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THE PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

ON THE OCCASION OF

THE 97th FOUNDER’S DAY(11th NOVEMBER 2017)

MODERN SCHOOLBARAKHAMBA ROAD, NEW DELHI

PHONE: 23311618, 19, 20: FAX: 23316214Email: [email protected]: www.modernschool.net

INDEXClass X Students Who Scored Perfect 10 CGPA 2Class XII Toppers 4Academic Awards 5Special Achievers’ Awards 6House Captains/Vice Captains/Prefects 7Achievements in Sports 8Initiatives 10Awards To The Principal 11Awards to School/Teachers 11Academics & Examination 12Students’/Teachers’ International Exchange Programmes 16Resource Development Programmes For Teachers 16Astronomy Club 17Bits ‘N’ Bytes Club 18Counselling Department/Wellness Centre 21Effervescence- The Chemistry Club 23Commerce Society 23Debating Society (English) 25D.E.A.R Project 27Disaster Management Committee 27Arthgauravam - The Economics Society 28Environment Club 28J’adore - The Fashion Technology Club 30Filmit Club 31The History Society 31Hindi Club- Aksharmanch 31The Interact Club 31International Award For Young People (India) 34The ‘Kids For Tigers’ Club 34Legal Studies Department 34‘Model United Nations’ Society 35The Mathematics Activity Hub 39

Saptak - The Music Society 39Nature Club 40Kriti – The Painting Club 40The Project Citizen Club 43The Paper Technology Department 43Lenscraft- The Photography Club 43Illuminati - The Physics Club 43Peer Mentoring Society 44Phoenix -The Quiz Club 44The SPIC MACAY Society 47The Trips/Tours Club 47Western Music Department-’Synchronicity’ the school band 48Kamla Bose Award’ For Learning Beyond Classrooms 48Sardar Bhagwant Singh award’ 49Intra School activities 49Co-Curricular & Inter School Activities 51World Scholars’ Cup-2017 53House Functions 54Graduation Day 54Independence Day 54Blood Donation Camp 54Games & Sports 55Annual Sports Day 55Summer Sports Camp 56Sports Clinics 5642th Lala Raghubir Singh Hot Weather Cricket Tournament 56Achievements In Sports 56

(Athletics, Archery, Badminton, Basketball, Baseball, Chess, Cricket, Equestrian, Football, Golf, Gymnastic, Hockey, Karate, Kabaddi, Lawn, Tennis, Rugby, Squash, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Volleyball, Yoga, PTA, MSOSA, Modernites’ Trust)

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Mr Piyush Goyal; Hon’ble Minister of Railways and Coal; Government of India, Mr Ashok Pratap Singh; President; Board of Trustees; Modern Schools, Mr Vijay Chadda; Chairman; Managing Committee; Modern School Barakhamba Road, Members of the Board of Trustees, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen.

It is a joy and a privilege to welcome you all to the 97th Founder’s Day of the school. It is the time of the year when we gather to salute the visionary zeal of Lala Raghubir Singh who as a young 26 year old laid foundation of his dream, a dream of an institution that would be a perfect synchronization of modern education and Indian ethos. And, thus, was born the Modern School. Tonight is also the night to celebrate and raise toast to all the wonderful achievements of the school and our students in the year gone by.

But before that, let me introduce you to the Chief Guest for this Founder’s Day. An eminent & distinguished personality like our Chief Guest hardly requires any introduction, but I would like to do the honours.

Mr. Piyush Goyal is the Minister of Railways & Minister of Coal in the Government of India. He is currently a Member of the Rajya Sabha and was earlier the National Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He headed the BJP’s Information Communication Campaign Committee and oversaw the publicity and advertising campaign of the party including the social media outreach for the Indian General Elections 2014.

He has had a brilliant academic record of All-India Second rank holder Chartered Accountant and Second rank holder in Law in Mumbai University. Before his foray in to the world of politics, Mr Goyal was a well-known investment banker and advised top corporates on management strategy and growth. He has also served on the Board of India’s largest commercial bank, the State Bank of India and Bank of Baroda.

Mr Goyal has participated in Leadership Programmess at Yale University, Oxford University and Princeton University and is currently pursuing the Owner/President Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

During his 33 year long political career, he has held several important positions at different levels in the BJP and is in the National Executive of the Party. He had the privilege of being mentored by stalwarts such as Shri

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India. He was also nominated by the Government of India to the prestigious Task Force for Interlinking of Rivers in 2002.

His father Late Vedprakash Goyal was the Union Minister of Shipping and the National Treasurer of the BJP for over two decades. His mother Chandrakanta Goyal was elected thrice to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Mumbai. He is married to Seema, an active social worker and has two children – Dhruv, working in New York, and Radhika, studying at Harvard University, USA.

Sir, we are indeed honoured to have you amongst us this evening. On behalf of the entire Modern School fraternity, we once again welcome you Sir!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Modern School Barakhamba Road has been able to grow remarkably, in leaps and bounds under the able stewardship of Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, President, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools. He continues with the aspiration of Lala Raghubir Singh and provides us with his unstinted support in our mission to provide holistic education to the generations of tomorrow. His faith in us, along with the guidance of Mr Vijay Chadda and other Members of the Board of Trustees, motivates us to continue to strive harder and better ourselves, to achieve greater heights in all spheres. Let me reiterate, that for us, at Modern, the sky is not the limit.

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REPORT ON ACADEMICSCLASS X

Students Who Scored Perfect 10 CGPA

Harsh Gupta Hiya Gupta Kunal SalujaKamakshi Gupta

Karan Taneja Khushi PathakKhushi Aggarwal

Lavnya AjmeraHarry Dalal

Dravie Bansal Eshaan Minocha Gayatri Sehgal Gurmeher Khurana Gursimran Kaur Seble

Diya GoelDevank Agarwal

Dhruv Aggrwal

Divita RohatgiCharvi Aggarwal

Ashish GoyalAnanya Kanodia Avantika Ssingh Bhaavya Gupta

Bhavya GuptaAadhya Aggarwal

Amisha Singhal

Arnav GuptaAnmol Bansal Armaan Aggarwal

Abhigyan Singh Abhinav Agarwal

Anushka Kohli Arjun Harbhajanka

Arindam DewanAbhinav Nehra Adit Jain Aditya Varun Sarkar Agastya ChawlaAditya Rai

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REPORT ON ACADEMICSCLASS X

Students Who Scored Perfect 10 CGPA

Nandini Garg Prakriti Dahiya Pranav Bansal PradyumanMehta

Moumeeta Rehan

Piyush MalikNikita SawhneyManya BansalMehul Taparia Palak Agarwal

Reet Goyal Rhythm Nagpal Rishabh Airi

Rishabh Raheja

Ritvik Vasudeva Rushali Jain Sanjali Lal Sanyukta Bhattacharya

Seher BawaSaiyam Hota

Varnika Aggarwal Varun Khurana Varun Singh Bhalla

Vatsal Sinha Vedant Khurana Vishesh Aggarwal

Yash RohillaTina Aneja

Sanskar Agarwal

Shashank Ramesh

Shruti Bharadwaj

Shubh Sethi Srishti Dutta Sukriti Jain Sunidhi Ahuja Tanay MittalTanya Goel

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REPORT ON ACADEMICSCLASS-XII

STREAM WISE TOPPERS

Science

Psychology Biotechnology Painting

Commerce Humanities

Yatin Arora96.4%

Divija Bansal97%

Medhavi Dhawan97.6%

Sanyam Gupta97.2%

Anoushka Amar Aedha Rawal Sadhika Lamba

Sri Sidhhy96%

Arushi Mathur96.2%

Jay Gohri Ragini JyotiAarushi Garg

STUDENTS WITH A PERFECT SCORE OF 100 IN VARIOUS SUBJECTS

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Anushree Mahur

S6

Ayushi Kapoor

S6

Chetna Bhagat

S6

S4

Daiwik Aggarwal Ananya Arora

S4 S4

Arjun Khanchandani

S4

Arjjan Walia

S4

Aryan AroraAvantika Bahadur

S4

S2

Aryan Shiv Talwar

S2

Farhan

S1

Reyan Bangia

S2

Zaina Sharma

S3

Maria Javed

ACADEMIC AWARDS

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SPECIAL ACHIEVERS’ AWARDS

M N KAPUR GOLD MEDAL

Vasu Jain Himashu Minocha

RUDRA PRIZE

Neelesh PandeyPrateek Kher

SPECIAL PRINCIPAL’S PRIZE

Aatmik Gupta

PRINCIPAL’S PRIZE

Aryaman sood Ayan Marwaha Aman Agarwal Ambika Pandey Shreyan Puri Lavanya Bedi Arshdeep Singh

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SCHOOL APPOINTMENTS

HOUSE CAPTAINS/ VICE CAPTAINS : 2017-18S.No House Captain Vice-Captains

1 AKBAR RATISH SARAF ASAWARI JINDALTANVI DASS

2 ASHOKA HARSHEEN VOHRA ARYAMAN JAINSHUBHANG GOPAL

3 AZAD RADHIKA RAGHAV DHRUV RISHIKUNJ GUPTA

4 GANDHI PRATYUSH GUHA HIMANYA KAUR CHADHASHIV KATARIA

5 LAJPAT RAGHAVENDRA GUPTA MUSKAN GOYALANIRUDH GANERIWALA

6 LAXMIBAI AVANTIKA MEHRA SRIJAN VIJRANACHIKET CHAWLA

7 NEHRU GURSAHIB SINGH EKLAVYA JAINNITYAM ABICHANDANI

8 PATEL RAGHAV GUPTA HRIDAY GANDHSAMYA MALHOTRA

9 PRATAP KABIR SAHNI NISHIT NATHYASHNA BAHRI

10 RANJIT KESHAV NAGPAL ANUSHREE GUPTAURVI MAHESHWARI

11 SHASTRI ANIKA BAHADUR AKHILA A MENONLOVE BHATIJA

12 SHIVAJI RISHABH MUNJAL DHRUV GUPTAISHANA AGGARWAL

13 SUBHASH MIHIKA SHARMA KARAN KAULANSHUM GULATI

14 TAGORE SANIYA KHANNA RISHIT JAINVIKRAM CHOUDHARY

15 TILAK MANYA MANUSHI NIKITA SHARMASHREY GOYAL

NAME CLASS/SECTION HOUSE

Aatmik Gupta S7A Akbar

Ayan Marwah S7A Akbar

Swayam Bhatia S7A Gandhi

Ambika Pandey

S7A Pratap

Aman Aggarwal

S7A Shastri

Raayan Singh S7A Shastri

Rohan Anand S7A Tilak

Kartikey S Chaudhry

S7B Patel

Addya Bhatnagar

S7B Pratap

Arshdeep Singh

S7C Nehru

Surya Aggarwal

S7C Tagore

Gunagya Mamak

S7C Shivaji

Anushree Mahur

S7D Ashoka

Pranav Gupta S7D Azad

Parth Nagpal S7D Ranjit

Prabhat Chhabra

S7D Shivaji

Chetna Bhagat S7E Akbar

Ishita Sharma S7E Shastri

NAME CLASS/SECTION HOUSE

Disha Gopal S7E Shivaji

Japmeher Singh

S7F Lajpat

Gautam Garg S7F Laxmibai

Manvika Aneja S7F Shastri

Aryaman Sood S7F Subhash

UdayGoel S7F Tilak

Shauryaveer Suda

S7G Gandhi

Vanshikha Pant S7G Patel

Shreyan Puri S7G Patel

Mansi Jain S7G Patel

Kripa Alag S7G Subhash

Dhruv Tuli S7G Subhash

Ayushi Kapoor S7I Laxmibai

Dharamveer Choudhary

S7I Pratap

Ojasvini Goel S7J Azad

Manya Sikka S7J Gandhi

Lavanya Bedi S7J Patel

Namya Manglani

S7J Tagore

PREFECTS 2017-18

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ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORTS

LADY SOBHA SINGH TRUST AWARD(FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN GAMES AND

SPORTS - FOOTBALL) 2016-17ANUSHKA SAMUEL, S7H

(International)


SPORTS - BADMINTON) 2016-17 NAMITA PATHANIA, S7J(National Position Holder)


SPORTS - BADMINTON) 2016-17SHIVIKA SHARMA, S7I

(National Position Holder)


SPORTS - BASKETBALL) 2016-17 MANVIKA ANEJA, S7F


LADY SOBHA SINGH TRUST AWARD (FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN GAMES AND

SPORTS - CRICKET) 2016-17 SHIVAY OBEROI, S7J


LADY SOBHA SINGH TRUST AWARD (FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN GAMES AND

SPORTS - CRICKET) 2016-17 AYUSH BADONI, S7J


RAKA MEMORIAL AWARD (ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN - SQUASH/CHESS) 2016-17

SWAYAM BHATIA, S7A (National Position Holder)

RAKA MEMORIAL AWARD (ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN - BASKETBALL) 2016-17

YUVRAJ GUSAIN, S7H (National Position Holder)

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RAKA MEMORIAL AWARD (ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN - HOCKEY) 2016-17

SHAURYA PRASHAR, S7E(National)

RAKA MEMORIAL AWARD (ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN - BASKETBALL) 2016-17

ARUNI SINGH, S7J (Senior Women National)

RAKA MEMORIAL AWARD (ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN - SWIMMING) 2016-17

YASH RAJ SHANKER, S7C(National)

KIRAN SETH AWARD (ALL ROUND BEST SPORTS GIRL) BASKETBALL / FOOTBALL/

ATHLETICS 2016-17PRIYAN KAPOOR, S7B

(National)

DEV RAJ PURI CRICKET TROPHY (BEST CRICKETER OF THE YEAR) 2016-17

GAGAN VATS, S7I(National & IPSC Position Holder)

SAURABH AGGARWAL FOOTBALL TROPHY (BEST FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR) 2016-17

KRITIK CHOPRA, S7J(International)

RISHABJEET SINGH WASON HOCKEY TROPHY(BEST HOCKEY PLAYER OF THE YEAR) 2016-17

BHANU PRATAP, S7D(National)

SUMER BUDHRAJA MEMORIAL AWARD (BEST BOY SWIMMER) 2016-17

SAUSTAV ROY, S6C(National)

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1. INITIATIVES

Experiential Learning is the best way to impart education leading to better learning. SRJNA one of the very few tinkering pioneers in India, is working with our teachers to bring innovations in curriculum based learning in Science and Mathematics. The professionals from IITs and XLRI are here now to aid students achieve diverse experience using the SRJNA models. Through SRJNA, experiential learning is promoted among the students, thereby reaffirming and revamping the academic flavour and weaving it in the warp and weft of the school’s ethos, a new academic vigour has been initiated. Not only this, we have a dedicated team of teachers who go out of way and beyond school hours to help students excel in academics. Extra revision, remedial classes, classes for low performers and up-to-speed classes for new admissions to bring them to par are taken by the teachers.

Sports:

a) Tennis – Our school has almost finished construction of 6 international standard tennis courts. The school plans to have national and international tournaments conducted here from next year. Professionals like the young former Davis Cupper Vivek Shokeen have been hired to coach our students during school hours as well as after school to bring them up to national and international standards.

b) Taekwondo – Taekwondo classes have commenced on an experimental basis for Classes 6, 7 and 8. Registration was held last month and we have received an overwhelming response. From next year, more than 350 children will be trained in this technique of self-defence as part of the school curriculum.

c) Other Sports –Initiatives are being taken to hire and induct professionals to boost the standard of sports in the school.

Security:

The school continues to keep pace to provide the best security to the

students on the campus and some steps have been taken to upgrade the process:

y Increase in the number of CCTV Cameras

y Police Verification of the staff

y Issue of Identity Cards to Parents, Guardians and Attendants of all Students.

y Increased safety and security on all buses

y Introduction of hand held metal detectors at entry points

The school seeks to keep pace with the security measures to keep our children safe on the campus as they are the school’s life line.

Other Initiatives

To assess the psychological status/growth, creative and linguistic skills of students, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) has been introduced in the Middle School from the current academic year.

Class Observation & Academic Audit for Classes S5 & S7 has been introduced from the Academic Session 2017-2018. A schedule is in place to check the quantum of work done, quality of correction through the year, quality of assessment of answer scripts after the tests/examinations, to help us ascertain inadequacies and plan better for the next year.

Obtaining feedback from students of Class S7, before the Board examination, is already in practice for past many years. From the Academic Year 2017-2018, we intend similar exercise for the students of Class S5.

Initiatives were also taken to improve the infrastructure of the school and the tasks completed recently are (i) Renovation of washrooms of Sir Sobha Singh Block (ii) Building of seven Rain Harvesting Pits to conserve rain water (iii) One grass court for Lawn Tennis (iv) 326

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Solar Panels with capacity of 100 KW output have been installed on the roof of the PJ Block

‘Round Square’ is a worldwide network of 180 innovative schools like Lawrence School, Sanawar, Mayo College, Ajmer, Daly College, Indore, Scindia and the Doon School as its member in 50 countries across six continents. Round Square schools are characterized by a share belief in holistic approach to learning through six ideals – Internationalism, Democracy, Environmentalism, Adventure, Leadership and Service, drawn from the theories of education philosopher Kurt Hahn. Recently, our school applied to be a member-school of the Round Square Network. On 30th August 2017, Ms Rajbir Sandhu, Regional Support Manager of South Asia & Gulf Region of Round Square; Mr Sumer Singh, former Principal, Daly College, Indore; and Dr Sarvesh Naidu, Director, Executive Director, Pathways World School, Aravali, visited our school and interacted with the members of the Round Square Students’ Council. On 31st August 2017, these officials attended the assembly and saw a presentation on ‘Life@Modern’. Later, they were taken for a school tour and shown another presentation featuring how the tenets of Round Square i.e. internationalism, democracy, environmentalism, leadership and community service are practised by our school. The students have already attended the Round Square Conference as an ‘Observer School’ held at Cape Town, South Africa during September/October 2017. Our school’s membership to the Round Square has been recommended and we await the confirmation to this effect.

2. AWARDS TO THE PRINCIPAL

Instituted in 1958 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy, the National Award to Teachers is given by the President of India on the 5th of September every year to accord public recognition to meritorious teachers. The Award carries a Silver Medal and a Certificate.

In a proud moment for the school, Dr Vijay Datta, the Principal was awarded the ‘National Award’ on the occasion of the Teachers’ Day at the hands of the honourable Vice President , on behalf of the President of India, Mr Ram Nath Kovind for his invaluable contribution and services in the field of education as a teacher of outstanding merit. The awardees were felicitated by the President at the Rashtrapti Bahwan later in the day.

3. AWARDS TO SCHOOL/TEACHERS

• Modern School was conferred ‘the World Cleanliness Education Award’ by the National Institute of Cleanliness Education and Research (NICER) during the World Cleanliness Convention 2016 in December 2016.

• Education Today awarded the ‘Jury’s Choice Award – India’s Best School to the school for exemplary contributions in the field of education in December 2016.

• The Rotary Governor’s Award’ was conferred by the Rotary District 3011 for the exemplary work done by the Interact Club of the School for its community services.

• ‘World School Excellence Award 2017’ was presented to the school on the occasion of the World Education Convention 2017 on 6th September 2017 by the International Association of World Peace

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(affiliated with United Nations).

• Ranked No.1 on the parameters of Infrastructure and Sports Education in the ‘Education World India School Ranking Awards 2017-2018’ by Education World.

• Ranked India’s No.2 and Delhi/NCR’s No.2 Day-cum-Boarding School by the ‘Education World India School Ranking Awards 2017-2018.’

• Dr P P Vermani, Head Of Department, Mathematics was honoured with the Teachers’ Day Award 2017 by International Institute of Hotel Management, for imparting holistic education.

4. ACADEMICS & EXAMINATION

• 16 students from the ‘Batch of 2016’ were awarded the Certificates of Merit by the C.B.S.E. for being within the ‘top 0.1%’ (subject wise) in the All India Senior School Certificate Examinations held in March 2016. Four students were bestowed these certificates for English (Core) – Aarushi Prasad, Mallika Singh, Nida Khanam & Gandharva Krishna; three students for Psychology - Aaliya Warsi, Bani Kaur Kochhar & Nilanjana Parijat; three students for Business Studies - Annanya Mittal, Ritam Gupta & Veni Gupta; three students for Biotechnology- Arshia Jolly, Karan Aggarwal & Pankhuri Gupta; two students for Economics - Aryaman Arora & Apoorv Singhal, and one student for Political Science – Anushri Agarwal.

• 337 students of Class 10th appeared for the All India Secondary School Examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education held in March 2017. 78 students scored a perfect ’10 CGPA’ in Class 10th. They are – Agastya Chawla, Bhavya Gupta, Devank Agarwal, Eshaan Minocha, Gurmeher Khurana, Manya Bansal, Ritvik Vasudeva, Sanyukta Bhattacharya, Sukriti Jain, Tanay Mittal, Varun Singh Bhalla, Vishesh Aggarwal, Yash Rohilla, Varun Khurana, Aditya Varun Sarkar, Amisha Singhal, Anmol Bansal, Anushka Kohli, Avantika Singh, Kamakshi Gupta, Khushi Aggarwal, Lavnya Ajmera, Shashank Ramesh, Tanya Goel, Dravie Bansal, Gayatri Sehgal,

Rushali Jain, Sunidhi Ahuja, Abhinav Nehra, Bhaavya Gupta, Charvi Aggarwal, Harry Dalal, Karan Taneja, Khushi Pathak, Palak Agarwal, Rishabh Airi, Saiyam Hota, Sanskar Aggarwal, Srishti Dutta, Vedant Khurana, Ashish Goyal, Palak Aggarwal, Pradyuman Raj Mehta, Seher Bawa, Vatsal Sinha, Gursimran Kaur Seble, Harsh Gupta, Nikita Sawhney, Piyush Malik, Reet Goyal, Rishabh Raheja, Shruti Bhardwaj, Tina Aneja and Varnika Aggarwal in Hindi sections. Adit Jain, Aditya Rai, Arjun Harbhajanka, Arnav Gupta, Dhruv Aggarwal, Divita Rohtagi, Nandini Garg, Prakriti Dahiya, Rhythm Nagpa and Sanjili Lal in Sanskrit sections. Aadhya Aggarwal, Abhinav Agarwal, Ananya Kanodia, Arindam Dewan, Armaan Aggarwal, Diya Goel, Hiya Gupta, Mehul Taparia, Pranav Bansal, Shubh Sethi, Abhigyan Singh, Dhruv Agarwal, Kunal Saluja and Moumeeta Rehan in French sections.

• 396 students appeared for The All India Senior School Certificate Examination of Central Board of Secondary Education held in March 2017.

• Medhavi Dhawan topped the school and stood first in the Commerce stream with 97.6% marks followed by Sanyam Gupta stood with a score of 97.2%. Divija Bansal topped in the Science stream with 97.0% marks and Yatin Arora followed her with 96.4%. Similarly, Arushi Mathur was the highest scorer in the Humanities stream with 96.2% marks and Sri Sidhhy followed her with 96.0% marks.

• Six students obtained full score of 100 marks in one of the subjects in Class XII exams. Aedha Rawal, Anoushka Amar & Sadhika Lamba obtained 100 marks in Psychology whereas Aarushi Garg & Ragini Jyoti Jain scored 100 marks in Painting. Jay Gohri scored full marks in Biotechnology.

• The results of our students of Classes X and XII in the examinations held by the CBSE in March & April 2017, were duly analyzed by the Principal in advance and were discussed with the teachers in detail in a staff meeting held on 1st July 2017.

• From the Academic Year 2017-2018, the C.B.S.E. has re-introduced

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the Board examination for students of Class 10th and has also changed the Assessment/Evaluation Policy for students of Classes 6th to 10th.

