AECS MAGNOLIA MAARUTI PUBLIC SCHOOL Arekere , B.G. Road, Bangalore - 76

LKG

NOVEMBER 2013

NEWS LETTER

WISH YOU ALL

A VERY HAPPY

AND

SAFE DEWALI

November

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Holiday Kannada

Rajyotsava

2 Holiday Naraka

Chaturdasi

3 Diwali

/Deepavali

4 Holiday

Balipadyami

5

6 Kannada

Rajyotsava Celebration

7 8 9

OPEN

HOUSE

10 11 Rhymes

Competition

12 13 Children’s

Day

Celebration

14 Holiday Muharram

15

16

17 18 19 Special Assembly

Students are

asked to come in

white dress

20 Holiday

Kanakadasa

Jayanti

21 Fancy

Dress

Portraying

India

22 Colouring

Activity

23

24 25 Flag Day

26 27 28 29 30

Kannada Rajyotsava (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ;

Karnataka Formation Day; literally "Birth of

the Karnataka state") is celebrated on 1 November every year.

This was the day in 1956 when all the Kannada language-

speaking regions of South India were merged to form the

state of Karnataka.

Deepawali or Diwali is a festival of lights symbolizing the victory of righteousness and

the lifting of spiritual darkness. The word “Deepawali” refers to rows of diyas, or clay

lamps. This is one of the most popular festivals in the Hindu calendar. It is celebrated

on the 15th day of Kartika, according to the Hindu calendar. This festival

commemorates Lord Rama's return to his kingdom Ayodhya after completing his 14-

year exile.

The Goddess Lakshmi was Vishnu’s consort and she symbolizes wealth and prosperity.

She is also worshipped on Diwali. This festival is celebrated in West Bengal as "Kali

Puja", and Kali, Shiva's consort, is worshipped during Diwali. The festival of

lights,Diwali in southern India often commemorates the conquering of the Asura

Naraka, a king of Assam who imprisoned many people. It is believed that Krishna freed

the prisoners.

Kanaka Dasaru (1509–1609) was a poet, philosopher, musician and

composer from modern Karnataka. He is known for his

Kirtanes and Ugabhoga compositions in the Kannada language

for Carnatic music. Like some other Dasas, he often used colloquial

language for his compositions. He was a disciple of Vyasathirtha and a

follower of Dwaita philosophy propounded by Madhvacharya.

OPEN HOUSE : Saturday, 9th

November 2013

The second open house session will be held on Saturday, 9th

November

2013 between 9: 00 am to 12:00 Noon. The teachers will be mentioning

the time slot in the school almanac. Parents are requested to come on

time and meet the respective class teachers in order to avoid the rush.

Children are the living messages we send to a time that we

will not see. Enjoy the spirit of children‟s day- 14th November.

A day to show love and affection to every child, a day to

show respect for the great person and first Prime minister of

independent India - Jawaharlal Nehru, This day is celebrated

to remind each one of us to renew our commitment to the

welfare of children and teach them to live by Chacha Nehru‟s

quality of dream. On children‟s Day let‟s wish that may the

love and laughter always stay on every child‟s face.

The Muharram is a sacred festival of the Muslims. This

festival is in the first month of the Islamic Calendar.

The Muhrram Festival commemorates the martyrdom

of the Prophet Mohammed’s Grandson- Hazrat Imam

Hussein Muharram is celebrated with great fervour

.May we all strive to attain Allah’s nearness , pleasure,

forgiveness and mercy.

COMMUNAL HARMONY WEEK

19/11/2013 to 25/11/2013

The National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH) observes Communal

Harmony Campaign and Fund Raising Week every year from 19th to 25th

November and the last working day of this week is observed as the Flag Day.

The school will also observe Communal Harmony week from 19th

November 2013 to

25th

November 2013. The Kindergarten section has planned to conduct various

activities to promote brotherly and friendly relations among them, maintain peace

& communal harmony and national integration.

THE ITINERARY FOR THE WEEK

19/11/2013 : Special Assembly - Skit by UKG students.

Tuesday Parents are requested to send their wards in white colour dress.

21/11/2013 : Fancy Dress – Portraying India

Thursday Parents are requested to send their wards dressed in costumes

representing one of the states of India.

22/11/2013 : Colouring Activity

Friday

25/11/2013 : Flag Day + Marathon Run

Monday

MONTESSORI ACTIVITY Buttoning Frames Knob less cylinders

Rhymes Session

English NUMBER WORK EVS

Intro to letter m , s, w and v

Intro to number : 16 to 20 After Numbers 1 – 20 Before Numbers 1 – 20 Between Numbers 1-20 Backward Numbers 20 - 1

Vegetables

Once I Saw A Little Bird

Once I saw a little bird

Come hop, hop, hop.

