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Setu Senior School

Volume 16 August—December 2016

Independence Day was celebrated in a colourful ceremony. Songs, dances, speeches

and poetry filled every heart with patriotic fervour.

Bhaiyas who have been learning English

from educators and Shishyans recited a

poem in English on love for the mother-

land.

Independence Day

The song presented by the school choir was a treat for the ears!

The Tricolour unfurled.

American students, who were a part of the NSLI-Y

programme, presented a colourful dance performance

along with Shishyans.


Evolving Perceptions of a Dynamic World

The second iteration of Shishukunj MUN, based on the theme 'Evolving Perceptions of a

Dynamic World' brought together over 250 students from 06 schools across the city.

As delegates to the General Assembly, NATO, UNESCO, WTO, Modi’s Cabinet, etc. the

participants discussed and debated myriad issues of national and global concern.


Teachers’ Day was cele-

brated with great zeal by

way of a short but inter-

esting show staged by the

students of Class XII. The

teachers came dressed in

a retro theme and enjoyed the day

while the senior students got a taste

of a day in a teacher’s life as they

took classes in place of the teachers.

A leading Music Group of the city en-

thralled the teachers in the evening with a

musical programme followed by dinner

hosted by the school management.

Ojas 2016

Teachers’ Day in Retro

Shishyans proudly walked on stage to receive certificates for excellence in academics

and sports, during the academic sessions 2014 - 15 as well as 2015 - 16. Students who

had 100 per cent attendance were also awarded certificates.


The school ground transformed into a games and food gala as Shishyans frolicked in

Utsav 2016 - the Annual Fun Fair organised by the Senior school teachers to celebrate

Children’s Day.

In the fourth annual Alumni Meet, 150 alumni of the school got together to meet the

teachers and each other to walk down the memory lane and refresh the memories of the

good old times spent at Shishukunj.

Meeting the Mentors

Utsav 2016


Students of Class XII went on a four-day tour to camp

Junga in Himachal Pradesh. The school collaborated

with Youreka Outdoor Learning to craft a program for

the students which combined adventure and learning.

The students engaged in numerous adventure activities

and stayed in tents at the camp, surrounded by pine

forest trails in the scenic Shimla valley.

Out there in the wild

Battle of Words Inter School Mime Competition

Shishukunj hosted the Samagam Inter

School Mime Competition on the theme ‘My

World, My Responsibility’. Saving the Envi-

ronment, Saving the Girl Child and Saving

Water were the prominent themes taken up

by the 12 participating schools.

The Best Three Performances were put up

by: Advanced Academy, Vidya Bhavan Public

School and Holy Family Convent.

The competition was judged by eminent ar-

tistes Mr. Sharad Shabal, Mr. Adil Quereshi

and Mr. Jaideep Singh.

The 5th Shri Jugrajji Mehta English Word

Power Competition, which aims to empower

students with a good language and vocabu-

lary, saw a record participation of over 80

students of Classes VII and VIII from 40

schools of the city.

The students from Delhi Public School, Mst.

K. Gautham and Ms. Eeshta Saxena were par

excellence and answered each and every

question of the quiz correctly, thereby emerg-

ing the winners. At the second position stood

Indus World School Eastern Campus.

Sanmati Higher Secondary School stood at

the third posi-

tion.

The event was

anchored with

great confi-

dence and

poise by the Shishyans of Class XI.


Shishyans Manvi Upadhyay and Jush Das-

sani of Class VIII participated in the All In-

dia Inter School English Debate Competi-

tion organized by the SDPS International

Girls School. This competition saw the par-

ticipation of 32 leading schools of the

country. The topic of the debate was 'Is the

Modern Education System capable of in-

culcating the Values among the Children'.

Maanvi stood Third in this very tough yet

lively competition.

Team Shishukunj represented by Amey

Choudhary and Atharva Tapadia from

Class VIII A put up an excellent perfor-

mance in the

Bournvita Quiz

Contest and

were declared

the City Win-

ners.

Soumya Pandey VIII D

Zubin Turakhia VIII A

Amey Choudhary VIII A

Atharv Tapadia VIII A

Deepanshu Biniwale VIII G

Ishaan Yadav VIII D

Hiya Aidasani VIII B

Praneat Data VIII D

Amber Raghuwanshi VIII B

Shrey Modi VIII F

With over 1500 students, not only from

Indore, but also from nearby towns like

Bhopal, Ujjain, Kota and Dewas and Quiz

master Pickbrain at the helm, the TCS IT

Quiz, ensured very stiff competition for all

the participants. Shishyans Abhimanyu

Sethia and Seshal Jain put up an impres-

sive performance and finished at the 3rd

Position.

