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Dear Students, Parents and Well-wishers,

I begin by congratulating all the students who appeared for the ICSE and

ISE board examinations. Overall, the results have been exceptional and

you all have done your school proud. I would also like to make a mention

of Sasha Agarwal and Rajit Banerjee for their ranking in the board

examinations and Shubhaditya Basu for WBJEE 2018 .You have all

proved that a holistic approach to education is a good model for students

and futuristic as well. In school, we emphasize on ten distinct skills that

need to be honed to meet the challenges. Below are the ten factors which

are gaining global acceptance:

1. Complex problem solving skills

2. Critical thinking.

3. Creativity.

4. People management.

5. Coordinating with others

6. Emotional intelligence

7. Judgement and decision making.

8. Service orientation

9. Negotiation

10. Cognitive flexibility.

We want our students to be “future ready”. In the World Economic Summit at Davos, the main focus was on the

Future of Education in the age of Artificial Intelligence. (AI)

While artificial intelligence to an extent can provide the critical solutions, it is likely to ignore the human factor.

This is where human intelligence comes in. This is what you all must be prepared for. It will involve all your cre-

ativity and logical reasoning powers to analyze this situation and bring forth solution which will benefit man-

kind.

I can assure you that our school is considering developing methods which help our students to meet the coming

challenges.

Warm regards,

John Andrew Bagul

CREATIVITY ON BOARDS

CREATORS

INNOVATORS PHILOSOPHERS

SCIS BUZZ

Editorial Team

Ms. Dolly Chowdhury

Ms. Mondira Sarkar

Ms. Deepti Bhattacharya

Ms. Sawandipa Banerjee

Ms. Manisha Pandey

Mr. Abhishek Guha

Ms. Asmita Kapoor

Inside this issue:

From the Principal’s

Desk 1

ICSE and ISC Exami-

nation 2018 2

Interactive Session on

Education in New

Zealand

ICS Aptitude Test

TED Talk

Inter House English

Elocution Competition

Inter House Debate

Competition

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SCIS Happenings

Morning Assemblies

4

PrimarySection-

Activities 5

Inter - Class English

Elocution Competition

(Primary)

Inter - House English

Elocution Competition

(Primary)

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

Volume 2, Issue 2

MAY 2018

ACHIEVERS

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OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY OUR STUDENTS IN THE ICSE 2018 AND ISC 2018 EXAMINATIONS

School Highest - 98.20%

School Toppers :

Sasha Agarwal - 98.20%

Sunanda Banerjee - 96.40%

Aritra Kar - 95.80%

Spriha Pal - 95.20%

Anisha Ghosh - 95%

School Highest - 97.75%

School Toppers :

Rajit Banerjee - 97.75%

Subhaditya Basu - 97.50%

Vansh Choraria - 97.50%

Siddhant Bharadwaj - 95.75%

Nishant Todi - 95.50%

ISC 2018 BATCH CONSOLIDATED

Marks Range No. of candidates % of candidates

90-100 12 26%

80-89 19 40%

70-79 13 28%

60-69 1 2%

50-59 2 4%

40-49 0 0%

Total no. of students 47

Total Appeared – 69

Pass – 100%

School Average – 82.96%

Sasha Agarwal – 98.20%

Sunanda Banerjee – 96.40%

Aritra Kar – 95.80%

Spriha Pal – 95.20%

Anisha Ghosh – 95%

Total Appeared – 47

Pass – 100%

School Average – 83.07%

Rajit Banerjee – 97.75%

(Science)

Subhaditya Basu – 97.50%

(Science)

Vansh Choraria – 97.50%

(Humanities) Siddhant Bharadwaj – 95.75%

(Humanities)

Nishant Todi – 95.50%

(Commerce)

ICSE 2018 BATCH CONSOLIDATED

Marks Range No. of

candidates

% of can-

didates

90-100 17 25%

80-89 30 43%

70-79 17 25%

60-69 5 7%

50-59 0 0%

40-49 0 0%

Total no. of students 69

CONGRATULATIONS!

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INTER -HOUSE DEBATE COMPETITION

Date: Tuesday, 15th May 2018

“Kolkata is facing brain drain among youth due to paucity of good educational institutions”

With the topic given one hour before and access being denied on any sort of digital media, eight students

representing the four houses had to bank on books and self confidence.

