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+BIRLA VIDYA NIKETAN Sarala Birla Group of Schools Activity Report- October,2017

AWARDS

EVENTS/ACTIVITIES

DATE EVENT ORGANISED BY AWARDEE &DESCRIPTION 6th October, 17

Microsoft Certificate

Microsoft BVN received Microsoft Award and recognition for school digitalisation to improve teaching and learning.

12th October, 17

'Physical Education Teacher's Award'

Action Committee of Unaided Recognised Private Schools

Mr. B Srinivas received the ‘Outstanding Physical Education Teacher’s Award’ for commendable work in the field of sports.

31st October, 17

32nd National Annual Convention at Haridwar

IAPT Ms. PragyaNopany received the second prize in National competition for innovative experiments in physics.

DATE EVENT DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 16th -21st September ,17

Cultural Tour for the festival of India in Algeria

Organised by Ministry of culture, Govt of India and Govt of Algeria. Music and Dance were performed in Algiers, Oran, Constantine and Setif. By Mr. Saroj Mohanty(vocal)

Mr. Saroj Mohanty – Music Teacher

9th October, 17 Importance of Organ Donation

Importance of Organ donationwas discussed in a very interactive session.

All sections of Class 9th , 11 G and 11 H

9th-13th October, 17

Girl Child And Mental Health Week

Sessions on mock youth parliament, group discussions on topics such as Protection of women in areas of conflict, Economic empowerment of women and health, hygiene and security were held on the occasion of International Day of the Girl Child.

11 students of class 11th TEACHER INCHARGES- PiyaNarang&NandiniBaweja

10th October, 17 Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

Awareness regarding how precious girls are was spread in the form of rally and nukkad

Students of classes 7th and 8th

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Campaign- DIPSAR, PushpVihar

natak.

9th October- 13th October

Mental Health Week

World Mental Health Day was celebrated to enhance the knowledge of the students on the topic. A wide range of activities including peer educator workshop, class discussions, exhibition and role-play were conducted.

Students of class 9th and 10th,

11th(Psychology)

17thOctober, 2017 and on 28th October, 17

Entrepreneurship Programme

The budding entrepreneurs comprising of six teams put their products stalls. They made good sale of their hand made products with profits which gave them an excellent learning experience.

Students of Entrepreneurship Club

17th October, 2017 9- 14 October 17 17th October, 17

Diwali Celebration & Green Diwali Campaign

Students of classes VI & VII celebrated an ecofriendly diwali. Earthen lamps along with the traditional rangolis were made. Lakshmi- Ganesha corner was set up aesthetically, and food stalls were put in each classroom. Students dressed up depicting characters from the epic- Ramayana. A nukkadnatak emphasizing the themes of the eco-friendly Diwali and the good over evil were enacted. Performances of tabla(solo), odissi dance, mono act etc. were also performed. The class X students of the Environment Club prepared beautiful presentations to create awareness amongst the students and took a pledge of celebrating an ecofriendly diwali. Projectwork was done to understand the ill effects and harmful effects of crackers. Dr BC Sabata(Sr. Scientific Officer, Dept of Environment, Delhi) was invited to the school and he flagged off an anti-cracker rally conducted by the students. The students of Class 12 dressed up in traditional ethnic dresses.and put up in traditional ethnic dresses.and put up spirited performances that included songs, dances and instrumental-music supports.

Students of class 6th and 7th

Environment Club Students & Class X students Students of class 12th

27th October, Visit by Mr. Yuji Nishikawa director of JST, Japan Selected students of

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INTER HOUSE ACTIVITIES

DATE EVENT DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY

13th October, 17

Class Activity on Fire less Cooking

Students prepared several dishes without fire like bhelpuri, Monaco sandwich, kulcha sandwich etc.

