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BIRLA VIDYA NIKETAN Sarala Birla Group of Schools Activity Report-DECEMBER, 19

EVENTS/ACTIVITIES AT BVN

DATE EVENT DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 6th December, 19

Constitution Day

A panel discussion on the Constitution was conducted. The main focus of the discussion was to emphasize upon the importance of the Constitution and the ideals it espouses on Constitution Day, 26th November.

Students of Classes XI G and H

10th to 15th December, 19

India- German Student Exchange Programme

India- German student Exchange was conducted at BVN with Giebichenstein- Gymnasium – Thomas Müntzer, Germany.The main highlights of the students exchange were the visit to KiranNadar museum of Art, to learn animal figurines art through clay modelling. The students attended an English role-play, debating classes in school. The German teachers interacted with French teachers to understand the teaching methodologies practiced in school. They learnt Indian Warli & Madhubani Art, Hands on experience on Science experiments and Fitness Bhangra aerobics and yoganatyam session in school. They also visited the Red Fort, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Qutab Minar& Akshardham Temple along with their BVN buddies. BVN students visited the German school alongwith the German students and had an outdoor tour to the Rashtrapati Bhawan, A walk at the India Gate and seeing Amar Jawan Jyoti and shopping time in Connaught Place. German Students learnt Guru Vandana Bharatnatyam dance. The exchange culminated with an Inter cultural and certification ceremony. It was a first-hand Inter Cultural Learning Experience for students and teachers and for the host families.

German Language learners

December 2019

Principal’s Column in ViewPoint Magazine

Bridging the Gap – With the Human Resources present at school

Principal- Ms. Minakshi Kushwaha

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24th December, 19

Annual Sports Day

BVN celebrated the Annual Sports Day. On this occasion a grand exhibition was organized to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, in which beautiful glimpses of bapu’s life was seen. Mr. Ajay Dutt, the member of Delhi State Assembly was the chief guest of the event. Students participated in various sports and cultural activities ranging from March Past, Yoga, Gymnastics, Dance and Music. Principal Ms. Minakshi Kushwaha presented the details of the achievement of the school in the annual report.

Students of class- VI to IX and XI

24th December, 19

Annual Sports Day Results 2019

Basketball- Aravali Football- Vindhya Volleyball- Dhaulagiri And Nilgiri Badminton- Annapurna Swimming- Annapurna Athletics- Aravali March Past- Nilgiri

Students of class VI to IX and XI

26th December, 19

Quiz Under the aegis of 'Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’, a quiz based on the State of Sikkim, was organised. The students were divided into 4 teams. The questions ranged from geographical conditions of the state, current Chief Minister, Governor, languages spoken, food and agricultural produce. Questions also ranged from both state and international neighbors of Sikkim.

Students of class VIII C

26th December, 19

Slogan Speaking Antakshree

Students took part in the activity on Slogan speaking Antakshree based on the topic “Fundamental Rights”. Class was divided under different categories of fundamental rights and students participated with great enthusiasm.

Students of class VI

December, 19

Value Education

'Culture and Society', 'Creating Value' and 'Realizing a Creative Vision' was done in class

Students of class VI to IX

25th December, 19

BOSA meet As every year, the annual BOSA get together for the year 2019 was organised. A great deal of bonhomie, nostalgia and camaraderie were sprayed in the air. From 1993 alumni, to many 2002 alumni, to the very recent alumni, this meet saw a huge turnover.

Teachers

ATL Activities

December, 19

ATL Activities 3rd December-Rudransh Agnihotri’s both the ideas (DOP and Shivay) qualified for the onsite round of

Students of class VI to X

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WORKSHOPS

DATE WORKSHOP ORGANISED DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY 7th December, 19

Khelo India Workshop

CBSE Khelo India National Fitness Assessment Training was conducted at BVN.

Teachers

12th December, 19

Workshop titled 'online safety for women'

BVN It is important to use technology. But more important is to have control over our devices. BVN is organised a workshop titled 'online safety for women', by Rakshit Tandon, Director, Executive Council of the 'Council of Information Security' (CIS).

Female Teaching Staff

17th Capacity CBSE There was a visit to the National Ms. Munmun

ideathon 2.0 to be conducted on 11th January 2020 at IIIT Naya Raipur, Chattisgarh. 3rd December-YugSejwal, PrithuNarula and Kanishk Singh are selected for round 2 of Drone Challenge to be conducted at IIT Bombay Techfest between 3rd to 5th January 2020. 5th December- Registered ideas of-

NavanChauhan (XI C) , Amil ( XI A) under the sub theme “ Health and wellbeing”

Himanshu Singh Janmeda (XI C) under sub theme” Peace, justice and strong Institutions”

RudranshAgnihotri’s (XF) under sub theme “Quality Education” for ATL Marathon 2019.

9th to 11th December-RudranshAgnihotri participated in the State Level Science Exhibition conducted by DOE and received participation certificate. 14th December- RudranshAgnihotri (XF) and DivyeChandwani (IXD) presented their model “Water Conserver” in the zonal level of India’s Future Tycoons. 17th December-20 students from THE INDIAN SCHOOL attended the session of 3D printer in our school. They learnt how to resize, relocate, grouping and ungrouping on tinker cad. They also learnt how to save the file in .STL format and learnt the basic setting of cura and converted the file into .g code and printed small 3D objects.

