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Setu Senior School
Volume 15 July 2016
Setu July 2016 Page 1
Shishyans Shine in Class XII
# Highest in City 'School Average' of 87.3%. (School Aver-
age denotes Average of individual averages)
# School and City Topper Ms. Prachi Palod scores 96.8%
# 43% students score above 90%
# 85% students score above 80%
# 100% students achieve First Division
Commerce Humanities
Science
Shishukunj once again produced the 'Best Result in
the City' in the CBSE Class XII 2015-16 Examination.
Result Highlights
Prachi Palod
96.8%
Dhruvi Songaria
95.0%
Avani Phatak
94.4%
Parnika Sethi
95.0%
Sakshi Chandak
94.6%
Muskan Salgia
94.4%
Disha Jain
95.4%
Shivank Khard
95.2%
Neha Jain
95.2%
Kriti Agrawal
95.0%
Shishukunj in top 100 Shishukunj has been included in the top 100 CBSE schools of India by EducationWorld in its academic ranking for 2016. The school is ranked 45 in this list made on the basis of the Class XII result. Only two schools from MP feature in this prestigious list.
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Class X CGPA Champions
The highlights of the Class X 2015-16 result
77 students got CGPA between 9.0 - 9.9
49 students got CGPA between 8.0 - 8.9
Aarchi Agrawal Aarushi Tulsiyan Abeer Shrivastava
Abhyuday Parihar Aditi Shroff Aditi Singh
Aeshani Pathak Anurag Tripathi Anushka Mimani
Avadhi Dass Avani Mundra Deshna Mehta
Ekta Singh Geetika Kutumbale Harshita Boonlia
Iti Kathed Juhee Goyal Khushi Shrivastava
Khyati Vyas Manas Garg Manas Shah
Mihir Thakkar Mitali Malani Mohul Maheshwari
Namrata Gandhi Nandini Dubey Neel Gadikar
Nikunj Jain Parv Julania Pooja Thakkar
Pranit Gupta Radhika Soni Raghav Chitlangia
Rashmeet Muchhal Rishika Suri Ritik Gandhi
Robin Manoj Sakshi Pandey Shivang Khandelwal
Shravi Jain Shreya Khandelwal Siddhant Dubey
Srishti Patil Vagmi Shah Valaya Ramchandani
Vyom Saraf
School Average: 8.81 CGPA
46 students got 10 CGPA
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Congratulations!
ASSET Talent Scholars
In the ASSET Talent Search Examination, nine students have
been selected from Madhya Pradesh out of which eight are from
Shishukunj! The proud Shishyans are ….
Arnav Dwivedi, VI -D Ayush Baweja, VIII-D
Mahika Khandelwal, VII-C Shrey Modi, VIII-F
Pratyush Shrivastava, VII-A Pranavi Agarwal, IX-C
Amey Choudhary, VIII-A Shubh Harkawat, IX-C
Setu July 2016 Page 3
Kalam
House
Kurien House
In a solemn Investiture Ceremony, the Chief Guests Mr. Pradeep Bhatia, Managing Director,
MHALE and Mr. Mahendra Sethia, the Director of the school, bestowed the young student
leaders the responsibility of leading the school.
After the young leaders took their pledges, the chief guests congratulated the newly appointed
student leaders and encouraged them to be focused in their goals and inculcate leadership
qualities to become better human beings.
Donning the leadership mantle
Dhyanchand
House
Narayanmurthy
House
Senior Office Bearers
Junior Office Bearers
Junior Office Bearers
Senior Office Bearers
Captains Aarushi Tulsiyan
Manasv Nandeshwar
Vidhi Dev
Ishan Jain
Shubhi Mittal
Aditya Singh
Nitya Vyas
Abeer Shrivastav
Vice-Captains Bhawana Falodiya
Seshal Jain
Urvashi Dighe
Pratyush Shrivastava
Sparsh Jain
Kalash Parmar
Bhakti Badlani
Kartik Devpura
Sports Captains Gauri Ratnaparkhe
Himanshu Lunia
Komudi Behani
Aryan Khandelwal
Gargi Maheshwari
Yash Patni
Oorja Rungta
Advait Page
Senior Office Bearers
Junior Office Bearers
Junior Office Bearers
Senior Office Bearers
Captains Shravi Jain
Pranit Gupta
Nandini Deodia
Samar Rajput
Hiya Aidasani
Aditya Rathi
Anushka Mimani
Nakul Goel
Vice-Captains Mansi Choudhary
Om Agrawal
Suhani Salgia
Arjun Shekhar
Pihu Jain
Shabbir Alvi
Stuti Biyani
Parv Golwelkar
Sports Captains Anushka Mehrotra
Varun Maheshwari
Rimjhim Khandelwal
Swastik Gupta
Prachiti Suri
Parth Jenawat
Nandini Pillai
Karn Kunte
Students’ Council
Head Boy Sudhanshu Jain
Head Girl Sonakshi Gupta
Vice-Head Boy Siddharth Lilani
Cultural Secretary Neel Chatterjee
Vice-Head Girl Sanika Fegade
Cultural Secretary Janhavi Shah
Sports Secretary Devang Dagra
Student Editor Pragya Bhagat
Sports Secretary Muskaan Parmar
Student Editor Mansi Ranka
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Out of the Box thinking
Deepanshu Biniwalle was
amongst the chosen 85 stu-
dents from across the coun-
try to attend a 23 days AS-
SET Summer Workshop for
Classes VII and VIII. He was
lauded for developing a new
perspective regarding 3D vision during the
workshop.
