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TAGORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, VASANT VIHAR ANNUAL REPORT (SESSION 2016 – 2017)

The school along with its commitment towards academics and co - curricular activities also

makes relentless efforts to raise conscientious and worthy citizens.Our initiatives have been

applauded over the years and brought us prestigious awards. These awards, along with praises

and words of appreciation, from important personalities and organizations motivate us to do even

better consistently.

The school received the White Swan Award for The Most Influential Brand in

Education for 2015-2016.

The school received two special awards by

‘The Business Education and

Research Group’ of Singapore on 24

November 2016.

The first award is for the institution for being a

’Leading Education Provider’ and

using unconventional pedagogy in keeping

with the educational changes in the 21st century.

The second award has been aptly conferred to

our principal, a truly able leader,

Ms. Madhulika Sen, for ‘the

administrator ‘Par- Excellence’. She

has been recognized for integrating innovative

and creative ideas in accordance to

international standards.

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The school won the 'Top School of India

Award' at the School Leadership Summit

organized by Digital Learning on 21 January

2017.

The school bagged excellence award among top

schools of Delhi for its environment

friendly endeavors in an event hosted by

brainfeed on 4 February 2017.

Awards bagged by TIS Faculty

ThinkCIQ, an initiative by three prominent leaders of the education field, and The Times of India, organized a national level search for creative and innovative mentors. 896 applications were received from Principals, Teachers and Education Administrators across the nation. After intensive rounds based on concepts such as personal growth, classroom management, education of the future, curriculum design and workshop planning, our Dean of Academics, Mrs. N. Saroj and Mrs. Gauri Sen ,PGT Science were chosen among the top 100 mentors. Ms. Geetanjali Kumar ,PGT English bagged the first position and was recognized as the most awakened, creative and innovative mentor of the country for 2016. She has been awarded a cash prize of one lakh rupees.

Ms. Geetanjali Kumar Ms. Gauri Sen Ms. N Saroj

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International Dimensions

Sohini Chakrabarti of XII B represented India at International Ministerial Meeting organized by UNESCO at Paris headquarters on 17 and 18 May 2016.

Ms. Preeti Chadha, Junior School Headmistress visited three campuses of the Ritsumeikan University, Japan and Doshisha High School, Kyoto from 13 June-16 June 2016 .

The School won accolades at the 6th Shanghai International Youth Science and Technology Expo 2016 held in Shanghai from 17 to 20 July.

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Sohini Chakrabarti at Global Citizens Youth Summit, Massachusetts, USA from 29 July to

06 August 2016

Fifteen students accompanied by Ms. Malovika & Ms. Jyoti represented India in

International Cultural Exchange Program-Joy Dancing Children's Meet at Beijing, China

from 03 August - 15 August 2016.

Ten students accompanied by Ms. Preeti Chadha, Junior School Headmistress visited

Winston Churchill High School, USA under exchange program from 13 October to 24

October 2016.

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Sagnik Bhattacharya, Avijit Sharma and Priyesh Sharan of class XI were invited by

Shanghai Media group to show their project in a TV show called Junior Edison Show from

19 October to 25 October 2016.

Nine students accompanied by Ms. Anuradha Rao visited Jinyuan Senior High School,

Shanghai, China under exchange program from 18 November to 27 November 2016

We Care

Breaking Barriers

Our school is an active member of The Global Education Leadership Foundation, which is dedicated to building socially conscious youth leaders. As part of this program, one of our senior student, Sohini Chakrabarti (Class XII) participated in tGELF’s Youth Leader Competition. They have to choose a social issue close to their hearts and make a positive change in this area.

In the year 2013, a pioneering effort had been made to break social barriers, the students decided to start a Delhi-wide LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and

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Intersex) Rights Campaign. After learning about the heavy discrimination faced by LGBTQI individuals, there are 25 peer educators from Class IX-XI to help spread awareness and sensitivity about this community.

The school has partnered with CREA and the Naz Foundation to take forward this cause. CREA has conducted nearly 25 hours of intensive training for our peer educators, and Naz has provided us with resources and facilitated an interaction session between the peer educators and members of the LGBTQI community.

School featured in online magazine ' Youth Ki Awaz'.

Nazariya - train the trainer programme was conducted on 06 August 2016.

Students set up a stall to spread awareness for LGBTQI community through sale

of ALLY stickers on 03 September 2016.

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Tagoreans participated in Pride Parade in support of equal rights for the LGBTQI

Community at Jantar Mantar on 27 November 2016.

