Studio - The Shri Ram School (TSRS), Aravali Campus, Gurgaonsar.tsrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Newsletter_July2014.pdf · events shri conclave the shri conclave on 10th july,

G. Aishwarya (Batch of 2014) worked just after writing the ISC exam on representation of

beauty through simplicity. This is a recycle project in which wind chimes have been made using

bottle caps and tetra paks, along with paint and string.

Studio JULY 2014

INTER-HOUSE RESULTS

HOUSE MATCHES – CLASS 10, 11, 12

Event 1st Position 2nd Position 3rd Position 4th Position

Boys Soccer Vasundhara Himgiri Srishti Sagar

Boys

Basketball

Vasundhara Srishti Himgiri Sagar

Girls Soccer Vasundhara Sagar Srishti Himgiri

Girls

Basketball

Himgiri Sagar Srishti Vasundhara

ART COMPETITION – CLASS 6

1st Position 2nd Position 3rd Position 4th Position

Sagar Srishti Vasundhara Himgiri

Events Shri Conclave

THE SHRI CONCLAVE ON 10TH JULY,

2014, SAW AN ARRAY OF PERSONALITIES

TALKING ABOUT 'FOLLOWING YOUR

DREAMS'. ON THE COMPLETION OF 25

YEARS OF OUR SCHOOL AND THE 14TH

FOUNDER'S DAY OF THE SHRI RAM

SCHOOL ARAVALI, THE ARAVALI

CAMPUS HOSTED MR. ASHISH DHAWAN,

CEO OF CENTRAL SQUARE

FOUNDATION; MS. BARKHA DUTT, NDTV; MS. KARUNA NUNDY, A

SUPREME COURT ADVOCATE; MR. VIKAS

KHANNA, FAMOUS CHEF, AND MR.

VISHAL GONDAL, THE CEO OF

INDIAGAMES. MR. RAJIV MAKHNI, OF

'GADGET GURU' FAME AND DESCRIBED

AS A

"GADGET

GEEK",

WAS THE

MODERATOR.

INSPIRING THE STUDENTS, THE

SPEAKERS SHARED THEIR EXPERIENCES

AND THEIR JOURNEYS TO SUCCESS

THROUGH FOLLOWING THEIR DREAMS.

EACH SPEAKER, DIFFERENT FROM THE

OTHER, HAD HIS OR HER OWN OPINION

AND VIEW. THE CONCLAVE WAS

UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE BEST

EVENTS HOSTED AT THE MBR HALL. STUDENTS OF CLASSES 9 TO 12 FROM

BOTH THE MOULSARI AND ARAVALI

CAMPUSES WERE SITTING TOGETHER AS

THE AUDIENCE IN THE MBR HALL,

WHILE IT WAS STREAMED LIVE FOR THE

MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS SITTING IN

SHRI AKS. LEAVING EACH STUDENT

SOMETHING TO PONDER OVER, SHRI

CONCLAVE WAS TRULY THE WAY TO

MAKE THE GLORIOUS DAY MEMORABLE.

NDTV reports @ http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/heads-up/follow-your-dream-education-and-road-to-success/333364

Prize Distribution Awards for Academic Excellence, Subject Excellence and Excellence in Sports were presented to acknowledge Merit across Senior School.

Investiture ceremony On July 4th the entire senior school gathered at The

Manju Bharat Ram Hall for the Investiture of the

members of the junior Student Council, which had been

elected just before the school closed for the summer. It

was an impressive ceremony, dignified and formal, as the vice- captains of each house, secretaries of events, environment and sports, and members of

the editorial board received their badges and took the oath.

School Internships

Students of Class 12 returned after the Summer, fresh from internships at:

• Adidas/Reebok

• Blackberrys

• Max New York

• R2solutions

• McKinsey

• Ernst and Young

• Kaden Boriss

• Starwood

• NDTV

• BBDO

Career Talks

International competitive exams

A career counselling session was held for students

of forms 10 and 11 and their parents on competitive international entrance examinations like PSAT,

SAT etc., their differences and the prudence of

applying at the right time. The queries of the

audience were addressed at the end of the session

which was enriching.

