Monthly Report of December 2019

Cambridge Assessment International Education The concluding month of the year sprinkled the spirit of enthusiasm, creativity,

confidence and festivity to enrich the learning experience at CAIE. The academic and

co-curricular activities made the students confident and jubilant about their erudition.

The trainings and events as is evident through the pictures augmented the skills and

knowledge for both students and teachers.

Stage 1

English LO: 1Rf6, 1Rf11: To know how to predict the contents of a book.

Students were made to learn and understand the different section of the book cover.

They were provided with different book covers and were asked to identify all the

section on these book cover like - Book Title, Picture, Illustrator, Author, Blurb etc.

They were successfully able to do this and demonstrate their understanding in the

activity conducted in the classroom.

Math

LO: Block Graph.

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Students were taught the concepts of block graph. They were provided with three

different colour cards and were asked to pick the colour of their choice to depict the

colour graph based on their liking. They were successfully able to do this and

demonstrate their understanding in the activity conducted in the classroom.

Science

LO: 1Ps1: Can identify, many sources of sound.

To introduce this concept to students we have discussed the importance of a sound in

a class. We talked about the recognition of sounds coming from different objects. We

then asked students what it would be like if they hear sound coming from metal object,

wood, plastic object etc. Then explain that sound has different frequencies. We have

made children to demonstrate and identify different sounds originating from different

objects. They were happy to participate and enjoyed these activities.

Global Perspectives: Looking after planet earth.

The topic is about the planet Earth, students learned about the shape of the Earth,

position in the solar system, Earth and its neighbours, rotation causes day and night

and revolution causes seasons by seeing videos and doing the given worksheets. Role

play was conducted on the same topic. Student also collected an evidence about what

they can see in the day sky and what they can see in the night.

Telugu

LO: To identify gunimthapu gurthulu.

Some colour papers by Teacher for making gunimthapu gurthulu. Students made

gunimthapu gurthulu with colour chart and stuck in notebook and wrote related letter

with the help of the teacher.

Hindi

LO: To use letter and matra to write words and use them to frame sentences.

Children wrote the words with the help of letter and matra and using the words they

framed small sentences.

Stage 2

English

LO: Identify and split familiar compo und words into parts.

The learners identified the compound words and created a folder of compound words.

They split the compound word into two simple words and illustrated them. The kids

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enjoyed the activity thoroughly and were happy to project their work on the bulletin

board.

Math

LO: Area Perimeter, Collection of Data and Interpretation pf Data

The children calculated area and perimeter by using Graph Paper.

Project

Students conducted Survey on Means of Transport .Stage 2 students used to come to

school and it is shown by Tally Marks.

The children represented the data by Bar Graph and Picture Graph

Science

LO: The Earth and the Sun

‘THE EARTH AND THE SUN’ was introduced to the students. Students were

explained about the Solar System and the eight planets. They were explained about the

difference between the day sky and the night sky. They were taught about the

movement of the Earth and the shadows. The students also learnt that the Sun does not

move but it’s the Earth that spins around the Sun which looks like the Sun is moving

and so are the shadows.

Global Perspectives: Water, Food and Farming

‘Water, Food and Farming’ was introduced to the students. Students were explained

about the source of water, water cycle, usage of water and the importance of water to

all living beings of Earth. Students were explained about the sources of food and the

different types of food eating habits of people. Students were explained who are

farmers and what is farming.

Telugu

LO: To write colour names in Telugu.

Students stuck in notebook colour papers cut in cloud shape which was given by the

teacher and they wrote the colour names in Telugu.

Hindi

LO:To identify and use Hindi numerals and write them in words

The students were asked to identify the Hindi numerals and write them in words to

match with the given pictures (Flash cards).

Stage 3

English

LO: To explore the words that have same spelling but different meanings (homonyms).

The learners used a dictionary to find words spelt and were pronounced same but have

different meanings. They collected the pictures of the words and pasted and created a

chart. They also used each homonyms in creating sentences of their own.

Math: To make the fraction wall.

LO: To identify equivalent fractions.

Students were asked to use four strips of origami sheets of same size and make fraction

wall.

First strip- 1 part

Second strip- 2 equal parts

Third strip- 4 equal parts and

Fourth strip- 8 equal parts.

They were asked to write fraction on each part. Through this activity they were able to

identify equivalent fractions and they observed that ½ = 2/4 = 4/8.

Science

The topic of forces and friction was taught during this month. Firstly students were

explained that a Pull or a Push are forces and were able to implicate the nature of forces

in various day to day activities. Students were involved in carrying three investigations

with force meters, elastic bands and friction. Students learnt how to use force meters

and realized that the weight of the objects stretches the spring as it is elastic. The

students also realized that the force of friction is opposing in nature and increases due

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the roughness of the surfaces. The exercises pertaining to the lessons were duly

completed by all the students and were also checked. Few assessments were also

carried out.