Flawless Flaws

Our school Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar has a tradition of adopting social

issues and make a difference in society through them. Last year we launched a campaign

called 'Flawless Flaws' in support of acid attack survivors. Through our campaign we

envision to make school students sensitive and empathetic towards acid attack survivors.

We want to act as a bridge between survivors and the society as most of the victims of this

brutal crime, which is much graver in its impact than a rape, have isolated themselves after

losing parts of their body which are irreplaceable. We don’t want them to be discriminated

against, at least at school level and want everyone starting from school children to stand

up against such crimes. The students of class IX-XI have been working on this project and

have been guided by Acid Attack Survivors Foundation India.

Fourteen students accompanied by Ms. Uma Chopra got an opportunity

through ASFI to visit Kolkata from 25 March 2016 to 30 March 2016. The

purpose of the trip was to create awareness about the campaign and plight

of the acid attack victims.

. Sandeed Farooq of class X C and Sakshi Agarwal of class XII B were selected

for the Ashoka Youth Venture program after an extensive online selection procedure, in which innovators between the age group of 12 to 20 from all over India were invited to present their ideas relating to social change, to an

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esteemed panel in Bangalore. The programl was held on 27 and 28 May 2016 and held at the Ashoka Innovators for Public Office in Bangalore.

Handing over the donation money to the acid attack survivors by Dr.

Hariprasad Kanoria,Chairman Acid Survivors Foundation India on 29 August 2016.

Students of Art Society put up a stall for selling hand made products to raise money for school's charitable project 'Flawless Flaws' on 16 September 2016.

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Performance by nukkad natak team at Mahila Panchayat at Sangam Vihar on

16 December 2016.

D.A.R.E to Rise campaign

Drug Awareness and Rehabilitation Enterprise Campaign

Our school, Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar initiated the “DARE TO RISE” campaign, for creating and spreading awareness about the harmful nature and long-term effects of dependence on drugs. We envision to make school students sensitive towards the issue of drugs and empathize with drug dependent users; to realize that drug dependence is a disease, and the people affected by it need to be treated with the same standard of care as patients suffering from any other disease. The students of classes IX-XI have been working on this project under the able guidance of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The campaign has been headed by Devarshi Paul of XI-A and Sanjeet Aggarwal of IX-C, as presidents of this campaign. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has been instrumental, conducting a first of its kind survey on the current situation of drug dependence and counselling in schools, and also providing access to many reports to aid in one of our key objectives of the year. We also have a Signature Campaign, which we set up at every PTM, through which we spread awareness amongst the parents of the students. We have also set up a board in our school to spread awareness about drug dependency and also keep the students updated on the campaigns’ work. In addition to that, we have created a facebook page, where we regularly post articles alongside giving updates about our campaign.

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The school in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC) hosted a symposium on drug awareness on 06 October 2016, which was attended by highly distinguished dignitaries from the Indian Drug Users Forum, UNODC,UNICEF, UNESCO, UNAIDS, Muskaan Foundation.

A team of eight students- 5 musicians and 3 volunteers performed at 'The Hub' at DLF Promenade Mall in Vasant Kunj.

The students normally put up stalls of various items made by them at any and every event in school to generate funds for the Drug Rehabilitation Centres. On 25th October 2016, the school put up a stall at the corporate office of Genpact at Cyber City, Gurgaon. The students raised funds up to the amount of Rs 30,000 from their sale .

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Nukkad Natak on the theme of Drugs awareness presented at Anand Vidyalaya in Nathupur, Gurgaon on 24 November 2016.

A workshop was conducted by the UNODC in school from 10 -14 December as a part of the D.A.R.E to Rise campaign. Mr Kunal Kishore and Dr Alpna Mittal of the UNODC conducted this workshop on various aspects of drug abuse among adolescents.

Recognition

SPORTS EXCELLENCE Award-

Vanshika Sejwal

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TAGORE EX-STUDENT ASSOCIATION AWARD

Aamod Mehrish of Class 2017

World Genius Search Exam awarded medals to the following students for their excellent performance

Medals of Merit:

SNO Name Class

1 V Chaitanya VIII

2 Rimuksh Kansal VIII

3 Amadika Mahapatra VII

4 Naman Chandok VI

5 Gurmaan Singh Sandhu V

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Tagoreans declared Overall Winners of Skimmer event at AWIM National

Olympics 2017.

Ansh Bajaj of class VIII represented Delhi Table Tennis Team at 62nd School Games Federation of Table Tennis National Championship 2016-17 under 14 boys category.

