from the principal’s desk

Dear Parent,

After a festive Diwali break the school reopened on 5th November and Volume 4 began.

A session on “Handling Discipline Issues in the Classrooms” was conducted for all the teachers of

Primary and Secondary Departments. Various techniques of handling the students were

brainstormed.

Pre-Schoolers enjoyed “Salad Making” with their mothers.

Our students had a wonderful celebration of Children‟s day. Pre-Primary section celebrated it with a

difference! Yes all the Dads were invited to join and a “Foam Party” was arranged with loads of fun.

A mini fun fare was organised for our Primary and Secondary sections.

Our ever enthusiastic P T A arranged a Magic Show for our Primary Section and Housie for our

Secondary Section to add excitement to Children‟s day celebration.

To motivate our students who are gearing up for their Prelims and their final IGCSE, a session on

“How to handle Examination Anxiety” was conducted. Children were enlightened about what

causes anxiety and what can be done to handle and overcome such anxiety through certain simple

but effective tools.

Our students participated in Basketball and Karate and brought us laurels.

AD-MAD Competition : - Our secondary students exhibited their talent by creating and enacting

Ads on the topic “No more Apocalypse : Peace Wanted Alive”

Please flip the pages on for detailed updates!

Yours in Education

Dr Arundhati Hoskeri

Our Principal Dr Arundhati Hoskeri conducted a session on “How to handle Examination Anxiety”

for the students of Grade X

A session on “Handling Discipline Issues

in the Classrooms” was conducted for all

the teachers by our

Principal Dr Arundhati

VICTORY!!!

CP Goenka International School‟s Under 14 Boys Basketball Team

feels immense pleasure to be winners of the Poisar Gymkhana

Tournament. Our student Preet Jain Lodha was awarded the “Best

Player of the Tournament”.

CPGIS won 2nd prize in All India Kenpoukai Kenbukan Karate.

The following students won Medals for their achievement.

Aryaman Periwal – 2 Gold, 1 Bronze

Saachi Nichani – 2 Gold, 1 Bronze

Zoe Menon – 2 Bronze

Siddharth Menon – 1 Bronze

Ananya Binumohan – 2 Silver, 1 Bronze

Arsh Lokhandwala – 2 Gold, 1 Bronze

Mahirie Shah – 1 Bronze

Isha Singh – 2 Gold

Reem Haque – 1 Gold, 1 Bronze

Zaara Haque – 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

Ayira Kurup – 2 Silver

Rishita Mishra – 1 Gold, 1 Silver

Tamanna Dembda – 1 Silver, 2 Bronze

Siddharth Salian – Participated

Kiana Suvaliwala – Participated

Aahil Kutchi – Participated

You can play with your child like a friend, advise like a father and

protect like a body guard. You mean a world to your child!

We hope you had a great time with your child at the Foam Party

with your kids.

“Hush a little baby, don‟t say a word,

Mama's going to buy you a mockingbird”.

Candy cane wishes, and sugar plump dreams

Children enjoyed a fun filled Pyjama Party.

Virtually every parent faces

the challenge, getting kids to

eat healthy food.

Keeping this in mind, our

playgroup parents did a

wonderful job of making

some yummy, scrumptious

salad for their little ones to

inculcate healthy eating

habits.

To enhance the theme of the month, our little ones dress up as

a fruit and vegetable and pretend to be like it. They enjoyed taking

part in pretence play activity.

Students of playgroup visited the garden and plant nursery at „The Club‟, had a great time

playing in the garden area and exploring nature.

Spring Buds International believes that every child is an artist.

Our little artists were all set to create and display their imagination.

Students of Jr. KG visited the garden and

plant nursery at „The Club‟, had a great

time playing in the garden area and

exploring nature.

As part of the concept, mothers were invited to school. Both mother and child were asked to dress

up and enact any one part of the tree. The event was marked with many other fun filled activities .

Good job done to make the event a success!

Spring Buds International believes that every child is an artist. Children were given an

opportunity to show case their talent through the medium of art. The theme of the competition

was My Favourite Festival.

Students of Sr. KG are

learning about the plant

world, so as an extension to

this, they visited a plant

nursery „Green Grovers‟ at

Bandra, where they saw and

learned about different

species of plants and their

specialty.

Children‟s day, also known as Bal Divas , was celebrated by Grade I on 11th November.

The students of grade 1 came dressed in casual clothes for the foam party - suds or bubbles were

dispensed from a foam machine. The children sang, played, danced and jumped in gusto.

Later, they were engaged in a few interesting games organized by their teachers and ate yummy

snacks provided by the school.

Children's Day was celebrated at C.P. Goenka International School Juhu on 15th November 2016

with a lot of enthusiasm.

Magic shows are a wonderful way of bringing blissful moments into the lives of children.

The show was organized by the PTA members. The 15 minute programme kept the children

engrossed and they were amazed by the magician‟s skill.

It was followed by a fun filled skit performance by teachers which was based on children‟s

behaviour and their daily routine with parents at home, friends in school and society. Primary

school teachers also organised an awesome dance performance for children which was then

followed by children joining in with the teachers to groove and shake a leg.

The icing on the cake was game stalls set up for children to have a gala time which was followed

by lip smacking, mouth watering eatables.

This event was a great success and the children went home, enthralled and excited.

Three cheers for C.P.Goenka !!!!!

Zoo Crew had a Zoo-Pendous Day

An area full of lush green trees with many species of birds and animals is the ideal place for the

children to be engaged in an interdisciplinary approach towards curriculum.