• Under the new pattern of assessment/evaluation, there will be annual examinations for Classes S1 to S4 and Board examination for Class S5. Students will be tested on 100% syllabus, with question paper of 80 marks, in every subject. There will be Internal Assessment of students for the remaining 20 marks. The components of Internal Assessment will be (i) Periodic Tests for 10 marks (ii) Notebooks Submission for 5 marks (iii) Subject Enrichment Activities for 5 marks. 33% marks out of 80 marks will be required in each subject to pass the examination. There will be three cycles of Periodic Tests (held in beginning of July, mid of September and mid of January). The Periodic Test-1will cover 30% of the entire syllabus, the Periodic Test-2 will cover 30% of remaining syllabus plus 10% of the PT-1 syllabus. The Periodic Test-3 will cover 30 % of the remaining syllabus plus 10% of PT-1 and 10% PT-2 syllabus. After the Periodic Test-3, the teachers will cover the remaining 10% syllabus. The ‘Average Marks’ of the best two Periodic Tests will be counted for Internal Assessment of 10 marks. The Notebook Submission will be assessed on the basis of – Regularity, Assignment Completion and Neatness/Upkeep of Notebooks. Subject Enrichment Activities will include – Assessment of Speaking & Learning Skills (ASL) for languages, Practicals & Lab Work for Mathematics & Science and Maps & Project Work for Social Science subject.

• Co-scholastic Activities, i.e. Work Education, Art Education and Health & Physical Education, will be graded on a 5-Point Grading Scale of A to E. There will be no upgrading based on Co-Scholastic Activities. The element of Discipline has also been introduced and students will be graded on a 5-Point Scale of A to E on the basis of Attendance, Sincerity, Behaviour and Values.

• A special schedule was followed by the school from 23rd March to 30th March 2017. Middle School students had Fun-learn Classes and students of Classes S4 to S7 had their curriculum based classes.

• The Academic session 2017-2018 commenced from 3rd April 2017 for the students of Classes S2 to S7. The students of Class S1 joined school on 6th April 2017.

• During summer vacation, extra classes were conducted for students of Class S7 by many teachers of Senior School viz. Ms Jaya Khurana, Ms Pooja Bahl, Ms Hema Bajaj, Mr Manoj Kumar, Ms Sonika Jain, Ms Meera Malhotra, Ms Puja Kapoor, Ms Jyotsna Srivastava, Ms Harpreet Khattar, Ms Deepa Kataria, Ms Richa Bhatia, Ms Beeba Sobti, Ms Divya Sahdev, Ms Deepa Kapoor, Ms Garima, Ms Roma Kumar and by Mrs.Manju Kant of the Secondary School.

• To bring the newly admitted S6 students at par with the other students, ‘Up-to-Speed’ classes were taken by our Senior School teachers during the last week of June 2017. These teachers are – Ms Pooja Bahl, Ms Kiritika Saxena, Ms Deepa Kapoor, Ms Kritika Khurana, Ms Sonika Jain, Mr Sanatan Roy, Ms Divya Sahdev, Ms Garima Tomar and Ms Sarita Sharma.

• Admissions of the students of ‘Batch of 2017’- The vision and ethos of Modern School Barakhamba Road, of a holistic education with students excelling in a variety of fields, is strongly evident in the Batch of 2017. Students applied to a cross section of courses and secured admissions into prestigious Universities around the globe. Given below are the names of the students who have been selected to top universities, abroad & in India, and brought pride to the alma mater:

United States of AmericaCornell Raghav Gupta, Niharika ShuklaDuke Neelesh PandeyUniversity of Pensylvania Yatin AroraUniversity of California, Berkeley Prateek KherUniversity of California, UCLA Riddhi AggarwalNew York University Gobind Singh, Raghav Aggarwal

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigne

Divey Anand, Nirvaan Garg,

Dakshayan Varshney, Atharva SehgalUniversity of Minnesota Aniket JoshiUniversity of Washington, Seattle Apoorv BansalRutgers University Kavya MehndirattaParson School of Design Shivani AggarwalKelley School of Business Nitya GargVanderbilt University Paavas BhasinUniversity of Technology at Florida

Akash Aggarwal

Michigan State University Bharat JaglanRice University Sanvitti SahdevUnited KingdomUniversity College of London Lakshita Jain, Pahal AggarwalImperial College Hardik AggarwalKings College Mehar HaleemWarwick University Vasudha Surya, Anoushka Amar,

Kamya Goel, Gopika AggarwalBathUniversity Anaika Ahuja, Sanil Jain, Sanna

SarinAA School of Architecture Ishita AroraLondon College of Fashion Anika MinochaCanadaUniversity of British Columbia Divyansh Gupta, Anav ChopraUniversity of Waterloo Vanshika Poddar, Shiv Naren PuriUniversity of Toronto Arjun Chabbra,Simon Fraser University Kirat Kaur ChattwalMc Master University Kuber Khanna

SingaporeLASALLE College of Arts Aarushi DuggalNational University of Singapore Jiya SinghNAFA Vriddhi BansalHong KongHong Kong University Divyansh Gupta, Ananya SoniAustraliaUniversity of Melbourne Aryan BansalSwitzerlandHTMI Rohan AggarwalLes Roches International School of Management

Hrida Banga

IndiaMAMC, Delhi Divija BansalI.I.T. Delhi & Mumbai Vasu Jain, Tushar GoswamiD.T.U. Archit SingalI.I.I.T. Delhi Vidit JainI.I.S.C., Bangalore Divij MishraSchool of Planning and Architecture

Aditya Agarwal

N.I.F.T. Bhavya ChauhanNational Law School, Jodhpur Nikhil TakejaDelhi University – St.Stephen’s College, Hindu College, Jesus & Mary College and Guru Gobind Singh Indra Prastha University

Bhavya Rishi, Dev Seth, Bhuvnesh Pratap Malla, Arushi Mathur, Aryan Grover, Ayush Kumar, Chehek Anand, Daksh Jain, Dev Seth, Divyansh Sharma, Eva Rana, Gayatri Dhiman, Hritik Ganju, Mehul Kapoor, Muskaan Gupta, Nameera Iqbal, Neel Mathur, Pahal Aggarwal, Pranav Manchanda, Priyanka Rana…………..

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Vellore Institute of Technology Aryan Kapil Taneja, Priyanka Nangia, Jagrit Singh

Ashok University Gayantri Dewan, Sadhika Lamba, Kabir Jain, Niyati Mehra, Rushil Kochhar, Prateek Kher, Ananya Soni

Taj Mumbai Anaanya SinghaniaChrist College, Bangalore Akshat BihaniN.M.I.M., Mumbai Ritvik BhartiSushant School of Design Aruneet Das GuptaSymbiosis Pali KhannaJindal Law School Aishwarya GoelWhistling Woods Rohan Chopra

• Vasu Jain (Batch of 2017) created history and brought laurel to the school by scoring 350 out of 360 marks in the Joint Entrance Examination held by the C.B.S.E. He secured the 2nd All India Rank out of over 10.2 lakhs students who appeared in the examination all across the country to get admission to various prestigious engineering colleges including the IITs.

• Vasu Jain added another feather in the Modern School’s cap by securing the All India Rank of 31 in the JEE-ADVANCED examination, which allowed him to choose from any IIT across India. His performance was equally amazing in the AIIMS Medical Entrance Examination with the All India Rank of 77.

He is presently pursuing Computer Sciences at IIT Delhi.

• Varun Khurana, a Modernites’ Trust Scholar, was selected for the ‘Two-year IIT JEE Programme’ under Saksham 30 Scholarship Programme of Vidyamandir Classes and has received 100% waiver in his fee for the entire programme.

• Aarnav Khurana (S7) secured the All India Rank of 714 in the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana 2016. Two lakhs candidates appeared for the examination conducted by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and finally 877 students were selected for the scholarship.

• Students of Modern School appeared in the 2nd Level National Cyber Olympiad & National Science Olympiad and International Mathematics Olympiad conducted by the Science Olympiad Foundation in February 2017. Jushaan Singh Kalra won a Gold Medal in Mathematics, Silver Medal in Physics and a Silver Medal for his overall performance. Nimansh Jindal won a Silver Medal in Physics and Aruarnav Kumar Tiwari got the Bronze Medal in Chemistry.

• Shubhankar Gupta and Arnav Gupta, both from the Batch of 2014, have now got into IIM, Lucknow and IIFT, Delhi respectively for their MBA.

• Aaryan Arora was placed in the Merit-wise Top 150 Rank Holders List issued by the Directorate of Education as he secured the 137th Rank in the Junior Science Talent Search Examination-2016-2017 conducted by the Science Branch of the Directorate of Education on 29th January 2017.

• The students participated in the Science Open Merit Test conducted by the Delhi Science Teachers’ Forum. The result was declared in April 2017 and Abhinav Agarwal got the 3rd Rank and won a scholarship of Rs. 10,000/- per annum for two years for pursuing Science stream. Adit Jain & Moumeeta Rehan together got the 15th Rank and Yash Garg secured the 21st Rank. They received their awards during the Award Giving Ceremony held at Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Karol Bagh on 18th August 2017.

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5. STUDENTS’/TEACHERS’ INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES

• The 11th International ‘Community Development & Leadership Summit’ on the theme ‘The Times They Are A - Changing’, was organized in school from 20th to 25th November 2016. The event witnessed participation of 350 delegates of 21 schools from 17 countries - Australia, Bangladesh, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom and United States of America in the C.D.L.S. 2016.

• A delegation of four students, Akarsh Jain, Dhruv Tuli, Ishaan Virmani and Gunagya Singh Mamak, escorted by Ms Swati Chojer, a teacher from the Mathematics Department, participated in the 8thSt. George’s Girls’ International Students’ Conference 2017 on the theme ‘Global Citizens’ held by the St. George’s Girls’ School, Malaysia from 20th to 24th May 2017. The delegates enthusiastically participated in all the interactive activities and competitions and attended discussions and presented their views on the topic ‘A Whole New World’. Ms Swati Chojer presented a paper titled ‘My School’s Best Practices’ during the teachers’ session. The students put up a stall showcasing India’s culture & heritage and gave a fabulous performance in the traditional attire during the farewell function.

• From 23rd to 28th July 2017, a contingent of 20 students namely Avik Choudhury, Shrishti Satsangi, Aryan Malik, Ameesha, Kavya Goel, Varun Singh Bhalla, Dhruv Aggarwal, Pradyuman Raj Mehta, Siddharth Singh Khirwar, Amaan Chadha, Avijas Gandhi, Samarth Garg, Surya Aggarwal, Yash Raj Shanker, Akshita Varshney, Aryan Grover, Aryan Saxena, Kanishk Sirohi, Prabhat Singh Chabra and Prashuk Jain, went to Singapore to participate in the Singapore International Science Camp, organized by the National University of Science, Singapore. They were escorted by Ms Divya Sahdev, MMWT teacher and Ms Sushma Singh, the part-time Counsellor of the school.

• Another delegation of five students – Uday Geol, Ishita Sharma, Anirudh Ganeriwala, Raghav Gupta and Mohammad Musa Khan went to Thailand from 31st July 2017 to 4th August 2017 and attended the ‘3rd Nairong International Students’ Conference’ on the theme ‘A Better World in our Hands’ organized by the Nairong International School, Bangkok, Thailand. These students were escorted by Mrs.Sonia Kapoor, a teacher of Social Science Department.

• Laavanya Bedi and Ayan Marwaha participated in the International Leadership, Enrichment and Development Programme conducted by the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A. from 15th to 29th July 2017. The programme entailed several classes ranging from DNA Fingerprinting to Architecture and Business Ethics. They also took part in a debate on the qualities of a good leader.

• Five students of our school – Shruti Bhardwaj, Prakriti Dahiya, Suchet Kumar, Raghavendra Gupta and Kunal Saluja participated in the Round Square Conference held from 30th September 2017 to 5th October 2017 at Cape Town, South Africa. The Principal who mentored these students to participate in the conference also accompanied them to South Africa. Dr P.P. Vermani, HOD Maths Department, escorted this group.

• Pranav Gupta, Gautam Garg, Ayan Marwaha and Prabhat Chhabra participated in the ‘International Emerging Leaders Conference-2017’ organized by Collegiate School, Richmond, Virginia, USA, from 30th September 2017 to 9th October 2017. Mrs.Puja Kapoor escorted the students to this international conference.

6. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR TEACHERS

• The Principal attended various meetings conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi.

• Teachers of almost all the subjects, besides the school’s librarians, counsellors and the school doctor, attended various workshops and seminars conducted by the C.B.S.E., N.C.E.R.T., N.P.S.C., other

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schools and hospitals during the year. Our school also conducted various in-house trainings for our teachers during the year.

• On the basis of richness of knowledge & experience, some of our teachers were invited by various institutions, to be a part of their meetings/workshops/seminars/conferences and meaningfully contribute for pedagogical betterment in their respective subjects.

• Our school also organized several trainings for our teachers in school.

7. CLUBS’/SOCIETIES’/DEPARTMENTS’ REPORT

ASTRONOMY CLUB

• On 29th November 2016, a session on ‘Safe Solar Observation Techniques’ was conducted. Student were apprised of the importance of sun for life on earth, safe & unsafe methods to observe the sun, use of solar filters and telescopes for safer solar observation.

• ‘Module 02’ students were taken to Jantar Mantar on 1st December 2016 where they learnt about the astronomical significance of this observatory and working of various ‘Yantras’ which were used to predict time and movement of celestial bodies.

• Yet another session was held for ‘Module 02’ students on 23rd December 2016 on ‘Image Processing – Giving Life to a Picture’. They were taught to study pictures of celestial objects through their processed images by using different software such as GIMP, Registack, PIPP and Startrails etc.

• On 29th December 2016, a session on ‘Rockets’ was held. They were taught about the weight, motion, forces and working of a ‘rocket’. As a fun-cum-learn activity, students made their own hydro-rockets.

• The Club conducted a session for Module 2 members on “Barn Door Tracker Device” on 6th February 2017. Students were trained to track celestial objects through camera using this device.

• After the Preparation Session on 1st February 2017, the members of the Astronomy Club celebrated its Annual Astronomy Day on 9th February 2017. The event kick-started with a welcome speech followed by a skit “Mars Wars” to make everyone aware of the harmful effects of excessive CO2. Dance performance on “Musical Rendezvous with Stars” by the young members of the Club was another highlight of the event. The outdoor activities included learning about Spectroscopy, Barn Door Tracker, Jantar Mantar, Solar System Observation. Shooting Hydro Rockets and students weighing themselves on other planets added fun to the outdoor activity. The Chief Guest on the occasion was Mr Sachin Bhamba, CEO of SPACE Group. Other esteemed guests on this event were – Mr Christy Wells and Mr Guy Hooper from United Kingdom. During evening session of the Astronomy Day celebrations, Module-1 Members spotted bright stars through their telescopes and also saw the Orion Constellation and the bright Sirius Star. Module-2 Members attended Astrophotography Session and captured spell-bounding pictures of the Moon, Venus and Mars on their D.S.L.R. cameras.

• Student members of Module-I and Module-II, escorted by four teachers, visited the Astroport, Sariska for a ‘Night Sky Observation Camp’ organized by SPACE on 24th March 2017. Away from

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light pollution, members of Module-I enjoyed observing stars, constellations, Ursa-major and Orion, learnt using telescopes & plano-sphere. Module-II members pointed their telescopes to many messier objects and witnessed a satellite pass. As the night grew darker, they also observed celestial objects, shooting stars, view of Jupiter – its ring & its four moons, planet Saturn and just before the dawn, Milky-Way came along with a crescent moon.

• The Club held sessions on ‘Comet Making’ and ‘Advance Rocketing’ in school on 9th May 2017. These sessions were attended by 690 students of Module-I and 35 students of Module-2 respectively.

• The Teacher In-charge of the Astronomy Club conducted a session for student members of Module-I on ‘A Grid in the Sky: Celestial Coordinate System’ on 19th July 2017. They were trained to identify reference techniques to locate objects in the space and creating a celestial grid & a sky map. Module-II student members were guided on (i) Understanding Spectroscopy & Star Spectroscopy (ii) Understanding of Spectrum of Light (iii) Understanding the Interaction between Matter and Electro-Magnetic Radiation (iv) Identifying various Matter through variation in Spectrum (v) Using Spectroscope.

• Seventeen students of the Astronomy Club visited the Nehru Planetarium on 26th July 2017 to see the show ‘Yeh Taara Woh Taara’. The students were briefed on various concepts like how the sunlight reaches the earth in 8 minutes, formation of the Great Square of Pegasus, clown face shape in the sky called the Eagle, Sky Mapping etc. They were also told about Constellations e.g. ‘Watch Dog’ and ‘Saptarishi’ and Observatories e.g. ‘Sher Mandal’ (Purana Qila) and Jantar Mantar.

• On 17th August 2017, a session on ‘Astrophotography – Level 1’ was held for the students of Module-I wherein they were informed about the DSLR Camera and its operations. Module-II students attended a session on ‘Time Sundial’ and ‘Creating Sundials’ on the same day.

BITS ‘N’ BYTES CLUB

• Bits ‘N’ Bytes, the Computer Club of School, organized its 28th Annual Inter-School Tech Symposium ‘ACCESS 2016’ on 16th and 17th December 2016. The symposium was attended by approximately 1500 students from over 100 leading schools of Delhi and NCR. The event kicked off with an address by the Principal. The Guests of Honour were Prof Suneet Tuli and Mr Rajiv Makhni who inspired participants during interaction and students learnt about cells, saw live robots and stepped into a world of Virtual Reality. Students competed in all realms of technology – from Programming to Digital Imaging, Web Designing to 3D Modelling, Robotics to Quizzes, Crossword, Group Discussions and Fancy Dress, App Development, Video Editing, Story Writing, Software Display, Game Designing, HTML Coding, Audio Editing, Hardware, Power Point Presentation, Multimedia Presentation, etc. which were organized according to categories viz. Open, Senior, Junior, Sub-junior and Cadet. The overall Winner Trophy was bagged by Delhi Public School, Noida whereas the overall Runner Up Trophy was grabbed by Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram.

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Dates Name of School that organized the Fest

Name of the Winner Name of Event & Prize

Nov. 2016

‘TCS IT Wiz 2016’ Delhi Round held at

Ayan MarwahaPaavas Bhasin

Tech Quiz - 2nd Prize

Nov. 2016

‘Exun 2016’ held at Delhi Pub-lic School, R.K.Puram

Arnav JainSamridh GuptaAditya Shankar Agarwal Ayan Marwaha &Paavas BhasinAyan Marwaha & Paavas Bhasin

Modern School, Barakhamba Road

Audio Editing - 1st Prize3D Modelling - 2nd PrizeWeb Designing- 2nd Prize

Senior Quiz - 2nd Prize

Crossword-2nd Prize

2nd Runner Up Trophy

20 July2017

‘Incognito’ by Somerville School, Noida

Samir Amin &Darvesh Khera

Sidharth Bahl &Rijul Ganju

Gaming - 1st Prize

Crossword - 3rdPrize

5 Aug.2017

‘The Digilo-gous’ Rukma-niDevi Public School, Pita-mpura

Akshat Singal

Soushtav Roy &Hrithik Bansal

Arjun Khanchandani & Shashank Ramesh

Group Discussion-1st Prize

Robotics - 1st Prize

Quiz - 3rd Prize

10 Aug.2017

‘Aeon Tech’ by The Indian School, New Delhi

Tarnav Bhasin Gaming - 1st Prize



19 Aug.2017

‘Matrix Ecomm’ by Mount St. Mary’s School, New Delhi

Aditya Sarkar &Shashank Ramesh

Aditya Sarkar &Shashank Ramesh

Rijul Ganju &Sidharth Bahl

Quiz - 1st Prize

Crossword - 1st Prize

Surprise - 3rd Prize

24 Aug.2017

‘eSpice” by Delhi Pub-lic School, Noida

Tarnav Bhasin

Akshat Singal &Rijul Ganju

Gaming - 2nd Prize

Quiz - 3rd Prize

25 Aug.2017

‘MODEM” by Modern School, Vas-ant Vihar

Akshat Singal &Rijul Ganju

Quiz - 2nd Prize

25 Aug.2017

‘Design Champi-onship’ by Mindbox at Modern School Bara khamba Road

Shaurya Kumar and Rohan Bhasin

Samraj Chaudhary

Game Designing- 1st Prize & Cash Award of Rs.10,000/

Graphic Designing-1st Prize

These Winners will rep-resent our school in the Nasscom Game Developers Conference (NGDC) in No-vember 2017 in Hyderabad

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3 - 5 Oct. 2017

‘Technacks’ by Maharani Gayatri Devi School, Jaipur

Aditya Shankar Agarwal& Samraj Chaudhary

Nirbhay Kwartra & Arnav Jain

Aditya Varun Sarkar &Shashank Ramesh

Samraj Chaudhary &Nirbhay Kwatra


Website Design - 1st Prize

Movie Making - 1st Prize

Quiz - 2nd Prize

Typography (DI)- 2nd Prize

Overall Winner Trophy with cash awards & certificates

Oct. 2017

Com-fest-2017’ by Seth Anan-dram Jaipu-ria School, Kanpur

Aditya Shankar Agarwal

Saksham Jain &Aishani

Aditya Shankar Agarwal&Shashank Ramesh

Samir Amim

Aditya Varun Sarkar &Shashank Ramesh

Harsh Gupta

Arnav Jain

Web Designing - 1st Prize

Collage Creation - 1st Prize

Surprise Software - 1st Prize

3D Modelling - 1st Prize

IT Quiz - 1st Prize

GraphicDesigning - 1st Prize

Audio Mixing - 2nd Prize

Journalism - 2nd Prize

IT Business Pitch - 2nd Prize Crossword - 3rd Prize



Akshat Singal &Avantika Singh

Akshat Singal &Nirbhay Kwatra

Aditya Varun Sarkar

Akshat Singal, Avantika Singh &Aditya Shankar Agarwal

Samir Amin


Story Writing - 3rd Prize

Gaming - 3rd Prize

Overall Runner Up27 Oct.2017

‘Hash 2017’ at D.L.DAVPublic School, Shali-mar Bagh

Saushtav Roy Robotics - 1st Prize

27 Oct. 2017

‘Code Wars 2017’ at DelhiPublic School, Vas-ant Kunj

Tarnav BhasinRijul Ganju &Sanchit SunejaAyan Marwaha &Rijul GanjuAyan Marwaha &Aditya Varun SarkarNirbhay Kwatra

Gaming - 1st Prize

Junior Quiz - 2nd Prize

Crossword - 2nd PrizeSenior Quiz - 3rd Prize

Hardware - 2nd Prize

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Workshops for Students Conducted/arranged by the Computer Department

Computer Department organized the following workshops during the summer vacation.

Dates Topic/Title of the Workshop

Attended by Workshop Facilitators

15 May - 2 Jun 2017

Programming 20 students Ms Pallavi from Code Chef

15- 26 May 2017

Finance Funda 10 students Mr Sumit Zawar fromBrain Salt

23 May 2017

‘App Inventor’ and ‘Scratch’

55 Computer Teachers from schools all over Delhi

Google

23 May - 2 Jun 2017

Game DevelopmentWeb Designing Audio & Video Editing Mastering IT Quiz

12 students10 students10 students12 students

Teachers of Computer Department of our school

12 - 23June 2017

Animation Photo EditingDigital Designing

14 students12 students10 students

Teachers of Computer Department of our school

5 - 23Jun 2017

ITK Summer Coding Camp

20 students Eniak Edutech Pvt. Ltd.

3 Aug.2017

Cyber Safety Workshop

All students &Teachers

Mr.Rakshit Tandon Cyber Expert

COUNSELLING DEPARTMENT/WELLNESS CENTRE

a) Career Counselling:

• In order to help students make informed subject and career choice, a Career Orientation Programme was conducted on 22nd & 23rd December 2016 for students of Class S5 in their class rooms by the counsellors of ‘One Step Up’. These sessions provided them information about various streams/subjects available to them for studies in Class S6. Students were also given a brief idea about the professions and career options related to various subject choices. These sessions helped them identify their area of interest. It was followed by an aptitude test to identify their area interest. This enabled students to map their abilities & identify the stream that they would do well in. A joint session of the counsellors, students and parents was held in the end, during which the subject interests of individual students were discussed at length with their parents.

• An Orientation Programme for students of S6 was held in April 2017 by the Counsellors. Students were made aware of the Guidance cell and its activities regarding college admissions.

• Our school hosted a large number of Universities’ Visits in the last couple of months, thus providing opportunities to students to interact with admission officers/ representatives of the foreign Universities like Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Brown, Columbia,University of Chicago, Dartmouth, Wellesley, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, University of South California, Rice University, University of Pennsylvania, UBC Alberta, Imperial College, U.K., Swiss School of Tourism & Hospitality, HKUST (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), HKU (Hong Kong University), NUS (Nanyang University of Singapore), NTU (Nanyang Techlological University) etc. Various presenations by the School Counsellors and the Universities Admission Officers were made to make students aware of the application processes and requirements of different universities.

