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FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

Inside this issue:

From the Principal’s

Desk

1

Elocution competitions 2-5

Career Counseling 6

Awareness workshop 7

Children’s Day 8

World Photonics Day 9

Accolades 10

Kaleidoscope 11-14

Activities 15

HappyChildren‟sDay 16

Children’s day special

NOVEMBER,2014

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Editorial Team

Ms.Sanjukta Banerjee

Ms.Dolly Chowdhury

Ms.Deepti Bhattacharya

Ms.Shampa Dutta

Mr.Sankarjit Chakraborty

Dear All,

Education has to be all inclusive. It cannot

be confined to classrooms. Learning is con-

tinuous process and schools have major role

in this process. To be able to meet the chal-

lenges and learn from all situations should

be the hallmark of all persons.

Keeping this essence ,we have designed our

school‟s education structure. Apart from

regular classes we organize activities which

are designed to develop other skills.

Winter is just about ushering in. Festive

mood just about over. But Children‟s Day

was there.

I am sure everybody enjoyed the grand show

painstakingly put up by teachers and the

tasty pizza the day before.

Even in this joyous mood we must not for-

get the less fortunate children, who have not

heard of pizza, let alone taste it. It is with

this in mind that Todiji announced that we

would donate 200 boxes of pizza next year

to these needy children .It will be done

through some NGO.

A fantastic Sports Day has just been con-

cluded. Smart march by the students was

impressive.

The daily workout to reach the level of per-

fection has to be applauded.

We are all here for learning .To be able to

do that ,we have to be physically and men-

tally fit and have that craving for learning.

Our school strives to achieve all this.

Looking forward to the next big event-The

Annual Day!

A child miseducated

is a child lost. - John

F. Kennedy

The best way to

make children good

is to make them

happy. - Oscar Wilde

CHILDREN’S DAY SPECIAL

Annual Elocution Competitions- Primary & Secondary

Hindi, Bengali &French

Inter house Hindi Elocution 2014-15(Primary)

Primary Inter- House Hindi Elocution Competition was held on 3rd of November ,2014 . There

were twenty-four participants in all. The event was divided into five categories. Number of par-

ticipants in the first category was eight, while rest of the categories had four participants ,with

one representation from each house.

Anya Roy , Class –III-C from Philosopher House won the Best Speaker‘s award.

Students of SCIS had already proven their oratory skills in English. Now was the time of the year when they had to prove their prowess in Hindi, Bengali and French Elocution. The powerful and flawless rendition by the participants in these three different languages kept the audience in rapt attention.

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INTER- HOUSE HINDI ELOCUTION COMPETITION (SECONDARY)

On 5TH NOVEMBER 2014 , the Annual Hindi Elocution Competition for Classes VI - VIII was held. The participants per-formed well under the able guidance of Hindi teachers.. The event was judged by Ms. Manisha Choubey,Ms . Shampa Dutta and Ms. Menu Duggal.

The competition was divided into three categories-

Category A comprised of participants from class VI .The theme assigned was “ Seasons”.

Category B had students of class VII competing on the theme” Sarcasm”

Category C had Class VIII speaking on the current problems related to Society.

The results are as follows

CATEGORY A

CATEGORY B

CATEGORY C

BEST SPEAKER : MEDHA PRIYA of Class VIIC.

POSITION HOUSE NAME CLASS POINTS

1st CREATOR SREYANASH

BHARDWAH

VIB 133

2ND ACHIEVER JEENIA GOGOI VIB 130


1st PHILOSOPHER MEDHA PRIYA VIIC 137

2nd ACHIEVER KARNIKA BAID VIIC 134


1st CREATOR TANVI SEHGAL VIIIC 129

2nd PHILOSOPHER VANISHA GUPTA VIIID 126

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Bengali Elocution holds an important place in the South City Academic calendar .It was a combined effort of Primary and Secondary section. The programme commenced with the performance of the participants of Primary Section. The little children performed very well. The chief guest Mrs.Shaswati Datta ,Principal of Vidyanjali International School, graced the occasion. The In-House Judges comprised of Mrs.Sanjukta Banerjee, Mrs.Sahana Bhattacharya, and Mrs. Mayurika Basu. In the latter part of the competition, the students of Secondary section participated in Inter-class competition.The theme of the poems for Class VI was based on 16

th and 17

th

Century Mangol Kabyo. The theme of Class VII was contemporary poem.It was Sruti Nataka for Class VIII and IX.All the participants performed their best and won the hearts of the audience. The programme came to a conclusion with a Rabindra Sangeet followed by National Anthem. Winners of Group A 1

st Position --- Priyasha Sanyal (6C) Group C

2nd

Position – Roshni Banerjee ( 6B ) Group B 1

st Position – Manjima Sengupta (8B)

