SENIOR CLASSES

NEWSLETTER

October 2020

A dream is not meant to be

dreamed forever; instead, it's

meant for you to work hard and

smart enough until success wakes

you up from it.

WELCOME OF OUR NEW PRINCIPAL

Director Sir and Staff Welcoming our New Principal

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A great Principal builds character

Inspires dreams

Encourages creativity

Builds confidence

Instils a love of learning

Touches our hearts

And changes our life forever.

Another more precious stone has been added among the galaxy of

intellectuals in the crown of Gyan Vihar in the form of our

honourable, charismatic and visionary Principal, Mr. Rakesh Upadhyay.

He is the brightest pole star who navigates, guides and steers the

teachers and the students to reach the summit of success. Mr.

Rakesh Upadhyay, an M.A., M.Phil(English), M.Ed., BJMC, PGCTE is a

learned educationist with more than 25 years of work experience in

the field of education. He has served with many esteemed and

renowned institutions affiliated to the CBSE, New Delhi across the

country under his commendable leadership schools have obtained ISO

certification, British Council of India Membership and ISA

certification and Microsoft Association.

He has authored English reference book for graduate level course

and Pioneer English Text and grammar books for the students of

classes I –VIII. His research papers and articles have been published

in the proceeding of National and International conferences.

His article on the topic “Teenage Anger” was published in ‘Entab

Campus care Magazine’.

An adept administrator and an academician par excellence, Mr.

Upadhyay has been conferred with many prestigious words like:- Best

Administrator Award from MHRD, Govt. of India, Avantika Best

Principal Award, Swami Dayanand Shikshak Samman, Dainik Bhaskar

Shikshak Samman, Brainfeed Award, Career Guru Certificate etc.

Our visionary Director , Mr. Kanishk Sharma and the staff members

of Gyan Vihar wholeheartedly welcomed the new Principal .We hope

that with his energy, enthusiasm and focus on education and learning

our institute achieves greater excellence.

MAHATMA GANDHI & LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI

JAYANTI CELEBRATION

"Ahimsa is the highest duty.

Even if we cannot practice it in full,

we must try to understand its spirit and refrain

as far as possible from violence”

October 2 is an important day in the calendar as it marks the birth

anniversary of two legends of India who played a key role in India’s

independence. One was the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi and the

other was the second Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri .To

honour the legendary leaders, our young lads and lasses of classes VI to X

beautifully sketched their portraits and reiterated their maxims of life and

also sang a beautiful rendition of the soulful song 'Vaishnav Jan To Tehne

Kahiye' to commemorate Gandhi’s ideologies once again.

Students giving presentations on Gandhi /ShastriJayanti

Our school organized an interaction of parents with our esteemed Principal,

Mr. Rakesh Upadhyay for classes Play Group to XII, with a goal to ensure a

positive atmosphere for learning as well as building up the healthy

relationship between parents, teachers and dear students. To bridge the gap

between an educator and parents, our noteworthy Principal took a positive

step in this direction. He talked about some crucial aspects like child’s

psychology, his aspirations, role of parents in shaping their ward’s future. He

also gave an overview about co-scholastic activities which not only are a vent

to the creative talents and energies of the children but also help in their all-

round development. He gave detailed information about the learning

parameters and stressed upon the innovative teaching and learning

methodologies followed in school. He also touched upon the salient features

of our ‘halls of ivy’ like Coding class, Burlington English Language Lab, Atal

Tinkering Lab, Blackboard Radio and ERP. The interaction ended on a good

note with an aim of growing our children into happy, skilful and creatively

well-adjusted citizens.

PRINCIPAL-PARENTS’ INTERACTION

Principal Parents’ Interaction

CODING CLASSES

INTERNATIONAL GIRL CHILD DAY

‘Why do people mourn

When a girl is born

She is an important part of society

And created by Almighty

So she is not a curse

But she is the vital part of our universe'

Girls face a lot of issues in their life. Starting from female infanticide to

gender inequality to sexual abuse, there is no dearth of issues. Thus to curb

these menace and to recognise girls' right and the unique challenges the girls

face around the world, International girl child day is observed and celebrated

every year on 11 October. The main objective of this day is to empower and help

them to get their rights so that they can face the challenges all over the world

and meet their needs. To make this day remarkable, our bubbly tutees of

classes VI to X expressed their emotions in different ways to create awareness

regarding girl child and also exhibited their firm belief in the aphorism 'A

daughter is one of the most beautiful gifts this world has to give'.

Student giving performance

VIRTUAL MOVIE SHOW

Holistic development of students has always been a motto of Gyan Vihar.

During pandemic, our prestigious school has emerged as a pioneer to append

coding classes via Zoom from 12 October 2020 for the students of grades IV

to VIII in between their regular virtual classes as we believe that education

and technology go hand in hand. Computer science fosters creativity and

teaches students the critical thinking skills to become proactive learners, so

elementary school is the ideal time for students to be introduced to CS. Our

Six Computer Science Fundamentals courses are flexibly designed for

students who want to learn the basics of coding and where students will

create their own games, art, and digital stories that they can share - all while

developing problem-solving, collaboration, persistence, and computational

thinking skills. Every course includes "unplugged" activities that teach

computational thinking and digital citizenship skills. We seek your support in

enabling this new initiative.