And I cried, "Little bird,

Will you stop, stop, stop?"

I was going to the window

To say, "How do you do?"

When he shook his little tail

And away he flew.

Six Little Mice Sat Down To Spin

Six little mice sat down to spin;

Pussy passed by and she peeped in;

"What are you doing, my little men?"

"Weaving coats for gentlemen."

"Shall I come in and cut off your threads?"

"No, no, Mistress Pussy, you'd bite off our heads."

"Oh, no, I'll not; I'll help you to spin."

"That may be so, but you don't come in!"

Report for the Month of October Important days observed in the Assembly

Gandhi Jayanthi

On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti , students paid tribute to the Father of the Nation through a cultural

programme on 1st October. Students sang Sarvadharma Prarthana and remembered Gandhiji‟s quotes. Mrs.

Geetharamani gave a speech on great sacrifices done by Gandhiji to attain independence and the difficulty

that he faced throughout his life to follow his principles. Speech by Harini Bhaskaran of Grade I, song by

Rajat Kumar of Grade III and Punyashree of Grade IX, arabic prayer by Numa and Saniya of Grade VI

were the higjlight of the programme .

Airforce Day was observed on

October 8th 2013. Saranya of Grade

V paid tribute to the Indian Air Force.

She spoke about the establishment

and working of Indian Airforce.

World Post Office Day

World Post office day celebrates the hard work and social contributions of all the postal services.

Madhumita of grade VI and Srideep Santosh of Grade I made us aware about the Universal Postal Union

(UPU) which was established in 1874 and its contribution to the social and economic development of

countries. Awareness was brought among the students about the functioning of the post office.

Sanskrit Day

10

th October is celebrated as Sanskrit day in India. AECS MMPS celebrated this day with great pomp.

Students of 5th grade chanted Sanskrit shlokas. Preetam, Tejas, Sakshi and Samarth spoke in Sanskrit and

made us aware about the importance of Sanskrit which is representing our rich Indian heritage. Vin Ashwin

spoke about the history and development of Sanskrit.

World Food Day was observed on October 16

th, 2013 in honour of

the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations which

was formed in 1945. Rajlakshmi of Grade VII gave information on

“Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition which is

the theme for World Food Day 2013.

COUNSELLING SESSION for VI to VIII

Topic: Communication Skills

Mrs. Radha Srinivasan - Counsellor, took the sessions for 6-8 on 24

th and 25

th October. Poor

communication is the inability to convey your message to the other person or a group. The aim of this

session was to build up confidence, listening skills and speaking skills among the students. This session

addressed not only to improve communication skills but also to reduce speech anxiety.There was an

activity conducted for the students called “Chinese whisper”

Chinese whisper is a game played around the world, in which one person whispers a message to another,

which is passed through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group to

see the original message was conveyed the same way throughout.

The students enjoyed this activity with great enthusiasm. A detailed power point presentation was

conducted on communication skills with various examples.To sum up all ,it was yet another interactive

and interesting session with the students.

COUNSELLING SESSION for IX and X: Topic-Effective Comminication

A counselling session was conducted for grade IX and X

by Mrs. Radha Srinivasan on October 7th 2013 on

effective communication. The session mainly focussed on

listening, perceiving and how listening constitutes 45%

of our learning and retention ability. The students were

made aware about how the rating scale focuses in an

ascending order from - writing, reading, speaking and

listening. Students were told the importance of body

language, style and words and how to be active listeners

to improve communication.

COUNSELLING SESSION for I and II: Topic- FOOD

The second counselling session for Grade I and II was conducted on 28

th October 2013 by Mrs Shibani -

Health and Wellness teacher of our school. This time the session focussed on “Food” under which the

students were made aware about the advantages of healthy fresh cooked food as compared to fast food,

importance of balanced diet and disadvantages of junk food. All this was explained with the help of an

animated movie and a visual game which the students enjoyed thoroughly.

DASARA CELEBRATION 7

th October 2013, marked the celebration of Vijayadashami in the AECS premises. Relating oneself to the

culture and tradition embarks ethical values in students.

Karnataka is well known for the display of dolls on the eve of Dasara. To enlighten and aware the students

about the customs followed, „Bombe Habba‟ was organised and celebrated with great pomp and show

amongst the students.

Students from Grade: 6 to 8 were asked to display varied dolls and decorate the same. It was an inter-

house competition where all the four houses namely Ganga, Godavari, Kaveri and Yamuna competed

against each other. Every house also brought up a speech on „Dasara - Welcome Goddess Durga‟ which

highlighted as how and why the festival is celebrated. Students were asked to wear ethnic attire. Few girls

also dressed as Maa Durga.

