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BIRLA VIDYA NIKETAN Sarala Birla Group of Schools Activity Report- APRIL, 19

EVENTS/ACTIVITIES AT BVN

DATE EVENT DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 5th April, 19 World Health

Day To sensitive healthy habits, multifarious activities like debates and poster making were conducted to increase awareness regarding several health issues and the strategies to deal with them and chalk out preventive measures.

Students of class VI, VII

6th April, 19 Orientation Programme

Parents were oriented and were given general guidelines for the smooth functioning of academics and wellbeing of their wards. Parents were guided about the evaluation scheme for the year. Important areas of discipline and various programmes conducted by the school throughout the year. The school counselor Ms. Pallavi enlightened the audience on the psychological development of the children in the transitional period.

Parents of class VI to VIII

8th to 12th April, 19

Maths Week Mathematics week was held. Students did inter disciplinary project on Poster or Book Cover of maths in a group of two. Inter house activity was conducted where each class did the activity on Tessellation. Also the class XII students took Workshops on maths they taught different topics to the the students of Class VII. Lastly an Exhibition was put up to display the maths work done by students.

Students of class VII and XII

9th to 12th April, 19

Science Week

All children of class VI involved in various activities. An interdisciplinary group activity was conducted. Students have made menu cards on the topic ‘Healthy Breakfast’ in groups. Quizzes were conducted. Students from class XII carried out workshops in each sections of class VI on various Science related topics. An exhibition was held on the last day in which breakfast menu cards made by class VI students were displayed.

Students of class VI and XII

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WORKSHOPS

DATE WORKSHOP ORGANISED DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 29th to 31st March, 19

Conference on 'Recent Trends and Advancements in chemical sciences'

Delhi University

A three days national conference on 'Recent Trends and Advancements in chemical sciences’ was conducted in DU. Many researchers from various universities of India presented their research work and some students presented posters.

Ms Deepti Srivastav and Mr Harish Rautela

3rd April, 19

Awakened Citizen Program

BVN Life skills Workshop from Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi. The interaction was about how to develop faith in our infinite possibilities.

Students of class VI

6th April, 19

'Not specializing just sensitizing'

BVN Workshop was for the teachers on the topic with an aim to address queries of teachers on various disorders and suggestions to make changes in their classes for better learning.

For selected Teachers

8th to 12th April, 19

Science Workshop

BVN Science week was celebrated for class VI. A very special event of this week was the organization of science workshops for all the

Students of class VI- XII

18th April, 19 World Heritage Day

Environment club students participated in a Heritage Walk on the occasion of World Heritage Day. Walking in the nature on a guided tour of Sunder Nursery. Students were given information on the tree species, vermi composting, organic composting and the heritage of Delhi. Covering the stretch of 7.5 kilometres in the early morning hours. Students felt rejuvenated.

Students of the Environment Club

20th April, 19 Talent Show Students had their talent show on the topic ‘Know my country’. Students performed various activities like dance, sang patriotic songs, recited poems and played guitar, tabla, casio etc. It was a fun filled learning experience for them.

Students of class VI-VIII

24th April, 19 Interaction with the Japanese Delegation

A Japanese Delegation from Gram Inc. Tokyo Japan visited BVN. They had an interactive session with the students. They introduced a book called KAGAKURU which means ‘science is coming’. It contained scientific facts illustrated in an interesting manner through pictures and graphics in a comic style.

Students of class VI-E (Japanese Language)

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sections of class VI by the science students of class XII. Ranging from pressure and surface tension, to rare flowers and animals of planet earth to artificial intelligence and its uses, broad spectrum coverages were offered at these workshops. Follow up by quizzes and question- answer sessions made it interactive.

12th April, 19

Inter-School Science Workshop

BVN An interschool science activity workshop was conducted by resource person Mrs Pragya Nopany. Selected students of six prominent South Delhi schools participated. Students performed hands-on activities and innovative thinking was encouraged. They also gave a presentation of the work done by then.

Selected Students

24th April, 19

ATL Community Day

Springdales School, Pusa Road

Various models showcased like burglar alarm using ultrasonic sensor, voice recorder, electrostatic sparking, and model of DNA etc. Students got to see their own DNA with the help of simple activity explained by their teacher. A very informative session on ‘Cyber Security and Etiquettes’ was conducted by Ms. Nidhi Tiwari.

Selected students of class VIII and IX

27th April, 19

'Principals' Conclave On Gifted Children 2019'

Venkatesh Trust for Education and Excellence

Principal attended the conclave where the CBSE Director-Academics and Padamshree JSSF Rajput, former Director, NCERT were extremely encouraging to make the teaching approaches in schools conducive for creating inquisitive and research oriented children. Very positive feedbacks for the programme were given by Ms Rachana Pant, Ramjas School Pusa Road and Mr Makkar, HDFC School.

