc and on the final day a beautiful programme was organized by the students to conclude the week. They started it by singing Saraswati Vandana which was followed by a dance by the girls of classes 7 on the same song.

Students were made aware about the usage of Sanskrit in India through news clips. The highlight of the day was the enchantment of the shlokas of Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta . The programme was concluded with a prize distribution ceremony for the students who had won the prizes in the district level singing competition.   

          Japanese Language Education Seminar at Japan Foundation

 On 28 August 2015, Mrs. Vandana Jain, Mrs. Kanika Tiwari and Ms.Yumi Shobara attended Japanese Language Education Seminar at Japan Foundation, New Delhi.

The two reports were presented by the Japanese language teachers of Delhi, in the morning session of the seminar. The details are as follows:

Session 1 :

·       Indo-Japan Exchange Program by Ms. Jaspreet, Blue Bells School  &

                                                          Ms. Ruchi Jain, DPS, Mathura Road

·       Japanese Language Education for the children by Ms. Vandana Jain

                                                                                  Arwachin International School

  The first one was about how to organize cultural exchange programs with the schools in Japan and the teachers also shared their experiences about the same.  The second one was about Japanese education for the students of classes ( 1 – 5).  Mrs. Jain did a model teaching involving a lot of physical movements and step by step activities.

Session 2 :

·       Let’s study in the class using “MARUGOTO” by Ms. Hiroshi Okuyama

                                                                                  The Japan Foundation, New Delhi

In the afternoon session, Mr. Okuyama gave input about the new textbook, ”Marugoto”. He discussed, how to practice a communicative teaching with it.

Through this seminar, we were informed of several new teaching skills, techniques & textbook as well.  We would like to carry them out in our daily teaching.

INTER HOUSE DEBATE COMPETITION

CLASSES 4-5

The inter house debate competition for classes 4 and 5 was held on 27^th August ’2015 in the school auditorium. The topic was ‘Should school hours be changed to 12pm to 6pm.’  Two students from each house were selected to speak for the motion and against the motion.   They participated with the full confidence and enthusiasm. They showed their full zeal and showcased their oratory talent. All the participants showed much confidence while answering in the Rebuttal Round. The audience was also very eager to ask questions. Kritika Dubey of 5c came up with many good questions.

RESULT

   Classes  ( IV – V )

TOPIC : ‘Should school hours be changed to 12pm to 6pm.’

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It was ended with the words of encouragement by  Mrs. Siddharth and our respected principal Mrs. Peter . They appreciated the participants and the teachers for putting great efforts.

REPORT ON ENGLISH ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION

The Essay writing competition provides a unique platform to young leaders of tomorrow to showcase their expressions in writing on a host of subjects. The Department of English organized an essay writing competition for the classes I to V on 26^th August 2015. The purpose of this competition was to recognize publicly the best student writers in the school. The word limit for the competition ranged between 70 words to 400 words varying according to the classes.  The topics selected were level friendly and according to the interest of the concerned age group. The competition was open to all and all the students participated enthusiastically.

The following topics were chosen for the competition:

1)     Class I -       What I love about myself

2)     Class II -      If I had a magic pen

3)      Class III-     If I were invisible, I would……

4)     Class IV -     The day when aliens visited my house

5)     Class V-        India of my dreams

FETP REPORT

(Workshop on 24^th and 25^th August 2015)

The National Centre for Financial Education(NCFE) in collaboration with the CBSE organized a two days workshop for the teachers on Financial Education and Training at G.D Goenka School , Model Town on 24^th and 25^th August, 2015 which was attended by Ms. Nidhi Marwah and

Ms. Shweta Bhageria

The workshop was conducted under the able guidance of :

Ø  Mr.G.P Garg, Registrar NISM and Head NCFE

Ø  Mr. Sandeep Ghose, Director NISM

Ø  Mr. Sandeep Sethi, Education Officer CBSE

Ø  Ms. Shweta Camma, Resource Person

The main aim of the workshop was to create financial awareness to help people manage money more effectively with fair and transparent machinery for consumer protection and grievance redressal. The workshop was helpful to give an insight about managing and diversifying one’s funds to achieve financial well being.