Kaveri House turned out to be the sole winner and Godavari House as the runner up.

On the whole it inspired the entire student group to be deep rooted to their customs and traditions. It was

an enriching and above all a great learning experience for them.

Grandparents Day

After the grand success of the „Grandparents Day‟ event

for LKG in the month of September, „Grandparents Day‟

was celebrated for the grandparents of Pre Kg on 5th

October 2013 in the school premises.

The students started the programme traditionally with

the prayer followed by dance performances by the tiny

tots.The students showcased their daily assembly activity

which is the combination of shlokas, songs and rhymes.

Special activities for grandparents were held. They

participated enthusiastically. It was good to see the

grandparents and their grandchild celebrating this special

event together.

A Visit to Biology Laboratory

As the theme of the month for UKG was vegetables, the students were taken to the biology lab to show

the onion peal under the microscope. The basic motive of this visit was to explain the students that all the

living things are made of cells, which are the building blocks of life. The little ones were so excited and

amazed to see the microscopic view of onion skin which had several rectangular cells, each with a small,

spherical nucleus.

The students discovered and were introduced to the awesome world of Science where they also saw the

skeleton of human being.

RECREATION SESSION FOR KINDERGARTEN

On 4th October 2013, as a part of recreation for the students from their daily schedule, an animated

movie “ Madagascar” was screened which was purely based on animals. Each and every child enjoyed the

session by clapping and cheering for each and every scene.

We hope that the students expressed their joy at home.

Kaveri House Special Assembly

Kaveri House of Primary wing conducted special assembly on 25

th October 2013 ,which was based on the

theme “A tribute to Indian Army”. Students of Grade I to V presented a skit which portrayed the story of

Army regiments who protect our country borders and keep us safe from enemy attacks and in doing so

they sacrifice a lot of things in their life. They are always ready to follow the orders of their superiors and

lead a life which is very unpredictable. This skit was a attempt to honour and salute these great individuals.

The students enjoyed performing as well as spectators were touched by the performances.

SAVE WATER CAMPAIGN

Bangalore Water Board authority conducted a

campaign on “Save Water” for the students of

6,7 and 8 on 3rd October. Under this ,„Save

Water! Save Future!‟ Painting Competition was

held for the students.

Special Highlights

The Bangalore Sahodaya Association had organised various cultural competitions at different venues on

26th October 2013.

Xpress-1 competition was held at Deen‟s Academy, whitefield in which 2 students of Grade IX

participated.

Group Dance competition was held at Alpine Public School in which 8 students of Grade VI to VIII

participated.

Group song competition was held at Smart School, Macho halli in which 9 students of Grade I to III

participated.

Drawing competition was held at Vyasa International School in which 3 drawings of Grade III and

IV students were sent .

Awards and Rewards

The Australian Mathematics Competition

The Australian Mathematics competition 2013 sponsored by Common Wealth Bank was organised for

Grade III to XII in which 13 students had participated. The following students came up with flying colours.

Nikin T of Grade XII received High distinction award.

Preetam Reddy M of Grade VII and Vibhu Kalaparthy of Grade XII received Credit Award

Vignesh K B of Grade VII and Abhirami Baalaji Iyer of Grade XII received Proficiency Award.

“TECHNICHE”

v Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati had organised “TECHNICHE”, which is The Annual

Techno-Management Festival .Students of Grade XI and XII participated in “Technothlon 13

Preliminary Exam” on 14th July 2013. Four students secured the prestigious “Silver Certificate” for

qualifying with an All India Ranks in FLAUTS SQUAD.

Anna Shajee – Grade XII -128th Rank Sheetal Pasam- Grade XII- 128

th Rank

Prathik K – Grade XI- 240th Rank Vikram Nitin – Grade XI- 240

th Rank.

THE AMTI CONTEST

The Association of Mathematics Teachers of India , Chennai had conducted The 45th National

Mathematics Talent Contest 2013-14 for grade V to XII in which the following 20 students were

among the Top 10% Scorers of our Institution in the Screening Test.

S no Names Grade Level

1 Varun Pillai V Primary Level

2 Srivatsan C X Junior

3 Rweetam Bhattacharya X Junior

4 Vin Ashwin Ramamurti I X Junior

5 Kriti Rajesh Bapnad X Junior

6 Shreyan Gupta XII Inter level

7 Karan Sinha Jitendra Patil XII Inter level

8 Saurabh Pinjani XII Inter level

9 Balasubramanian G XII Inter level

10 Pranjal Mehta XI Inter level

11 Akhil Vaidyanathan XI Inter level

12 Kulraj Singh Kohli XI Inter level

13 Yash Mehta XII Inter level

14 Nikin Tharar XII Inter level

15 Suraj Negoe XI Inter level

16 Amir Ahmed Ramzani XII Inter level

17 Uttam R XI Inter level

18 Rutuj Jugade XII Inter level

19 Arun Garimella XI Inter level

20 Anicha J S Reuban XI Inter level

Synchronize 2013

Bishop Cotton Boys School organised Synchronize 2013 on 25th and 26

th October 2013. The events like

Blogger, Anonymous, Clash of Titans, Technokrat, Spark, Dexterity, Quad Damage and Blookwork etc

were conducted.Our students of Grade XI and XII were able to bag the following Prizes:

