RS News update from August 2012 to February 2013
Conquest 2012
This witnessed the participation of eight different schools of Mumbai for an interschool football event. This encourages team building, leadership and adventure with elements of compassion and sportsman spirit.
Confluence 2012
Cartooning
Creative writing
Debate
Quiz
The following activities were a part of confluence 2012. It was an amalgamation of diverse ideas, thought process, creative thinking, leadership skills and a platform to express one’s views keeping in mind sensitivity and concern for others. Truly a great way to uphold the ethos and ideas of Round Square IDEALS.
There were 24 participating schools and Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, were the winners with Campion school being the runner up school.
The Guest of Honour, Kr. Sumer Singh, Principal, daly College, Indore and Regional Director, Round Square, South Asia & Gulf Region, inspired the young generation with his motivating speech.
IAYP Gold and Bronze camps
IAYP Bronze
[Understanding Adventure in terms of mountaineering and survival. Students attended three lectures on tents pitching, knots and Mountaineering Equipment. Next was a game played in Teams to encourage Team Building and Leadership .The following day Students did Net Climbing, The Commando Bridge, ladder and Valley Crossing. The students and Teachers accompanying hiked down to a village and did some research on their lifestyle by interviewing the locals in Hindi and Marathi, the local language. Night and Day Trek helped in Navigation and developing Technical Skills needed in the mode of Travel. Camp Fire and stories /experiences were a good way to relax after a day full of activities. The final day kids finished a “Commando Course”. Observation and Recording skills were tested by making them write the Reflections after the camp. Kids enjoyed the experience and It prepared all for going out in the wilderness and Survival]
IAYP Gold [The Gold Training camp at Matheran, Maharashtra was the expedition component where seventeen students from grade 11 took part. It was from 24th to 28th of October, 2012. They had sessions on mountain gears and its usage, different rope knots and its usage, tent pitching, mountain climbing, rappelling and jummering. The campers participated in all the above mentioned activities. In the community service, they cleaned up the Lord Point Park area and also helped the workers in the road construction work on the way to Lussia point. The students also had a seven hours of trekking to Peb fort and back where they had to pass through a long stretch of rough terrain carrying their food and water supply for the day. Students walked through the steep sides of the hills and gorges of the Western Ghats gaining the appropriate knowledge and skills to journey safely in that environment. They also obtained a sense of achievement and satisfaction by overcoming challenges and obstacles. In the camp, they had team building games, obstacle games, exercises for fitness and night walks.
They learnt about the topography, people and their social conditions of the place. They experienced and learnt to appreciate the outdoor environment. Working as part of the team they understood group dynamics, their own role and the role of others in a team. Every day they took out time to write their IAYP diary which is a compulsory documentation work. In the diaries they jotted down the day’s event and their reflections on it.
SIS also encouraged its students to take part voluntarily in Walkathon [NDTV Nirmal Sports initiative-Marks for sports]. Fittest city contest, held on 4th November, 2012, helped them to test their physical endurance and develop their physical fitness. This is the factor that will help them develop the spirit of adventure and take on challenges in real life.
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Valavanda village project
Valavanda visit on eve of Diwali (8th Nov, 2012) to distribute goodies
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Students of SIS raised funds to distribute food grains, biscuits and other savouries on the occasion of Diwali.
Valavanda visit on 10th December, 2012, to donate 5 green boards and one soft board to support academic program of the school. Also, a sewing machine was donated as a part of supporting a vocational training program for students and staff of ‘The Adivasi High School’.
Fund raising programme for BPA (Blind Persons’ Association, Kolkata)
Fund was raised through a common collection drive to raise fund to support the running of a Braille press and library at the association’s office in Kolkata. An amount of Rs 9160.00 was raised and handed over to BPA for the purpose.
There was also a fund raising for CPAA (Cancer Patients’ aid association) and NBA (National association for Blind) during the Diwali mela and the proceeds were handed over to these organisations.
Students of SIS to attend HMUN in January 2013
Singapore International School, RS MUN, 2013.
22, 23 February 2013.
This is the third edition of SIS MUN.
“The conference’s theme for this year, ‘Bridging the Gap’, epitomizes the requisite for the successful survival of the human race: equality. The phrase equality is not merely restricted to economic equality, but social, international and local equality. We must strive to eradicate the apparently indomitable disease of gender discrimination in labour markets around the world. We must seek to advocate the acceptance of indigenous knowledge as something more than just an element of a Vidarbha farmer’s skill-literacy. We must pursue the transparency of all nuclear programmes so that the child of an exiled Tibetan can wake up every morning to a world in which the possibility of nuclear war is negligible, if not non-existent.
This year, SISMUN will aim to fulfil the didactic aspect of the platitude, “Think global, act local.” Of the 8 committees that will be simulated, SAARC and ASEAN are two regional bodies home to Asia. Through the simulation of these two committees, SISMUN will ensure that while international issues are being contemplated in other committees, problems closer to home are not ignored.”
Aryaman Jalota
Secretary General,
SISMUN 2013.
SIS RS Environment Project
24 February, 2013.
As a part of continued effort to create awareness about environment amongst our next generation, SIS has arranged for a visit to Sanjay Gandhi national Park, Borivli, Mumbai. The delegated will have the opportunity to interact with eminent environmentalist, conservationist, photographer and naturalist, Mr. Sunjoy Monga, and learn about the varied flora & fauna of the region. They will also interact with the tribes of Chunapada and Tumripada villages which SIS has been supporting for the past five years in different ways.
Nature trail and cleaning litter form an integral part of the program.