Students of class 9th. WINNER: KAILASH HOUSE

13th October, 17

Inter House Craft Competition

Students painted earthen pots. All students of classes 6th to 8th First position-DHAULAGIRI HOUSE Second position-ARAVALI HOUSE Third position- NILGIRI HOUSE

WORKSHOPS

DATE WORKSHOP ORGANISED DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 10th October, 17

Talk on “Cloud Computing and career prospects in IT Industry”

BVN Session on Career aspects of IT and basic tools, concepts & guidelines of Cloud Computing were discussed & explained

Class 10th and Computer Science students of class 11th Teacher Incharge: Ms. Deepika Pareek

11th October, 17

WORKSHOP ON LIBERAL ART

BVN Students were taught about the importance of social and developmental skills in the trajectory of a good career. They were made aware of various liberal arts choices of education which can give financially and socially secure life.

Students Of All Sections Of Class- 10th Teacher Incharge-MsDivyaMirchandani

13th and 14th October

Value Education Workshop

RK Ashram Marg

Two days workshop comprised of sessions and teaching of various modules of life skills (atmashraddha) by the

Class 8th teachers

2017 Science & Technology Heads of JST & Ritzmeikan Ubiversity

and Dr. Ashida- India Head, Ritzumeikan Univ attended the Anvesika session on Minds on Hands on. Students also showed Science and Robotics models. Students demonstrated the Apps developed by them and presentation on Cern visit and Biology research was presented.

Classes VIII- XII

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17 ashram teachers. 13th October, 17

Chatrapati Shivaji Mahotsav

Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts

Students went for an exhibition on Chatrapati Shivaji and saw historical facts about the administration and ruling capacity in his dynasty

Students of Classes 7th to 9th

14th October, 17 Online 8pm

Microsoft Workshop

BVN Session on Hack the classroom Teachers of Sr. School

25th-27th October, 17

Workshop on innovative experimental activities to promote scientific attitude among children

Sadhu VaswaniInternationl school for Girls, Shanti Niketan, New Delhi

Three days workshop session on experiments related to Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Different equipments were made using house hold things in innovative ways.

Ms. SuchitaSajwan

30thOctober,17

Career Workshop By Ritsumeikan University of Japan

BVN The representatives gave information about the various courses namely College of International Relations, College of Policy Science and College of Information Science and Engineering in Japan. They also told about the scholarship programme, selection procedure and the dates of submission of the application forms.

Students of Class 11th

30th October,17

Lifestyle Disorders Workshop

BVN As an initiative for Parent involvement – Dr. Manish Aggarwal who is a parent and a Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiology, Metro Hospital & Cancer Institute took a session with students & teachers on the effects of the lifestyle choices one makes which at times leads to disorders. He discussed healthy habits, and the reasons that lead to heart attacks and other heart ailments.

Students of class 7th

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INTERSCHOOL COMPETITIONS

DATE VENUE/ ORGANISER DESCRIPTION PARTICIPANTS/POSITIONS

DISTRICT- DoE (1st & 2nd Position Holders) 3rd October, 17

DoE English Essay writing competition 1st: Akshit Singh 8-E 2nd: ShlokJaiswal 10 F

6rd October, 17

DoE Hindi slogan writing competition 1st: GouriAggarwal 8-G

6th October, 17 DoE Patriotic Song Competition 1st - Boys Choir group AdityaChaudhary 11 H, Prakhar Kumar 10 G Priyanshu Kumar 10 F, Prithwish Bhattacharya 10 A, Nitesh Kumar 10 A, Prabhjeet Singh 10 D SandeepMohanty 10 G, AnujPillai 11 D, DevanshKhanna 8 A, AyushmanVaid 8 E, Harsh Chandra 10 E, Sharad Sharma 9 E, GaganTomar 10 F, Hardik Sharma 10 A, Raghav Singh 8 F Prachetas Sharma 10 G, Kaustav Swain 8 H YatharthLal 6 F, MridulMohanta 10 D

6th October, 17 DoE English Poetry Recitation 1st:- AnanyaVig 8-F 7th October, 17 DoE English Declamation 1st:- Swaanshi Jain 8-G 7th October, 17 DoE On the Spot Painting 1st: - Himakshi Jain 10-A 9th October, 17 DoE Debate Topic - 'CCE vs. Board

