Every year our students of Grades 10 and 12 have given
the gruelling international exams in the IGCSE and the DP and we are absolutely
delighted to share that this year both the grades that went into the exams have
produced the best results so far in our school life. In the DP exams the
toppers were Supriya Ganesh and Jae Woo Oh who scored 41 points each and
followed closely by Shreya Biswal who scored 40 points. The school had an
average of 32 points which is much above the world average.
Our IGCSE results
have also been excellent with 132 student entries achieving A or A* in the
IGCSE exams and 12 of our students achieving Distinction in the Cambridge IGCSE
ICE award. Without a doubt while we are very proud of our students achievements
we are also very appreciative of our committed group of teachers who have
worked hard with our students to ensure that we had a really good result. We
are also really pleased to share that many of our students have been admitted
to very prestigious universities in the US, UK, Canada, and of course in India.
Some of these institutions are Columbia University, UC San Diego, University
College of London, Purdue University etc.
A major focus has been to prepare students for the
months ahead. We had a very successful orientation programme for our Grade 11
students who have commenced their journey of the DP at the end of July. We are
proud to share that this year a few of our recently graduated students came to
share their experiences of the DP and all its nuances.
We also had on the 18th of August a Career Day which
will enable our Grade 10-12 students to interact with Universities from the US
who will share various ideas on how to apply to colleges and through break-out
sessions, guide our students on what could ease their application process to
the various universities. Over the next two months we will have close to a 100
universities visiting our campus from abroad as well as India thus allowing our
students opportunities to listen and interact with the University officers.
There is a renewed focus on tightening systems and
processes and to this effect we are now mandating that all students will need
to have 90% attendance in a semester or they may not be allowed to sit for the
exams. This attendance is cumulative over the months and is to ensure that
students will be regular to school and through the contact time with the teachers
in school appropriate teaching learning will take place. We are also pushing
the academic honesty policy which discourages academic malpractice and
encourages our students to be true IB learners by being independent and
articulate thinkers. Another effort that we are pushing for very strongly is a
non tolerance of delay in any submission. This is to enable students to get
into the nature of being time bound in all submissions and more effective time
managers and is a major skill to success in University life where one has to
multi task effectively.
As I look out into the pages of the calendar for the
busy months ahead I see activities marked out to fill out the days of all of us
here at school. But I see much more…. I see moments of discovery for both
students and teachers…. to see how there will be many an A-Ha moment of finding
out new experiences which enrich our day. I see much more opportunities to
raise the bar of excellence in whatever field or stage we put ourselves in and
be able to say thus far we have come and even more. I see a scene from the
celebrated movie “Dead Poet’s Society” where Robin Williams as the teacher
stands on the desk and challenges the students by saying- “I STAND upon my desk
to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way”.
The challenge for us as a community through this year is to “rise and stand”
above the usual and look at every opportunity in a different way and seize the
day as we move forward.
