26th Senior School Basketball Boys

Team will participate in the Interschool

Basketball championship -2018 at La

Martiniere for Boys.

Parent Newsletter Senior School

October 2018

Highlights of the month

1st

Term 1 Written Examinations begin for Grades

7 & 8

2nd

Gandhi Jayanti - Holiday

8th

Mahalaya - Holiday

9th

CAIE Board Examinations commence

10th

PSAT for Grade 10

11th

English Olympiads

12th

Term 1 Examinations end for Grades 7& 8

13th

Durga Puja Vacation begins

20th

IAYP trip for some students of Grade 9

22nd

IAYP trip for students of Senior Section

25th

School reopens

29th

Discussion of Test Papers for Grades 7 & 8

begins

The Consul General of China - His Excellency Mr. Ma Zhanwu invited Dr Munmun Nath to discuss student and teacher exchange programmes and collaboration between schools in China and CIS.

He also met the school football team and witnessed a friendly football match and encouraged the team with his kind words. He also gifted the team twenty soccer balls.

Daan Utsav 2018

12th Students of Middle Section will

gift “natun pujor jama” to the less

privileged children of the society,

initiated by Hope Kolkata Foundation.

Teacher Chef Competition is an

annual event at CIS, conducted by

IIHM. This year the preliminary

rounds took place on 3rd September,

2018.

The participants were Ms. Sudha

Tulshan, Ms. Ranjana Chakraborty,

Ms. Rina Mitra, Ms. Amrita Nandy,

Ms. Soni Jha, Ms. Debasruti Saha

and Ms. Piali Ray.

The IB and AS students participated in the preliminary round of the

5th International Young Chef Olympiad

Svarika Sonthalia, Dwaipayan Chakroborty, Saloni Todi, Nafis Adnan, Aditi Chatterjee, Mehul Bhargawa, Ishan Chaterjee of IBDP Year 1 and Firdous Hossain, Abhimanyu Sharma of AS Level participated in the competition. They prepared a dish from home and presented it for tasting to the judges from IIHM.

IIHM Teacher Chef Competition

On Thursday, 30th August , Mrs. Sharmila

Mukerjee, Section – Head, Middle Section

and Mr. Samitava Mukherjee, IBDP

Coordinator, attended a workshop – ‘Beyond

the Classroom’ , organized by Trailblazers in

Kolkata.

The workshop aimed at creating a revolution

in pedagogies, helping teachers incorporate a

more fun, engaging and interdisciplinary

approach to learning using outdoor training

modules.

The day-long session was filled with indoor and outdoor activities as well. These

helped in understanding how concepts can be grasped through simple fun activities

while promoting a spirit of enquiry and critical thinking. The emphasis was on

enhancing students’ sense of responsibility, accountability and awareness about

their everyday choices and how these affect the environment and society at large.

Rotary Club of Calcutta Victoria, the parent

club of the Interact Club of CIS, hosted a

talent show competition at Hotel

Hindustan International on 8th September,

2018. Arushi Pant of Grade 9 showcased

her stunning voice and Dwaipayan

Chakraborty of IB Yr1 solved 12 Rubik’s

cube problems in less than 4 minutes.

Career Counsellor Mrs.

Sanjukta Poddar was selected

to be a part of the Jury for the

Annual IC3 Awards at the IC3

Conference at New Delhi on

30th & 31st August, 2018.

IIHM Teachers’ Day Award 2018

goes to Mr. Anubhab Bhattacharjee

This award was presented in a

solemn function held at Hotel Hyatt

Regency, Kolkata.

Mr Subrata Ghosh, HOD -

Art attended the Cambridge

Professional Development

Course for A level Art &

Design at Aditi International

School, Bangalore

Dr. Nath’s talk on the

occasion of Teachers’ Day

on 91.9 Friends FM

AS – Level Travel and

Tourism students visited ITC

Sonar Bangla Hotel with their

teacher Mr. Arunashankar

Deb. The visit focused on

knowing about the hotel

policies for Internal and

External customers-

employees and guests. They

also gained knowledge about

the key operational areas of

the hotel.

Avishek Ghosh of A Level

was selected to present a

poster in the renowned

Geochemical Conference at

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

on Monday 13th August

2018 – a result of his

research project.

Annual Business Day, organised by the Business Department of

the Senior School of CIS was held on 31st August. Some of the

exciting events were...

The Business Treasure Hunt

The Business Quiz

The Stock Market

The Giant Monopoly &

The Charity Sale in association with LP4Y.

It was a day packed with intense competition between all three

houses for the winning position! The final result was:

1st

Red House

2nd

Yellow House

3rd

Green House

ASHOKA UNIVERSITY

BENNETT UNIVERSITY

FLAME UNIVERSITY

ISDI PARSONS

UNIVERSAL BUSINESS SCHOOL

O P JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITY

S P JAIN SCHOOL OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT

SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY IIHM KOLKATA

The fair was attended by representatives from esteemed

Universities across India including

Twenty four students of CIS Middle Section participated in “Mitali”; an inter-school

fest held for Middle School students, hosted by Modern High School for Girls. At the

fest there were seven events- a Quiz, Elocution competitions in Hindi and Bengali,

Dance competition, Model Making, Photography, Art event and Cooking without fire.

CIS placed First in Model making by showing how the hexagonal shape found in

beehives is utilized by mankind in various fields such as architecture, educational

models and mathematics.

CIS secured the First place in Photography for capturing a series of unique

photographs featuring flora, fauna together with human subjects. The series was

captioned- Hide and Seek by the winning pair.

Portraying beauty of nature through their effortless brush strokes, CIS placed

Second in Art.

Furthermore, the dance performance by CIS students received a special mention for

the significant message on environment that was portrayed through the graceful

Kashmiri folk dance- “Rouff”.

The students of Grade 6 did an activity on Fossil making to

appreciate how the geologists have been reconstructing the history of the earth through fossil studies. This activity was done in context to the history of the earth - the various changes it has undergone and the evolution of life over a period of time. The activity started with a Flipped Classroom session where a student guided the class on the art of fossil making. This was followed by a lesson where this learning was put into practice. The students also made interesting charts on dinosaurs to recreate the Jurassic Age in their classrooms.