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• A fair of the Indian Universities was held in the school in which good universities like Ashoka, Jindal, Chitkara, Flame, Shoolini, NIIT University, Bennett, Pearl and BM Munjal participated.

• A separate tab on the school’s website has been created, where we keep the parents and students updated with information concerning admission alerts for Under-graduation as well as summer programmes across the globe. An interactive Q&A Section has also been started for parents and students on the same tab, to reply to their queries regarding admissions and applications.

• A Study Abroad group has been formed on Google Docs to facilitate the admission process with continuous updates as well as replies to student querires.

• Both the counsellors are formally utilizing substitution periods in the class rooms, keeping in mind the importance of educating the students of S6 and S7 about the admission procedures and requirements, as well as the importance of developing a good and ethics based personality, correct study habits etc.

• On 3rd July 2017, an Orientation Session was conducted for S6 students who had taken admission in our school in June 2017. The Principal and the Headmistress-Senior School warmly welcomed them. The Teacher In-Charge of Co-Curricular Activities, Mrs Manpreet Kaur, introduced them to the various Clubs & Societies of the school. The Counsellors briefed them about the options of higher studies available to students of all the three streams in India and abroad.

• The Counselling Department also scheduled visits of representatives from certain foreign universities like – University of British Columbia Canada, Purdue University, University of Washington, Seattle, University of Cincinaati, Hongkong University of Science & Technology and a fair of Indian universities.

• Our Counsellors, Ms Baveen Gupta and Ms Sushma Singh, attended the ‘2017 Annual International Career & College

Counselling (IC3) Conference’ conducted by Ashoka University at J.W. Marriot, New Delhi from 29 th to 31st August 2017. Various sessions concerning admissions, applications, the College Board were held simultaneously at different venues. Mrs Baveen Gupta was one of the panelists on the 2nd day.

• The PSAT examination was conducted for the first time in school on 14th October 2017. 81 students of Class S5 registered for the same and were guided about the general directions by the Students’ Guides of College Board.

• Ritsumeikan University, Japan organized a Counsellors’ Visit in Japan on 11th and 12th October 2017. Mrs Sushma Singh, our School Counsellor, attended this programme in Japan along with Counsellors of other schools from all over India. It was a fully sponsored programme by the University and the Government of Japan.

• A Paper on ‘Psyche of the Indian Child during the Application Process’, written by Mrs Baveen Gupta, has been selected by NAFSA which was presented by her at their Conference in October 2017.

b) Wellness Centre

• The Counsellor of our Middle School is using the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) through ‘Picture Description Tests’ to enhance creativity, spontaneity, imagination among students. This technique enables students to challenge their thought patterns & beliefs and, replace errors in thinking, with realistic & effective thoughts thus decreasing emotional distress & self-defeating behaviour. This test helps to understand a student’s mind, hidden desires, expectations, evoke involuntary display of one’s originality, creativity, perception, attitude, emotional responses, personality etc. The idea behind this concept is to transforms their thoughts for betterment.

• Our school organized a special Orientation Programme for the parents of Class S1 students on 30th March 2017. The

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Headmistress-Middle School welcomed everyone and the Principal addressed the parents. A talk on ‘Understanding & Handling an Adolescent Mind’ was delivered by Dr Sameer Malhotra, Head, Dept. of Mental Health & Behavioural Sciences, Max Hospitals. Dr Kashyapi Awasthi, Assistant Professor, National Centre for School Leadership addressed the gathering on ‘Parents as Educators’ and Dr. Neena Moitra talked about ‘Oral Hygiene’. Mrs Deepa Kapoor, the Disaster Management Club In-Charge, gave a presentation on the precautions for safety of students. A musical performance at the end made the programme joyful.

• To sensitize students about the needs of differently abled people, some activities were conducted on 13th and 14th July 2017 for the students of Class S1 G and their subject teachers. A video & a power point presentation on ‘Autism’ was shown followed by a group discussion on ways to help people with autism.

• Navya Srivastava (S3) won a Certificate of Excellence in a Hindi Poem Recitation Competition ‘Abhivyakti’ specially held for Children with Special Needs by Delhi Public School, Rohini on 22nd July 2017.

• Taking ‘selfies’ has become an obsession the world over, influencing the young children the most. During the month of August 2017, sessions were held separately for different sections of Class S3 on ‘Selfiecide’ to make them aware of its adverse effects and to enable them to consider more constructive & responsible ways to gain recognition in the virtual world. The activity also enabled students to work in teams, showcase their skills, gain awareness about technology, learn to act responsibly and understand about impending mental disorders.

‘EFFERVESCENCE’ - THE CHEMISTRY CLUB

Sautav Roy and Aishani Goel were declared the Winners for the ‘Endless Innovation – Hands on Activity’ in the ‘Quest 2017’ at Air Force School, Subroto Park.

In the event ‘IGNITE 2017’ organized by the Delhi Public School, Dwarka on 24th& 25th October 2017, the team of Arshdeep Singh & Gunagya Singh Mamak won the 1st Prize in ‘Curieosity’ while Devank Aggarwal won the 1st Prize in ‘Group Discussion’. Shreya Gupta & Harsheen Vohra jointly got the 3rd Prize in ‘Chemicon’ whereas Ishana Aggarwal & Hiya together received the 3rd Prize in the ‘Surprize Event’.

COMMERCE SOCIETY

To arouse interest of students in various aspects of business and to identify & develop their hidden potential for growth, Commerce Society of the school regularly organizes various activities for students of Classes S6 & S7.

Students of ‘ComSoc’ participated in business related competitive events organized by various schools and brought laurel for the school. Some of them are given below:

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Dates Name of school & Name of the Event

Name of the Winner

Name of Event & Prize

4 Nov.2016

‘Comfest 2016’ at Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj

Ayan MarwahaAman AgarwalRevant AggarwalShaurya KundraShreya BajajSamarth SinghMusa KhanAnshum GulatiUtkarsh GuptaModern School,Barakhamba Road

Eco-Biz Quiz - 2nd PrizeAd Acting - 3rd PrizeMock Stock - 3rd Prize

Rolling Trophy

12 Nov.2016

‘Columban Fest 2016’ At St. Columba’s School, Ashok Place

Anshum GulatiAshutosh Shekhar

Mock Stock - 3rd Prize

19 Nov.2016

‘Com Astitva 2016’ at Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram

Nimar DangHimanya ChadhaAyan MarwahaAman AgarwalRewant MehraSamarth SinghModern School,Barakhamba Road

Young Entrepreneur - 3rd

PizeEco-Biz Quiz - 1stPrizeLogomania -1stPrize

Rolling Trophy

28 Apr.2017

15th BDMC Inter School Competition held at Cambridge Foundation School, New Delhi

Manya BansalGayatri Sehgal Rushali JainAvantika Singh Dravie BansalRaghav Gupta Uday Goel

Clash of Titans - 1st

Real Estate Mania - 2nd

Dates Name of school & Name of the Event

Name of the Winner


29 Jul.2017

‘Landmark’ by Genesis Global School, Noida

Nandini Sharma Bhaavya Gupta Vrinda Chadha &Rahul Arora

AD-MAD - 1st Prize

22 Aug.2017

‘Green Biz’ by Pathways School, Noida

Bhaavya Gupta Nandini Sharma Vrinda ChadhaRevant Aggarwal &Samarth SinghSaiyam HotaSidhant SethPrayag Bansal&Verdaan Jain

Creator & Promoter -3rd Prize

Adonomics - 3rd Prize

25 Aug.2017

‘Commerce Fest’ by G.D. Goenka School, Greater Noida

Saiyam HotaBhaavya GuptaNandini SharmaSiddhant Seth&Sukriti JainRitvik JainVerdaan JainModern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi

Rise & Fall - 3rd PrizeDebate - Best SpeakerSabse Bada Sawal - Special Mention

Runner Up

9 Oct.2017

‘Young Entrepreneurs Conference’ by the Doon School, Dehradun

Raghav GuptaAditya Shankar AgarwalRaghavendra GuptaModern School, Barakhamba Road

Mergers & Acquisitions - 1st PrizeMergers & Acquisitions - 3rd Prize

Winner Rolling Trophy

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DEBATING SOCIETY (ENGLISH)

Our school conducted its Annual Raghubir Singh Memorial Debate (Senior category) and Pratap Singh Memorial Debate (Junior category) on 22nd August 2017. Prominent schools of Delhi & NCR participated in the debates which were adjudged by able adjudicators – for Senior Category - Mr Deepak Verma President Indian Debating Society, Prof Debraj Mookerjee Professor of English Literature Ramjas College, University of Delhi and Ms Aarti Mathur Lall, PGDAV College, University of Delhi and for Junior Category - Ms Madhulika Singh, Writer & Life Skills Coach and Kanupriya Sekhri, alumna of IIM Bangalore & Communications Expert.

The Rolling Trophy was won by Modern School as the school was the combined winner of both the categories. The results are as follows:

Dates Name of the Event

Name of Student/School

Prize/Position

22 Aug.2017

Raghubir SinghMemorial Debate

-Ashutosh Verma of Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan

-Yastika Guru of Sanskriti School, New Delhi

-Aatmik Gupta of Modern School, Barakhamba Road

-Soham Kacker of Vasant Valley School, New Delhi

Best Speaker

2nd Best Speaker

3rd Best Speaker

Best Interjector

Dates Name of the Event

Name of Student/School

Prize/Position

22 Aug.2017

Pratap Singh Memorial Debate

-Shashwat Shakar of Springdales School Dhaula Kuan

-Arshiya Chaudhary of Modern School, Barakhamba Road

-Parth Talwar of Springdales School Pusa Road

-Raghav Ghei of Modern School, Barakhamba Road

Best Speaker

2nd Best Speaker

3rd Best Speaker

Best Interjector

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Our students participated in numerous Inter School debates, literary festivals, creative writing competitions during the year and won prizes listed below:

Dates Name of the Organizing School

Name of the Win-ner

Prize/Title Won

20 Apr.2017

Junior Shri Debate held at The Shri Ram School, Maul-sari Avenue

Alisha Kansal Most Promising Debater

21 Apr.2017

Gowardhan Dass MemorialDeclamation Contest held at Springdales, Pusa Road

Arshdeep Singh Aryaman Sood

Runner Up Team

26 – 27 April 2017

Quest Par-liamentary Debate 2017 held at The Air Force School, Subroto Park

Aryaman SoodRayaan SinghUday Goel

First Prize

4 May2017

The Role Rum-ble-ATwisted Tale held at Air Force Bal Bharati School, Lodi Roa

Arshiya Chaudhary Second Prize

4 May 2017

35th MOD Debate held at Modern School, Vasant Viha

Aatmik GuptaAryaman SoodShreyan Puri

Aatmik Gupta

Second Best Team

Best Speaker

Dates Name of the Organizing School

Name of the Win-ner

Prize/Title Won

5 May 2017

Annual Gra-cious Living Foundation Inter-school Debate held at Modern School, Bara-khamba Road

Laavanya Bedi


Best SpeakerFirst Prize with cash award of Rs. 5,000/-

Overall Winner. Being the host school, we passed it on to Step by Step School, Noida being the second best school

10 - 12May2017

27th Frank Von Goldstein Debate held at Yadavindra Public School, Patiala

Ritvik VasudevaAvantika SinghHarsh Gupta

Runner Up

21 July2017

Inter-school Debate held by YWCA of Delhi

Sidhant Kapoor Best Interjector with Cash Prize of Rs.2,000/-

22 July2017

Inter-School Debate held by Delhi Public School, Rohini

Harsh Beri 2nd Prize

3 - 4 Aug.2017

3rd Edition of ‘The Jaipur Debate’ held at Neerja Modi School, Jaipur

Shrey GoyalAryaman JainDevank Agarwal

2nd Runner Up

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Manya Bansal of S6 has been selected among the top 12 debaters of Delhi after clearing the Delhi Regionals of the Indian Schools Debating Society held at Pathways International School, Gurgaon.

D.E.A.R. PROJECT

The D.E.A.R. Project enthusiastically continues in school, inculcating the importance of reading books. Some of the initiatives taken include a Quiz on Current Affairs held on 16th December 2016 and more such quizzes are conducted during the Class Teachers’ periods. Another activity includes a Display Board that has been put up in the S.S. Block and it is dedicated to an author each month. It displays information about the author, titles of his/her famous books and the values emphasized in each book. The author for the month of December 2016 was Mr Ruskin Bond. Another Display Board has been adorned with Book Covers of famous books of these authors, which are made by the students.

On 11th January 2017, the D.E.A.R. teams of classes S4 & S5 visited the International Book Fair and had the opportunity to meet Mr Ruskin Bond, an author, whose books everyone has grown up reading with.

DISASTER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

On 20th December 2016, the Disaster Management Team conducted a Mock Evacuation Drill in school, as a preparedness programme to meet any kind of natural disaster, especially earthquake, as Delhi is in the high seismic zone and remedial infrastructure measures were suggested for faster evacuation.

District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) conducted a Disaster Management training programme for the teachers of the school on 6th March 2017, wherein response in case of earthquake & fire and first-aid techniques were demonstrated.

The 8th National Disaster Responsive Force (NDRF) Team of the District Disaster Management Authority conducted a Basic Disaster Management Awareness Training Programme in school on 27th April 2017. The team imparted valuable tips on how to tackle both natural

and man-made disasters. Our teachers – Ms Deepa Kapoor, Ms Simmi Khera, Ms Harleen Chadha, Mr Gautam Sarkar & Mr Jitender Munjal and 86 students of senior classes attended the programme.

As a part of the Disaster Preparedness Programme, the school organized a lecture-cum-demonstration by Mr Rajesh Shukla from Fire Station, Connaught Place on 6th March 2017. To create awareness and keep everyone prepared to deal with any kind of disaster – natural or man-made, Mr Shukla addressed the staff and students and advised that valuable documents should always be scanned and saved on the email for its safety. He also talked about the actions to be taken by the teachers and students during an earthquake and fire, including valuable tips on first-aid and medical help. He emphasized that teachers and staff should be aware of the CPR and should have basic medical knowledge. He mentioned that ‘Assembly Points’ must be marked in school premises, so that everyone knows where to assemble at the time of emergency, in the event of non-availability of communicative devices. He also explained the importance of the words STOP, DROP, COVER and HOLD with the help of pictures and advised the school to conduct mock practice drills regularly. Mr Rajesh Shukla also talked about ‘fire’, another hazard which may lead to major disaster if not handled properly. He mentioned that most of the fire incidents happen due to leakage of LPG cylinders and explained what should be done in case of leakage of LPG. He also made everyone aware of the points that should be taken care of before accepting an LPG cylinder. He also apprised about the fire extinguishers that can be used to extinguish different kinds of fire. A live demonstration was organized to show how a fire is caused and how it can be extinguished.

In order to sensitize students about the process of evacuation in the times of emergency, a Mock Evacuation Drill was held in school on 22nd August 2017. Students were asked to follow specific instructions like gathering at their respective assembly points, remaining calm, helping their fellow students in the process if they need assistance.

On 11th October 2017, the four Teachers In-charge of the Disaster Management Committee and five students attended the National

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Certificate Training on Disaster Crisis Management organized by the All India Foundation for Peace and Disaster Management, New Delhi.

ECONOMICS SOCIETY - ‘ARTHGAURAVAM’

The students participated in ‘Economite 2016’, the Economics Symposium organized by Modern School, Vasant Vihar on 7th December 2016. Ayan Marwaha and Aman Agarwal jointly won the 1st Prize in Quiz, Ayushi Kapoor won the ‘Best Interjector’ title and Aatmik Gupta was adjudged the 2nd Best Speaker.

On 23rd January 2017, Aatmik Gupta, Ayushi Kapoor, Raghav Nath and Shreyan Puri participated in the Economics Summit – The Young Economist hosted by the Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. Our team secured the 1st Position among 65 participating schools across Asia. It is one of the most renowned undergraduate summits of economics held in India. Spread over two days, it consisted of fun-filled economics based events for participants. A variety of speakers presented their work in the field of economics.

Students of the Economics Society competed in Economics & Business Fest organized by Delhi Public School on 18th August 2017. The team consisting of Uday Goel, Parrv Jain, Mohd, Musa Khan, Raghav Gupta and Revant Aggarwal bagged the 1st Prize in the Product Launch activity whereas Aman Agarwal and Raghav Nath secured 1st Prize in the Business Quiz competition.

The Economics Society held various Intra-School activities during the year which included:

A talk on ‘Demonetization and its Impact on Indian Economy’ by Dr. Aruna Jha, Assistant Professor, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University on 14th December 2016.

Quiz on Economics held by Aatmik Gupta on 23rd December 2016

On 28th December 2016, a presentation on the topic ‘Will the U.S. Election Trump the Economy in 2017?’ was given by Shreyan Puri and the session was moderated by Aatmik Gupta and Ayushi Kapoor.

On 7th April 2017, Uday Goel gave a presentation on integration of the Railway Budget with the General Budget and how it was going to resolve the problems faced by Railway.

An interactive session was held on 19th April 2017 by Shreyan Puri, Uday Goel, Raghav Nath and Ayushi Kapoor for students of Classes S4 & S5 to introduce them to basic concepts of Economics to incite their interest in the subject.

Mrs Aruna Jha, Associate Professor, Shri Ram College of Commerce, delivered a talk on 28th April 2017 on ‘Goods & Services Tax’ (GST) and its impact on our daily life. Dr Jaswinder Singh, Principal, Khalsa College, also addressed our students on the subject.

A quiz on ‘Logos & Taglines’ was conducted by Raghav Nath and Uday Goel on 4th May 2017 and it was won by Agastya Chawla.

A talk on ‘Rationale of Taxes & its Role in Nation Building’ was given by Mr Purna Kam Singh (IRS), Assistant Commissioner, Service Tax, in school on 9th May 2017. It was an initiative of the Ministry of Finance to make the students aware of the utility of ‘Indirect Taxes’ to the country. He also elaborated on the Goods & Services Tax which has now replaced a plethora of indirect taxes, surcharges, cesses and is expected to perform in a lean & streamlined manner. Students interacted with him and asked question on service tax and advantages of GST over VAT.

A few more in-house sessions were held to keep students in touch with the latest economics related issues. Aatmik Gupta and Ayushi Kapoor gave presentations on ‘Brexit’ and ‘Donald Trump’s Impact on the Global Economy’ respectively.

ENVIRONMENT CLUB

Green Olympiad is an annual written examination on environment conducted by the The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). 40 students of classes from S3 to S5 participated in the Olympiad held on 22nd November 2016.

Tree Plantation as a part of CDLS 2016 – On 25th November 2016,

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members of the Environment Club helped the delegates of our International Summit on Community Development & Leadership, to plant saplings and leave mark of their presence in our school campus. Mr.Pramod Sharma, Principal-cum-Director, Genesis Global School, Noida was the Chief Guest on this occasion.

Cosmic 350 - On 29th November 2016, Ritika Jajoo and Shreyan Puri won the 2nd Prize while representing our school in the Environment Conclave organized by Sanskriti School, New Delhi, as a part of their event Cosmic 350. The participants had to present the original, innovative and practical solution to air pollution in Delhi, which they had to compile into a resolution later.

Signature Campaign – was carried out in school on 8th December 2016. Two empty banners with slogans ‘I pledge to plant a tree on my birthday’ and ‘I pledge to buy organic food for nature’s good’ were placed outside Sir Shankar Lal Hall and the Fast Trax canteen to spread environmental awareness amongst students. Both the banners were enthusiastically read by students and overwhelmingly signed by them as an oath to do so to protect the environment.

Eco-Friendly Holi- Students of the Environment Club campaigned for celebrating an environment-friendly Holi with organic colours and learnt how to make organic eco-friendly colours with easily available materials in their homes.

Earth Hour - The Environment Club propagated the WWF’s Initiative ‘Earth Hour’ and requested students, their parents and teachers through social networking sites to minimize their energy consumption for one hour from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. on 25th March 2017 to support of the Earth Hour.

Organic Composting with Microbes- An organic composting pit was set up in the school premises by the Environment Club on the 27th of March, 2017. The students enthusiastically started the process two weeks in advance. Dry leaves were collected and were broken down into many small pieces. The leaves along with powdered microbes (Lactobacillus) mixed with coco peat were then put in a 3 feet deep shallow pit. They

ensured regular grinding and watering of leaves everyday which was eventually mixed in soil with a garden fork to make proper compost. This initiative was featured on the Twitter handle of the Ministry of Urban Development under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Field Trip - The S6 and S7 students of the Environment Club, along with Mrs. Sonia Kapoor, visited the Paharpur Business Centre and Software Technology Incubation Park on the 29th of March, 2017. It is ranked as one of the greenest buildings in India and one of the healthiest offices in the Delhi NCR region in terms of air quality. The park is renowned for its status as a ‘Platinum-rated, LEED-certified Building’. Our students were introduced to the green features of the Centre, ranging from its 100% switchover to LED lights, installation of VFDs in its cooling towers, self-cleaning photovoltaic (PV) panels on its roof all supplemented by 4500 green plants installed at various strategic locations. Our students also had an interactive session with Mr. Kamal Meattle, Al Gore trained Climate Leader and a trustee of the Climate Reality India Project.

Members of the Environment Club conducted an educational seminar with students of SDMC Schools, Satbari, teaching them of many issues like air pollution and proper waste management. At the end of the workshop, the children took a pledge to ‘clean the environment and make this country a better place’. The students were also given notebooks made out of unused leftover papers of notebooks. The paper was collected from the students of our school and bound into fresh copies by the Environment Club.

Earth Day Celebrations - The theme for this year’s Earth Day celebration was ‘Waste Management and Cleanliness for Sustainable Living’. On 20th of April, 2017, a Special Assembly was conducted. Mr Ravi Singh, CEO and Secretary General of WWF India graced the occasion with his presence. The programme began with a short film on conservation of nature, highlighting the fact – ‘Nature doesn’t need us, we need nature.’ A Street Play on ‘Sanitation, Personal Hygiene and Cleanliness’ reflected how in our everyday demeanour, we pollute environment and how our casual ways and careless habits add to the problem. The students, through the act, conveyed a powerful message about the immense

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power of small individual acts and the need for socially responsible behaviour. A Musical, the highlight of the function, was poignant and mesmerizing since it was scripted, choreographed and performed by the students of the Environment Club on ‘The Five Elements of Nature’. The musical depicted the human burden on these elements by negative human actions.

In a series of Earth Day celebrations, a Tree Plantation exercise was taken up on 21st April 2017 in the Front Lawns by the Environment Club, in collaboration with Climate Reality India. Ms Mary Kay Carlson, Chargé d’Affairs and acting Ambassador, U.S. Embassy, New Delhi, graced the occasion with her presence. Assisted by the students of the Environment Club, the Chief Guest, the Principal and the Headmistresses planted saplings in the Front Lawn. Adulating the beauty and greenery of our school, Mrs Carlson interacted with the students and addressed them on global initiatives required for sustainable development. She, then, toured the school premises and appreciated the sustainable initiatives undertaken by the school.

Aishani Goel and Saushtav Roy participated in the ‘Reducing Carbon Footprint’ competition held at the Air Force School, Subroto Park and were declared Winners for their cost effective solar powered air filter. The battery operated device was designed to filter air of polluted cities clearing out PM 2.5 and PM 10. A solar panel was attached to the batteries to charge them.

On 30th April 2017, Arohi Aggarwal and Anjor Agarwal won the 3rd Prize in a colloquial on ‘Strategies for Sustainable Earth’ conducted by G.D. Goenka World School, Gurugram,to discuss simple & feasible strategies for careful preservation of the resources of the earth for future generations. Students deliberated at length to find out the existing global issues and consequential efforts made by the governments, international organizations, private bodies and people all over the world which have changed the attitude and practices towards rebuilding the environment.

FASHION TECHNOLOGY CLUB – ‘J’ADORE’

Fashion Technology Department organized a Fashion Show during school assembly on 27th April 2017. The team showcased a unique concept of ‘Khadi’ which was elegant and wearable and presented a gorgeous collection of garments. Mr Akash Das, an acclaimed Advertising & Fashion Photographer, was the Chief Guest of the show.

