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Garodia International Centre for Learning Newsletter 2015-2016, Week 08-18 Garodia International Centre for Learning 153 Garodia Nagar, Ghatkopar (East), Mumbai 400077 +91 (0)22 2506 1133 www.gicl.edu.in We are back!!!! Some of you may be wondering about the sudden disappearance of the newsletters from school just as we in the school are eager to share what we have been up to. Rest assured, the action never ceased in GICL, as tradition. A quick glimpse of what we have been doing over the past few weeks. Literary Week, an exciting introduction since the last year, saw the senior school joining in the fun. ‘READ ING FOR JOY’ was the mantra. Children as young as our pre- schoolers joined in to make this event an exciting one. Every aspect of the curriculum was woven around ‘reading’ as an integral part of the learning engagement. Book Buffet, Read Aloud, Character Parade, DEAR, letters to authors, twist the tale, stories from far and wide, Book Buddies, Spin a Yarn, ……….. the list seems to go on. Thanks again to the parents and grandparents who joined in for the Share a Story sessions. The Book Fair also saw students excitedly sharing their personal likes and introducing their buddies to new worlds. The Literature Quiz marked the end of this week, which again is the Garodia tradition to mark our Founder’s Day. Insight into the world of sea An insight into the world of sea continued… What is there at the bottom of the sea? Audio visual presentations, music and movement, enhanced the children of T1 get to know about a few more sea creatures and the sea bed. How they admired the underwater life… The little minds of T1 came out with adjectives like amazing, nice, wonderful, superb, pretty etc. Is sea water salty? A science experience enjoyed by the children helped them to understand it better. Listen, Search and Hop away... Yes, the class of T2 had fun playing the game of Hopscotch. This game although was with a difference. Instead of numbers, we had sight words in each box. In a team of 2- one child chose a word from the box and challenged the other to look for it and hop without losing balance. Indeed a lot of fun learning! Ahoy there me hearties! Beware... The pirates were seen strutting around adorned in their pirate attire completing the look with eye patches, bandanas, boots, swords and even guns! The innocent looking faces were transformed into ferocious looking pirates. That’s not all – they enjoyed adventurous games like going under and over the tables, chairs in search of treasure, finding the opposites in teams and framing sentences and moving closer to the treasure chest with every correct answer. Thursday was indeed a

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Garodia International Centre for Learning

Newsletter 2015-2016, Week 08-18

Garodia International Centre for Learning

153 Garodia Nagar, Ghatkopar (East), Mumbai 400077 +91 (0)22 2506 1133 www.gicl.edu.in

We are back!!!! Some of you may be wondering

about the sudden disappearance of

the newsletters from school just as

we in the school are eager to share

what we have been up to. Rest

assured, the action never ceased in

GICL, as tradition.

A quick glimpse of what we have

been doing over the past few weeks.

Literary Week, an exciting

introduction since the last year, saw

the senior school joining in the fun.

‘READ ING FOR JOY’ was the mantra.

Children as young as our pre-

schoolers joined in to make this event

an exciting one. Every aspect of the

curriculum was woven around

‘reading’ as an integral part of the

learning engagement. Book Buffet,

Read Aloud, Character Parade, DEAR,

letters to authors, twist the tale,

stories from far and wide, Book

Buddies, Spin a Yarn, ……….. the list

seems to go on. Thanks again to the

parents and grandparents who joined

in for the Share a Story sessions. The

Book Fair also saw students excitedly

sharing their personal likes and

introducing their buddies to new

worlds. The Literature Quiz marked

the end of this week, which again is

the Garodia tradition to mark our

Founder’s Day.

Insight into the world of sea An insight into the world of sea

continued… What is there at the

bottom of the sea? Audio visual

presentations, music and movement,

enhanced the children of T1 get to

know about a few more sea creatures

and the sea bed. How they admired

the underwater life… The little minds

of T1 came out with adjectives like

amazing, nice, wonderful, superb,

pretty etc.

Is sea water salty? A science

experience enjoyed by the children

helped them to understand it better.