Ria Banerjee (9A) 2

nd Position – Drashta Banerjee (8c)

Zoheb Alam (9B)

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1st

Position – Aranya Sen (7C) 2

nd Position – Hridita Chatterjee ( 7A)


FRENCH ELOCUTION COMPETITION

On 20th November 2014, the South City International school witnessed the first

French elocution competition ever held since the birth of the school in its auditorium.

The competition was from Class 1 to class 5, the primary section and class 6 to class

10, the secondary section. The event witnessed the portrayal of exceptional poetry

recitation skills. The performances were highly appreciated by the audience as well

as the Chief Guest Gwenëlle Raisoir, the course director of Alliance Française du

Bengale. The competition was judged by two French teachers of Alliance française,

Mrs. Sangeeta Ghosh and Mr. Asit Baran Roy.

From the Primary a variety of interesting rhymes with beautiful anchoring had

flown in a melody from the young ones. They recited French Nursery Rhymes.

And the secondary students came with the theme of gradual change that takes place

in the mental plane of a child as it grows up. They opened a gallery of Jaques Pre-

vert‟s poems. It was a treat to hear the poems which came as an expression of an irri-

tated child when it is bitten by an ant or a bumble bee and the poems which took us

to a little child‟s fantasy world . Some poems depicted the pains of the animals in

zoo and took us to the thoughts of a dunce, and some poems expressed the desire of a

child to grow up into a young man when he no longer has to drink milk. Poems of

Jacques Pervert came also with a young man‟s cravings for his lost love and with the

moon‟s soliloquy by Guy de Maupassant.

One could see and feel the enthusiasm that the children had in their presenta-

tion and their beautiful way they expressed something through words and expression

in a melody with all smiles, giggles and sad tunes and with all their confidence to

stand in front of everybody reciting poems which were totally in foreign language.

Bhushanraj Singh of Class III snatched the Best Speaker award from the

Primary Section. In the Secondary section Shantanu Volz of Class VI won the first

prize in the Group F along with the Best Speaker award. Priyasha Sanyal came sec-

ond. In the group G , Sasha Ararwal and Natasha Mahapatra of Class VII jointly won

the 1st prize with Larissa Moraes coming second. Rajit Banerjee of class IX with his

emotional presentation, won the 1st prize in Group H.

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“ There are no ideal careers only ideal choices”(Career counseling )

This was evident at the career counseling sessions held at South City International

School on the 12th , 14th and 15th of Nov.‟14 by The Institute for Career Studies

Lucknow.

The counseling programme started with different interactive sessions for parents, stu-

dents and teachers by Dr. Amrita Dass – Founder Director (ICS) on the 12th of Nov.

All her sessions were informative and enriching, she cleared many misconceptions

and generalizations associated with career choices.

The interactive sessions were followed by individual counseling sessions for students

of class VIII on the 14th ,and 15th of Nov.‟14. Ms. Rashmi Singh and Ms. Anuja

Kumar, the two counselors from ICS, conducted these sessions. Each student was

counseled by them based on their performance in the aptitude test conducted by Insti-

tute for Career Studies in October.

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Workshop on Sexual Abuse / good and bad touches/ Awareness

An enriching awareness program on good

and bad touch was conducted in school on

19th November, 2014. This workshop was

presented by Ms. Sejal Arora and Ms.

Monita Basu Saha. Two sessions were con-

ducted ,each having a duration of an hour

and half. They were happy to learn that there

was no harm in giving children correct an-

swers to questions that aroused interest in

their minds! They also became aware of the

No – Go – Tell Principle so that they could

further go home and enrich their child on the

same!

