Pathways School, Noida: From the Director's Desk

Welcome to the first whole-school newsletter of the year. I am delighted to see how the school is buzzing with activity, classrooms and playing fields overflowing with the creative energy which our students bring with them. Student numbers have grown dramatically and almost every grade now has two sections.

New Staff

Twenty five new teachers across the school join us in this academic year. They began with workshops in June and continued with these in July. They come with experience in teaching in international schools in the UK, US, Manila, China, Syria, international and national system schools in India and we are very happy to see how quickly they are settling in. We are especially happy to welcome our new Diploma Programme coordinator Ms Geeta Verma who comes with many years of experience at Pathways Aravali, our PYP Coordinator Dr Swati Sawant who brings years of experience from Ecole Mondiale school in Mumbai and Ms Sandhya Kumar our Advanced Learner Coordinator who joins us from a school in London.

New Spaces

Students are enjoying the purpose built specialist rooms for Art, Drama, Dance and Music. These are located on the second floor of the secondary school and provide generous space for activities. Our Design and Technology labs have expanded considerably to make space for a metal work area and theory teaching spaces.

Meanwhile we are struggling with the civil works happening just outside our school walls. We are following up with Noida authority which assures us that they will move quickly and that they will not dig up the road outside Gate 2 and 3 at the same time. Meanwhile we ask you to cooperate with the requirements for drop off which may change from time to time.

Examination Results

Our Diploma programme results came in July and the Form 10 IGCSE results were released this week. It was heartening to see the results for the first year. I am very pleased to announce that Saurabh Mittal got an outstanding 43 points at the IB Diploma and has now gone off to his undergraduate studies at Cornell .At IGCSE, Sagnik Aich achieved 5 A* and 1 A grade. They have made us very proud.

Saignik Aich Saurabh Mittal

We Congratulate

Three students – Pulkit Kapoor, Advitya Narang (Form 9)and Aditya Kapoor (Form 7) - who were chosen for the cricket tour of South Africa by the Yuvraj Singh Cricket Academy.

Partha Sharma (Form 11) who received a special commendation for his role in the Model United Nations assembly at Chandigarh.

Events

Independence Day celebrations were marked with a varied assembly and we were delighted to welcome Mr OP Kohli, grandfather of Taapsi and Parth who gave an account of the fight for freedom and the importance of a continued struggle for justice. You can read more about this event below.

We held our first Primary Academic Awards ceremony on 17th and combined it with the investiture of our new Primary School Student Council.

Shalini Advani
School Director

Primary Student Council Members