Listen, Search and Hop

away... Yes, the class of T2 had fun playing

the game of Hopscotch. This game

although was with a difference.

Instead of numbers, we had sight

words in each box. In a team of 2-

one child chose a word from the box

and challenged the other to look for

it and hop without losing balance.

Indeed a lot of fun learning!

Ahoy there me hearties! Beware...

The pirates were seen strutting

around adorned in their pirate attire

completing the look with eye

patches, bandanas, boots, swords

and even guns! The innocent looking

faces were transformed into

ferocious looking pirates. That’s not

all – they enjoyed adventurous games

like going under and over the tables,

chairs in search of treasure, finding

the opposites in teams and framing

sentences and moving closer to the

treasure chest with every correct

answer. Thursday was indeed a

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Terrifying one! We appreciate the

efforts and creativity put in by the

parents to make it a fun filled day.

The activities don’t end here- children

had hands on experience using a ruler

to make horizontal and vertical lines

thus making a rectangular photo

frames. Illustrations of the teachers

and children in the frame completed

the picture giving it a well finished

look.

Crawl fast, hop in, roll out, dance and

run were few action based words

that T2 enjoyed playing. They read

these words and acted it out with

great enthusiasm and teamwork.

Our little inquires of T1 enjoyed their

field trip to Lion’s Garden where they

got to explore different trees, bushes,

creepers , water plants and so on….It

was great to see the children use

their senses where they got to feel,

see, touch and hear the different

sounds by observing their

surroundings.

Our little inquires of T1 enjoyed their

field trip to Lion’s Garden where they

got to explore different trees, bushes,

creepers , water plants and so on….It

was great to see the children use

their senses where they got to feel,

see, touch and hear the different

sounds by observing their

surroundings.

Festivities are just around

the corner!!! Janmashtami celebrations marked

the major event in the first week of

August. Our tiny tots were dressed

up in colourful attires of “Krishna”

and”Radha”. Not only this young

ones also took part in a traditional

activity- ‘Matki Phod’ in order to give

tribute to Natkhat Kanha.

Franzi’s 8th Birthday The German learners celebrated

Franzi’s Birthday during their German

class. All the students made Birthday

cards and decorated them with

different pictures and colours. In

addition to it they also learnt a few

German words like; numbers 4-10,

some birthday vocabulary, they also

rehearsed a Song: ‘Zum Geburtstag

viel Glück’ (Happy Birthday to you).

The celebration of Franzi’s Birthday

included songs and dance. The

students had a chocolate cake and of

course Felix and Franzi accompanying

them. Everyone enjoyed the cake and

thus, made Franzi's day!

The experience was magnificent! The

children had come up with their own

ideas of celebrating the Birthday and

the class was full of enthusiasm! The

students learnt German in a playful

and party manner.

Religion As part of Social Studies, Grade 1 is

studying the topic of Religion. The

class was divided into 5 groups, and

each group made presentations on

the different Religions prevalent in

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India. The topics were on a) Jainism

b) Sikhism c) Islam d) Christianity e)

Hinduism f) Zoroastrianism. All the

topics were further explained to give

more clarity.

Designing the Stone Age

way! As kids of grade 2 are getting

themselves acquainted with the

Stone Age man’s world during their

Social studies lectures they couldn’t

wait to create their very own stages

for making wheels, carts and rafts

during workstations throughout the

week.

They had to draw, label and show the

wheel, carts, sledge or rafts being

developed from raw materials in the

first step to the final Stone Age

vehicle in the fourth step. This

activity helped boost their spirits and

brought out their creativity. Also it

made them think of different

materials that were available to the

early humans and the techniques

they could use to design a mode of

transport during those times.

Reader’s Theatre Students of Grade 4 are actively

participating in the Reader’s theatre.

The plays have built in strategies to

help students improve their Reading

skills. To get a dramatic approach to

The Reader’s Theatre, Students read

a story from their prescribed Oxford

English Text Book and decided to

make their own Play script .This

clearly shows the interest they have

developed and are curious to do a

good representation. This will give a

scope to every student to emphasize

and create interactive improvisational

performance with their creation.

