The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

EDUCATION

SCHOOL BUZZ
Tiny-tots exhibit their creative genius
Smriti Kak

A tiny winner with the guests at the Chitrakaar 2002 event.

LITTLE Kingdom Nursery school gave little ones a chance to display their creative genius. Kids between two to six years were given an opportunity to play with colours.

Chitrakaar 2002, is an annual event at the school where children are given pre-drawn sketches to be filled in with colours. Children can choose the medium of colours they wish to use.

From oil crayons to pencil colours they have everything at their disposal. The older ones between five and six were given specific topics to choose from.

To add colour to the already colourful event was the theme ‘mismatched dressing’ where children were asked to come in the most contrasting combinations possible.

The creative minds walked away with a prize and so did the most mismatched dressed ones. The judges were Danseuse Geeta Chandran, painter Nupur Kundu and beauty consultant Bharti Taneja.

The winners in the painting competition were Rayan Mehta, Karn Aneja, Gurasees Kaur and Esha Goel. While the most mismatched dressed one was Jappan Kohli. And the best dancer award went to Meenakshi and Jyoti.

Website launched

Ms S. Kohli and Deepankar Bali at the launch of the website.

J D Tytler School launched their website on the 10th of this month. A former teacher of the school, Ms S Kohli, inaugurated the website, which has been designed by a former student, Deepankar Bali.

The website aims at making available online all the information regarding the school that the students and their parents wish to know. Besides, it also allows the former students to stay in touch.

In the future the website plans to make available on the net work assigned for summer vacations, admission results and results of all classes from lower nursery to class XII. Students can also send their leave applications through the net.

Kudos to Bal Bhavan

Bal Bhavan Public School has reason to celebrate. The students have done the school proud by garnering a record number of distinctions. Meenakshi Singhal topped the school by securing 95.4 per cent. She managed to score a 99 per cent in computer science and 98 in mathematics. Neha Kapoor, the commerce stream topper, has scored 83.40 per cent, Arti Bala secured 94.8 per cent and Sandeep Aggarwal scored 91.6 per cent.

Over all 19 students managed to get distinctions in all subjects. The schools has reported that out of 143 students 142 have secured first division.

The school has announced a cash prize of Rs. 11,000 to both Meenakshi and Arti.

Memory workshop

A memory retention workshop was held in the Vidya Niketan School, Faridabad, where at least 100 students participated.

The workshop was conducted to help the students and teachers in focussing on the need to retain memory and techniques during exams.

It taught kids how to memorise 50 digit numbers in few seconds. Students were also taught how to balance between left and right hemispheres of the brain to make things easier to recall.

The students enjoyed the playway technique of doing things, which are otherwise difficult. They were also given helpful tips to prepare for the board exams.

An inter house Rangoli competition was also held that exhibited the talent and the creativity of the children.

Camlin back to school

Camlin has launched a back to school offer specially aimed at students of class IV to VII and their mothers.

The offer specially timed for school reopening gets the consumer an attractive multi-utility, transparent box free worth Rs 35 with every purchase of school stationery worth Rs. 146.

Workshop for teachers

Amity International, Saket, held a workshop on Wednesday for teachers to help them in aiding the over all development of the students.

Director Academics, CBSE, Mr G Balasubramanium spoke at length about how to bring about total quality management in schools.

Some mock exercises were also carried out in, which faculty members and management of the school were encouraged to work in synergy.

The Chairperson of Amity, Dr Amita Chauhan, emphasised on the need to enhance learning outcome of students and keeping abreast with global standards.

PRINCIPALSPEAK
Humility, a strength not a weakness

ONCE a man fell off a steep cliff and began to plunge into a bottomless depth. Somewhere midway, he managed to grab a twig of a dried tree that was putting out from the side of the cliff. He grabbed it and cried out, “God! Please help me.” Immediately, a deep resonant voice replied, “Yes I’ll help you, but first let go off that twig.” The man looked to his left and then to his right and said, “but without this twig, I’ll fall.” The voice replied calmly, “I have said I’ll help you, but first let go off that twig.” The man again looked to his left and right and cried aloud, “Is there somebody else?”

This story makes us realise that our pride and vanity are like the dried twig in the story. These keep us away from the good, that’s inherent in each one of us, and fill us with a false sense of security. They prevent us from putting our faith in the true values of life.

Humility is not just a virtue. It is the sign of your inner strength. Only a person, who believes in himself, trusts God and has found inner peace can display humility. A humble person, thus, is a strong person, who draws his strength from the good.

Often, humility is considered to be a sign of submission. However, this is not true. It simply indicates a person’s ability to respect other people. Rude words and hurtful behaviour make a person aggressive, and aggression is an inferior quality.

Humility does not mean passivity or accepting things lying down. Getting up for a cause is as essential as being polite. By upholding your beliefs you prove that you lead a life of principles. But while doing so, follow the dictum that Gandhiji gave, “Be gentle, fearless and truthful.”

Humility and politeness are crucial to good behaviour. Courteous manners towards your colleagues, respectful behaviour towards your seniors and obedience and love towards your parents makes you a very amiable and special person. Kabir extols these virtues in his couplet – “The more fruit laden a tree, the more it’ll bow down to earth”. In humility you show your true worth.

Politeness of words and humility are lifelong assets. A soft-spoken person is well liked and sought after as a friend. Thus, do away with your ego and pride. Just as you can pour tea only when a cup is empty. Similarly, you can absorb wisdom only when your mind is devoid of pride.

Treat everybody with politeness, even those who are rude to you. For remember, that you show courtesy to others not because they are gentlemen, but because you are one.

“Kind words, can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless,” said Mother Teresa.

Madhu Chandra,
Principal, Birla Vidya Niketan