CampusNewsRoundup

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Vision India 02

Sagar Invita-tional Inter-School BasketBall Tourna-ment

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Spic Macay 03

Creative Sec-tion: MyMother

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IAYP Award 03

Review: Meetthe Fockers

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Career Coun-selling

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List of PrizeWinners

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Inside this issue:Inside this issue:

The Sagarian TimesThe Sagarian TimesAugust 17, 2007August 17, 2007 —— September 20, 2007 September 20, 2007

Articles Page No.

CAMPUS NEWS ROUNDUP

The month was replete with activities and events andwas quite a handful for both staff and students.The school bade farewell to Mr. Parmeshwaran,Mr. Ajay Kaushik, Mr. Sanjeev Shah &Ms. Sharmishtha Hazra.

On 17th August, The Discover Europe Quiz washeld which was won by Emerald House.

On 18th August, a six member group fromTHE FAMILY VISION headed by Mr. Rohit con-ducted a workshop on ‘happiness’ for the students.Simultaneously, a Student Counselling OrientationSeminar was conducted by a renowned counsellingpsychologist, Dr. V.S. Ravindran for the teachers.

On 19th August, Dr.V.S. Ravindranaddressed thestudents ingroup counsel-ling sessions.

On 21 s tA u g u s t ,1st round ofI n t e r - Ho u s eEnglish De-bate was held

in which Ruby and Emerald houses emerged winners.On 22nd August, five students Ayush, Anshay,

Srishti, Divyansh & Ishaa represented the school inan Inter-School Poetry Elocution Competition atSalwan Public School, Gurgaon. Ayush won a spe-cial prize.

On 24th August, an Inter-School InvitationalBasketball Tournament began. The participantschools of this 2 day event were: Alwar PublicSchool, Pathways World School, Salwan PublicSchool, Springdales School, DPS R.K.Puram & TheSagar School. DPS R K Puram won the tournament.

On 25th August, Bishop Cotton School soccerteams arrived. They played 2 matches against ourschool at U-12 & U-14 levels. Our U-14 team wonthe match while they emerged as winners in theother.

On 26th August, an Art Workshop was conductedby Mr. & Mrs. Amit Kohli for the Holding Housestudents.

On 28th August, Raksha Bandhan was celebratedwith distribution of sweets and tying of Rakhis afterthe assembly.

On 29th August, Inter-House Soccer matchesstarted and had their grand finale on 2nd Septemberwith Emerald house as winners. Inter-House English Debate finals were held inwhich Emerald bagged the first position and Rubytook the second.

On 31st August, an Inter-House SportsQuiz was held in which Emerald houseemerged the winner.

On 1st September, the Inter-House SquashChampionship began in which Emerald housebagged the 1st position. The individual win-ners were as follows: Nikhil Singh (Div A),Thifadi Singh (Div B) & Sisira Hawaibam(Girls).

On 3rd September, 6 students, Hamza,Faizan, Zarah, Ajay, Anukalp, Lovish, wereawarded Bronze Medals and Certificates oncompletion of their IAYP programme. Kartika& Joyant also won Bronze medals.

On 4th September, an accomplished BharatNatayam exponent, Rama Vaidyanathan per-formed along with 4 accompanists for theSPIC MACAY society.

On 5th September, Diamond & Rubyhouses presented their house socials in a galaof drama, dance & music called ‘ShimmeringSpectacles’.

On 6th September, Dr.V.S. Ravindran con-ducted a general as well as individual careercounselling sessions with the students for 2days.Inter-House Basketball championship startedwith its grand finale on 10th September, inwhich Sapphire house bagged the 1st position.

On 7th September, Inter-House Hindi De-bate Competition was held, in which Emeraldhouse emerged as winner.

On 8th September, the National CyberOlympiad competition was held for classes

Vth – XIIth. On 11th September, an Inter-House English

Prose Elocution competition was held withstory telling, famous speeches and Shake-speare as the chosen items for the 3 categories.Emerald house bagged the first position in allthe categories while Ruby shared the acco-lades in the junior category.

