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TAGORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
VASANT VIHAR, NEW DELHI – 57
ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18
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TAGORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
VASANT VIHAR, NEW DELHI - 57
SCHOOL REPORT 2017-18
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS We at Tagore International School Vasant Vihar, tried to raise the bar of
achievement for ourselves with each passing year, and with dedication and
perseverance have been able to meet our academic and co-curricular
commitments with a satisfaction which comes only after the task well done.
Our initiatives have been applauded and have brought us prestigious awards
that were truly deserved. These awards constantly motivate us to better
ourselves in each of our endeavours.
The school won the 'Global Sustainable School Award 2017' for
promoting UN Global Sustainable Goals through education in the
academic year 2016-17.
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School bagged the award for being a 'Skill Centric School' in an
International felicitation held by Confederation of Indian Universities in
October 2017. Five teachers of our school received this award for their
exemplary teaching. The event took place at India International Centre
on the occasion of National Skill Development Summit. The teachers
who received the award are:
Ms. N Saroj(Dean Academics)
Ms. Rumna Mitra Lala(HoD English)
Ms. Shruti Chandhoke(HoD Mathematics)
Ms. Uma Chopra(HoD Hindi)
Ms. Anuradha Arora(HoD Social Sciences)
tGELF- The Global Educational Leadership Forum nominated Ms.
Manpreet Kaur for NFTE( Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship)
Global Showcase being held at New York ,USA on 22 March 2018. She is
representing India after being shortlisted for piloting the “Owning Your
Future” programme in 2017.
Co-ed Day Schools : City Rankings
Education World (September 2017 issue) ranked Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar 44th among the top Co-Ed. Schools of India.
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THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION
In January 2017, World Scholar’s Cup organized its Delhi NCR regional round. Our school sent two teams. They performed exceptionally well, and were invited to the global round at Hanoi, which was held in the last week of June 2017. The team of Shrey Chhabra, Sanjeet Agarwal and Aamod Mehrish were the runners up, in the South Asia division, and out of 2000 participants, their team stood 33rd. The team has also been invited to the tournament of champions at Yale University. The other team also performed well with students winning awards.
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The Giffoni Film Festival (GFF), Italy provides a one of a kind platform to international juries, composed of about 600 youngsters of ages 3 years and above, to stay with local Italian families in Salerno, and spend their days at the venue of the event in Giffoni. Six students of the school accompanied by Ms. Yachana Villaitrani attended the same from in July 2017.
Seven students, accompanied by Ms. Gauri Sen went to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to participate in the International Royal Military Young Scientist Conference and Exhibition (i-RYSCE) from 10 July to 15 July 2017. The school was one of the four schools representing India at this expo. The school team bagged four bronze medals and one gold medal. Pratyush Saini of class VII won the Youngest Scientist Award at the age of 11. Back in India, the students met Dr.Harshvardhan, minister at Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, at his residence and received a certificate of appreciation signed by him.
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Abhay N Hari, of class XI-D, attended the Pennsylvania School for Global Entrepreneurship (PSGE) summer program held at Leigh University, Pennsylvania, from in June and July 2017, as one of two students selected from India. The PSGE programme is a global platform for students to attain real life business and entrepreneurial experience and skills.
Fourteen students accompanied by Ms.
Aditi Goria and Ms. Loveleen Chugh
represented India in an International
Cultural Exchange Program-Joy Dancing
Children's Meet at Beijing, China in August
2017. Along with eleven other countries of the
world; the students were presented with
trophies.
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Nineteen students and two
teachers, Ms. Rima Pant and Ms.
Anjali Wats visited Lyon, France on
a Student Exchange Programme
with Le Collège Maria-Casarès,
Rillieux de Papes, in November
2017. During their stay at Rillieux,
the students participated in a
number of cultural exchange
activities with the students of the partner school. The students were hosted by
the Mayor of the town. Television telecast of the entire Exchange programme
was carried on their news channel and the students also featured in the local
French newspapers.
WE CARE (Projects by the school)-
Active citizenship is the need of the present times. The students took up
various social projects in this academic year which were designed to create
the leaders of tomorrow who would be true change makers.
Our Project Sehpaathi, under which we adopted a school in village Joniawas
(Haryana), won the prestigious Tgelf Youth Leadership award. Project heads
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Arsh Misra and Syed Sameed Anwar received certificates and cash prizes on
behalf of the team in November at Vigyan Bhawan. Since its inception as the
youngest campaign of the school in March 2017, the campaign has aimed to
provide quality education to the students of Government Senior Secondary
School in Joniawas.