Well known Career Counsellor and Char-
tered Accountant Mr. Pankaj Kothari con-
ducted an interactive
session on Career Op-
tions and Choices for
the students of Classes
X, XI and XII.
Mr. Kothari touched up-
on topics which normal-
ly are a major concern for students during
these very crucial formative years and
urged them to choose their careers accord-
ing to their interests, passion and skills.
A self-defense work-
shop for the girls of
Class IX was organ-
ised in association
with Jwala, an organi-
zation which empow-
ers women to embrace their inner strength
and live their lives with con-
fidence, dignity and honor.
In a very interactive session,
Dr. Divya Gupta gave practi-
cal tips on how girls can pro-
tect themselves against unexpected attacks
and impressed upon them to live fearlessly,
with confidence and dignity.
AIR 41
Ananya Sharma of Class XII
secured the All India Rank
41 in the second level KVPY
examination 2016. Kishore
Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana
(KVPY) is a scholarship pro-
gram funded by the Depart-
ment of Science and Technology of the
Government of India. The programme aims
to attract exceptionally talented and highly
motivated students for pursuing basic sci-
ence courses and research career in sci-
ence.
Nakul Goel of Class XI was selected to par-
ticipate in the MIT Launch Programme con-
ducted by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Boston, USA. He was among
70 participants from 23 countries who
were at MIT to hone their entrepreneurial
skills and interact and network with stu-
dents from across the world.
38 students along
with 04 educators
went on an excit-
ing 10 day expedi-
tion to Belani
Glacier at a height
of 3765 mts.
Roughing the weather, living in tents, trek-
king for hours, surely made them rough
and tough.
When Building Careers
Foray into the wider world
Self Defence is the best defense
Belani Glacier
All sections of Class VI enthusiastically par-
ticipated in the Inter Class English Poetry Recitation Competition. Shishyans infused
life into the poems with their actions and voice modulation.
The results: First: Class VI C - Poem: From a Railway
Carriage Second: Class VI A – Poem: Sick
Third: Class VI G – Poem: Thomas Alva Edi-son
Students of Class XI, with the help of their teachers, put up the first ever English Liter-
ary Fest. The fest was a part of the British Council Project. Stalls representing the
USA, Russia, Italy, the UK, India and Paki-stan displayed books and information
about the pre-eminent writ-
ers and their best works.
Portraits of
several great writers, light
music and the slideshow of
scenes from the various countries along with creative
props made by students
transported visitors to a
d i f f e r e n t realm and in-
spired every-one to pick
up a book to read.
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Enjoying Poetry Youth Parliament
British Council Project - Literary Legends
MUN Workshop
Conclave of International Diplomats
12 Shishyans participated in the Youth
Parliament held at The Daly College. They interacted with delegates from schools
across the country and gained a deeper in-
sight into world issues through discussions and debate.
Om Agrawal (ADHOC) received high com-mendation, Garvit Zalani (Futuristic NSC),
Abhimanyu Sethia (US Senate) and Parv Golwelkar (House of Commons) received
verbal mention and Oorja Rungta received special mention.
Shishyans Khyati Vyas, Shruti Biyani, Tan-isha Shah, Reetika Gupta, Chhavi Gupta,
Ananya Jham, Samyak Shrimal and Vidhi Dev, participated in the Conclave of Inter-
national Diplomats, Hyderabad organised by Telengana Tourism.
A workshop for the Executive Board of the
Shishukunj MUN 2016 was conducted by the MUN World trainer Mr.
Anansh Prasad. The work-shop focussed on MUN proce-
dures and varied agendas and crisis simulations. The work-
shop gave the members of the Executive Board a deep insight on the vari-
ous procedures and practices to be followed for the Shishukunj MUN 2016.
Setu July 2016 Page 6
The House Meet was an opportunity for stu-
dents to meet their new House-mistresses
and also to
know about the
various inter-
house events
planned during
the session. The
meet also served
as an induction
for Class VI students into the House system.