Ms. Monisha Sardana

The Sagar SchoolVillage Baghor,

Tehsil Tijara,District Alwar,

(Rajasthan) - 301 411INDIA

Tel. No.+91 1469 262475 - 79+91 998330 8801 - 04

Fax:+91 1469 262482

E-mail:contact@thesagarschool.org

Web:www.thesagarschool.org

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VISION INDIAOn Saturday 18th August there was a workshop on topic“happiness” instead of the usual lessons for all students of TheSagar School. A group of six people from the organization“THE FAMILY VISION” arrived to show all students how easyit is to become a happier person.What are the rules of happiness? How can we use our bodylanguage to make a good first impression? In what way shouldwe behave amongst other people? All those questions wereanswered during morning and evening sessions. There weredifferent sessions for juniors and seniors.But don’t think of a boring lecture. The people of “THE FAM-

ILY VISION” used so manydifferent ways of transfer-ring their knowledge that theworkshop never became uninter-esting. There were street playsabout the importance of a goodbehaviour and a good attitude;activities in which the studentsteamed up to cooperate with

others. The students could enjoy different songs about happi-ness, and even the “TIME ROBBER” came to explain about hisbusiness (which is to steal as much time as possible from otherpeople). The students got to know the importance of a goodhandshake and learn that smiling and being friendly as well asappreciating others helps to make yourself and others happierpeople.All in all one can say that this workshop was a great experiencefor all students as well as for the teachers and hopefully every-body enjoyed it.

Merle Muller, Class X

SAGAR INVITATIONAL INTERSCHOOLBASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

For the first time, we, at the Sagar School, held an Inter-SchoolBasketball Tournament from 24 –26 August. Our school teamhad been working very hard for this tournament since the com-petition was tough. The Sagar School Basketball team: S.Deshwal, S.Bothra,DH.Shin, Mrityunjay, Farhad, Ahn Min Chul, Jae Jong Wang,Hong Seok Jang, Jong U Son, Qiu Chupeng, John, & Ahn MinYoung .The organization of the games was of a high standard. QualifiedBFI officials from Delhi were the referees and the tournamentpassed off with a feeling of fairness in all that happened on andoff the field. It was a good opportunity for interaction with otherschools. Next year we promise to provide a better competition.

We had an evening of entertainment on the 2nd day in whichstudents from the visiting teams also took part. The finals tookplace between Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram and Spring-dales in which D.P.S. emerged as winner. Our team had a closeand tough competition with Pathways and Springdales.We had an amazing learning experience. And we hope to havethis tournament as a regular event every year. Sourav Deshwal , Class XII

Soccer: The Sagar Vs Bishop Cotton, ShimlaA 32 member contingent of soccer players from BCS, Shimlavisited us on 24-25 August. We had friendly soccer matches forthe under-12 and under -14 with B.C.S Shimla in which ourU-14 team emerged as winners. BCS won the under 12 cate-gory.The U-14 team: Divyank Panwar, Lovesh Yadav, Nikhil Singh,Pathik Balana, Thifadi Singh, Qin Nan, Mohd. Asif Khan, YuHyeon Joon, Ayush Arora, Mandhir Girdhar, Chayaphon,Akash Sharma, Patcharapong & Sehaj Baweja.U-12 team consisted of: H.Yadav, A.Gupta, A.Sharma,Y.R.Singh, A.Udayan, Y.Madan, I.Jain, M.Shokeen,V.Jaipuria, A.Gir, M.Agarwal, A.P.Singh, C.Johri & R.Garg.

Chitrang Johri, Class VIII

C a r e e r C o u n s e l l i n gClasses X & XII are crucial and we have to decide whatto choose and where and how to go. To facilitate thesmooth decision making process, the school invitedDr.V.S.Ravindran and Ms. Deepti Singh, counsellorsfrom ICTRC, Delhi. The two-day counselling sessionwas useful for the students of classes IX-XII. Therewere general and individual sessions with the counsel-lors. Ayush Singh, Class XI

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SPICMACAYWe celebrated Janamashtami, the birth of Lord Krishna, on 4thSeptember 2007 by organizing a dance performance by SPICMACAY society. It is a society which has been propagating

Indian cultureand musicamong they o u t h .Miss RamaVidyanathan,an accom-p l i s h e dBharatnatyamdancer, intro-duced a thou-sand year olddance formkn own a s

“Bharatnatyam”. She has trained under accomplished ‘Gurus’like veteran Yamini Krishna-Moorthy and Saroja Vaidyanathan.Rama has been one of India’s top exponents of Bharatnatyam.She is the director of Ganesha Natyalaya, where she conductsdance classes. Rama has been performing regularly for the past25 years in India and abroad.Rama performed and interacted with us. She told us that the lan-guage of dance goes beyond language and culture. She presentedthe age old Indian traditional dance form in an interesting manner.The dance was delightful whether it was the showcasing peacockdance, or the dance portraying motherhood or Lord Krishna’smischief. It was a wonderful experience to have her in our school.