Our campaign “Flawless Flaws” which is headed and coordinated by Ishana
Agarwal, of class XI, partnered up with Acid Survivors Foundation India
(ASFI). We presented our stand in our sister school Tagore International
School, East of Kailash & Dayal Singh College in New Delhi as also in Bethune
College and La Martiniere for Girls in Kolkata. Through our Street Plays, we
have successfully convinced people not to buy acid as well as trained them on
how to act in an incident involving acid attack violence.
In November 2017 we had a small ceremony where we invited Ms.Miskeena, Ms.Nisha and Ms.Gulista who are acid attack survivors. We contributed 1 lakh for their medical treatment.
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Breaking Barriers, India’s first school-level LGBTQI+ campaign, did their all to show their roaring enthusiasm at the Delhi Queer Pride-2017 in November. Breaking Barriers also continued with their presentation— which shed light on various aspects of the LGBT+ community, including basic terminologies, discrimination, and the legal aspects.
The senior members held a session for the teachers of the school in March
2017, a session at Maharaja Agrasen School in April 2017, and a session for
our senior school in July 2017.
Next session, Breaking Barriers plans to hold a landmark event, Polychrome, for schools across the NCR and NGOs, making international ties, and working on our e-magazine, Thrive.
The “D.A.R.E. to Rise” campaign focuses on creating and spreading
awareness about the harmful nature and long-term effects of dependence on
drugs. The campaign started with the study of a basic survey conducted by the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and went on to ultimately
win the Junior Astitva Award for outstanding contribution to the society.
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The ‘Sentinels of Safety’ campaign was formally launched in March 2017 to
prepare a team which is equipped with skills to handle self and others during
any kind of disaster. A core team of 25 members headed by Nikita Pant and
Hardik Suri of X C was created with training sessions and workshops
conducted for their initiation. During the year, the members helped in
organising and conducting regular ‘Evacuation Drills’ within the school. The
campaign also partnered with ‘Safetipin’, an organization that has created a
crowd source app for the user to check the safety of a location. The core team
of the project was also a part of the closing ceremony of the ‘Road Safety
Campaign’ organized at India Habitat Centre in May 2017.
The Tagorean Awareness Society (TAS) led by Anukriti Chawla and Trisha Sodhi of class XI B carried out various activities including:
Cleanliness: TAS has instated the ‘Cleanest Classroom Award’ for the middle school. The winner is announced once in a month.
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Samarpan School: TAS members regularly interact with the students of Samarpan School, Vasant Kunj. Digitization Project: Over a 100 students from classes VIII to X supported by teachers participated in a digitization marathon to convert scanned books into readable format that can be accessed by screen reading softwares. This novel idea by Ms. Anubhuti Bhattacharya, the Project Manager was to promote inclusiveness and accessibility of the visually challenged. They managed to convert 1369 pages.
In 2014 with the aim that students express their problems and understand solutions better from their peers, with whom they can truly connect and empathize, the campaign Peer Mentoring was formed through an initiative by the school. In 2017 the student mentors conducted sessions in junior classes where they
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discussed issues like bullying, self-esteem, anger management and so on using visual aids and skits.
GREEN INITIATIVES The school has taken significant steps to reduce its carbon footprint and contribute to a cleaner environment. This is a way of teaching our students the importance of taking little steps towards creating a better world. GREEN TEEN- the Eco Club in school was created in the year 2011. Students of classes VI-XII are part of this club and are working passionately towards protecting the environment. Few projects undertaken are:
solar panels paper recycling water conservation floral trait e-waste disposal waste segregation project search building healthy environment generating awareness about earth day
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ACCOLADES
NATIONAL LEVEL COMPETITIONS
H. Shweta of IX C took part in Music
Competition “SARGOTSAVAM 2017” and
won third prize in Carnatic Classical Music for
seniors. This is an annual state level
music/dance/fine art competition held under
the aegis of Kerala Education Society, Delhi.
Maruti Suzuki sponsored A World In Motion(AWIM) regionals for the Delhi
region was held at Gurugram in October 2017. Our Jet Toy team comprising of
Sakina Nadeem , Aryan Kalra , Aishani Kumar of VI C and Rehan Ahmed of VI
A were declared the overall winner of the jet toy competition and were also
awarded the category
award in time round.Our
Skimmer team
comprising of Satvik
Phalswal , Lal Nunkimi of
V B, Shreyas Rajput and
Abhilash Pradhan of V C
were declared the
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overall winner of skimmer competition and were also awarded the category
awards for accuracy and weights round. Both the teams then competed in the
AWIM nationals at Pune in January 2018 and won accolades.
Rhea Luthra of VI C qualified for the National
level of the French Spell Bee 2017 competition.