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December, 19

Building Workshop On Museum And Object Based Learning

Museum in the first half and the second half of the day was dedicated to Teacher Seminar with hands-on, multi-art teacher engagement to effectively translate in-museum experience into classroom teaching with objects and arts.

Sharma and Ms. Pooja Singh

19th December, 19

IUAC Foundation Day Programme

IUAC Vasant Kunj

Inter-University Accelerator Centre celebrated foundation day. The Chief Guest and the speaker of the day was Prof. Annapurni Subramaniam a renowned expert in astrophysics. He spoke about astronomy establishments like “AstroSat Mission”. Students visited pelletron control room and NAND. The event also comprised of lot of innovative models like Vandegraff generator, variation in resistance with temperature ofsuperconductors and conductors etc.

Students of class XI- Aadi Pathania, Shreyansh, Shubh, Daksh Raturi, Siddhant Yadav

27th December, 19

Capacity Building Workshop on Stress Management

CBSE The workshop was mainly aimed at how to deal with stress effectively. Stress could be good or bad, so we need to use good stress (eustress) to work for us positively and bad stress (distress) by various types of techniques like time management, organizational skills, outsourcing work, anger management etc.

Ms. Priyanka Chauhan

28th December, 19

Paper Presentation

Kannur University, Kerala.

Dr. Meghna Vij presented her research paper "Random Observations on the Newer Asokan Epigraphs" in the 80th Session of the esteemed Indian History Congress in the Historical Archaeology section.

Dr. Meghna Vig

INTERSCHOOL COMPETITIONS

DATE VENUE/ ORGANISER

DESCRIPTION PARTICIPANTS POSITIONS

5th December, 19 BVN Scholarship Kinjai Jena of class VI E

Selected for CCRT Scholarship

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INTER SCHOOL COMPETITIONS (SPORTS)

DATE VENUE DESCRIPTION PARTICIPANTS POSITIONS

1st 8th December, 19

Varanasi (U.P) CBSE National Badminton Championships 2019

Team Event- Vidushi Singh XI, HarshitaRawat XI, Ihina X Individual Event- Vidushi Singh XI HarshitaRawat XI, Ihina X

Reached Quarter Finals

3rd

3rd

3rd

5th and 6th December, 19

Summer Field School, Kailash Colony Delhi

28th Inter School Skating Competition 2019

ArnavGogia X E Rink Race 1 300 Mtrs.

1st

in the category of Indian Folk Dance.

6th December, 19 BVN Japanese Inter- School Choral Recitation ‘Gundoku’ Competition

145 students from 13 schools participated in this competition. They recited a poem title ‘Chikyuaisatsu’ which means Greetings to the world by Madomichio.

BVN students stood 1st

23rd December, 19 BVN SPACE INDIA- There was an online test, called SHOT which consisted of mental aptitude questions

Navan Chauhan, student of XI C- Got selected for finals

The student has been selected for a fully sponsored scientific expedition to Kerala, to witness the Annular Solar Eclipse in the month of December.

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Rink Race 2 600 Mtrs.

1st

18th to 24th December, 19

Vizag, Andhra Pradesh

57th National Roller Skating Championship conducted by Roller Skating Federation of India.

AadyaAditi VIII B 2nd

ASTRONOMY CLUB

ANVESHIKA

DATE WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY

3rd December, 19

Workshop on 'Relativity and Magnetism'

Dr Bikram Phookan from St. Stephen's College, DU took a workshop on 'Relativity and Magnetism’.

Students of class XI

DATE EVENT DESCRIPTION PARTICIPANTS

13th December, 19

Sun: Our daytime star & Solar Observation: Safe Viewing Techniques

Understanding the sun and its features, space weather and impact of solar radiation on Earth.Learning the methods to observe the Sun safely. Students will be constructing a solar filter. Solar observation will be done through a telescope using projection, solar filter, solar view goggles, ball projector & pin hole projector.

Students of classes VI and VII (Module 1)

13th December, 19

Introduction to Image Processing Techniques of Image processing and Techniques of images stacking

Understanding the need of image processing and analysing it as a critical element of astrophotography in bringing the pictures to life using various image processing techniques. Understanding the various aspects of processing, software and their functions. Understand stacking, star trail and time lapse techniques.

Students of classes VII and VIII (Module 2)

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28th to 30th December, 19

POLLEX VIorganized by the IAPT_APhO Cell and BVN-IAPTAnveshika

The teachers were exposed to higher order skills and experiments and introduced to various techniques required for good experimentation. The faculty was also made familiar with marking schemes.

21 PGTs from 19 schools

INTERACT CLUB (INAYAT)

DATE EVENT VENUE DESCRIPTION ATTENDED BY

24th December, 19

Interact Cake Sale

BVN The interactors organized cake sale for charity purposes on the Annual Sports Day of the school where parents bought the items generously.

Interactors