From the Director's Desk

Despite all the upheavals in the world outside our walls this has been a good start to the year. In the three weeks since school started our students have done us proud.

  

A group of middle and senior school students competed against 22 other schools for the World Scholars Cup and all our teams qualified for the next round which will take place in either South Africa or Greece. Many students also won individual medals

   

 Junior and Middle school Golf students entered for the Junior Golf tournament in Noida and won 4 gold and 5 silver medals

  

 A group of 35 students representing the tennis, swim and basketball teams have gone to the Association of International Schools (TAISI) interschool tournament competing against over a thousand students. 34 students along with 4 teachers participated in TAISI Inter IB Schools National level sports competition held at Bangalore The Inventure Academy . Overall 1175 participants participated in the event from various IB Schools. Students represented the school in sports like Athletics, Swimming, Basketball, Soccer, Table Tennis, Badminton and Tennis. Our students secured 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze in Athletics and Swimming.

Musicians distinguished themselves in an inter-school non competitive event at The British School.

Recognising Academic Achievement

Students who excelled in the first semester were invited to a special event Dessert With the Directors where in a formal setting they conversed with the school executive management– the Jain family and Dr Datar. Over dessert they were able to discuss their views and put questions to the Directors of the school.

Careers Day

Thank you to the parents who came into school to share their experience and lives in different careers with students from Grade 9 up. We were happy to welcome Mr Tuli who spoke on banking and business risk, Mr Tomar on animation and gaming, Mr Swami on journalism and Dr  Sinha on medicine. They provided an invaluable insight to students.

Staff Development

   Since December 60 teachers have achieved Microsoft certification as Microsoft Educators. 6 teachers have been appointed examiners by the IB for the MYP and 4 for the Diploma programme.  

     I am delighted to share that Dr.  Kaul, the IGCSE Coordinator and HoD – Social Science has been appointed as a global Team Leader for Geography  and joins the elite team of Dr. Garrett Nagle and Lucy Greenslade, the other two global leaders. We are proud at how many of our Faculty are now recognised by the IB.

Four teachers are attending the South Asia IB Schools Association (SAIBSA) conference in Mumbai. Three of them, Ms Pilar Cinca, Ms Pallavi Dwivedi and Ms Anshu Sharma,  will be leading workshops at this session.  

        
The Administration leadership team from all 3 Pathways school met together for a two-day workshop on good practice.

  

Looking ahead, we will be having a number of important training sessions for groups of staff this month.

1. Crisis Management Response: on Disaster Response, Terror Threat, Fire Fighting & Crisis Response.

2. Theatre In Education:  A workshop on Theatre in education for 30 teachers across primary & secondary. The facilitators Geoff and Anne Readman are visiting from the UK and will be running workshop sessions with Grade 4, Grade 7 &Grade 11 and a training for teachers across the school. Dr Readman is a Specialist Teaching Consultant in Drama Education. He has previously worked as an actor-teacher, primary and secondary teacher, drama advisor and university lecturer for teacher training. He has published articles and a BBC book on primary drama. Anne Readman is an experienced primary drama practitioner who has developed drama initiatives in both in the UK and Hong Kong.

3. Academic Leadership Retreat: a weekend retreat and training for all coordinators and Heads of department

Student Community Service

  

 In January the new Interact student leadership was welcomed at a special ceremony, marking our ongoing commitment to intervening to improve the world. They organized a contingent for the Cansupport walk seeing widespread participation from parents and students.

     
Grade 9 & 10 students ran a health checkup with doctors for the children of Sai Bal Sansar school, They also arranged a sports event for them.

MYP students had a Readathon to both encourage reading and to raise funds through sponsorship of the pages they read. You can get a sense of this event by clicking on this link 
https://youtu.be/EZEZ-N1GdJY

Coding Week

In the upcoming week we introduce Coding Week to all students from Grade 2 up. The challenge has been thrown open to parents too, to come and learn coding. No previous experience is necessary.

Medical dept. update

We are pleased that a fully equipped school ambulance is in place on the school premises. The Interact club will also be running a blood donation camp during the PTM on 18th March and parents are urged to come forward for this important cause. More details will be forthcoming.

Dr. Shalini Advani

School Director