Tagoreans qualified for the national finals of the Reliance National Level Championship held at Mumbai from 31 December 2016 to 03 January 2017

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Rahul Basu, Abhishek Kumar and Siddhant Bakshi secured the first position at the Regional Science and Innovation Fair.

A research based project “Amaltas-The capable Cassia” was done by Roshan Suresh, Akshay Kumar, A.M. Tushar, Vandita Sharan of XII D and S.S Shradha of XI D participated at state level Children Science Congress on 30 November 2016. Among 31 state level teams in the competition our project was selected for National level by a panel of five judges after a thorough scrutiny and cross questions.

Jaskaran Singh Wahi of class XI won Gold medal in the 9th Delhi State Thang-Ta Championship. This is his third consecutive win in the Delhi State Championship. He was also awarded a memento for being the youngest referee in the same.

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Ronit Das of class VIII A won the Gold medal in individual sparring in the 28th Delhi State ITF

Taekwondo Championship held in Thyagaraj Stadium on 04 December 2016.

Accolades in Model United Nation

Aamod Mehrish of XI was appointed as an Executive Board member at Heritage School MUN

organized by Heritage School from 10-12 November 2016.

Amity institutes all over Delhi organized AMIMUN 2016 at Amity University Noida. Shrey Chhabra

of X and Aakrit Bhargava of XI were appointed as Executive Board members. Shrey was invited as a

rapporteur in UN General Assembly, a committee with over 130 delegates and Aakrit Bhargava was

appointed as scribe of All India Political parties meet.

Lotus Valley Model United Nation was organized on 16 & 17 November 2016. Six students

participated from our school, V.Chaitanya of class IX won a High Commendation Award. Sanjana

Golaya of XI won a special mention in All India Political party meet. Himanshu Sood and Mahika

Thapar won Special Mention Award in the General Assembly.

DPS Gurgaon organized International UTOPIA MUN from 20-22 October 2016. Aakrit Bhargava of

XI won a Special Mention Award where as Aamod Mehrish , Aradhya Kukreja of XI and Shrey

Chhabra of X won High Commendation Award.

Satya Dewan of XI participated in MODMUN organized by Modern School from 08-10 October 2016

as a member of international press and out of 800 participants she won a

Special Mention Award as a photographer.

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TISMUN 2016

Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar recently held it’s the third edition of the prestigious TISMUN held at the school annually. This year it was held on 27-28th of June and was a resounding success. Under the guidance of Madhulika Sen Ma’am (Principal) and Malika Preman Ma’am (Senior Headmistress) the secretariat of TISMUN was led by Bhavya Gupta as the Secretary General, Krityaan Thapar as Deputy Secretary General, Anshul Bhardwaj as Director General and also comprised of USGs (Akshat Kela, Sohini Chakrabarti, Abhinav Gandhi, Parshva Chandok and Devarshi Paul) held the biggest TISMUN ever with around 370 delegates. Over the course of these two days the level of debate was impeccable and organizational skills of the secretariat were praised by the EB members and the delegates.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SESSION

Earth Day

Earth Day was celebrated in school on 22 April 2016 culminating multifarious activities organized for students over a week.

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World Dance Day-AAROHAN

AAROHAN-- World Dance Day celebrated in school on 29 April 2016 witnessed performances by students in various forms of performing arts .

Art from the HEART

The Annual exposition of students works at Arpana Art Gallery from 28 April to 30 April 2016.

Origami Every year our school organizes the Interschool Origami Competition in collaboration with the Japan Foundation. Origami is the japanese art of folding paper. The word Origami has been derived from ‘oru’ meaning to fold and ‘kami’ meaning paper. Origami is used for various purposes such as architecture, mathematical learning, decorative purposes and it also helps us to enhance our ability of logical thinking. This year it was organized on October 27. The theme for this year was PEACE.

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LiFe Mosaic 2016

This annual event at Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar has become so popular that many schools had to be (reluctantly) refused registration. With forty schools participating and four very different items happening at different venues, 17th August 2016 saw a lot of excitement and activity in the school.

Actions speak louder than words. 'SOUNDS OF SILENCE' was a non-verbal group enactment event. The event was judged by director and actor Neel Sengupta, and voice-over actor Andrew Hoffland. Judged on their concept, expression and stage craft, each team had original and interesting presentations.

'VERS-E-STYLE' was a poetry event. Judged by Dr.Rumki Basu and Dr. Nandini Sahu( both established writers, critics and thinkers) the poem was to be recited while also interpreting it through any art form such as painting, dancing, instrumental music etc.