This workshop enriched them about

the various stages of development in a child.

It was a workshop developed as a way of

communicating about sexual abuse to chil-

dren from the age of 3 years in a creative

way. Power point presentations, activities,

videos and interactive sessions were used to

convey this topic on a lighter note.

At the end of the workshop, parents were

aware that it‟s not wrong if their children are

seen playing with their genitals and they

could be told about the safety of their body

in a play way method!

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South City International school celebrated Children‟s Day on the 15th of November 2014. After a short

break at 10 am all the students settled down in the auditorium to attend the cultural programme organ-

ised by the entire faculty and administrative department of the school under the support and guidance

of our respected Principal ,Mr. John Andrew Bagul. The programme started with the Principal‟s ad-

dress followed by a special dance performance by Assistant Principal Ms Sanjukta Banerjee and HR

head Ms Mayurika Basu. The other events were a classical dance performance, Inter-House music

competition with a special theme of seasons and festivals, had teachers of Innovator House walking

away with the winning prize.The Variety Programme included western and eastern dance perform-

ances, songs by the admin department and a special performance put up by the Performing Arts de-

partment. Our respected Primary Head Ms Sahana Bhattacharya and Administrative Head Col.Adhip

Mazumdar also lend their support and actively participated in the cultural programme. The event

ended with all rising for the national anthem.

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WORLD PHOTONICS DAY CELEBRATION AT SCIS ON 15TH NOVEMBER 2014

“Science is Fun”, “Science is Magic” – these phrases came to life when SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics), Student Chapter, Kolkata, celebrated World Photonics Day (which was on 21st October) with students of South City International School on 15th November 2014. The belated celebration was also a part of the Children’s Day celebration. The World Photonics Day program was conducted in two venues. Dr. Kallol Bhattacharya, Faculty Advisor SPIE and Head of Optics, Applied Physics, Calcutta University gave an entertaining talk on Light and Optics to the stu-dents of classes 5 to 8 in the Auditorium from 8:30 in the morning while his team of SPIE volunteers (B.Tech and M.tech students of Calcutta University) conducted interesting demo-experiments for students of classes 9 and 10 in the Activity Room. Both the sessions dealt with basics of behavior of Light, photons and interesting modern day applications. Dr. Kal-lol Bhattacharya engaged the students in the audience to make them understand simple concepts regarding Light, reflection of light, perception, total internal reflection and applications like fibre optics, UV lights, 3D vision, 3D movie and projection. It was a good entertaining fun session through which students learnt a great deal about Light/Optics. The session in the Activity room for Classes 9 and 10 was highly educative as students saw simple demonstrations of their text book concepts. The models, demo kits were very simple and inspiring. In one demo, through simple water bottle and laser light one could see total internal reflection effect, while other one showed mixing of seven colors of light spectra. Another model showed convergence, divergence of light rays after passing through lenses and prisms. They also demonstrated Interference of light rays which projection of interesting interference patterns on screen. Astrophysics Instrumentation volunteers had set up telescope in the field to show projection of Sun-spots. It was a fun way of experiential learning for everyone. This program ended at 11 a.m well before beginning of other segment of Children’s Day celebration in the Auditorium. We hope SPIE will once again invite South City In-ternational School to host World Photonics Day next year - 2015, which happens to be INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT!! All such beyond textbook activities are always encouraged and supported by our Principal, Management of South

City International School and parents. We thank everyone for the support. We hope these activities will add an ex-

tra experiential dimension to our students’ learning curve.

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KALEIDOSCOPE

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A jaunt at Bajoria House

A picnic was arranged for Preparatory children of

all the four se

ctions( A,B,C,D) on 26-11-14 at Ba-

joria House. A total of 104 children accompanied

by four teachers a

nd four attendants had a wonderful

time amidst a

nimals and birds . T

hey spent time

playing games in the organic garden .T

he little ones

had loads of fun and enjoyed their sn

acks and juice

too.

