AMITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, SAKET

N EWS L E T T E R

July - September 2019  Issue 2

CHAIRPERSON'S VISIONSneak Peek Inside

PRINCIPAL'S DESK

The vision of our respected Founder

President Sir and blessings of

Respected Chairperson Ma'am, always

motivate us to move from one

milestone to another and continue to

add further laurels to Amity. It is a

pleasure to present the July -

September e-newsletter and share the

activities and achievements of our

Amitians. As we celebrate 150th birth

anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Let us

remember all his teachings and follow

the path of peace and truth!

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

HAPPENINGS

TITANS OF AMITY SAKET

Tiny Tots @ Work (Nursery)

SPORTS ZONE

MOMENTS OF SUCCESS

Accomplishments of Students

This festive season, let us

join hands to pledge

towards a peaceful,

plastic free and clean

India. I congratulate you

for all your achievements

and I am confident that

my dear Amitians, will

work hard to fulfill the

vision of our Founder

President to make India a

Superpower by 2030, and

will excel wherever they

go.

Fun & Frolic @ Kindergarten

Primary wing in Action

Major Events in the Campus

Sports News

CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS

Creative Canvas- Art Work

Teachers ' Achievements

Clay Art

Reading: Building Block of Knowledge

Germination Drive

World of Shapes & Patterns

Our Little Amitiansshining in the colour ofwisdom - Yellow day

Tiny Tots @ Work

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Fun & Frolic @ KindergartenBudding Astronomers learn formation of day & night

Food Battle - Young Amitians dressed to talk aboutHealthy Food vs Junk Food

Children celebrate the birthday of LordKrishna by making crowns.Hawan : Auspicious start of the day

Young dental experts discover all about tooth decay asthey experiment and observe.

English Story Narration

Primary in Action

Rakhi Making - Celebrating the Bond of Love

Assembly - TimeManagement (1- B)

Slurpy Snacks

Children Unfold  Table Manners as they Fold the Table Mats

Pearls on Paper

HAPPENINGS @ AMITY SAKET CAMPUS

QUIZZAT

Third edition of Annual Inter School quizzing extravaganza washosted by Amity Saket on 11th and 12th July 2019. The first day wasdevoted to BIZ-TECH quiz (Business & Technology) followed by aGeneral quiz on the second day. Around 28 top schools from Delhiand NCR participated in the event, vying for the overall rollingtrophy. Team from Amity Saket comprising of Swetabh, Tanmayand Atharv stood third in general quiz. Modern School BarakhambaRoad bagged the overall rolling trophy.

AMITY INNOVATION INEDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

2019

An award for teachers to presentinnovative technology used intransacting the lesson in class. Schoolsalso displayed best practices andintegration of SDGs in classroomteaching.

Interact Club of Amity Saketorganised the Inter School Script andStory Writing Competition as part ofthe Delhi Schools Literacy Project.

Highlights

Primary students from classes Nursery to V showcased their mathematical geniususing games, models and puzzles during the annual exhibition Mathamity 2019 onAugust 3, 2019. Since Mathematics is an inseparable part of our everyday life, be itin the classroom calculating the sums, measuring the ingredients in the kitchen,counting the money in the banks or going out for shopping, mathematics iseverywhere. The event focussed on encouraging our budding mathematicians toobserve, research and record maths around them.

Ramanujan in the making!

An interactive session with the students ofclasses 8th  – 11th  with  Brigadier AmulAsthana  on 14th  August, 2019 wherein heshared his experience of the Kargil War.  Brigadier Amul Asthana had led 1/11 GorkhaRifles in Kargil battle. One of his teams wasgiven a task to clear enemy positions in orderto prevent his battalion from getting exposedin the daylight.   The objective of thisworkshop was to spread awareness amongststudents about the Kargil War of 1999between India and Pakistan. The story ofvalor and bravery motivated the students totake up careers in the field of defenseservices to serve our country.