Ms. Minakshi Kushwaha

29th, 30 th April, 19

Capacity Building Workshop

CBSE The workshop was conducted under the aegis of CBSE, Centre of Excellence to provide a platform for professional development and subject based interaction among teachers teaching Political Science in Class XI and XII.

Ms Mriganka Chaudhry

SPECIAL ASSEMBLIES

DATE THEME CLASS 2nd April, 19 Good health and well-being/ B.R.

Ambedkar VIII A and VIII B

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3rd April, 19 Sports for peace/ English language/ Jallian Wala Bagh Massacre

XII D, XII E and XII F

INTERSCHOOL COMPETITIONS

INTER SCHOOL COMPETITIONS (SPORTS)

DATE VENUE DESCRIPTION PARTICIPANTS/POSITIONS

5th to 7th April, 19

R C F Golf Club Kapurthala

IGU North Zone Sub Junior /Junior Feeder tour 2019

Savdeep Kadian - 2nd Position 9 B

April, 19 BVN Inter-House Sports Result BADMINTON Overall Badminton Championship ANNAPURNA HOUSE WINNER Sub-Junior Boys Kailash Sub-JuniorGirls Annapurna Junior Boys Nilgiri Junior Girls Nilgiri

DATE VENUE/ ORGANISER DESCRIPTION PARTICIPANTS/POSITIONS

PRIVATE SCHOOLS JSTSE 2019 4 students got selected in

JSTSE 2018-19 JSTSE 2019 Abhimanyu Bhowmik IX G Dhruv Malhotra IX B Aditi Gupta IX D Ayush Savar IX A Cleared JSTS Exam 2019

10th April, 19

Korea - India quiz, level 2 Korean Cultural Centre , 25A, Ring Rd , Lajpat Ngr

9 Students participated in the level 2 Quiz from Birla Vidya Niketan out of which one got selected for finals. There were approximately 100 students on that day, selecting four.

Akshat Singh of X C got selected for the finals.

April, 19 UNICORN Foundation for Innovation and Experiential Learning

It consisted of two levels, level one was an online test and in level two students needed to submit a presentation on any topic related to Science.

Navan Chauhan stood second in North India in National Science Concours and won Rs. 7500 and a trophy

24th April, 19

Korea - India quiz, Finals NCUI Auditorium

International Korean Quiz Akshat Singh (X C) secured 1st position and won a free trip to South Korea.

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Senior Boys Aravali Senior Girls Annapurna SWIMMING Overall Swimming Championship ANNAPURNA HOUSE FOOTBALL WINNER Senior Boys Annnapurna BASKETBALL WINNER Sub-Junior Boys Aravali Junior Boys Aravali VOLLEYBALL WINNER Junior Girls Nilgiri Senior Girls Nilgiri

ASTRONOMY CLUB

ANVESHIKA

DATE WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 5th April, 19

Anveshika Session at Springdales School

Hands on activities on electrostatics were performed with ordinarily available material around them.

70 students + 1 PGT

15th April, 19

Anveshika Session at Tagore International School

Electrostatics activities, taking up the challenges and trying out their ideas. Class X students enjoyed the demonstrations on Optics – a new experience for them.

195 students + 7 teachers

16th April, 19

Anveshika Session at DAV

A session on electrostatics and current electricity for students.

60 students + 2 PGTs

DATE EVENT DESCRIPTION PARTICIPANTS

1st April, 19

Orientation Briefed students on various events that are coming up, explore “SPACE Event Calendar” and briefing of “Club Calendar” of events that the club would organize.

Students of class VI- VIII

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Public School

18th April, 19

Anveshika Session at DAV Public School

Electrostatics and current electricity concepts were brought alive. The Concepts like variation of resistance with temperature, working of electrolytic cell, internal resistance, and principle of potentiometer were made very simple and demonstrated

60 students + 2 PGTs

23rd April, 19

Anveshika Session at Queen’s Valley Public School

Some demonstrations on electrostatics and current electricity very done for students.

60 students + 1 PGT

27th April, 19

Teachers’ training at DAV Public School

Electrostatics & current electricity were made innovatively fun filled and the teachers were excited to try out their ideas. Participating teachers felt that activities shown could be immediately implemented in the class room as they involved most commonly available low-cost material.

25 PGTs & TGTs from 10 different schools

INTERACT CLUB

DATE EVENT VENUE DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 4th to 6th April, 19

Visit to Kyari Village

Uttarakhand Students went for an educational trip. Activities performed Day 1- Body surfing, team building activities, basket and rope making. Day 2- nature walk, visit to the local school, meeting with the village surpanch, lunch hunt (lunch with local people in their homes), farming activities, ploughing, seeding, transplanting. Day 3-Mountain trek, visited Brahmandeshwari temple about 1200m above sea level.

A group of 35 students of class X and XI