Career Counselling Schedule- July 2014

Topic Details Conducted By

International Competitive Exams

(for form X & XI)

Followed by Individual Appointments

Time- 8:10- 8:40am Date- 11.07.2014

(Friday) Venue- MBR Hall

(Appointments in the office area)

Ms. Naumita Chopra

Options beyond Delhi University

(for form XI)

Followed by Individual Appointments

Time- 8:10- 08:40am Date- 11.07.2014

(Friday) Venue-Senior

Workshop room

(Appointments in the office area)

Mr. Pradeep Narayanan

Admizzionz Campuz

Statement of Purpose & UCAS

(for interested students of XII)

Followed by Individual Appointments

Time- 8:10- 8:40pm Date- 18.04.2014

(Friday) Venue-Senior

Workshop room

(Appointments in the office area)

Ms. Kanika Marwah

Peer-teaching Physics Form 7 comes up with creative strategies to teach 'Motion' to peers -

demonstration, storytelling

related to Motion, dramatics and

what not…

Breakfast with Physics

On July 11th, we had Breakfast with Physics, where there was a display of models and experiments - hydraulic lift, Newton’s cradle,

windmills, electromagnet, pinhole camera, hydroelectric power

plant and others - a follow up to optional holiday homework given to forms 7 and 8

Environment Assembly

Environment Assembly

on 15th July for Classes 6

and 7 on topic

Environmental

Degradation

Importance of Indian Culture

Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, addressed the student body on the importance of respecting and knowing our rich heritage.

We were spellbound to hear the wisdom of the Director, who is from Wexford, Ireland, and who reinforced for us the core value of pride in one's heritage.

Exchange Programmmes - playing host to our guests from China

Societies July saw the launch of the societies for forms 9 - 12. This is a student initiative

and each society has a student leader and student mentors. The societies:

1. Literary - discussed what makes a story banal; read Sylvia Plath and

Frank O’ Hara

2. Environment - formed smaller groups, each working on an environmentally significant issue

3. Music - opened with a discussion of musical genres, timing and beats

4. Theatre - started with team building exercises and short plays on a

given theme.

5. Dance - began with ice-breaking exercises, discussion of favorite dance

forms; did a short choreography on contemporary dance.

Quality Circle Time with Jenny Mosely

A two-day workshop on Quality Circle

Time conducted by Jenny Mosley, founder

of the Quality Circle Time Model for

classrooms and whole schools in UK, for

the staff of all the campuses of The Shri

Ram Schools on July 21 and 22 at The Manju

Bharat Ram Hall on the Aravali campus.

Inter-school events

Ryan MUN – participation and Verbal and Special Mentions

Absurd Theory On the 21st of July, Abhishek Roy, Srivats Ramaswamy and Prerna Misra from Class

11S2 represented school in an absurd theory competition. Each team had to come up

with an innovative and bizarre scientific theory and then prove it using logic,

reasoning, and data. Our team's theory was 'Natural death emerged due to the

evolution of sexual reproduction', which the team supported and defended well

against the opponents' questions. One team tried to disprove the Bible, one spoke

of time dilation, one said that Earth will be ruled by insects. Our team won the first

prize. Abhishek was also awarded the best interjector award for attacking the

opponents’ theories.

Carmel Convent Iridescence

Events English

Debate 17th

July

Capture the

Market 21st

July

Magic With

Scratch 22nd

July

Dramatics

22nd July

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Swara

Dhruv Baijal Lakshay

Hanslas

Shivam Ahuja Yasvi Dhal Samarth Jain Sukanya

Dutta Gupta

Sonalika Singh Raghav

Sahgal

Daksh Sethi

Umang

Bansal

Anay Jain

Akshi Dutta Shaurya

Taneja

Shaurya

Chauhan

Vinnie

Nanda

Himanshi

Bajaj

Mahrukh

Azmat Ali

Shri Debate at The Shri Ram School Moulsari

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Commerce Fest at Birla Vidya Niketan

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Roar

Signature sheets for Save the Tiger campaign at the Kids for

Tigers art competition at Army Public School

Young Achievers!