ANUBHAV SERIES

Highlights

Our Chairperson ma’am Dr (Mrs) Amita Chauhanbelieves that  knowledge about our culture, heritageand scriptures should be an essential aspect of thecurriculum. Following her belief and to celebrateKrishna Janmashatmi, the birth of Lord Krishna,little Amitians of class Nursery presented anepisode, “The Giant Bird – Bakasur and LordKrishna” from Lord Krishna’s life through a musicaldance drama.

Simple, erudite and earthy, the fairy talesgive their message in the most impactful way.Taking audience to the wonderful world offairy tales, children of class II  presented twofairy tales, Pinocchio and The Shoemaker andElves during their class presentation.

JANAMASTMI - BY NURSERY'S

The witty folk hero of South India, Tenali Raman came alive on thestage at AIS Saket, when the budding thespians of class III enacted the

tales of Tenali Raman during their class presentation and left theaudience mesmerised.

LAND OF  CLASSIC FAIRY TALES

HAPPY MOMENTS WITH TENALI !

Highlights

INDEPENDENCE DAY Let's Rejoice!

Independence Day celebration reached its pinnaclewith the presence of Cdr Sachin Gade, Lt CdrArchana Maurya, Lt Shivansh Manaktala,LLOG(F&A) Pradeep Kushwaha as the chief guest.The dignitaries along with our respected principalma’am and students planted saplings of Hibiscusrosa-sinensis, colloquially known as the China rose.

UNMESH PATRIOTIC FERVOR IN AMITY

Independence Day fills every Indian’s heart withlove and pride for the nation. To celebrate thespirit of being an Indian, Amity provided wingsof expressions to the students through a mélangeof activities spanning across the week, August 7-14, 2019 under UNMESH.  The students fromgrades Nursery to XII expressed their love for thecountry by participating in different activities.

Highlights

150Birth AnniversaryCelebration of

Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi is the symbol of peace and truth. Gandhian thoughts, principles, values

and ideals encourage our students to always follow the path of truth and have non –

violence.  In order to mark the celebrations of 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi,

year long activities are being carried out across the country.

Amity Saket has been chosen as one of the 25 leading schools by CBSE to showcase

these activities. There are various activities which are being taken up by different classes

and will go on till 2nd October 2020.

Various activities which were taken up are as follows:

1.      An activity on ‘ Remembering our father of the nation’ where students illustrated

Gandhiji and his trademark possessions which he always carried .They listed the qualities

of Gandhiji , values and teachings he stood for.                                                              

2.      Posters were made on Gandhiji's life by the students, in order to pay respect to the

father of nation.

3.      The children were shown a short film on the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Students also

discussed various incidents from Gandhiji's life. They were shown videos on  inspirational

stories from his life. 

4.    Students were made aware of the values for which Gandhi ji stood throughout his life

i.e. Non-violence, Honesty, Simplicity and Unity.

5.      Students sang the bhajan ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram” in the class and the school

assembly.

6.    Children made Gandhi ji's spectacles by tearing paper and pasting them.

Highlights Highlights

Principal Ms Divya Bhatia,Head Boy Divam Nangia andHead Girl Aditi Batracelebrating the spirit ofmodern, inclusive, anddiverse India by walking handin hand with children fromTamana!!

A 'Tamanna' to fly high

Our children were trained atthe Amity Incubation Centrefor launching their innovation 'Sangini' in the market. Indeed,it was a super achievement ofour young scientists.

Teacher's Day

Celebrations

A great show was put up bythe children as well as theteacher to mark theoccasion of Teacher's Day.

Being among the top 50Innovators in India

Highlights

True to our belief of"Where modernity blendswith Tradition", SanskritDiwas was celebrated withgreat interest at AmitySaket, where childrenrecited Shlokas andenacted a wonderful playin Sanskrit.

Installation Ceremony -

Interact Club

The Interact Club at Amity Sakettook the oath for performing theirduties and responsibilities in thefield of Community service to thebest of their ability. We will be theones to be the change we wish tosee!

Sanskrit Diwas

Special Havan

It was organised in school to inaugurate the new Sports Climbing

Wall installed in School.

Highlights

Our Principal Ms Divya Bhatia as the speaker atthe Biggest Summit on Innovation in Education.