Apoorv Kohli X C

Tanay Bansal X C

Aditya Prakash X F

Divye Karnawat X G

Tanuj Wadhwani XI

Vinayak Bansal XI B

Mithil Shah IX B

Akarsh Jain IX E

Abhimanyu Sethia X B

Seshal Jain X C

Kartik Devpura X C

Bhakti Badlani X C

Ishan Nyati X G

Aadit Runwal XI C

Tanvi Shah IX B

Tanu Rajangaonkar IX G

Bhavit Gupta IX A

Nikunj Gupta IX A

Aditi Tanwar IX C

Krutika Bhojwani IX E

All India Inter School English Debate

Bournvita Quiz Contest

TCS Quiz Contest


Sahodaya Inter School Group Dance

Competition organized by Shri Satya Sai

Vidya Vihar.

Vagisha Shrivastava, VI C

Priyal Julania, VII C

Jivisha Prasad, VII E

Jahanvi Mokshmar, VII C

Neha Haryani, VIII D

Harshit Bal, VIII B

Charu Dahima, VIII F

Ayushi Panicker, VIII G

Adhya Khandelwal, VIII A

Gargi Maheshwari, VIII A

Urvashi Dighe, VII C

Naisha Soni, VII B

Ananya Saggi, VII D

Inter School Group Dance Competition

organized by the Guru Harkrishan Public

School.

Bhawana Falodiya, X F

Charu Bhasin, IX F

Divya Lunawat, X C

Ria Betala, IX A

Anshika Rathore, IX D

Chhavi Gupta, IX E

Group Classical Dance Competition

held at National Public School.

Anushka Bindal, XI D

Manya Sharma, XI D

Sujata Porwal, XI G

Pavitra Somaiya, XI C

Anshika Rathore, IX D

Prakshi Agrawal, IX A

Ria Betala, IX A

Charu Bhasin, IX F

Bhawana Falodiya, X F

Aditi Jain, IX F

Dancers Excel

The graceful dancers of Shishukunj won the hearts of the judges and the audience in

the following dance competitions.


Pious Khemka and

Aastha Kapur of

Class XI were de-

clared the winning

team at the Cross-

fire Connoisseur

Competition: The

State Level Inter School Debate Competi-

tion organized by Laurels International

School.

Participants were given the topic just an

hour before the commencement of the com-

petition. With the help of books, journals

and newspapers provided to them, they

were required to prepare the debate both

for and against the topic.

A delegation of 20 students from the school

participated in the MUN organized by the

Strawberry Fields High School in Chandi-

garh. Zubin Turakhia from Class VIII was

awarded a Verbal Mention.

Ridhansh Jain of Class VI E secured the

second position in the 21st International

Abacus and Mental Arithmetic and Listen-

ing Competition held in Dubai.

Shishyans once again excelled in the an-

nual CBSE Bal Vigyan Competition.

The results were as follows:

In Commerce, Mathematics, Computer

Science and Biology, adjudged among the

Best Three Projects

In Chemistry and Social Science, awarded

for the Best Presentation.

Shishynans were fortunate to witness a

performance by Sharon Lowen, renowned

O d i s s i d a n c e r , t r a i n e d u n -

der Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra. She also

explained the nuances of this dance form

to the students.

Math Wizard Debaters Excel

Strawberry Fields MUN

Bal Vigyan 2016

SPICMACAY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odissi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelucharan_Mohapatra


The Inter House Word Power Competition for students of Classes VI - VIII was a huge

success. The well-prepared participants posed a tough challenge to each other. The com-

petition was conducted by students of Class XI.

Results:

First: Kalam House

Second: Narayanmurthy House

Third: Dhyanchand House

Kalam House

Divit Khandelwal, VI C, Suhani Pahwa, VI A,

Naisha Kumar, VIII B, Kratika Bulani, VII A,

Nirali Mahajan, VII A, Gargi Maheshwari, VIII A,

Ayush Baweja, VIII D, Harsh Bahety, VIII F

Narayanmurthy House

Aryan Tomar, VI D, Prakrat Agrawal, VI A,

Ishiti Jain, VII D, Rishita Neema, VII A,

Sanika Ghodke, VIII E, Lakshya Somani, VIII E,

Kartike Chopra, VIII C, Akshat Tiwari, VIII F

Dhyanchand House

Vidhi Dev, VIII A, Aadit Khandelwal, VIII D,

Asmi Manudhane, VIII F, Sanya Shrimal, VIII B,

Ishan Yadav, VII D, Stuti Yadav, VI E,

Radhika Rathi, VI F

Wordsmiths in action


Each house put its best singers forward to present songs ranging from Punjabi to Bho-

jpuri and Marathi.

