IBDP Graduation Day (Batch 2015-2017)

On 20th May, DRS International School held its Graduation Ceremony for the IBDP students of batch 2015 – 2017 at the school Atrium hall.

Like most other universities, at DRSIS, the annual Graduation Ceremony is a day devoted to celebrating an important point in students lives and looking at all the smiling faces, wondering what the future will hold for these students.

This year’s graduation theme was “Fly”. The theme defines that their time has come to let these young and aspiring minds to fly away from school, to reach the new skies in their life and to make more memories so, they can always reflect on their school days.

The speeches by the Facilitators made everyone glow, students beamed with. self-fulfillment, parents realized that their assistance both financial and emotional was worthwhile, and the faculty had the satisfaction of bringing another group through the system.

The graduate speakers thanked the School, facilitators and their classmates for all the experience and opportunities they had been given, and celebrated the completion of their high school careers and looked forward to what they will make of their lives.

IBDP Journey 2015-2017

                      

World Heritage Day 2017

DRSIS celebrated ‘World Heritage Day’ on the 18th of April in a grand way! The Assembly was particularly eventful with musical and dance presentations by the students of X C who creatively put up posters of various heritage sites in India. The students also payed tribute to the Taj Mahal by enacting a short yet entertaining skit on how the monument’s heritage and historical value has much to do with Shah Jahan making it in the loving memory of his wife Noor Jahan.

The assembly through the speeches and the performances gave a clear message to the students present about the need to appreciate, preserve, maintain and protect our heritage sites in line with the UNESCO directives that mark the significance of this day.

INTER HOUSE ELOCUTION COMPETITION

On 19th of April an elocution competition was conducted for junior and senior secondary students.

The topic of elocution for seniors were “How media is influencing our lifestyle and thinking today”

The topic of junior secondary section was, “Tolerance is a prerequisite for a peaceful India”

The senior secondary students spoke well and addressed the topic from various angles with a good effort. They spoke fluently and to the point. Many new faces came forward and participated.

It was heartwarming to see almost all the candidates of junior secondary spoke beautifully and eloquently. Many first timers also did good justification to the topic. At the end the audience was called to feel free to give their inputs about this interesting topic. Ms. Janet and Vice principal Mr. Rudolph highlighted the topic however Adip of grade 8-CIE said very interesting point he said” Look at the colors of the flags from different nations most of them have colors that signify their races and look at Indian flag the colors of green saffron blue and white do not signify any race they are for a different meaning and it is unity in diversity”.

The different houses of Tesla, Newton, Galileo and Da Vinci were presented with two participants each for juniors and two for seniors the winners of the elocution competition are as follows:

The winners of elocution Competition for grade6-8 were:

I position: Shan Rai VIII-D ( Da vinci House) & Ishitraiy VI –C ( Galileo House)

II position: Sai Pranav VI-C (Da Vinci House)

III position: Ayaan Lakhanai VIIID (Galileo House)

The winners of elocution Competition for grade 9-10 wereuu

I position: Manas Varalwar XII-A (Newton House)

II position: Sowmya Mandaokar IX-A (Tesla House)

III position: Ishaan Mohan Jasuja (Galileo House)

Earth Day 2017

DRS International School celebrated Earth Day on the morning of 22nd April with an inspiring school assembly presentation by the students of Grade X-D. DRSIS joined the worldwide community of more than 193 countries to demonstrate support for the cause of environmental protection through a variety of activities such as: speech, pledge, poster presentation, tree plantation and cooperative painting.