Our Alumni

Great going Aditi Chauhan Very proud and honoured to be selected torepresent India at the Youth and sport#unescofunshop 2019 for my work through@SheKicksFA towards women empowerment through Football.

Aditi

Teachers' day with Alumnus@Siddharth Kurapati in theschool. Wishing all theteachers a very HappyTeachers Day !!

ECOMITE 2019

A Commerce Event was organizedwherein children participated withgreat enthusiasm in series ofevents like Economics Symposium,Game plan - A Startup Event andPoster Making.

Highlights

Our Hindi Teacher Ms. Neelam Sharma won the का��चल अ�मेघ "छ�द महारथी" award.

Our Orchestra Teacher Mr. PrabhatKumar won the Teacher's Essay writing

award.

Our Principal Ms. Divya Bhatia Ma'am wonthe Teacher's Essay writing award.

Amity Innovation in Education TechnologyAward 2019 - An award for teachers topresent innovative technology used intransacting the lesson in class.Our Maths Teacher Ms. Latika Bhatnagarwon the Best Innovation Award

Titans of Amity SaketTeachers' Achievements

Our Stars Excelling in IIT ADVANCED 2019

Amity International School, Saket congratulates its

 students who made it to IIT after clearing JEE

Advanced 2019. We are proud of you!!!

He has been selected to represent

India at the prestigious

International Linguistics Olympiad

(IOL) to be held in Seoul, Korea. He

stood second in the country and

was awarded a silver medal in the

national round and was placed

sixth in the Asia Pacific Region

(Comprising of ten countries).

Jaisal Kothari class X

Our Synchro Achievers felicitated forexemplary performance in Competitive

Examination.

Moments of Success

Achievements

Varnit Chandra of Class II has been interested instates of India, countries, capitals and flags sincehe was 5 years old. He knows all the states ofIndia and their capitals. He knows over 100 citiesof India. He can identify the flags of 195 countriesand most of the capitals and has made a record ofidentifying the flags of 195 countries in 3 minutesand 44 seconds. Kudos to our little Champ!!!

Achievements

Ananya Bansal(Class XI),SukritiGupta(Class XI), Kunal Gautam (Class XI) won second position inCase Analysis held at PathwaysSchool, Gurugram on 18th August2019

Vivaan Wadhwa (Class XI),Aryan Goel(ClassXI),Kritin Khemka(Class XI), SaatvikSharma(Class XI),Vaibhav Jain(Class XI) wonfirst position in Design Championship held at Global Heights School, Gurugram on 20thAugust 2019

Vedhanshi of class XI - Fwon first prize in EnglishSlogan Writing duringInteracy Literacy Week 

AIS, Saket bagged first position in BandCategory at JMPS Burari and Aryan Goyalgets Best Keyboardist Award.

Madhav Sharma (Class IX),Saatvik Sharma (Class IX),Ojas(Class IX),Adaya(Class IX)Selected for next level ofNational Science Congress

Dakshesh Katoch and IshaanKapur of Class V won first

position in Robotronics held at AIS, Gur 46 on 19th

August 2019

Best Delegation for Amity Saket at Coadunate MUN. Best Delegate - Sonsie, Divyaansh, Madhav;High Commendation  Rishika, Samaira, Aditya KhuntiaPriyansha, Aanya, Hridyanshu;Spec men- Satvik, Harshil Batra 

ANCQ 2019 - Students got a 100 percentile in a challengingChemistry quiz organised by Royal Australian ChemicalInstitute, Australia :Kunaal Gautam(Class XI)Bhavesh Karthik, Ashwin Barnwal, Aarav Bhandari (Class VIII)Saarah Samaiyah, Ayush Singh(Class XII)

Aria Puri (Class VIII) and EndriAggarwal (Class VII) won Specialprize in Spellaratti held at AISVasundhara 6 on 2nd August 2019

Achievements

Amity Saket won the Geomaty 2019 Rolling Trophy at AIS, Noida:

Map Reading - I Position Nukkad Natak - I PositionCartoon Making - I PositionBest Out of Waste - II Position