Students of Grade II, III and IV were taken to Jijamata Udyan Zoo as an extension of the Hindi,

Social science and Language curriculum. They saw a variety of birds and animals which

reinforced their understanding of land and water animals. They could connect this to the fact that

animals belong to a particular habitat and can only survive there.

We are sure we have future botanists and environmentalist amidst us !!!

Money makes the world go round!!!

Money is a complex concept for children to grasp, not only how to count it, but also its importance

and impact on life.

This can be taught through fun activities to support their learning. Students of Grade II learned the

actual value of money, handling real notes and coins of various denominations. They also did a fun

tracing activity of the metal coins to learn the various sizes, shapes and denominations.

The icing on the cake was the shopping spree where the children actually bought goods by paying

fake money.

Grade II students learnt the value of money through fun filled interesting activities, which is a skill

required to be a successful businessman or businesswoman .

Everything in the Earth's system can be placed into one of the four

major subsystems: land, water, living things or air. These four

subsystems are called "spheres." Specifically, they are the

"lithosphere" (land), "hydrosphere" (water), "biosphere" (living things), and "atmosphere" (air).

Students of Grade II performed an activity based on the spheres of the Earth. Balls of different

colours had labels of living things pasted on them. The balls had to be identified and put in the

respective boxes (spheres), to which they belonged. Example - Plants and human beings belong to

the biosphere.

Students enjoyed the activity and reinforced the understanding that each living organism has its

own natural environment.

I am replacing!!!

Don‟t make it boring by saying John ate an apple. John went to the garden. John was happy.

Can‟t we replace John with another word?

Grade III were engaged in an activity on pronouns

called the “Pronoun Patch”. They replaced the

nouns with a pronoun. A flower was drawn in

which the pronoun was written in the centre and

the nouns were written in the petals. It was

coloured very beautifully by the children and it

actually looked like a flower patch in the garden.

Digestion !!!

Every organ in the digestive system plays a vital role.

Students of Grade III were instructed to put pieces of a slice of

bread in a zip lock bag. The bread represented the food and the zip

lock bag initially represented the mouth. The children poured the

water which represented the saliva into the zip lock bag. The

bread became soft. Orange juice was poured to show the food

mixing with digestive juices. A zip lock bag now represented the

stomach. Finally, children made a hole in the bag from which

excess waste was removed. This represented excretion.

Wow !! The children actually experienced the entire process of

digestion!

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the

urge to reach your full potential... these are

the keys that will unlock the door to personal

excellence” an inspiring quote which can help us

to tap our potential.

Keeping this in mind, a workshop on developing

our potential as a teacher, was conducted by

Ms. Madhavi and Ms. Surinder of the primary

section on the 19th of November, 2016.

The workshop started with an inspiring clip from

the movie „M.S. Dhoni‟, the untold story

followed by a ppt. presentation on potential

development. The workshop was a combination

of a vibrant and colorful ppt, role play and an

activity.

An interactive session was conducted with the

teachers to complete the activity. The objective

was, teachers could reflect their own potential

and also got an insight of their capabilities with an opinion from another teacher

Overall the workshop was interactive, fun filled and valuable for the teachers.

Technology in the classroom is the best learning

tool as students are engaged. It also helps in

improving collaboration and most importantly, it

makes learning fun!

On 19th November 2016, Ms Aarti (Primary ICT

teacher) conducted a workshop for all the teachers

of the primary section.

The topic covered during this workshop was " Use

of Technology in Classroom". The workshop

included videos, a ppt and a detailed explanation

of how each feature could be used in the

classroom. The smart board, projectors, document

cameras, video conferencing, virtual classroom,

podcast etc were some of the features discussed

and explained.

Overall this was a very encouraging workshop for

teachers as it helped them to know the usage of

technology and also make lessons very interesting

in the classroom.

Ad Mad an inter-house „Advertisement Making Competition‟ was organized on 22nd November

for Grades 5 to 10. The competition was aimed at helping the students to showcase their creativity by

sensitizing their fellow students about World Peace. The theme of the competition was „NO MORE

APOCALYPSE: PEACE WANTED ALIVE.‟ Students of Grades 5 to 7 participated in poster

making activity whereas pupils of Grades 8 to 10 made eclectic performances in the form of skit,

jingles, songs, etc.

Gaia House participants were the winners.

Three cheers for the winners!!!

CPGIS had a fun filled day replete with activities, on 15th

November to celebrate Children‟s Day. A gesture of love

towards our young kids was made by the teachers and parents

to make it an eventful day. We had our very proactive PTM

members ready with their Housie game that was thoroughly

enjoyed by the students of the secondary section. This was

followed by performances by our very talented teachers such

as Amaan Sir. Ms. Arti, Ms. Rachana, Ms. Deepavali, and

Ms.Renu. The students also had games and food stalls to

make it a more fun filled day. Three cheers to our performers

for a worthwhile event!

The kids had a blast and will hold on to this until next year.

The inter-school quiz competition was a really good learning experience for our students.

It enlightened and motivated our students to brainstorm for the competition. The topic of the quiz

mainly dealt with Rio Olympics,2016. Our kids were divided into five teams, and each team had

two participants. The contest had 2 rounds. The first round was a written preliminary round and the

top 6 schools were selected for the second round .The competition aimed at developing knowledge

and an excellent base among the students through a healthy and highly motivating

meet. Unfortunately our kids could not make it to the second round but they were happy to be

participants of the competition as they competed with many schools.

Date: 24th November,2016

Venue: N M Joshi Vidya Sankul, Parel

Time: 9: a.m.

Event: Bournvita Quiz

Sub: Details for the Bournvita Quiz Contest Mumbai North City 2016