The students Soumyadeep Das & Sasha Aagarwal (Creator House), Abhimanyu Sharma & Janvi Sikaria

(Philosopher House), Anshika Dasgupta & Sankalp Mohanty (Achiever House) and Wrik Karmakar & Aritra

Kar (Innovator House) sportingly took up the challenge with great zeal and enthusiasm.

The programme started with the anchor Dr.Indrani Basu introducing the judges Ms. Priyanka Roy Chow-

dhury, Ms. Brinda Das Mazumdar, Ms. Malabika Poddar and Ms. Dolly Chowdhury. The speakers spoke

excellently, considering the shortage of time and aid materials. Facts, figures, questions, counter questions - all

were on the cards. Ably conducted by the moderator Ms. Sahana Bhattacharya, the event was an enriching

one.

The Innovator House came first with 331 points followed by Achiever House 301 points and Philosopher

House 278 points. The houses got 100, 75, 50 and 25 points respectively. Sankalp Mohanty was adjudged the

Best Speaker. Events of this kind, no doubt, enriches the creativity as well as the power of introspection of a

child; to make a complete person out of him or her. Something, SCIS believes in ...

INTERACTIVE SESSION ON EDUCATION IN

NEW ZEALAND

On the 8th of May 2018, Mr Shubhabrata Datta, Senior Marketing Man-

ager, Global Reach Ltd and his team conducted a career guidance

session for our high school students pertaining to course of study in

New Zealand. The session was conducted in the school auditorium

around 1.15 pm. All students from Grade 11 and 12 attended the session.

The system of higher studies in New Zealand was discussed in detail. The

admission procedure, eligibility criteria, course of studies, subjects of-

fered, scholarships, fee structure, campus life and job opportunities were

discussed in detail. The session got over at 2.15 p.m.

The students were asked to fill up student information forms and hand

over to the team. The session got over by 2.15 pm.

Institute of Career Studies

conducts career counselling

sessions in our school every year. The

very first phase of it - the aptitude

test was conducted for Classes VIII

and XI on the 8th of May 2018 in our

school.

A total of 104 students from Class

VIII and 49 from Class XI sat for the

test which started at 8.15 am in their

respective classrooms. The total

duration of the test was two hours.

ICS APTITUDE TEST

TED TALK

On 12th May, 2018 four students from Class IX went to The Newtown School for TED Talk. The talks were very mind

storming and educational. The speakers were as follows:

Dr. Ashoke Viswanathan

Dr. Sunita Chugh

Mr. Kunal Munshi

Mr. Partha Ranjan Das

Mr Amit Javalgi

The speakers spoke about varied topics ranging from GM Crops to Value Education to the scope of renewable re-

sources in India to symmetry in nature. The speakers gave everyday experiences to understand the above topics. Overall, it was an educational, in-

teresting and enriching experience for the students.

INTER -HOUSE ENGLISH ELOCUTION COMPETITION

2018-2019

The Inter- House English Elocution Competition was held on 7th May 2018. The four houses battled it out in the competition . There were three

categories of competition. Class VI and VII formed the first category; Classes VIII and IX, the second and Classes X, XI and XII the third.

It was a power packed performance with well chosen poems and speeches of poets and authors from Bengal. The participants did not restrict

themselves to poems but explored speeches, letters and extracts from short sto-

ries as well. The special performance by Astha Madan, Rimsha Shakil and

Adarsh Todi of Grade X E was a treat to the eyes.

With Innovator House finally winning the competition and Hiya Bhattacharjee

from Innovator House being declared the Best Speaker, one can only

say ,‘The Winner takes it All’.

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Subhaditya Basu SECURED

WBJEE Rank -938

WINNERS-

SECONDARY INTER -HOUSE DEBATE COMPETITION

WINNERS

RUNNERS UP

BEST SPEAKER

INDUCTION OF VICE CAPTAINS

2018 CEREMONY

Mr. Bagul felicitating Ms. Swati N. Dutt on

winning the award for “Teacher with a Heart”

INTER SCHOOL CHESS

COMPETITION

ANIKA DAS

TEJASH JAIN

Tribute and homage to Rabindranath

Tagore on his 157th birth anniversary

MORNING ASSEMBLIES-Remembering Tagore

YOUTHOPIA~2018

Principal, Mr. .Bagul felicitating the achievers of ICSE

and ISC 2018 Examination

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PRIMARY SECTION

ACTIVITIES

TINY TOTS ACTIVITIES

FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES

PRE PARATORY ACTIVITIES

Activity Based Learning In SCIS

Math and Science Integrated Lessons

Class I - Topic - Math and Science

Integrated Lesson.

