Vigilance Awareness week - 31/10 - 5/11/11

Halloween Day 31/10/11

Halloween was celebrated with much gusto by the students of class X. On Monday’s assembly, these students dressed up as ghosts and other supernatural beings to spread the word about Halloween. The students first began with an introduction of Halloween. They then told scary stories as per tradition and ended the short but educational show. Some students even went amongst the lower sections wearing their vivid make-up. The children were surprised but with the lights, they laughed and took it in a fun spirit.

The 31^st of October was an unforgettable day for our Orchids assembly, and it broke the tedious monotony of a Monday morning quite well!

By:

Alka Paturi

Class X

FIELD TRIP TO BOTANICAL GARDEN (28/10/11)

Orchids arranges field trips for students regularly, to provide them with experience. It is to bring them closer to nature. It exposes them to their environment. As a part of the schedule, we took our pre-primary students to the botanical garden in Kondapur on 28/10/11. Our students saw various types of plants, trees and birds in the garden. They played, enjoyed the beauty of the place and learnt as well.

Diwali Celebrations (25/10/11)

Diwali, the festival of lights, is a celebration of brightness and joy in life. It was celebrated by the primary section of Orchids with pomp and pleasure. The celebration started with a prayer song by the children and lighting of the ceremonial lamp by our Principal, Mrs. Mona Mehdi. Recitation of slokas, songs of festivity, cultural dance and an advice for an eco – friendly festival formed the celebration of Diwali at Orchids.

26/10/11 and 27/10/11 will be Deepawali Holidays

Star of the Week - 25 (Akash Varma)

19th National Children Science Congress

Orchids – The International School participated in the 19th National Children’s Science Congress organized at CMR Model School, Bowenpally on 22 October 2011. Three projects were sent and all the teams representing the school performed well. The school is however proud to state that one of the teams with the project, Population pressure on land, has been selected for the State level. NCSC programme to be held at Tuni of Vizag Dist.     

Book Fair (22/10/2011)

Reading is to mind what exercise is to body.  - Addison

 

Reading should be sustained and extensive to enhance proficiency. Orchids strives to inculcate in the students, reading habit which helps them to understand, appreciate and absorb real values of life.

As one of the attempts to develop students’ reading skills, the school organizes book exhibitions periodically. Scholastic India pvt.ltd. had their book exhibition for two days i.e. on October, 21 & 22. It coincided with the PTM on the 22^nd of October. The school also organizes USSR (Uninterrupted Self Sustained Reading) week periodically to enhance students’ reading skills.

Blue Colour Day (21/10/2011)

Boats sail on the rivers,

  And ships sail on the seas;

But clouds that sail across the sky

  Are prettier far than these.

Not only are these but the oceans are also beautiful to look at. All these things have one thing in common and that is they are all blue in colour in varying degree of shades.

Blue stands for friendship. We, at Orchids, celebrated ‘Blue Day’ to reinforce the concept of blue among the students. They talked about  blue colour throughout the week. The students listened and sang a rhyme on blue colour. They displayed articles which are in blue colour and decorated the classroom in blue. On 21/10/11 the pre-primary students and teachers were dressed in blue colour and participated in the activities. The students understood the concept and enjoyed their session.

EduSports Merit Certificate - Term I

At Orchids, Edu Sports aim at the holistic education through sports. Assessments are done continuously to test the fundamental skills of physical activity. Our assessments focus on both, skill and fitness. Skill Assessment was for classes Nursery to 10 in the month of July – August, 2011 and health assessment was for classes 2 to 10 in the month of August – September, 2011.

In the skill assessment we test the skills of Running, Jumping, Balancing, Catching, Throwing and Hopping of the children of pre-primary and primary classes, where as for higher classes skill assessment is done on the basis of games such as Football, Basketball, Volleyball.

In Health assessment Edu Sports assess the Aerobic Capacity, Anaerobic Capacity, Flexibility, Leg strength, Shoulder Strength and Abdominal Strength. These assessments test their physical activity.