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ISSUE 05|JAN 17

ORCHIDS CONNECT

P R I N C I P A L ‘S D E S K

It has been an eventful month with students participating in many events and doing their best to emerge triumphant. Participation gives experience, leads to achievement sooner or later and is one of the best methods of education. Only thorough preparation, hope and confidence can make achievement possible. It is truly said, ‘The starting point of all

achievement is desire’. Nothing can be

achieved without a strong desire to achieve.

Constant striving to surpass oneself and to be

worthy of self-approval is a splendid

achievement by itself. Happiness lies in the

sense of satisfaction that the joy of

achievement offers. The effort of each

individual contributes to the achievements of

an organization or a team. ‘Together

everyone achieves more’.

S U M M A R Y

F R O M T H E

1. ACHIEVEMENTS

2. SCHOOL AT WORK

SANKRANTHI CELEBRATION

REPUBLIC DAY

CELEBRATION

3. CLASSROOM NEWS

MENTAL MATH QUIZ

BEST CLASS FOR

CLEANLINESS

BEST CLASS FOR DISCIPLINE

4.ASSEMBLY PRESENTATIONS

ROAD SAFETY WEEK

SANKRANTHI CELEBRATION

WEEK

GANIT WEEK

YOUTH DAY

5. TEACHERS’ TRAINING

STAR EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

6. CREATIVE CORNER

PICTURE TALK COMPETITION

7. PRE-PRIMARY NEWS.

TRANSPORT DAY

VISIT TO A SUPERMARKET

REPUBLIC DAY

CELEBRATION

A C H I E V E M E N T S CHESS CHAMPION

Raja Rithvik, a student of grade VIII won a

silver medal in National Schools Under-13

Chess Championship held in Nagpur from

5th to 8th January. Orchids School is

extremely proud of his achievement.

ROBOTICS COMPETITION

On 7th January 2017, the 4 students of OISH, Likhith

Reddy Maryada and RuchirRajanala of grade V and

NeeharikaPalli and AnkithKondaveeti of grade IV

participated in ‘Yantramana-National Robotics

Championship’ held at JyothiNivas College in

Bengaluru.

Children attended a workshop which helped them to

understand the process of building a robot. In the

afternoon session children were assigned to make a

model of ‘Playing Robot’ within the time frame of 1hour.

The students competed with 12 other groups and won a

consolation prize. This competition encouraged the

children to show their talent.

ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS COMPETITION 2016-17

Students of ORCHIDS – The International School, Hyderabad branch have participated in Artistic Gymnastics competition which was affiliated to Hyderabad District Gymnastic Association and organized by Chaitanya Gymnastics Institute. The competition was held on 02-02-2017. Twelve schools participated out of which our school got 1 Silver Medal & 2 Bronze Medals.

MEDALISTS:

Yuvan Grade –I U-6 silver medal

Likith Grade-V U-10 bronze medal

Amulya Grade-VI U-10 bronze medal

REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATION Orchids – The International School, Hyderabad

celebrated the 68th Republic Day with zeal and

vigour. The Chief Guest of the celebration was

Wing Commander, Ahmad Husain Zaidi. He

hoisted the national flag and the National Anthem

followed.

The students of grades II, III and IV, VII and VIII

sang patriotic songs and there were speeches in

English, Hindi and Telugu by Khadija Khan of

grade VIII, Raaga of grade IV, Ketan Jain of

grade IX and Divya Akula of grade IX.

The Chief Guest emphasized that we have to be

good and responsible citizens to show our

gratitude to the mighty efforts of the great leaders

and martyrs who made our independence

possible. Principal of Orchids, Ms Sakina Qasim

Zaidi addressed the school reiterating that every

individual must become an eager participant in

the progress of the nation.

SCHOOL AT WORK

MakaraSankrathi is one of the major festivals of

south India. It was celebrated in OISH in the

morning assembly on 11-01-17.

The significance of the three days- Bhogi, Sankrathi

and Kanuma was clearly depicted by the students

in three scenes. They made us understand the

traditional way of celebrating the three days with the

Bhogi fire, fruits, Haridas and other characters.