She was awarded a medal and a prize for the
same.
F1 in Schools, a national event organized by Time of Sports began in the
month of October 2017 and culminated with events spread over three days in
January 2018 at Ambience Mall, Gurugram. Team VOLARE from our school
comprising of 6 students from classes VII-X represented school in this event.
They designed a prototype of Formula1 Car and raced it on the tracks.
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Gurmaan Singh and Garv Gupta of class VII C participated in CBSE Science
Exhibition under Mathematics
Modelling category .They
presented a trick to solve
quadratic equations and got
selected for the national level
round.
Neev Swarnakar of X B acted in a short film named
'Kaagpanth'. The acting work of Neev has been
appreciated by the entire cast and crew.
Our School won trophy for overall
third position at the Zonal Level
Science Activities and Exhibition
organized by DOE (Directorate of
Education).Our students won the
first prize in Science Drama
competition and the topic for the
competition was “Digital India”. They
have qualified for the district level
competition.
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Anveshan is an annual Heritage based music event organized by ITIHAAS-The
Indian, Traditions and Heritage Society, with the aim of encouraging young
students to explore and experience
their local heritage and weave them
together into a melodious song. 27
students of classes VI-VIII
participated in this event and won
the First prize. Our budding lyricists
Saivansh Kwatra, Vaaruni Khanna,
Sakina Nadeem wrote the song.
INTACH-‘Indian National Trust for art & cultural heritage organized Movie
Making competition called ‘FILM-IT’ at India International Centre, in the
month of February 2017. Saanya Anand of VIII C won ‘Best Direction’ Award
for her movie on ‘Ayurvedic History’.
Tagoreans won the Second prize in the
National Skit Competition on the theme
“Human Being as the Central Value” and
made school proud by their excellent
performance on the topic “Aazaad Bharat” Ki Ghulaam Tasveer.
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SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS
Jaskaran Singh Wahi of XII B was selected as U 19
participant for representing Delhi in Thang Ta
(Manipuri Martial Arts) in 63rd School Games
Federation of India (SGFI) Championship held in
January 2018 in Chattrasal Stadium, New Delhi.
Jaskaran won a Gold medal in U 19 category
defeating opponents from Punjab, Manipur and
Gujarat and was considered a key player of Delhi
team of SGFI.
Sneha Gharu of class XI participated in the National
Games 2017 at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Bawana, Haryana
organized by Indian University of Taekwondo in
December 2017. She won silver medal in the senior
girls under 67 Kg weight category .
Our school’s Senior cricket team participated in the Frank Anthony Public
School Cricket Tournament and were Runners Up. Kartikay Gupta of XI A
won the best all rounder trophy and Prateek Kumar of XI A and Aryan Pandita
of IX A shared the best bowler trophy after taking 7 wickets each in the
tournament.
Our school's Junior (Under-10) Football team secured the first position in the
1st Paul George Memorial Football Tournament 2017-18 held at Paul
George Global School in November 2017.
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Our Girls Football team secured third position in the Football Zonal
Tournament held at Guru Harkishan Public School, Vasant Vihar.
Manya Deshpande of X
C, Anindini Rawat of X
B, Jia Arora of IX C and
Avni Sharma of X B
secured the third
position in the Zonal
level match in
Badminton (Jr.Girls)
which was held in the
month of September
2017 at Air Force
Golden Jubilee School.
Our school’s Basketball (Sr. boys) team secured the second position in an
Interschool Basketball Tournament organised by Frank Anthony Public
School.
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Athletic Federation of India organised North Zone Junior
National Athletic Championship in October 2017. Fabiyan
Makhdooni of X A secured bronze medal in 200 meter Boys
( under-16) category.
Ansh Bajaj of IX C represented School
at CBSE Cluster Table Tennis
Tournament which was held at Mt.
Carmel School, Dwarka Sec 22 and
bagged Silver medal in Boys (under-
17) category in October 2017.
Rakshit Tokas of VI B won the Bronze medal in Sub-Junior National Judo
Championship held at GNMC Stadium, Warangal, Telangana in September-
October 2017.He also participated in Inter school Sports and Games
competition 2017-18 organised by CBSE and won the Gold medal in Judo
championship held at Bal Bharti Public School, Dwarka in October 2017.
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EVENTS OF THE YEAR
LEAD ON
O n 31 October 2017, the student council of school hosted its now decade old Annual Leadership Summit, Lead On 2017. The event was graced by two eminent personalities - Ms. Sheila Dikshit, an efficient administrator and a charismatic leader and Mr. Adnan Sami Khan, the British born Indian singer, musician, pianist and music composer, who were also the keynote speakers for the day. The theme for this year’s session, ‘Perseverance, Power, Pride’ emphasized on each participant seeking opportunities to realize the power within them, taking pride in that power and in perseverance, thus paving the path to a brighter future.