Tanvi Dass of Class S7 interned for two weeks with the ‘Elle’ magazine during summer vacation.

On 5th May 2017, a talk followed by a workshop on ‘Madhubani Art’ was conducted by Design Innovation Academy for the students of Fashion Technology of Classes S6 & S7.

Students of Fashion Technology visited Pearl Academy of Fashion on 26th September 2017 and attended a workshop on ‘T-Shirt Designing’.

The students of the Club participated in ‘Creative Competition’ held by the Pearl Academy on 11th October 2017. Mihika Sharma, Bhiphasha Bateja & Anisha Shukla jointly won the 1st Prize in the ‘Black & White’ event. Rohan Parmar got the 3rd Prize in ‘Report it Now’ event. Vedang Khera, Anishka Thakur & Rohan Parmar, together received the 3rd Prize for an activity titled ‘Creative Business’.

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‘FILMIT’ CLUB

‘FILMIT’ is a multi-cultural project funded by the Helen Hamlyn Trust, U.K. This project aims at nurturing cultural understanding, care and concern among school students through the exciting experience of making and sharing films. Our team comprising of Aditya Shiv Talwar, Ayushman Jalan, Dhruv Sharma, Gautam Goel and Smayan Marwah competed with 25 other schools of Delhi in the FILMIT Film Festival held at the India International Centre, New Delhi on 8th February 2017. The students received the ‘Best Green Film Award’ for their film titled ‘Banyan: Our Heritage’, which was screened at the Festival. Our films ‘Stepping Back’ received the ‘Best Direction Award’ and ‘Mylapur Diaries’ received the ‘Special Mention for Best Visuals’. Dhruv Sharma and Aditya Shiv Talwar were also applauded for their performance at the festival.

HISTORY SOCIETY

To mark the World Heritage Day, the History Department of our school organized a ‘Heritage Walk’ on 18th April 2017 at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, in collaboration with INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage). History students of Class S6 and S7 visited the museum complex, undertook a tour of the Stables & Garages Museums that

depicted the story of Rashtrapati Bhawan, life and work of the Presidents, history of the freedom movement and a plethora of portraits and marble busts of Viceroys and Vicerines. The highlight of the walk was the virtual reality experience of marching to Dandi behind a holographic image of the Mahatma Gandhi. The ride through the gardens of the Estate, the Pranab Mukherjee Library, the Clock Towers, the exquisite architecture, memorabilia of Dr APJ Kalam was a visual delight.

HINDI CLUB ‘AKSHARMANCH’

The Club organized an Inter-House Hindi Creative Writing Competition for students of Classes S4 & S5 in school on 3rd May 2017. Two students from each House participated in the competition. In Class S4, the 1st Prize was won by Aishwarya Aggarwal of Tagore House whereas Ashley Maheshwari of Azad House and Farheen Anwar of Ashoka House won the 2nd and the 3rd Prize respectively. Rijul Mahajan of Patel House stood 1st while Ruhanijot Kaur of Pratap Housel and Shiza Rehman of Ranjit House stood 2nd and 3rd respectively in Class S5.

INTERACT CLUB

The Rotary Club of Delhi selected Gunav Gujral as the Zonal Interact Representative (Z.I.R.) of the R.I. District 3011 for the year 2016-2017. Sharvi Goyal was selected the Interact Polio Coordinator (2016-2017)

“Take Food Waste Off The Menu” Campaign is an initiative of the Rotary Club to reduce food loss and waste along the entire chain of food production and consumption. The campaign targets food wasted by consumers, retailers and hospitality industry. Lack of technology & infrastructure is the main cause of food waste in India. To support this Campaign, the Interact Club of our school has developed a website that forms a partnership between the food banks and community service organizations to spread awareness about food wastage and channelize the process.

Student-members of the Club participated in the ‘Delhi Half-Marathon’ conducted by Airtel in association with Concern India Foundation.

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The members of the Interact Club visited SDMC Pratibha Vidyalaya, Defence Colony on 1st December 2016. It was an initiative to enlighten the students of the school and expose them to certain concepts and learnings in a play way method. Multiple activities such as Hand Washing, Tree Plantation, Food Bank, Nukkad Natak etc. were carried out in an endeavour to make them understand the importance of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan,

Members of Interact Club collected and donated a sum of Rs.10,000/- to the Rajya Sainik Board, Delhi towards the Armed Forces Flag Day Donation Campaign in December 2016.

The Interact Club helped in the Annual Painting Competition conducted on 23rd December 2016 in school by the Hargopal Sports, Culture and Social Welfare Society. The Club also supported the ‘Distribution of Woolen Clothes Drive’ by donating sweater and blankets for the underprivileged.

Thalassemia Major is a deadly genetic blood disorder, in which the body makes abnormal form of haemoglobin, causing excessive destruction of red blood cells, leading to severe anaemia. The statistics state that approximately ten thousand babies are born with Thalassemia Major in India every year. In an attempt to eradicate this disease from the root, intense awareness needs to be created amongst youngsters to encourage them to have their medical tests done before their marriage. The Interact Club organized a talk by Dr Tejinder Singh on 2nd February 2017 to create awareness about this disorder among our students.

On 5th February 2017, a group of Interact Club members and the teachers in-charge, attended a talk on ‘Reviving Indian Values in Contemporary India’ delivered by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at the Talkatora Stadium. The emphasis of his talk was on the importance of oneness of humanity, love, trust, compassion, humility, sustaining relationships and the role of education in inculcating these values.

Namya Mangalani, a student member of the Interact Club, won the 1st Prize out of 3000 entries in the National Level Essay Writing competition conducted by the India National Polio Plus Committee on 1st April 2017,

which aimed at finding practical solutions to overcome the problems of sustaining a position of a Polio-Free Nation.

The Interact Club of our school not only believes in serving the community but is also contributing towards the well-being of the environment. In order to support the Directorate of Education’s drive towards a greener Delhi, students of the Interact Club planted over 80 oxygen enriching species like Papaya, Moulsari, Ficus, Money Plant, Mango, Tulsi etc. of indigenous trees on the occasion of World Health Day on 7th April 2017.

Orientation Programmes were conducted to sensitize children towards less privileged, physically challenged and old age people. On 8th May 2017, members of our Interact Club visited Cheshire Home, Ozanam Old Age Home, Blind School and Palna -Children’s Home and also took small gifts for them.

Students of Interact Club took a step forward to aid the steps of those who walk bare foot in the scorching heat. On 12th May 2017, they conducted a ‘Shoe Drive’ and distributed footwear collected by them over a few weeks to the under privileged fellow beings.

The student-members of our Interact Club collected grocery and stationery items in huge quantities and donated them to the Delhi Council for Child Welfare through Rotary Club of Delhi Rendezvous, in the month of May 2017.

The ‘Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards’ by the DLF Pramerica Life Insurance Co. is an extension of the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, the largest youth recognition programme in the United States, exclusively for voluntary community service

This award programme was introduced in India in 2010 to the students from class 6th to 12th with the objective to encourage community service and become role models for all young Indians. This year, out of 16 students who were finalists in the ‘individual category’, three students were awarded the Silver Medals and two were awarded the Bronze Medals for being the top student volunteers in the country. The students who won the Silver Medals are Gunav Gujral, Resham Chawla

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and Aditya Dubey and those who won the Bronze Medals are Armaan Aggarwal and Siddharth Garg.

The Rotary International presents the Rotary Governor’s Award to member schools for their dedication & valuable contribution. This year, the Rotary District 3011 conferred the Outstanding Interact Club Award to our school for its exemplary work. Our Project, ‘Badi for Children’ that aimed teaching underprivileged children the game of badminton & instill in them the value of sportsmanship, was adjudged the ‘Best Project’. These young sportspersons also qualified for the All India Nationals.

Akshun Garg and Raghavendra Gupta of our school have been chosen to be a part of the Rotary International District 3011 Interact Leadership Team for the year 2017-20 and have been assigned the role of the Zonal Interact Representatives.

Tanushi Jain of our school attended an Internship Programme as a ‘Resource Mobilization Intern’ from 5th June to 14th July 2017 at the SOS Children’s Village, India. The internship included training in activities like fundraising, sponsorship, participation in corporate campaigns, resident welfare association shows and shopping mall events to raise funds and spread word about work done by the organization.

On 1st July 2017, the Interact Club of our school was honoured with the ‘Governor’s Award for Excellence’ by the Rotary International District 3011 for extending exemplary support towards ‘Rotary Serving Humanity’.

Gunav Gujral, a student-member of our Interact Club, was awarded the ‘Governor’s Excellence Award’ for being the ‘Best Interactor’ and the ‘Zonal Interact Representative’ of the Rotary International District 3011 for the year 2016-2017.

Kripa Alag, an Interactor of our school, was awarded with the ‘Best Interact Project Award’ for her Project ‘#Badi4Children’. Her initiative involved promotion of sports for underprivileged children from 8 to 10 years of age. She trained a few underprivileged children in Badminton who later participated in the Zonal and State level championships. Two of them attained positions and qualified for the All India Nationals.

On 20th July 2017, members of our Interact Club - Rhea Singh, Diya Goel, Ayesha Singh and Rayan Sharma, attended an interactive session and a guided tour, along with students of other schools, which was conducted by the officials of Goonj, an NGO to sensitize students about the people belonging to the under privileged section of the society. The students were shown the NGO’s working process e.g. collection of clothes, book, toys etc., making of sanitary napkins for women in rural areas & spreading awareness about menstruation, creating new goods for their basic needs, making of kits and distribution of these kits/things to the poor and needy.

The Interact Club of our school has always been involved in activities which benefit the underprivileged sections of the society, especially the children. On 24th July 2017, the Club launched a ‘Toys for All’ Campaign and the students of our school generously contributed for the cause by collecting toys from their neighbourhood, giving their own toys & board games and some of them even purchased and gave unused/new toys. Over 1000 toys were collected and distributed to the underprivileged children to fulfill their distant dream.

A few student-members of our Interact Club are participating in the competitive initiative ‘Behtar India’ launched by the NDTV and DFHL Pramerica Life Insurance, which aims to mobilize students and corporates to join this nationwide movement which focuses on the Health, Hygiene and Environment. All the contestants have to work for Behtar Swasthya, Behta Swachchhta and Behtar Vatavaran over a period of six months. In the first stage of the competition, members of the Interact Club spread awareness about mosquito-borne diseases and successfully raised over Rs.7 lakh, making our school secure the first position so far. The funds are being collected digitally through a website link at Charity India Foundation which was provided by the NDTV. Our students - Aditya Dubey, Aradhya Munjal and Kavya Gupta are participating individually and are currently among the top 5 in the Northern region. Students met the celebrities - Ranbir Kapoor, the Brand Ambassador of Behtar India, and Katrina Kaif who motivated them to put their best effort for this noble cause. Twenty students of our school participated in the Behtar India Students’ Conclave held at Modern School, Vasant Vihar on 4th August

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2017. It was an interactive session between the students and the panel of eminent personalities including Sushant Singh Rajput. Our school is preparing to participate in the second and the third stage of the ‘Behtar India’ Campaign too.

Ushering a new trend, the Rotary District 3011, for the first time, conducted a District Interact Training Seminar (DITS), prior to the District Interact Legislative Assembly (DILA), on 24th August 2017 at the Rotary Habitat Centre, Saket. Rotary Club District (RCD) Midwest along with RCD South East and RCD Restoring Smiles supported to promote this new generation leadership initiative – the District Interact Training Seminar, which was attended by over 150 participants. Nilangini Bansal, Raghavendra and Akshun Garg together with Mrs Meera Malhotra, our Teacher In-charge of the Interact Club participated in this training seminar.

The School’s Interact Club Team, comprising of Manya Bansal and Avantika Singh, was adjudged the ‘Best Team’ and was awarded a cash award of Rs. 20,000/- in the Annual Inter-School Debate competition conducted by the Rotary International District 3011 on 3rd August 2017. Manya Bansal was declared the ‘Best Speaker’ and was awarded an individual cash prize of Rs. 10,000/-.

INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (INDIA)

There are 168 entrants working for the Award at different levels. Since November 2016, 18 students have been working for the ‘Bronze’ level, 2 for the ‘Silver’ level and 5 for the ‘Gold’ level for the IAYP Programme. This year, 3 students have achieved the ‘Bronze’ level.

Members of IAYP went for an adventure trip to Peach Valley Camps, Rajgarh, H.P. from 25th to 28th March 2017 along with their teachers. During the camp, they carried out various activities such as trekking, rock climbing, rappelling, river crossing, flying fox etc, for self-discovery & exploration.

KIDS FOR TIGERS CLUB

Over seventy students of the school participated in the ‘Kids for Tigers Festival’ on the theme ‘Back to Nature’ organized by Salwan Public School, Pusa Road, New Delhi on 24th January 2017. They took part in various activities like – face painting, rangoli, fancy dress, nukkad natak, poster making, jingle, art from waste etc. Each school had to set up their stall, on the basis of the sanctuary of India chosen by them. Our student, Rhea Varma - the’ Kids for Tigers Ambassador’ of Delhi, had visited Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagpur, so the school chose this sanctuary for decorating their stall. Kamakshi Gupta, Ira Arawal, Tanvi Gupta & Maira Aggarwal together won the 1st Prize in Rangoli Making.

Four students and the Teacher In-charge attended a workshop on 4th July 2017 organized by the Kids for Tigers Club organization.

Global Tiger Day is celebrated on 29th July every year to raise awareness for tiger conservation. On 29th July 2017, our school held a ‘Tiger Rally’, in association with the National Tiger Authority of India, World Wildlife Fund and Kids for Tigers, to mark the Global Tigers’ Day this year. The Tiger Rally was attended by the students, teachers, Principal and many eminent environmentalists. An audio-video presentation was shown to the students by Mr Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary Magazine and Founder of the ‘Kids for Tigers’.

LEGAL STUDIES DEPARTMENTTo enable students to get practical experience, the Legal Studies department arranged various interactive sessions and field visits for them.

On 18th April 2017, the students of Legal Studies of Class S7 visited the Patiala House District Court Complex, which consists of 32 Courts, Delhi Legal Services Authorities Offices, a Lock-up Building and various branches & lawyers chambers. The students visited the various courts within the complex such as – Family Court, Criminal Court, Civil Court, Meditation Rooms and observed daily proceedings taking place. They interacted with the District Judge, Additional Sessions Judge, Metropolitan Magistrate and senior Civil Judges.

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Justice Sidharth Sharma, Additional District and Sessions Judge, Patiala House Court, interacted with the students of Legal Studies on 3rd May 2017, as a part of their Legal Literacy Campaign to raise awareness about the legal rights of the citizens and child protection laws. Students asked him about topical cases, current laws & their nuances.

On 11th May 2017, Ms Rachna Bakhru, a partner of Ranjan Narula Associates, was invited.She showed a presentation to students about various counterfeit products and educated them on ways to differentiate between the original and counterfeit products.

‘MODEL UNITED NATIONS’ SOCIETY

MUN Society Training Programme - MUN is a multi-faceted activity which provides a platform to students to explore issues of global concern. The MUN deliberation help in their multi-dimensional growth in terms of their public speaking skills, self-confidence and analytical skills. The MUN society conducted a 3 stage Comprehensive Training Programme for the students of S4 and S5 in the month of May 2017. 1st Stage consisted of ‘Selection through Group Discussion and Interview’, 2nd Stage involved MUN Training on 9th & 10th May 2017 to train 120 students in MUN procedures/technicalities and preparatory meetings on 18th May and 22 May 2017 for Mock MUN. 3rd Stage had Mock MUN session for students of S4 and S5 on 23 May and 24 of May 2017, simulating the two committees - (a) United Nations General Assembly on ‘Nuclear Disarmament with special emphasis on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’ in which 70 students of S4 participated (b) United Nations Human Rights Council on ‘Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts with special emphasis on the Middle East’ was witnessed by 42 students of S5.

Our students participate in the Model United Nations Conferences (MUNs) organized by several schools/institutions within India and abroad. Their performances have been bringing laurels to school and the recent winnings are reported below:

Dates Names of the Event/ Organizers

Names of the Stu-dents with their Roles

Result/Position

4 – 6Nov.2016

MUN 2016 at Lotus Valley School

Raunak Rai Maini and Arjun Khan-chandani

1st High Commendation

11-13Nov.2016

Consilium MUN at Millenium School, Noida

Ananya Dewan andSidhant Mohanty Rayaan Singh

Best DelegateHigh CommendationEditor in Chief

11–13Nov.2016

Heritage MUN at Heri-tage School

Rishabh Raheja Best Delegate

18-20Nov.2016

‘MRMUN 2016’ at Manav Rachna International School

Agastya ChawlaSaiyam HotaSuchet Kumar MarwahRushali JainSiddhanth SethPuru Sharma & Rajat RoyNavidha JainModern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi

Special MentionHigh CommendationHigh CommendationSpecial MentionSpecial MentionVerbal MentionHigh Commendation

Best Delegation

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Result/Position

19-21Nov.2016

‘AIMUN 2016’ at Amity Inter-national School

Ritvik VasudevaAbhinav Aggarwal and Manya BansalHiya GuptaKartikay AggarwalDevank AgarwalPranjal Dangwal

Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi

High CommendationBest Delegates

High CommendationBest DelegateBest DelegateSpecial Mention

Best Delegation

26-28Dec.2016

‘TAFSMUN 2016’ at The Air Force School, New Delhi

Abhinav AggarwalSidhant Kapoor

High CommendationHigh Commendation

14 – 15 Jan.2017

‘Discernment Summit’ held in NOIDA

Raunak Rai Maini Special Mention

26 - 29Jan. 2017

Stephens MUN Conference held at St. Ste-phens’ College,Delhi

Pranjal DangwalHiya GuptaKaartikay Aggarwal Raunak Rai MainiSidhant KapoorPuru SharmaRayaan SinghUdhhav Handa

High CommendationHigh CommendationHigh CommendationHigh CommendationSpecial MentionVerbal MentionBest ReporterSpecial Mention in Photography

8 – 9 April2017

‘Youth Confer-ence’ at Amity Law School

Kaartikay Aggarwal Sidhant KapoorHarsh Beri

Vice-ChairmanSpecial MentionVerbal Mention

8 – 9 April2017

‘Crown MUN’ at Technia Institute of Ad-vanced Studies

Ananya DewanRaunak Rai Maini

Verbal MentionSpecial Mention



Result/Position

27–29 April 2017

‘VISMUN’ at Venkatesh- war International School

Ananya Dewan Special Mention

27–29 April 2017

‘Sanskriti MUN’ at Sanskriti School

Harsh Beri Karina ChawlaSuchet Marwah Siddharth Garg

Outstanding DelegateVerbal MentionVerbal MentionVerbal Mention

28– 29 April 2017

‘RISMUN’ at Ryan International School

Shaurya Veer Suda Aryann Mobin Devina Aggarwa Shrey Goyal Ritvik Vasudeva Nitya Jain Swayam Bhatia Rayaan Singh

Best DelegateBest DelegateBest DelegateHigh CommendationSpecial MentionSpecial MentionVice-ChairmanEditor-in-Chief

1 – 4 June 2017

‘La Martiniere MUN’ at La Martiniere Girls’ College, Luc-know

Rushat Chopra Adhokshya Malhotra Harsh Beri Suchet Kumar Devina Aggarwal Karina Chawla Devank AgarwalRayaan Singh Sidhant Kapoor Pranav Bansal


Best DelegateHigh CommendationBest DelegateSpecial MentionHigh CommendationSpecial MentionHigh CommendationBest DelegateBest DelegateBest Delegate

Best Delegation

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Result/Position

11 – 12July 2017

DPSSL-MUN 2017 held at Delhi Public School, Su-shant Lok,Gurgaon

Sidhant Kapoor, Nitya JainRitvik VasudevaKaartikay AggarwalSiddhant Seth

High CommendationSpecial MentionBest DelegateVerbal Mention

14 – 16 July 2017

KRMUN-2017 held at K.R.Mangalam School

Siddharth GargSaiyam HotaShivang SoniHarsh BeriKarina Chawla, AnanyaDewanNaman KumarSayan Bajaj

Best DelegateHigh Commendation High CommendationSpecial MentionSpecial MentionSpecial MentionSpecial Mention

18 – 19 July 2017

VIVMUN-2017 held at St. Vivekanand School

Sayan BajajGayathri SehgalAnanyaShivang SoniShruti KanodiaDronitt AroraAryan BhatiaVrinda BahlEshaan MinochaAryan DhingraNikita Sawhney

High CommendationHigh CommendationHigh CommendationSpecial MentionHigh CommendationHonourable MentionHigh CommendationSpecial MentionBest First TimerHigh CommendationHonourable Mention

28 – 30July 2017

WelMUN-2017 held at Welham Boys’ School,Dehradun

Siddharth GargAgastya ChawlaSuchet MarwahRaunak Rai MainiHarsh BeriAnanya DewanKarina ChawlaSiddhant Seth

Best Delegate High CommendationHigh CommendationHigh CommendationSpecial MentionSpecial MentionSpecial MentionVerbal Mention



Result/Position

29 – 30 July 2017

TISMUN-2017 held at Tagore Interna-tional School

Pranjal DangwalSidhant KapoorVrinda BahlRitvik VasudevaAbhinav AggarwalManya Ban-sal,Devina Aggar-walPranav GuptaRushil Gera

High CommendationHigh CommendationSpecial MentionHigh CommendationHigh CommendationHigh CommendationHigh CommendationBest Delegate

16 – 18August2017

MUNQS MUN-2017held at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road

Aryaman SoodShrey GoyalSidhant KapoorSiddharth GargHarsh BeriSayan BajajDevina AggarwalRitvik Vasudeva

Best DelegateBest DelegateHigh CommendationHigh CommendationVerbal MentionVerbal MentionVerbal MentionVerbal Mention

18 - 21 August2017

CMUN-2017 held at Cathe-dral and John Canon High School, Mumba

Shreyan PuriAatmik GuptaDevank AgarwalAmbika PandeyShaurya Veer SudaRayaan SinghManya BansalAbhinav Aggarwal


Best DelegateBest DelegateOutstanding DelegateOutstanding DelegateHonourable MentionHonourable MentionVerbal MentionVerbal Mention

First Outstanding Delegation

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Result/Position

26 – 28 August2017

PMUN-2017 held at Presidi-um School

Adhokshaya Mal-hotraKushagra DashRaunak Rai MainiNaman KumarVinayak BansalRushat ChopraSuhani JainNavya GirdharPrisha GoyalShivang SoniShruti KanodiaSatyajit LalAgastya Chawla


High CommendationBest Delegate (Rs.1500/-)Best Delegate (Rs.1500/-)Best Delegate (Rs.1500/-)Best Delegate (Rs.1500/-)High CommendationHigh CommendationBest Delegate (Rs.5000/-)Special MentionBest Delegate (Rs.5000/-)Special MentionHigh CommendationSpecial Mention

Outstanding Delegation

28 – 30 Sept. 2017

‘IPSCMUN’ held at Daly College, Indore

Raunak MainiShivang SoniPranjal DangwalAbhinav AggarwalSiddharth GargHarsh BeriDevank AgarwalRushat ChopraHiya Gupta

Special MentionVerbal Mention1st High CommendationHigh CommendationVerbal MentionBest DelegateHigh CommendationBest DelegateVerbal Mention

A few students of our school participated on their own in the Model United Nations Conferences organized by various schools/institutions and won the titles. Details of the same are given below:


Names of the Students with their Roles

Result/Position

22 – 23 April 2017

‘OEURE MUN’ held at Bharti Vidya Peeth College of EngineeringDelhi

Aaryan Dhingra Special Mention

26 – 28 May2017

‘CROYANCE MUN’ at Kalka Public School, New Delhi

Aaryan Dhingra Verbal Mention

28 – 30July2017

‘SBS MUN’ at Step by Step School, Noida

Amulya Gupta 1st High Commendation

4 – 6 Aug.2017

‘Birla MUN’ at Birla Vidya Niketan, Pushp Vihar, New Dlhi

Navya GirdharRushat ChopraKaran Anand

Special MentionVerbal MentionSpecial Mention

4 – 6 Aug.2017

‘SHIS MUN’ at Scottish High International School, Gurgaon

Suhani JainDronitt Arora

Special MentionSpecial Mention

4 – 6 Aug.2017

‘GDG MUN’ at G.D.Goenka School, Model Town, Delhi

Navidha Jain 1st Special Mention

5 – 6 Aug.2017

‘Mayoor MUN’ at Mayoor School, Noida

Pragya Tandon 1st High Commendation

18 – 19Aug.2017

‘Salwan MUN’ at Salwan Public School, Mayur Vihar, Delh

Daiwik Aggarwal Special Mention

19 – 20Aug.2017

‘The Delhi MUN’ organized by Delhi University

Aaryan DhingraArjun Khanchandani

Verbal MentionSpecial Mention

25 – 27Aug.2017

‘Presidium MUN’ at Presidium School, Gurgaon

Ishani Watsala -1st High Commendation -Best Position Paper

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Names of the Students with their Roles

Result/Position

6 – 8 Oct.2017

‘7th ModMUN’ at Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi

Tej Meghraj Parwani

Verbal Mention

Mod Mun-2017 - From 6th to 8th October 2017, Modern School organized its seventh edition of the Modern School Model United Nations Conference. The ModMUN-2017 witnessed participation of over 760 students and teachers (including students of our own school) from 36 schools from Delhi-NCR. Ms Navika Kumar, Managing Editor of Times Now, graced the Inaugural Ceremony as the Chief Guest and addressed the delegates. ‘Mod-MUN 2017’ and Mr Rajiv Chandran, National Information Officer, United Nations Information Centre, New Delhi was the Guest of Honour. The Conference simulated twelve committees viz. The General Assembly – Plenary Session (Double Delegation), Preparatory Commission for the CTBTO (1996), The United Nations Economic Commission on Africa, The United Nations Trusteeship Council (Double Delegation), The United Nations Human Rights Council, International Maritime Organization, United Nations Security Council, Congress of Vienna (1814), National Integration Council (1989), Military Intelligence, Section 5, International Court of Justice (Double Delegation), Press Corps. The conference encompassed a whirlwind of debate, discussion & discourse and compelled the delegates to contemplate on pressing issues, come up with ideas & their own perceptions about various agendas, while keeping in mind the human side of debating which culminated in resolutions furnished with solutions. The conference indubitably led to each delegate in attendance leaving better informed than he/she had arrived.