Earth Day 2017’s Campaign is Environmental & Climate Literacy as education is the foundation of progress. We need to build a global citizenry fluent in the concepts of climate change who are aware of its unprecedented threat to our planet. We need to empower everyone with the knowledge to inspire action in defense of environmental protection. In this regard, the students organized activities such as planting trees and others that highlighted the environmental and climate literacy. The students asked the Principal DrGaurav Muradia, Vice Principal Mr Rudolf Noronha, Ms Janet, Ms Abha and student representatives of each class to inaugurate the Earth day by making an Earth day Poster with the help of balloon stamp-painting in an expressionist art style. Students of X-D had marked their own miniature “better Earth” with balloons and paint. The students had fun signing their names on this unusual painting. The students gave an informative talk on the history of the Earth day and its significance to remember the emergence of the modern environmental movement since 1970. The assembly collectively pledged their commitment to the cause of conserving and protecting the planet and its natural resources to the best of their abilities. The message the assembly conveyed was “Let’s make every day the Earth day. Let’s treasure it and do not destroy it”.

DRSIS PLEDGE AND PROMISE TO THE EARTH ON THIS DAY,

I WILL DO MY PART TO PROTECT THE EARTH,

I WILL TAKE CARE OF AND CLEAN UP THE ENVIRONMENT,

I WILL ALWAYS RESPECT ALL LIVING BEINGS,

NEVER LITTER, AND ALWAYS RECYCLE TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY,

I WILL REDUCE THE WASTE I CREATE,

I WILL REUSE WHAT I CAN,

I WILL CONSERVE ENERGY AND WATER,

I WILL ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO CONSERVE NATURAL RESOURCES,

BY DOING THESE, I WILL MAKE A VISIBLE DIFFERENCE TO MY COMMUNITY AND MY WORLD.

What stops girls from pursuing science?

More girls think they are worse in Mathematics than boys, even when they are not. And it turns out that it is this low level of confidence that stops many women from pursuing higher education in science and engineering, according to a new study.

What study says…

When it comes to mathematics, girls rate their abilities markedly lower than boys, even when there is no observable difference between the two, the study found.Boys are significantly more confident in challenging mathematics contexts than otherwise identically talented girls.The findings are based on a study that followed 10th grade students in the US over a six-year period.

Despite a surge in college enrollment and degree attainment for girls worldwide in recent decades, women continue to remain under-represented in physics, engineering, mathematics and computer sciences (PMEC).

NOTES FROM THE FIELD

Samarth Arora, of Grade X C, was fortunate to get the inside scoop of the process that goes into the making of the daily newspaper as part of his internship with NIE. Read on to hear from Samarth himself…

I found the internship program very interesting. Our instructor was Ms. Ruth Dhanaraj who is in charge of the “School is Cool” page of the NIE newspaper.

Day 1

We were first introduced on the purpose of our visit to the Times Group. We were given a brief introduction on Journalism. Journalism has two basic fields viz., reporting and editing. We were given information about how a reporter works. We were given an example of how a reporter collects facts and shares it with the Editors.

Day 2

We clarified our doubts about reporting first and then continued with the next topic, ‘Editing’. Ms Ruth gave us the timings of the Editor and told us about the hectic schedule he/she generally follows. The Editor’s work is to edit reports and publish them in the newspaper. The newspapers start getting printed at the printing press at around 9;30 – 10:00. We were also given a fun homework assignment to write and edit a passage on any topic we liked.

Day 3

We were given information on how the printing press works. ‘What are ‘Deadlines’?’, ‘What are the different versions of a newspaper that get published to different parts of the city?’ etc., were some of the questions that we discussed and found answers for. We were also introduced to feature writing. The people who report on or review movies, restaurants are called feature writers. They do not have deadlines and are called on if there is a shortage of regular news.

Day 4

We had a review of everything we had explored in the previous three days on day four. This was accompanied by loads of questions and clarifications. We were also given examples on how newspapers extend their availability to the public. Reviews on movies and eateries published in the newspaper were also discussed.

Day 5

On the last day, we were taken to the printing press of “The Times Of India’, “The Economic Times” and the other supplements in Nacharam. We learnt about the three parts of printing – the pre-press where the aluminium plates for each page is produced, the press where the actual printing of the papers take place, the post-press where the packaging of newspapers takes place. It was fun to be on the field and get an inside perspective!

Samarth Arora

X C

DRS International School