One Minute Game

Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation and often both. Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. They bring out inherent talent of the participants.

           

One minute games are great ways to begin an event or to engage a crowd of children. They are challenging and obviously don’t last very long! A very accommodating quality for those short-attention-spanners!

At Orchids - The International School [Hyderabad], we organized one minute games for kids from I-V classes on 28/6/ 2013. Our students truly enjoyed these moments a lot. 

Winners':
1. Srihita Tumma
2. Syed Abdullah
3. Imran Habeeb

Star of the week 8: Khadija Khan

Koffee with parents

22.6.12 was a day meant for ‘KOFFEE with Parents’ at Orchids. ‘Parents of Orchids, Hyderabad’ attended the interactive session which started with Principal, Ms. Mona Mehdi’s introductory, informative and promising address.  Orchids’s Mission and Vision, its Philosophy, Policies and Rules, activities and constant endeavours to progress were detailed. Orchids is committed to groom students who can become confident and able to deal with all situations. Ethical and moral values always have a predominant importance while pursuing technology-oriented education. Traditional and modern ideas go hand in hand in imparting education. Orchids is a certified Cambridge school and follows CBSE curriculum from classes VI-X.

 The report on the recent achievements of Orchidians, as in Olympiad contests, was very impressive.

The PowerPoint presentation by the Principal gave tips on parenting and advised parents to spend quality and quantity time with their children. They need to encourage their child to cultivate reading habit and motivate the child to offer a book with the child’s name, year and class written, to the school library on his/her birthday.

Parental cooperation in all the events and activities is quite essential and Orchids looks forward to it.  Parents need to encourage their children to grab opportunities and participate in all the programmes, activities and competitions which gradually improve their skills and performance.

Mr. S. Raj Kumar, Regional Manager and Mr. Kameshwara Rao, SAT Executive of South India, Kokuyo Camlin ltd. gave a demonstration of how painting can be made easy. Painting, just as any art, requires interest, patience and guidance and the experts motivated the viewers to learn the art.

A few students of class IX displayed their skills of Rubik’s cube to the delight of the audience.

The Session impressed the audience and closed with the nomination of Parent Representatives for all the classes who can be supportive and contribute ideas for the school’s progress. The session ended with another beginning!

Colouring Competition

Children are born artists and colouring is of great importance for their development. Colouring gives children a sense of accomplishment, improves their motor skills, helps them recognise patterns, shapes and colours. It also develops their unique style and self expression. Colouring competition was organised for classes I-V at Orchids - The International School on 21-6-2013. The students were all very enthusiastic to showcase their mettle on the canvases with shades of colours, depicting various themes. 

Winners:

1. Imran Habeeb 

2. Adithri Saira Kasasheri

3. Khadija khan  &   Harshitha naidu
 

World Music Day

Music expresses a way that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.                                                                                                                -Victor Hugo   

World Music day, also known as ‘La Fete de la Musique’, was a festival that began in 1982. The idea was conceived by the French Minister of culture, Jack Lang, in 1982. Since then 21st June has been celebrated every year as the Music Day.

The students of Orchids-The International school had a great opportunity to showcase their musical talent on the stage during the Assembly on 21-06-2013.

Niranjan  of class X performed on an electronic guitar and Subhasree of class IX on a classical Guitar and the keyboard was played by their Music Instructor Mr. Samuel

The group rendered a National song ‘Vandemataram’ both in Western and Classical style.

The song on delights of music sung by the school choir was accompanied by Guitars (Electrical and Classical) and Keyboard. The song is in Praise of God by Nature in its own sense of music and we join it in our own sense of music.

It was really a delightful conclusion of the musical performance of the day. 

Star of the week 7: Preksha Bhandari

RAJA RITHVIK, THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS CHAMPION - 2013

RAJA RITHVIK, studying in the 5^th class made Orchids - The International School proud yet another time. He has become the New National Schools Champion -2013 and bagged Gold medal on 11/6/2013 by scoring 7.5 points out of 9 rounds at Chennai. In the 9^th and Final round Rithvik defeated Mehta Naitik of Gujarat in a well fought encounter. Rithvik received the gold medal and Merit Certificate from Indian Grand Master Adhibhan of Chennai. Orchids congratulates him and wishes him all the best in his future endeavours.