MATHEMATICS ACTIVITY HUB

• Middle School students participated in the ‘Online Maths Challenge’ conducted by MANGAHIGH, an international mathematics resources portal, from 17th to 27th October 2016. Students were assigned

fun-filled maths challenges like games, quizzes etc. according to their age. Out of fifty schools, our school secured the 6th position. Students with 150 or more medal points were awarded Gold Medals & Certificates. Forty-one students of our school received the Gold Medals and the top five scorers were – Aryan Shiv Talwar - 808 medal points, Shiven Grover – 795 medal points, Jai Gupta – 785 medal points, Dev Shukla – 717 medal points and Rishi Banerji – 637 medal points.

• Maths Activity Hub believes in cultivating interest in mathematics by going beyond textbooks and formal text book learning. With this aim, interesting activities were held for mathematicians of Classes S4 & S5 on 29th July 2017. The mind boggling Ramanujan Magic Square was the topic of discussion and a simple solution to the classic ‘Handshake Problem’ was also explained.

• Shashank Ramesh received the 2nd Prize in the ‘Crossword’ organized by AXIOM, the Mathematics Club of Delhi Public School, Dwarka on 24th& 25th October 2017.

MUSIC SOCIETY ‘SAPTAK’

The students of the Vocal Music Society of our school were awarded a ‘Special Mention Prize’ for their melodious choir performance at the St. Thomas’ Girls’ Senior Secondary School, New Delhi on 25th July 2017.

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NATURE CLUB

• The Nature Club conducted its first activity of preparing for the Vermicomposting Pit on 17th February 2017. Vermicomposting is the product of the composting process using different species of worms, generally red wigglers, white worms and other earth worms to generate heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetable and food waste, bedding material.

• On 13th April 2017, the Principal and the Nature Club Teacher In charge along with the members of the Club visited the pit to see the compost formed until then and observed that the compost would be ready by mid of May 2017. Dried leaves were added along with red worms to make the manure. They also noticed that worms had multiplied and formation of vermicomposting had already begun.

• To mark the World Environment Day, a ‘Nature Walk’ was organized in school on 5th June 2017, followed by a ‘Bird Watching’ activity conducted by Ms Abha Batra, a nature enthusiast.

• The Club has undertaken the activity of labelling the trees of the school campus, with common names and botanical names, which was carried out in school by the members of the Club on 10th July 2017.

PAINTING CLUB– ‘KRITI’

The students of the Club won prizes in various art and painting competitions that are listed below:


Names of the Students

Prize/Position

Oct.2016

Creative Art EducationNavi Mumbai

Vrinda Singhal Painting - Gold Medal

Oct.2016

Camel Art Vrinda Singhal Painting - 1st Prize

22 Oct.2016

Raghuvansham School of Modern Art, Delhi

Vrinda Singhal Best out of Waste – 1st Prize

Nov.2016

‘Camlin’ Raghuvansham Group of Institutions

Vrinda Singhal Student of the Year AwardPainting - 1st PrizeBest out of Waste – 1st Prize

Nov. 2016

Kirpal Guru Singh On-the Spot Painting Competition

Eshita Jain Painting - Consolation

16 Nov.2016

‘Mosaic’ Art Competition atHappy School, Delhi

Girija JhalaniEshita JainAnanya Khanna

Painting - 1st PrizePainting - 2nd PrizePainting - Consolation

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Prize/Position

Nov.2016

Camlin Art Competition Cat. 5th & 6th

Mitali GoelRushil BadhwarTashi BansalVanya GoelDeepanshi Dhiman

Cat. 7th, 8th& 9th

Riza AzamFarhan B.AhmedChandani GaneriwalaAathiya BansalSabaa Oberoi

Cat. 10th, 11th & 12th

Raunak S. Rana & Harsheen VohraSanna Singh Yashna Bahri

1st Prize2nd Prize3rd PrizeConsolation PrizeConsolation Prize

1st Prize2nd Prize3rd PrizeConsolation PrizeConsolation Prize

1st Prize

2nd Prize3rd Prize

Dec.2016

Bangiya Sangeet Parishad

Eshita Jain 98% in Ankan Shree Award

Dec.2016

Kidsinnovation OnlinePainting Competition

Vrinda Singhal Painting - 1st Prize

Dec.2016

Creative Art Competition

Vrinda Singhal Painting - Gold Medal

4 Dec,2016

On-the-Sport Painting Competition at Tifli International Theatre Festival

Eshita Jain Painting – 2nd Prize

16 Dec.2016

Delhi Public School, Mathura Road

Eshita Jain Yashna Bahri

Painting – 2nd PrizePainting – Consolation



Prize/Position

18 Dec.2016

Sneh International SchoolOn-the-Spot Painting Competition

Eshita Jain Painting – 3rd Prize

3 April 2017

Painting Competition on theme ‘Swachchh Bharat’ at Treesha Desire (NGO)

Vrinda Singhal 1st Prize

3April 2017

Poster Making Competition on theme ‘Say No to Tobacco’ at Navy Children School

Eshita Jain 1st Prize

7 April2017

Art Competition at Vardhaman Shiksha Mandir Senior Secondary School

Vanya GoelFarhan Bakht AhmedViyash Aradhita Maheshwari

1st Prize2nd Prize3rd PrizeConsolation Prize

25 April2017

Annual Art Olympiad on theme ‘Small Hands Big Heart’ at Navy Children School

Vrinda Singhal 1st Prize with cash award - Rs.2,000/-

26 April 2017

Art Conclave on theme ‘Rangoli for Sustainable Development’

Harsheen Vohra &Sheen Magazine

Eshita Jain &Samragi

1st Prize

2nd Prize

27 July2017

‘Hunar’ Art Competition at the Modern School, Faribadad

Farhan B. Ahmed

1st Prize

30 July2017

Children’s Art Contest at India Habitat Centre


9 Aug.2017

Art Competition by India Book of Records

Vrinda Singhal Multi-Talented Personality–Female Award

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• The students participated in an art exhibition titled ‘Fluid Borders’ organized by the British School, New Delhi. The exhibition aimed at celebrating the expression of music through art. Our budding artists put a lot of effort into their pieces and produced stunning works of art depicting harmony on the canvas. Our painting was truly a diverse

display of artistic genres, culture and skills.

• On 28th January 2017, the Kriti Club took initiative to revive a dying Indian art form and transformed the Banyan Tree area into a workshop-cum-open air gallery, exhibiting the finest of the Cheriyal folk-art of Telengana. Alongwith their instructors, the underprivileged students skilled in Cheriyal Art joined our students to celebrate this art form. Students were introduced to the characteristics of the Cheriyal Art. Our students then created their own art work with the help of the under-privileged children. It was a one-to-one exercise which gave students an opportunity to share their life styles and develop respect for each other.

• On 11th April 2017, the artists from ‘Camlin’ conducted a workshop for our students through interactive demonstration. They taught them new techniques to use oil paints, pastels, gel crayons and washable crayons to create graffiti, which would help them work faster in competition and examinations where time limit is set.

• The students participated in the ‘Art Marathon’ organized by Vasant Valley School, on 12th& 13th April 2017. Tanisha Jain, Raunak Singh and Yashna Bahri, in collaboration with other students, created a brick wall into a street art piece. Aradhita Maheshwari, Harsheen Vohra and Kamya took part in the visual collage workshop and collaborated with others to make the Big Picture. Kush Bhatija was selected as the hero of the movie they made on Zombiland.

• As a field trip, students of Painting visited the annual exhibition of the Delhi College of Art on 18th April 2017 to view the work of their alumni and understand their future in this field.

• On 29th April 2017, students of Kriti Club participated in a painting workshop based on the great artists S.H. Raza. They were taught to re-create pieces in his distinct style from Raza’s ‘Purusha’ and ‘Prakriti’ series.

• Tanisha Jain exhibited her paintings in the Solo Art Exhibition put up by Luxe Point India from 14th to 16th July 2017 at Alliance Francaise,



Prize/Position

14 Aug.2017

Art Competition by Student’s Development Society, Aurangabad

Vrinda Singhal Gold Medal

18 Aug.2017

Painting Competition byInnovative Kids Arts

Vrinda Singhal 2nd Prize

28 Aug.2017

Art Contest by Sanskriti Vrinda Singhal Special Jury Award

30 Aug.2017

Art Competition by Sri Dharshini, Kalaikoodam

Vrinda Singhal ‘Shri Abdul Kalam Best Presentation Award’

Aug. 2017

‘My Dream Art Room’ Art Competition at Modern School by Camlin

Farhan B. Ahmed

1st Prize – Zonal Level

22 Sept.2017

Painting Competition at Lalit Kala Academy, East of Kailash


2 Oct.2017

Art Competition by Natraj Art International

Vrinda Singhal Natraj Delhi Ratna Award for being a multi-talented personality

2 Oct.2017

Art Competition by Golden Book of World Records

Vrinda Singhal Youngest Individual Award to win most prizes in art & culture

3 Oct.2017

Drawing Competition at Lalit Kala Academy

Vrinda Singhal 1st Prize

23 Oct.2017

‘Artisin’ Canvas PaintingCompetition at Alliance Francaise, New Delhi

Sohan Bhandari 3rd Prize

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New Delhi.

• On 2nd August 2017, students of the Club organized a workshop on the ‘Aesthetics of Visual Arts’ under guidance of the Indian Institute for Design and Kingston University.

• On 31st August 2017, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) held a workshop on Portfolio Making for our students.

PROJECT CITIZEN CLUB

Project Citizen is a programme which promotes active citizenship under the aegis of Centre of Civic Education, California. Every year, the Project Citizen Club of the school undertakes a project on a matter of civil concern to promote pro-active citizenship among young students. This year, sixteen students of Classes S5 & S6 volunteered to work on the project titled ‘Child Rights’. Several activities were conducted as a part of the action plan of the Project. Various activities like poster making, street plays, signature campaign, making a ‘petition’ on the social media, interviewing children of various NGOs & people from different strata of the society, were held to spread awareness about the subject amongst students. The project ‘Child Rights’ was showcased during the National Project Showcasing Function held on 28th October 2017 at Ramjas School, R.K. Puram.

PAPER TECHNOLOGY

The Paper Technology Department conducted workshops for the Art teachers of the Blue Bells International School, New Delhi on 12th June 2017 and 8th July 2017. Six teachers and three attendants attended the workshop. The activities including – how to recycle paper, pulp making, hand-made paper making, pressing, calendaring, paper cutting, paper decorating, marbling& starching, paper mache, stencil cutting, making of paper products like paper bags, picture frames, file covers, paper basket etc.

PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB - ‘LENSCRAFT’

• Karteek Uppal won the First Prize in the Photography competition

organized by Genesis Global School, Noida on 28th July 2017.

• Riya Jindal displayed the photographs taken by her in the ‘Art for All Photography Exhibition’ put up by YAFA at Creative Art Studio, Greater Kailash, New Delhi from 27th August 2017 to 3rd September 2017.

PHYSICS CLUB ‘ILLUMINATI’

• A ‘Physics Gallery’ is on display on the walls, outside the Physics Lab in the Middle School. The idea behind this is to generate interest of students in science, using non-conventional ways based on logic and interpretation of theories. Some interactive exhibits and innovative toys have been made by students using waste material and put up on display to illustrate concepts of their Science text books. These exhibits include - Illustration Discs, a Tangram, a thirsty duck drinking water on its own through a mechanism, demonstration for different liquids, transfer of momentum, small replica of a rocket, pressure balloon, mirror image etc. Students who created these wonderful visual outputs are - Dronn Arora, Idhita Arya, Iwanka Arya, Kavya Goel, Nirnay Jain, Varun, Divyam, Muskan, Disha and Abhigyaan.

• On 5th May 2017, two students of our school, along with students of other schools, attended a workshop titled ‘World in a Pocket’ facilitated by Anveshika. The resource persons were the alumni of Stanford University, USA, who had developed ‘Foldscope’, an optical microscope, costing less than a dollar, by using simple components like a punched sheet of water-proof paper, spherical glass lens, magnets and a smartphone to take picture of the magnifications. Foldscope was developed as a part of their ‘Frugal Science Movement’ which aims to make cheap & easy tools for scientific use. Our students also made their own low cost spherical lens made up of water filled round bottom flask for magnification and built slides to observe surrounding environment microscopically.

• Illuminati’ hosted its 8th Biennial Interschool Physics Symposium ‘Cyclotron 2017’ on 12th May 2017. Over 700 students from 50 schools of Delhi and NCR participated in numerous events viz. (i)

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‘Battle of the Brains’ to test their quizzing skills (ii) ‘Rube Goldberg Mechanics’ to assess their creative skills (iii) ‘The Sound of Silence’ to judge their creativity by models of anechoic chambers such as vacuum chambers or dome shaped chambers made by them incorporating different acoustic elements in them (iv) ‘Be the Change’ to see their computer expertise and team work through on-the-spot presentation making ability (v) ‘Mechatronics Battle Arena’ tested their innovative and logical ability through intelligent, agile & obstacle defying robots made by them (vi) ‘Surprise Event’ included attempting crosswords, solving puzzles participating in the Treasure Hunt. Dr Anurag Sharma, Head of Physics Department of I.I.T. Delhi was the Chief Guest of the event.

• On 4th August 2017, 24 students escorted by Mr Manoj Kumar, a teacher of Physics, attended a workshop jointly organized by the Ashoka University and Life Lab Foundation at NCUI Auditorium, New Delhi. Dr Mick Storr, a scientist from C.E.R.N. - delivered a talk on ‘GOD Particle,’ existence of which is fundamental to the creation of the universe. It was followed by a talk by Dr Archana Sharma on a gateway to science, technology and innovation. It was a great learning experience where students were given first-hand information on the experiments carried out by the scientists at C.E.R.N.

PEER MENTORING SOCIETY

• Peer-Mentoring is an activity in which senior students connect with their juniors, listen to their problems, guide them and help them find solutions as they tend to open up better and more comfortably with their friends and peers. It is a way of making sure that the younger students do not lose their path and live stress-free lives. Trained by the psychologists from the Dept. of Mental Health & Behavioural Sciences, Fortis Hospital, the members of the society conducted sessions for students of various classes

• A session on Anger Management was conducted for the students of S2 on 20th January 2017 by the students of S6. The presentation dealt with the issues of stress, anger, acts of rage, repercussions

of anger, its effects on one’s psyche & health, ways to overcome anger and finally the importance of anger management. As it was an interactive session, the students were encouraged to share their experiences with each other.

• Another Peer Mentoring Session was conducted for all the sections of Class S1 on 13th February 2017. The topic of the session was ‘Examination Anxiety’. Through the presentation, they were shown the pressure felt by students a couple of weeks before the examination and the methods to overcome their anxiety.

• Students from Class S7 conducted a Peer-Mentoring Session on ‘Media Literacy’ for the students of Class S3 from 9th to 12th May 2017. The topic was chosen keeping in mind the importance of social media increasing day by day and influencing the young minds. Various activities such as ad-acting, class quiz etc. were held to make this informative session interesting.

QUIZ CLUB ‘PHOENIX’

The Quiz Club ‘Phoenix’ Continues to rise and soar and bring home laurels from the various quiz contests conducted by various schools /Institutions which’re reported here.

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Dates Name of school that organized the Quiz competition


Name of the Winner

22 Nov.2016

9 Dec. 2016

16 Dec.2016

CNN News18 Smart Kids Quiz by LIC & CNN News18

Ayan MarwahaandAman Agarwal



Qualified in DelhiNCR Zonal Round

1st Prize in City Zonal(held in Mumbai)

3rd Prize in Finals held in Mumbai with Cash Prize of Rs,2,00,000/-

24 Jan. 2017

Army Institute of Education, Greater Noida

Aman Agarwal and Aryaman Sood

Inter school Quiz - Tech Quiz, Audio-Video Round, Rapid Fire Round - Winners

3 Feb.2017

Sadhu Vaswani International School, Delhi

Ayan Marwaha Aman Agarwal and Aatmik Gupta

C.B.S.E. Heritage IndiaQuiz–Delhi-II Round – WinnersNational Semi-Finals–3rd

5 Feb.2017

Delhi Regional Brain Bee 2017 held Army Hospital (R & R) Delhi Cantt.

Aarnav Khurana

Nishant Mehta

Neuroscience Quiz-1st Prize& Delhi Brain Bee Champion4th Position



Name of the Winner

19 April2017

‘The Hindu Young World Quiz’ held at Tagore International School, Vasant Vihar

Ananya Dhawan and Shruti Singh

Manu Singhal and Shreyansh Krishnan

Mankrit Singh and Aviral Kashyap

1st Prize - Jr. Category

2nd Prize - Sr. Category

4thPosition-Sr. Category

27 April2017

‘AIIMS Science Quiz’ held at the AIIMS

Ayan Marwaha and Aman Agarwal

Shubhang Gopal andArshdeep Singh

1st Prize

3rd Prize

28 April2017

‘AIIMS General Quiz’ held at the AIIMS

Ayan Marwaha and Aman Agarwal

1st Prize

28 April 2017

‘Conclave’ held at Kulachi Hansraj ModelSchool, Ashok Vihar

Shreyansh Krishnan andPradyumn Arora

1st Prize

5 May 2017

‘Quizebate’ held at Modern School, Vasant Vihar

Aatmik GuptaAyan Marwaha andAman Agrawal

1st Prize & theRolling Trophy

5 May 2017

‘Rendezvous-AFBBS’ held at Air Force Bal Bharati School, Lodi Road

Shashank Ramesh andAditya Sarkar

2nd Prize

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Name of the Winner

4 Aug.2017

‘Landmark KnowledgeConclave’ by Genesis Global School, Noida

Aman AgarwalAatmik GuptaAayan Marwaha

General Quiz-1st First Prize with Overall Winner Trophy.

9 Aug.2017

‘Inquisitive 2017’ Annual Pace Inter-School QuizBy HT Media Ltd.

Aryan MarwahaAman Aggarwal


General Quiz–3rd Prize with Individual Trophies, Dictionary, Encyclopedia & a bicycle each

2nd Runner Up Trophy

30 Aug.2017

Inter school Quiz by St.Xavier’s School,Delhi

Shreyansh KrishnaReyan Bangia

General Quiz - 1st Prize

2 Sept.2017

‘Columban Open Quiz’by St. Columba’s School, New Delhi

Aatmik GuptaAyan MarwahaAman AgarwalAryaman Sood

Arshdeep SinghAditya SarkarShashank RameshKaartikay Agarwal

Open Quiz – 2nd Prize withCash Award of Rs. 4,000/-and a book hamper

Open Quiz – 6th Positionwith Cash Award ofRs.1,500/-

4 Sept.2017

‘INTACH HERITAGEQuiz’ by INTACH

Rahul PandeyYanav Lall

Heritage Quiz – 3rd Prize

6 Oct.2017

‘25th JTM Gibson Quiz’by Mayo College, Ajmer

Aman AgarwalAatmik Gupta

Modern School, Barakhamba Road,New Delhi

General Quiz – 1st Prize

Winner Rolling Trophy



Name of the Winner

2017 Quizzonomics’ by Sanskriti School, New Delhi

Aman Agarwal &Raghav Nath

Modern School,Barakhamba Road, New Delhi

Economics, Business, Finance & Current Affairs

- 1st Prize Winner6 May 2017

‘Anveshan’ by Gyan Bharati School, Saket

Arshdeep Singh & Shubhang Gopal

Science & Maths Quiz 1st Prize

14 July2017

‘Quizzat’ by Amity International School,Saket

Aditya SarkarShashank Ramesh &Kunal Saluja

Science Quiz – 1st Prize

21 July2017

‘PRISM’ by BRCM Public School, Vidyagram, Bhiwani

Aarnav KhuranaNishant MehtaJushaan KalraArshdeep Singh

Modern School, Barakhamba Road,New Delhi

Science Quiz – 1st Prize with Individual Trophies and a Cash Award of Rs.5100/-

Winners Rolling Trophy

28 – 29July 2017

‘Qriosity’ by New EraPublic School, Maya Puri, New Delhi

Pradyumn AroraShreyansh KrishnaVinayak Goswami

Nachiket ChawlaAryaman SoodRayaan Singh

Shashank RameshAkshat SingalRijul Ganju

BLAME Quiz – 2nd Prize

SPENT Quiz – 3rd Prize

Science-Biz-Tech Quiz – 3rd Prize

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‘Unquestionably Modern:’ The Quiz Club hosted its Annual Inter-School Quiz Fest ‘Unquestionably Modern’ on 3rd May 2017. Over 350 quizzers from various schools of Delhi & NCR participated in the preliminary round. The event comprised of three quizzes, all hosted by the prominent quizmasters. ‘General Quiz’ hosted by Dr Suby Bhattacharya, ‘MELA (Music-Entertainment- Literature-Arts) Quiz conducted by Mr Aryapriya Ganguly and ‘BEST (Business-Entertainment-Sports-Technology) Quiz hosted by Paavas Bhasin & Aniket Joshi, proficient quizzers and alumni from the Batch of 2017. The crowd was filtered into top six finalists for each quiz. The event was a trend setter in school quizzing by operating a live-scoring system on the side screen which gave comprehensive view of the proceedings. Our school’s team comprising of Ayan Marwaha, Aman Agarwal & Aatmik Gupta won the 1st Prize in General Quiz, BEST Quiz & SPENT Quiz. The team consisting of Arshdeep Singh, Aryaman Sood and Shubhang Gopal also performed brilliantly. However, in a magnanimous gesture, the team passed on the Winner’s Trophy to Delhi Public School, Noida, the next team in line, in all the three quizzes.

SPIC MACAY

The Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) is a voluntary youth movement that promotes tangible aspect of Indian cultural heritage by promoting Indian classical music, classical dance, folk music, yoga, meditation, crafts and other aspects of Indian culture. The Society held the following activities in the last few months:

• SPIC MACAY Society organized a cultural programme on 6th April 2017 wherein Pt Parthosarothy played Sarod and was accompanied by Ustad Akram Khan on Tabla.

• On 19th April 2017, an Inter-House Comic Strip Competition was organized. Ten students from Classes S1 to S3 jointly prepared a 10-page Comic Strip on the assigned Indian Classical Music and Dance forms as per their topics.

