Every year Ahmedabad celebrates Heritage Week from 19th nov to 25th nov. This year Udgam initiated to be part of the Heritage week and participated for the heritage walk. The children from standard 6th to 11th will be celebrating the week and will be participating in the walk. The 8th grade children were the first batch to start with the heritage walk on 21st november. the heritage walk starts from Swaminarayan Mandir, Kalupur and then children are taken to different heritage pols, chabotras, haveli, temples and mosque and ends at city museum. At school, after the walk children are given group projects on it and even quiz is organised.

Udgam celebrated children’s day with full zest. Children exhibited their talents in different forms like dramatics, singing, playing musical instruments and having perfect jugal bandi performances. The primary children had a wonderful time exhibiting their flair towards broach designing, card making and had lots of outdoor games. The secondary group also had great time playing on the lawns different games like tug of war, kabadi and kho.  Times of India student edition of 16th November reported about the children’s day celebration at Udgam.

Santa steps in to sparkle Udgam with the spirit of Christmas "Giving and Sharing" – kindling joys in the heart of its little ones.
A beautiful decorated Christmas tree with the Snowman was kept in the lawns. The children from the whole pre-primary section and from classes 1 and 2 were on the grounds for the celebration. The school band performed while all the tiny tots went round n round the tree singing the carols. The pre-primary children were also given little gifts to take home. Children enjoyed with full zest and excitement.
Udgam wishes MERRY CHRISTMAS to all.

Again Udgam proves to be an active member in supporting social cause. Chikkis made by the Blind school girls near Manav Mandir were sold in the school premises for children and for staff. They collected almost Rs. 8000 from it for their school.

Udgam participated in Divya Bhaskar’s initiative of giving cloths to the needy. The children from 6th-9th classes brought woollens and were donated to two different places of Ahmedabad. Children with Principal M’am went to Blind girls school near Manav Mandir, Gurukul  and Visamo Kids Foundation , Bopal. They donated woollens to almost 200 girls studying at the blind school and others to the children of 5 to 17 years of age at Visamo.  Udgam believes in giving joy in any possible form to any strata of society .

Varsha Iyer of class 8 shines in the spelling bee…
She has brought laurels to the school by beating 29 contestants in the spelling bee Ahmedabad round and getting a prize money of Rs 20,000. She now will be participating in the Grand finale at Mumbai.
Udgam School is proud to nurture such talent and groom it to perfection by providing a conducive environment for such co-scholastic pursuits.

Tanisha Bhatt of Class IX has been facilitated for her painting “May Peace prevail on Earth’ by Peace Pals International as the ‘2009 Ambassador of Peace – India’.

An Acne Awareness Camp by Ranbaxy Croslands was organised for 11th grade students at Udgam on 3rd December 09. .The awareness and the consultation was provided by Dr. Umesh Nihalani [ MBBS, MD (DVD) ] who serves as assistant professor at B.J. medical. The children took his consultation on how to deal with their individual acne problems.

An Orthodontic Diagnosis Camp for dental care was also organised by Mahadevia Oral Health Academy on 3rd December 09. It was held for students of standard 5th to 9th. The check up and consultation was given by the team of professional doctors to each child.

Science of astronomy revealed hidden aspects of Universe at Udgam…
The children of Udgam were educated with beautiful observation of moon suspended in the blackness of space.Tanmaye Vyas, an amateur astronomer ( member of NASA-SOC) introduced it to students of classes 5th to 9th. They all enjoyed Lunar observation along with their parents.
Trivial facts like distances, diameters, temperature and other parameters of different celestial bodies turned out, a jaw dropping moments. And observation of the nearest neighbor became ladder for understanding other celestial bodies for all. An exhibition of solar system bodies in both English & Gujarati language gave further detail about the subject.

A new budding talent of Udgam…
Akanksha Bhan of 4th class serves to be the tennis champion, playing at the state level.She is currently ranked No1 in the Under-10 category in the State and also No.1 in the Under-12 category. She has started the year 2010 with a bang as she has captured the U-10 winner title in the first two tournaments of the year. First at AGETA ,Ahmedabad and second at NTC,Nadiad. She was also runner up in the U-14 category of the All India Tennis Association Talent series. So far she has won nearly 20 trophies. Akanksha started playing at the age of seven under the able tutelage of  one of the finest coaches of Ahmedabad,Mr.Shrimal Bhatt.Udgam wishes her best of luck for future endeavours.