Grandparents' Day at Indus World School!

Grand Parents’ Day was celebrated in Indus World School today. This day was celebrated by classes Nursery to Class II and the activities were conducted classwise. In all the classes, children performed several activities like dance, role-play and songs. In some classes grandparents took the initiative in creating cards as tokens of love for their grandchildren. It was indeed a very exciting experience to watch some of the Dadajis, dadijis, nanajis and nanijis to enter the class with animal masks on their faces and in some classes they also shared stories, songs and their experiences. In one of the classes, the grandparents went out of the way to touch a child’s heart by attending his class as his grandparents since his own grandparents were not present!

Our Principal, Mrs. Smita Rathore, said that Indus World School believes in creating a learning environment by involving the child’s own world of parents, grandparents, and friends for a holistic growth and development. It is very rare that we acknowledge the contribution of our loved ones in our day-to-day life. Hence we took this opportunity to thank the grandparents on behalf of the children by making them perform activities of their choice.

This is what we call ‘Building relationships’ and strengthening them with bonds of love and gratitude!

Ananda Olympics...

“Ananda Olympics”… What is this? The name suggests it has something to do with sports, and as it is sports and ananda (joy) is synonymous.
From today, we have organized some sports activities for children of Ananda group that is from Nursery to Class II at Indus World School.
The event began with the inauguration, by the children of Ananda group. Children ran around the school with colorful ribbons in their hands. It was such a wonderful sight, some children ran…some stopped in the way… and some preferred to opt for a short cut.
After this the children were taken to the ground where they were divided into four groups.Then began race, relay and many more wonderful activities designed by our Baghel sir and Vishnu sir.
The event will continue for one more day.
Looking forward for much more fun and excitement on the ground.

Save the basic necessity of life...

Our motherland is so rich in natural resources and has plentiful water. Yet, India and in large our world is facing the water problems since many years. The crises today is not about having too little water to fulfill our needs, but the crises is of managing water.

The availability of safe drinking water is being reduced due to pollution from sewage and industrial waste.

Considering the importance of water, we at our ends should make the optimum utilization of this precious resource. A little we can do is, to make it a practice to save water as and where it is possible, in our daily routine.As we are the role models for our children, we will be able to pass on this habit to them also.

With a festival like “Holi” around it becomes all the more important to make our children aware of the importance of this basic necessity of life. It becomes our duty to see that we do not waste water on this occasion because after “Holi” are the months in which we face the highest water crises.
Don’t you think, that it is high time that we become serious about this most essential necessity of life?

When my son left us speechless...

When I had joined Indus as a mentor, my son was studying in another school. In my first PMM (Parents- Mentors Meet) I got feedback from the parents about the change, which they observed, in their children. These feedbacks made me think about my son. I had never given this kind of feedback to my son’s teacher; nor had I observed those changes in my son, which the parents at Indus were talking about. There was nothing happening beyond counting, alphabet and writing. I immediately took a decision to get my son enrolled in Indus.
Session started; initially he studied the same syllabus, which he had already covered in the previous year in the conventional school although in a different manner. My relatives started commenting “Yeh to already padh chuka hai”. As days passed by my son became more understanding; he became more caring towards all the family members. He properly understood the concepts; he became more observant and more inquisitive. He enjoyed every minute in the school and did not want to go back home. Day by day he kept surprising us with one or the other thing. Eventually one fine day he astonished all the family members by reading the whole “Durga chalisa” in one go. We all were speechless.Indus has brought along many qualitative changes in him indeed.

Leena Behl

Mentor - Indus World School.

नटखट चूहा

चूहा है बड़ा ही नटखट,

करता है शैतानी बहुत।

देख पर मौसी बिल्ली को,

याद उसे आती है नानी बहुत ।

चीज़ें को है कुतरता,

सदा ही कुछ कुछ खाता।

काटी है उसने रजाई ,

और काटा है मेरा जूता ।

बोली मौसी बिल्ली,

हो न तुम परेशान,

एक दिन में ही मैं ,

कर दूँगी चूहे का काम तमाम।

Sanya Shrivastava

class 2

Ullhas

Fear leads to Failure...

Success completely depends on how confidently we make an effort. We can say " Confidence is the key to success".

Fear is F-false; E-evidence; A-appearing; R-real.

All of us face many ups and downs in life, but standing up after every failure is a way to defeat our fear. We all have some or the other kind of fear, fear of losing, fear of being lonely, some or the other fear which is in there in our minds and which is always a hurdle in achieving sucess.

When we want to achieve something we just have to be very clear, confident,comfortable with our efforts rather than thinking what would happen if we don't succeed? When we give our performance with these 3 C's we will definitely be able to beat our fear and be successful.

Geeta Tuteja
M/o Sahaj Tuteja
Class 1 Gulmohar

Science Meet

Recently we've had a science meet. It started on 27th January and ended on 29th of January. In these 3 days we did many things and we really enjoyed them a lot!!!Classes III toVIII participated in the science meet.

DAY ONE

The subject of the first day was Wonderful Experiments. In that day we were asked to do experiments which were written on the paper given to us by Jyoti ma'am and Shilpa ma'am. On that day children were busy doing their project such as making simple motor , D.C motor , jumping frog etc. Some were successful and some were unsuccesful in making their project.
DAY TWO
The topic for the second day was 'Our Own Experiments'. In that we made our own groups and we did our experiments. We were asked to make our models 3days before, but still many friends were unable to prepare it in that period of time, so Jyoti ma'am gave us extra time of two hours. After two hours many friends were still not ready with their projects, so Jyoti ma'am asked those friends who had made their projects, to present them. The experimets were based on volcano , motor boat , windmill etc. But class sixth was not able to make their projects, so we were asked to present our projects the next day.
DAY THREE
On 3rd day we made our own groups and made posters related to 'Save Environment' as it was a poster making contest. Children really worked hard and made beautiful posters. Then we presented our experiments which were pending.

By:-

Tushita and Nachiketa

Class 6th

Rote Learning in schools to end

Indus World School has always believed in the philosophy of discouraging rote learning in keeping with the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) Guidelines. A recent article in Hindustan Times (dated Jan 31, 2010) strengthens our belief, and we hope that other schools will also follow the same.

Read the full article here...