The workshop was concluded by Mr. K.K Sarai , Regional Head , RBI who graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. Mr. Sarai encouraged the teachers to update their financial knowledge so as to help their students to be financially literate in future.

It was indeed an enriching workshop and at the end the participants were given their participation certificates.

"The Japan Foundation's Cultural Festival: 12-in-1"

The students of classes VII and VIII of Arwachin International School visited the Japan Foundation on 22^nd August, 2015 to meet the New Director General and bid farewell to current Director General of The Japan Foundation. The students also got a chance to attend two of the twelve spectacular events organized by them. The students were accompanied by their Japanese language teacher Mrs. Kanika Tiwari and the Teacher Volunteer Ms. Yumi Shobara.

Our students visited their photo gallery where they saw several pictures clicked by the people who had visited Japan last year. Each picture depicted a glimpse of the Japanese culture and was breathtakingly beautiful.

 Out students also learnt the Japanese art of paper folding i.e. Origami and made various things out of it. They also enjoyed the Japanese art of cloth wrapping called Furoshiki, which is a practical skill that comes handy in daily life.

It was a wonderful experience for the children as they got a firsthand experience of the cultural aspects of Japan. The event was a success and we wish to attend such events in future as well.

U.K.G  ENGLISH  RECITATION 

COMPETITION (18 .08.15)

 The Recitation Competition of U.K.G. was held on 18^th Aug’15. The children participated with great enthusiasm and enjoyed the experience. 

The guest of  honour was Mrs. Peter. The honourable judges for U.K.G. were Ms. Natasha Sharma, Mrs. Usha Chauhan  and Mrs. Neha. Jain. The results were announced by Mrs. Peter.

Solo performances

      I         Shastri House                     Food (Iqra Karim)            

     II        Tilak House                         Water (Maurvi Bahuguna)

     III       Bose  House                        Tree (Bhoomika)

 Group performances

      I          Bose  House                        Keeping Clean

     II         Shastri  House                     Shapes

     II         Tilak  House                        Just Me 

    III        Tagore House                      Colours

Mrs. Peter appreciated the hard work of the children & the teachers. The program ended with the National Anthem.

INTERNATIONAL EQUANIMITY OLYMPIAD

Keeping in mind the deteriorating condition of moral and ethical values among the youth across the world, Satyug Darshan Trust Faridabad, in its attempt to reach out to the students conducted The International Equanimity Olympiad on 17^th August’ 15 for classes 9^th to 12^th to create a passion amongst the students to imbibe moral values through proper knowledge to become humane. This Olympiad gave an insight to each student to assess his or her level of knowledge about moral and ethical values and to improve further to develop his or her perfect humane personality.

INTER HOUSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 

COMPETITION 2015-16

The instrumental music competition was held on 17^th August 2015 in Arwachin International School for classes 1-5. The competition was judged by Mr. Saurav, Mrs. Rohatgai and Ms. Tulsi.

The competition included three rounds. The first round was a solo round in which the students showed their skills on Tabla. They played Kayada variation, Tihai and Tukada. The second round was a Duet round. The students played different ragas such as Raga Bhairav, Raga Kafi, Raga Bhupali and Raga Yaman on Tabla and Harmonium. The third round was based on group performances. They played different songs using a Casio, Drum and Congo.

Round I ( Solo Performance):

Round II (Duet Performance) :

Round III (Group Performance):

The  performances were very energetic and showed the full spirit of the participants. The group performances appealed the audience and won everyone’s heart. The competition was graced by our honourable Principal Mrs. Peter. She was very pleased to see the level of all performances. She appreciated the Instrumental teacher , Mr. Sagar for putting great efforts with the kids.

          INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION

                                                           Date:- 14^th August,2015

Arwachin International School celebrated the very auspicious occasion, Independence Day with great splendour and patriotic fervour by conducting a Special Assembly.

 The programme commenced with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by our honourable Director Mr. Sharma and respected Principal Mrs Peter followed by a song ‘Vande Matram’ paying homage to our Motherland.