Coding Classes

Students enjoying in Coding Class

Spic Macay

Chaplin made me laugh and cry

without saying a word.

I had an instinct.

I was touched by the soul of Chaplin - Mime is not an imitator but a creator.

A day without laughter is a day wasted. To communicate through silence is a link

between the thoughts of a man. In this Pandemic, our school always tries to

provide an ambience to the students where they do not only feel, cosy,

comfortable and entertained but also safe, snug, stress free and secure. In

collaboration with Spic Macay, our school organised an amusing and fascinating

virtual movie show and an interactive session on 15 October 2020 for the

students of classes .Our GVians became keen spectators of the movie' City Light'

by Charlie Chaplin. The students were thrilled to bits and understood the axiom

'Speech is silver but silence is golden' by looking at the world’s famous pantomime

and tongue-tied Chaplin.

Students enjoying movie show

FACULTY ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME-

ENGLISH WEAVERS

Learning is a continuous and a lifelong process and it can happen anytime

and anywhere.

Our school is always on the forefront in terms of novelties to scale new

dimensions. Even during this current situation besides thinking about the

students, the school under the aegis of our scholarly and visionary

Principal, Mr. Rakesh Upadhyay is trying to give wings to the pedagogues

to scale dizzying heights in their career. For this, a Faculty Enrichment

Programme-English Weavers has been started from 16 October 2020. A

teacher’s discourse and oratorical skills are considered critical for

professional competence. It is an optimum level of language proficiency

which is sufficient to equip teachers with the necessary language

resources to be able to teach effectively through English. Bearing this in

mind, the Department of English is carrying forward the vision to

conduct such interactive sessions.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACCOLADES

A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes

sweat, determination, and hard work.

Gyan Vihar is on cloud nine with the stupendous and

astounding result of the students in various competitive

exams. They have made their alma mater proud by

ascending new heights in their career and left their

footprints of sweet success on the horizon.

We wish them good luck for their future endeavours.

DANDIYA & GARBA WORKSHOP

Feast and fun, the dandiaraas has begun.

May you be blessed with peace and love by Maa Durga from the heaven above.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. Unprecedented times

require unprecedented measures to be euphoric, ebullient and exuberant .Our

school has made out a way to see a big curve on the faces of our dear

students by organizing a virtual Dandia and Garba workshop for classes VI to

X from 21 October to 22 October 2020, conducted by Simran Agarwal, an

eminent dancer from Nritya Shakti Studios, Mumbai. This workshop gave the

students' heart a flutter. They tapped their feet, showcased their dance

moves on the mesmerising tunes of songs and relished the workshop. All the

participants were awarded e-certificates and Preet Soni of class VI was

adjudged as the best dancer.

DOUBT CLEARING SESSIONS

Challenges won't die down, new challenges will keep coming up in everybody's

life. So do not make delays and follow the call of time.

Gyan Vihar firmly believes 'Challenges fuel our determination to win.' The nature

of challenges is to craft hurdles but at Gyan Vihar, our nature is to overcome

them. In the fierce pounce of COVID-19 pandemic, we have tackled it all by

running e-classes and win the blessings of the Almighty and have come out as a

winner each time. Testimony to this is our exemplary results .True that the

pandemic tossed and turned the life of student fraternity by making them home

stuck, disabling them to attend school. However, the days of normalcy are

gradually rolling out again. Every student of Gyan Vihar knows that there is no

comparison to classroom teaching and the students of classes X and XII are

coming to school for clearing their doubts, following the norms of social

distancing. These doubt clearing sessions are really fruitful to the students.

WEBINARS

An insightful, informative and perspicacious webinar on ‘Building

Convergence for India’s School Health: Achieving Sustainable

Development through health promotions in Schools’ was conducted on 24

October 2020 by SHARP NGO. The main aim of this webinar was to

inculcate healthcare in school education and to sensitize the teachers

about school health to support the socio-emotionally literacy, learning to

manage feelings and to understand other’s emotions. The staff members

were benefitted from the session.

NATIONAL UNITY DAY

Unity is strength.

When there is teamwork and collaboration,

Wonderful things can be achieved.

GYAN VIHAR observed ‘National Unity Day’

virtually on 31 October 2020 to commemorate

145th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabh Bhai

Patel. The auspicious day began with the ‘Unity of

Pledge’. An array of activities was conducted. The

students of classes VI to XII participated with

zeal and gusto in Slogan Writing, Essay Writing,

Speech and Poem Writing.

Students taking Pledge Slogan Writing Activity

VIRTUAL PTM

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Success is not final, failure is not

fatal: it is the courage to continue

that counts.

Together we can give our children, the roots to grow and the wings to fly.

A virtual PTM was organized on 31 October 2020 for classes VI to XII

wherein parents and teachers shared valuable insights to ensure best

academic and non-academic performance of a child which would help in the

comprehensive and holistic development of a child and would help him/her to

achieve to their highest potential. Parents were ecstatic to know about their

ward’s performance and were also briefed about re-opening of schools from 2

November 2020 for classes IX to XII, following all the safety measures

against the ongoing issue of COVID-19. The virtual presence of the parents

was highly appreciated.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Children’s Day

Diwali

Pre Board Class X & XII