October 19

Vol:6 Issue: 5 October, 2019 PreranaThe Glimpse of ASIS AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL GANDHI JAYANTHI MY NUTSHELL The month started at Al Saad Indian GANDHI JEYANTHI ADOLESCENT MANAGEMENT SESSION School, with the students of grade 1E presenting • FIELD TRIP • SAMARPANA AND DANDIA NIGHT the special morning assembly on Gandhi • CBSE CLUSTER COMPETITION • GLOBAL HAND WASHING DAY Jayanthi Day. With this the school and the • NATIONAL UNITY DAY • LOUVRE ABUDHABI kids laid the foundation of developing an • GREEN AUDIT WORKSHOP • ECO CLUB WORKSHOP awakened generation in an awakened society • OPEN HOUSE • YOUNG ENTREPRENEURSHIP PRO- without any barriers of caste, or religion. • GRAMME • UNITED NATIONS DAY Gandhi Jayanti is a national holiday NAVARATHRI SUBJECT CORNER in India celebrated on 2nd October. PARENT’S CORNER UPCOMING EVENTS This day is celebrated in the honor of the Page 1 birthday of the Father of the nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi or Bapuji. He started the 'Satyagraha' (non- violence) movement as part of the Indian freedom struggle. Adolescence Management Session • • Attainment of knowledge is assessed • through timely execution. Across the • globe we are exposed to dreadful and • shocking incidents, that it has become a necessity to be educated and be aware. The school organized an adolescence manage- ment session on 15 October, 2019 for the Dr. Krithika Rajan had an open girls of Grades 5 to 11. The programme was discussion with students. The doubts of students were clarified during the session. conducted by Dr. Krithika Rajan of NMC, Al By the end of the session, they acquired Ain and Ms. Bhadra welcomed the gath- the confidence to face new challenges and to pursue their goals even in the face of ering. During the session Dr. Krithika Rajan difficulties. The session was highly educative did a presentation on age appropriate bodily and informative. changes, related problems and solutions. Prerana October, 2019

Prerana Vol:6 Issue: 5 AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL FIELD TRIP TO WARNER BROS WORLD-ABUDHABI About 47 students with 4 teachers started our School Field trips allow field trip to WARNER BROS WORLD, AbuDhabi from children to open their eyes our school bus at 9.45 am to reach the fun world by 12 noon. A multi purpose coupon ensured our entry into Warner Bros to new environments and World and also made sure we got food. A group photo at the gallery hall made sure that the children made memories. new cultures. It positive- Batman’s Knight fight , Riddles and Joker’s Fun House were ly shapes their perspective among the many rides and spots of adventure which the chil- dren enthusiastically logged into. on a global level and School field trips are more about enjoyment, excitement and triggers ideas and solutions fun, without the pressure of being called in a closed class en- vironment within four walls. Shedding inhibitions and learn- that may not stem from ing to reach to real life situations are the key take-aways of a field trip. their natural everyday It erases the boredom of class behavior and habits. room lectures, even if it’s just for a day. Moreover, it awakens student’s interest to Moreover, students who go learn and acquire new learning information. on field trips become There was only one water ride called Bed rock ride which was connected in many ways more empathetic, tolerant to academics. Through real-life connections and hands on experience of the lessons they and respectful towards are taught in school, students are more likely to understand the subject better. This under- different culture and the standing of the relevance of what they are learning helps them to perform better in society as a whole. school exams, tests and projects Tom and Jerry and Fast and The next ride which was Furious were rides that gave our Justice League ride. It was children an adrenalin rush and filled really fun. There were them with excitement. restaurants for Arabic food and Indian food where our We are proud that ASIS is an children enjoyed their lunch educational institution that takes which Creates different pride in organizing interesting and Cultural Experience and Cre- funfilled educational trips for all ates a Social Bond: the students. Aiming at all-round awareness and development, the school strives to make students conscious of the real world around. In fact through various creative learning methods- ASIS inspires the children to take a quantum leap when it comes to facing the chal- lenges of the present and the future. We started from Warner Bros World at about 5.00 pm and reached our school around 7.45 pm. Prerana October, 2019 Page 2