Winners of Library Awards given for thelibrary activities held in December 2018

Pratul Gupta of Class VIII won aninternational award for paintingcompetition organized by IranianCultural Centre

Amity Saket won third prize in Subhashika for a Sanskritplay at Amity, Mayur Vihar

Aanvik Bhatnagar (Class X), Ayushi Gupta(ClassX) and Bhuvi Pandey (Class IX) wonsecond position in Vaad-Vivaad at Literati 2019

Innovation Challenge at GHS:Graphica: first prizeIndustrial Design: first prizeAPP Design: first prize andsecond prize

Achievements

Best fictional story - Khushi DaryaniBest ground reporting -Stuti Kakkar and Arpit Gupta Special jury mention - Tanya Ganguly (most innovative story)Best illustrations- Abhilasha KubaBest editing in photography - Mukund Arora

Amity Saket was the second runnerup in the

Global Times award 2018-19

The 13th Year of MUN had interesting debates as children got a platform to share theirideas in their committees.The two day MUN session ended with the prize distribution wherethe delegates were awarded and everyone was acknowledged for their contribution inmaking the event a grand success.

Achievements

SANGINI team of  Amity International School, Saketnamely Aayushi Kaushik, Numa Falak Khan andKaavya Joshi of class X mentored by AmbreenKauser got an opportunity to interact with NobelLaureate Shri Kailash Satyarthi. They got a chanceto showcase their project and were appreciated fortheir innovative idea.

SPORTS ZONE

The sub juniors girls bagged the first positionand junior girls bagged the second position in

Basketball zonals 2019-20.

PM Narendra Modi launched FIT IndiaMovement on National Sports Day, 29thAugust 2019. Our children viewed the LiveTelecast. They thoroughly enjoyed and werehighly motivated.

Netball Zonals First position - Junior girls

.

Sports

Inter Amity Junior ChessChampionship 2018-19

Soham Vats (V) won Real Gold in "AllIndia Real Gold Skating Championship".

Praneel Sharma (VI) won a Gold medal in TalentSearch Under - 12 Tennis Championship @ DLTA

Abhishek Saini of Class XI won SilverMedal in CBSE Archery Competition inCluster 20.

Netball ZonalsSub junior girls - third position

Five students from school bagged 9 (4 gold, 2 silver & 3 bronze)medals at the 5th International Karate Championship 2019organised by All India Seishinkai Shitoryu Karate-Do Federation.The winning champions were Sehen Dey who won a gold medal,Aria Puri who bagged a gold and a silver medal, Anjika Guptawho won a silver and a bronze medal and Endri Agrawal & TriyanPratibimb won a gold and a bronze medal.

Sports

15th All India International Independence Karate Championship held at Talkatora Indoor stadium from 9th to 11th August, 2019 :

Gold Medal - Aria Puri , Raghav Sharma (VIII) Silver Medal - Endri Agarwal (VIII), Ganika Chauhan (IV), Dhwaj Dagar (V), Agrim Bansal (III)Bronze Medal - Eshyana Sanyal (III), Sonakshi Uppal (III), Itish Sehgal (IV) Rushat Shah (VII), Kiara Bhagat (III)

Delhi Cup Football Championship  Our team bagged the runners up prize in the category of Under 10 football championship Our team bagged the first position in the category of Under 12 & 14 football championship

Best Player in the category of Under 10 - Vaman Sharma and Under 14 - Hritey

CreativeExpressions

Creative Canavas

Shinjini Pundir XII F

Simran Sethi XI F 

Srishti Saxena XII C

Team work on 'say no toplastic' by student of class

XII Shinjini Punir,Priyanshi Chauhan &

Srishiti Saxena

Kashika Khanna IX C &

Vandita Sharma V C Mohak Malhotra

VI A

Creative Canavas

Akshat Vig III - B

Amayra IV - CPankhudi

Gunjan Chaudhary7 B

Aisha VI - CSaisha VI - C

Kashika Khanna 9 C &Vandita Sharma V C

Sushanya Gupta7 A

Diya VII CLakshay VIII D

Asiya ParveenVI C