This is an elephant that has been made by one of our students Baladitya Rane of class 2. This has been made by the scraps of paper, left out by one of the didis who was making paper flowers for art & craft. This boy came and within split of a second he made an elephant with bits of paper. Here at Indus World School, we let the children explore and results are really encouraging.
Indus World School, Indore Class 7 and 8 students participated in the National Olympiad for Science, English , Maths and Cyber conducted by Eduheal Foundation. The results, as expected, were very encouraging indeed. A snapshot summary of the reaults:
ALL students of Indus have scored 90%ile plus in ALL tests. In other words, our lowest performer is in the top 10% of the country!
Out of 35 students of class 7 and 8 who took the 4 tests, we have 21 instances of a National Merit Certificate being awarded.
We have 4 Top 10 state rank instances.
In each test we have a state rank in the top 30.
Class 7 Percentile Results
Class 7
Best Score
Lowest IWSI Score
Best State Rank
Total test takers
Maths
97.6
90
20
24000+
Cyber
99.2
90
4
6700+
Science
98.5
90.24
9
20000+
English
98.1
90.1
4
11000+
Class 8 Percentile Results
Class 8
Best Score
Lowest IWSI Score
Best State Rank
Total test takers
Maths
96.4
90.17
17
22000+
Cyber
97.55
90.79
11
6400+
Science
94.1
90.05
27
24000+
English
96.2
90
9
10000+
We are proud of our students' performance, especially as we didn't give them much time to prepare for the test. This will put to rest any apprehensions about the academic strength of the Indus Way of Learning.
I was going for my first outbound and my son saw the photographs of an outbound which took place earlier. He got scared about the risk involved in the activities and was tense, as I don’t know how to swim. I tried to explain and took him into confidence but he was little upset. In the evening when I asked him something, he shouted at me, which I did not like. I just told that we would talk when he would be in a good mood. Saying this I left him alone to think. After a short while he came and said sorry to me. I told him that I was not expecting an apology from him but simply wanted him to think about the temper he had thrown. The next thing that I had from him was a letter to me in which he had written, ‘Dear mummy, sorry (many times), mujhe maaf kar do.’ This way he wrote seven letters handing them over to me again and again. He kept on saying to his grandparents, “Mein likhte jaaonga jab tak Mummy maaf nahi kar degi”. Finally he came with a sorry note pasted on his forehead with the help of a tape. Looking at that I burst into laughter and hugged him-my son had learnt to respect my feelings now.
मम्मी है ये प्यारी प्यारी, बातें करती प्यारी प्यारी है भी वो प्यारी प्यारी, सबसे ज्यादा बेटे से, बातें करती प्यारी प्यारी । चुदियाँ वो पहनती है, लिपस्टिक भी लगाती है। ग्रीन vegetables मुझे पसंद है, इसलिए मुझे lady's finger बना कर वो देती है। black pepper भी डालती है। सारा काम खुद करती है । मम्मी आप प्यारी हो , सामान choose करती हो तो बेटे से पूछती हो ये लें , या वो लें? खाना भी देती हो, सारा खाना खुद नहीं खाती हो। अपने husband , बच्चों और मेहमानों को खिलाती हो। मम्मी तो प्यारी है mistake हो तो बता देती है की mistake हो गई है....
I came across some really alarming news reports about levels of stress in school children today and I thought of posting the links here with some quotes from them too:
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""It's hard to talk about our experience again and again. But I do it. I do it for my daughter." --Mahesh Poddar (father of Mini, who committed suicide at the age of 15 years)"
"India has one of the highest suicide rates in the world -- and recent studies suggest about 40 percent are adolescents."
"India's education system is based on rote learning, or memorization, with a strong emphasis on scoring high marks. Classrooms are typically places filled with boiler cooker pressure."
"The suicides were a wake-up call for educators, said Sangeeta Srivastava, principal of Sardar Vallabhai Patel Vidyala, a government school in North Mumbai...Recently, a student from her school ran away from home before exams. "As teachers, we have a lot of effect on the students, even more than parents do," she said."
It begins with Neha Sawant's suicide story in Mumbai and then takes us through the main causes of high suicide rates in India.
Some quotes from this story:
"There is also a general agreement between psychologists and teachers that the main reason for the high number of teenagers taking their own lives is the increasing pressure on children to perform well in exams."
"World Health Organisation Assistant Director-General Catherine Le Gals-Camus points out more people die from suicide around the world than from all homicides and wars combined."
"The home ministry estimates that for every teenage suicide in Mumbai there are 13 failed attempts."
"Ms. Timbekar says that she recently met a child who had not eaten for four days. The child's parents said they were upset with him because he only got 89% in exams and stood third in the class, compared to coming first in previous years. "Such parents need to be counselled," she asserts."
"Dilip Panicker argues that there is a simple solution."If parents love their children unconditionally, with all their successes and failures, the problem would be greatly alleviated.""
Is this what our school education is moving to? At Indus, thankfully, we are completely aware of our responsibilities and are committed to ensure a healthy environ.
I and my friend are astronauts. First we went to Mercury to a toy shop.Second trip for us is Venus. The third trip is Mars.The fourth trip is to jupiter.The fifth is saturn, we run in the saturn. The sixth trip is Uranius. The seven trip was to neptune, alien attacked us.Than we attack the alien space ship.Then the last trip was pluto, it was very cold. Then we go back to earth.
This is an elephant that has been made by one of our students Baladitya Rane of class 2. This has been made by the scraps of paper, left out by one of the didis who was making paper flowers for art & craft. This boy came and within split of a second he made an elephant with bits of paper.