July

A Writer’s Journey at Oxford University

I was fortunate enough to get selected for doing a course in creative

writing at the Oxford University. The course lasted for 14 days, from

the 29th of June to the 12th of July. Students from all over the world

attended the course and we were accommodated in Somerville

College, the 38th college in Oxford University.

At the Gurgaon Open Badminton Championship, Adya

Bhargava of 6B won the singles title not only in the

Under-13 category, but also in Under-15. She will now

represent Gurgaon at the Haryana State Championship at

Kurukshetra from 30th July.

There were 54 of us in the

16-17 age group. My

creative writing teacher

was Dr. Keiron Winn who

is a well-respected

professor and poet at

Oxford. We closely read

and analysed a number of short stories and poems written by

eminent authors and poets such as T.S Eliot and James Joyce. After

having read the poems and stories, we were assigned to write our

own short story and poem stealing themes, motifs and ideas from

the ones we analysed earlier. We also saw an open-air play, As You

Like It, and were again assigned to analyse and summarise the

eventful play in our own words and language. The academic level

was advanced and competitive but I was able to manage it

comfortably.

The course was much beyond academics and seminars; we had a lot

of free time to socialise, communicate and get to know students

from all over the globe. Every Wednesday, day trips to historic places

such as Blenheim place, Windsor Castle and The Pitts River Museum

were initiated. Every Saturday and Sunday, we were allowed to go to

the big parks in the University and play sports such as cricket,

football and rugby. We started our day at 6:30, had breakfast by 7:30

in the morning, lunch by noon and dinner by 6:30 in the evening.

After dinner we had some activity or the other planned out, which

included quizzes on topics such as sports, entertainment, British

history, world history and geography to name a few. We also had

heated debates on topics such as whether or not neurosciences

should be used as evidence during court regulations and whether or

not Megacities are good for economic development and growth. The

course aimed at providing a college life to school students where we

study, communicate and get to know people from all over the globe

and have our bit of fun. I was fortunate enough to get to know great

people from over 10 nations in the world. Every Friday we had

formal dinners in the halls of Somerville College and Wadham

College where we were told to dress very neatly and formally. For

me, this course has really made a place in my heart as I really

enjoyed staying there, had a ton of fun and at the same time gained

immense knowledge in the subject I opted to study at the Oxford

Summer Courses.

Aditya Ahluwalia 11H1

Looking towards the

Future…

Music, fresh out of

School… Faiz Mohammed Khan (Batch

of 2014) released his first

independent music album

'December', which he

composed and wrote lyrics for.

Faiz played the acoustic guitar

and was the vocalist too.

Check it out for yourself

at:http://www.reverbnation.com/p/Vi9YEQ

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Daanish Shastri of 12H1 pursues his passion for wildlife photography.

Winner of the Wild Clicks photography contest, he has had his pictures and

an article published in the Sanctuary magazine and had one of his pictures

as the cover of the magazine.

Nature Clicks!

Class 11 Daydreams

July saw Class 11 being given permission to daydream in class - provided a descriptive essay came in about the experience! Here are some gems:

“I started to tilt my head and

yawn out of boredom until I

suddenly saw Hitler walk

into my class ... I rubbed my

eyes in amazement and

suddenly i was outdoors

standing in a crowd ... I

looked up and saw a man

standing on a balcony - he

had blue eyes and was

wearing a military uniform. I

realised that the man was

Hitler waving to the crowd."

- Vaibhav Nanda of 11C1

Vinnie Nanda of 11H1 wrote mellifluously about soft

sand curling between her toes as she went on a marine

walk, with cool water washing over her, sea weed

caressing her cheeks and rainbow fish as her

companions.

Samaksh Khatri of 11C1 saved his favourite international

football team from annihilation by playing a key match as

their star player and saviour.

Veeha Verma of 11H1 dreamt of ...

