Independence Day with a Difference

To mark the celebration of freedom from Colonial rule and Independence, Soft Board decoration competition was held for class 10 among the 4 sections on the theme of Independence Day. Students had to present their ideas about Independent India on the soft boards in a creative and polished manner which they did beyond expectation.  

Class 10 D bagged the 1^st Position and the 2^nd position was taken over by Class 10 A.  The efforts were put in by Aayushi  Shah, Shimolee Shah, Priyangi Shah, Havisha Bhomia, Sahil Fadia, Karan Bhansali and Raivat Joshi of class 10 D.  From class 10 A hard work was done by Jay Damani, Jeet Adani, Rohan Dalal, Shanay Kharidia, Aashka Shah, Heena Patel, Jhanvi Patel and Saloni Jhaveri.

Congratulations to all. 

An abacus-making was conduted for all the sections of class II on 7^th August 2012.The students made colourful abacus from empty toothpaste boxes and straws.They used beads to represent numbers.The activity was thoroughly enjoyed by the students.

Students from Udgam School for Children took part in 7 competitive  events of Zyfest organized by Zydus School for Excellence on 27^th and 28^th July, 2012. Following is the list of students:

Participation certificate was received by all. In event Ad Mad  our team bagged special prize for ‘Best Jingle’.The team of Shreeja Desai and Jaidev Shah  made it to 1^st position in Debate among 22 schools and 44 participants present. They were felicitated  with a shield and certificates.

Udgam sincerely follows ‘Waste Management’.  A lot of craft work is done using waste material.  Prior to the festival of ‘Raksha Bandhan’ students of class  2 and 3 were taught to make ‘Rakhis’ out of waste material brought from their homes.  The result was wonderful.  Under the able guidance of their teachers, they made beautiful ‘Rakhis’ putting all their creativity to use.  The whole exercise was a joyous experience for  the students as well as the teachers.

Poems Out Loud

An Inter-School Poetry Recitation competition was organized by JG International School on 26^th July, 2012.

Following students from our school participated in the same.

SUJANI PARIKH of class 5 was awarded with a trophy and certificate for ‘The Best Vocal Quality’ . All the students bagged participation certificates.

Derek’s Challenge

Derek O’Brien’s Team conducted a quiz titled ‘Derek’s Challenge’ in the school premises on 23^rd, July 2012 at 8:00a.m. There were in all 16 students spread over 4 teams. Each team consisted of a student of class 6, 7, 8, 9/10 respectively. The whole event was well conducted and organized with all the 4 teams answering enthusiastically and logically. Even the audiences were no less. All correct and prompt answers came from audiences.  All the students got to learn something or other from this event.

The whole event was wonderful and all enjoyed it.

The names of the participants  team wise are as follows:

TEAM B surfaced  as the winners  after the long tie breaker round with Team A. 

A Science exhibition was organized by class 10 students on Saturday  14^th July 2012.   Students made projects on various topics like magnetism ,electricity , tropism , sources  of energy , life processes. Some projects were working models and some were static models. Students enthusiastically explained  the concept and the working of their model with confidence and thoroughness. They also answered the questions put to them by the students and parents. The Exhibition was well  attended by parents and teachers and was appreciated by one and all.

Guru Purnima was celebrated on the 3^rd of July 2012.  A special song in the assembly depicting respect to ‘gurus’ set the mood for this auspicious day.  Students and teachers decorated the soft boards with pictures and writing on the guru-shishya tradition, much revered in our country.  Students paid respects all their teachers on this day. In Sankrit classes, students recited slokas in Sanskrit and also enacted the story of Dronacharya and Eklavya.

To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. So said Thomas A. Edison.  On 30^th June 2012, four of our students participated in an event named INNOVATURE.  They are Sharan Jhaveri and Saumya Gupta of Std. IX and Shriraj Gandhi and Lohit Marodia of Std. X.  They participated in a design workshop named ‘Best out of Waste’ with the theme of ‘Innovating Sustainability’.  

Helen Keller’s 132^nd Birth anniversary

As a tribute to differently abled people across the world,  an elocution seminar was organized for Classes 6, 7 and 8 on 27th June, 2012 on the occasion of  132^nd birth anniversary of Helen Keller. Apart from this, teachers carried on discussions and activities in the classrooms to make students aware of such people and be sympathetic to them.

Not only Helen Keller but all those warriors who lived and are living their life with disabilities such as Deafness, Blindness and dumbness together were remembered. These courageous people are not just living but leading their life peacefully.

Representatives from SENSE International visited our premises to witness and become the part of the event.  Their Advocacy Officer, Mr. Zaheer Dhale, who is himself deaf, blind and dumb interacted with students in sign language and left children thinking how differently- abled people lead their life. The team was happy to see the school trying to sensitize children about such people. They encouraged and appreciated our student speakers by giving away remeberance gifts to them.

On this day, soft boards of the school displayed write-up and pictures related to life stories of such courageous people.

The whole exercise was a successful one as the message of being courteous and polite to disabled people was passed on with great ease to the children.