Global Perspectives: Water on the Earth.

The topic Water on the earth, Students learned about sources of water, Ways of

conserving water and did a group activity. Students form four groups and

communicated and collaborated on topic. Group -1 talked about the drinking water

available on the Earth.Group-2 talked about the water cycle. Group -3 talked about the

uses of water.Group-3 talked about the ways to save water.

Telugu: Matching Activity

LO: To identify sentences according to the pictures.

Students stuck different colours of fish pictures in notebook and they matched with

correct sentences.

Hindi

LO: To enact the written dialogues using a role play.

The students wrote dialogues on the give topic and enacted it through a role play.

Stage 4

English

LO: To write and perform poems, attending to the sound of words.

Students learnt the technique to write Limerick –a kind of funny poem of five lines.

They understood the rhyming pattern and become adept at writing the poems .They

executed the learning of the poems by writing their own limericks and also performing

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them before the class. The learning engagement helped the students to harness their

creative vocabulary and become confident speakers using appropriate expression to

present their poem.

Math

LO: Reading Time

It was a fun way of learning the concepts of time using flash cards and dominoes.

The learners had to find the partner to match the given situation card with the right

time.

They also enjoyed playing dominoes game in smaller groups that helped in reading a

clock to the nearest minute.

LO: To identify polyhedrons and their nets

The learners could identify polyhedrons and could differentiate between prisms and

pyramids through a hands on activity using Venn diagrams. They also discussed if

cylinder could be a prism and if cone could be a pyramid? They also could come up

with conclusions on why cubes and cuboids are prisms.

LO: Nets of a cube

The learners played a memory game wherein they were asked to observe elven kinds

of nets of a cube for few minutes and then, the learners were asked to draw as many

nets as they can.

The number of nets they could draw ranged from 5 to 10.

Science: Electricity and Magnetism

LO: To create awareness about the components of electric circuit and to make the

circuit.

Students work individually to make an electric circuit using the different components.

They made the components using colour papers and connected it to form a circuit.

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The students learnt about the national and global languages through extensive research

and reflective works. With enthusiasm they fetched out information from pie charts

and bar charts and discussed those points with their peers.

Hindi

LO: To learn about vegetables in Hindi.

Pasted pictures of vegetables and went to the market/ super market to find out the rates

of it.

Telugu: Grammar activity

Some words were given by the teacher and children identified and stuck the

sarvanamamu with colour paper

Stage 5

English

LO: To use the idioms and other figurative language.

December has been a very productive month where the students learnt about the

features of poetry through a wide range of activities and exercises which involved

reading, writing, speaking & listening. In grammar the students learnt the idioms and

appropriate application. They also learnt about the figures of speech and how to

identify them in reading exercises.

Math

LO: Area, Perimeter

Collecting and interpreting data

Means of Central Tendency

Individual Activity

Students calculated area of Compound Shapes using Graph Paper or Grid Paper.

Project

Students conducted survey on the means of transport they use to come to school by

Tally Marks. The children participated in the discussion of the application of Central

Tendency in comparing two groups. Science

LO: Location of Organs in the body By the following activity students will be able to understand the location and

structure of the organs inside the human body.

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LO: The topic on “Where does our packaging go” was taken up.

To develop a personal perspective the students did a research and gathered information

on the different packaging materials used to safeguard our items. The students

individually gathered pictures and then worked as a team to prepare a collage or a

poster depicting different packaging materials.

This was followed by a research on how the packaging materials get into the oceans.

Details were collected from different resources and compiled in a write up. The

students also reflected their views and experiences in the reflection log.

Hindi

LO: To identify and use homonyms.

Framing sentences with meanings and making charts with pictures on the topic-

Homonyms.

Telugu

LO: To use appropriate vocabulary to explain words.

Students made some words with letters and explained meaning of the words

Stage 6

English LO: To write creative short stories.

This month called in for a lot of creativity for students. They got an opportunity to

write their own short story after careful planning keeping focus of the key elements.

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This task was not produced in a hu rry and it took many sessions. As part of the research

work, they worked in groups and presented their work in class. A JAM session was

also conducted.

Math LO: Calculating Averages

The students worked on Interactive board to calculate the different types of Averages

- Mean, Median and Mode.

LO: Fraction/Decimal/Percentages

The learners had to match the appropriate cards as a part of finding the equivalents of

the given one form. It was a whole class activity wherein the learners have to quickly

convert from one form to the other form and find the complete set.

Science

LO: Posters on energy conservation

Presentation of the topic ‘The Earth’ using various teaching tools.

Students have brainstormed few points about energy conservation and have come up

with innovative posters. Another task was given to present the topic ‘The Earth’ using

different tools for explanation. This will enhance their communication skills and

critical thinking.

