Monday, February 14, 2011

Seminar on "Target IIT" by Mr. Shivakumar



A seminar for the parents and students of classes VII and VIII was taken by Mr.Shivakumar, Director (Academics), Indus World Schools and Founder Director, Career Launcher on Feb 13. What does it take to get into an IIT? What is the right age to start the preparation? How can we combine the child’s regular school and IIT preparation? These were some of the queries that counseling helped clarify to the parents.
Mr. Shiva Kumar felt that parents of students who are naturally inclined to Sciences and Math and have made up their mind on Engineering should definitely think of giving their wards the early start at class IX itself. For the rest it is worth waiting maybe till class XI. He also mentioned that there is no need for 6 hours a day schedule for 4 years to crack IIT JEE. A good grounding in concepts at the school is sufficient to enable this. So a well designed curriculum with able support from the teachers in class VIII and Class IX will ensure that there is no undue pressure on understanding concepts when the student comes to class XI. He clarified how the board exams are different from the JEE. Exit exams like the board exams test the student’s learning at school directly whereas the entrance tests check his ability to apply the concepts in a “new context”. That is what makes them tough. Maybe, IIT is the only test which needs to be focused on as early as class IX.

It was also announced in the session that a new IIT-JEE batch for class IX would be started at Indus World School, which will especially focus on IIT preparation for those who are seriously interested in IIT. Mr. Shivakumar has extended his stay in Indore, after getting a marvelous response. He would be available for one to one counseling sessions from 11:00am to 4:00pm on 14th and 15th Feb, for students preparing for IIT.

Seminar on "Sports as a serious career" & Indus Tennis Open Tournament









A panel discussion on ‘Can sports be a serious career for your child?’, was organized in the Indus World School, Chhawani campus on Feb 06, Sunday. It discussed the merits of sports as a career and parents’ role in encouraging students’ latent talents. The esteemed panel consisted of: Mr. Satyanaryanan, Chairman, Career Launcher; Mr. Vijay Dahiya, Ex Wicket keeper, Indian cricket team and assistant coach, Kolkata Knight Riders; Mr. Amay Khurasia, Ex Cricket player; Mr. Vinay Rishi, Vikram Awardee, Swimming champion and entrepreneur; Mr. Sushil Doshi, famous cricket commentator and Ms. Bindeshwari Singh, National level Squash player and Mentor, Indus World School.
Mr. Sujit Bhattacharya, the technological guiding force at Career Launcher and Indus World School, invited the panelists to share their journey and experiences in the field of sports. This provided interesting insights about their glories and debacles. Although it was difficult to succeed in the field of sports, it taught them to win with humility and lose with dignity. The sports field according to them is the best teacher of discipline, team spirit, time management and how to live life each day.
Questions put forward by parents were answered by the panelists and solutions offered to their queries. “Elbow grease is the best polish”, was quoted by them while emphasizing upon the importance of hard work. The panelists did stress upon the need to give equal importance to academics as well as sports. This was followed by the opening ceremony of the Indus Tennis Open Championship, which marked the inauguration of the newly constructed lawn tennis courts in the school.

The Indus Open Tennis Tournament started at Indus World School on Feb 7, 2011, a day after the inauguration by noted Cricketer and Coach Mr. Vijay Dahiya and other sports personalities, it is noteworthy that they enlightened parents and students on the prospects of sports as a career. Students from various clubs and schools across Indore participated. The enthusiasm and vigour of all the participants gave a very positive start to the tournament.

The tournament had four groups: Under – 15 boys, under – 12 boys, under – 15 girls and under – 10 boys and girls. The final matches were held on 11/02/11. The response to the tournament was tremendous, where more than 70 participants took part from across the city. The prize distribution happened on the same day. Prof.Aaditya Lohana, Director, Indus World Schools and Principal, Smita Rathore gave away the prizes to winners.





Thursday, February 10, 2011

English Debate

On the 9th of February, the four houses sent their candidates to debate on two topics which are probably very close to every student's heart.
Jigyasa 1 students debated on 'Our school uniform should be changed' while the Jigyasa 2 and Sadhana 1 children debated on 'Homework should be made voluntary'.
The judges were Mrs. Bhavna Mulani and Ms. Bindeswari Singh.
Sara Hashmi of Class IV conducted the programme.
The results
Jigyasa 1
Best Speaker (Favour): Saud Hashmi - Class IV - Prithvi
Runner Up (Favour): Yogya Dubey - Class IV - Agni
Best Speaker (Against): Devpoojit Verma - Class IV - Vayu
Runner Up (Against): Sayali Pingle - Class V - Jal

Jigyasa 2 and Sadhana 1
Best Speaker (Favour): Tushit Joshi - Class VII - Agni House
Runner Up (Favour): Navya Shrivastava - Class VI - Prithvi House
Best Speaker (Against): Arundhati Singh - Class VIII - Vayu House
Runner Up (Against): Siddhant Jain - Class VII - Agni House

Click Here to view pictures of the event.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Purvai

At Indus World School, each class is not known merely by an alphabet like Section A, B or C. Each class has a meaningful name.
A section of Class V is called Purvai. The children wrote a song on what Purvai means to them and presented it in the morning assembly.

Purvai means air
Opposing us don't dare
For each other we care
In our class there are player

Purvai means air
Opposing us don't dare
To each other we are fair
We stop each others tears

Purvai means air
Opposing us don't dare
We are the ones who share
We are the ones who cheer

Purvai means air
Opposing us don't dare
We are the ones who never scare
No ones like Purvai air

Purvai means air (2)
We are like a family (4)

We both decided to make Purvai song as we were inspired by class 8 Vasant. When they made their Vasant song, we thought of making Purvai song.
Lyrics of this song were made in just one day only. We both felt proud. Before making this song we both thought that how can a class be a good class and our class got inspired from this song and yes there are many things in this song which we follow. We gave our 100% in making this song. We both also composed this song. We thank Tushita didi (Class VII Prachi) for her help in making the lyrics and Sunil sir and Bhagyashree maam for helping us in making this song much better. This was a really memorable experience.
By
Ishita and Kashish