 The programme progressed with a drama manifesting the true meaning and significance of freedom and reflecting the sacrifice made by the great heroes of our country. Next in line was a classical solo dance performance followed by a fabulous Instrumentral Medley, dance Medley on the patriotic songs making the audience rejoice and groove on the beats and filling their hearts  with great patriotism and love for the country. Last but not the least was a beautiful and touching poem conveying the true meaning of patriotism.

The celebration ended with an inspiring message awakening us to take our country to its destination of becoming a great nation that stands for ‘Human Values’. The programme was concluded with the thought provoking, encouraging and enlightening words of our esteemed guest Ms Yuki from Japan, our Director Mr. Sharma and Principal Mrs. Peter who conveyed to us the true meaning of liberty and patriotism highlighting the ideals of our freedom fighters and the importance of following them in the present scenario. 

 The day indeed was filled with joy and a spirit of patriotism with the song ‘Saare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara’ sung by the whole school together in the auditorium.

AAVISHKAR QUIZ SERIES- C.B.S.E.

An In-house Aavishkar quiz-C.B.S.E. was organized in Arwachin International School on 13^th August 2015 in the areas of Mathematics, Science and Information Technology. The quiz was organised to create interest in enquiry, innovation and creativity amongst the students.  To select the students on school level, the  students were asked to write a write up on the topic “Soil and water conservation”,as given by CBSE. It was a written evaluation that focused on the creativity and innovation in the area of above mentioned subjects. Around 30-35 students participated for the first round from primary, middle and secondary sections. The students were very excited and took active participation in the event.  Shortlisted students will be appearing for second round which is an online quiz competition.

 The following students are selected from each Level:

Primary: I-V

 5 B                 Harshit Kumar Jain

 5 C                 Kunal Garg

Middle: VI-VIII

 8 A                 Kaushal Kapoor

  8 C                Alok Thapliyal

Secondary : IX-XIII

10 C                Sagorika Ghosh

11 A                Sneha Aggarwal

 

                           INDEPENDENCE DAY (1-5) 2015

 Arwachin International School celebrated the 69^th year of India’s Independence on 13^th August 2015. The students from classes 1 to 5 took part in it with great enthusiasm and zeal. The occasion was graced by the presence of our honorable director Mr. Arun Sharma. The program commenced with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp. It was an auspicious beginning.

The program started with our National song “Vande Mataram” followed by some enchanting and captivating formations with the tricolour of our Indian National Flag by the students of class 3A2. A thoughtful dramatization of the play “The Invisible Chains Of Free India” evoked the feeling of social responsibility in the children was also presented. After that the children sang an English song “This is my country”.

The Instrumental Medley performed on the patriotic songs by the students of classes 3, 4 and 5 was really a breathtaking one. Last but not the least, the young dancers of Arwachin performed on various patriotic songs which left the audience spellbound. The program concluded with the thought provoking, encouraging and inspiring words of our respected director Mr. Sharma. He shared his valuable thoughts that if we really want to respect our nation, we should respect our elders religiously.

 FANCY DRESS COMPETITION 

PRE-PRIMARY 2015-16

The L.K.G children of Arwachin International School participated in a FANCY DRESS COMETITION ON 10^th  August, 2015.The children participated with great enthusiasm and fervor. Respected Principal Mrs. Peter graced the occasion with her presence. The honourable judges were Mrs. Isha Sachdeva, Ms. Natasha Sharma and Ms. Lochan Tulsi.

The children came dressed up according to the themes given to them, i.e; “CARTOON CHARACTERS, FRUITS & ANIMALS. They introduced themselves and also spoke a few sentences about what they represented.Watching the tiny –tots dressed up like fruits/ vegetables/ cartoon characters was such a treat.

The results were as follows:

LKG A           

                        Daksh Suri                              I

                        Lavin Goyal                            II

                        Aarav Tyagi                            III

LKG B

                        Abhijay Dhama                      I                      

  Ani Dabang Jain                     II

   Arnav Jain                              III

LKG C

                        Nayonika Dhingra                  I                                  

   Vedant Sharma                       II

   Nirvi Malhotra                       III       

Mrs. Peter applauded the participants and congratulated all the children for their effort. The event was called after the National Anthem.                            

