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September 2021 https://www.cgs.com.bd/newsletter.php?GID=5&MID=38 Volume 28, Issue 2

Dear Parents/Guardians, CGS Lower believes in providing an enabling environ-ment for the students, not only when it comes to the physical or virtual platforms in the school or classrooms but also the emotional environment and focuses on the teacher-students connection and how safe and comfort-able the environment is children feel within the settings. So please don‟t worry if your child has just started with pre-school or classes like 1 or 2. Students are not ex-pected to read, write or do sums thoroughly from the very start. Rather our teachers try to identify the wide range of abilities that the students possess and help these children progress at their own pace. What‟s most important is that you share your experi-ences and expectations, helping us build a stronger bridge for communication between you and the school. Our school hotline numbers are open from 9.00 am to 3.30 pm. Please feel free to book appointments with class/academic coordinators regarding any concerns. Additional meetings can be scheduled with the Head, Counsellor, Subject teachers upon request. Kindly visit our Mind, Body, and Soul website, focusing on academics, healthy living, and mental well-being. The MBS website is updated weekly with Class schedules and Study packs, Virtual Counselling information, En-gaging resources for students, Fitness videos, Newsletter and much, much more, visit the link: https://www.cgs.com.bd/academics/ Last but not least you are requested to encourage your child to join virtual classes regularly. Catching up with lessons missed can be stressful and interfere with positive development if a child is absent frequently. “The starting point of all achievement is desire”

~Napolean Hill Rasha Tariq

WORLD GRATITUDE DAY AT CGS Gratitude Day is celebrated internationally on the 21st of September. World Gratitude Day joins organiza-tions, nationals, and individuals in sharing their grati-tude in a number of different ways. A little bit of grati-tude can go a very long way. This year at CGS we would like to celebrate with a picture of something you are grateful for, posted on Facebook and Instagram with the hash tag #CGSGratitudeDay.

It could be with family members or friends, close and far dressed in the cheerful colours of orange / yellow / red.

Or a pet you may be grateful for.

Or even some of your favourite things that you are grateful for - food, books, your laptop etc

Best pictures from each section will be announced in the next class notes. Please come dressed in these colours for your online lessons and with a mindset of gratefulness!

CAMBRIDGE RESULTS OUT! CAIE results are out and our students, as al-ways, made us proud. The red line in our his-torical chart above shows their success. See re-sults supplement for details. Congratulations!

LOWER PARENTS FEEDBACK Lower School kicked off the new school year with a range of orientation activities to slowly induct children into the flow of online school. We introduced a lot of innovations over the last 16 months of virtual school. In July we asked you to rate these in a scale of 1 to 5 where 5 represented „Most Satisfied‟. Below are the re-sults consolidated of your responses for the in-novations you most liked. Your top five preferences were: 1. Champion Teacher Program 2. Email/SMS for Student Reminders & No-

tices 3. Subject-wise Online Content Uploads (PPT,

Video, Website Links) 4. MBS Portal 5. Shorter School Hours We hope to continue these practices amongst other ways to engage students and ensure both parents and students feel well supported - whether in academics, or emotional or social care.

CGS ART COMPETITION 2021/22 This year we received 336 art entries from 40 schools. Winners were:

Winner: Aksh Mittal of Pinegrove School, for „Rejuvenation‟, pictured below.

Runner Up: Vishnumaya Deepakchandran, (below) GEMS Modern Academy, on the theme of „Resilience.‟

3rd position: Israa Shaikh of Indian School Muscat, on the theme „Resolve.‟

4th position: Akanksha Raghunath, Indian School Muscat.

5th position: Dhwani Goyal, Whelham Girls.

Junior Winner: Yatika Patodi, Daly College.

Junior Runner Up: Samara Madahana,

Brookhouse School, Kenya.

Best School entries: Vivek High School, India.

Teacher‟s Winner: Jignyasa Patel, (below) Head of Art, GEMS Modern Academy, Dubai.

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MIDDLE PARENTS FEEDBACK We introduced a lot of innovations over the last 16 months of virtual school. In July we asked you to rate these in a scale of 1 to 5 where 5 represented ‘Most Satisfied’. Below are the re-sults consolidated of your responses for the 5 innovations you most liked:

CGS ART COMPETITION 2021/22 This year we received 336 art entries from 40 schools. Winners were

Winner: Aksh Mittal of Pinegrove School, for ‘Rejuvenation’, pictured left.

Runner Up: Vishnumaya Deepakchandran, (above) GEMS Modern Academy, on the theme of ‘Resilience.’