Exam for class 10' 2nd: - AnanyaVig 8F, Hiya Jain 8F

9th October, 17 DoE Folk Song (BVN Boys Choir) 1st –Aditya chaudhary 11H,Prakharkumar 10 G,Priyanshu Kumar 10F,Prithwish Bhattacharya 10 A,Nitesh Kumar 10 A, Prabhjeet Singh 10 D, SandeepMohanty 10 G, AnujPillai 11 D, DevanshKhanna 8 A, AyushmanVaid 8 E, Harsh Chandra 10 E, Sharad Sharma 11 E, GaganTomar 10 F, Hardik Sharma 10 A, Raghav Singh 8 F, Prachetas Sharma 10 G, Kaustav Swain 8 H, YatharthLal 6 F, MridulMohanta 10D

9th October, 17 DoE Solo Vocal Music( Classical) 1st : SandeepMohanty 10 G 9th October, 17 DoE English Extempore 2nd: AyushAnand 11 A 10th October, 17 DoE Solo Dance 1st: Supriya Gupta 12-D 4th August, 17 DoE(Zonals) Mono Acting 2nd: SiddharthKukreja 12 F, 3rd: Hiya Jain 8 F

Government and Public Schools 5th October, 17 Debate

Competition Debate competition. PrateekPankaj 12G bagged the First prize and

Himanshi Narang 11F bagged third prize.

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organised by National Zoological Park Delhi.

12th October,2017

Budding Chef Competition, Vedatya Institute, Gurgaon

Two course meal preparation-starter and desert

SahejNagpal XII G, AnanyaKhera XII D

Qualified preliminary round and got selected for finals in December

13th October, 17 Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts

Art Competition Supriya Baital VIII D, Khushi Kesari XI H Received Consolation prize of Rs. 1000 each. Rishika Salarpuria and Swastik Sajwan received an Appreciation Certificate

30th October, 17 Elocution Competition (SAIL, Lakshmi Nagar)

Elocution Competition. Kapil Ranaof class 9-B secured 3rd position in Hindi Elocution, Armaan Secured 2nd position in English Eloquation

10th- 12th October, 17

Delhi Sanskrit Academy

Sanskrit ShlokSangeetCompetition Shlokochchaaran Competition Qawali Competition Ekal Sangeet Competition

2nd - Qualified for State Level and Received cheque of Rs. 2400/-

Eshaani Manmohan 9 G, VithikaAgarwal 9 G OindreeBasak 6 G, MedhaNath 8 D, AnushkaSarkar 7 I, Indrani Mukherjee 6 F Saatwik 9 G 3rd - Received a cheque of Rs. 900/- G Prithvi 9 H, Harsh Bharia 9 H, Raghav Singh 9 F, Saatwik 9 H, Sharad Sharma 9 E YatharthLal 6 F 3rd - Received a cheque of Rs 1800/- G Prithvi 9 H, Harsh Bharia 9 H, Saatwik 9 H, MathangiSaji 7 B Dhritika 7 B, Lavanya 7 B 3rd: Consolation Received cash prize of Rs 300/-. Indrani Mukherjee 6 F

20th October 2017

The National Geographic

Research on the possible benefits that the viruses may be offering to the mankind in the future. A three minutes video was made

Student - Tushya Mehta (11 B) . BVN was ranked top 75 amongst 10,000 global entries. And a Special mention

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INTER SCHOOL COMPETITIONS (SPORTS)

DATE VENUE DESCRIPTION PARTICIPANTS/POSITIONS

4th October, 17 Salwan Public School, Rajinder Nagar

CBSE Athletic Meet 2017 Javelin Throw 3rd - Girls Under-19yrs. Tannu Yadav 11 B

14th October, 17 Thyagraj Stadium

Inter Zonal Judo Competition Girls Under-19yrs - Open weight category SanjanaAnand 10 G 1st , Muskan Gupta 10G 2nd

22nd October to 28th October, 17

The Sagar School, Tijra, Distt-Alwar, Rajasthan

CBSE Inter School Badminton Champions,

Team Event Boys (U-14) Sataksh Singh 8 C Bronze Medal AnuragJayant 8 F, Kunal Arya 7F, Samrat Chaturvedi 7 A Individual Event (U-17 Girls) Vidhushi Singh 9 E Bronze Medal Mixed Doubles (U-17 Girls) SimranArora 9 C Bronze Medal

