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30th August 2016

STUDENTS COUNCIL 2016-17

President – Saathvik Thimmaiah

Vice-President – Het Chheda Sports Captain – Rahul Kewalramani

Ruby house: Captain – Kavya Shah Vice-captain - Urja Hansraj Junior captain – Saunskar Sane

Emerald house: Captain - Ishan Jindal Vice-captain – Saanvi Soni Junior captain – Om Madhavi

Topaz house: Captain - Pranav Lakhan Vice-captain – Janhavi Pandit

Junior captain – Dhrishya Desai

Sapphire house: Captain – Prisha Sheth Vice-captain - Shree Senghani Junior captain – Neil Vaswani

CAS Leader: Pranay Patil Cultural Activity Leader: Mahek Sewani

Prefects: Abhishek Sai Tanay Patel Harshi Ramjiyani Keval Mehta

Junior Prefects: Ruby-Aadhya Shetty Topaz-Arsh Gugnani Emerald-Pratham Mehta Sapphire-Sanvi Rao

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SPEECHES FOR ELECTION

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ELECTION DAY

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ELECTION DAY

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VOTES COUNTING

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GRADE 3 VISITS THE BYCULLA ZOO

Students of Grade 3 visited the Veermata Jijabai Udyan on 26thAugust 2016 to

extend their learning of the current UOI – Natural Habitats. The purpose of the visit was to

learn about animal habitats and examine their living conditions in a zoo.

Students saw a variety of animals, birds and reptiles. They learnt that some were freely moving

while some were caged. They also learnt about a few species they were unfamiliar with.

As true inquirers they posed a number of questions while making their observations and

researched on them once they returned to school. In the coming days, students will reflect on the

living conditions of these animals and find ways of being responsible towards them.

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GRADE 3 VISITS THE BYCULLA ZOO

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MATHEMATICS & PHYSICS GO TOGETHER

Mr Prashant Kamble and Dr. Ashok Modi attended a lecture

by Cedric Villani, Director of the Institute of Henri Poincare in

France at Centre for Basic Sciences on 16th of August 2016 at

the University of Mumbai.

According to him, “Beautiful Mathematical explanations are

not only for our pleasure but they change our vision of the

world”. He spoke on partial differential equations involved

in statistical mechanics. In his lecture, he deliberated on

Boltzmann equation in more detail with its applications to

physics.

He also discussed about Diophantine number. The property of

Diophantine number was found to be amazing! Over all, his talk

was inspiring from the professional development point of view!

The teachers further plan to share the highlights of this session

with the IBDP students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani

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BITTERSWEET

Sweet are the memories of old friends,

But, bitter is the truth in their sweet lies!

As blue as the bright sky of the summer,

As deep as the shallowest water,

Are my bitter cries

Of long remembrance!

Bittersweet is that half-missing pack of cards,

Bittersweet is the haze of that summery winter!

As leaps the deer in joy, unaware,

Of the dangers that lurk behind.

When the tiger treads and steps with care,

Bittersweet is the blood that seeps out from behind.

Food for the tiger is loss for the pack;

Nevertheless, bittersweet is Mother Nature’s plan!

- NAKSHATRA DHARAP

Grade 9

Field Trip to Everest Spices,.

On Friday, 19th August 2016, as a part of learning for our Business Studies and Economics, we were taken to

‘Everest Spices Factory Ltd’, at Vikroli in Mumbai. There we learnt about how a factory operates and uses

different strategies for marketing. Also, we were explained how to work in a factory and follow the methods and

the factors for production. Overall, we also understood about business activities. The General Manager, arranged

for factory tour. He described the role of their Board of Directors who guides the factory in all aspects. The factory

has new technology for making the work easier, they have division of labour and the company is spreading its

wings all over all over the country with branch offices.

This visit helped us to develop in many areas. We gained in- depth and practical knowledge of Business and

Economics. We are thankful to our Management, Mr Santosh Mandhare and Mr Rajesh Chorambale who took this

initiative in organizing this trip, accompany us and help us understand these topics in our subjects through practical

knowledge. We also thank Ms Sunita Manambrakat , our teacher- escort who accompanied us and guided us in

each and every stage of the field trip. Not to forget, we express our gratitude to Gr 10 Kavya Shah, whose family

owns this business and the hospitality that was extended to all of us.

We hope we go on field trips like this!