HEALTH CHECK-UP PROGRAMME

A health check-up camp was organized from 19th November 2014 to

26th November 2014 for all the students of SCIS by the doctors of

A.M.R.I. The health check-up included :

1. Growth and development assessment (Height & weight measure-

ments) 2.Vision screening with power testing facility

3.Dental 4. E.N.T. The check-up was conducted from 9.00am to 2.00pm. All the stu-

dents from Tiny-Tots to Grade 10, took turns to come to the Activ-

ity Hall for the check-up. Each student was provided with a health

card mentioning the general health status of the child. For the chil-

dren with health conditions detected during screening , a note was

sent to the parents/guardians appraising them of the child‟s condi-

tion. The annual health check-up was carried out in a very systematic

way.


THE APPRENTICE SCIENTIST-2014 SCIENCE COMPETITION HELD AT FUTURE FOUNDATION SCHOOL

South City International School has been participating in the Apprentice Scientist Science Competition which is organized and conducted jointly by Future Foundation, School, Kolkata and Lycee, François, Pondicherry. The third edition of the competition was held on 21st November this year. The competition is specifically for science students of grade 8. Eight teams (each team of five students) participated in the event this year. The day long competition is unique and interesting as it follows French philosophy of “Doing Science”. Five stu-dents of class 8 South City International School participated this year and won the joint second place. The competition involves and engages students in 3-4 experiments for which kit and instructions are pro-vided by Lycee, Francois Science team. Students have to perform the experiments, analyze and present the results and then complete worksheets/reports. It is a four hour long event which almost every team enjoyed participating. The experiments were simple about science concepts in everyday life around us – Air resis-tance, Lung function, Copper and Laws of Motion. South City International Team consisted of five bright students – Wrik Karmakar, Mayank Goel, Joydeep Dutta, Avik Chakravarty and Raunak Dasgupta. The team performed sincerely with complete co-operation, they gave proper explanations, completed reports/worksheets and got well deserved second place along with Narmada School. The first place went to Heritage School and third to Modern High School. These winning teams of East Zone will now compete in Nationals Final which will be held at Lycee school in Pondicherry in February/March. The school was awarded autographed copy of the book, “Apprentice Scientist” by French Physicist Nicole Ostervesky who was one of the judges of the competition and also gave away the prizes to winning teams. It was a fulfilling experience to win second place in the competition. We hope to go better prepared for the next national round.

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KALEIDOSCOPE


KALEIDOSCOPE Workshops at The American Centre

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On the 18th of November the American Centre, Kolkata hosted a Hip Hop Dance Workshop at

the Consulate . The workshop was attended by Aashka Doshi from class VIII C. The workshop

was an interactive session wherein the students were taught wall graffiti . They were also taught

Dub step, Foot walk , Beboing , D J Scratch and Locking and Popping. The students were given

an opportunity to demonstrate their skills .

Mr. JJ, Mr. Valentine and Mr. Prince conducted the workshop.

On the 19th of November the Director of the American Centre invited students from South City In-

ternational School to attend a workshop on music at the Consulate. Eighteen students from classes

VI to VIII went to attend the workshop.

The prime focus of the workshop was centered around Music as a scientific discipline and how it

helps to develop an all round personality whether fostering academic or sportsmanship qualities.

The workshop was more performance based. Ms Heemstra who conducted the workshop began by

introducing the children to various genres of music such as the Argentinean Tango and thereafter a

series of pieces from the Impressionist Romantic period. The pieces included compositions by

Claude Debussy ,a French composer who incorporated the pentatonic scale to percussionist ideas

and emotions stirred from nature into his music. The pieces were „The Pagodas „which plied with

the sound of the Gong and then „Le Mer‟ which created an auditory image of water or more pre-

cisely the sea. There were other works which were played and demonstrated such works of

George Gershwin and Amy Beach.

The students had a go at the piano and also familiarized themselves with the pedals and the mod-

ern technique of composition which Ms Heemstra called Preparing the Piano. At the end of the

workshop the students participated in a quiz where they won token prizes. The workshop was thor-

oughly enjoyed by all.


KALEIDOSCOPE Workshops at The American Centre

On19th November 2014, I attended a creative writing workshop, presided over by Mr. Rick Jahna. The workshop was con-

ducted in The American Centre. It was an enriching session and many students from renowned schools of Kolkata actively

participated in it.

The workshop began as Mr. Rick Jahna, formally introduced himself as a „testimonia‟ (Spanish), meaning a person who

specializes the art of studying testimonies. He spoke about his background and experiences, after which, a prompt was dis-

played on the screen.

