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Grade 3 Newsletter 2019-2020

Term I [June – July]

Welcome Back!

Here’s to an exhilarating new academic year!

Let’s work towards nurturing caring, courteous

and creative individuals. We are here to foster

their talent and artistic skills and make every

child in our care a leader.

~ Grade 3 Teachers

HELLO,

GRADE 3!

Welcome to the NAFL family!

Reet Vivaan

Pranav Bhat, Aathimika Anand Madhavi Arjun

Dayaadithyan Raghuraman

ACADEMIC HIGHLIGHTSEnglish Language: There is focus on improving reading and writing skills and vocabulary development.

Grammar is taught in an informal manner with focus on using it right. The sessions are interactive, using

active learning strategies.

Mathematics: Lessons are taught through active learning strategies, group work and flipped classroom

approach.

Social Studies: Lessons are taught through role play, PowerPoint presentations, group presentations and

flipped classroom methodology.

General Science: Students engage themselves in various effective hands-on activities and

interactive projects using the enquiry based learning approach.

Hindi: Lessons are taught through interactive sessions, brainstorming and research methodology.

New vocabulary, writing and speaking skills are developed.

French: There is focus on improving spellings, conversation, vocabulary

development and pronunciation. The sessions use active learning strategies.

Computer Science: Videos and interactive discussions drive the classes.

Demonstrations in the Computer Lab are combined with lab activities.

Worksheets are given to check understanding.

SCHOOL NEWS!

Our senior school students from grades 9 and 11 visited the United Nations, New York,

in February 2019 as part of the Future Leaders Programme and presented their

community outreach projects to a rapt audience.

MORE SCHOOL NEWS!Students from grades 11 and 12 visited the CERN Institute, Geneva, in June 2019

for a Master Class and had thrilling visits to the Antimatter Factory, the

Synchrocyclotron and the Compact Muon Solenoid or CMS experiment site.

Term 1 Events

World Music Day

– 21st June

International Day

of Yoga – 21st

June

Prize Day – 29th

June

French Day –

11th July

Sports Day – 24th

August

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA

Elections @ NAFL was conducted using a software developed by our own students. The project was developed bya student during training collaborationwith CISCO, Bengaluru.On election day, students from grades 6to 12 got to use the smart app and voted in their leaders.

NAFL Elections 2019-2020

Head Girl: DISHA JAIN Head Boy: SHREYAS S IYER

Sports Captains: PRAKRUTI RAGHAVENDRA ABHISHEK SATNUR

Nihal House Captains: ANANYA TALWAR ADITYA ANANTH RAJAN

Kamal House Captains: GITANJALI RAGHAVENDRA MAANITH S SHRIYAN

Vishal House Captains: SIMRAN SHARMA RAHUL CHAKRAVARTI

The newly elected

Student Council Members!

Annual Prize Day!29th June 2019

E-mag

THE E-MAG EDITORIAL TEAM

FEATURES: Meghana Krishna, Shweta Ullala,

Vanshika Arora, Suchintha Divakaram

PHOTOGRAPHY: Simran Sharma, Kavana Rao

TECHNICAL: Prajwal Nandakishore

Send us your original ideas to www.Thewritewaynafl.Wixsite.Com

NAFL Green

Small steps lead to big changes! NAFL aspires to become a carbon neutral school by

developing habits which are consistent and environmental-friendly.

Here are our Green Leaders for this year! Congratulations and good luck ahead!

ROSHNI ARUNA GUPTA (5B)

ABHAY GOGINENI (5A)

GANESH J BANNUR (12 ISC)

PRANAV RAO (AS)

School Choir Leaders

Adding to the host of leadership badges, here are the newly elected Choir Leaders . . .

Junior School: CHAAYA BASAWARAJ & RISHITH PRAVEEN

Senior School: AMAN MAKHIJA & MANASI RAGUNATH

BEST HOUSE TROPHY FOR 2018-2019

NIHAL HOUSE!

French Day Assembly!

EVENTS AHEAD!

