THE ADITYA BIRLA PUBLIC SCHOOL, KESROL, DAHEJ, GUJARAT BIANNUAL REPORT 2015-16

Dear Parents,

Wish you all A Very Happy Navaratri and Deepawali. Welcome to the wonderful world of Education! How should Education be? What should Education do? Is Education merely about acquiring skills to get a job? ……… As we stand at a unique point in time let us contemplate…….What should Education be about?........... Education has to be about nurturing the immense potential within each child. It has to be about cherishing the uniqueness within each child. It has to be about knowledge and wisdom. It has to be about building a strong character. It has to be about values. Education has to be about realization of our true selves, emancipation of all and being in harmony with the universe…..

Let us all join hands to truly educate the Children!

Adityans Excel! By the Immense Grace of Almighty, our children of have performed very well in CBSE Examination. Thanks to the tremendous work done by our children and teachers, constant support of our parents and management, the results are very good.

Class XII:

Topper in the Science Stream with 95% is SAKET JAJOO

Topper in the Commerce Stream with 94.4% is DEVASHREE NACHANE

11 students (i.e. 26.8% of the students) have scored 90% and above 28 students (i.e. 68.3% of the students) have scored 80% and above

Class X:

12 students have perfect CGPA of 10! DIVYA SHARMA KUSHAGRA SUKETU DAVE DRASHTI MINESH MODASARA MANSI KABRA TEJAS G NAIK RAJENDRA AGRAWAL ANUJ MAYUR SHAH DOSHI APOORVA KETANKUMAR CHATHURYA CHALLA DEEP KAUSHIK VAKIL TRIVEDI NRITYA BRIJESH AMRITA NAYAK

43 students( i.e. 48.31% of the students) have CGPA of 9 and above 61 students( i.e. 68.54% of the students) have CGPA of 8 and above

Placements: By the immense grace of Almighty our children have found placements in very good colleges and have chosen varied careers. Children are qualifying in multiple competitive examinations and choosing to follow their dreams. A few highlights are:

Nevil Shah Qualified IIT and KVPY Mansi Singh Qualified NIFT Meenva Rathod qualified NATA Saket Jajoo and Vraj Mehta have joined SVNIT Surat Darshan Mehta has chosen to follow a career in Music 9 students qualified JEE Advanced 25 qualified JEE mains 6 students qualified ACPC 4 students qualified GUJCET (Medicine) 3 students qualified CPT (CA entrance) 2 students have qualified for Law

NAME ACHIEVEMENT Nevil Shah IIT , JEE ADVANCE, KVPY

Chanakya Kumar JEE ADVANCE , JEE MAINS , ACPC, DDIT Nadiad, Gujarat

Devam Joshi JEE ADVANCE , JEE MAINS , VIT

Gitesh Das JEE ADVANCE, JEE MAINS, GUJCET. VIT

Jaimin Fojdar JEE ADVANCE , JEE MAINS , VIT

Khalak Aggarwal JEE ADVANCE , JEE MAINS , PDPU Gandhinagar Gujarat , VIT

Saket Jajoo JEE ADVANCE , JEE MAINS , SVNIT Surat; Nirma University

Vivek Joshi JEE ADVANCE , JEE MAINS

Vraj Mehta JEE ADVANCE , SVNIT Surat JEE MAINS

Megha Patel JEE MAINS; ACPC, SVMIT.

Silvi Jain JEE MAINS ; ACPC, DDIT Nadiad

Divya Chaturvedi JEE MAINS; ACPC, P U Vadodra Gujarat.

Divyansha Mehta JEE MAINS ; ACPC , LJ College Ahmedabad Gujarat

Zalak Patel JEE MAINS ; ACPC

Mansi Singh NIFT ( Rank 276 ) ; JEE MAINS

Shrey Jain JEE MAINS, SCET (Government College) Surat.

Vishal Jaiprakash Nair JEE MAINS ; KEAM ( Kerela Entrance ) ; SRM ( Chennai )

Pranav Nair MAINS ;, VIT( Chennai )

Anirudh Kaushik JEE MAINS ; SRM ( Delhi )

Meenva Rathod JEE MAINS , NATA

Darshan Mehta JEE MAINS , MUSIC SCHOOL IN MUMBAI

Prima Doshi JEE MAINS , SRM ( Chennai )

Rohit Sharma JEE MAINS ; B.TECH Rajasthan ; Petroleum University Dehradun

Megh Choksi JEE MAINS

Palak Jain JEE MAINS

Aishwarya Mathur JEE MAINS

Nuzhat Patel JEE MAINS , Medicine GUJCET

Artheshwari Rana Medicine GUJCET; LAW GNLU ( Gujarat National Law University )