STUDENTS OF GRADE 9 & 10

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FIELD TRIP TO WADA

When I heard the name ‘Wada’, I had kind of neutral decision whether to attend the trip, but since

CAS activity was mandatory for us, I decided to give it a try. I arrived in the morning, sleepy, with a mind-set

that the camp was going to be boring. I was charged up when I met my buddies. We boarded the bus with lots of

anxiety about how 'Natventure Camp, Wada' would turn out to be. We were accompanied by Mr. Duke and Ms.

Shivangi. The bus ride lasted for about 2 and a half hours which included a stop at McDonald's for breakfast. The camp

situated in the midst of greenery and was a refreshing break from the concrete jungle that is Mumbai. We were ushered

to our dormitories to keep our luggage after which we attended a safety briefing followed by a welcome drink. We went

back to our dorms to change and get refreshed for the upcoming activities. we started off by forming teams and

creating appropriate names and chants for them. We proceeded to play a team building game in which we had to

balance a ball with the help of strings. We took a short break to have our lunch. Then we did some adventurous

activities such as burma bridge, zipline, obstacle course (in which we crawled through slush) and walking on a tightrope.

All of this was topped off by a rain dance to clean us all up in an enjoyable way. We all dried ourselves and wore new

pair of clothes for the night. The day was hot but the night were pleasant. We had an hour to have dinner, so we

thought of ways to spend that time in a very creative and different way. We came up with group activities which

included taking pictures of our shadows on the wall in various poses, a creative simultaneous group head and shoulder

massage which involved arranging chairs in a line and having each person massage the head and shoulders of the

person in front of them. We had dinner at 8:30pm. We even had a bonfire in which we heated marshmallows and

shared the snacks that we brought. Now you might think that our teachers forced us to go to bed but no, there is a twist

in the story. Mr. Duke and a few students started narrating horror stories to us. This went on until a crab was discovered

on the ground, scaring some people and hence the session ended abruptly and we returned to our dorms. The next day

we were shown how to build a raft and some traditional basket weaving. This was after another session on an obstacle

course that underscored the need to work together as a team. We had the opportunity to visit a school in a nearby

village, where we played some interesting games with those children and also saw their lovely class. Before leaving the

school, we distributed notebooks, pens, biscuits and caps to them. We were told that there was a type of painting that

was famous in that area known as Warli painting and we were curious to learn it, so we had a session for it. It was then

time to vacate the camp for our juniors to have fun. Out our way back home, we again stopped at McDonalds for

snacks. This was a trip that I will never forget as I got an opportunity to have adventure with my friends and also to do a

charitable work besides just having fun. I will be happy to go for such trips in future.

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FIELD TRIP TO WADA

- Pranay Patil and Saathvik Thimmaiah

IBDP 1

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Upcoming Events

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13 September— Pre– primary Grandparents Day

14 September— PYP Hindi Divas

16 September— Sport—Games (PYP) Starts

2 September— Student Council Investiture Ceremony

5 September— Ganesh Festival Holiday Starts

9 September— Ganesh Festival Holiday Ends

12 September— Bakri ID Holiday

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MENU

Note: All salads served will be boiled

- Ms Payal Sinha

PARTICULARS

TUESDAY

30.08.16

WEDNESDAY

31.08.16

THURSDAY

01.09.16

FRIDAY

02.09.16

PRE-PRIMARY

SHORT BREAK

LUNCH

SPECIAL MEAL

VEG AND SOYA

NUGGETS

CUTLET WITH

CURD

MUSELI WITH

MILK/ MASALA

DOSA

CHAPATI

PEAS RICE

PUNJABI KADHI

BARWA KARELA

PINDI CHANA

CUCUMBER

RAITA

SPROUT SALAD

VEG BURGER

SPROUT AND

CORN BHEL

OATS WITH

MILK / PAPDI

CHAT

CHAPATI

MINT RICE

SURATI DAL

GREEN CHAWLI

BEANS BHAJI

SEV TEMATER KI

SABZI

VEG RAITA

SALAD

VEG PASTA

METHI PARATHA

WITH ALOO BHAJI

CEREALS WITH

MILK / YELOW

DHOKLA

LACCHA PARATHA

CORN PALAK

TAWA RICE

VEG RAITA

SPROUT SALAD

BUTTERMILK

VEG HAKKA

NOODLES WITH

MANCHURIAN

PURAN POLI

WHEAT FLAKES

WITH MILK /

BREAD ROLLS

BHATURE

CHOLE

MASALA CHAAS

KACHUMBER

SALAD

STEAMED

MODAK

VEG BIRYANI

WITH

KACHUMBER