Creating a website Students of grade 5 have learnt to

create a free website on weebly.com

Weebly is a site which gives millions

of people a surprisingly easy and

affordable way to create a site that is

as unique as they are. With a Weebly

site, students can create a website

showcase their achievements, and be

an authority on personal and

professional interests. Students have

created a website on their favourite

vacation place and have created

webpages having information about

the place, hotels, places to visit and

the contact address. Students were

very excited to have their own

website and were very creative to put

their own ideas to create a

professional kind of website.

They have published their website

and can also share their website link.

Elocution Competition Students of Grade 5 participated in

an inter house Elocution Competition.

All the four houses have the following

winners

1. Aisha Lowe

2. Niyati Shah

3. Sanjna Sridhar

Consolation Prizes

Tejas Tagra

Shreyas Katkoor

Being eloquent and articulate helps

putting ones point across and

commanding an audience's attention,

to become more persuasive and

ultimately improves communication

skills. Our mission is to help children

speak with clear diction and to teach

them the rules of rhetoric. The

students presented different stories

to the audience and spoke with clear

diction and with confidence.

Even in this age of emails, text

messaging and social networking, the

spoken word is still the most effective

way of communicating and to

succeed in the world today, children

and adults need to be able to

communicate with confidence. The

elocution competition fulfilled the

main objective of Language Art

Program.

Hindi Handwriting

Competition Students of our school celebrated

Hindi Diwas on 24th September’2015.

The celebration began with the

morning assembly conducted in Hindi

and during the day, a Hindi

handwriting competition was held in

the primary section .The purpose

behind this was to encourage them to

improve their handwriting and

neatness in writing Hindi and also to

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enhance their love towards the

language.

With the same zest and enthusiasm

on 24th September’ 2015, we held a

competition on Hindi story

telling/recitation in the auditorium.

Hindi story telling and

recitation competition Elocution in an any language helps

students to exhibits their speaking

skills with confidence .Every student’s

gets an opportunity to present a story

/ poem in Hindi with all the finer

aspects of the language in the

premolar round. The selection

committee decided the short list

based on the criteria.

On the competition day the

student presented their story/poem

on stage with firmness in front of our

distinguished judges and primary

students. It was indeed a difficult and

challenging task for the judges to

choose the winners .Their words of

appreciation were very encouraging

and motivating and well received by

the audience.

Mani Bhavan: A great place

to begin with the Gandhian

Philosophy. We have studied about India’s

independence ….now it’s time we

actually see it come alive at Mani

Bhavan, which was not only the

residence of Mahatma Gandhi but

also the venue for landmark protest

movements.

GICL is pleased to announce a field

trip for kids to Mani Bhavan to pay

homage to the greatest leader–

Mahatama Gandhiji – “Bapuji”.

The Charkha (spinning wheel), the

SALT MARCH, Satyagraha, and much

more…Mani Bhavan is a “Must-See”!

A visit to this museum truly brings

alive in front of your eyes the

freedom struggle of India and the life

of Gandhi.

The three golden rules of the

Gandhian Philosophy that our little

gems carried with them were.

• Do not see bad.

• Do not use swear words, be rude or

tell lies

We must be truthful like Gandhiji

said.

• Do not listen to foul language and

walk away

When any of our friends use bad

words, we must not follow them.

A Healthy Mind Day! On the first of October, 2015 GICL

celebrated the first of its kind ‘A

Healthy mind day!’ The World Mental

Health day is observed worldwide on

every 10th of October, but at GICL we

decided to celebrate a few days

before as the students have their

term exams. The motive behind

celebrating this day was to spread the

significance of mental health.

GICL began the day with sensitizing

and prioritizing mental health status.

Later the IB students spoke about

stigmas attached to seeking help and

motivated students to give

preference to the same.