Maliha Ansari Medicine, GUJCET , VIT

Shivang Amin Medicine, GUJCET

Devashree Nachane CA - CPT ; B.Com , HL College , Ahmedabad, Gujarat University

Lavanya Jain CA - CPT ; B.Com , HL College , Ahmedabad, Gujarat University

Nilabh Agrawal CA - CPT ; B.Com , Ahmedabad , Gujarat

Ashka Kakkad B.Com , Delhi University

Aakash Bhadoria B.Com ( Hons. ) , M.S University , Vadodra , Gujarat

Toral Mahajan B.Com ( Hons. ) M.S University , Vadodra , Gujarat

Sahil Agrawal B.Com , HL College ,Gujarat University Ahmedabad , Gujarat

Hrishik Soni B.B.A with LLB , U W S L , Gandhinagar , Gujarat

Jitesh Gulgulia B.B.A , SEMCOM , Anand , Gujarat

Sandhya Maheshwari B.Com , D S D I C Nadiad , Gujarat

Drashti Patel BCA , Bharuch , Gujarat

Adityans Learn! Induction programme meetings were held for parents of Nur. to XII. The teachers discussed the learning outcomes so that the parents understand the road map which will be followed for the coming year.

A social studies class! Beautiful costumes, varied food but One India!

An Exhibition for Dr. Kalam!

Our students had a wonderful opportunity to interact with Dr. A. Kalam and present models and charts related to Space Visitors and Astronauts in a Science exhibition organized at Ankleshwar on 24th April 2015.

Creativity at play!

Learning Yoga! Yoga Week at School.

Career Orientation and Counseling.

Career orientation and counseling programme for classes IX to XII was held by Young Buzz, Mumbai.

Our young entrepreneurs! School Enterprise Challenge!

Our students have joined The School Enterprise Challenge with great enthusiasm.

Learning Music with Body Percussion with Meera from Australia

We believe that we all should learn as long as we still have something to learn, and this means all our lives.

Teachers’ Workshop on Leading and Managing People

All the teachers attended workshop on ‘Leading and Managing People’ organized by MS. N Kapoor in from 1st June to 4th June 2015

Mrs. Shiny Varghese and Mrs. Shikha Gupta attended a workshop organized by National Geographic at PRFS, Mathura on 26th July 2015

Our teachers at the SPIC MACAY convention at NID Gandhi Nagar

Mr. Nilesh Solanky and Mr. D. Barot attended the SPIC MACAY convention at NID Gandhi Nagar. Mr. Rakesh Mishra participated in a training programme organized by ISRO on GEO SPATIAL

TECHNOLOGIES AND REMOTE SENSING held at Ahmadabad from 26 July to 7 August 2015. Mr. Gobind Moorjani, Vice Principal attended a workshop organized by ABG at Gyanodaya

Mumbai from 14th-15th September 2015. Mrs. Sunita Singh and Mr. Kuldeep Parmar attended a Financial Education Training Programme

for CBSE School Teachers Conducted by NCFE (National Centre for Financial Education) in partnership with CBSE from 30th September to 1st October 2015.

Adityans Create! Creative work is Play. It is free speculation using materials of one’s chosen form. This was amply visible during Rakhi Making, Creative Writing, Fancy Dress, Drawing, Colouring or elocution!

Hindi Poetry Recitation!

Fancy Dress!

Adityans Celebrate! “Let us share our similarities, celebrate our differences. The more we praise and celebrate our life, the more there is in life to celebrate”

Proud To Be An Indian! Independence Day!

Janamastami Celebrations!

Tribute to all the Teachers at ABPS, on Teachers Day!

Teachers’ day was celebrated with special affection. There was intense emotion, wonderful programmes and beautiful cards for teachers

French Day! Learning languages of the world…

Each subject in the curriculum has a special significance and aspects which at times can’t be highlighted during content teaching. In order to showcase a Kaleidoscopic view of each subject,

different days are allocated to each subject. Gujarati, English, French and Hindi day were celebrated. The wealth of hidden treasure of each subject was highlighted each day. To keep the students connected to various aspects of the modern ever changing world we held special assemblies on International Earth Day, World environment Day, Preservation of Ozone Layer Day, International Literacy day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Grand Parent’s Day. Children designed beautiful cards and wrote poetry for their mothers, fathers and grandparents.