Results:

First: Dhyanchand House

Second: Kurien House

Third: Narayanmurthy House

Dhyanchand House

Jas Dassani, VIII G, Kushagra Dixit, VIII G, Aayush Dwivedi, VII B, Ishan Yadav, VII D,

Harshvardhan Saklecha, IX C, Ishika Airen, IX F, Samarth Ghodke, VII E,

Prabhraj Kharbanda, VII G, Chirayu Sodani, X E, Ishan Sankhla, X E,

Ishita Dhapadi, VI G, Atharv Rangole, VI E, Ishan Jain, VIII D, Sameehan Trivedi, VI B

Jahnava Nadkar, VI A, Pranisha Goyal, IX A, Peehu Mittal, VII A,

Pratyush Shrivastava, VII A, Yashwardhan Soni, VI F, Meghna Garg, IX B

Kurien House

Garv Agrawal, VI A, Garima Agrawal, VI B,

Divyansh Dahima, VI C,

Sidhika Pahwa, VI F, Ayush Anand, VI G,

Vinushree Patel, VII A,

Neel Kajgikar, VII C, Krati Jain, VII C,

Sneha Sanotia, VII C, Naman Kohli, VII G,

Saniya Wadhwani, VII G, Ananya Jain, VIII A,

Ananya Singh, VIII B, Kritika Gupta, VIII B, Jahanvi Bhargava, VIII C, Soumya Jain, IX

E, Vinamra Chhabra, X G, Vidhi Kothari, XI C

Narayanmurthy House

Shruti Laddha, VII D,

Shaan Chaddha, VII B,

Dhananjay Dora, VII B,

Manas Jati, IX C, Nikita Nain, VII F,

Shreya Shukla, VII G, Agam Jain, VII F,

Amogh Dixit, VI C, Praneet Data, VIII D, Saru Davey, VIII C, Harshit Bhatia, IX B,

Rasm Sharma, VIII C, Vanshika Badlani, VI B, Pearl Pahuja, VIII B, Aashi Tandon, VI A,

Tushar Walde, VIII D, Vedant Neema, VIII B, Priyanshu Shah, VIII A,

Yuvraj Nigam, VII B, Parin Agrawal, IX A, Sanskriti Khare, X A, Dimple Sevkani, VIII C,

Lakshita Sanghvi, VII E, Nabh Patodi, VII F

Inter House Folk Song Competition


Kalam House

The Competition saw a riot of colours as

each classroom board displayed the artwork

as well as write ups of the Shishyans.

The classes with the best display:

Class VI C, Class VII F, Class VIII D,

Class IX C, Class X C

House with the highest attendance. Inter Class Display Board Decoration


In a fiery Inter House English Debate Competition, participants put forth their arguments

eloquently debating on a very unusual albeit poetic topic ‘I took the road less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference’ .

Results:

First: Kalam House

Shruti Biyani, X D

Aastha Kapoor, XI C

Second: Dhyanchand House

Tanishka Goswami, XI C

Janhavi Upadhyay, XI C

Third: Narayanmurthy House

Khyati Vyas, XI G

Sargam Sundrani, X D

Participants vied with each other to convince the audience and the judges during the In-

ter-House Hindi Debate on the topic ‘Youth is itself responsible for its increasing mental

stress’

Results:

First: Dhyanchand House

Kavya Julka, XI G

Jai Joshi, X F

Second: Kurien House

Omisha Purohit, X C

Jai Rathi, X D

Third: Kalam House

Abeer Shrivastav, XI E

Krutika Bhojwani, IX E

Frost’s Dilemma

Responsible Youth


The inter-house Maths Quiz for Classes VI-VIII comprised of various rounds like the rea-

soning round, the bidding round and the activity round. The audience was kept involved

through a riveting audience round.