S.no Names Event Prize

1 Soorya Annadurai Technokrat II Prize

2 Rohin Gopalakrishnan and Ritesh

Chitalia

Anonymous I Prize

PRODIGEOUS ACHIEVEMENT

National Level CBSE Science Exhibition 2013 was organised by CBSE in which 1500 schools all

over India had participated. Nikhil Rangarajan and Srinath Makesh of Grade XI prepared a

project on Generating electricity from Rice husk and extracting silica from Rice husk ash and

Vaibhav Sathpathy and Abhinav Sujith of grade XI prepared a project on Sythetic Fuel which

was named as „SYNFUEL‟

AECS is proud to announce that the project of Generating electricity from Rice husk and

extracting silica from Rice husk ash by Nikhil Rangarajan and Srinath Makesh was selected

among 262 schools for National Level which was held at Delhi in September.

They were further selected among the 20 National winners out of which 8 projects were shortlisted

.AECS team with Nikhil and Srinath are among these 8 teams and are qualified to participate in The IRIS

INTEL SCIENCE FAIR, which will be conducted in Christ college, Bangalore from 21st to 23

rd November

2013. The team that will win in The IRIS INTEL SCIENCE FAIR will get a chance to represent India at the

United States of America.

CUBS TRAINING CAMP AT AECS

We are pleased to announce that Mr Rajesh (PE instructor) has completed his training as cub master in

scouts and guide at Bangalore South Dist Association of Bharat Scout and Guide, Karnataka. In order to

expand the scout movement in our school we are going to open a unit of training called “Cubs” for the

boys in the age group of 5 to 10yrs.The main objective of introducing the Scout and Guide movement is

to contribute to the promotion of physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potentialities of student's and

make them responsible members of the local national and international communities. It provides ample

opportunities for inculcating moral, social and democratic values and developing the spirit of co-

operation by encouraging participation in various scout and guide activities.

We are happy to receive a good response from parents. We would also like you to know that we are

working ahead to introduce the BULBULS training for primary girls and Scouts and Guides training for

higher grade in near future.

Chain Community Service: Joy of Giving

AECS has expanded the paradigm of Chain Community Services over the course of this academic year .

After the distribution of clothes and food grains or raising funds for nearby schools and organisations,

AECS took up the mission of adopting “The Government Higher Primary School” at Bingipura, Anekal

Taluk, with a vision to take up various programs aimed at improving quality of education in the school.

The first venture after the adoption was the unique concept of Mobile Library or Book mobile.

Disseminating knowledge through books in areas where people have the inclination, but no scope, is the

bookmobile or mobile library

Under this programme, we had also approached the parents to donate their old English or kannada books

for which there was a good response. We thank all the parents who donated towards this venture. There

was a huge contribution of books done by our management to make this Mobile Library Program more

effective.

Mobile Library program was executed on 28th October, 2013 which was headed by Ms Anjali, a Kannada

teacher from our school. She visited “The Government Higher Primary School” at Bingipura, along with

four students of VII and VIII grade. The students of VI , VII, VIII of the Government School were thrilled to

see variety of books . They were allowed to select the books of their own choice and read for almost 3

hours. Ms Anjali and our school students helped the readers to spell and pronounce difficult English and

Kannada words. It was a very enlightening experience for the students of both the schools.

We would like to expand such outreach programmes in the future and hope that we get the same support

from our students and parents.

Our Students of V Grade have showed their talent in Book –Cover Designing

VArun Pillai Pramath Jois Vivek Pillai

Diwali is that wonderful time of the year when festivities are in the air and nip of winter

brings with it the smell of mouth watering delicacies. But along with all the celebrations

and festivities come the ear bursting noise and the thick pungent smells of crackers that

hangs in the air, days before and after Diwali.

To bring awareness among our students, discussion sessions were taken in the Grade I to V

classes. Teachers explained them about the harmful effects of burning crackers and the

students took up a pledge to celebrate an eco friendly Diwali this year by making charts.

We request all the parents to guide your children in the same way .May you all enjoy

Diwali with diyas, sweets, rangoli and gifts instead of crackers and fireworks .

Mrs. Sridevi Dinesh COORDINATOR