Adityans Garner Honours! Naturally our children gathered many honours. A choir of 11 students secured second position in the patriotic song competition held on 15th August 2015. Bhumika Ailawadi won a prize at the Calorx Interschool Drawing Competition. Two Adityan teams have qualified for the final round of “INCA-NATIONAL MAP QUIZ”

Kartikeya Thadani ( 9 C) Shikhar Saxena (9 A) V.S.Yashwant ( 10 A)

Aniket Nayak (9 B) Sanyam Jain ( 9 B) Pranjal M ( 10 A)

Eight Adityans have reached the semi-final level of Katha’s initiative of ‘Search for Excellence in Creative Writing’.

Rashika Kurana VII Kairavi IX Avantika Bhalodia X Liza Fernandis IX S Aparna Tejaswini VIII-B Harsh Poonia VII-A Bhakti Sheth IX-A Mohsina Khan X-C

Navneethan and Ishan qualified the district level Gita Chanting Competition held by Chinmaya Mission. Navneethan has been selected for theState level Our students participated in various games and competitions held at district level. The winners who are qualified to participate at state level are: CHESS UNDER -14 YEARS

1. Astha Bhalodiya

CHESS UNDER -17 YEARS 1. Debargya Dutta 2. Nihar Shah 3. Ishita Gupta

LAWN TENNIS UNDER-14 YEARS

1. Aneri Sharma LAWN TENNIS UNDER-17 YEARS

1. Vishesh Sharma TAEKWANDO UNDER-14 YEARS 1. Annirudh Parmar

2. Heera Singh 3. Giriraj Barad

TAEKWANDO UNDER-19 YEARS

1. Shovik Nandi BADMINTON UNDER-17 YEARS

1. Ravi Thakker

Faiz Molvi, age 9 and Alisha Molvi age 6 gold medalists in TAEKWONDO at National level! Shovik Nandi has a BLACK BELT in TAEKWONDO Vashvi Bhatt is a black belt in KARATE just at the age of 13! Debagra Dutta, age 15, has INTERNATIONAL CHESS FIDE RATING of 1540!

Our teacher Mrs. Manisha Vaid was hounoured by the Inner Wheel Club for explosion of her ideas regarding ‘The Qualities of an Ideal Teacher’.

Adityans Build Constantly! The teachers designed study material to facilitate and elevate revision and remedial work. Our teachers are constantly working to enhance experiential learning. As we continue to grow constantly, we continue to enhance the existing structures. We now have a new boundary wall.

Adityans Care!

Children, our change agents; share knowledge, collaborate with others to spread the message of Sustainable Living and create ‘Butterfly Effect’ ripples. We are actively involved with the ‘Harmony’ project to Green the Earth and conserve biodiversity.

It gives me great pleasure to report that the trees planted in the past years are blooming and flowering.

Greening the Planet! World Environment Day.

100 more trees have been planted by the children to enhance this effort.

Herb Gardening!

Children are actively engaged planting herbs.

Building bonds at the village school Bhadbhut!

Our children have been actively involved with the local community at Bhadbhut, Bharuch

Gujarat in creating awareness about keeping the coastal area clean and helping them take care of their marine Biodiversity under Project 1600 in collaboration with Australia and CEE. (This is the breeding place of Hilsa fish. There are only two such places in the world!)

Adityans Share!

Our educational spaces are inclusive, accessible and equitable. We bridges with the vulnerable; old people, rural schools, special children. As a part of our ‘Nurture’ project we give generously to those who need care.

Adityans spreading the message of cleanliness at Bhadbhut School.

Adityans Khushi Thakker, Mansi Mody, Kairavi Lukka, Sanyam Jain and Aniket Nayak donated

dustbins to the primary School at Bhadbhoot. They organized a drawing competition to spread the message of cleanliness at home and surrounding areas.

Gandhi Jayanti was observed by putting Gandhian philosophies into practice. Students cleaned their class rooms, school building and compound, to commemorate the legacy of Bapu.

To spread Literacy and build bonds, our children played games exchanged stories with the school children of village school at Navetha and Ashram School at Atali and gifted Gujarati story books.

All these achievements have become possible because of intensely focused work of our entire team, our teachers, our staff, our students, our management and our parents. We are indeed fortunate that our management is deeply committed to the growth & development of our school, our parents truly value education & support us constantly, our teachers are ready to innovate and our children are eager to learn. We would like our children to be strong and self-reliant. We would like our children to be at home in the humblest abode and also to stand tall amongst the crème de la crème. We would like our children to be true leaders and change makers. We would like our children to become their best possible selves. Let us all pledge to do what is best for our children, our greatest assets. Let us all invest resources; thought, time, energy, manpower and money in education. I thank you all for your unstinting support in all our endeavors.

May our Adityans enlighten the universe!