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Issue No 8 JANUARY 2011 www.dpsbopal.calorx.org INDEX

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From the Principal‟s Desk 1

Green School 2

Vedic 4

SFA 5

Trips and Tours 6

Campus Upbeats 7

Inauguration- 7

“Abhivyakti”

DPS Portal

Quiz Competition 8

Science Workshop 9

Special Assemblies 10

Shining Stars 12

o Trinity

o Inter House Competition 12

o Inter School Competition 13

Workshops 14

Sports 16

Prerna 28

The World belongs to those who care deeply, who dream boldly, and who work

steadfastly. We address the rapidly changing demands by leveraging high quality,

innovative methodologies that perform in the most demanding learning environments.

Technology can actually assist with some of these expectations and make teachers-and

their students- more successful. However as the world becomes more complex virtually

year-to-year instead of the generation-to-generation pace-educational needs continue to

shift from teaching and learning isolated skills, to teaching skills that enables students to

solve complex problem across many areas.

Educational technology, specially computer and computer related peripherals, have grown

tremendously and have permeated all areas of our life.

With CCE aiming at all round development of the child‟s personality, it is expected that

students will be able to bring out their best in both scholastic and co-scholastic areas and

meet different life situations with greater maturity.

From

T he Principal’s Desk

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Green School Drive

A plantation programme was organized at D.P.S Bopal

with the help of BOC India Ltd who provided us with the

saplings to make this plantation drive a success. Flowering

plants and trees were planted by the staff members and

green warriors of DPS, deep rooted in the soil with a

promise to take care of the plants planted by them.

The Exhibition-Cum-Sale, Theme: Best Out Of Waste, was

organized on 20th of December. Cards, envelopes, origami

items, birthday caps, masks, and different creative artifacts

for the exhibition-cum-sale out of recycled paper which

gathered the attention of parents and teachers.

Captions were prepared to be put up around the campus, conveying the message of

cleanliness and conservation of water and electricity.

‘Prakriti Vahan’, an environmental bus was brought to the campus by CEE, to make the

students aware about different environmental issues by playing eco-games.

Waste paper was collected from the different departments of the school and then was sent to

Kalpataru Paper factory and about 500 kg of recycled paper was made available.

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The international project on ‘Climate Change’, by the green

contributors was signed and the registration for the same was

done. As a part of the Green School drive, students of class 9

and 11 are doing two projects

a. The Climate Change Project

b. The Marine Pollution Project

The video documentation for the climate change and the

marine project was done by conducting interviews of

different personals from the field of education as well as

managerial level.

Achievement of green school drive under the international project on Marine Pollution DPS BOPAL, AHMEDABAD IS ONE OF THE FINALIST OF THE MARINE POLLUTION PROJECT TO

CALIFORNIA

The overwhelming selection of DPS students in the Marine Pollution Project has added one

more feather to our cap, as a part of the Green School Projects. This achievement makes us

rank amongst different schools from India and abroad as it gives us a chance to be a part of the

Summit on Marine Pollution at California, to be held from 11-13 March 2010. The team left

no stone unturned towards their effort towards this project inspite of their deadlines for test,

assignments and projects. This definitely makes each one of us proud!

Green Film Festival will be organized wherein screenings of "Panorama of Green Films" will be

done on 20th January 2010. The festival is being organised by CMS Environment in

association with the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) Govt. of India and other

prominent state, national and international bodies. The objective of the festival is to create

environmental awareness and induce behavioural changes amongst all the sections of the

society for adoption of environmental practices.

Ms. Livy Thomas and Ms. Nirali Dagli

attended the 3rd Environment

Educator’s Conference on

“Participatory Approach towards

Environment Education: Stakeholders’

Perception and Roles” from (27 -29

October, 2010) at New Delhi.

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VEDIC

VEDIC is „Vocational Educational & Development Institute – Calorx‟. It runs under Calorx Education & Research Foundation which aims to provide

education to underprivileged children of the society. It aims to empower students with proper education that will make them power decision-

makers and problem solvers.

VEDIC started on June 14, 2010 with a strength of 30 students in class VIII, following CBSE curriculum. The project would help these children and

their community to achieve a sustainable and positive future.

