DECCAN POST TEACH INSPIRE NURTURE

Inside this Issue

Career Counselling Session

Further Studies & Career Awareness Program

Stress & Time Management Session

Annual Day Celebrations

Christmas Day Celebrations

Deccan Cleanathon

Halloween

Fancy Dress Competition

Reading Week

School Enterprise Challenge

Annual Sports Day

December 2016

Alongside the academic curriculum,

we consider the gaining of life skills to

be essential for young people to

positively develop and flourish in an

ever-changing world.

most appropriate methods in order to

engage every student in the class-

room.

Our focus is on providing all our

students with positive learning

experiences in an environment that is

encouraging, active, unbiased and

inclusive.

In our school, we seek to remove the

dichotomy that exists between ‘core’

subjects – science and math, and the

arts, which are too often considered

peripheral.

We seek to identify and validate

individual areas of passion and talent

At Deccan International School, we

offer a dynamic curriculum that is

forward-looking, creative and

relevant; that we believe will equip

our students with the essential skills

and knowledge to flourish in a global

community.

Vision Statement:

“To provide an empowering learning environment that nurtures empathy and inquiry in students, enabling

them to excel in an ever-changing world.”

Philosophy of Education :

True learning is a unique, on-going

and lifelong experience for each child

which begins even before he/she

enters school. Our most important job

as educators is to always keep this in

sight as we teach our children ‘how to

learn’ and cultivate in them a

continuing enthusiasm for inquiry.

We believe that each child is an

individual with an inborn drive to

learn. In addition, they have very

individual styles in which they best

learn. We work hard to identify and

nurture individual learning styles and

apply a creative combination of the

in our students, as this could help

them develop a lifelong skill and gain

wider opportunities for success.

The representatives from the EDU AHEAD group

interacted with the parents and students of grade

10 and above. The session was conducted on 19th

November 2016 in the school premises. Students

were made aware of an aptitude test they can take

to judge their skills.

Further studies and career awareness program was held

on 21 September 2016 for students of Gr 10 and above

and their parents. Many universities from USA had their

representatives address our students. Information was

given on the courses offered, the facilities provided and the

fee structure. Information kiosks were set up after all the

students had been addressed and students interacted with

the representatives on a one to one basis. Brochures and

leaflets distributed to the students, gave them a brief idea

about the universities there.

The session was addressed to the students of Gr 10 and

above of both ICSE and CIE stream. Dr Khwaja spoke to

the boys and girls on ways to manage time. Examples

were cited and tips given to students on ways to de-stress

themselves while making efficient use of time. An insight

was given to students on the wide variety of career options

that was available.

The students interacted with Dr Khwaja and many of their

queries were answered by him.

The students were informed of the wide choice of

careers they have before them and they need not

follow the well trodden path of opting for

Engineering or Medicine field only. There was an

interactive session with the parents and students

as well .

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Stress & Time Management Session

Further Studies & Career Awareness Program

Career Counselling Session

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The highpoint on Day 1 was Naada

Sambhrama, the Indian Orchestra .

They presented the Thyagaraja kriti

Samaja vara gamana with such elan

that sent the audience to raptures.

The show began with a bang on October 27,

2016 - A two day extravaganza high on Music,

Dance and Drama.

Crescendo, the Annual Day celebrations at

Deccan International School took the audience

on a joyride through a medley of events ranging

from the classical to the modern .

The joie de vivre continued through

Day 2. Seen above is the Triotsav –

A Marathi medley - the classical and

seasonal dances of Maharashtra

beautifully morphed into a colourful

exposition .

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Annual Day Celebrations

Christmas Celebrations

by Junior School

Junior School celebrated

Christmas on 21st

December, 2016.

Children of Grades 1 to 4

came to school dressed

in bright red, white and

green- Christmas colours.

Students of Grade 1 sang

Christmas carols and also

danced to its tunes.

Children enjoyed the

celebration and there was

happiness and merriment

in the air.

Deccan Cleanathon

Deccan Cleanathon a social

awareness programme in

association with Reap Benefit for

the students, teachers and parents

of DIS was held on Nov 20th 2016.

This was a cleaning drive taken up

by the school in a stretch of area

close by.

There was an enthusiastic response

by the parents, many of whom were

even willing to sponsor for the

cleaning kits required. This exercise

started in the morning by 7:30 am

and was completed by 9:30 am.

Later it was time for reflections.

Parents, students and teachers

spoke about their experience. This

whole exercise was much

appreciated by all.

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Halloween was celebrated on

Friday, 28/10/16. Students of K2

and K3 were allowed to wear

tattoos / head gear appropriate

for the event. We generally

speak about, celebrate and do

activities for Indian festivals but

for once we wanted to bring in

something global. The creative

participation was infectious and

we were glad to see the happy

faces.

All children are asked to introduce themselves and speak about their

role, which in turn boosts their confidence.

Each year the level of creativity has increased tremendously. With the

enthusiastic participation the competition ended with a bang…!

The Fancy Dress is one of the competitions

in Early Years which we all look forward to

every year as it is a very colourful and

festive event. We see all tiny tots dressed

up in various attire, eager to perform their

role and inquisitive to know about their

fellow mates costume.

As always, even this year we saw

tremendous effort from the parents to

create the costume for their little ones.

Halloween at Early

Years

Fancy Dress Competition

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On 14th November we celebrated

Children's' Day with festivity at the Early

Years level in our campus.

Mr Chandrasekhar, a magician, was

invited to entertain our children with his

tricks. They really enjoyed his show.

They were all very engrossed, excited

and surprised with all that he was

presenting.

They also had their snack treats on the

beautiful lawn where they sat with their

friends, shared and enjoyed eating out

together. The school also treated our

children with cream- buns.

Our children had a gala time!!!

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Children's Day Celebrations

Activities at Early Years

The Castle we Built

K3 Royalty

Abracadabra

Black & White

Clay Modelling Competition

READING WEEK

JUNIOR SCHOOL

The Reading Week for the Junior

school was conducted from the 14th of

November to the 24th, drawing an over-

whelming response from the

parents.

This year saw activities like

Story Reading sessions in English and

other Indian languages by parents,

Newspaper reading, Read-A-Thon and

Poetry Reading during the week .

Children enjoyed these sessions with the

parent - story tellers with good interaction. It

was a wonderful experience for the children,

parents and the staff alike.

The School Enterprise Challenge is a

real-time business opportunity for the

students of Deccan International School,

Bangalore, to explore their inherent

potential in creativity, leadership and

management. It is an opportunity given to

start and run a business undertaking and

in the process giving them the exposure

to the rigours of managing their own busi-

ness venture.This has inspired

them in understanding

the intricacies of man-

agement in terms of

time, finance and peo-

ple, just to name a few.

With sincere efforts and

energetic exuberance of

the students, the

business took shape and in no time the

plan was put into action and the eco-

friendly products were ready for sale.

The product was launched by the Dean

of the school on 27th October, 2016 and

organic products from the first phase of

production were sold. Going by the tre-

mendous response and appreciation

received, it is beyond doubt that the

School Enterprise Challenge is here to

stay and go galloping in the months to

come.

CHALLENGE

SCHOOL ENTERPRISE

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Early Years Sports

Day

Sports Day –High School

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