Winners:

First: Kalam House

Priyam Mitra, VI B

Archit Khandelwal, VI B

Navya Jain, VI G

Rishit Kataria, VI A

Ananya Saggi, VII D

Kanishk Rawka, VII G

Amey Choudhary, VIII A

Atharv Taparia, VIII A


Manvay Rawat, VI B

Prakrat Agrawal, VI A

Kush Nyati, VI F

Krishna Gilda, VI F

Tanvi Agrawal, VII C

Rachit Ranka, VII B

Vedant Neema, VIII B

Kushagra Maheshwari, VIII E

Third: Kurien House

Tejaswa Mitra, VI B

Shriya Sinha, VI B

Ayush P, VI A

Manasvi Modh, VI E

Arnav Jain, VII D

Aditya Gandhi, VII C

Ananya Jain, VIII A

Ayan Agrawal, VIII E

Glory in numbers


Science Around Us

Inter House Science Quiz was organised for Classes VI to XI to assess the scientific tem-

perament of Shishyans. The rounds were varied and included the Reasoning Round, the

Rapid Fire Round and the very popular Demonstration Round.

Results for Classes VI – VIII:

First: Narayanmurthy House

Mahika Khandelwal, VII C

Radhika Bhagat, VII D

Ishita Jain, VII D

Shreya Shukla, VII G

Praneat Data, VIII D

Amber Raghuvanshi, VIII B

Lakshya Somani, VIII E

Sanidhya Khandelwal, VIII E


Hem Patel, VIII E

Prkhar Singh Chouhan, VIII G

Aryan Khandelwal, VIII C

Shrey Modi, VIII F

Akanksha Motwani, VII A

Pratyush Shrivastava, VII A

Ishan Yadav, VII D

Arya Jhavar, VII D

Third: Kalam House

Sanjana Goyal, VII C

Sparsh Jain, VII C

Siddhi Panwar, VII C

Ananya Saggi, VII D

Amey Choudhary, VIII A

Aniruddha Solanki, VIII A

Aayush Baweja, VIII D

Deepanshu Biniwale, VIII G


Quiz Fiesta

Science Around Us

Results for Classes IX – XI:

First: Kalam House

Hridhima Tyagi, IX B

Abhimanyu Sethia, X B

Oorja Rungta, X B

Juhee Goyal, XI E


Pooja Thakkar, XI D

Kalash Talati, X A

Seshal Jain, X C

Gurjot Singh Bedi, IX F

Third: Kurien House

Nakul Goel, XI D

Ridhi Singhania, IX D

Avitej Iyer, X B

Siddharth Arora, X D

To test the students’ knowledge of the world around them, Inter-House Social Science

Quiz was conducted which comprised of various interesting rounds.

Result:

First: Kurien House

Adityavardhan Tiwari, IXA Mahak Shah, IX A

Dhruv Rajoria, IX D Ridhi Singhania, IX D

Keshav Agrawal, IX G Parv Golwelkar, X D

Nandini Pillai, XI G Karan Palod, XI E


Priyal Sethi, IX B

Madri Agrawal, IX A Ishaan Nyati, X G

Vedika Chawla, IX E Maansi Coudhary, X A

Bhavit Gupta, IX A Vasudha Gupta, IX

Om Agrawal, X C

Third: Kalam House

Mohak Bansal, IX

Aman Khullar, X F Kartik Devpura, X C

Nitya Vyas, XI E Bhakti Badlani, X E

Avadhi Das, XI Nikunj Gupta, IX

Abhimanyu Sethia, X B


July Theme: Badalti Dunia ( A Changing World )

August Theme: Our Vision for India 2020

September Theme: Mathematics in Fine Arts

October Theme: Science in Everyday Life

November Theme: The World at a Glance

December Theme: Information Technology – Its Impact on Society

Wall Magazine

The 4 big display boards in the OTS become the ‘stage’ for the Inter House Wall Magazine

Competition held every month.


SPORTS

Swimming

Lavanya Singh, VI E, won two Silver medals at

the Invitational Inter School Swimming Competi-

tion organized by The Pragya Girls School.

The Shishukunj International School Swimming

Team displayed their excellence once again at

the blue waters of the Hemkund pool at Shri

Basantilal Ji Sethia Memorial Inter School Swim-

ming Championship for Non medalist. Team

Shishukunj stood First on the Points Tally with

145 Points, First Runners Up were RPM Dolphin

Swimming Academy – Bhopal and The Daly

College Indore stood Second Runners Up with

105 Points.

The Girls Swimming team won the Sahodaya

Swimming Championship, organized by The

Queens’ College.