IMAN SENGUPTA 11H1

A Literary Bond

I glanced at the clock on

the wall for the eighth

time in the last quarter of

an hour. I tapped my foot

impatiently and glared at

the clock, silently willing it

to tick faster. The two-

hour poetry lecture had

laboriously reached the

half way mark and I was

seriously contemplating calling in sick and heading home. With much effort I tuned

back into what the professor was saying. He was monotonously going on and on about

Robert Frost and Edward Thomas. It was a rather cloudy day, with a light rain

splattering the windows. Perhaps it had been a day just like this one, all the way back in

1913, when one of the world’s greatest literary friendships was forged.

I could only imagine what it would have been like to be a writer in early 20th century

England, especially a soul as unstable and haunted as Edward Thomas. I could see

myself as him now, walking along with Frost on one of their famous walks. I felt the

leather brim of my black hat through the holes in my grass stained gloves, as I whirled

it uneasily from side to side. The flapping of weather stained coats, the rhythm of light

laughter and the smell of gunpowder fresh in the cool autumn breeze of the hunting

season. The dappled red and white corgi trotting along at my heels would let out an

occasional yelp of excitement. Or maybe the Englishmen back then kept hounds or Irish

setters. Anyway, the dog was scurrying ahead sniffing happily. I followed, eager with

anticipation as to what rare plant we might chance upon now. Alas! That bubbling tide

of energy was more than often dashed blunt against the hard, cold rocks of

disappointment. With the entire days search yielding no fascinating results, I was very

frustrated and had no qualms about airing my irritation. Frost just laughed, which,

needless to say, only heightened my feelings of annoyance.

Shyla Minocha 11H1

This is how their days must have gone, I decided, until the fateful run in with the

groundskeeper. I felt my blood run cold with just the thought of the unpleasant

exchange. The keeper’s blotchy red face, the accusation of trespassing, the heated

conversation, the shotgun and then the single warning shot. With a deafening crack my

picture perfect world of rain-washed trees and sun kissed days was destroyed. A metallic,

dry taste in my mouth left my throat dry and my vision blurred. The feelings running

through my mind were innumerable; anger, fear, excitement, agitation, anxiety, but

most of all loathing. Self-loathing, for just backing away and not retaliating.

Perhaps that’s where the

seeds of indecision were

given their final boost. In

the years that followed, in

the shadow of the world’s

most devastating war, I

could scarcely make my

mind up for more than a

couple of hours. The

eternal internal struggle as

to whether I should fight

for my country or leave it,

the weariness of half-hearted explanations and the lines of poetry scribbled haphazardly

on different sheets of paper. Surely, when I first read The Road not Taken, it seemed to

be a most intimate message, at once careless and cruel and yet thoughtful and

encouraging…

A high-pitched ring shattered my blissful musing. I started upright in my seat and

noticed all the other students already leaving for their next class. I sighed and swung my

backpack over my shoulder and headed for the door.

Shyla Minocha 11H1

Smiles courtesy

http://www.you-can-be-

funny.com/SchoolCartoons.html

Newsletter coordinators and layout designers:

Smiti Mittal and Soham Bagchi of 8A

Calendar for July on the next page

~ July 2014 ~

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5

School Reopens after

Summer Break

Working Saturday

Mentoring

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Shri Conclave Career Talks

Prize Distribution for Classes 6, 7 and 8

Prize Distribution for Classes 9, 10, 11 and 12

HOUSE MATCHES Working Saturday

Founder's Day

Breakfast with Physics Parents Workshop with Gloria (Counselor)

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Career Talks

Environment Assembly

HOUSE MATCHES Working Saturday

Class 6 Interhouse Art

Competition

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

China Exchange Begins

Holiday for Students on account of --------------Class 6 Growing Up Workshop-------------- Working Saturday

Circle Time Workshop with Jenny Mosely (for teachers)

27 28 29 30 31

China Exchange Ends

--------------Class 6 Growing Up Workshop-------------- SUPW and Community Service programme continued through the

month for designated classes.