‘Kanuma’ showed the importance of farmers,

agriculture and animals. The students flew kites

delightfully after a dance by girls to the ‘Gobbemma’

song. The assembly was made very interesting

before the Sankranthi festival because of the efforts

of Mrs.T. Rama Devi, Mrs. Vani of the Telugu

department and Mrs. Ramya of the Art department.

Our Principal Mrs. Sakina Qasim Zaidi appreciated

the teachers and students for the spectacular show.

SANKRANTHI CELEBRATION

MENTAL MATH QUIZ

Orchids-The international school held the

‘Ganit’ week in the month of January. The

Mental Math quiz was held for grades I,II,III,

IV, V and VI by the mathematics teacher.

Students were well-prepared for the quiz which

comprised three rounds. The first round was

the general mathematical round where

students of different groups had to answer the

questions asked by the quiz master. The

second round went on with the pictures which

were shown to the students of different groups.

The students had to get actively involved in

solving the picture-puzzles in just a few

seconds! The last round concluded with a

buzzer round of logical reasoning and the

group which could give correct answers

quickly, bagged the winner title of the day.

The Ganit week had made the students more

enthusiastic to learn the subject in an

interesting way. They researched with

eagerness to solve sums accurately in less

time.

CLASSROOM NEWS

BEST CLASS FOR CLEANLINESS

BEST CLASS FOR

CLEANLINESS AND

DISCIPLINE

OISH- has always encouraged the

concept of discipline and cleanliness

amongst the students. As a token of

appreciation and encouragement,

OISH started awarding the ‘BEST

CLASS IN DISCIPLINE AND

CLEANLINESS’.

For the month of January, GRADE IB

was the best for CLEANLINESS and

GRADE IIB for DISCIPLINE. This

program is motivating the students in

the school to keep their classrooms

tidy and is improving the discipline of

the school.

BEST CLASS FOR DISCIPLINE

ASSEMBLY PRESENTATION BY

GRADE IX (ROAD SAFETY WEEK)

The Road Safety week is being celebrated from

11/1/17 to 17/1/17. Keeping in mind the

significance of the topic, the students of Class IX

chose Road Safety as their assembly theme.

On the first day, they talked about the growing

concern and the need to follow traffic rules – a

pressing and important aspect especially in

metropolitan cities.On the second day, a short

animated video which highlighted the importance

of wearing safety helmets and following traffic

rules was shown. It was appreciated by all the

students.

ASSEMBLY PRESENTATION BY

GRADE VIII (SANKRANTHI

CELEBRATION WEEK)

Students of Grade IX celebrated

Sankranthi on the 9th January. They

exhibited charts and posters highlighting

the importance of Sankranthi in our

country.

ASSEMBLY PRESENTATIONS

ASSEMBLY PRESENTATION BY GRADE VI

(YOUTH DAY)

National Youth Day (Yuva Diwas or Swami Vivekananda’s

Birthday) is celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm in India

every year on the 12th of January. It is celebrated to

commemorate the birthday of Swami Vivekananda, maker of

the modern India. It was first declared by the Government of

India in the year 1984 to celebrate the birthday of Swami

Vivekananda as the National Youth Day. Since then (1985), it

is celebrated as the National Youth Day all over the country.

Students gave details of Swami Vivekananda’s life and various

activities conducted in various states on National Youth Day. A

PowerPoint presentation was shown with all details of

Vivekananda’s childhood, education and Ramakrishna mission.

Students presented their charts of Mission Bharatiyam and

sang inspirational song based on the ideals of Swami

Vivekananda.

ASSEMBLY PRESENTATION BY GRADE

VII (GANIT WEEK)

Orchids - The international school celebrated

Ganitweek. The students of class VII presented a

special Assembly programme.

Day one – The students provided general

introduction on the significance of Mathematics and

fondly remembered the great mathematician,

Srinivasa Ramanujam. Magic puzzles were solved

and an easy method of multiplication of the table 7

was shared by the students.

Day 2- A video on modern architectural building

that is based on mathematical geometrical figures

was showcased.

Day3- Math origami was presented by the students.

They used coloured paper and cut them into

symmetrical shape of various patterns.

It was a fun-filled and informative week for all the

students.

TEACHERS’ TRAINING

EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT

Orchids -The International School, Hyderabad, as

an institution believes in the overall development of

teachers by conducting workshops, training for

continuous up gradation of teachers’ knowledge.