'A FLOWERY TALE' interpreted a story through a flower arrangement. Classics as well as popular fiction were portrayed through eye-catching arrangements. Author, teacher and artist Suparna Sindhu and Ms.Pallavi from Oxford University press judged the item.

Participants could become young entrepreneurs and showcase their ideas on business models in 'PITCHERS.COMM.' Other participants questioned each team and some questions really made the presenters think hard. Founder of Commerce Teachers Association, Dr. Vikas Vijay, was joined by Ms. Maithrey, of Fluor Daniel India Pvt. Ltd, as judges for this event.

Sardar Patel Vidyalaya were given the overall trophy while New Era Public School, Mayapuri also put up an excellent performance.

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Ordin@trix 16.0

Ordin@trix16.0 ,the thirteenth annual computer festival hosted on 02 August 2016 by the Pyrotech club of the school received overwhelming response from all the schools of Delhi- NCR.

CHINH India as co- sponsors extended full support to the event. They also gave special awards in technical categories apart from overall best entry.

As always, this year too there was a theme dedicated to the need of the hour. This year the theme was ‘Technology- a Weapon of Peace’. The event witnessed participation from thirty seven schools in nine events, ranging from animation in scratch to video editing, movie making, website designing; with most of the events being open Events like hacking, robotics and the surprise event( where the unexpected was expected ) was tough and rigorous testing the skills and knowledge of participants . The Photography club of the school partnered with Ordin@trix to host a photography event, for the third time, this year .

Our esteemed panel of judges included Mrs. Meenakshi Rai & Mr.Vinay Rai founders an Early Education Web channel (www.chinh.in) and Community Web Channel (www.chinhwebchannel.in),Dr. Amit Chawla from Canon, Ms. Natasha Sanoria from Canon, Mr. Gaurav Grover from Blue Umbrella Films, Mr. Ravee Verma who has been in the field of media and communication as an editor and director for the past 12 years, Mr. Rishi Mehta who is a software professional by Profession and a Theatre actor by Choice. He has been successfully running his own IT company CSoft Consultants for the past 18 years now. Mr. George Alexendar who has co-founded www.tenetsoft.com in 2000 with a friend and currently they have 25 member in programming team – They offer development services in CMS, E-commerce, social media websites, Mr. Abhishek Sanskritik , graduate from Symbiosis , Pune and trains the budding debaters of TIS , VV .

The event concluded successfully with a valedictory ceremony . The participants scoring first and second positions were felicitated by mementos and certificates sponsored by the host school.Canon gave special goody bags for the winners in the photography event .

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Constitution Day Slogan/Quote writing competition on 'Constitution of India' was held for students of class VI.

National Mathematics Day National Mathematics Day celebrated in school to celebrate Srinivas Ramanujan's 130th Birth Anniversary on 21 December 2016.

Founder’s Day Celebrations Biennial Presentation of Shri Girish Karnad's dramatic masterpiece 'TUGHLAQ' by students of classes VI-XI on 25 and 26 November 2016.

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Sanchayan 2016

Sanchayan 2016 - Performing And Creative Arts Festival by the students of classes I and II on 29 December 2016.

Performing and Creative Arts Festival by the students of classes III to V on 30 December 2016.

Blood Donation Camp

Blood Donation Camp on 03 September 2016 in collaboration with Rotary Club

Health camp A free health camp was organised by TESA in association with Primus Hospital on Saturday 4 Feb,2017.

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Career Day

With the objective of creating awareness about choosing the right stream after class X and various career option available thereafter, the school organised a career fair for parents and students of classes IX - XII. The participants witnessed informative sessions on Design and Art as a Professional Course Choice, Overseas Study opportunities and Cracking Competitive examinations after class XII. A panel discussion on unconventional career options saw experts from various fields sharing their experience and opportunity galore present in these occupation. The panelists were Radio Jockey Recharge Rohit, author Mr. Karan Verma, hair stylist and grooming expert Mr Neil Talwar and dancer Mr Pradeep Adwani who gave the message to choose ones vocation as ones profession for success in life. Students and parents also had an opportunity to learn about admission procedures of some of the universities including Canadian universities and universities from United Kingdom. A session conducted by Mr. Jittin Chawla focused on stream selection and career choice for class IX-X

A discussion on study abroad organized by Mr. Gaurav Varma for students of classes XI – XII. A session managed jointly by Mr. Jittin Chawla and Mr. Alok Bansal on cracking competitive exams for students of class XI-XII.

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SKILL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS Live telecast of Chief Minister Mr Arvind Kejriwal on 22 April 2016 , addressing students on Odd Even

scheme in Delhi.