The primary school was all excited to

talk about different thoughts for

mental health given to them by our

very own thinking skills teacher Trupti

ma’am. Grade 1 pondered over

“Think Good. Do good!” and came up

with a personalized interactive book.

Some of the thoughts given to the

different primary grades were, “Like a

healthy body, have a healthy mind”,

“Respect what others feel”, “Words

are the mirror to your thoughts.

Hence speak beautifully”, “Share your

joy and it doubles. Share your sorrow

and it halves”, “Nobody is perfect.

Hence, let’s support each other to get

better” and “Emotions are more than

just Emoticons”.

On the ‘D Day, the representatives

from each class participated in

classroom role plays, dramatization.

There was also audio visual teaching,

teacher directed discussions and

creative writing themes, reinforcing

the thoughts assigned to each class.

Our secondary kids participated

through art based expression and

debates on the sensitive topics of

mental health status.

The day ended with a rejuvenating

workshop for the teachers of GICL.

“Coping with Stress” was the theme

of the workshop and it was

conducted by Ms. Anusha Neelkant.

“Our primary kids did a phenomenal

job and exceeded the level of our

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expectations” says Ms. Anusha

Neelkant, our school counsellor, who

is responsible for initiating the event.

She adds, “So give thanks to our GICL

kids for spreading this message to

you: To win our pessimistic thoughts

we need a high dosage of optimism.”

Secondary

Flash from the past In 1914 India was part of the British

Empire. Two Infantry divisions

(Lahore Division and Meerut Division)

and two Cavalry divisions were

involved in the worst fighting in 1914-

1915. When the Great War came to a

head, 7 lakh Indian soldiers enlisted

themselves to fight an indecipherable

war against an unknown enemy.

They proved to the world that they

were brave, loyal, and capable

soldiers, till date, the Indian troops

are spoken of reverently in the

villages across the Western Front.

And yet, history books find little

mention of this aspect of the War.

The Indian contributions, over £100

million and more than 70,000 dead,

have been largely forgotten.

This week in French class students of

Grade 6 studied about the

involvement of Indian soldiers in

World War 1. They referred to

photographs of Indian soldiers taken

during the war; described the photos

in French, wrote about values

portrayed through the pictures; They

also read some texts on various

topics related to the daily life, the

experience of the soldiers during the

war in France, including

correspondence (letters or postcards

extracts), the monuments in France

and in India that commemorate the

Indian soldiers who died during the

western battles.

After analysing the article, and

expressing their feelings, the students

of grade 6 were filled with pride to

know about the contribution that our

Indian soldiers have made in French

history.

Literary week in French

class As part of the Literary Week

activities, the students of Grade 9 &

10 were introduced to a small slice of

French Literature also. While Grade 9

researched and acquainted

themselves with the life and works of

Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo,

Grade 10 glimpsed through the

history of French Literature, from the

medieval ‘Chansons de Gestes’ of the

‘Moyen Age’, through the

‘Renaissance’ and ‘Les siècles des

Lumières’, to the 20th century writers

and poets. The students of Grade 9

studied a poem by Victor Hugo -

‘Demain, dès l’aube’ and tried to

analyze and understand the

compelling images created by the

words. The seniors analyzed this

poem as well as another one by

Jacques Prévert – ‘Le message’ and

had fun watching its different

interpretations on YouTube.

Library in a suitcase! German students were in for a

surprise this literary week. They were

introduced to a unique mobile library.

A suitcase full of short stories, course

books, work books, audio and video

CD's and games arrived at GICL.

This mobile library will be at GICL for

about a month and students can

borrow the material and, thus,

indulge in some good reading.

Students are loving this concept and

have already selected their first set to

take home.

This will go a long way in developing

the student's reading habits and of

course improve their German.

A unique library concept indeed

brought to us by Max Müller Bhavan!

Did you know? Germany ranks no. 5

in the annual publication of books.

Young Delegates Indian International Model United

Nations (IIMUN) is one of India's

leading brands in education

conference management. It provides

the youth a platform to voice their

opinions by forwarding their drafted

resolutions to the United Nations.