Sunaina Dhingra, Class XI

IAYP Bronze AwardThe International Award for Young People is an exciting self-development programme available to all young people world-wide, equipping them with life skills to make a difference tothemselves, their communities and the world. To date, over 6million young people from over 120 countries have been moti-vated to undertake a variety of voluntary and challenging activi-

ties. Thereare Bronze,Silver andGold awards.Eight Sa-garians werea w a r d e dB r o n z em e d a l s .They are:Lovish Jain,K a r t i k aS h a r m a ,Zarah DuaKhan, Fai-zan Khan,

Ajay Singh, Hamza Noor, Anukalp Jain & Joyant Taandon. Theawardees were presented medals and certificates by Dr.KevinDillow, former Principal, British School, Colombo. They wereinvited for a tea party at the Principal’s lawn in the evening.There are 36 students enrolled for Bronze & Silver for the nextyear. Their service activities have started and expedition willstart soon. We wish the new batch all success.

CREATIVE SECTIONMY MOTHER

My mother is my guiding lightShe gives me the power to fight

She sets me to fly in the sky like a kiteAnd I fly so high that I am out of sight.

She is like an angel in my heartA point from where my life starts.She is the wheels if I were a cartThe cart can’t run wheels apart.

If she is the fruit, I am the seedIf she is the string, I am the beadsShe always fulfills all my needs

If I am the hands she is the deeds.

From a baby to a toddlerFrom a toddler to a girl

I’ve lived with my motherLike a pearl in a shell.

Srishti Bose, Class VIII

FILM REVIEW: MEET THE FOCKERSThe movie “Meet the Fockers” was shown on a Sunday. It is acomedy film and sequel to ‘Meet the Parents’ starring RobertDeNiro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Streisand, TeriPolo, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson.It is about two people who want to get married and everythingis arranged, but the girl’s parents want to meet the boy, Gay-lord Fockers’ parents. It’s a movie full of situational comedywherein a meeting of two sets of parents, the boy’s being tooliberal and the girl, Pam’s being traditionally conservativetakes place. These differences produce many comic situationsand show the evolution of Jack’s relationship with the family.It is interesting to see how the wedding eventually unfolds.

Swati Gupta, Class XII

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Sourav Deshwal First Emerald

Dev Vrat Bhardwaj First Emerald

Lovish Jain First Emerald

Gaurang Rajgharia First Emerald

List of Prize Winners in Various Co-Curricular Activities

I. H. English Elocution (Poetry)

I. H. Quiz

Unnati Bose First Ruby

Divyansh Karnani Second Diamond

Himanshu Yadav Third Ruby

Srishti Bose First Ruby

Tanya Lamba Second Sapphire

Sisira Hawaibam Third Diamond

Anshay Sardana Third Diamond

SeniorAnu Liza Jose First Emerald

Siddhartha Bothra Second Sapphire

Junior

Sub Junior

Amita Singh Third Emerald

I. H. Hindi Elocution (Poetry)

Sub JuniorHarsh Metrey First Ruby

Yatin Madan Second Ruby

Abhijeet S. Dhillon Third Emerald

JuniorShalu Pal First Emerald

Anuj Gupta Second Diamond

Gaurang Rajgharia Third Emerald

SeniorRoopal Agarwal First Sapphire

Arpit Maheshwari Second Emerald

Sahil Malik Third Ruby

Zarah Dua Khan Third Ruby

Sourav Deshwal First Emerald

Gaurang Rajgharia First Emerald

Chitrang Johri First Emerald

Discover Europe Quiz

Sports Quiz

Dev Vrat Bhardwaj First Emerald

Sourav Deshwal First Emerald

English DebateAnu Liza Jose First Emerald

Vithoon Mehra First Emerald

Dev Vrat Bhardwaj First Emerald

English Debate (Best Speaker)

Anu Liza Jose First Emerald

Hindi DebateJunior

Shalu Pal First Emerald

Gaurang Rajgharia First Emerald

SeniorDev Vrat Bhardwaj First Emerald

Lovish Jain First Emerald

JuniorChirag Bansal First Sapphire

SeniorZarah Dua Khan First Ruby

Hindi Debate (Best Speaker)

I. H. English Elocution (Prose)

Sub JuniorUnnati Bose First Ruby

Tanmay Singh Birwal Second Emerald

JuniorSrishti Bose First Ruby

Gaurang Rajgharia Second Emerald

Ishaa Hawaibam Third Diamond

Vatsal Jaipuria Third Emerald

Tanya Lamba Third Sapphire

SeniorVithoon Mehra First Emerald

Anu Liza Jose Second Emerald

Merle Muller Second Diamond

Siddhartha Bothra Third Sapphire

Editorial Board:

Staff Editor Design Editor

Monisha Sardana Arjun Negi

Student Editors

Siddhartha Bothra Anu Liza JoseLovish Jain Swati GuptaAyush Singh Sunaina DhingraAnshay Sardana Tanya Lamba