NEWSSRIIssue 1, Vol 1 July – September 2015

The goal of education is to increase awareness not information. …Watching our inner-responses, knowing that they are there, increases our self-awareness.

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n the auspicious month of Ifestivals, we are happy to

announce the birth of our quarterly

Newsletter.

Besides carrying nuggets of all important

events, SRINEWS will also be a forum for both

Parents and Children. We need all your support

as we begin with this news journey...

Being an Environment friendly Institution, we

shall be hosting SRINEWS on our School

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SSA stood in the Winning Position of the Declamation Competition: Ms.

Priyanka Preet (Class XI) was sent to compete amongst 11 schools at the

National ASISC Declamation Competition, Ranchi

Palak Shyamsukha (Class IX) Runner up in Junior Declamation

Sulagna Sarkar(Class XI)Best Speaker against the motion in the Junior Debate

Tanya Sadhwani (Class IX) along with Sulagna Sarkar was the Runners Up team

in the Junior Debate

Vaniya Agarwal (Class III) won two trophies in the All Kolkata Junior Basketball

Premier League 2015 held at Alipore Sports Club

SSA was awarded 4th rank at the Kolkata and WB stage and 81st position at the

National Level in the Education World Ranking 2015

Janniya Dassani and Saana Bhawnani (Class IV) grabbed the 3rd position in the

RCGC, Protouch Inter-School Golf Tournament 2015

Class IV – D students were selected as a class of Star Readers by Scholastic

and were presented with books and certificates..

SSA was awarded the winning position in the ASISC Basketball Championship:

The Senior School boys will be representing the West Bengal & NE Chapter in the

ASISC National Championship to be held in Ahmedabad in November 2015. The

Junior Girls Basketball team was awarded the runners up position.

The primary and middle school students stood 1st in the Classical Dance, 2nd in

the Folk Dance and 3rd in the Classical Song events in the Inter School Fest –

VIBGYOR 2015 organised by M. P. Birla Foundation Higher Secondary School.

The school was awarded the Champions of Champion Trophy for winning three

events.

Superbrain Yoga especially benefits hyperactive children & teens, senile & autistic people besides other disorders like ADHD, ADD etc. These benefits are for all who want a sharper mind for a lifetime with an investment of only 3 minutes per day. The results have been empirically proven.

This art is similar to our Uthak-Baithak exercise (left hand holding right ear & right hand holding left ear).

Preferably face east. If direction is not known, do not fret.

Roll you tongue in the inward direction and press it firmly towards the roof of your mouth.

Raise your left arm in front of you. important, left arm first.

Fold at the elbow and reach for your right earlobe.

Hold your right earlobe with your left hand so that the thumb is on the outside and two fingers are on the inside, behind the ear.

Extend your right arm in front of you.

Fold at the elbow and reach for your left earlobe.The right arm will cross over the above the left one.

Position your thumb and forefinger in the same manner as on right earlobe.

Now, inhale deeply and simultaneously squat down gently to a sitting position, with your arms as above. No chair required, just squat. If you can go down almost to floor level, that is best.

If possible, hold the position for two or three seconds. Exhale gently and rise to standing position as your are exhaling.

This is one cycle. Inhale as you go down, exhale as you come up.Reread this step.

More than seven cycles is not recommended.

End of seventh cycle, leave your arms loose by your sides and disconnect tongue from roof of mouth.

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AUGUST

Filmit Workshop: Renowned filmmaker Mr. Ankit Pogula

and Ms. Shreya Kakria trained the students in techniques

involved in making and editing Short Films. Eleven

schools across Kolkata participated in the workshop. The

students will be uploading three films on the subjects

given by October 2015

ASISC Debate & Declamation Competition: The Junior

and Senior Preliminary Round of the ASISC Debate &

Declamation Competitions were hosted by our school.

Around twenty five schools and more than 50

participants represented their schools in the event

Independence Day: The school celebrated the 68th

Independence day. The celebrations included March

Past by the scouts & guides, Flag Hoisting, cultural

programmes and Principal's address

Fancy Dress Event: With the theme ‘Go As You Like’

the tiny-tots from Lower Nursery stole all hearts as they

came dressed in regional costumes and even like

patriotic leaders on Independence Day

Medical Check-Up for Classes V to XI and

Admin Staff: The annual medical checkup of the

students took place on 19th, 20th & 21st August 2015

SEPTEMBER

School Exams: Block Tests completed

Career Counselling: Ms. Jill, the Director of International Student Services at the College of Wooster, addressed the students of Classes X and XI

Spell Bee Competition: Spell Bee Competition was held for the Students of Classes II, III & IV

School Tour: Students will be going for a Heritage Tourto Murshidabad in October

For Sri Kripa: A story telling session was conducted by the teachers of the pre-primary sections for the Sri Kripa Students

Teachers’ Day: Enthusiastic mothers chipped in to make the day very special for all teachers. There were cakes to cut, games to play and watch the tiny-tots perform

Cyber Awareness: A special session for parents will be held on 7th November on ‘Cyber Awareness for Parents’ against registration with the school office

