World Mental Health Day

On the occasion of  ‘World Mental Health Day’ (10^th October), in order to sensitize and spread  awareness about mental health among the students, a team of around 20 students and teachers of Department of Psychology of city College was invited to USFC. They had an interactive session with students of class 9 and 10. The awareness among the children about the mental health was created by means of a lecture accompanied by charts.  Students also asked questions regarding stress before exam, depression and so on.  The team tried to answer their questions as far as possible.

Young Radio Jockeys 

As part of oral expression activity, a Radio Talk Show was organized for class 7. Students were divided in groups which were innovatively named as different radio stations like Cool crisis, Red Fm and so on. Students presented their views on various topics like Bus Rapid Transit System, Terrorism and Insurgency, Udgam Rocks!, Taj Mahal , Social Networking Sites, Indian Youth , Overspending of money amongst the Youth, Tele Shopping  and many more. The entire class was involved in the activity. A group of students sang humorous jingles during the programme.  Another group was assigned the task of preparing posters highlighting the names of radio stations. The programme reflected the sincere efforts put in by the students and the teachers. After the initial screening, thirteen groups were finally selected for the competition.  Below are the names of the team members who managed to reach the 1^st and 2^nd position. There was a tie at the second position

Children enjoyed the entirely new approach towards learning as this activity carried weightage in Continuous Assessment. 

Tennis Stars

3 girls from Udgam School took part in CBSE Cluster 9 Table Tennis Tournament and brought laurels to school. The meet was held at Rajkot organised by CBSE Inter School Sports and Games Competition 2012-13. Yashvi Shah of class 6 C, Heli Shah of class 7 D and Avishi Jariwala of class 9 D bagged 1^st position and received a Gold medal each and certificates in Team event under 16. Avishi Jariwala also bagged a silver medal and certificate for being on the Second position in Individual event in under 16.

Students of Udgam School For Children took part in Athletics Tournaments  organized by Daskroi District Vyayam Prcharak Mandal on 8^th September, 2012 and came back with flying colours. Here is the achievement chart of our students:

 UNDER 14 (BOYS) TALUKA LEVEL

UNDER 14 (GIRLS) TALUKA LEVEL

UNDER 17 (BOYS) TALUKA LEVEL

UNDER 17 (GIRLS) TALUKA LEVEL

UNDER 19 (BOYS) TALUKA LEVEL

The athletes who have bagged 1^st position are all set  for Next level to take place in the end of September month.

Students gift to Teachers

Teachers Day was celebrated in a unique way at USFC. Instead of usual concept of senior students becoming teachers and going to junior classes, this year we gave chance to students of same class to become teachers. Apart from this, the students were involved in many activities like balloon decoration, pot making, flower making, recitation, speech, solving puzzles. Children enthusiastically prepared and sang songs on “Guru”, danced, played guitar for their beloved teachers to make them feel special and show their deep respect.  

TEACHERS DAY 2012

This year TEACHERS DAY was celebrated in a different way at Udgam.  Teachers put up, what may be called, a colourful and joyful ‘Annual Function’.  A cultural programme was organized to showcase the talents of teachers.  There was a variety of items ranging from instrumental music, singing, dance, skit and group discussion. 

The programme started with the melodious strains of sitar produced by the music teacher, Gopi Shah, followed by a variety of dances.

The Pre-Primary teachers performed the traditional dances of Gujarat.  The Primary teachers brought the dance of Kerala alive on stage, reminding one of the recently concluded festival of Onam and another of Rajasthan.

The secondary teachers displayed the different colours of India.  Dances of Punjab, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Bengal, Kerala and Gujarat were performed by them.  All merged into the finale of Gujarati Garba.

Secondary teachers of English, Hindi and Sanskrit discussed the role of teachers in shaping the future generation, giving the audience much to think about.

A skit performed by the Middle School teachers highlighted the difficult but rewarding job of teachers.

The whole programme was wonderfully organized.  Looking at the teachers perform with so much zest and joy one forgot for a moment that they are teachers not students.  Neither age nor the sultry weather hampered their spirits.  They enjoyed themselves thoroughly. 

One could say of every teacher what Shakespeare wrote of Cleopatra:

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. 

Zestful Soccer Team

Boys from our school took part enthusiastically in The Times of India-Claris Twenty20 School Soccer on 2^nd of September,2012. The names of the players  are:

The fantabulous performance showcased by the team proved the hard work and practice put in. They gave a tough time to the opponent team. All the students were given  certificates and a trophy for participating in the match.

Story Telling Activity

To remove the phobia of stage and to improve the speaking skills, English Storytelling activity was organized for class 1 on 31^st August,2012. All the students narrated the stories heard since childhood on stage enthusiastically and with remarkable confidence along with supportive props made by them. 

Rural IT Quiz

A team  comprising of two students from class 11 were selected after preliminary round at school to take part in Rural IT  Quiz . The names of the students are as follows:

They both were among the selected teams in the written round.

Both the  students were awarded with participation certificates.

CHILD-FRIENDLY ZEBRA CROSSING

Udgam School for Children has always taken up socially responsible tasks.  In continuation with this, on Friday 17^th August 2012 a Child Friendly Crossing was painted under  the silver light of Moon and stars, outside the school gates.  The whole activity was done with joint efforts of school students, staff and workers from AMC. The school had won 1^st position for this design in the month of April 2012. The design, which was created by our students, depicted the shadow of a human being making it attractive and thus child friendly. All the students and staff carried out the process with zest and enthusiasm all felt proud and happy. The darkness of night or the continuous flow of traffic did not dampen their spirits.  The adventurous activity was carried on from 9 to 1.00 at night.  Udgam is grateful to all those parents who waited with their children till midnight and supported the school in this endeavour.