Prerana Vol:6 Issue: 5 AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL SAMARPANA AND DANDIA NIGHT ‘An Evening for the Parents, by the Parents’ Samarpana, an evening of Art and Culture, is an event which is specially initiated to create a platform for parents to showcase their interest and talent in any chosen field beyond the daily routines of life and career. The much awaited event – the cultural extravaganza—was conducted this year as a twin function ‘Samarpana’- An Evening of Art and Culture and Dandiya night. The initiative was an epoch making event in the history of Bhavans Al Ain-Al Saad Indian School. It was a platform for our dear par- ents to showcase their latent talents. The evening was made more colourful with a variety of programmes organized by the parents which left the audience dumb-struck and the lovely moments were cherished by each and every one. It was an enriching experience for all those who had gathered in the school auditorium. The cultural programmes started off with a musical group performance by our guests for the day , Mr. Freddy Thangaiah [Drummer, Administrator at AAEC ], Mrs. Rachel Freddy [Guitarist] and Mr. Samuel Selvamani [Accordionist ] . The programme was hosted by Mrs. Aparna Rao, the mother of Shasha Mitra of 4B. Classical, semi classical group dances, cinematic dance, solo song and many programs were presented by our parents. Dandiya Raas is a special feature of the Navratri festival. Bhavans Al Ain celebrated the festival with the traditional ‘Stick Dance’ off Stage in our AC Auditorium. Our beloved Director Mrs. Divya Ramachandran and Principal Dr. Bhavna Gupta made the evening more special by their beautiful Dan- diya performance. Festivals refresh our life and fill it with some meaning. They also give us an opportunity for doing creative work. We expect many such bonding moments between the parents and the school in future too, and hope that more parents will ensure active involvement to make the programme invigorating. Prerana October, 2019 Page 3

Prerana Vol:6 Issue: 5 AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL CBSE UAE Chess Cluster Championship 2019 organized by Sharjah Indian School “The price of success is hard work, dedi- AMISHEE GUPTA (8A) won 5 out of 6 matches. She is a very talented and cation to the job at hand, and the determi- confident performer of our team. nation that whether we win or lose, we ABHIRAM KRISHNA of 5B is a tal- ented student and he won 4 out of 6 have applied the best of ourselves to matches. the task at hand “ SIYA GAUR is a consistently focused and brilliant proven performer. She is an CBSE clusters competition outing with able leader and won 4 out of 6 match- Students of our school. These kids proved es. to be really talented and they played under 11 and under 14 age category . They took SHAFA SHANIB won 2 out of 6 matches. up the challenge and played against their opponents and came out with excellent re- sults and valuable experience. 32 CBSE schools participated all over the UAE for the competition and our school secured 8th and 9th ranking in ‘under11Boys’ and ‘under14 Girls’ category respectively. The Team members are Under 11 Mixed Team. 1. ABHIRAM KRISHNA - 5 B 2. JESWIN JINU JOHN – 5 B 3. VIHAN JOHN – 3C 4. ADRIKA ARUN – 5 A “Prevention is better than cure. And the first step towards preventing diseases is maintaining good hygiene.” To commemorate Global Handwashing GLOBAL HANDWASHING DAY Day and in order to sensitize the students on the importance of proper hand washing, the students of grade 8 A conducted a Special Assembly on ‘Global Hand washing Day’ on 15 October 2019, in the school auditorium. The theme for Global Handwashing Day 2019 is “Clean Hands for All,” focusing on the links between handwashing and food – including food hygiene and nutrition. The assembly began with the UAE The day is observed by National Anthem followed by the presenting a mime show prayer song by the school choir which clearly indicated that brightening the whole atmosphere proper hand hygiene can with their mellifluous voice. This was significantly reduce the followed by the Quran recitation by spread of harmful bacteria Narmin, the Bhavans Pledge by and other germs that can Lavanya and news reading by lead to many deadly diseases. Parvathi, Riddi and Angel. The To conclude the special Special assembly was compeered by programme, a demonstration session of the right method of Twinkle and Lena. handwashing was also done by the students of 8A. Prerana October, 2019 Pa

Prerana Vol:6 Issue: 5 AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL Rashtriya Ekra Diwas (National Unity Day) The birth anniversary of the Iron Man • Prabhat Pheri was of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is conducted immediately after celebrated across India as the ‘National the morning assembly by the Unity Day’ or ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’ as students of Grade 1 and 2 a tribute. He was the first home minis- with the help of senior ter of our country, who led the task of students. integrating princely states into the • National Unity Slogan Union of India after Independence in Writing competition was 1947. On his 144th birth anniversary, conducted on the topic Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have Rashtriya Ekta (National officially become union territories. unity) by the students of Thus, the map of India is redrawn as 28 Grades 3 to 11 in the after- States and 9 Union Territories. noon (02:00 pm to 02:45 pm). Rashtriya Ekta Diwas was celebrated on 31.10. 2019 in our Page 5 esteemed institution. A variety of programme was charted on the day. • A Morning Assembly was conducted by the Department of Social Science on the topic National Integration. • A cultural presentation was performed by the students on the theme National Unity. • The National Unity Pledge was taken during the assembly and it was led by the Principal, Dr. Bhavna Gupta. Prerana October, 2019

