Greenwood High

NewsletterJune - 2016

Grades 5A, B, C

BACK TO SCHOOL:WORKSHOP ON TEAMWORK, MOTIVATION AND DECISION MAKING AT GREENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

17/06/2016

High SchoolGrades 9 & 10

Grade: 8C

Grade: 4

Grade: 3

13/06/2016

17/06/2016

Facilitator: Srishti Shah (Student counselor)

OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP: To sensitize students on the role of a counsellor. To highlight the importance of teamwork. To enlighten the students on decision making. To help students understand the concept of motivation.

The Achiever’s Assembly to congratulate the students who performed exceedingly well in the ICSE Board Examination 2016 was held on the 13th June in the School auditorium. Another year another ICSE exam – the Batch of 2015-16 achieved a 100 % result with 60% of the students scoring 90%. As is the tradition parents of the toppers in each subject were invited for the assembly.

Toshin P Reddy scored the highest overall aggregate with 97.8%. Avani Jethin scored 100 in Mathematics, Shivalli Verma and Siddharth C. Venkatesh scored 100 in Computer Applications and Dhanya Sri, Toshin P Reddy, Nidhi Giridhar and Himanshu Nagar scored 100 in Economic Applications. Congratulations to these students.

The opening day at the Kindergarten was fun filled as the children adjusted themselves to their daily routine almost immediately. In the Kindergarten the children make new friends, learn new ideas, reach new goals, solve new problems, play new games, and make mistakes while having fun.

8C kick started the academic year of 2016-2017 with their assembly, which was on the 17th of June.

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated and that’s precisely the reason why 8C chose the topic, ‘Appreciation’.

We thought the best way to get the message across to the audience would be through a skit. The story was simple and it focused on a boy who realized the mistake of not appreciating his mother during his childhood.

Soon after the skit, students shared various ways through which one can express their appreciation. Ritwik Chakravarty, who had penned down a poem highlighting the topic, got a chance to recite the same.

The assembly concluded by screening a PPT with various appreciation quotes.

It is a well-known fact that, ‘A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected!’

ALL THAT A KID NEEDS IS, A LITTLE HELP, A LITTLE HOPE AND SOMEBODY WHO BELIEVES IN THEM.

Here are the students who have been nominated to be the Prefects for the academic year 2016-17 for the Primary Department. We are really proud of them.

Our Principal, Mr. Aloysius D’Mello, and Vice Principal, Mrs. Elizabeth Joseph did the honour of pinning up the badges for our young leaders.

We congratulate them all and hope they will strive to prove themselves with a sense of responsibility.

"OUR FOOD” the topic in EVS for grade III was given a chance to view the process of making food in the grand new kitchen of GWH. The students were shown and explained about the food being prepared in large quantities and in the most hygienic way. They were amazed to see how their food was being prepared and served on their plates.

HAPPY EATING

CHESS

Shraddha Somanath of grade 3 I got the World Chess Federation title. She got the online title of AFM (Arena Fide Master) published by the World Chess Federation. She also won first place in the under 8 girl’s category.

Pragy Narayan of grade 3 A has won first place in the under 8 category in ICA April 2016 monthly chess tournament held in Bangalore, Second place in the under 15 category of ICA May 2016 monthly chess tournament in Bangalore and also bagged 4th place in the under 8 category of FIDE rated tournament at Sivakasi, Tamilnadu.

SPELL BEE

Mysha Amirah of 3 A got the first rank, Aryan Manuj of 3 E came third, and Niveditha S. Kumar of 4 D became the Budding star in the Eighth International Championship of the Marrs International Spelling held at Seth Juggilal Poddar academy, Mumbai on the 24th April 2016.

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KINDERGARTEN

It’s not just about ideas it’s about making ideas happen

BACK TO SCHOOL : It’s the mid-week of June and students are back to their activities – getting display boards ready with motivating thoughts all to keep the cheer and pace steady for the upcoming year.

THE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF 2016-2017

PREFECTS TODAY, LEADERS OF TOMORROW

21/06/2016

To sensitize students on the role of a counsellor. To highlight the importance of teamwork.

To help students understand the concept of motivation.To enlighten the students on decision making.

OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP:

STUDENTS SPEAK

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SESSION:

The session started with an orientation about counselling as a positive living initiative.

A brainstorming session on the concept of "teamwork" followed and the students understood that in the interest of a common cause, say winning a competition, they needed to work together and cooperate with each other. The students were able to identify with the fact that individually theywere one drop of water but together they were an ocean.

Students were briefed on the concept of "motivation". The way an individual' desire and interests affected their actions and behaviour was also discussed.

Students acknowledged that in order to succeed in life they must first believe that they can do it and not give into pessimism.

Students were empowered on decision making, especially choosing between where they 'should be' and where they 'wanted' to be.

The session ended with the students sharing their feedbacks.

“I learnt that in a team everybody should get a chance and the actions should be motivated by common interests of all.”

Activities/ ice breakers were conducted to demonstrate the above topics, they were divided into 4 groups and a 'Snake Game' and 'One min race game 'was played to see the power of team work, patience and motivation.

“I learnt that we should just not compete in activities, we should enjoy as a team as well.”

ACHIEVER’S ASSEMBLY

FROM THE FARM TO THE TABLE

WINNERS - CHESS, GOLF AND SPELL BEE

PRAGY NARAYAN SHRADDHA SOMNATH

AVANI PRASHANTH

GOLF

Avani Prashanth has finished at the top 2 position

in the US kids European Golf Championship

held at Gullane, Scotland.

ARYAN MANUJ MYSHA AMIRAH NIVEDITHA S. KUMAR