• NAFL SPORTS DAY – August 24

• TITANS CUP FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT AT OZONE URBANA, NAFL

– August 23

• NPS HSR BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT – July 24

PROGRAMME OF WORK - TERM 1

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• Reading and Poem

Comprehensions from

EICB – My Secret

Dragon, Bakru’s Present,

The Cow, Masha Hates

her Bed, Try Again, The

Feasts, Growth of a Tree,

My Special Sister,

Jiang’s Paintbrush ,

Dirty Dabbu

• Grammar and Creative

Writing- Nouns,

Pronouns, Adjectives,

Verbs and its Tenses,

Prepositions, Paragraph

Writing, Subject and

Predicate, Punctuation

and Homophones

MATHEMATICS

• Patterns

• Large Numbers

• Addition and Subtraction

• Multiplication

• Division

• Angles

SCIENCE

• Sun as a Natural

Resource

• Cleanliness,

Health and

Hygiene

• Living and Non-

Living Things

• Insects (EBL)

• Human Body

(EBL)

SOCIAL STUDIES• Our Past

• Story of Early

Humans

• Humans learn new

things

• Directions and

maps

• The land in our

country

• Continents and

oceans

• Mountains and

valleys

• Things India is

known by

• Clothes

• Food

• Our Festivals

• Indus Cities

• Life in Indus Valley

HINDI

• Half letter and

Vocabulary

• Days of the week

• Lessons 2,4, 5,

6, 8

• Grammar -

Noun, Pronoun,

Gender, Verbs

and Tense - Past

and Present,

Singular - Plural

and Picture

Description

• Counting 1 to 30

in words

FRENCH

COMPUTER SCIENCE

• Know Your

Computer

• Using Windows

• Paint Drawing

Tools

• Advanced Paint-

Editing images

• Formatting Text in

MS Paint

• La culture Française

• Les accents

• Les nombres(1-100)

• Les salutations

• Les pronoms

personnells

• Le verbe être

• Les objets de la

classe

• Le verbe <avoir>

• Les objets dans la

chambre

• Les adjectifs

Grade 3 Faculty

III B

Ms. Rupa ShashidharMathematics and General

Science

Ms. Deepa Robert

English Language

Ms. Kajal SSocial Studies

Ms. Indumathi M Computer Science

III C

Ms. Usha Priyesh

Mathematics and

Science

Ms. Deepa Robert English Language

Ms. Padma SSocial Studies

Ms. Poornima BComputer Science

Ms. Deepa RobertEnglish Language

Ms. Usha PriyeshMathematics

Ms. Nayana A MGeneral Science

Ms. Kajal SSocial Studies

Ms. Indumathi M Computer Science

III A

Ms. Nidhi. R &

Ms. Parveen K

Hindi

Ms. Akhila. S

French

Ms. ChaitraReading Programme

Ms. RenukaArt and Craft

New Faculty Western Music

Ms. ShwethaDance

Mr. Suresh, Mr. Mahesh

Ms. Roopa B P.E.

Ms. SunithaLibrary

Mr. AbishekSaPa

CLUB ACTIVITIES

STORY

TELLING

YOGACRAFT

Almanac Entries

Acknowledgement of school circulars – pgs. 83

to 88

Note from Teachers – pgs. 65 to 70

Note from Parents – pgs. 71 to 78

Record of Absence – pgs. 79 to 82

Leave Policy

• Write a note in the diary. (Record of Absence pages, Page numbers 79-82)

• Inform / Email school office. (info@nafl.in)

• Provide a Medical Certificate. (3 or more days)

• Extended over a long weekend / vacation break

– Missed Classroom Teaching (Work needs to be covered up at home)

– Missed Continuous Assessments

– Missed Opportunity in the Merit List

– Noted in the Report Card – “Unauthorised Leave Taken”

Reminders

Do’s

A healthy snack and

lunch is what we

recommend at

NAFL!!

Don’ts

Nail Paint

Henna

Fancy school bags, pencil

boxes, watches and

accessories

• Blue and White on days

children do not have PE

• House colour for all sections

on Thursday

• Blue and Blue(PE Uniform)

on days children have PE

Uniform Code

(according to time

table)

III A

Atharv.V.Gotawat - June7th

Shaurya S.G. - June

26th

Ritvi Patro - July 25th

IIIB

Shivangi Bothra - June 7th

Vivaan Vijay Rajan - July 2nd

Aura Mullengada - July 23rd

Vishnupriya S Babu - July 26th

School Contact Details

You can reach us by phone or email:Phone:+91-80-23231567 or +91-80-23239281Email: info@nafl.in

Grade teacher: 3A – Ms. Deepa Robert3B – Ms. Rupa Shashidhar3C – Ms. Usha Priyesh

Associate teacher: Ms. Renuka Raj.