The Inter-House Hindi Nukkad Natak compe-
tition, based on themes like Technology in
Today’s Life, Yoga and Health, Cleanliness
and Superstitions, saw the actors from the
four Houses acting out their very best while
giving the audience a social message .
The results:
First: Dhyanchand House
Second: Kalam House
Third: Narayanmurthy House
The Inter-House English Poetry Recitation
Competition, based on the theme ‘Nature’,
was an opportunity for students who had not
participated in any inter house event during
the previous academic session.
The results:
First: Kalam House – Poem : God, The Artist
Second: Narayanmurthy House – Poem :
Gladness of Nature
Third: Dhyanchand House – Poem : The
Brook
The inter-house wall magazine competition
saw students interpreting the theme ‘Badalti
Duniya Ke Rang’ in myriad hues related to
changing values, system of education, tech-
nology, etc.
The results:
First: Narayanmurthy House
Second: Dhyanchand House
Third: Kalam House and Kurien House
Inter-House Events
House Meet An Ode to Nature
Badalti Duniya Ke Rang
Akkad Bakkad
Kalam House
Narayanmurthy House
Narayanmurthy House
Narayanmurthy House
Setu July 2016 Page 7
INTERNATIONALISM
Arnav Abhyankar of Class X went on a two
month Reciprocal Exchange Programme to
Germany. Arnav was
hosted by a German
student, Mast. Felix
Amar Honeckar from
Stuttgart. Felix and
his family played the
perfect hosts from
providing Indian food, to taking him sight
seeing to Paris and Brussels and even
teaching him German.
His German host, Felix will be hosted by
the school from July – September 2016.
The 3rd batch of
American stu-
dents are with
us to learn Hin-
di. These stu-
dents have come
to India under the NSLI – Y programme
( National Security Language Initiative for
Youth ) and will be with us for 6 weeks.
Special Hindi classes have been arranged
for them along with day trips to places near
Indore. To be able to truly immerse them-
selves in Indian culture, they are being
hosted by Shishyans in their homes.
Akshat Vora, Omisha Purohit, and Tanya
Rajani are in Malaga, Spain for an Intercul-
tural Summer Camp. This camp involves
staying and interacting with students from
across the world and participating in a vari-
ety of cultural and sporting activities.
Aarushi Tulsiyan, Aditya Dora, Aditya Ti-
wari, Aryan Dora, Divik Silawat, Lakshya
Parikh and Yagyesh Sikarwar embarked on
an intercultural programme which involved
sightseeing as well as a home stay in Hun-
gary.
A 12 day sightseeing
trip with students
from all over the world
was an opportunity to
see the art and culture
of Budapest. The home
stay which followed
gave them a firsthand
experience of Hungarian culture and family
life.
Satyabhan Singh
has gone to Par-
aguay for a
month long AFS
Intensive Soc-
cer programme.
Being hosted by
a local family is
really adding to his international experi-
ence.
Germany Spain
Hungary
Swagatam!
Paraguay
Setu July 2016 Page 8
SPORTS
At the 45th Open State Level Swimming
Championship held at Jabalpur, Shishyans
Advait Page (Class X) won 13 Gold Medals,
Samar Pratap Singh (Class XI) won 11 Gold
Medals, Maria Malik (Class VIII) won 6 Gold
Medals, Ananyaa Singh (Class VIII) won 6
Gold Medals, Sheel Kataria (Class IX) won 4
Gold medal and Karn Kunte (Class XI) won
1 Bronze Medal.
Advait Page also won the individual cham-
pionship for Group 1 Boys .
Amishi Shukla (Class VI), won
the All India Talent Series Un-
der-12 title, held at Indore
Tennis Club.
Led by Prachiti Suri (Class VIII), the Indore
Division Sub Junior Girls Basket Ball team
became the State Champions in the Cham-
pionship held at Gwa-
lior. Manvi Agrawal
(Class VII) and
Vanshika Agrawal
(Class IX) were also
part of the team.
Swimming Tennis
Basketball
Inter House Squash, Table Tennis and
Basketball Competitions
Swimming Star
Advait Page came up with a splendid per-
formance at the 43rd
Jun io r Na t i ona l
Aquatic Champion-
ship 2016 organized
in Bangalore. Advait
won a total of 4 med-
als in the Under-17
category. His medals include 1 Gold medal,
1 Silver medal and 2 Bronze medals. With
these 4 medals, Advait helped Madhya Pra-
desh come up with its Best Ever Perfor-
mance historically, to reach the 3rd Posi-
tion in overall medal tally, be-
hind Karnataka and Maha-
rashtra.
Advait had won two medals (1
Gold and 1 Bronze) in last
year's Junior National in
Group 2 (Under 14).