Prerana Vol:6 Issue: 5 AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL LAUNCH OF THE EDUCATIONAL MEETING OF TEACHERS AT LOUVRE ABU DHABI The Louvre Abu Dhabi is an art and On 3rd October 2019, the official The aim of the programme is to civilization museum, located in Abu Dhabi, launch of Educational sector was collaborate learning and art. Irrespective United Arab Emirates. The museum was held at its stupendous premise. of age group, students can explore the inaugurated on 8 November 2017 by French Two teachers from schools under museum in 45 minutes and a 45-minute President Emmanuel Macron and United the Abu Dhabi Emirate were workshop will be given to them on the Arab Emirates Vice President Mohammed invited to attend the grand preferred topic of study through art bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Crown Prince of function. The officials gave warm works. Students can be taken in a group Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed Al welcome to the teachers. After the of 25 with accompanied teachers with a Nahyan. The museum is located on registration, teachers were directed prior booking along with payment via the Saadiyat Island Cultural District. to the conference hall/ theatre. online. Time slot will be given for each The meeting began at 11.30 a.m. group and the tour guide will take the The programme co-ordinators of lead once the team reach there. It is the event detailed about the vision really a prodigious programme and mission of the project which is introduced by the LOUVRE team, approved by ADEK. Apart from the wherein students can enrich their museum, they have art galleries knowledge especially on the world and library for the students. After history. For expatriates, the LOUVRE the presentation, the audience were Abu Dhabi provides a wonderful given chance to ask their doubts opportunity to visit a museum where regarding this programme. monuments from all over the world are preserved. After the meeting session, the teachers were taken to the museum and art galleries in two different groups to explore. Prerana October, 2019 Page 6

Prerana Vol:6 Issue: 5 AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL Green Audit workshop Green Audit workshop – At Environment Agency Building Date:- 22nd to 24th October 2019 The session started with the introduction about the need of saving the energy and the importance of educating students with the knowledge of awareness on waste management. It was discussed in detail that to provide the students hands on experience regarding this program and the ways of implemented in the school. It was instructed to the teachers that the pictures should be clicked during any activities related to this program and the evidences has to be filed in regular basis. Few videos were shown to provide the idea of these audits. The session progressed with the following topics in detail. The ideas and practices which are followed by other schools were shared. It was instructed that the school should maintain different types of bins to collect different types of wastes. It was advised that one class shall be involved in collecting the data and all the students shall be involved in the assessments. It was advised that the school shall involve parents also during the implementation. An audit is to be conducted in January 2020, the report of which is to be sent to an environ- ment agency on the month of January. This audit and reporting needs to be done every year. Overall the workshop was very informative and interactive. Prerana October, 2019 Page 7

Prerana Vol:6 Issue: 5 AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL OPEN DAY A DAY OF DISCUSSION During the open day, Parents An open day for parents was conducted at got the opportunity to inter- the school campus on 19th October 2019 act with Class Teacher and Subject Teachers, to update to get to know their child’s teachers and themselves on teacher’s ex- pectations and general feed- understand areas that teachers would backs about their ward. Par- ents stepped into the cam- want children to work on for the academic pus on time and met the teachers. year. It was indeed an important day for the parents as well as teachers to discuss about the expectations in person for the overall development of the student. The co-operation of the parents adhering to their tim- ings and accepting things positively made the event successful. YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS The ASIS family decided to donate a lump sum amount collected from the students as part of charity to the Human Appeal International for the upliftment of the workers. The children had taken initiative to visit old age homes to do individual charity back in their home country. Students put up stalls Young entrepreneurs were: during open house for Amishee Gupta from Grade 8A , mehandi designing, face Shivali from Grade 6A, Anaam painting, glass painting, from 6A. games, puzzles etc. exhibiting their creativity and entrepreneurship skills and the money collected by the Young entrepreneurs was used for Charity. Prerana October, 2019 Page 8

Prerana Vol:6 Issue: 5 AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL UNITED NATIONS DAY A special Assembly was conducted by Venus House on 24th October 2019.The theme of the assembly was United Nations. Devananda lead the assembly. It started at 7:45 am at the AC auditorium with the UAE national anthem followed by Universal prayer song by the school choir. Mr. Vinod conducted the warm up exercise. The pledge was taken and verses from the holy Quran was recited and then delivered the English and Arabic word of the day. Finally, the as- sembly concluded with the presentation on United Nation. ECO CLUB WORKSHOP This award aims to increase environmental It requires spreading awareness about the awareness amongst students from KG to Grade necessity for preserving marine animals andwater 12, and to encourage the youth to actively par- resources through different means such as short ticipate in environmentally educational activities film, storytelling, social media etc. within their school systems and promote self- initiative. The workshop gave an opportunity to get a bet- ter understanding of the competition criteria, re- quirements, and a one to one interaction with the Bee’ah School Of Environment (BSOE) team. It was informed to start an Eco Club with the theme ‘Preservation of marine animals and water resources’. Maximum 15 students can be the member of it from each category. The deadline of the project will be 26th January. Prerana October, 2019 Page 9

Prerana Vol:6 Issue: 5 AL SAAD INDIAN SCHOOL UAE FLAG DAY GLOBAL CHILDREN’S CONCLAVE DAY UAE FIELD HINDI TRIP SPECIAL NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DAY Prerana October, 2019 Page 10