JULY

School Exams: Block Test for Class X

Frank Anthony Debate Competition: School hosted

the Category – I, Stage – I of the Frank Anthony All India

Memorial Inter – School Debate Competition 2015

ICSE Exam Registration for 2016: Registration Process

was completed for the students presently studying in

Class IX and Class XI, who will be appearing for the ICSE

2016 Examination. Five students from other Boards

were successfully transferred to be registered for the

ISC Exam

Guru Purnima was celebrated as Environment Day

Broadcast Workshop: Prisha Bhatt (Class IV D)

participated in the ACLR Broadcast Workshop held at

Akashvani Bhavan

Sit & Draw Competition: Seven students were selected and awarded certificates for participating in the Sit & Draw Competition organised by The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry

AMRI Medical Checkup

Fancy Dress

Debate & Declamation

Priyanka Preet - Declamation

Filmit Workshop

Vanya Agarwal III A - Basket Ball

Fancy Dress

Highlights Highlights Highlights

Cake cutting ceremony on Teacher’s Day

Children preparing a compost pit in the school premises

Interact Club Members

Non Flame Cooking

Head Mistress, Sumita Bose helping a child pull the Ratha

The Super Brain

Yoga, an ancient

Indian Technique

has been

recommended by

Gurudev for our

children on a

daily basis.

GURUDEV HAS RECOMMENDED SUPERBRAIN YOGA

Source: wikihow.com

ART EXCEL KNOWLEDGE POINTS

1. Stretch your hands first(Make new friends).

2. Laugh and let go (Don’t dwell on other’s mistakes).

3. Shut the past, cut the future,and live in the present.

4. Winning or losing, life is a celebration.

5. Respect for self is respect for others.

Participants – VIBGYOR

Parents’ C o r n e r

Independence Day

This picture is of the plant

given to my son , Darsh

(UN-F) , from the school.

He pours water in it

everyday and helps the

plant grow.

Suman Agarwal

Children’s Mothers celebrating Teacher’s Day

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Friends of Animals

rooms. We would request parents to start using parent

run car pools and stop the practice of single car for single

child. A lot of bottles, tiffin-boxes, pullovers are being left in

school by students which can be identified and collected

by parents of junior students on working Saturdays

between 1-2pm. We are also planning to recycle text

books which can be passed on to students in the junior

batches in March 2016. So encourage children to look

after their books as these would be used by others after

them. School Cinema will be begun to get the children to

think about issues which were up-to now taboo and

discuss them under supervision from Classes 5-8. big Congratulation to our first batch of ICSE for Amaking us so proud. In its sixth year, SSA is moving This has also been a challenging and testing time for us

from strength to strength... the seeds which we had sown Srians: Small incidents were blown out of proportions, in 2010, are now maturing into responsible, bright and Open House was begun to share concerns with parents. energetic young saplings. It gives me profound happiness We have always received immense support from our to see them not only participating but also leaving an parents and would like them to continue to mail to us any indelible mark in these Scholastic events. concern instead of putting it on social media like Facebook

or Whatsapp. School image if tarnished would finally affect The first Frank Anthony Debate and ASISC debate and our students’ future when they leave the school for higher declamation were seamlessly organised at school. The studies etc. We have been challenged to some extent due crowning glory was when our student qualified for the to construction activity because of which we will not be Declamation Nationals at Ranchi while we had other able to hold our annual sports day this December.runners up in the Junior debate as well. Our Boys

Basketball team qualified for the National Basketball to be We are specially very appreciative and grateful to our held in November in Ahmedabad, when they were young mothers who took initiative to organise a wonderful declared winners of the East Zone and our girls too did cultural programme for the teachers on 4th September. We us proud by grabbing the runners up position at the look forward to a daylong session on Cyber laws and East Zone competitions. While debate, declamation, social networking for all students above class five by the quizzes, film making were the flavour of the season, a lot famed and brilliant cyber expert Rakshit Tandon. of attention was given on getting children to do yoga and

follow-up of Kriya in school. I feel this is the one tool that A Multipurpose Hall for Sports & Events for the Senior

makes this school different and special in comparison to all classes, a Vocational Training Unit, a Senior Cafeteria,

other schools. All of us need to make this happen with more Activity Rooms on the 7th floor and a 3rd staircase or

sincerity at school and home. Art excellence has just Fire Escape for evacuation are all being constructed. We

been conducted for over 200 students of classes 3 and 4 also look forward to our 1st batch of ISC in 2016-17.

and they are taking back a whole lot of newly learnt There will be a fee hike of 5 %in the next Academic Session values which are relevant for their age. The YES (Youth in April 2016.Empowerment Seminar)was completed for our Class 8

students, they are now practising the YES Kriya in school. Thank you for all your support.If practised with sincerity this is sure to result in greater Wishing you all a happy festive season.

concentration and confidence.

Sincerely,We are also paying attention to environmental concerns

and segregate our garbage into dry and wet waste in class Suvina Shunglu

Principal’s Pen

At Sri Sri Academy, School Assemblies are like a

Celebration. Children and Teachers decide on a theme

related to important Values of Life for the Assembly

assigned to them.

The team works on it over weeks and when their turn

arrives, it is well depicted through music, skits, power

points et al.

News reading related to school, city, nation and world

is a vital part of each School Assembly.

CelebrationA S S E M B L Y

KEEP CALM & LET IT BE

Stop deforestation Go Green

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Conceptualised & Composed by Sutapa Mukerjee

SRI SRI ACADEMY

NEWSSRIIssue 1, Vol 1 July – September 2015