Students from all over the globe

gather to discuss issues faced

worldwide under various

committees. Each student represents

an assigned country.

One of IIMUN’s chapters was held

from 20 August 2015 to 23 August

2015 at the beautiful location of

Aamby Valley, Lonavala. Six of our

students from Grade 8 participated in

the same. Siddharth Krishnamurthy,

Aayush Parekh, Khushang Zaveri,

Kriish Hate, Rohan Budhrani and Yash

Joshi were part of UNEP, BMC, Lok

Sabha, DISEC and WHO respectively.

These students got an exposure to

various foreign policies and the

format and skills required in a formal

debate. Students enthusiastically

participated in all debate sessions. In

spite of being first time MUNers and

younger to other participants, our

students spoke well and were also

involved in writing resolutions.

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There was a special committee

viewing session wherein the Chairs of

all the committees posed as

delegates of various countries and

debated against each other. This was

a very fruitful exercise as it helped

students’ understanding of the code

of conduct in a MUN debate.

Students also had the opportunity of

listening to some very prominent

speakers such as Ronnie Screwvala,

Aitzaz Ahsan, Dr. Subhash Chandra,

Martin Nesirky, Bill Yotive, Amish

Tripathi, Kiran Bedi, Mani Shankar

Aiyar, Anu Aga and Vidya Balan on

topics relevant to them such as

‘Meaning to success’, ‘Following

passion vs practicality’, ‘Relations

between India and Pakistan’,

‘Differences between the debate

format at the UN and the MUN’, etc.

At the end of each day a recreational

activity was planned for the children

such as Leslie Lewis concert, DJ night,

A comedy gig by AIB and East India

company and Prom night. All in all it

was a wonderful experience for the

students. It was a great exercise in

confidence building and helped them

stretch the envelope.

Scholarship to Germany! Three of our German students

'Preeyansh Bhatia', 'Ishan Kumar' and

'Karan Manikani' of class 8 were the

lucky ones to receive the PASCH

scholarship of the German

government this year. GICL is part of

the elite group PASCH meaning

'Partners for the Future', which is an

initiative by the German government

and has 1,500 schools world-wide.

The scholarship consisted of

participation in a youth camp in

Germany for three weeks. Main

highlight of the youth camp was the

German language A2 course that the

students attended and passed the

German A2 level exam with flying

colours. Moreover, there were also

various projects, excursions and

leisure activities in store for them.

Through their three week long stay

the students also got a glimpse of

Germany, its culture and made

friends with other students from 18

different countries of the world. The

camp instilled some good habits in

the students like responsibility,

initiative, open-mindedness and they

all opened up and adapted quickly to

the new exposure. A unique

experience that our students will

cherish for a life-time!

साहित्यिक सप्ताि

डॉ.कृष्णन की पणु्यतिथि के अवसर पर ववद्याऱय में सपंणूण सप्िाह साहहत्ययक सप्िाह के रूप मनाया गया। इस दौरान कऺा छठी, सािव ं आठव ं और नौंव के छात्रों ने अपन हहदंी कऺा में पढी कहातनयों का

नाटकीयकरण ककया। सुदंर अभिनय करि ेहुए छात्रों ने कहान को नाहटका रूप में प्रस्ििु ककया।

प्रस्ििु िाभऱका में कऺा और उनके द्वारा नाटकीयकृि कहतनयों के नाम हदए गए हैं –

कऺा कहातनयों के नाम

छठी ं कवविा का चमयकार

सािव ं ऐसे िे आशिुोष

आठव ं परीऺा िो देन ही पडगे

नौव ं ब रबऱ अकबर को क्यों िाि े

Eco friendly Ganesha In a world which is filled with

adulterated products and harmful

chemicals, Grade 6B students decided

to make an Eco friendly safe Ganesha

with recycled newspaper/Natural

Clay (Multani Mitti) and safe non-

toxic colors in their Art class.

The process of making paper mache

which is the base ingredient for

making the idol is lengthy and

laborious one. The students of Grade

6 B enthusiastically made the clay

and they also had some processing of

the clay which had to be done at

home and it was possible only with

the kind cooperation of their parents.