A unique and reflective musical peformance by Charu Bharwada & Vinay Mahajan of Loknaad on 27 April 2016.

Students of class XI visited IBM Delhi for the event 'Anveshan' on 28 April,2016.

Self defense workshop for class XI girls from 11-13 May 2016.

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Photography workshop was conducted by CANON for the photography club students on 11 and 12 July 2016.

Leadership camp for the cabinet members conducted by Knowledge XP in school on 20 August 2016.

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'Routes 2 Roots' - a lecture demonstration organized by Ministry of Culture for students of classes VI-VII on 24 August 2016.

3D Game Design workshop was conducted for students of classes VIII-XI on 26-27 August 2016 VI-VII on 24 August 2016chool on 20 August 2016.

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Kuchipudi dance recital by Padma Ragini Puttu and her Russian students on 01 September 2016.ame

Design workshop was conducted for students of classes. III-XI on 26-2

A workshop conducted by Ms. Jean Burk to train students for Scholastic Aptitude Test(SAT) on 03 September 2016 August 2016.

WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS Workshop on self rejuvenation by Mr. Sanjeev Datta ,a well renowned name in the field of personality

development was held on 23 April 2016.

Workshop on Bloom's Taxonomy conducted by Ms. Neera Chopra , Academic Counsellor of school on 12 May 2016.

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Teachers of Primary School attended two days Capacity Building Programme on scholastic aspects of

CCE on 13 and 14 May 2016.

Two Days Capacity Building Programme on scholastic aspects of CCE for the teachers teaching classes

IX-X was held on 01 & 02 July 2016.

Project Management workshop for the teachers was conducted in association with PMI Education Foundation on 30 July 2016.

Workshop on co-operative learning for the teachers of classes I-VIII was conducted by Ms. Neera Chopra

on 06 August 2016.

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Ms. Mukta Narain,National Director, Special Olympics Bharat took a workshop for teachers of pre primary

and primary classes on 24 September 2016 with a motive of encouraging students with special development difficulties to excel in sports.

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Integrating theatre into curriculum'- a workshop by renowned author and theatre professor , Ms.Mala Thapar on 03 December 2016irector, Special Olympics Bharat took a workshop for teachers of pre primary and primary classes on 24 Sept ember 2016 with a motive of encouraging students with special development. diffs to excel in sports

Workshop on classroom management for the teachers of classes Nursery-VIII was conducted by Ms. Neera Chopra on 14 January 2017.

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WORKSHOPS FOR PARENTS

A session was conducted by an eminent Psychologist, Dr. V.S Ravindran addressing the parents of Nursery to class VIII on 24th July 2016.

A session was conducted by Mr. Sushant kalra, Founder Director of Parwarish Institute of Parenting on 24 September, 2016.

A Parenting workshop was conducted on 06 November 2016 for parents of class IX-XI by Dr V.S Ravindran.

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Various renowned personalities visited the school for the events held during the session. Ms. Vanessa Ohri,an author and a theatre doyen in an interactive session with the students of classes

VIII-IX in school on 03 May 2016.

Mr. Sanjay Muttoo, filmaker , producer and a teacher at Kamla Nehru College, D.U. telling stories to

students of classes IV & V on 04 May 2016.

Students interacted with Ms. Priyanka Chopra at a discourse on "Fair Start for every child" by UNICEF on 05 July 2016.

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Mr. Rajdeep Sardesai ,Indian news anchor and author & consulting editor at the India Today group had

an interactive session with the students on 02 August 2016.

Tagoreans got the opportunity to visit Rashtrapati Bhavan on 18 August 2016 and tie Rakhi on the wrist

of President, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee to spread the message of peace and harmony .

Mr. Stephen Paul Fleming , Former Captain of the New Zealand Cricket team was greeted by excited

Tagoreans in the school on 07 September 2016.

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Mr. Akshay Kumar,president of the Adventure Travel Association of India(ATOAI) and a keen skier ,trekker and a rafting guide graced the senior school Sports Day events in school on 14 December 2016.

Padma Bhushan awardees ,Pt. Rajan Mishra & Pt. Sajan Mishra performed in school on 08 December

2016.

Kathak Performance by Ms. Monisa Nayak under the aegis of SPIC MACAY on 23 August 2016.

Ms Gowri Ishwaran ,Padma Shri awardee,an educationist and the chief executive officer of the Global

Education and Leadership Foundation(tGELF) graced the Senior Prize Distribution Ceremony held in school on 10 February 2017