Practising for perfection

Orchids – The International School organized a guest lecture for grades 1 to 5 on 12/6/2013. It was conducted by Mrs .Sunanda Rao Kommireddi on the topic ‘Practising for perfection’.

The presentation started with learning about what exactly is practice and why children need practice?  Practice is must and a simple learning method all over the globe. Next point of presentation was, How to practise? With the help of a small story the discussion concluded with, ‘Perfect practice is for perfection’. On the whole it was a very interactive and lively discussion with active participation of the children.

LEARNING LOG FOR JUNE AND JULY (2013)

Month’s Focus: Practising for perfection

Subject	Syllabus	Field trip/ Project work/ Special Activity
English	M.C.B: Ls-2:Stone soup Ls-3:Journey to the moon W.B: Ls-2:Stone soup Ls-3:Journey to the moon Lit:: You and I (Poem) Ls-3:William tell and his great shot	·               Observation of moon
Mathematics	Ch 3:  Multiplication Ch 4: Division Ch 5: Factors and Multiples	·               Multiplication grid ·               Dice game ·               Factors trees ·               Visualizing prime and composite number using grid paper
Social Studies	Ls-3: Major land forms Ls-4: Natural resources Ls-5: Weather and climate Ls-10: E for environment	·      Preparation of a solar cooker ·      Preparing whether forecast for a month
Science	*Investigation of plants  growth *Lifecycle of flowering plant Ls-5:Solid,liquid,gases	·               Dissection of flower ·               Activity to show that plants requires sunlight
II Lang	Hindi: Shardar bhagat singh ki ahinsha ki jyoti	·         Paste picture of freedom fighter
	Telugu:  Ls-3: Shivaji Ls-4: Bhadrachalum Ls-5: devaniryan Ls-6: Sagar yatra darshini	·         Paste picture of Shivaji and write a few lines ·         Paste picture of Sagar and write a few lines
	French: Ls-1:Saluer, demandé, identité Ls-2: Demander I’ identité d un Object Ls-3: Ecrire une lettre a un ami français	·            Listening and speaking skills; skit on greeting in French ·            Writing skills: identify the names of the object with articles
III Lang	Hindi: Wanjan          Bin matra aur matra Wale shabd	·            Words with picture ·            Bin matra aur mata wale shabd par karya patra dijiye
	Telugu: Varnamala                Forming	·            Identification of letters ·            Paste the picture and identify the beginning letter of the picture
	French: Les nombres	·            Asking  the children to carry out the number of action; clapping , nodding, leg tapping
Creative Writing skills/English language/ Enhancement skills	·      Write a  few lines about William tell
Computer Science	Ls-2: Software and its type Ls-3 Windows 7	·         Documentation on software and its type ·         1. Creating files and folders, organizing files ·         2. Customizing the desktop
Art and Craft	1.       Fruit basket drawing 2.       Origami
General Knowledge	Pg: 14 to 30
Music	Songs: 1. I got peace like a river 2.The sun comes up with a great smile 3.Ekta swatantrata
Games	·         Football- dribbling ·         Physical fitness ·         Skill assessment circuit ·         Basketball – ball handling and dribbling
Lifeskills	Tying a shoelace Table manners

Events                                                                       Competition

12/6/13 – Guest Lecture (I – V)                                                            21/6/13 – Coloring Competition (I- V)

14/6/13 – House meeting (I- V)                                                           28/6/13 – One Minute Game (I –V)

11/ 7/ 13 – World Population Day (Assembly presentation)       12/7/13 - English Poem Recitation (I – V)

 15/7/13 – 19/7/13 – USSR                                                                 27/7/13- Mother and child competition (I – X)                                                                  

19/7/13 – Field Trip (I- V)      

21/6/13 – World Music Day (Assembly  Presentation) 

26/7/13- Kargil Victory Day (Assembly Presentation)             

26/7/13-  Van  Mahostav ( Nur – X)                                                                   

Note:                                                                                                       

22/6/13 - Koffee with parents (Nur – X)

12/7/13 – 19/7/13 – Unit test - I

20/7/13 – PTM + Book Fair

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