The end products were beautiful,

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colourful and attractive Ganesha

idols.

French Indian Idol!!! The Indian Association of Teachers of

French has decided to conduct Idole

Indienne 2015, un concours de

chansons (French Indian Idol 2015) in

November. For this the First Round of

eliminations was held at Udyachal

High School, Vikhroli on 30th

September 2015.The participants

were given a list of 30 French songs

almost 2-3 weeks before the

competition and they had to come

prepared with any one song, to be

sung without any backing

track/music. The contestants were to

be judged on voice, pronunciation,

timing and overall impact. Out of the

4 schools that participated in the

competition with around 40 students,

11 students were selected for the

next round. We had 4 participants

from our school – Malishka Mehta of

Grade 7, Simran Kamat of Grade 8,

and Tiara Pawan and Ethan D’souza

of Grade 10. The students performed

well, with Ethan and Tiara being

selected for the Semi Final round to

be held on October 23rd 2015.

Wishing them all the best in their

endeavours! Felicitations et Bonne

Chance.

Equations Treasure Hunt The students of Grade 8A had a fun

time revising their knowledge of

solving equations with a treasure

hunt activity. Cards containing the

questions were stuck on the walls

around the classroom. Students

choose a card to start with and

answer the question on the bottom

of that card. To find the next question

they had to hunt for the card with

their answer at the top. They

continued in this way until they got

back to the card they started with.

The activity was thoroughly enjoyed

and the kids loved the challenge of

solving the equations at a fast pace

but with accuracy.

Study at Subway The Business studies students of Gr.

9, 10 and IB enjoyed studying the

concept of “Franchise” by visiting a

Subway restaurant at Powai. The

students had prepared questions in

advance to know about this concept.

They learnt about different aspects of

a Franchise like profit sharing, royalty

payments and quality checks made by

the Franchisor. They also came to

know about the training provided by

the franchisor and how they manage

to keep the quality standards same

across the Subway restaurants and

also what alterations are made to suit

the local preferences and tastes. The

students found it very interesting to

know the details of how does a

franchise actually work.

Mock interviews for

Business Studies students On the days 11th and 14th

September, as a part of a Business

Studies project, the students of Grade

9 had made resumes and given

interviews for the job position they’d

all applied for: Business Studies

teacher.

The aim of the project was for the

students to know how to make a

professional resume, as well as to be

given the experience of what an

interview would be like. On 14th

September, the students were

prepared to give the interview

individually, dressed in formals which

are the clothes firms expect their

employees to be dressed in. By

wearing the formal clothes and

waiting out for their name to be

called for the interview, students

were certain it would be a business

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like experience. The wait in the

subject room really was intense, as all

students prepped for their interview,

which they did by going through their

resumes time and again. It felt

absolutely real for them, with the

interviewer’s panel, consisting of Ms.

Elza Eldo (IB Coordinator) and Ms.

Monika Koradia (IGCSE Coordinator

and Business Studies teacher) asking

them questions based on their

previously made resume.

Fellow student Shivank Ganesh said

“The experience was quite nerve

wracking and real. The interview and

the questions asked gave us an

absolutely real feel of how an

interview goes and the questions we

could be asked. And more over the

entire project gave us an insight into

the HR department’s method/basis of

recruiting employees. After this

project we are now very confident

that we’d use all this help we got

now, in the future. And this would

surely give us an edge as we will

better prepared in then. ”

Also student Yashi Mehta said, “The

experience has helped build up my

confidence, and even if its public

speaking or a future interview, I’d be

more confident and optimistic on

how I would proceed. Even during a

future interview I’m sure to

remember this project and take in all

the tips given to me and my

classmates and my teacher.”

The purpose of this practice session

was to give students an appreciation

of what to expect in a typical

interview and an opportunity to

refine their interviewing skills.