Teacher‟s Day Celebration:

Special programme was conducted on 7 September for teachers, which was organized by students. The Celebration started with a Prayer song which was followed by a western dance performance, a poem „Una Paloma Blanca‟ and the programme concluded with an interesting games for teachers.

Mentoring:

GURU – A LEADING LIGHT PROGRAMME for Mentoring VEDIC students had started in the month of September and every Wednesday 20 students from regular stream of DPS class XI participate in that. Mentoring Schedule and booklet has been prepared and given to students.

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Environment Day celebrations:

Environment Day was celebrated with the help of CEE. Prakruti Bus was invited in the

campus to create the awareness about environment and Gujarat. It was followed by games on

importance of environment.

Visit to Da Vinci Park:

Students were taken to Science park to have

a better understanding of the scientific

concepts.

SFA

The Lion‟s club of Ahmedabad celebrated its Silver jubilee on the 27th of December, 2010. DPS was invited to participate in the event. The event

consisted of feedback on the Skills for Adolescents programme initiated and supported by Lions Quest. About 8 schools participated in the

event. 5 students from DPS, along with their parents were present. Delhi Public School was awarded a certificate of appreciation in recognition

of their long term association and successful implementation of the Lion‟s Quest – Skills for Adolescents programme. Ms Sayanika Roy of class 8

F was called on to share her SFA experience and Ms. Malabika Datta parent of Shinjan Datta of class 8 C shared her experiences as a parent.

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TRIPS & TOURS

Seventy six students of class X including 40 boys and 36 girls took part in a three day trip to Jodhpur

organised by the school. The trip was conducted from 14th to 17th October 2010. Six teachers including

Mr. Satheesan P., Mr. Noble Thomas, Mr. Kehul Purohit, Ms. Veena Singh,

Ms. Dipaali Bist and Ms. Vinita J. accompanied the students.

During the trip the students visited Umaid Bhavan Palace, Mehrangarth Fort and Jaswant Thada.

The trip was very informative and students benefited a lot from it.

Malobika Datta mother of Shinjan Datta

class 8C, expressing her views on the

effectiveness of SFA.

Students and teachers with the certificate

of appreciation given to DPS by Lions

Club International.

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Campus upbeat@DPS Bopal(secondary)

GLIMPSES OF THE EVENT

INAUGURATION of ABHIVYAKTI AND SCHOOL PORTAL

The much awaited School auditorium "ABHIVYAKTI" and School Portal and Management System was inaugurated

on 24th Nov, 2010. Prof. M. M. Pant, an eminent educationist graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. The

Digital Infrastructure will help teachers uplift the learning processes “in” and “post” class. Students are bound

to gain through self paced learning, independent assessments and lateral collaboration. The infrastructure will also

aid in regular office work helping management monitor daily activities better and generate regular reports when

needed.

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On 11th Jan 2011, DPS Bopal, with the initiative of SPIC

MACAY, had the opportunity to listen to the Great Saatvik

Veena player - Shri Salil Bhatt, son of Shri Vishwamohan

Bhatt. The musical programme was truly mesmerizing. The noted

sitarist emphasised on the need of preserving our cultural heritage.

3RD ALL INDIA INTER SCHOOL QUIZ COMPETITION, WEST ZONE

DPS, Bopal, Ahmedabad, hosted the 3rd All India Inter School Quiz organized by DPS society in association with

Max Mueller Bhavan and in partnership with Goethe Institute with the aim to create interest in the students and schools

for German language. It was a general knowledge quiz on Germany‟s achievements in the field of science and technology. The

chief guest for the day was Ms. Jyotsana Bhatnagar, The Editor of „The Financial Express‟, Ahmedabad along with the

language co-ordinators, Ms. Dhara Shah and Ms. Monica Grewal, from the local German Centre, Goethe- Zentrum,

Ahmedabad. The participating schools from DPS, west zone were: DPS Vadodara, DPS Gandhinagar, DPS Surat,

DPS Jaipur, DPS Rajkot and the host school, DPS Bopal, Ahmedabad.