Model of layers of Earth

LO: To differentiate between the different layers of Earth.

Students participated in individual activity to make the model of Earth and its layers.

They used different colours of clay to make the layers. They could clearly understand

the 3 layers of Earth surface the crust, mantle, Inner core and outer core.

Global Perspectives LO: To research and communicate about their favourite sports.

Students used their research skills to enrich their knowledge on sports. Each pair was

entrusted with a responsibility to research on a particular sport and to present it before

the class. The learning engagement focused on developing the research and

communication skills for the unit –Sports and Leisure. Students also used the

awareness of various sports to identify how it can be constructively used for leisure as

playing sports has numerous health benefits.

Stage 7

English

LO: Select, collate and summarise ideas from texts, using notes where relevant.

LO: Identify relevant points, synthesising and summarising ideas from different parts

of a text

Students in pairs read texts and identified points to be noted for summarising the texts

.Then planning was done using those notes and after that students attempted to write a

summary based on the given word count. The activity helped the students to use

structured language to summarise texts which is a significant English language skill.

Math: To find the surface area of the cuboid (object in cuboid shape).

LO: To find the area of the cuboid.

Students were asked to bring different objects which are in cuboid shape. They were

asked to measure the length, breadth and height of the cuboid and find out the surface

area of the cuboid. Through this activity they were able to derive the formula to find

the surface area of the cuboid and they could calculate the surface area of the cuboid.

Science

LO: To create informative PowerPoint presentation on Cigarettes and Smoking

Presentation of Cigarettes and Smoking. Students have presented their topic by doing

intensive research on cigarettes and smoking and have presented their topic by making

informative PowerPoint presentation.

Global Perspectives: Classification of rocks

To classify the rocks and segregate into three types.

Cut and paste activity.

Case studies and Assessment:

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Objectives

Understanding of the skill, idea or concept

Proper coordination and cooperation.

Trust and reliability on team members.

Collaboration

Problem solving skills

Improve your ability in informed decision making.

Improve data analysis skills

Improving your knowledge through varying insights from other team members

Hindi

LO: To write and present a skit.

Wrote and presented skit on the topic “Women empowerment”

Stage 8

English

LO: To use correctly synonyms, antonyms, homophones and homonyms.

Students were arranged in groups and they had framed questions to conduct quiz based

on their knowledge of synonyms, antonyms, homophones and homonyms. Each group

had to frame tricky questions so that the opponent group worked hard on getting the

answers. The activity helped the students to engage with their peers and have a good

understanding of identification and usage of synonyms, antonyms, homophones and

homonyms. The learning engagement was instrumental in developing social and

thinking skills

Math: Presentation on properties of polygons.

LO: To understand the properties of different polygons.

Students were asked to prepare a power point presentation on properties of different

polygons (groups). Demonstration on angle sum property of different polygons was

also done during presentation. Through this activity students were able to understand

the properties of different polygons.

Global Perspectives: Classification of rocks

To classify the rocks and segregate into three types.

Cut and paste activity.

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Case studies and Assessment:

Objectives

Understanding of the skill, idea or concept

Proper coordination and cooperation.

Trust and reliability on team members.

Collaboration

Problem solving skills

Improve your ability in informed decision making.

Improve data analysis skills

Improving your knowledge through varying insights from other team members

Science: Physics LO: The topic of Heat transfers was taught to the students.

The details on the 3 ways of heat transfers - Conduction, convection and radiation were

explained to the student. They were assessed on the same topic. The details regarding

the construction of a thermos flask were explained to the students.

Biology: Reproductive system

LO: Describe the human reproductive system including the fertilization

Students prepared a storyboard on the parts and function of the male reproductive

system and female reproductive system. They took an assessment on the outline of the

reproductive system. They also listed down the sequence of steps followed in

fertilization.

Chemistry: Preparing salts

Students were able to differentiate the different ways in which salts can be prepared.

They solved the worksheets which asked them for word equations of different

chemicals to make the products. The displacement reactions were solved to give it a

better clarity.

Hindi

LO: To use homonyms to frame sentences.

Frame sentences with meanings on the topic -Homonyms.

Special Assemblies

Library Week

CAIE wing of DPS celebrated its ‘Library Week’ from 2nd December 2019 to 6th

December 2019. All the students took part in the celebrations. The school library was

tastefully decorated for this occasion. The students were educated on how best they can

make use of the library. They were also told how to locate on the shelves a book of

one’s choice. Each visitor was also told how books on different subjects are catalogued

and arranged. Various competitions were organized during this week:Story telling,

Poetry Performance, Story writing and News Reading at various levels. A special

assembly was also conducted on the concluding day.