And on Saturday 26th September we

summed up the unit of Human

Resource with Mr. Rajiv Nambiar,

Vice President Human Resource at Go

Air coming as a guest speaker to our

school to give information to the

students about the history of Human

resource department and details

about the recruitment and selection

procedure in an organization. This

was quite an interesting session for

the students.

- Gurbani Bhatia

Grade 9

GICL MUN 2015 MUNing is a very essential part of a

student’s journey towards their

responsibilities in the real world. It

allows discussion of real life issues

happening around us and the

possible and sensible solutions that

countries can come up with together.

This is the first time we at Garodia

International introduced our Model

United Nations.

MUN is an extra-curricular activity in

which students typically role-play

delegates to the United Nations and

simulate UN committees. We

encourage the participants to

experience a culturally inspiring and

heated debate through adequate

research and formulate political

positions based on the given topics

and actual policies of the countries

they would represent. Delegates

participated in simulations of United

Nations sessions, debating,

negotiating, caucusing, drafting, and

voting on resolutions that addressed

world problems.

It involves substantial researching,

public speaking, debating, and writing

skills, as well as critical thinking,

teamwork, and leadership abilities.

The Head of School Dr. John Jenckes

addressed the students to be

responsible and recognize others

opinions and be risk takers and

participate actively in the sessions for

their committees. Mr. Hardik Jain, Sr.

Vice President at IIMUN graced the

occasion with his presence.

The students proceeded to the

classrooms for the committees –

Human resource, Arctic Council and

the UNEP. Delegates participated in

simulations of United Nations

sessions, debating, negotiating,

caucusing, drafting, and voting on

resolutions that addressed world

problems. The chairs and the vice

chairs of the committees were highly

impressed with the active

participation of the students at GICL,

the useful contributions made by the

student delegates for their

committees and the kind of research

which they had done for the country

which they were representing.

The session ended with the closing

ceremony showing the highlights of

the sessions in action and the prize

distribution for the Best delegate,

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High commendation and Special

mention from each committee.

Authors in the making.... Grade 6 students are very

enthusiastic to launch their first book

in French. To begin with, the students

started brain storming on topics.

After choosing a particular topic, they

began working on the story and

background of the characters.

Students framed exciting and

wonderful sentences in the form of

dialogues between the characters

and did some great, colourful

illustrations.

They have kept small kids in mind

while making the books. The students

have picked titles like the invisible

hero (Le hero invisible), Famous Five

(les fameux cinq), the life of Pie (la vie

de Pie). Their enthusiasm and

knowledge about French is worth

applauding.

The students have put great efforts in

finishing half of the entire book.

Some more work to be done and the

book will be coming soon....

GICL girls the state level

champions It’s a proud moment for all of us at

GICL. Our Girls 14yrs Handball team

has made history by being the first

team ever to have bagged the 1st

position in the State level tournament

organized by the District Sports

office. On 1st Sept 2015,the Boys and

Girls 14yrs teams had participated at

the district level handball tournament

where boys managed to win the 3rd

position in the district level

tournament defeating SSRVM School,

and Girls won the finals with a huge

margin and entered the zone level by

defeating SSRVM School. This

achievement didn’t stop here - our

girls team even won the Finals with a

fantastic performance and defeated

Gopi Birla school and qualified for the

state level tournament. The State

level tournament was held at the G N

Khalsa college grounds at Matunga

from 11th Sept – 13th Sept 2015

where there were eight teams from

different Zones of Maharashtra and

our Girls continued their brilliant

performance by first defeating the

Latur Zonal team with an

unbelievable score of 22-0!!! Then

they won against Amravati and made

their way to the finals where they

played a tough match against Pune,

and won this match by a super lead

of 18-9. Five of our students have

been selected to represent

Maharashtra State at the National

Level to be held at Delhi. They are

Mishti Raveshia (Captain), Krishi

Sonthalia, Risa Ganatra, Palak Karia

and Eesha Dedhia (goal-keeper). We

wish them all the best for the

upcoming National Tournament.

Following were the members of the

winning team (Girls 14yrs) who won

the state level tournament: