The quarterly newsletter 2019-20

PRIDE OF VPS

SHILPITES SHINE IN THE

‘CANARA KNOWLEDGE CHAMP’

2019

Students from Vidyashilp Public School, Kondhwa participated in the

NATIONAL LEVEL QUIZ COMPETITION “CANARA

KNOWLEDGE CHAMP’ 2019,

organised by Canara Bank recently at Swami Vivekananda Auditorium MIT

University, Kothrud, Pune. 102 Schools participated in the

preliminary round out of which 6 teams made it to the final round. The

quiz was conducted by India’s top

quiz company M/s Greycaps India Pvt Ltd headed by noted quiz master Mr.

Giri “Pickbrain” Balasubramaniam and comprised of 5 interactive

rounds.Miss EtashaSabnis and Master

Danish Hashmi brought laurels to the school by securing the 2nd runners

up position in the Quiz. They received medals, trophies and a cash prize of

Rs 20,000/-. The participants along

with their Mentor Mrs Ashvini Kulkarni were felicitated by the Principal Mrs

SahanaArif.

IISER SCIENCE EXHIBITION

SATURDAY, 16 NOV 2019

Visits to IISER have always been fun

with knowledge to the students of our school. This time it was for

displaying the talent of two our students, Shruti and Soham at IISER.

Trained by Sharmila ma’am and

Ashvini ma’am, the two students were a huge favourite with the

visitors at the science exhibition. Soham explained Bernoulli’s theorem

in a simple way while Shruti intrigued the audience with her math tricks.

The students returned enriched with

the exposure and experience and are enthusiastic about participating again.

WORLD OF SPORTS

SharmileeTotre won the bronze

medal in the Under 14 Taekwondo organised by District Sports

Association in September, 2019 held at Late RajaramBhikuPathare School,

Kharadi, Pune

Students of Vidyashilp Public School participated in the Under 17 Ashte Do

(Akhada) held at Bankar English

Medium School, Hadapsar, Pune on 21st September, 2019.

BurhanuddinZiya won the Gold medal, Zendan Jacob and Farah Khan

bagged the Silver Medal and Kaushiki Biswas won the Bronze Medal.

ShlokTogarge bagged the Bronze Medal in the Under 14 Boys’ 600

meters Athletic run held at ShivchatrapatiKridaSankul, Balewadi,

Pune on 4th October, 2019.

ShlokTogarge won the Bronze Medal

in the Under 14 600 meters Athletic run organised at

SantDyaneshwarKridaSankul, PCMC,

Pune on 23rd November, 2019.

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Teacher’s Day 2019

“It is supreme art of the teachers to awaken the joy in creative

expression and

knowledge.”Vidyashilp Public School solemnly celebrated Teacher’s Day

with great gusto and gaiety on 5th Sept 2019.Students loved preparing

badges for teachers, decorating stilt area & MP hall. Games were chosen

so that each teacher can get

involved and have good time.The day started at 7:30 am with

assembly which was conducted by students with hilarious school

headlines for teacher’s appreciation

day. Students from class X were dressed up as teachers and were

sent to the classes with the children.Dedication house teachers

facilitated games organised for the teachers in the MP Hall such as

advertisement, bollywood songs

quiz, numbered groups. Light refreshments which were arranged

by school management.The students felicitated the teachers by

presenting them a small token of

love, respect and recognition of the hard work put in by the teachers

towards their development. Cultural program included songs, dance and

drama. A small skit was presented

by student which highlighted efforts

put by teachers on positive development of students. After that

all teachers were presented with files made by the students. The

program concluded with Principal’s

address.

LITTLE HALLOS VISIT

VIDYASHILP PUBLIC SCHOOL

Halloween was observed at

Vidyashilp Public School by the Pre-primary students with great

enthusiasm. These tiny tots were all dressed up in various costumes such

as witches, superheroes, cartoons, fairies and goblins along with the

Halloween masks. Excitement was

seen on the children's faces as they posed for the photographs. They

also enjoyed the Halloween stamp activity. It was a wonderful

experience to witness the fun and

frolic around.

CHILDREN’S DAY

Children's Day was celebrated in Vidyashilp public school with great

joy. The school was decorated with different kinds of colourful hats with

an inspiring quote written on each.

All the teachers enthusiastically participated in entertaining the

children. Teachers performed dances, songs, a humorous play. A

funny mime act was also presented

by the teachers. Children enjoyed thoroughly. Many games were

arranged in the classrooms and on the playground like musical chair,

tyre race, blindfold walking through cones, penguin dance, tug of war

and so on. Block painting was

arranged for the senior students to explore their creativity. Lastly

children were so happy and thankful when the school treated them with

the delicious chocolate cupcakes.

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SENIOR SCHOOL ENGLISH

DEBATE

The Inter House English debate 2019-20 for classes VIII to X was

held in two rounds. The qualifying

round was held on September 4 in two groups. The first group debated

on the topic, “Artificial Intelligence can work as an absolute replacement for human intelligence.”Students of Discipline House presented their views in support of the topic while

students of Integrity House spoke against it. The second group debated

on the topic, “Successful people have higher EQ than IQ.” Students of Team Spirit House debated in support

of the topic while students of Dedication House presented their

views against it. Integrity House and Team Spirit House won against their

respective opponents, in the

qualifying round. The final round of this year’s English debate was held

on September 7. The victors of the qualifying round, Integrity House and

Team Spirit House faced each other on the topic, “Today, India needs more of skilled persons than degree holders”, for the first and second positions in the competition. Integrity

spoke for the topic while Team Spirit spoke against it. The remaining two

houses, Dedication and Discipline

debated on the topic, “Branded schools impart better education”, for the third and fourth positions. At the end of the day, IntegrityHouse was

the winner, followed by Team Spirit

as runner up, while Discipline and Dedication stood third and fourth

respectively. ArchitVedpathak of Integrity House was declared the

Best Debater – English for the year 2019-20.

STORY TELLING COMPETITION

Story-telling competition was

conducted for the on 10th October 2019. It was very interesting and a

learning experience for the students.

It helped the children overcome their fears. The students were keen and

eager to narrate the stories which had a moral for each one of us. The

fear of public speaking was overcome and it was pleasant to hear the

students as they were confident.

NityaPatil from Team Spirit bagged the first position followed by

AvneeshGogawale from Integrity house in the 2nd position and

AnveeBondare from Discipline House

and AdyaaKhedekar from Team Spirit house in the 3rd and the 4th position

respectively.

HINDI DEBATE

Hindi Debate was conducted for

Senior School students on 14th October, 2019. The topics for the first

round were “ͪĤटंमीͫडया गैरज़Ǿरȣ है” forDiscipline House and Team Spirit

House and ‘मǑुġत ͩकताबे कालĒèत है’ for Integrity House and Dedication

House. The winners of the elimination

round- Discipline House and Dedication House debated for and

against the topic “सहपाǑठयɉ का दबाव

सकारा×मक पǐरवत[न लाता है” for the 1st and 2nd position and Team Spirit

House and Discipline House debated

for and against the topic “लोगो को

पǐरवार कȧ अपे¢ा ͧमğो से अͬधक लगाव है” forth 3rd and 4th position. Dedication

House bagged the 1st position followed by Discipline House in the

2nd position. Integrity House and Team Spirit House were in the 3rd

and the 4th position respectively.

HINDI RECITATION

Hindi poetry recitation was conducted

on 8th November, 2019 for the

Primary students from classes II to IV. Students recited the poems in

Hindi by renowned poets in a very graceful and confident manner. The

expression and voice intonation

focussed on, by Puranjeeta Nayak from IV C while reciting the patriotic

poem ‘मेरादेश’ – received a good round of applause from the judges and the audience. Jinal Shah from

Dedication House bagged the first position followed by Puranjeeta

Nayak from Discipline House in the

2nd position. 3rd position was shared by AsmiGhatul from Discipline House

and Saksham Thakur from Dedication House. Not only the participants but

also the students from the audience

attempted to recite poems.

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"Knowledge is of no value

unless you put it into practise."

Keeping this thought in mind, an Inter

House General Quiz was conducted for 3 different groups.

1. Primary -Classes II to IV on

13 November 2019. There were interesting rounds consisting of

Taboo, The 4 teams consisted of three participants from each

house. The students were at their best while answering the

questions in the different

rounds of the quiz which included identifying the athletes

and speeches by famous personalities.. Although the

teams participated actively, the team that scored the most was

Integrity. The quiz provided an opportunity for the participants

as well as the non-participants to explore the world beyond

academics.

2. Middle school- Classes V-VII Quiz

on 13th November 2019 with three fervent participants in

each house who gave tough competition to each other. The

Quiz was conducted by the Quiz master Mrs FarzanaKausar

and the scorer was Mrs Ashwini

Kulkarni,Rules and regulations of the quiz were explained at

the beginning. It was an interesting quiz with eight –

rounds including objective questions with Super-heroes

round, Mission Chandrayan II round, Logo’s round, Know

your sport,Know your Instrument round, audio-

visual round, Who am I round, and Rapid fire round, which

engaged the students for two hours. The students showcased

their brilliance by rapidly answering the questions.

Though some of the questions

were very tricky, the teams

tried to answer them with

confidence. Allthe teams participated actively and the

team that scored the most was Team Spirit House, It was very

informative and knowledge enriching competition for the

participants along with the audience.

3. Senior School- Classes VIII, IX & X

on 16 Nov 2019 The quiz this year had many ‘firsts’ to its

credit. It was for the first time that preliminaries were held to

select the best team from each house. This was also the first

quiz when there was a ‘buzzer’ round. With the innovative zeal

of the quiz master Mrs Ashvini Kulkarni and enthusiasm of the

alumni the quiz show was a great success with students

yearning for more.The scores

were changing continuously with every roundandmaking it

difficult to predict the winner.

The quiz had questions from myriad topics from cooking to

railways to politics and the teams knew it all. But as they

say there has to be only one winner and that was Team

Spirit house followed closely by Integrity.

ENGLISH QUIZ

Primary students participated in the

English Quiz on 6th November. 2019.

Team Spirit house bagged the 1st position followed by Discipline House in

the 2nd position and Integrity and Dedication House in the 3rd and the 4th

position respectively. Middle School Interhouse English quiz

competition was held on 6thNovember, 2019. Thestudents from all the four

houses participated with great enthusiasm. There were 8 rounds in

total including Literary Awards, Recognize the famous writers of India,

Synonyms and Antonyms, Name the poets, Meaning of the Metaphor, Identify

the words to describe different kinds of people, There were rounds for the

audience in which they actively

participated and enjoyed giving answers. The result was announced at the end of

the competition. Team Spirit house was the winner of the competition followed

by Discipline House in the 2ndposition, Integrity House in the 3rdposition and

Dedication House in the 4th position. Senior School Interhouse English Quiz

was held on November 5. The quiz consisted of 9 rounds. The contents of

these rounds ranged from identifying the correct spelling, filling the gaps with the

correct word, one word substitution, reading International Phonetic Alphabet

(IPA), choosing the grammatically correct answer, idioms and phrases,

poems and poets, synonyms and antonyms, and an audio visual round

based on books to movies adaptation.

The winner of the contest was Integrity Housefollowed by Team Spirit House in

the 2nd position while Discipline House and Dedication House brought up the

rear with third and fourth positions respectively.

It was appealed to the gathering to conserve our forests and natural

heritage, safeguard our monuments and renew our habitats, and to work

collectively in order to eliminate poverty, illiteracy and inequality with the sense of

ownership and responsibility to successfully lead the nation ahead.

The celebration ended with a vote of thanks and distribution of sweets to the

students, parents, staff, support and office staff.

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MONTHLY MENTAL MATH TEST RESULTS

DATE I A I B I C II A II B II C

Sept 2019 Aahan S Rahika M Burhanuddin Aditya V Aahana P Shiv Pardeshi

Oct 2019 OviNavlakha Ansh Desai Ansh Desai Vishwaraj S Arushi B Shiv Pardeshi

Nov 2019 Zoya Parker Aarman C Burhanuddin Aditya V Arushi B Shiv Pardeshi

DATE III A III B III C IV A IV B IV C

Sept 2019 Rugved K SohamPatil Ashaz K Aaryan C Rishika Jinal Shah

Oct 2019 Neil Patil - Aditya Pawar Rajeshwar S Daksh Sable Naresh S

Nov 2019 Neil Patil SohamPatil Ishita D Rajeshwar S Daksh Sable Tanishka A

DATE V A V B VI A VI B VII A VII B

Sept 2019 Amir S Kavya C Aditi V Jonathan D Shruti G -

Oct 2019 Fatema B - - - Shruti G Shlok T

Nov 2019 Amir S Kavya C Hammad G Jonathan D Krishna K Azaahan Ahmed

DATE VIII IX X

Sept 2019 Nedish M Padmin B Archit V

Oct 2019 Joshua D - Harsh B

Nov 2019 ApoorvaPawar Sudhanshu Kumar Suman Harsh B

SPEED MATH TEST RESULTS

IX X

Sept 2019 - Harsh B

Oct 2019 - Atharva G

Nov 2019 Padmin Bhat Atharva G