SPECIAL ASSEMBLIES

DATE THEME CLASS 3rd October, 17 Gandhi Jayanti 7th E 4th October, 17 World Teacher’s Day 11th A 11th October, 17 International day of the girl 11th B 17th October, 17 Diwali 7th G 24thOctober,17 Halloween 7th H 25th October ,17 Late APJ Abdul Kalam 11th C 31st October, 17 Hindi Diwas, National Unity Day 7th I

that projected this new concept. The video has animations, cartoon representations and serious discussions.

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ANVESHIKA

DATE WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 26th October, 17 ‘Physics Show’

organised by IAPT, RC1, Delhi

The session was a lesson in showmanship, wit and humour. Prof Anant Krishnan showed how to present even ordinary physics demonstrations.

40 teachers from different schools of Delhi

27th October, 17 Minds on Hands on. An interschool experimental

Special equipment was bought to demonstrate innovative experiments on Mutual Induction, LCR Circuits, Interference, Polarisation and Spring constant

55 students and 8 senior physics teachers from 11 schools of Delhi

11th September- 13th October, 17

Sip Your Physics Hot

Toughest of concepts clearly and simply explained. ‘Heating it up’, ‘Brewing Thermodynamics’ was taken up by Dr Verma in which he illustrated thermodynamics concepts related to the three laws of thermodynamics using demonstrations. A session on non-conservative fields was exclusively for teachers.

70 PGTs & 235 students from 42 schools of Delhi-NCR

6th October, 17 On Electromagnetism

15 activities were done 55 students of class X

7th October, `17 On Electromagnetism & optics

Session on the concept of Electromagnetism & optics

200 students of class X

28th- 31st October, 2017

NCIEP 2017 at 32nd National Annual Convention of IAPT Venue: Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar

Equipotential curves on ‘Atta Roti’ – an innovative demonstrative experiment designed by Mrs PragyaNopany was awarded the second prize at the competition, judged by 3 eminent physicists.

Ms. Pragya Nopany PGT Physics

ASTRONOMY CLUB

DATE EVENT DESCRIPTION PARTICIPANTS

28th October, 17 Directions in Daytime: Finding Cardinal directions & Project Paridhi: Measuring Earth’s Circumference

Understanding difference between reference and cardinal directions, analyzing importance of different methods to locate cardinal directions, using gnomon and sun to mark cardinal directions. Understanding how scientific pursuits can be done by simple experimentation. Recreate the Eratosthenes

Students of module 1—classes 6th and 7th

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INTERACT CLUB

experiment and calculate the circumference of the Earth. Learn how to conduct Project Paridhi for science popularization.

28th October, 17 JantarMantar: An ancient observatory Modeling Jantar Mantar& Using yantras

Introduction of Jantar Mantar as an ancient observatory, why was it built and history behind it. Identifying various Yantras at JantarMantar. Creating a model of JantarMantar , Understand working of yantras by measuring Alt-Az through Ram Yantra, Time through Samrat Yantra.

Students of module 2—classes 7th and 8th

DATE EVENT VENUE DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 13th October, 17

Interact Swachchta Rally and visit to NaiDisha NGO

Nai Disha NGO and Kishangarh area

Students went on a Swachchta Rally with. They performed nukkadnatak and danced to make the general public aware of the negatives of squalor. They also interacted with Nai Disha kids.

27 interactors and nukkad natak students

17thOctober, 2017

Diwali Mela BVN Diwali mela was organised for the students of Anubhav (School sponsored by BVN) Nukkad natak was organised by the interactors. students emphasized on eco-friendly and pollution free Diwali. There were races and lucky draw for children of ‘Anubhav’ and were also provided by a delicious food on ths occasion.

85 students of the school ‘Anubhav’

17thOctober, 2017

Fundraising Activity

BVN Students put up stalls selling candles, chocolates, muffins to raise funds to celebrate Diwali with students of ‘Anubhav’ a registered NGO working for the upliftment of underprivileged children.

Teachers & Students