Cambridge School, New Friends Colony

Monthly Report November 2017

November is the month when the weather is excellent, which makes it the ideal time for trips

and excursions and outdoor play. Unfortunately, pollution played spoil-sport and schools had

to be closed for 3 working days.

A. Outings During the Month

✓ Class III visited the Humayun’s Tomb as a part of their SST curriculum. The visit was conducted

by volunteers from the Aga Khan Trust. The children were taken to all the structures in the

complex such as Bu Halima’s Garden and Tomb, Isa Khan’s Mosque and Tomb, Arab-Sarai and

the Humayun’s Tomb, as well as the Charbagh. Before taking a look at each of these structures,

the children were given a short history lesson and some information about each structure by

the volunteers. At the end of the trip, the students had a small session in cartooning and

calligraphy, by experts from the Agha Khan Trust.

Calligraphy session at Humayun’s Tomb

✓ As a part of the class III Social Studies curriculum, students study their neighborhood through

several field trips. The children visited the Community Centre and The Canara Bank (NFC

branch). The bank officials enthusiastically showed the children around important counters and

locations within the bank such as the cash counter and the lockers. The children were shown

how fake notes get detected in the bank using the Fake Note Detecting & Counting Machine.

The children were then taken on a walking tour of the community center.

Class III students also visited the Okhla Landfill. The children saw truckloads of trash being

dumped on to hills of piled up garbage.

Students at the community centre Students at Canara Bank

➢ The school organized an educational trip for the students of Class IV to KIDZANIA situated in

Noida.

KidZania is a Global Indoor Theme Park that inspires and educates children through its 90+

role-playing activities, helping them understand & manage their world better. Built like a city for

children, it has paved roads, battery operated cars, buildings, a fuselage of an A320 airplane, a

functioning economy & its own currency. Each activity is specifically designed to develop

different behavioural skills and values. It was a fun filled day for all the students who went.

Students at KIDZANIA, Noida

✓ All sections of Class 1 went for a visit to the Post Office at New Friends Colony community

centre. The children were shown different kinds of postcards and stamps; the procedure of

posting and delivering letters was also explained in detail to the children. At the end, the

children posted their own postcards (which they had written a day in advance in school) in the

letter box, kept just outside the post office.

Students at the New Friends Colony Post Office

B. Sports

✓ An Athletic Meet was held on November 24 for all classes to celebrate Children’s Day. Flat

races, relay races and fun races were organized for all the students of classes Nur – V.

✓ We hosted the Inter - Cambridge Cricket Tournament from Nov. 20th - Nov. 23rd. The final

matches for both boys and girls were between Cambridge School Noida and Cambridge

Primary School NFC. Both the finals were won by the NFC team.

✓ 43 children participated in the 29th Delhi State Taekwondo Championship, held at the

Thyagaraj stadium on November 30. Our students won 22 medals – 5 gold, 7 silver and 10

bronze.

C. Academic and Co-Curricular Work

✓ The Book of the Month Quiz was held for class IV. ‘The Magic Finger’ by Roald Dahl was chosen

for class IV. A few children were given appreciation slips at the end of the event.

✓ All students of Classes IV and V participated in the Bookmark Event, held in the school library.

They made bookmarks using fine tipped black pens. They were encouraged to draw and

illustrate their favourite characters or scenes from the story books they liked reading the most.

D. Events within the School

✓ A special assembly by the staff was conducted to celebrate Children’s Day. The assembly had a

blend of singing, dancing and a play. The children seemed to enjoy the program.

✓ A special assembly was presented by the children of class VB. They enacted a Japanese story -

‘Momotaro – The Peach Boy’, through puppets and theatre. Children were trained to make and

operate Bunraku puppets (traditional Japanese puppets) by Ms. Anurupa Roy (from Kathkatha

Foundation) for about a month. The play also saw children use shadow puppets which they had

made themselves during the month-long training.

✓ A two – day workshop was organized, by the school, for the students of class III. The session

was conducted by Mr. Rohit Kumar, of Family Vision Foundation. The session was about the

importance of friendship and relationships; team work and honesty. The second day concluded

with a fun activity on team-work and innovation, where the students had to make a tower with

spaghetti sticks, marshmallows, string and tape.

E. Inter School events

✓ Two students, each from class IV and V – Anwesha De and Auroneel Das, participated in the

Inter – School Recitation Competition - ‘Poetic Raga’, held at Cambridge School, Indirapuram. Anwesha De received the first prize.

✓ A number of students from various classes, participated in ‘SPECTRUM 2017’, an inter – school

competition organized by Cambridge School, Greater Noida. Our children won in junior

recitation and story narration.

F. Community Service

✓ 6 children along with three teachers went to GOONJ for donating clothes and some other

recyclable material.

G. Teacher Enrichment Programmes

Counsellor’s Meet Ms. Yasmin Asghar Cambridge, Noida

Forts of Delhi Ms. Priya Vedi

Cambridge, Srinivaspuri Ms. Tulika Chakraborty

Bhartendu Harischandra Vyaktitva Evam Krititva Ms. Manjula Vats

Cambridge, Noida

H. Miscellaneous

✓ The school was closed for three days in accordance with orders by the Delhi Government, on

account of high pollution levels in Delhi.

✓ The school's compost pit takes in organic waste such as dried leaves, plants, kitchen waste

(from our canteen and our children's non-fire cooking) and left-over food and produces good

quality manure to meet the needs of our school garden and its plants. The karamcharis packaged

the manure and sold it at extremely reasonable prices to parents, staff members and the

community around the school.

✓ In accordance with Directorate orders dated DE.15(31*)/PSB/2016/19786 dated 17.10.2017, a

special managing committee, comprising of a few parents, teachers and managing committee

members, was held in school, on November 18, 2017.

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