  Physics workshop

‘From conventional to Empirical’

 A workshop on “Physics learning and teaching” was conducted by Prof. HC Verma from IIT Kanpur in association with “ANVESHIKA”-Indian Association of Physics teachers on 8^th August 2015 at DLF School, Ghaziabad.  Prof. HC Verma’s expertise lies in his unique experimental approach of demonstrating complex Physics concepts through simple modules. Prof.Verma emphasized on the thought that learning of physics should take place in the classroom and Physics teaching should not be merely completing the syllabus. Teachers were taught to make the teaching of physics interesting with the help of various experiments which included topics like magnetic field of a toroid, Lorentz force, lens makers formula etc. One of the Physics teachers of school, Mrs. Sibal took part in the workshop and quoted that the workshop with a personality such as Prof. HC Verma had only doubled her knowledge. It was really a golden opportunity which our school got and Arwachin International School is looking forward to more and more workshops of such kind so that more and more teachers can enrich their knowledge with experts from different fields. 

Fighting Fire

!8^th August’15 saw a fire disaster mitigation drill organized for the senior students of Arwachin International School during the Clubs period. The school was paid a visit by some members of the fire department who taught the students as well as the teachers how to use fire extinguishers. They also taught the teachers and the students to recognize the different kinds of extinguishers to be used for different kinds of fire. It was an enriching as well as fascinating experience as many teachers and students tried their hands at the fire extinguishers. Our Principal Mrs Gracy Peter also witnessed the programme and appreciated the endeavour. We can now proudly say that we are now prepared to handle yet another kind of disaster. In retrospect; it also gave us an impression for life: that we are supposed to be the ones to put out our own fires.

Japan Education Seminar

Students of Class XI and XII of Arwachin International School attended a seminar organized by Ritsumeikan University on 6^th August 2014 in the school premises. The seminar was conducted by the representatives of Ritsumeikan University, Ms Tanimoto and her Indian counterpart Ms. Priyanka Bangia from India Office.

The seminar was organized to motivate the students of Class XI and XII to go to Japan for their Higher Studies.  Our students got firsthand counseling from the delegation about the course in Policy Science, International Relations and a course in Information Science which is proposed to start in 2017.

They guided our students about the application procedure and the scholarships one can avail to enroll for these courses.

The seminar was a great success as it motivated not only the Japanese students but also the non Japanese students to consider Japan as a creditable option for their higher studies.

 Fancy Dress Competition 
Pre-Primary 2015-16

The U.K.G children of Arwachin International School participated in a FANCY DRESS COMETITION ON 3^rd August, 2015.The children participated with great enthusiasm and fervor. Respected Principal Mrs. Peter graced the occasion with her presence. The honourable judges were Mrs. Priya Grover, Ms. Natasha Sharma and Ms. Thaniya.

The children came dressed up according to the themes given to them, i.e; “NATURE, MEANS OF COMMUNICATION & BEST OUT OF WASTE. They introduced themselves and also spoke a few sentences about what they represented.

The results were as follows:

UKG A           

                        Anshul Sharma                       I

                        Aanya Khurmi                                    II

                        Akshay Rawat                         III

UKG B

                        Maurvi            Bahuguna                   I                      

Arna Rikhari                           II

Anushka Garg                         III

UKG C

                        Alisha Sharma                        I                                  

Iqra Karim                              II

Harseerat Kaur                       III       

Mrs. Peter applauded the participants and congratulated all the children for their effort. The event was called after the National Anthem.

Participation of  Arwachinians

in

“JAPAN ON CANVAS  2015” - A National Level Painting Competition

The   students of classes (4- 10) participated in an In-house painting competition,

“JAPAN ON CANVAS - 2015”. Twenty six   paintings were selected and sent under two categories  :

1.    Age Limit   ( 8 Y – 9 Y )                  Theme – Spirit of Japan

2.    Age Limit  ( 11 Y – 15 Y )               Theme – Buddhism in  Japan

It   was an excellent platform for the students to express their ideas and thoughts.

The participation in such competitions motivates the students to explore about Japan & Japanese culture.

We are looking forward for the results.