From the Director’s Desk

A very warm welcome to the first news update of the new academic year. I would like to extend a special welcome to all those families who have joined us this year. This communication comes once a fortnight and gives you an overview of the school in many voices –  in addition to myself, from students and teachers. It enables us to make announcements, alert you about upcoming plans and share areas of concern. Essential to the successful development of our children is a shared understanding between families and the school about what we are seeking to achieve. 

Results

We have been happy with the results both for the IB Diploma students and the Form 10 IGCSE students. At the IB, Partha Sharma was the top scoring student with 42 points. At the IGCSE,

whose results have just come out, we are delighted that our highest scoring student Supriya Ganesh (pic. attached) achieved 5 A* and 3 A grades. Sameera Khurana achieved 3 A* and 4 A grades and Tavishi Gupta achieved 2 A* and 6 A grades.

In a very different type of result, we cogratulate Ansh Anand of Gr 4  for getting two silver medals in the Inter School Swimming Competition at Cambridge School, Noida.

  
 Events In School

Although school has been open only two weeks and there have been an unusual number of holidays this month, there have been very many events already. The orientations for new students

and parents, the day-long orientation to  the IB Diploma for Form 11 students,  the welcome assembly helped new students to get important information.

Groups of senior school students have had exciting and challenging experiences at Model United Nations 
events and student conferences              MUN Training at Pathways Aravali 

A group has gone to participate in the Doon School Model UN. Another group of students accompanied by the IB Diploma Coordinator Ms Geeta Verma travelled to Warwick University for the IB Student Conference.  We were the only school from India amongst Schools from     

    IB Student Conference, Warwick University

South Africa, various countries in Europe, Australia, Singapore, China. Another group attended a MUN training at Pathways Aravali.

To commemorate peace and remember the destruction of nuclearization senior school students were fortunate to host the noted writer and speaker Professor Achin Vanaik who was inspirational in his analysis of the reason countries opt for nuclear weapons. 

                               

Prof. Achin Vanaik, the founder member of the "Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament" 

This followed after an assembly on this theme conducted by the students.

Upcoming Events

Please do earmark the Academic Awards ceremony for Primary and Secondary school – 27th August for secondary awards and 30th August for Primary school.

Shalini Advani
School Director