Parent Newsletter

Senior School

August 2017

Events of the Month 5

th - 6

th ................ X MUN at St. Xaviers Collegiate School

9th – 12

th ............ BOSCOMUN at Don Bosco, Park Circus

12th ................... St. James Annual Fest ‘Global Village'

14th ................... India and Korean day Celebration

15th ................... Indian Independence Day – Holiday

16th

................. Wiz Spell Bee Contest, for grades 6, 7 and 8.

18th .................. Business Activity Day for Senior School

19th ................. PTM for grades 6 and 9 to 12

21st – 23

rd ........ IB Evaluation Visit

26th ................ PTM for grade 8

29th ............... Inter house Swimming Heats

Head Boy....................................... Pinakesh Saha Deputy Head Boy........................... Harsh Banthia Addl. Deputy Head Boy................. Vijayant Mehra

House Captions: Red Jeffrey LI Yellow Tinish Gupta Green Shaurya Saboo Vice captains: Red Saket Mundra Yellow Somhrit Chanda Green Arham Choraria Senior Prefects: Red Daksh Manpuria Yellow Harsh Kumbhat Green Anjali Surana Junior Prefects: Red Evanna Lee Yellow Tanvi Sengupta Green Aatreya Iyer

Middle School teachers being trained by

External Teacher Facilitator Dr. Bijita Ganguly

Senior school Principal Dr Munmun Nath signing the

MOU with LP4Y for the Community outreach programme

On 19th July, 2017 the students of IB2

visited the factory site at East India Pharmaceutical Works

accompanied by three senior school teachers: Mrs. S. Chamaria,

Dr. R. Auddy and Mr. A. Deb. It was an academic collaboration trip

between the Science and Business students.

A special assembly to celebrate the French National Day was organised by the students of class 8 on 21st July. While Suryaansh Basumallik and Veda Jain gave an introduction to the French National Day and its historic significance, Sumedha Halder, Jahnavi Garg, Arush Pant, Evanna Lee and Valerie Chen with Tanvi Sengupta on the Keyboard rendered the French National Anthem, “La Marseillaise”. The students in the audience learned about the celebrations held in France through a slideshow and their knowledge about France was tested through a brief quiz at the end.

The Pro-Social Peer Moderator Program was held on July 27th, 2017 at Fortis Hospital, Anandapur.

The Pro-Social Peer Moderator Program is a unique platform for students to learn application based life skills through the medium of interactive workshop. 6 students from grade 9 went for this workshop, accompanied by Mr. K. Saha

On 21st and 22nd July, CIS participated in the first ever nature club fest hosted by La

Martiniere for Boys Genesis. Akrish Jhaveri and Anoushka Saraf were the student

representatives. There were several schools participating and CIS proudly won the trophy

for second runners- up

At a National level

Contest CIS received an

Education Excellence

award for Best

Curriculum.

The award was received

from HRD Minister for

Higher Education

Dr. Mahendranath

Pandey.

Confluence, the annual fest organized by Calcutta International School on the 14th and 15th of July 2017 was a huge success this year. As always, its aim at showcasing talents from our own school as well as participating schools across the city was fulfilled to a great extent. With 10 schools participating in 25 events, ranging from Football, Basketball, Chess to nerve wracking Quiz, Shark Tank to Humanities Meet, Innovation and the more extravagant fashion show, western dance, CIS witnessed more than 500 participants competing for the top prize.

The Calcutta International School, secured the top prize, but graciously relinquished it to Sushila Birla Girls High School who grabbed the top prize followed by La Martiniere for Boys finishing close runners up. The event concluded with top city rock stars Underground Authority.

A2 Psychology

students visited

Manovikas Kendra

with their teacher

Ms. Amrita Nandi to

know children with

special needs and

exploring

Developmental

Psychology

Grade 6 students did a Physics Experiment on Friction. The students

were provided with different types of surfaces, where they rolled their toy

cars to measure and calculate the speed of the moving car. The learning outcome was to observe

how friction affects a moving object.

An eye-opening experience for

the students of Class 7 at

‘Ektara’ – Community Service

.

Students of Grade 6 went to visit

IPER (Institute of Psychological

and Educational Research).

This organisation has been

actively involved in promoting

inclusive education for

underprivileged and

marginalised children. During

their first visit the CIS students

learnt about the work of this

institute and also met few

children living and studying

there. As a part of their,

Community Outreach

Programme Grade 6 will create

small learning modules and go

back to the Institute on a later

date and help the IPER

children learn.

Class 6 worked on a project to commemorate

the French National Day also known as Bastille Day.

.

Dr. Nath was invited by ASSOCHAM to address in the summit on

“Transforming Lives through Education and Innovation” which was

presided by Union Secretary of Education and Literary Mr. Anil Sharma

at Hyatt Regency, Kolkata

Date University Country Time 1st August St Andrews University UK 8:30 am

2nd August University of British Columbia Canada 8:30 am

4th August US Fair USA 8:30 am

9th August School of Visual Arts USA 12:15 pm

10th August Purdue University , University of

Cincinnati USA 8:30 am

14th August Australia Fair Australia 8:30 am

17th August University of Minnesota, Colorado

Boulder and University of Missouri USA 8:30 am

22nd August Carleton University Canada 8:30 am

24th August Amherst College USA 12:30 pm

25th August UK Fair UK 8:30 am

29th August Tulane University, North-eastern and

George Washington University USA 8:30 am

4th September

Bryn Mawr College, Grinnell College,

Vassar College and University of

Richmond

USA 8:30

All our student have successfully completed the Secondary 1

Checkpoint and are pursuing the IGCSE course.

Congratulations to the students, parents and teachers.