Learning Number Values—Greater

than, Lesser than and Equal to

MORNING ASSEMBLIES

Innovator House Assembly

Date: 14.05.2018

World Migratory Day and Peace

Mother’ Day – Mother Of Mine Song

and Video was played for the students, as

a tribute to all Mothers.

The Assembly focused on the importance of maintaining

‘Peace’. Children performed a skit on ‘How we can live

peacefully’.

Students took a pledge on – Living A Harmonious Life

A song on ‘Peace’ by the students of class I and II ended the

assembly.

Class IV Topic- Plants Around Us

In the new session class IV started with the science topic of Plants in their surroundings.

There was a class discussion on the plants around our homes and that leaves come in

different shapes and sizes. The children were taken to the school garden and there they

learnt about leaf structure. Later they did a leaf activity wherein they collected 4 -5 leaves of

different sizes, stuck them on the activity sheets and added some information about them.

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Inter- Class English Elocution Competition

Date: May 10th, 2018 Elocution – it was a new experience for the young primary children – was pleasantly unfolded

into the world of literary eloquence with reciting poems on relevant themes by eminent poets

like Sukumar Roy, Chitra Padmanavan, Ruskin Bond, Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam to name a few.

The program started sharp at 10 a.m with the school song which was followed by the introduction

of our three judges from the Secondary School, Mrs. Sonali Chakravarty, Ms.Amrita

Bbhattacharya and Ms. Sumera Khan.

Two young anchors for the event, Aaryan Chatterjee and Abha Zora from Class II were also

representatives of highlighting the theme of the event – The famous literary personalities and

Heritage sights of our very own Kolkata !

As the judges took their seats, the young anchors from class II took us for a quick charming tour

of a few heritage sights like the Howrah Bridge and the Victoria Memorial etc. … we almost

naturally transcended delightfully close to the quintessential joy of living in Kolkata. Their

informative dialogues flavored with excitement of some visuals they showcased while speaking

about each popular sight of Kolkata was commendable. The anchors wished to be among little

children and hear them recite poems by the famous poets who hailed from the City of Joy...

Thereafter we had all the participants of Classes I and II come up and recite the poems they had

prepared so well deserved appreciation and applause. All the participants were very well

prepared and none of them needed to be prompted. The same goes for the anchors! They had

primed their parts very well.

The children cheered their friends in enthusiasm evoking a spirit of excellence for their well merit

worthy prizes.

When the judges spoke they praised the performance of the little ones, their confidence and

commendable stage presence of the anchors. The audience was very cheerful and encouraging.

It was an hour’s packed program and ended on schedule as allocated. All the participants were

excellent; the names of the winners are listed for perusal:

Category A

Class I Section

1st position Wania Shadab C

2nd position Tvisha Nawalgaria C

3rd position Nirvi Agarwal A

3rd position Shaurya Parekh B

Category B

Class II

1st position Sourish Mukherjee B

2nd position Maanya Maheshwari C

3rd position Shreyan Kapoor A

The Best Speaker Award was bagged by Sourish Mukherjee of Class II B.

We are fortunate to work on a strong ground prepared by our Principal. We have learnt a lot from him and wish to continue learning , we

are thankful and indebted to him for all his support and care.

Inter- House English Elocution Competition

Date: 11th May, 2018

Classes III, IV and V

The English Primary Elocution Competition commenced sharp at I0 a.m.

in the school auditorium. The anchors were Torsha Sanyal and Ritom Sen.

The Judges were Ms. Chinmoyee Ghosh Chaurariya, Ms. Mallabika

Poddar and Ms. Dolly Chowdhury.

The following were the winners.

Category A Manan Rupahlia of Creator House stood first.

Jia Jha of Philosopher House stood second.

Tanisha Rehman of Achiever House stood third.

Category B Aarini Gupta of Innovator House stood first.

Vivaan Ghoshal of Creator House stood second.

Rajveer Gupta of Creator House stood third.

Category C Arjun Thomas of Achiever House got the best speaker.

The theme for the Elocution was ‘Poets of Indian Origin’. Students recited

poems of Sukumar Ray, Sarojini Naidu, Henry Derozio, Jhumpa Lahiri and

many others eminents Indian poets.