• From 24th to 27th April 2017, two workshops were organized in school for students:

• Madhubani Paintings – 34 students participated in this workshop which was conducted by Ms Jyoti Karan. Ms Rekha Raikera, Civil Service Officer in the Ministry of Finance, appreciated the work of our students and found them tobe a beautiful depiction of the age old traditions, culture and heritage of our country.

• (ii) Bharatnatyam dance form – A group of girl students was selected and trained by Ms Uma Ramesh for an exceptional Bharatnatyam performance – Mallari, which was performed on the occasion of the World Dance Day. Ms Uma Ramesh interacted with the students and enlightened them about the intricacies of the classical dance, its origin, development, renowned ‘mudras’ and other less known facts.

• On 28th April 2017, the World Dance Day was organized by the SPIC MACAY Society in school, featuring spellbinding performances ‘Shankar Sreegiri’ and ‘Ardhanareeshwar’ by Ms Uma Ramesh and a breath taking solo Kathak performance by Pt Rajendra Gangani with maestros Kamaal Ahmed Khan on Saarangi, Mr Pranshu Chaturlal on Tabla and Mr Rohit Parihar & Ms Deepti Gupta as vocalists.

• Three students – Sanyam Gupta, Vishesh Agarwal and Diya Goel, together with the teacher in-charge Ms Malvika Gupta, attended the SPIC MACAY’s International Convention held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi from 5th to 11th June 2017. The event included Indian classical dance and music performances by great artists, vocal concerts, theatre performance, ‘qawwali’ performances, Madhubani Painting workshop, Calligraphy workshop, photography workshop, yoga, heritage trips etc.

TRIPS/TOURS CLUB

Dates Place of Visit Details of Students/Teachers4 – 6 Jan.2017

Jim Corbett National Park

22 students of Classes S4 & S5 escorted by Ms Simmi Khera and Ms Divya Sahdev

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Dates Place of Visit Details of Students/Teachers5 – 10 Jan. 2017

Gangtok Darjeeling 36 students of classes S1, S2 & S3 escorted by Mrs Manju Vijra, Ms Ameeta Patel, Ms Divya Sharma

16 – 19 March 2017

Udaipur - Haldighati Sixty-One Students of Class S1 escorted by Teachers – Mr Rajesh Kumar, Mrs.Kavita Shelly, Mrs.Amita Patel, Ms Parul Sharma, Ms Deepika Masiwal

16 – 20 March 2017

Pune – Mumbai Forty-Three Students of Class S4 escorted by Teachers – Mrs Simmi Khera, Mrs Sunita Dixit, Mr Rajesh Arya, Ms Priyanka

17 – 20 March 2017

Chennai – Pondicherry

Seventy Students of Classes S2 & S3 escorted by Teachers – Mrs Meenakshi Aggarwal, Mrs Manju Vijra, Mrs Divya Sharma, Mrs Himani Bakshi, Mrs Kamlesh Rawat, Mr Neeraj Dubey, Mr Devender Singh

18 – 21 March 2017

Udaipur – Haldighati Fifty-Three Students of Class S1 escorted by Teachers – Mrs Nirmala Chandru, Mrs Priyanka Singh, Ms Malvika Gupta, Ms Priyanka Sisodia, Mrs Anuradha Maini

18 – 21 March 2017

Chennai - Pondicherry

Eighty-Seven students of Class S6 escorted by Teachers – Mrs Meera Malhotra, Mrs Puja Kapoor, Mrs Baisakhi Samajdar, Mrs Divya Sahdev, Ms Pooja Bahl, Mr Rais Khan, Mr Dhirendra Kumar, Mr Tahir Hussain

28 March –1 April 2017

Udaipur – Mount Abu Fifty-Nine Students of Class S5 escorted by teachers of Secondary School

14 – 19 May 2017

Rishikesh, New Tehri, Uttarkashi, Mussoorie

32 students of Class S4 escorted by teachers – Mr Dhirendra Singh Chauhan, Mr Rajan and Ms Surbhi Srivastava

Dates Place of Visit Details of Students/Teachers16 – 20 May2017

Mussoorie, Dehradun

43 students of class S1 escorted by teachers – Ms Anuradha Bhatia, Ms Deepika Masiwal, Ms Parul Sharma and Mr Keith Gomes

28 Sept. –1 Oct. 2017

Bhopal and Bhimbetha

27 students of Class S1 escorted by teachers – Dr Meenakshi Aggarwal and Ms Malvika Gupta

28 Sept. –1 Oct. 2017

Jodhpur and Jaisalmer

60 students of Class S3 escorted by teachers –Ms Anjali Gupta Chhabra, Ms Anuradha Bhatia, Mr Neeraj Dubey & Mr Devender (Class IV emp.)

29 Sept. – 2 Oct. 2017

Agra, Bharatpur and Jaipur

65 students, 49 of Class S1 and 16 of Class S2, escorted by teachers–Ms Priyanka Singh, Ms Mansi, Ms Kanika Bathla, Ms Parul Sharma, Mr Vinod and Mr Tahir

WESTERN MUSIC DEPARTMENT- ‘SYNCHRONICITY’ – THE SCHOOL BAND

On 10th February 2017, the School Band ‘Synchronicity’ was christened by the Principal and six students of the Middle School performed in the front lawn of the school during recess. The band played the Bob Dylan’s classic ‘Knocking on the Heaven’s Door’, ‘Sweet Child of Mine’ by Guns n Roses and ended the show with ‘I’ll Be There for You’ by the Rembrandts.

‘KAMLA BOSE AWARD’ FOR LEARNING BEYOND CLASSROOMS

The winners of the ‘Kamla Bose Award for Outstanding Research’ for the year 2017 are Pragya Jindal (S7 A) and Ayushi Kapoor (S7I) for their project ‘Disposable Cups’ and ‘Ayurveda’ respectively. The ‘Kamla Bose

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High Commendation Awards’ were received by Vivan Bose (S7 A) & Gursahib Singh Suri (S7 A) for their project – ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and Shrey Goyal (S7 A) for his project – ‘The Middle Eastern Crisis and India’. The projects were evaluated on the basis of topic, content, procedure and presentation.

‘BHAGWANT SINGH AWARD’ FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH

The first prize for the Sardar Bhagwant Singh Award’ for Exellence in Research was won by the project titled ‘Cuisines of India’ by Sanyam Gupta, Rishab Dua and Manan Khanna. Second position was bagged by the project ‘Farmer Suicides’ made by the team of Kaartikay Agarwal, Arahana Yadav, Rushali Jain and Dravie Bansal and the third position went to the team of Aditya Shankar, Shruti Bhardwaj, Varnika Aggarwal and Harsh Gupta for their project ‘Slum Upgradation’.

8. INTRA SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Middle School held various activities during the assembly period on ‘Thursdays’ to explore talents of students. These activities include – (i) Christmas Celebrations on 23rd December 2016 (ii) Joyful Sojourn of Singing & Dancing on 29th December 2016 (iii)Poem Recitation Competition for Class S1 - January 2017 (iv) My S3 Sojourn – Farewell to Class S3 - January 2017 (v) Performance on guitar and drums by students of Ashoka House under training by Furtados School of Music on 13th April 2017 (vi) Talent Hunt for dancing and singing with musical instruments for students of Class S1 on 20th April 2017 (vii) Talent round of classical dance & singing by students of Class S1 on 27th April 2017 (viii) English Play competition amongst students of Classes S1, S2 & S3 on 4th May 2017 (ix) Singing with musical instruments and English Play on 13th July 2017 (x) Science Quiz for students of Class S2 on 17th August 2017 (xi) Science Quiz for students of Classes from S1 to S3 on 30th August 2017 (xii) Teachers’ Day celebration in the Junior Assembly on 6th September 2017.

Annual Book Week - The Library Department organized its Annual Book Week from 25th to 30th November 2016. The Book Exhibition was

inaugurated by Mr Pramod Sharma, Director-Principal, Genesis Global School, Noida. Mr Ajit Narayan, famous Cartoonist, held two sessions on ‘Cartooning Workshop’ for students of Class S1. Ms Devika Rangachari, renowned author, conducted two sessions of ‘Date with the Author’ for students of Class S2. The Classroom Challenge Activity that captivated the maximum readers on the bookstall was to win the title for their ‘Class of Readers’. Class S1 D was declared the winner consecutively for the second time and received the gift hamper of books on varied subjects. The international delegates of our 11th C.D.L.S. also enjoyed the exhibition thoroughly.

The selected students of various Clubs & Societies of the school were given badges by the Principal for their hard work & dedication during an Investiture Ceremony in school on 26th December 2016.

The School bid farewell to the Class of S7 students (Batch of 2017) on 27th January 2017. The function began with enchanting performances by the students of class S7 and concluded with a sumptuous dinner.

On 1st February 2017, the festival of Basant Panchami was celebrated with the incantation of chants to invoke the blessings of Goddess Saraswati – symbol of Learning, Knowledge, Music & Culture. The puja was performed by the Principal followed by captivating dance performances by the students. The puja ended with distribution of prasad to everyone.

The Boarding House bid adieu to the ‘boarders’ of Class S7 (Batch of 2017) on 20th February 2017. The evening featured performance by the boarders.Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, President, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools, and the Principal graced the occasion and blessed the students.

The school bid adieu to their teachers Ms Subhashini Sinha, Mr U C Rastogi, Mr H.N.Keshwani, Mrs Manju Kant and Mrs Usha Nair as they retired after fruitful service to the institution. They were given a warm farewell on retirement by the staff. The Principal extended greetings and presented them with a silver salver.

A film shoot of the Solar Project of our school was done by our students on 12th April 2017. The members of the Physics Club handled the

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technical aspect of the project, including the display of model while the Environment Club members explained the environment related benefits of installing a solar project.

Reading is a vital part of a child’s learning experience. Our school organized its Annual Book Fair from 17th to 22nd April 2017. The exhibition was inaugurated by the Principal of the school. On the first day, an ‘Author’s Session’ was taken by Ms Nayantara Mehtani for students of Class S2, who shared her inspiring experiences with them. On the second day, Ms Rohini Chowdhury talked to students of Class S1 about the ‘Panchatantra’, one of the oldest collection of fables of the Indian mythology. She also shared with them the benefits of reading books for improving vocabulary, concentration and knowledge.

On 21st April 2017, a Just-A-Minute (J.A.M.) Session was held in school. The Principal conducted the session and provided details associated with random one word topics, time limit and the objective of the activity. He explained that a J.A.M. session aims to engender a capacity for instantaneous speaking, along with the concern for relevant content, observing time limit and expressing confidence. Three students, who won the J.A.M. Session, were Aarav Bajaj, Arjun Raj Sharma and Arsh Jain.

A Hindi play ‘Raavan Ki Ramayan’, featuring the legendary actor Puneet Issar in the lead role of Raavan, was staged in our school by the Film and Theatre Society on 11th May 2017. The epic drama unfolded in a complex version, which took a re-look at history from the point of view of those who lost and never got a chance to tell their side of the story. The script was written & directed by Mr Atul Satya Koushik.

On 12th May 2017, a versatile & talented actor of the Bollywood, Mr Irfan Khan, visited the school to promote his latest film ‘Hindi Medium’, certain scenes of which were shot on our school’s campus. A trailer of the film was screened and students were ecstatic to see visuals of our school on the big screen. Applauding every time, the familiar campus was shown, they felt extremely proud and vowed to see the movie on its release. A few students got a chance to interview him & a throng of star struck

students followed him & managed to obtain his autograph.

Aiming to engender public speaking skill in students, with valuable content within limited time, a Just-A-Minute (J.A.M.) Session was held for the students of Class S2 on 14th July 2017.

The School celebrated the Teachers’ Day in a grand manner on 6th September 2017. It was a proud moment for the entire Modern School family as the Principal was awarded the ‘National Award to Teacher-2016’ for his meritorious service by the Vice President of India, on behalf of the President of India on 5th September 2017.

The Prefects of the Senior School were announced after several rounds of interviews and assessment of their leadership skills, and the ‘Prefects’ Badges’ were awarded to deserving students during the Investiture Ceremony on 26th September 2017. The Prefects (2017-2018) are – Aatmik Gupta, Ayan Marwaha, Ambika Pandey, Swayam Bhatia, Aman Agarwal, Raayan Singh, Rohan Anand, Kartikey Chaudhry, Addya Bhatnagar, Arshdeep Singh, Surya Aggarwal, Gunagya Mamak, Anushree Mahur, Pranay Gupta, Parth Nagpal, Prabhat Chhabra, Chetna Bhagat, Ishita Sharma, Disha Gopal, Japmeher Singh, Gautam Garg, Manvika Aneja, Aryaman Sood, Uday Goel, Shauryaveer Suda, Vanshika Pant, Shreyan Puri, Mansi Jain, Kripa Alag, Dhruv Tuli, Ayushi Kapoor, Dharamveer Choudhary, Ojasvini Goel, Manya Sikka, Lavanya Bedi and Namya Manglani.

House Captains and Vice-Captains were also awarded their ‘Badges’ during a special assembly on 12th October 2017.

A Diwali Mela was organized in school on 17th October 2017. Students of Classes from S1 to S3, and most of the Clubs & Societies of the school put up their stalls and raised funds for charity. An Inter-House Music Competition was held on this occasion. In the Group Performance category, Nehru House won the 1st Prize with a cash award of Rs.8,000/-, Azad House won the 2nd Prize with a cash award of Rs.5,100/- and there was a tie between Tagore House & Tilak House for the 3rd prize and they jointly won Rs.3,100/. In the Solo Performance category, Mehzabeen Mize Bhatia of Subhash House won the 1st prize with cash award of Rs.

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3,100/-, Kunal Saluja of Pratap House won the 2nd prize with cash award of Rs. 2,100/- and Sanskruti Tiwari of Akbar House got the 3rd prize with

cash award of Rs. 1,100/-.

9. CO-CURRICULAR & INTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

The students of Political Science, from Classes S5 & S6 attended the ‘Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture’ organized by the All India Radio on 28th October 2016 at the National Media Centre, which was broadcast on various AIR radio channels. Dr Jitendra Singh, a Minister & Political Analyst, spoke on ‘Co-operative Federalism’.

Anika Bahadur won the 2nd Prize in the ‘Showcase’ event in the Inter School Psycho-Socio Fest organized by Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram on 5th November 2016.

On 16th November 2016, Vamika Singh and Krisstal Dhanraj participated in the Art Poetica competition hosted by the Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram and bagged the 1st Prize in Stage-A-Verse event in which they had to write a script on-the-spot and enact the same.

WORLD SCHOLARS’ CUP 2016 - Swayam Bhatia, Ishana Aggarwal and Ambika Pandey represented Team India in the ‘Tournament of

Champions’ round for the World Scholars Cup 2016 held at the University of Yale, U.S.A. from 18th to 21st November 2016. This academic decathlon saw participation of over 3000 scholars with more than 1000 teams from over 50 nations. Our school team secured the 6th rank in Essay Writing and 21st rank in Debating. Our team secured the 11th rank in overall performance and was placed at the 2nd rank in India & South Asia. In the overall individual scholar rank tally, Ambika Pandey secured the 14th rank, Ishana Aggarwal secured the 47th rank wheras Swayam Bhatia was placed on 102nd rank. They were awarded medals for their achievements

From 21st to 30th December 2016, students of Classes S4 & S5 were taken to the National Science Centre, New Delhi. This visit gave them an opportunity to witness various science related models, structure of various atoms/compounds etc. Students were given a questionnaire to record their observations. The exhibits amused the students, triggered their imagination & creativity and kept them involved.

The World Centre for Humanist Studies organized an Online National Level Skit Competition on the theme ‘Human Being as the Central Value’. The participants were required to upload their skits on the Youtube on 26th January 2017. Three teams of students of our school participated in the competition and uploaded their videos on the Youtube on the topics (a) Human Being Is Not an Object (b) No Human Being Below Another (c) Nothing Above the Human Beings.

On 5th February 2017, Ambika Pandey was awarded the ‘Delhi Youth Award 2017’ by the India Youth Foundation for Delhi, with other 24 awardees out of six hundred applicants. She received this award for ‘Exceptional Work in the field of Dance’. It is an organization which honours young Indians from various walks of life for their contribution towards the development of the nation.

A group of students from Classes S4 & S5 visited the C.B.S.E. National Level Science Exhibition on the theme ‘Science, Technology and Mathematics for Nation Building’ hosted by N.C. Jindal Public School, New Delhi on 9th February 2017. The sub themes of the Exhibition

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were – health, industry, transport & communication, food production & security, mathematical solution to everyday life and renewable resources for sustainable environment. The event displayed exhibits made by students of different schools from various states of India in the areas of agriculture, food processing, biotechnology, green energy, disaster management, astronomy, communication technology and renewable resources.

Four students of our school attended a talk on ‘Electoral Reforms in India’ at Vasant Valley School on 31st March 2017. Dr S.Y. Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, and Mr Swapan Das, a senior Journalist & a Member of Parliament, addressed the students on major problems faced by the electoral system in our country and how such problems affect the smooth & fair functioning of the electoral system.

Shruti Bhardwaj, Ritvik Vasudeva and Manya Bansal, along with Ms Tina Thakur, the teacher in-charge, participated in the Asia Pacific School Initiative, educational programme for capacity building in ‘Leadership through Serene Strength’ organized by the Centre for Escalation of Peace from 6th to 12th April 2017. Students and teachers were allocated different topics according to their interest. Manya Bansal was allocated ‘Evolution of Societies’ and her group worked on eradication of stigma relating to Sex Education, Ritvik Vasudeva was given ‘Economy’ and his group worked on Ganga Action Plan, Shruti Bhardwaj worked on ‘Communities’ and her group worked on Financial Literacy. Ms. Tina Thakur was given the topic ‘Philosophy’.

Over 100 students of Classes S5 to S7 visited the ‘Catalyst’, an exhibition put up by the Students’ Union of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on 27th and 28th April 2017. They got an opportunity to examine real human body organs and compare them with pathologically diseased organs. Students were demonstrated the method to give Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), which is an emergency procedure to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person in cardiac arrest. The exhibition provided students with a chance to understand human anatomy beyond their text books and laboratory experience.

On 29th April 2017 our students took part in the ‘Lingua Fiesta’, the Language Festival, organized by The Modern School, ECNCR, Kundli. They participated in events like French fancy dress competition, French poster making, French solo/group song and French workshop. Our school bagged the Rolling Trophy for scoring the maximum points overall.

Our students participated in the ‘Bailamos-Fiesta Da Bailar’, a dance fest, held by the Presentation Convent Senior Secondary School on 5th May 2017. Radhika Tandon won the 1st Prize in the ‘Solo’ category whereas Nysa Mangalani, Vidisha, Riddhi Gupta, Sujagi Bansal, Anika Tandon, Samairah Ahuja, Gauri Mathur, Tanisha Poddar, Bishika Gautam, Kavita Gupta, Vrinda Singhal, Diya Arya, Radhika Bahadur, Kamakshi Gupta, Ayaana Jain and Auni Jain, together won the 2nd Prize in the ‘Group’ category.

Planet Harmony Project is the vision of Mr Ajeet Bajaj (Padma Shri). The project aims to integrate students & teachers from politically disturbed areas of our country like J & K and north-east states into mainstream by getting them host schools in Delhi/NCR. The philosophy of the project is ‘From Conflict to Harmony’ and it helps them become ambassadors of harmony & development. This year, our students, Aadya Kapur, Rhythm Nagpal, Tina Aneja, Varnika Aggarwal, Prajna Chaudhary, Adit Jain & Arnav Gupta alongwith the teacher, Ms Anuradha Maini, participated in this programme. They hosted students and teachers of schools from Srinagar, Manipur, Nagaland and Chhattisgarh, in their homes on 29th& 30th May 2017. Later, all the teachers and students were taken for an Intensive Leadership & Team Building Programme at Shivpuri, Rishikesh from 31st May to 5th June 2017. Apart from classroom sessions, various adventure activities like rafting, wall climbing and zip lining were the part of this leadership programme. On 6th June 2017, members of the Planet Harmony Team were invited for lunch by Mr Aditya Ghosh, President of the Indigo Airlines. On the same day the team also visited Mr Mohd.Hamid Ansari, Vice-President of India, where he addressed them during a session at his residence.

Alisha Kansal and Arshiya Chaudhry of the Middle School not only

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won the First Prize for ‘Pride and Prejudice’ but also bagged the ‘Best Costume Award’ in a Short Play competition organized by the Carmel Convent School, New Delhi, on 21st July 2017.

Naman Kumar and Ambika Pandey bagged the 2nd Prize and the 3rd Prize respectively at the Sarojini Naidu Poetry Recitation Competition held at St. Thomas’ Girls’ Senior Secondary School, New Delhi on 24th July 2017. Our School was also awarded the ‘Best Team Trophy’.

Pranjna Chaudhary bagged the ‘Best First Time Parliamentarian Award’ in the Chanakyaniti National Youth Parliament organized by Chanakyaniti Youth Parliament, Central Commission for Women, Govt. of India on 29th & 30th July 2017.

Shashank Ramesh and Nimansh Jindal won the 2nd Prize in event related to application of General Science in daily life, in the ‘A.K. Saha Young Scientists Experimental Project’ contest organized by the Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi on 10th August 2017.

Naman Kumar was adjudged the ‘Shreshtha Vakta’ in the Lalita Shastri Inter-school Hindi Debate competition organized by St. Columba’s School, New Delhi on 1st September 2017. He received the trophy and a certificate from Mr Anil Shastri, a former Union Minister.

Aarnav Khurana and Nishant Mehta won the 1st Prize in the event titled ‘Science for Life’ organized by the Biology Club of Delhi Public School, Dwarka on 24th and 25th October 2017.

WORLD SCHOLARS’ CUP 2017

a) Two teams of our school participated in the Regional Round of the World Scholars Cup 2017 held at Indirapuram Public School, Ghaziabad on 30th & 31st January 2017. The competition tested the debating, writing and learning skills of the participants. The team of Ishana Aggarwal, Shreyan Puri and Swayam Bhatia secured the 1st position in the overall academic challenge. Noteworthy achievements individually include Ishana Aggarwal ranking 1st in academic challenge and Swayam Bhatia ranking 2nd in the individual debate.

The overall individual ranks were – Ishana Aggarwal – 1st, Shreyan Puri – 2nd and Swayam Bhatia – 5th. The second team comprised of Arshdeep Singh, Lavanya Bedi and Urvi Maheshwari received a total of 32 medals which included a gold medal for debating, writing etc. and many silver medals for various subject tests.

b) The World Scholar’s Cup is a comprehensive event with multi-layer rounds all over the world. This year, qualifiers and winners from over 100 regional rounds gathered at Hanoi, Vietnam for the ‘2017 Global Round’ on the theme ‘An Unlikely World’ in June 2017. Over 1600 students and more than 530 teams participated in this round this year. The event consisted of four parts (a) Writing Challenge of 120 questions over 6 subjects (b) Collaborative Writing (c) Team Debates (d) Scholars’ Bowl, similar to a team quiz. Our school was represented by two teams i.e. Team-I - Lavanya Bedi, Arshdeep Singh and Urvi Maheshwari and Team-II - Shrey Goyal, Aman Agarwal and Ayan Marwaha, at the Global Round in Vietnam, after their exemplary performance at the Regional Rounds. After competing in the Global round, the Team-I, comprising of Lavanya Bedi, Arshdeep Singh and Urvi Maheshwari, were amongst the top 50 teams in Writing and qualified for the ‘Tournament of Champions’ to be held at the Yale University, USA in November 2017. Shrey Goyal and Lavanya Bedi were declared amongst the top 100 debaters of the event. Shrey Goyal and Ayan Marwaha were amongst the top 25 scholars in the challenge. They were ranked 7th in the Challenge and Ayan Marwaha was the top scorer in Social Studies. Overall, Shrey Goyal was ranked the 9th scholar and their team was also ranked 9th amongst all the teams. They beat all the other teams from India & neighbouring countries and were adjudged the South Asia Champions.

c) Abhinav Agarwal of S6C, Devank Agarwal of S6D, Harsh Beri of S5H and Hiya Gupta of S6A, represented the school at the regional round of the WSC held on 13th and 14th October 2017 at the Maxfort School, Dwarka. Individually, Abhinav Agarwal stood 2nd in the Scholar’s Challenge (with rank 1 in special area and silver medals in 4 other subjects), 3rd in debating, and 8th in essay writing. He got individual scholar’s rank 2, winning 10 gold medals and 4 silver medals. Devank

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Agarwal stood 10th in essay writing and won a silver medal in the Scholar’s Challenge (including rank 3 in history and silver medal in 4 other subjects). He got individual scholar’s rank 11, winning 6 gold medals and 5 silver medals. Harsh Beri performed exceptionally well in the team debate, collaborative writing and the Scholar’s Challenge (especially science and literature). He was awarded three gold medals for the same. Hiya Gupta stood 3rd in collaborative writing, and won overall silver medal in Scholars’ Challenge (including silver medal in 5 subjects). She stood 5th overall, winning 6 gold medals and 6 silver medlas. Her team stood 3rd in the Scholars’ Bowl, 1st in the Scholars’ Challenge, 5th in debating and 2nd overall.The team comprising of Abhinav Agarwal, Devank Agarwal and Harsh Beri stood 3rd in the Scholars’ Bowl, 4th in the debate, and 3rd in collaborative writing. Their team secured the 3rd position.