3rd position: Israa Shaikh of Indian School Muscat, on the theme ‘Resolve.’




Junior Runner Up: Samara Madahana, Brookhouse School, Kenya.

Best School entries: Vivek High School.

Teacher’s Winner: Jignyasa Patel, (below)

Head of Art, GEMS Modern Academy, Dubai.

Dear Students, World Gratitude Day on 21st September brings the world together in a day of thankfulness. If ever the world needed the restorative power of gratitude, that time is now. Gratitude lifts us up, rejuvenates our spirit and gives us a renewed resolve to meet the un-precedented challenges we are facing today. On this day some people write thank you notes to those they appreciate. Some make a point of having dinners with family members to let them know how thankful they are to have them. Others start a grati-tude journal in which they record what they are grateful for. How you celebrate this day is limited by your own imagination. I have a lot of pleasant memories of this day being celebrated during campus classes. I hope you all re-member the last time we celebrated it at Middle School. You surprised the support staff by inviting them to the assembly and expressed gratitude to them with words and small gifts. It was a lovely experience and I get emotional simply by thinking about it. I hope the fact of you staying at home this year will not prohibit you from celebrations. You are fortunate to be blessed with good parents, siblings, grandpar-ents, relatives, friends, teachers and many others. Please do something special for at least one of them. Express your thoughts of appreciation with a self-made card, text or may be some other unique way. It feels wonderful being acknowledged. You have the op-portunity to make someone feel special so make the most of it. Hector Fernandez

WORLD GRATITUDE DAY AT CGS Gratitude Day is celebrated internationally on the 21st of September. World Gratitude Day joins organi-zations, nationals, and individuals in sharing their gratitude in a number of different ways. A little bit of gratitude can go a very long way. This year at CGS we would like to celebrate with a picture of something you are grateful for, posted on Facebook and Insta-gram with the hash tag #CGSGratitudeDay.

It could be with family members or friends, close and far dressed in the cheerful colours of or-ange / yellow / red.







UPPER PARENTS FEEDBACK We introduced a lot of innovations over the last 16 months of virtual school. In July we asked you to rate these in a scale of 1 to 5 where 5 represented ‘Most Satisfied’. Below are the re-sults consolidated of your responses for the 5 innovations you most liked:

CGS ART COMPETITION 2021/22 This year we received 336 art entries from 40 schools. Winners were

Winner: Aksh Mittal of Pinegrove School, for ‘Rejuvenation’, pictured left.

Runner Up: Vishnumaya Deepakchandran, (above) GEMS Modern Academy, on the theme of ‘Resilience.’

3rd position: Israa Shaikh of Indian School Muscat, on the theme ‘Resolve.’




Junior Runner Up: Samara Madahana, Brookhouse School, Kenya.

Best School entries: Vivek High School.

Teacher’s Winner: Jignyasa Patel, (below)

Head of Art, GEMS Modern Academy, Dubai.

Dear Parents, As we step into September, students have started to get acclimated into their new virtual classes. At CGS, we are hoping to give our students a normal school ex-perience to the best of our abilities. The new wave of the pandemic has brought our nation back to its knees again. But keeping the students mental wellbeing in mind we will continue most of our curriculums virtu-ally. This includes extra-curricular activities. Here at Upper School we provide ample opportunities to our students to participate in various national and inter-national events virtually. These events can include MUN, Olympiads, IT hackathons, Round Square con-ferences, and many other activities. Participating in extra-curricular activities will also ensure that the students are staying active as well as building a strong portfolio for their future endeavours. Apart from these events, we also have various student led clubs that we strongly advise our students to join. They can choose from a wide variety of these clubs based on their interest, such as, MUN club, book club, or Erudite Exchange where they can discuss their thoughts and ideas about current societal issues. Regularly participating in these activities will give the students some taste of their normal school lives. We understand that our children are struggling the most amidst this pandemic. Keeping their mental wellbeing in check is now of the utmost importance. Since they are going to get busy with their examina-tions soon this is the best time to delve into their pas-sions for different activities and hone their skills. Faiza Chowdhury.

WORLD GRATITUDE DAY AT CGS Gratitude Day is celebrated internationally on the 21st of September. World Gratitude Day joins organi-zations, nationals, and individuals in sharing their gratitude in a number of different ways. A little bit of gratitude can go a very long way. This year at CGS we would like to celebrate with a picture of something you are grateful for, posted on Facebook and Insta-gram with the hash tag #CGSGratitudeDay.

It could be with family members or friends, close and far dressed in the cheerful colours of or-ange / yellow / red.





„rejuvenation‟, pictured below. c results out

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