Christmas special Assembly

“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because

we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding

the meaningless and stressing the true values.” This was rightly said by Thomas S

Monson. Keeping this in mind, our students put up a wonderful Christmas programme

on 23 12-2019 in the Yoga Hall. The tiny tots dressed as cute ‘little Santas’ were a

delight to watch as their swayed rhythmically to some Christmas melodies. The school

choir put up few special Christmas songs and this filled the festive air. We also had

Students of grades 6, 7 and 8 enacting a brief skit on “The Real Message of

Christmas” in which they brought out the significance of a star, angels, hollies,

candycane, candles, gifts and other things associated with Christmas. Principal Madam

addressed the gathering and reiterated the fact that Christmas is all about “caring and

sharing”. Then finally we had Santa wishing the crowd and our dear Head Mistress

madam

IGCSE Orientation

IGCSE orientation to parents at DPS Nacharam was conducted on 21 December, 2019.

The purpose of the orientation was to familiarise the parents with the essentials of the

IGCSE curriculum. The parents were excited to know about the future prospects for

the students who are enriched studying the curriculum. Meaningful discussion was

conducted on the choices offered and subject teachers also enlightened the parents

about the benefits attached to the curriculum. Mrs. Sunitha Rao –Principal of DPS,

Nacharam also spoke about the subject specific teachers who are enlisted to teach the

subjects and also focused on trainings imparted to the teachers of IGCSE curriculum.

Mrs. Krishna Sri (Head Mistress of the Cambridge curriculum at DPS, Nacharam) kept

the parents engaged through her eloquent speech and discussion to help the parent to

gain awareness of the ideal curriculum.

New Year Assembly

The ‘New Year’ festivities were ushered by the students of CAIE through a memorable

special assembly on 31, December, 2019.The students manifested their cheerfulness

by the students performing dance, songs and also different cultural traditions followed

around the world on the special day. The importance of ‘resolution’ on the New Year

was also highlighted. In all the assembly provided the students with much to cheer on

the merry occasion.

Achievements

Kevin Viral Shah of stage 7 at Cambridge International participated in the ‘Memoriad,

2019- Turkey Open Championship’ which was held on 14 and 15 December, 2019 at

Turkey. He had accomplished the third place for ‘Mental Square root (6

digit)’calculation and made the Cambridge community at DPS, Nacharam extremely

proud of his achievement. He was also felicitated for the same during the Christmas

assembly.

Workshops – Enhance Reading skills

The workshop was quite informative and worth sharing with our colleagues.

An echo workshop on ‘How to Enhance Reading Skills’ in learners was conducted by

Mrs. Krishnasri, HM, IGCSE for all the teachers of IGCSE. She insisted on the

following aspects that has to be made of followed as a routine:

• Reading everyday (For fun and enjoyment)

• The teacher reads aloud to develop the bonding between the learners, teachers and

the books.

• Designated time for reading.

• Book talk and book review

• Report writing

She concluded the echo session by requesting the teachers to inculcate reading habits

in the students and that their WPM need to be noted.

Teachers attended Cambridge workshop @ VIP International school & Ashoka

Hotel

A Teacher Training Workshop on Cambridge Primary Program’ for English, Math and

Science was organized by Hodder Educat ion at Hotel Best Ashoka in association with

Viva Books. Ms. Alka Pandey, Resource person introduced the teachers about the

Cambridge approach stating that Cambridge is a Pathway Program. She discussed

about the levels of the programme and the approach. She discussed about how learning

starts, how to set goals, what metacognition is and how to plan metacognitive activities

is the classes. She also discussed about AFL- assessment for learning and its key

elements and enquiry based learning.

Field Trips

Wonder Fun Park –Stage 1 to 3

Field trips are fun! You get to put down the books and pencils and drive to a new

location with interesting things to see and experience. But of course, field trips still

provide learning opportunities as kids engage with historic sites or works of art in

person. The things the children have only read about come alive as they are seen, heard,

or even felt during a field trip. The students of Grade 1 to 3 had a visit to Wonder Fun

Park on 20 December ,2019 where they had great fun throughout the day. Children

enjoyed the slides, merry go round and other games to the fullest.

Do Science Museum- Stage 4 to 8

Doing science is carrying out scientific processes, like the scientific method, to add to

science's body of knowledge. Do Science is an outdoor science playground that kindles

an enjoyment of science in children. Students of CAIE had a great time working with

the different models ranging from Echo Tube, metal gong, musical pipes, multiple

reflection, pulleys to chair with nails, Jenga, Chess, gear drive etc. when they visited

the Do Science museum on 20 December,2019 as part of the field trip. The students

had a great learning experience which they will cherished throughout.

Thus it is correctly remarked that “Education is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be

kindled”. With this view in mind at DPS Nacharam , a holistic perspective is given to

education where it seeks to engage students in the teaching/learning process and

encourages personal and collective responsibility. The month of December through its

wide assortment of academic and extra-curricular activities and events fostered an all-

round development in the personality of the students.