10. HOUSE FUNCTIONS

Laxmibai, Akbar, Lajpat, Gandhi, Azad and Ashoka House held their biennial function from April 2017 to October 2017. All the House Masters deserve appreciation. Nehru and Pratap House will hold their function in December 2017.

11. GRADUATION DAY

Graduation Ceremony for the students of class S7 (Batch of 2017) was held on 20th January 2017. The ceremony was attended by their parents and grand-parents in large numbers. The evening was graced by the benign presence of Mr Kirti Azad; an alumnus of Modern School, Former Indian Cricketer and Member of Parliament, as the Chief Guest, Dr Anju Tandon; Principal, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan’s Mehta Vidyalaya; as the Guest of Honour and Mr Atul Khanna, President, M.S.O.S.A. The highlights of the event were an orchestra by students, speeches by the students of the outgoing batch and the Graduation Day Address by Mr Kirti Azad emphasizing on 4 Ds in life – Desire, Dedication, Determination and Discipline. Mr Atul Khanna urged the students to remain connected and be actively involved with various social/cultural of the M.S.O.S.A. The Principal led the ‘Candle Lighting Ceremony’ & blessed the students for their journey of life.

12. INDEPENDENCE DAY

Modern School celebrated the 71st Independence Day of our country on 11th August 2017. Admiral Sunil Lanba PVSM, AVSM, ADC, Chief of the Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, and Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. Guard of Honour, Band Display, Flag hoisting, a talk on Independence Day by a student in Hindi, followed by another in English, a Roopak titled ‘Vijay Path’ with musical support by the School Choir and the Chief Guest’s Address, were the highlights of the celebration

13. BLOOD DONATION CAMP

The Interact Club of our school, in association with Rotary Club of Delhi ‘Rendezvous’ and the Rotary Blood Bank, organized the 36th Annual Blood Donation Camp on 14th October 2017. Dr Arun Aggarwal, Advisor, Apollo Group of Hospitals & Former Dean of Maulana Azad Medical College, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and inaugurated the

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camp. The camp successfully collected around 150 units of blood. A grand ikebana exhibition put up by the students at the camp enhanced its beauty.

14. GAMES & SPORTS

The importance of Games and Sports can never be undermined. As the adage goes, the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playfields of Eton and Harrow; this sums up in a nutshell that Games as a discipline is not only required to hone the physical and mental skills but also that it gives an impetus to the all-round personality of an individual, which reflects on the glory of a nation. A sound mind in a sound body should always be the order of the day. Modern School in this connection has ensured a steadfast program in all disciplines of sports with the time-factor never being a deterrent. Under the stewardship of ace coaches, the students have carved a niche’ for themselves at the Zonal, CBSE, National and International arenas in the recent times.

Inter-House matches are organized regularly in senior and junior sections to provide opportunities to all students for playing games of their choice.

ANNUAL SPORTS DAY

The Annual Sports Day of our school was celebrated on 10th December 2016. Mr Bishan Singh Bedi, the renowned former Indian cricketer, graced

the occasion as the Chief Guest. Justice Mukul Mudgal (Modernite of the Batch of 1966) and a former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, was the Guest of Honour of the event. All the international position holders/participants and the national position holders during the year were honoured with awards by the Chief Guest. The event also witnessed the March Past by students of Classes S4, S5 & S6 representing all the fifteen Houses of the school. Students of Classes S1, S2, S3 and S4 performed Yoga, Aerobics and Taekwondo respectively. The equestrian team amazed the gathering with their horse-riding skills by displaying the side-mount, back-mount, trot and canter with their horses. An Inter-House Athletics Meet was also a part of the Sports Day. Gandhi House won the ‘Inter-House Athletics Championship’ for the 5th consecutive year whereas Tilak House and Nehru House were declared the 1st& the 2nd Runner Up respectively. Laxmibai House won the trophy for the ‘Best Marching Contingent’ for the 4th consecutive year and Tilak House & Nehru House were again declared the 1st & the 2nd Runner Up respectively in the March Past event as well.

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SUMMER SPORTS CAMP

A summer camp in sports was held for our students from 15th May to 31st 2017 in the disciplines of Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Horse Riding, Lawn Tennis, Squash, Swimming, Table Tennis and Volleyball. Under supervision of our well trained coaches, 300 students attended the camp. The training focused on physical fitness, basic sports skills and the technicalities of the chosen game. They were also taught traits like self-esteem, self-conduct, self-discipline, sportsmanship, team cohesion, and team unity. The Horse Riding & Swimming started with all other games but continued until 17th June 2017.

Morning practice was also held to give advance level training to team members of various games viz. Basketball, Badminton, Cricket, Football, Hockey and Swimming.

SPORTS CLINICS

The Olympic Champion, two-time World Champion, three-time European Champion and the former World No. 1, Ms Carolina Marin from Spain,

who was in Delhi to participate in the BWF Yonex Sunrise India Open Super Series Badminton Championship held in March 2017, visited our school on 27th March 2017. She conducted a Master Class for our Badminton players and shared her experiences & taught them her great techniques. The Sports Clinic and interaction with a world famous player certainly proved beneficial to our students in honing their skills.

42nd LALA RAGHUBIR SINGH HOT WEATHER CRICKET TOURNAMENT

‘42nd Lala Raghubir Singh Hot Weather Cricket Tournament’ for Gionee Cupwas held in School from 26th May to 8th June 2017, in which 15 prestigious teams of North India competed. The matches were played on league-cum-knockout basis for forty overs from each side.

Vidya Jain Cricket Academy lifted the Winner’s Trophy together with a cash prize of Rs.2,00,000/-. The Runner Up Trophy was bagged by Collage Group Sports Management with a cash prize of Rs.1,00,000/-. Teams of Subhania Cricket Club and Sporting Cricket Club were given Rs 51,000/- each for reaching the semi-finals. A motorbike was awarded to Mr Jogender Singh of Vidya Jain Cricket Academy for the ‘Man of the Tournament’. Kshitij Sharma and Prashant Parashar were awarded Rs. 5,100/- each being the ‘Best Batsman’ and ‘Best Bowler’ respectively.

Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, President, Board of Trustees of Modern Schools, inaugurated the Tournament and the Closing Ceremony was also graced by Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, President, Board of Trustees of Modern Schools together with Mr Maninder Singh, Mr S.P. Bansal and the Principal.

ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORTS

The achievements of various sports persons in their respective sports are as follows:

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Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players

4 – 7 Nov.2016

All India IPSC Athletics held at the Punjab Public School, Nabha

Boys U-19Individual Events Aamir Raza Khan - 400 m - BronzeRitwik Mitra - 100 m - Gold - 200 m - GoldDipankar Verma - High Jump - Gold

Team EventAamir Raza Khan - 4x100 m - BronzeRitwik MitraDipankar VermaNirnay Jain

9 – 14 Nov. 2016

Junior National Athletics Meet 2016 held at Coimbatore

Girls U-14Arshiya Chaudhary - Shotput - Participation

15 – 16 Nov. 2016

CBSE Cluster Athletics Meet 2016 held at Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi

Boy U-19Individual EventsAamir Raza Khan - 400 m - BronzeRitwik Mitra - 100 m - SilverDipankar Verma - High Jump - Gold

Team EventAamir Raza Khan - 4x100 m - BronzeRitwik MitraDipankar VermaNirnay

Girls U-19Individual EventsManya Sikka - 100 m - Bronze - 200 m - Bronze

ATHLETICS

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Team EventsManya Sikka - 4x100 m - GoldPriyan KapoorRiddhi JainJanmeet Kaur Tanvi Sikka

Girls U-17Team EventsSaumya Maitra - 4x100 m - GoldTanvi SikkaMallika GargAnya Walecha

Girls U-14Individual EventsArshiya Chaudhary - Shotput - SilverArohi Aggarwal - Long Jump - Gold

22 – 28 Nov. 2016

Inter Zonal Athletics Meet 2016Held at Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi

Boys U-19Individual EventDipankar Verma - High Jump - Silver

Girls U-19Team Event

Manya Sikka - 4x100 m - SilverPriyan KapoorRiddhi JainJanmeet Kaur

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24 – 27 Nov.2016

National Inter District Athletics Meet held at Chhatrasal Stadium Delhi

Boys U-19Nirnay Jain - 200 m - Participation

Girls U-19Saumya Maitra - 400 m - Participation

Girls U-14Arshiya Chaudhary - Shotput – GoldArohi Aggarwal - Long Jump - Gold

11 Dec.2016

Modernites’ Sport Day held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road

Boys U-19Team Event-Aamir Raza Khan, Dipanker Verma, Yuvraj Gusain, Sanskar Nagpal 4x100 m - Winners

22 – 23Dec. 2016

‘Jo Jita Wohi Sikandar’ Sports Festival held at Gaur International School, Faridabad

Boys U-19 – Ritwik Mitra – 400 m – Gold-DipankarVerma – 100 m – Silver

Girls U-19 – Priyan Kapoor - 400 m - Gold -Manya Sikka - 100 m - Gold

26 – 31 Dec. 2016

CBSE Athletics Nationals held at Vadodara

Boys U-19Individual Events-Dipanker Verma - High Jump – Bronze

1 – 3 Sept.2017

Delhi State Athletics Meet held at Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi

Girls U-14 -Arshiya Choudhary- Shot Put - GoldBoys U-20 - Dipanker Verma - High Jump - Gold

ARCHERY10 – 19Nov. 2016

National Archery Championship held at Tirupati

Boys U-14 - Aditya Verma - Participation

15 – 19Dec. 2016

C.B.S.E. Nationals held at Mugalsarai, Varanasi

Boys U-19 - Aditya Verma - Gold

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BADMINTON24 Nov. – 2 Dec.2016

Inter Zonal BadmintonChampionship held at Ludlo CastleSchool, Delhi

Girls U-19 - Winner

Boys U-17 – 2nd Runner UpGirls U-14 – Winner

5 – 14Dec. 2016

National Badminton Championshipheld at Uddupi, Hyderabad

Girls U-19 – Namita Pathania – ParticipationAnanya Goel – Participation

11 Dec. 2016

Modernites’ Sports Day held atModern School, Barakhamba RoadNew Delhi

Boys U-19 - Winner

Girls U-19 - Winner

22 – 23 Dec. 2016


Boys U-19 – Pushaan Leopaul - Winner

Girls U-19 – Namita Pathania - Winner

25 – 30 Dec 2016

CBSE Badminton Nationals held at Varanasi

Girls U-19Individual Events - Ananya Goel - Winner

Mix Doubles - Namita Pathania -Runner Up

Team Event - Ananya Goel, Namita PathaniaShivika Sharma – Winners

2 – 7Jan. 2017

SGFI Nationals held at Uddapi, Hyderabad

Boys U-17 – Naman Bhargava, Nishit Manchanda – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

Girls U-17 – Gauri Gupta, Malika Kohli,Yashawani Singh – Represented

Delhi Team in Nationals

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4 – 9 Jan. 2017

Delhi State Badminton Ranking Championship held at Dwarka, Delhi

Girls U-19 – Namita Pathania – WinnerAnanya Goel - Runner Up

2 – 8 Feb.2017

Senior Badminton Nationals held at Patna

Girls U-19 – Namita Pathania, Ananya Goel- Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

12 – 17 Feb. 2017

SGFI Badminton Nationals held at Nasik

Girls U-19 – Namita Pathania – Bronze

17 – 22 Apr.2017

Badminton Ka Maha Dangal held at Mahamayi Stadium, Ghaziabad, UP

Boys U-17 - Bronze

27 May – 3 June 2017

2nd Pradeep Virendra Singh Memorial Open Delhi State Ranking Badminton Championship 2017 held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road

Boys U-19 – Pushaan Leopaul – Runner UpGirls U-19 – Namita Pathania – Runner Up- Ananya Goel - Runner Up

Boys U-17 - Naman Bhargava - Runner Up

13 – 16 Jun. 2017

All India IPSC Badminton Championship held at Birla Education Centre, Pune

Boys U-19 – Team Event - Winner -Dhruv Rishi, Naman Bhargava,

Rehan Rathi, Nishit ManchandaIndividual Event – Runner Up - Rehan Rathi

Boys U-17 - Team Event - Winner - Pushaan Leopaul, Abhishek Sharma, Aryan Sharma,

Krishiv, Narula

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Individual Event – Winner - Pushaan Leopaul

Boys U-14 – Team Event - Winner - Ryan Ranjan, Bharat Gulati,

Madhav Goel, Shourya Tiwari, Kabir Kalra

Individual Event – Runner Up - Ryan Ranjan

10 – 14 July 2017

Zonal Badminton Championship held at Thyagraj Stadium, New Delhi

Boys U-19 – GoldBoys U-17 – GoldBoys U-14 – GoldGirls U-19 – GoldGirls U-17 – BronzeGirls U-14 – Bronze

20 – 22 July 2017

Open Badminton Championship held at Hari Nagar

Girls U-13 – Kiah Tandon – Silver

24 – 28 July 2017

PNB Metlife JBC Grand Finale Badminton Championship held at Thyagraj Stadium, Delhi

Boys U-11 – Ryan Ranjan - Bronze

1 – 6 Aug.2017

All India National Ranking Badminton Championship held at Chennai

Girls U-19 – Namita Pathania – Represented the Delhi Team

5 – 7 Aug.2017

5th Dynamic Open Badminton Tournament held at Saraswati Bal Mandir School, Paschim Vihar

Girls U-13 – Kian Tandon – Silver

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24 – 28 Aug. 2017

Delhi State Ranking Badminton Tournament held at Ludlo Castle School, Delhi

Boys U-19 – Naman Bhargava - Gold

Girls U-19 - Namita Pathania - Gold

• Kavya Gandhi - Gold• Ananya Goel - Silver

25 – 29 Sept. 2017

C.B.S.E. Central Zone (Delhi Zone)Badminton Championship held at National Victor School, Patparganj

Boys U-17 – Winners

26 – 29 Sept. 2017

North Zone Badminton Champion ship held at Chandigarh

Girls U-19 – Team Event – Winner Namita Pathania, Ananya GoelIndividual Event Ananya Goel – Runner UpWomen - Individual Event Ananya Goel – Runner Up

28 Sept. - 2 Oct. 2017

All India I.P.S.C. Badminton Championship held at Sanskar Valley School, Bhopal

Girls U-19 – Team Event – WinnerNamita Pathania, Kavya Gandhi, Shivika Sharma, Malika Kohli

Individual EventNamita Pathania - Winner

Girls U-17 – Individual EventAnanya Goel – Winner

Girls U-14 – Individual EventKiah Tandon - Runner Up

22 – 28 Oct. 2017

C.B.S.E. National BadmintonChampionship held at Sagar School, Tijara

Boys U-17 – Naman Bhargava–Mixed Doubles • Bronze

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BASKETBALL3 – 15 Nov. 2016

Zone 26 Basketball Tournament held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road

Boys U-19 – WinnerGirls U-19 – WinnerBoys U-17 – WinnerGirls U-17 – WinnerBoys U-14 – WinnerGirls U-14 – 2nd Runner Up

3 – 21 Nov. 2016

Inter Zonal Basketball Tournament held at Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi

Boys U-19 – 2nd Runner Up

Girls U-19 – 2nd Runner Up

9 – 12 Nov. 2016

17th Win Mumby All India Basketball Tournament held at Woodstock School, Mussoorie

Boys U-19 – Winner

Girls U-19 – Runner Up

12 Nov.2016

All India IPSC Girls Basketball Tournament held at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road

Girls U-17 – Winner

15 – 19 Nov. 2016

3rd BAVM N.C.R. Inter SchoolInvitational Basket-ball Tournament


15 – 29 Nov. 2016

33rd Youth National Basketball Championship held at Hassan, Karnataka

Boys U-17 – Participation

Girls U-17 – Participation

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22 – 23 Dec. 2016

‘Jo Jita Wo Hi Sikandar’ Sports Festival held at Gaur International School, Faridaba


25 – 30 Dec. 2016

SGFI Nationals held at Raj Nand Gaon, Chhattisgarh

Boys U-17 – ParticipationNitish Beniwal (Delhi Team)Sanskar Nagpal (IPSC Team)Karan Dhawan (IPSC Team)

Girls U-17Kashni Sial (IPSC Team)Anusha Jindgar (IPSC Team)Jagriti Natraj (Delhi Team)

4 – 9 Jan.2017

CBSE Basketball Nationals held at Chhattisgarh

Girls U-19 – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

5 – 14 Jan. 2017

Senior Open Nationals held at Pondicherry

Girls U-19 – Ragnee Jha – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

10 – 14 Jan. 2017

62nd SGFI Nationals held at Vijayawada, A.P.

Boys U-19-Mohd.Aakash, Hansraj–Delhi Team - Winner-Yuvraj Gusain, Gursher Chadha - Represented IPSC Team in Nationals

Girls U-19 - Syeda Aeras – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals-Manvika Aneja, Priyan Kapoor, Aruni Singh – Represented IPSC Team in Nationals

11 – 16Feb. 2017

Khelo India Nationals held at Gachibowli Stadium, Hyderabad

Boys U-17 - Nitish Beniwal – Gold

Girls U-17 – Syeda Aeras – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

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3 – 11Jun. 2017

68th Junior Nationals Basketball Championship held at Shiv Nadar University, Noida, UP

Boys U-19 – Pranav Manchanda, Yuvraj Gusain, Gursher Singh Chadha, NitishBeniwal – Represented the Delhi Team

Girls U-19 - Manvika Aneja, Aruni Singh,Syeda Aeras - Represented the Delhi Team

1 – 8 July2017

34th Youth National Basketball Championship held at Telangana

Boys U-17 - Nitish Beniwal, Sanskar Nagpal, Rakshit Buchar – Represented the Delhi Team

Girls U-17 - Kainaat Trehan, Jagriti Natraj – Represented the Delhi Team

23 Aug. – 26 Aug.2017

3rd BAVM NCR Inter-school Basketball Tournament held at Noida Stadium

Boy U-14 – 2nd Runner Up

2 – 24 Sept.2017

Asian Basketball Championship held at Nepal

Boys U-16 – Nitish Beniwal – Gold

23 – 29Sept. 2017

All India IPSC Basketball Championship held at the Mann School, Holambi, Delhi

Boys U-19 – Runner Up

3 – 4 Oct.2017

Zonal Basketball Tournament held at Carmel Convent School, Delhi


Girls U-17 - Winner

12 – 18 Oct. 2017

C.B.S.E.Cluster XX BasketballChampionship held at S.D.Public School Punjabi Bagh, Delhi



BASEBALL14 – 24 June 2017

Youth Championship held at Pushpanjali Farms, Delhi


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CHESS20 – 21 Jan. 2017

Mohini Virendra Singh Chess Tournament held at Modern School, Vasant Vihar

Boys U-19 – Harshal Shahi, Sanskar Aggarwal Arush Jain, Daksh Jain – Runner Up

6 – 12 Jun. 2017

All India IPSC Chess Tournament held at Emerald Heights, Indore

Boys U-17 – Team Event - Runner UpKrishnam Saboo, Kanav Jain, Ansh Bhargava, Amay Jolly

Team Event - 2nd Runner Up Satvik Kalra, Reyan Bangia, Anmol Jain, Sambhav Baxi, Sahavaasi SuryadevIndividual Event – Krishnam Saboo – Winner Kanav Jain - 2nd Runner Up

14 – 18 July 2017

Zone-26 Inter School Chess Tournament held at Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri

Boys U-19 – Arush Jain – Winner

Boys U-17 – Daksh Jain – Winner

Boys U-14 – Satvik Kalra – Runner UpCRICKET31 Oct. -6 Nov.2016

All India IPSC Boys Cricket Tournament held at B.K.Birla Education Centre, Pune


12 – 24 Nov.2016

Cooch Behar Trophy National Tournament held at Jammu & Kashmir

Boys U-19 – ParticipationAmir Drabu, Rishab DrallAyush Badoni

11 Dec. 2016



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19 Dec.2016

Delhi Daredevils Cricket Tournament held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road


22 – 30 Dec. 2016

SGFI Cricket Nationals held at Indore

Boys U-19 – ParticipationSamarth Seth, Tishant Dabla, Dakshayan Varshney, Gurjas Singh, Rishab Drall, Gagan Vats, Abhishek Jain, Shivay Oberoi, Ayush Badoni, Amir Drabu

23 – 29Dec. 2016


Boys U-17 – ParticipationHritik Shokeen, Shrey Kaushik, Divij Mehra

23 – 30Dec. 2016


Girls U-19 – WinnerMallika Khatri (Delhi Team)Pratika Rawal (Delhi Team)

22 – 23 Dec. 2016



17 – 21Jan. 2017

B.K.Gupta Memorial Inter SchoolCricket Tournament held at Bal Bhavan International School, Dwarka


30 Jan. –6 Feb. 2017

SGFI Cricket Nationals held at Anand Nagar, Kopar Gaon, Shridhi

Boys U-14 – Prithyul Singh Anand, Yasir Aftab, Karan Guleria, Gantavya Motwani – Represented IPSC Team in Nationals

1 – 5 April2017

15th Madhavrao Scindia Memorial Cricket Tournament 2017 held at Scindia School, Gwalior

Boys U-19 - WinnerAyush Badoni – Best BatsmanHritik Shokeen - Man of the Tournament

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15 – 19 April 2017

15th Dhruv Pandove T-20 Cricket Tournament held at Yadavindra Public School, Patiala

Boys U-19 - WinnerAyush Badoni – Best Batsman

24 – 27 April 2017

2nd Verve Championship 2017 held at the Heritage School, Rohini

Boys U-14 - Winner

9 – 30April 2017

3rd Cricket Tournament for Croire Youth Cup held at Gurgaon

Boys U-14 - WinnerGantavya Motwani – Man of the Tournament

1 – 6 May2017

Sela Qui Inter-school Invitational Cricket Tournament held at Sela Qui International School, Dehradun

Boys U-19 – WinnerAbhishek Jain – Best BatsmanShubham Sharma – Best Wicket KeeperAyush Badoni - Man of the Tournament

28 Sept. - 2 Oct.2017

All India IPSC Cricket Championship held at Yadavindra Public School, Patiala


9 – 14 Oct. 2017

All India IPSC Cricket Tournament held at B.K.Birla School, Pune

Boys U-14 – Joint Winner

24 – 28Oct. 2017

IPSC Girls’ Cricket Tournament held at Pinegrove School, Dharampur, Kasauli


3 Nov 2017

All India IPSC Cricket Tournament, Vallabh Ashram School, Gujarat

Winner U-19

• Pratika Rawal and Rhea Sapra have been selected to represent in U-19 category in the D.D.C.A. North Zone Inter-state Tournament of the B.C.C.I. to be held from 1st to 7th November 2017.

• Shweta Sehrawat has also been selected to represent Delhi in U-17 category in SGFI Nationals to be held from 1st to 6th November 2017 in Godhra, Madhya Pradesh.

