What is Action?

Many people think that Action is easy to define. It is something you do, right? But Action is much more than that. Action is a part of who we are. If we want to change the world we need to start with changing ourselves. But sometimes change is hard.

How do we make changes to the way we think so we can help the world?

If we want children to make a difference in the world we need to help them personalize the action they take, and understand that it is not just a mandate from their teachers and parents, but a life long mindset they develop. Taking action can happen at any age. It’s all about how we as parents, educators, and the community, support children and youth as they begin the learning journey towards becoming adults that are change agents!

(Reference- http://www.whatisib.com/what-is-action.html )

Students of Grade 2 taking action by following and educating their friends on Healthy Lifestyle

Third Graders proud to reflect on their learning—Growing Kindness

We celebrated Hindi Diwas on the 19th September, 2016. The celebration was successful as the learners understood the importance and impact of the language.

Students from the Hindi class participated with great enthusiasm as they put up a special assembly.

They recited poems, elocuted short speeches, sang action songs and performed a skit.

This assembly focused on giving an opportunity to learners to build confi-dence and display pride in speaking the national language.

It was beautiful to see that all PYP learners were open-minded learn new words in Hindi and demonstrated keen interest.

The IB Learner Profile

Students of PYP displaying the IB/PYP Learner Profile of be-ing CARING-

Celebrating Birthday

We welcome treats to help make your child's birthday even more special. You may send a cake and/or chocolates for the class to share. ( Do refer to the handbook for further details.)

The PYP Assemblies have begun and the most senior Grade of PYP conducted an assembly on ‘’Discipline’’. Students also shared their research on In-ternational, National and Regional News.

Curriculum Queries????

For those of you, new to Indus PYP family, do not hesitate to contact the program coordina-tors for any of the queries that you would like us to address. We will be happy to assist you

PYP Inter House Debate Competition PYP Debate challenge was held on 20th September and the topics given to our young inquirers were – ‘Reading a dying art or an emerging trend’ and ‘Are sports as important as studies’. All students of Grades 4 and 5, participated with great enthusiasm.

The PYP inter house sports quiz for Grades 3, 4 and 5 was held on 28th Sep-tember 2016. The students participated with great gusto and enthusiasm. The excitement was not only observed in the participants but also in the encourag-ing audience. The participants of the quiz -

Hercules Pegasus Phoenix Orion

Priyanka Nair Aadit Ganesh Raihaan Sandhu Mihir Raddi

Haaziq Kazi Arjun Ganesh Aizah Khatri Krish Kasat

Afif Kazi Upamanyu Mukherjee Neil Chillal Shaylan Dua

Akshay Bodas Akhil Karve Evana Gada Siddhant Pandit

Under the transdisciplinary theme: 'How we express ourselves' our Fifth Graders discovered multiple perspectives of various guest speakers during the course of their inquiry. Learners were introduced to the concept 'Perspective' in art, by Ms. Farida wherein she demonstrated images with one and two point perspective as well as vanishing point, shedding light on the basics. During this class, the chil-dren were also introduced to the book ZOOM by- Istvan Banyai.

Students enjoyed creating images using perspective which helped them to add the illusion of space and depth on a flat surface.

Next, the learners were exposed to different dance forms to express various emotions. Mr. Ravi in coor-dination with Ms. Preena Sandhu held the workshop to depict the various dance moves to communicate emotions of anger, happiness, sorrow and fear. They students enjoyed the workshop and were able to make connections that; performing arts can also be used a form of expression.

Another interesting session was con-ducted by Ms. Gayathri Wadia , as stu-dents were taken through the various eras of art. They had an informative and hands on workshop on Pointillism and each student created their own unique piece, with absolute precision. The students also debated on social and cul-tural issues present in society and the role various artists played to express their thoughts.

We are pleased to inform you that Mr. Santosh Akki, our librarian has joined Indus International School, Pune. He comes with several years of experience in academic libraries and teaching information literacy. He has earned a master’s degree in library science and has successfully completed his Master’s in arts from the Bangalore University . The last school, he worked for was International School Bangalore (TISB) at Bangalore.

We will be introducing Mindfulness in our curriculum, past-ed below is a link to help find out more about it as a family. http://www.parenttoolkit.com/index.cfm?objectid=9E405DF0-D896-11E4-AC210050569A5318

The learners were inquiring into the transdis-ciplinary theme; "Who we are" and the speak-er, Mrs. Desai, emphasized on the third line of inquiry - "Caring for our senses." The learners enjoyed the session thoroughly and were excited to answer questions.

On behalf of the early years team a big thank you to Mrs. Desai for extending her help and

support to this unit of inquiry. Engagement— Sandwich Making

While exploring the sense of taste, the learners discovered different flavors through Sandwich making. They were excited to make their own sandwiches using a combination of the ingredients available, from cucumber, mint chutney, tomato, butter and bread slices.

butter, bread .

Elocution Challenge PYP-Grades 3,4,5 Wednesday , 5th October

Holiday—Dussehra Tuesday, 11th October

Parent Teacher Conference Saturday, 22nd October

Library Week Mon, 24th to Fri, 27th October

PYP Creative Writing Challenge Friday, 28th October

Mufti Day– Theme—Diwali Friday, 28th October

Autumn break begins Saturday, 29th Oct to 6th Nov

School reopens after Diwali break Monday, 7th November