The student Council was highly appreciated for their innovative thinking in
planning the event. Lead On 2017 saw the enthusiastic participation of
students from over thirty schools from Delhi and NCR in all.
TISMUN
Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar held its fourth edition of the prestigious TISMUN on 29-30th July 2017. The event, organized by a secretariat of senior students of the school, was a resounding success. Around 370 delegates from prestigious schools of Delhi and NCR went through two days of heated debate, clever lobbying and skilled negotiations.. TISMUN this year simulated 8 dynamic committees, namely the United Nations General Assembly, Security Council, JCC(North Vietnam- China), JCC(South Vietnam-USA), Supreme Court of India, Nuclear Security, and Bank of International Settlements. More so, the Jawaharlal Nehru Cabinet was simulated in the
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MUN circuit for the first time, which has set a benchmark for other MUN’s in the MUN Circuit.
BUNKASAI
The Japanese festival ‘Bunkasai’ had Inter School Origami Competition,
Kimono wearing, the Japanese tea ceremony and ikebana arrangement
competitions .The festival saw more than 35 Schools from all over Delhi
participate in 7 categories of competitions.
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LiFe MOSAIC 2017
We hosted our twelfth One - Day Literary
Festival- LIFE Mosaic, an Inter- School
event, on 22 August 2017. Pioneered by
Ms. Rumna Mitra Lala, HOD (English), the
event this year had an overwhelming
participation of students from classes XI
and XII from reputed schools of Delhi and
the NCR region. The festival with the
theme ‘Freedom to Dream’ comprised of
four events viz. Vers-e-style or poetry innovation and recitation, Illuminarti
which had the participants designing an illuminated Manuscript page,
Spotlight – A musical, wherein the participants had to present an adaptation
of a fairy tale and Bizz.com which had the teams prepare a short PPT or Prezi
on a business model, for revival of business companies incurring
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losses. Oxford University Press India, a department of the University Of Oxford
announced Oxford Publication House as the official sponsors for the event.
DOODLE'- CHILDREN'S ART FESTIVAL
School hosted two fun packed days of art workshops, caricature making, live visual storytelling, on the spot drawing contests and many more such activities on 25 November and 26 November in school premises.
Camlin and Doodlestrokes were event partners for the same. The events had on the spot registrations and were open for
one and all .Free workshops by renowned artists were conducted for students and parents who participated enthusiastically in them.
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INTERNSHIP PROGRAMMES
Students of classes XI-XII participated in the following Internship Programmes
in the summer of 2017:
S.No. Name Class Mentor
1 Muskaan Mehra XIIB Ashish Soni
2 Loein Attri X BBC Media Action
3 Neev Swarnakar XB BBC Media Action
4 Khushi Gpta XC CNN IBN
5 Shreya Dharmaraj XIB CNN IBN
6 V Chaitanya XA Dr Arvind Kumar
7 Ishaan Bhola XC Jaypee Vasant Continental
8 Ansh Malhotra XB Max Hospital
9 Bhavya Kalia XID Max Hospital
10
Sharanya
Dharmarajan XIIB Pearl Academy
11 Abheet Singh XIA Pearl Academy
12 Saumye Gupta XA Pierrot's Troupe
13 Sunchit Budhiraja XIIB Pierrot's Troupe
14 Jayditya R XB Pierrot's Troupe
15 John XIIB Pierrot's Troupe
16 Maanya Deshpande XC Pinky Anand
17 Chirag Kakkar XI RK Puram Police Station
18 Mihir Raravikar XID RK Puram Police Station
19 Gobind Singh XIB Rohit Suri
20 Shivansh XIB Rohit Suri
21 Nehal Vijay XID Sandhya Raman
22 Muskaan Bhatt XC Sweccha
23 Trisha Sodhi XIB Wishbox Studio
24 Naman Arora XIB Wishbox Studio
25 Tanya Mohapatra XIIB Wishbox Studio
26 Eashan Pratap Singh XC WWF
27 Tanya Agarwal XC WWF
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FUTURE PLANS FOR THE SCHOOL (SESSION 2018-19)
1. RENOVATION OF SENIOR LIBRARY
2. RENOVATION OF JUNIOR LIBRARY
3. SETTING UP OF MUSEUM IN SOCIAL SCIENCCE LAB.
4. RENOVATION OF FURNITURE-NURSERY & K.G. BLOCK
5. RENOVATION OF WASHROOMS ON 3RD FLOOR
6. PURCHASE OF BUS