Cambridge School, New Friends Colony

Monthly Report October 2020

The highlight of this month was the parent-teacher meeting held for the whole school

A. Events and Celebrations

Gandhi Jayanti

A special online assembly was conducted for the entire

school on 2nd October. The assembly started with one

of Bapu's favourite hymns 'Abide with Me' sung by few

children. This was followed by a talk on Lal Bahadur

Shastri and a video showing a life changing instance in his life. There after a video

having scenes from Mahatma Gandhi's life was shown. The video was set to the

bhajan वषै्णव जन sung by three of our own teachers. रघपुति राघव राजा राम , a prayer

synonymous with Gandhi ji. The assembly ended with the national anthem.

रघपुति राघव राजा राम

West Bengal Day

Studying about West Bengal is part of our Class 5

SST curriculum. As is done every year, this year too

we had a special online assembly – West Bengal

Day, held on October 20. The assembly started with

the prayer Anondo Loke sung by two of our class 4

students, Saushamya and Baruni. Three students,

Adrita, Anwita and Midori danced enthusiastically

on the famous Bengali song Dhitang Dhitang Bole. Post

the dance, Abir and Khanak of class 5 gave

presentations on Kolkata and Durga Puja respectively. The assembly was brightened

by three students from Prep A- Adrija, Ishaan and Shreyan reciting nursery

rhymes in Bengali. The assembly ended with the teachers evoking the festive spirit by

their Dhunuchi Dance.

Saushamya Baruni

World Animal Day

The children of class 2 and 3 celebrated Animal Day with

great enthusiasm. A role play activity was organized where

children dressed up in animal costumes, painted their faces,

wore animal masks, made finger puppets etc. They also

spoke about their favourite animals and some endangered

species to create more awareness and understand why we

need to protect animals. They participated enthusiastically

and enjoyed themselves thoroughly.

B. Curriculum Related

Science

While studying asexual reproduction in plants, children of class 5 grew various plants

like money plant, rose, potato, carrot, onion, ginger and garlic; from stem cuttings,

modified stems and roots.

The difference between sexual (reproduction by seeds) and asexual reproduction in

plants was clearly understood by performing this activity.

Some children have a real green thumb, as you can see from the following pictures

of the lush and beautiful plants grown by them.

Class 3 children conducted the “blooming flower

experiment” in the online science class. Students

participated enthusiastically and with immense

efficiency. The children made coloured paper flowers

and kept them ready before the class. During the

session the petals of the flowers were folded and

dropped into a trough of water. The children were

thrilled to see the gradual unfolding of the petals. The

experiment was a success! The paper flower is

powered by the scientific phenomenon called 'capillary

action'. Paper is made up of small fibres. When these

fibres absorb water, they swell up and the paper

expands. This makes the creases flatten out, which in

turn makes the flower open.

Class 4 has been studying a chapter on plants. Transpiration is an important part of

this chapter. To understand the concept even better, experiments in capillary action

were conducted:

1. Tissue paper was folded and only it’s end

dipped in a glass about quarter full with

water. The children were amazed to find

the other end of the tissue become wet!

The water reached the other end of the

paper in a matter of minutes! Capillary

action at its best. The tiny tube like fibres

in the tissue absorbed the water and

passed it further and further up... all against

gravity!

2. Capillary action and the suction created by

transpiration are also responsible for water

being transported to all parts of a plant,

however high and however tall. This was

experienced by putting a stem of a white

flower... gladiola or a chrysanthemum in a

glass containing coloured water (coloured

by adding blue or orange food colouring).

In a few hours, the children could observe

their white flower had traces of the colour they used (blue or orange) on its petals!

Another amazing phenomenon in nature thanks to capillary action is transpiration.

The fine tubes in the plant stem absorb water and send it further up. This upward

movement of water is further enhanced by transpiration where water loss from

leaves creates space for more water to move up from below.

These were enjoyable and informative activities for the students

English

A role play activity was organized with 3A on

15th October wherein the children made animal

masks and spoke about their favourite animals.

They participated enthusiastically and enjoyed

themselves thoroughly.

C. Videos on YouTube

रघुपति राघव राजा राम

link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoleF-IzF0

वैश्णव जन िो िेने कतिये जे

link https://youtu.be/fEY-jTHejcY

Abide With Me

link https://youtu.be/vrL_sO13CJI

Bangla Rhymes

Link https://youtu.be/2UOaijkMqbA

Dhitang Dhitang

link https://youtu.be/PRkSamtvmw4

DHUNUCHI

link https://youtu.be/nC2el18tjJ0

D. Teachers’ Enrichment Webinars

Multiple webinars were attended by our teachers in the month of October

Sipping Thoughts conducted two webinars - Unlocking Silence: The Ugly Side Of

Lockdown and Parenting: Talking about Sex. Both these webinars were attended by

our counsellor, Ms. Yasmin Asghar.

The Educational Resources Centre (ERC) had organized an online talk by Ambassador

Ashok Sajjanhar, on the New Education Policy. In very simple words he explained the

main highlights of the new policy. This webinar was attended by Ms Yasmin Asghar,

Yasmin Kazimi, Bindiya Arora, Saudamini Khurana, Arshpreet Suri, Pallavi Abrol,

Vandana Taneja, Hansa Kohli and Sunandita Ganguly.

Anju Mathur, Ajeet Kumar and Pallavi Abrol attended a webinar organized by

Cambridge School Indirapuram on Saturday, October 17, 2020. The topic of the

webinar was 'Art Education and its Future Prospects’.

A webinar on 'Art Integrated Education for Future Readiness' on Saturday, October 17,

2020 was attended by our art teacher, Ms. Anju Mathur. This was organized by

Schoalstic.

Mindful Strokes organized a discussion-cum-demonstration webinar on ‘Art is

Meditation’, by Shubhra Chaturvedi. This was attended by Ms. Anju Mathur.

Scholastic India had organized a webinar on 'Reading in the Time of Pandemic'

conducted by Mr. Shantanu on October 5, 2020. This was attended by Arshpreet Suri,

Harsh Grover, Iffat Faryal, Shikha Ahichandani, Hamna Kamal and Pallavi Abrol.

Cambridge School, Noida had organised a webinar on 'Career Counselling in Art' by

their Art Department on October 17, 2020. This was attended by Ms. Pallavi Arol.

E. Miscellaneous

A managing committee meeting was held on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. A few

members came to the school to attend the meeting and the others logged in via zoom

from their homes.

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