Advait Page won 5 Gold medals including 3 individ-

ual and 2 Team medals, Maria Malik 4 Gold Medal

and 1 Silver, Simran Dewani 2 Gold and 2 Silver,

and Paritosh Taose won 1 Gold, 1 Silver and 2

Bronze Medals at the SGFI State level Aquatic Com-

petition held at Jabalpur.

Advait Page put up a brilliant performance in the CBSE National swimming Champion-

ship held in Bhopal. Advait won 5 Gold medals in the Boys U-17 group and created 3

New CBSE records in the 200 m backstroke, 200 m Individual Medley and 800 m Free-

style. In two other events - 400 m Freestyle and 100 m Backstroke he won a Gold medal.

In the 62nd National School Games, Swimming, organized at Rajkot, Gujrat, Advait Page

represented Madhya Pradesh in Boys Under 17 category. He participated in three events

and won Gold Medals in all three events.

He created a new National Record in 800

m freestyle.

Maria Malik participated in Girls Under-

14 category and won a Silver Medal.

Congratulations !

Advait Page won a Sil-

ver Medal in 1500 mts.

Free Style and a

Bronze Medal in 200

mts backstroke ( Boys

Under 18 group ) in

the South Asian

Aquatic Championship

held in Colombo, Srilanka.


Amishi Shukla, VI B, won the Tennis Championship “All India Talent

Series“ for Under-12 Girls category held at The Indore Tennis Club. She

also won the doubles under-16 Lawn Tennis Title in all India Talent Se-

ries Tournament.

In the Interschool CBSE Sahodaya Table

Tennis Competition organised by Prestige

Public School, in the Under 19 Girls category, Shravi Jain,

Ishita Gupta, Tanvi Shah and Vasudha Gupta secured the

Second Position. In Under 14 Boys category, Nabh Patodi,

Avneesh Agrawal, Nanil Patel and Atharv Tapadia were Se-

cond Runners up. In Under 14 Girls category, Janvi Nadkar,

Krati Jain, Viva Vaidya and Aishvee Jain were Second Run-

ner up.

In the CBSE cluster Table Tennis Tournament held at Delhi Public School, Jabalpur, in

the Under 14 Girls category, Janvi Nadkar, Viva Vaidya, Krati Jain and Peehu Mittal won

the Bronze Medal. In the Under-17 girls category, Shravi Jain, Ishita Gupta, Tanvi Shah

and Vasudha Gupta won a Bronze Medal. In the individual category, Janvi Nadkar won a

Silver Medal (U-14), Shravi Jain (U-17) and Nabh Patodi (U- 14) a Bronze medal each.

Janvi Nadkar, VI A, won the Table Tennis State Level Ranking Tournament held at Bina,

the Inter School Table Tennis tournament and SGFI State Level tournament. She was also

the Runners Up at the State Level Ranking tournament held at Bhopal, Inter School

CBSE Clusters (Individual), State level Open Tournament at Gwalior and District Level

Tournament at Mandsaur. She is

presently ranked No. 2 in MP for Ca-

det girls category. Janvi was part of

the Indore Division Table Tennis

Team, which became the State

Champions held at Gwalior.

Under-14 Boys and Under 14 Girls

Table Tennis teams became Runners Up at the State level Inter School tournament held

at Abhay Prashal, organized by the TTFI.

SPORTS

Table Tennis


Sujata Porwal, Class XI, won a Gold Medal for the 300 mt race

and a Silver Medal for the 500 mt race at the CBSE West Zone

Skating Tournament held in Bhopal.

The School Badminton Team Under 14 Boys and Under 17 Girls were the Runners Up at

The SGFI Inter School Badminton Tournament.

Prachiti Suri, VIII A, Manvi Agrawal, VIII D, and Vanshika

Agrawal, IX G, were part of the Indore division Under-14 Girls

Basketball team which became the State SGFI Champion

Shishukunj Under-14 Girls Basketball Team A were declared the Champions at an Invi-

tational Inter-School Basketball Tournament organized by St. Raphaels’ School.

The Under-14 Girls B Team were Second Runners Up. The Under – 19 Basketball Team

won a Bronze medal at the Sahodaya Inter School Tournament organized by the Bha-

van’s Prominent School.

SPORTS

Skating

Badminton

Basket Ball

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