One such workshop was conducted on January 21,

2017.

This was done to enhance the teaching skills of the

teachers. The module mainly emphasized, Active

Learning and Collaborative learning. Later active

participation of students in learning through

techniques like Snowball, Jigsaw and Think-Pair-

Share was insisted. Overall, the workshop was very

effective, fruitful and plausible and gave the

teachers a new perspective to the teaching-

learning process. It enabled them to conquer each

day as it comes and make a difference to one child

at a time. Below are the glimpses of the cascading

workshops.

BEHAVIOR & CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

We all imagine ourselves becoming a

‘Master teacher’. We imagine our hard work and

intensive study paying off in a highly rewarding

series of years leading up to our retirement.

However, we fail to work well and reach the highest

levels of professional practice, if the students won't

attend to the lessons and be civil in their interactions

with others. We can't teach the material if our

behavior & classroom management skills are

underdeveloped. So, to make our teachers aware of

behaviour & classroom management,

a training session was conducted on 19th January,

2017 at Orchids – The International School,

Hyderabad.

C R E A T I V E C O R N E R

PICTURE –TALK COMPETITION:

Picture Talk competition on

'Maintaining Cleanliness' was held at Orchids-The

International School-Hyderabad, for the students

of Grades I - V. The first round was held on 27th

January and six students were chosen from each

class from Grades I - V. The final round was held

on 31st January. Students of grade I and II were

shown different pictures and were asked to speak

about the picture. Students of Grades III, IV and V

were asked to draw a picture on maintaining

cleanliness and were asked to speak about their

drawing. Students were able to speak confidently

in front of an audience. The winners were

awarded certificates on 3rd February.

STAR EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

(MS.ANITHA)(PT TEACHER)

She represented and led the Telangana team in

27th Senior SepakTakraw Championship

2017(leg volleyball) and won Bronze Medal. She

placed Telangana in 3rdplace among all 26 states

who participated in the same event. She also

played two international (15th Asian Games at

Doha, Qatar) & (19th Kings Cup, World

Championship at Bangkok) and 15 District &

National level Tournaments and 2 National

Games. She also played Volleyball for the state.

TRANSPORT DAY CELEBRATED

The parents of K1 and Nursery in Pre-primary were

invited for ‘Transport Day’ event on 21st January 2017.

The objective of the event was to bring awareness of

transport vehicles and their uses. Children could

explore the different modes and means of transport

through this event. It also enhances the knowledge and

skills that children developed during this theme.

Different models of vehicles related to road, rail, air

and water transport were displayed in the event.

Parents and children had a wonderful experience

looking at the different kinds of transport.

A FIELD TRIP TO SUPERMARKET

The children of Nursery were taken to a

supermarket on a field trip on 30th December

2016. They learn to identify the things available

and understood the concept of fruits and

vegetables. Children could easily recognize the

names of the fruits and vegetables and enjoyed

the trip thoroughly.

PRE-PRIMARY NEWS

CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION (TENSES IN LIFE) BY SHIVANI ALAT (Class VII)

When we learn from the past,

When we live in the present,

When we believe in the future,

Life is like an adventure.

The past is history,

The future is a mystery,

We have a gift called the present.

We always get it today,

We always get it now,

We always get it in the present.

The past is your lesson,

The future is your motivation,

We have a gift called the present.

The past is behind, learn from it,

The future is ahead, prepare for it,

The present is here, live in it.

The past is your lesson,

The future is your motivation,

We have a gift called the present.

You cannot change the past but you can make the future,

Learn something from the past and save it for the future.

Accept your past without regrets,

Handle your present with confidence,

And face your future without any fear.

This is about the three tenses,

This is about the three tenses, This is about the three tenses.

REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATED

Republic Day was celebrated in our school with

great enthusiasm and fervour. One among the

corners in the Pre-primary section was decorated

with tricolor balloons and the national flags were

hung onto the wall. The national flag, the national

animal – Tiger, the national bird – Peacock and

the Lotus flower were displayed reminding us of

their importance. This day was celebrated as a

national holiday to pay respect to the freedom

fighters. The students were dressed up in tricolor

dress and the tricolor paint was applied on their

palm and face depicting the importance of this

day.