EQUESTRIAN

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20 – 26 Dec. 2015

Horse Riding Junior Nationals held at Pune

Boys U-17 – Jumping - Jaivanta Singh – GoldDressage - Jaivant Singh - Silver

25 March-3 April2016

Delhi Horse Show held at Army Polo Club and Riding Club (APRC)Delhi

Boys U-14Dressage – Jaivanta Singh–SilverNormal Show Jumping –Jaivanta Singh-Bronze

21 – 23March2017

All India IPSC Equestrian Championship held at Ajmer

Girls U-14 – Shivya Khandelwal - Ladies Hakes - GoldYaashvi Sharma – Ladies Hakes - SilverNuria Singh - Ladies Hakes – Bronze

25 March- 3 April2017

Delhi Horse Show held at Army Polo and Riding Clus.

Boys U-14Jaivanta Singh- Show Jumping - Gold- Dressage - Silver

FOOTBALL15 Oct. –2 Nov.2016

Zonal Football Tournament held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road

Boys U-19 – WinnersGirls U-19 – WinnersBoys U-17 – Winners

16 – 26Nov.2016

SGFI Nationals held at Andaman Nicobar

Boys U-17 – ParticipationShubh Sethi, Ghazi Shah, Rachit Jain, Harjas Singh Anand, Rabab Sethi

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28 Nov.- 2 Dec,2016

SGFI Nationals held at Sagar, M.P.

Girls U-14 – ParticipationArshiya Chaudhary, Ria Kochar, Suhani Dhupia, Vardhani, Simran Khera, Gurnoor Sikka

11 Dec. 2016



13 – 18 Dec. 2016

C.B.S.E. Football Nationals held a Varanasi

Girls U-19 – 2nd Runner Up

22 – 23 Dec. 2016



1 – 4 Feb.2017

Football Tournament for Arman Dogra Cup held at Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram

Boys U-15 – Third

25 April-1 May2017

SGFI Football Nationals held at Madak, Telangna

Girls U-19 – Sarina Maini, Vrivanda Saklani -Represented the Delhi Team

15 May –4 June 2017

Senior Women Nationals held at Phagwara, Punjab

Women – Anushka Samuel, Nandini Lohani, Smriti Chauhan – Represented the Delhi Team

17 – 22July 2017

All India I.P.S.C. Football Tournament held at Miles Bronson Residential School, Guwahati


20 Jul – 11 Aug. 2017

Junior Football Nationals held at Cuttack, Odisha

Girls U-19 – Anushka Samuel – Represented the Delhi Team.

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22 – 28 July 2017

All India I.P.S.C. Football Tournament held at Assam ValleySchool, Assam

Girls U-14 – Runner UpSuhaavi Dhupia – Best Scorer

Saanvi Gupta - Best Goal Keeper18 – 24 Aug. 2017

Mayo Football Tournament held at Mayo College, Ajmer

Boys U-19 – Runner UpGhazi Shah –Best Striker of the Tournament

28 – 26Aug. 2017

Football Ntionals held at HoshiarpurPunjab

Boys U–16 - Aditya Shekhar – Represented the Delhi Team

5 – 21 Oct.2017

Zonal Football Tournament held at St. Columba’s School, Delhi



3 Nov 2017

Jatin Bedi Football Tournament

U-19 – Runner Up Best player of Tournament – Shravan Bhat

GOLF17 – 21 April 2017

IGU Nationals held at West Bengal

Boys U-18 – Sai Vikram Angrish -Represented the Delhi Team

GYMNASTIC5 – 10 Jan. 2017

SGFI Nationals held at Sonepat

Boys U-19 – Vidhu Goyal – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

Girls U-17 – Aishani Katyal – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

Girls U-14 – Paridhi Jain – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

HOCKEY21 – 25Nov. 2016

SGFI Nationals Hockey Tournament held at Bhopal

Boys U-17 – ParticipationSaksham Aggarwal, Aman Bhatia

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21 – 25 Nov. 2016

13th Modernites’ Invitational Hockey Tournament 2016 for Rishabjeet Singh Wason Trophy held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road


21 – 27 Nov.2016

SGFI Nationals held at Bhopal

Boys U-17 – ParticipationAman Bhatia, Saksham Aggarwal

11 Dec. 2016



24 – 28Jan. 2017

All India Open Nationals held at Jalandhar, Punjab

Boys U-21 – Rahul Gharai, Rohit Gharai – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

6 – 16 May2017

Hockey Nationals held a Bengaluru

Boys U-19 – Rohit Gharai – Represented the Delhi Team

28 July –4 Aug.2017

2nd Manmohan Singh Gujral Memorial Inter-school Hockey Tournament held at Shivaji Stadium, New Delhi


KARATE12 -14 Aug. 2016

India Independence International Karate Championship held at Talkatora Stadium

Sub-Jr. – Anuraag Nair - Silver

KABADDI24 Sept.2017

KBD Junior held at Thyagraj Stadium, Delhi


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LAWN TENNIS9 – 11Nov. 2016

Zonal Tennis Tournament held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road

Boys U-19 – WinnerGirls U-19 – Runner UpBoys U-17 – WinnerGirls U-17 – WinnerBoys U-14 – Runner UpGirls U-14 – Winner

1 – 5 Dec. 2016

C.B.S.E.Tennis Nationals held at Noida

Girls U-14 – 2nd Runner UpTeam Event – Vidhi Madan, Ilina Jha, Fariyal Ansari, Tarunima Aggarwal

6 – 9 Dec. 2016

Inter School Tennis Tournament held at Vasant Vihar

Boys U-14 – Runner UpTeam Event – Raghu Raj, Vaman Kohli, Rehan Bose, Vikram Aditya

Girls U-14 – WinnerTeam Event – Ishita Pandey, Ilina Jha, Fariyal Ansari, Tarunima Aggarwal

11 Dec. 2016



25 – 30Dec. 2016

SGFI Nationals held at Vadodara

Boys U-19 – Veshesh Gaur – Participation

16 – 22 Jan. 2017

SGFI Nationals held at Mysore

Boys U-17 - Raghu Raj, Arjun Dahiya –Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

10 – 14April 2017

A.I.T.A. TS7 Tennis Tournament 2017 held at Emmar MGF, Emerald Hills, Gurugram

Boys U-16–Avik Chaudhary – Doubles – Winner Singles–Runner Up

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1 – 6 May 2017

SATS National Series AITA TennisTournament held at L.B. StadiumHyderabad

Boys U-18 – Avik Chaudhary – Represented the Delhi Team

6 – 12 June 2017

All India IPSC Tennis Championshipheld at Emerald Heights, Indore

Girls U-17–Individual Event–Aarti Jain –Winner

Team Event – 2nd Runner UpFerial, Ilina Jha, Aarti Jain

Girls U-14–Tarunima Aggarwal – 2nd Runner Up

1 – 12 Oct.2017

Zone 26 Tennis Tournament held at Thyagraj Stadium, Delhi

Boys U-19 – WinnerBoys U-17 – WinnerBoys U-14 – 2nd Runner UpGirls U-19 – 2nd Runner UpGirls U-17 – 2nd Runner UpGirls U-14 – 2nd Runner Up

RUGBY21 – 25 Dec. 2016

SGFI Nationals held at Bhubaneshwar, Odisha

Boys U-19 - Participation

SQUASH10 – 16 Nov. 2016

Bengal Squash Junior Cup held at Kolkata

Boys U-17 – Gautam Nagpal – BronzeGirls U-17 – Sanya Vats – GoldBoys U-15 - Tejas Chawla – Gold

19 – 22Nov. 2016

Delhi Junior Squash Championship held at Delhi

Boys U-17 – Gautam Nagpal – SilverGirls U-17 – Sanya Vats – SilverBoys U-15 - Tejas Chawla – Gold

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21 – 25 Nov. 2016

13th Modernites’ Invitational Squash Championship 2016 held at Modern School, Barakhamba Roa

Boys U-19 – WinnerGirls U-19 – WinnerBoys U-17 – WinnerGirls U-17 – WinnerBoys U-14 –Runner UpGirls U-14 –Runner Up

26 – 30 Nov. 2016

Khelshala Junior Open Squash Championship held at Chandigarh

Boys U-17 – Gautam Nagpal – BronzeGirls U-17 – Sanya Vats – GoldBoys U-15 - Tejas Chawla – Gold

11 Dec. 2016

Modernites’ Sports Day held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road New Delhi



24 – 28 Dec. 2016

HCL Jr. Squash Open held at Noida

Girls U-17 – Sanya Vats - Gold

Girls U-15 – Megha Bhatia - Bronze8 – 12 Jan. 2017

All India Chhattisgarh Open Squash Championship held at Raipur

Girls U-17 – Sanya Vats – Gold

18 – 24 Jan. 2017

SGFI Squash Nationals held at Chennai

Boys U-19 - Abhir Khanna – BronzeBoys U-17 - Gautam Nagpal – SilverTejas Chawla - RepresentedBoys U-14 - Mriddul Arora - Gold Boys U-17 - Sanya Vats - Silver

1 – 5 Feb. 2017

18th Asian Junior Team Squash Championship held at Hong Kong

Girls U-19 - Sanya Vats - 6th Position

8 – 12 Feb. 2017

Hamdard Delton Open Squash Championship held at Hamdard School, Delhi

Girls U-17 - Sanya Vats - Gold

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20 – 25 April 2017

Summer Classic Junior Squash Championship held at Gymkhana Club, Delhi

Girls U-17 – Sanya Vats – WinnerGirls U-15 – Megha Bhatia – Runner Up

28 Jun. -7 Jul. 2017

Penang Open Squash Tournament held at Malaysia

Boys U-19– Gautam Nagpal – Represented India

19 – 29July 2017

World Junior Individual Squash Championship held at Tauranga, New Zealand

Girls U-19 – Sanya Vats – Has been selected for Indian Team

July 2017

Squash Training Camp at Alexandria, Egypt

Sanya Vats was sponsored for three weeks training camp by the Squash Racket Federation of India

8 – 11Aug. 2017

All India IPSC Squash Championship held at Mayo College, Ajmer

Boys U-19 - Team Event – Winner Tejas Chawla, Gautam Nagpal Swayam Bhatia, Abhir Khanna

Individual Event Gautam Nagpal - Gold Tejas Chawla - Silver

Boys U-14 - Team Event - 2nd Runner UpMridul Arora, Rajeshman Sharma, Gurveer Singh Dhodi, Avi Soni

15 – 19Aug. 2017

24th Asian Junior Individual Squash Championship held at Jordan

Girls U-17 – Sanya Vats – Represented the Indian Team

21 – 26Aug. 2017

HCL 74th National Squash Champion-ship held at Shiv Nadar University,Greater Noida

Boys U-19 - Abhir Khanna, Gautam Nagpal, Tejas Chawla - Represented the Indian Team

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30 Aug. –3 Sept.2017

All India IPSC Squash Championshipheld at Raj Mata Krishna Kumari Girls’ School, Jodhpur

Girls U-19 – Team Event – Winner Sanya Vats, Megha Bhatia, Tanya Aggarwal

Individual Event Megha Bhatia – Gold Sanya Vats - Silver

SHOOTING16 – 18 Nov. 2016

C.B.S.E. Nationals held at Punjab

Boys U-17 – Sachin Singh - Participation

26 – 30Nov. 2016

SGFI Nationals held at Hyderabad

Boys U-17 – Sachin Singh - ParticipationGirls U-17–Radhika Shukla -Participation

SWIMMING8 – 10 Nov. 2016

Inter School Zonal SwimmingChampionship held at Talkatora Stadium

Boys U-19 – Priyank Rana – 3 Gold, 2 Silver

Boys U-19 -Waterpolo Team - Gold2 – 7 July2017

Junior National Swimming Champion-ship held at Pune

Girls U-19 – Radhika Shukla – Represented the Delhi Team

Boys U-19 – Aditya Verma – Represented the Delhi Team

13 – 15 July 2017

32nd All India I.P.S.C. Swimming Championship 2017 held at GenesisSchool, Noida

Boys U-19 - Individual EventsSaushtav Roy – 2 Gold, 3 BronzeYash Raj Shanker – 2 Gold, 2 BronzeAbhishek Choudhary – 4 BronzeAditya Kumar - 4 Bronze

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28 – 31 Aug. 2017

Open Aquatic Meet organized by Directorate of Education at Talkatora Stadium, Delhi

Boys U-19 - Individual EventsYash Raj Shankar - 2 Gold, 1 Silver,Saushtav Roy - 3 Silver

Boys U-14 - Individual EventsAditya Kumar - 1 Gold, 2 Silver

Girls U-17 - Individual EventsYashwani Suhag - 3 Gold, 1 SilverRadhika Shukla - 1 BronzeCharu Jain - 1 BronzeShreya Gupta - 1 Bronze

Girls U-14 - Individual EventsPalak Rastogi - 1 BronzeVedisha Jain - 1 BronzeMaanya Khandelwal -1 Bronze

1 – 5 Sept.2017

Open Delhi State Swimming Championship held at Talkatora Swimming Complex, Delhi

Boys U-19 – Water Polo Team – Runner Up

Boys U-17 – Individual EventArya Lamba – 1 Gold

Boys U-14– Individual EventAditya Kumar –1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Girls U-19 – Individual EventsAsawari Jindal - 1 Silver, 1 BronzeSarah Nagpal - 1 Silver, 1 BronzeRadhika Shukla - 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Girls U-17 – Individual EventsYashwani Suhag - 4 Gold, 2 SilverManya Khandelwal - 1 SilverChavi Jain - 1 Silver

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26 Sept.2017

Interface Swimming Meet held at Ardee School, Gurugram

Boys U-12 – Individual EventsAditya Kumar - 3 GoldVasuman Jain - GoldAryaman Varma - GoldDivij Manchanda - Gold

Boys U-14 – Individual EventsShivam Seth - SilverArya Lamba - 3 SilverYuvraj Paul - SilverSarnas Menon - Silver

26 – 28Sept. 2017

All India IPSC Swimming Champion-ship held at Vidya Devi Jindal School, Hissar

Girls U-19 - Individual EventSarah Nagpal - 1 Gold, 1 Silver

Girls U-17 - Individual EventYashwani Suhag - 5 Gold

TABLE TENNIS14 – 19 Nov. 2016

Open National Tennis Tournament held at Siliguri

Girls U-14 – Mannika Kesar – Participation

11 Dec. 2016




27 – 23 Dec. 2016

Inter Zonal Table Tennis Tournament held at J.L.N.Stadium, Delhi

Girls U-14 – Team Event – WinnerTamanna Gulshan, Mannika Kesar, Adhakha

22 – 23 Dec. 2016


Boys U-19 – Aum Tandon – Winner

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2 – 9 Jan. 2017

SGFI Nationals held at Thyagraj Stadium, Delhi

Boys U-14– Delhi Team Mannit Singh – Gold

Girls U-14 – Delhi Team - Tamanna Gulshan, Manika Kesar – Gold

Boys U-19 - Shivam Gupta – Represented IPSC Team in Nationals

Boys U-17 – Aum Tandon – Represented IPSC Team in Nationals

Boys U-14 – Armaan Duggar – Represented IPSC Team in Nationals

21 – 28 April 2017

13th Ramjas Public School Table Tennis Tournament held at Ramjas Public School, Anand Parbat, Delhi

Boys U-15 - BronzeTeam Event–Mannit Singh, Aryan Shiv Gupta, Jai Gupta, Jahaan Oberoi

18 – 20 July 2017

Zone-26 Inter School Table Tennis Tournament held at Sanskriti SchoolChanakyapuri, New Delhi

Boys U-19 – Team Event - WinnerShivam Gupta, Adiya Poddar, Aryan Aggarwal, Ishan Thapar, Ishaan Singhal

Boys U-17 – Team Event - WinnerAum Tandon, Ansh Kapoor, Mannit S.Narang, Dwij Sharma, Alex Lohani

Boys U-14 – Team Event - WinnerAryan Shiv Talwar, Jai Gupta, Jahaan S.Oberoi, Armaan Duggal, Arnav Aggarwal

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9 – 14Aug. 2017

All India IPSC Table Tennis Championship held at Pestle Weed Collge, Dehradun

Boys U-17 – Team Event – WinnerMannit Singh Narang, Ansh Kapoor, Aum Tandon, Arnav Arnav Aggarwal, Ishaan Singhal

Individual Event Mannit Singh Narang – Gold

Boys U-14 – Team Event – WinnerAryan S.Talwar, Jai Gupta, Jahaan Oberoi, Armaan Duggal Jayaditya Singhal

Individual Event Jai Gupta - Bronze20 – 22Aug. 2017

All India IPSC Table Tennis Championship held at Welham Girls’School, Dehradun

Girls U-14 – Team Event – Winner Tamanna Gulshan, Mannika Kesar, Mitali Goel

Individual Event Tamanna Gulshan - GoldMannika Kesar - Silver

29 – 31Aug. 2017

3rd Sports Inter School Table Tennis Championship held at Hansraj Model School, Punjabi Bagh, Delhi

Girls U-17 – Individual Event Tamanna Gulshan – Silver

Girls U-14 - Individual Event Mannika Kesar - Gold

Team Event Tamanna Gulshan, Mannika Kesar, Mitali Goel– Runner Up

9 – 13 Oct. 2017

C.B.S.E. Cluster XX Table Tennis Championship held at Mount Carmel School, Dwarka

Girls U-14 – Individual Event Tamanna Gulshan – Runner Up

Team Event Mannika Kesar – Winner Mitali Goel - Winner

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TAEKWONDO1 – 4 Dec. 2017

28th Delhi State ITF Taekwondo Championship held at Thyagraj Stadium , Delhi

Girls U-14 - Suvarna Viswanathan- Represented

22 Jan.2017

International Martial Arts and Taekwondo Games 2017 held Mumbai

Boys U-16 - Eklavya Jain – Silver

VOLLEYBALL10 – 17 Jan. 2017

SGFI Volleyball Nationals held at West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh

Girls U-17 – Tarika Jain, Girija Jhalani – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

YOGA 1 – 7 Jan. 2017

SGFI Yoga Nationals held at Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi

Boys U-19 – Karan Anand – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

Girls U-19 – Shivangi Menon – Represented Delhi Team in Nationals

29 – 31 May 2017

All India Yoga Championship held at Rajiv Gandhi Sports Complex, Delhi

Boys U-19 – Verdaan Jain – GoldGirls U-16 – Shivangi Menon – BronzeGirls U-12 – Nandini Rastogi – Gold -Varnika Gakhar - Silver

2 – 6 Oct.2017

All India IPSC Yoga Championshipheld at Mayo College, Ajmer

Boys U-19 – Verdaan Jain (Rhythmic) – Silver Boys U-17 – Karan Anand (Rhythmic) – Silver

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9 – 10 Oct. 2017

Zonal Competition held at Sarvodaya School, Malcha MargNew Delhi

Boys U-19 – Verdaan Jain (Rhythmic) – Silver

Girls U-19 – Shivangi Menon (Rhythmic) – GoldMaira Chandra (Artistic) - Gold

Boys U-17 – Karan Anand (Rhythmic) - Gold

Girls U-17 – Saumya (Rhythmic) - GoldNandini Rastogi (Artistic) - Gold

Boys U-14 – Tilak Virani (Rhythmic) – Gold

Girls U-14 – Srishti Gigwani (Rhythmic) – SilverVarnika Gakhar (Artistic) - Gold Harshita Gautma (Artistic) - Gold

15. P.T.A.

• As part of the D.E.A.R. Project, parents donated used text books as well as other extra books of their wards to the ‘Book Bank’ of the PTA. The books dropped by students of senior classes were picked up for use by students of junior classes. Remaining books were donated to NGOs working for under privileged children.

• PTA dinner with musical extravaganza is an annual event of the School’s calendar and was held on 13th April 2017, this year. It was essentially attended by the parents of students of Classes S1, S2 and S4 and witnessed a large number of participation from the parents.

• P.T.A. Academic Awards function of the Middle School was held on 17th July 2017. Mr Vivek Bhardwaj, an I.A.S. Officer, graced the function as the Chief Guest and distributed 149 awards to 144

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meritorious students for their fabulous academic performance during 2016-2017. The function not only delighted the awardees but also motivated the aspirants to achieve it in the years to come.

• P.T.A. Academic Awards function of the Secondary and Senior School was held on 18th July 2017 to honour the academic achievers of the year 2016-2017 from Classes S4 to S7. Dr Shyama Chona, Founder-President, Tamana Association, Delhi, and former Principal, Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, was the Chief Guest on the occasion and gave away 310 awards to 230 students.

• PTA Sports Awards function was held on 20th July 2017 to honour sportspersons who brought laurels to the School during the year 2016-2017. Mr Vijay Goel, Hon’ble Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports, gave away awards to 52 sports stars of ‘A+ Category’ (Position Holders or Participants in the International Sports Events and Position Holders in the SGFI, Open and CBSE Nationals). He also distributed awards to 229 sportspersons of ‘A Category’ (Participants in SGFI, Open and CBSE Nationals or Position Holders in IPSC, Inter Zonal & State tournaments).

• Election of members to the Executive Committee of the Parent Teacher Association for the year 2017-2018 was held during the Annual General Meeting of P.T.A. on 24th September 2017.

16. M.S.O.S.A

• 13th Modernites’ Invitational Hockey Tournament 2016 for Rishabjeet Singh Wason Trophy held in school from 21st to 25th November 2016.

• 13th Modernites’ Invitational Squash Championship 2016 was also held in school from 21st to 25th November 2016.

• M.S.O.S.A. held its Annual Sports Day on 11th December 2016. Various games were played between the teams of past and present Modernites. Our Boys (U-19) were Winner in Badminton, Basketball and Squash. They were Runner up in Cricket, Football, Hockey, Tennis& Table Tennis. Our Girls (U-19) were winner in Badminton & Squash. They were Runner Up in Basketball

17. MODERNITES’ TRUST

• In March 2017, five meritorious students were admitted to Class 6th with 100% scholarship by the Modernites’ Trust for their entire schooling. These students are – Krishna Tomar, Salman Haroon, Vaani Mehra, Bhanu Pratap & Kajal Tiwari.

• On 13th May 2017, a meeting was held to facilitate interaction of the trustees of the Modernites’ Trust and sponsors of the scholars, with the teachers, scholars and their parents. It was followed by a special Parent-Teacher Meeting held by the teachers to review the performance of the scholars in the presence of their parents and sponsors. To celebrate the achievements of the Modernites’ Trust scholars of the past one year, an Award Function was organized and cash awards were given away to deserving students for their impeccable performance in various fields. Certain scholars of Class S3 were given laptops to facilitate greater interaction with technology and supplement academic progress. These laptops were sponsored by Ms Jyoti Deep Kaur, who herself was a Modernites’ Trust scholar. To encourage the scholars and their parents, the function was also graced by Mr Ashok Pratap Singh; President Board of Trustees; Modern Schools, Mrs Ambika Pant; Secretary, Board of Trustees; Modern Schools, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul; a Judge of the Supreme Court of India and a Trustee of the Modernites’ Trust, Mr Sunder Hemrajani; President, Modernites’ Trust and Vidur Puri, Secretary, Modernites’ Trust, in addition to the sponsors of the scholars. The programme culminated with lunch for everyone.

• Before I conclude, I wish to state that in keeping with Lalajee’s vision, we continue to carry on the tradition and maintain high standards. We have not only produced academic toppers but also have sportspersons of National and International levels amongst the students on our rolls. This has been made possible by the dedicated and untiring efforts of our headmistresses Mrs Jaya Khurana, Mrs Malini Khatri, Mrs Prabha Bhagat, Mr Gautam Sarkar, Mr Rajesh Kumar and his team,Mrs Manpreet Kaur, the HODs, the Housemasters and all the teachers.They all deserve our appreciation. I thank Mr Gautam Sarkar for his technical support and Mr Nawal Singh for his

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artistic support for all activities/functions of the school. Our thanks are also due to the Administrative staff led by Mr Balbir Sharma, and Karamcharis with whose unstinted support, we continue to excel in all spheres of our activities. Before I conclude, I would like to place on record our sincere gratitude to Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, President, Board of Trustees, Modern School, for his constant guidance and unflinching support. Dr. S.Y. Quraishi, former Chairman of the Managing Committee of Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, for his kind support, Mr.Vijay Chadda, Chairman, Managing Committee of Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, for his continued guidance. Lastly, our grateful thanks are due to all the Trustees and the Members of the Managing Committee for their continued guidance and inspiration.

Edited and compiled byMs Lata Kishnani

Photographs: Ms Harpreet KhattarMr Lajpat

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