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DPS Jaipur was declared the Winner and participants were:

1. Sarvesh Jhunjhunwala (class:9) 2. Gaurav Daga (class:9)

DPS, Bopal, Ahmedabad was the Runner up and the participants were:

1. Shashwat Saxena (class 9) 2. Sushil Iyer (class:9)

The Winning team was awarded with a cheque of Rs 12000/- and a certificate and the

Runners –up team was awarded with cheque of Rs 8000/- and a certificate. The Zonal level

winners will now be participating for the National Level Finals of the Quiz to be held at

DPS, Noida on 21 January, 2010. Students were enlightened and kindled with the spirit of

curiosity to know more. It is aptly said;

‘We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle.

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all’.

Runner Up Zonal Host Trophy

FINANCIAL LITERACY PROGRAMME

ICICI Bank is organizing a training for the students of VI-VIII in the field of finance.

SCIENCE WORKSHOP A Science workshop was organized by Calorx Institute of Education at DPS , Bopal , Ahmedabad , for Science Teachers on 29th &

30th Oct 2010. Thirty teachers From DPS and other Schools participated in the Workshop. It was a unique workshop which

provided an opportunity for the teachers to have a hand on experience of scientific activities. Teachers enjoyed & learned how simply

scientific phenomena can be learned through experiments. Experiments like DNA Extraction, Photoelectric Effect and Action of

Catalyst were to name of few. Mr. Anup joshi, Ms. Monita Dash, and Ms. Amrita Chaudhary were the resource person for the

workshop. Films on discovery of Radio activity and X-ray were screened. A talk on “Multiple Intelligence” by Dr. Shailender

Gupta was delivered. Prof. Ramesh Aamin inaugurated the workshop.

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GLIMPSES OF THE WORKSHOP

SPECIAL ASSEMLIES

Hindi Pakhwara

Hindi Pakhwara was celebrated from 7-14 Sept’10. Students put up various interesting

prorammes including dance & skit which captivated the audience.

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Diwali Assembly

Students performed with great enthusiasm at the Diwali Assembly. They absolutely

rocked!!

Christmas Assembly

On 21st December 2010, Tapti House conducted a wonderful special assembly based on

“CHRISTMAS”- the most prominent festival of the month of December. The

programme began with the news of the day followed by article, songs, skit (depicting

nativity scene) dance, quiz, carols, Santa Clause. Teachers of DPS and PRERNA joined

hands to give a perfect blend. The message of CHRISTMAS was successfully conveyed

to the students through different colourful presentations.

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SHINING STARS

ALL INDIA POETRY COMPETITION

Kaineet Kaur Sira (X E) was one of the eight prize winners out of 2290 students from 232 school across India. She won a cash prize of

` 1000/-, a Certificate and an award for her poem “Light Burden”.

Trinity

Trinity College of London conducts exams in Communication skills, music and drama globally. Their communication certificates are

recognized by Common Wealth countries as a qualification for spoken English. DPS Bopal offers its students training in

communication skills. This year, students have done exceptionally well. Of the 51 students who appeared for the exam, 31 have scored

a distinction while 20 have scored merit. Anmol Sheth and Aditya Shah of class VIII have both scored 97%.

Inter House Competitions

ENGLISH EXTEMPORE

CLASS: VI DATE: 29/11/10 CLASS: VII DATE: 30/11/10

POSITION HOUSE NAME OF

STUDENT POSITION HOUSE

NAME OF

STUDENT

1 KAVERI ADITYA 1 KAVERI PRIYA

2 MAHI ANANYA 2 MAHI BHAGYASHREE

3 NARMADA SHREYA 3 NARMADA DRISHTI

ENGLISH EXTEMPORE INTER HOUSE ONE ACT PLAY CLASS: VIII DATE: 2/12/10 CLASS: IX-X DATE: 1/12/10

POSITION HOUSE NAME OF

STUDENT POSITION HOUSE

1 SABARMATI AMBIKA 1 MAHI

2 GANGA SHIFA S 2 SABARMATI

3 MAHI PRACHETAS 3 GANGA

Continued in the next part……..