The prompt said-I am sitting here today, listening to this man from the United States, but a part of me is thinking about….

The students had to pen down their own thoughts in order to complete the sentence. A few students volunteered to read out

their pieces, after which Mr. Rick moved on to his next topic-the importance of conflicts in a testimony.

“A conflict can be between man and man, man and society, or man and himself,” Mr. Rick said. We wrote about some of

our own conflicts when as we were instructed to do so. We also wrote about some roles that we played as a being on this

earth, including not just materialistic responsibilities but also also vivid aspects of our character.

Mr. Rick proceeded with his presentation and enlightened us about the differences between telling the reader your story and

showing him your story. He thus revealed a very vital and potent secret behind good creative essays.

Lastly, we were asked to write a piece that would not only narrate the circumstances to the reader but also rather enable him

to visualize the story. After the exercise was over, the session ended and the students were dismissed.

I was fortunate enough to have a conversation with Mr. Rick after the workshop. It‟d felt a lot more encouraging and helpful

exchanging my views and ideas with him. I‟d thoroughly enjoyed the whole workshop and also the healthy discussions that

had cropped up during its course. I would like to thank my school for giving me this unique opportu-

nity, and I look forward to attending more workshops like this .

-Rutvi Padhy(Grade-XA)

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SCIS took part in the One Na-

tion Reading Together . All

the students of the Primary and

Secondary took part enthusias-

tically to celebrate the pleasure

of reading.

Principal, Mr. John Bagul, attended the 57th AGM-2014 of ASISC, which was held in New Delhi

from 25th of November 2014 to 28th of November 2014. The theme of this meeting was „Commitment

to Excellence‟.

It was a unique conference wherein Mr.Bagul had an opportunity to connect with Principals of vari-

ous ICSE Schools and had insightful conversations. It was interesting, informative and enlightening.


An array of fun activities!

Tiny Tots-Painting their dreams on Children‟s

Day!

Fruit is nature’s candy and what better way can one

think of making little ones eat fruits, than in the form of

Fruit Salad. Not only did the Tiny Tots have fun tossing

chopped fruit in a bowl, but also transformed their fruit

salad into something enticing to the eye and pleasing to

the palate. From picking fruit with the same level of

ripeness to sprit zing fruit with lemon juice!!! They thor-

oughly enjoyed themselves, identifying various fruits

and figuring out the number of seeds in them!!

To make teaching and learning more effective, new

methods of teaching have to be adopted. The same

was done for a Geography lesson in Class XI- Com-

position and Structure of the Atmosphere. The stu-

dents were asked to do a concept map in pairs on the

sub topic “Layers of the Atmosphere”. The students

translated their ideas on paper and came up with

very innovative concepts. Working in pairs gave

them a chance to share their ideas and present it to

the best of their ability.

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CLASS 1

Making Animal

Masks


ACCOLADES

Vachan Gupta won 8 bronze

medals and set a record in the

State Level Inline Skating

Championship (8-10years cate-

gory). He is now eligible to

represent West Bengal in Na-

tional Championship.

Inline Skating Championship (8-10years category).

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Derek Associates conducted the City finals for two Quiz competitions.

Yippee Noodles Challenge was held at Frank Anthony Public School on 21st Novem-

ber. Three students , Anish Kumar Ansh( Grade V), Arjo Mukherjee( Grade VI) and

Aritro Kar(Grade VII) competed against 36 schools in the City and won the 2nd Run-

ner up position .

Vodafone Quiz Contest (Faster, Smarter and Better )was held at Frank Anthony

Public School on 20th November. This quiz had three students ,Wrik Karmakar

(VIII), Subhaditya Basu(IX) and Yash Chakrabarti(X) competing against 19

schools in the city and won the 1st Runner up position. Both the quiz was based

on logical and Analytical reasoning.

Five students of Grade 8 took part in

the third edition of Apprentice Scien-

tist Competition held at The Future

Foundation on 21st of November

2014 ,winning the second posi-

tion .The first position went to The

Heritage School while Modern High

School secured the third position.


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HAPPY CHILDREN’S DAY!

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