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May 2011<br />
Issue: 4<br />
INDEX--------------------------------------------------------Page<br />
Special Message from the Principal, Primary <strong>School</strong>--pg 1<br />
Editorial-------------------------------------------------------pg 1<br />
PYP Attitudes-------------------------------------------------pg 1<br />
Staff Appreciation Day--------------------------------------pg1<br />
Know About<br />
Events---------------------------------------------------------pg 2<br />
PYP in the classroom---------------------------------------pg 2<br />
Summertime Activities-------------------------------------pg 3<br />
Field Trips---------------------------------------------------pg 4<br />
PYP Graduation--------------------------------------------pg 4<br />
Role Models- Reflective------------------------------------pg 4<br />
Speak Up<br />
Your Voice----------------------------------------------------pg4<br />
LEARNING IS FUN<br />
Should learning be fun? Well our students certainly think so – and<br />
the customer is usually right! The biggest challenge for a teacher<br />
can be a group of bored uninterested students. Students think learning<br />
should be fun. Have heard from them that when learning is fun,<br />
they are thinking and engrossed in what they are doing. When a<br />
lesson isn’t fun, they are thinking about when the lesson is going to<br />
end. The truth is that when teachers scrub fun and comfort from the<br />
classroom, students become bored, anxious and anything, but engaged. Research shows that learning<br />
and recall improve when the learner is performing motor activities, when developing skills is set in familiar<br />
contexts and when it interests ,engages and challenges them. We need to play, add fun and games<br />
in our daily lives and learning will be invisible, but assured.<br />
Ms. Rima Singh (Principal, Primary <strong>School</strong>)<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Hurray, Staff Appreciation Day!!!!!<br />
Morning of 13th of May, 2011<br />
the Staff Appreciation Day was<br />
organized by the <strong>Pathways</strong><br />
Parent Partnership (PPP) to<br />
recognize the Primary staff.<br />
All the students, support staff,<br />
PE staff and teachers from<br />
Primary were packed into the<br />
Multi Purpose Hall in Panini.<br />
And of course Dr Naidu’s presence was greatly appreciated.<br />
The PPP recognized each and every staff member with a token<br />
of their appreciation. Both the gesture and the artwork were<br />
highly appreciated. The student’s enthusiasm and appreciation<br />
was obvious from the shouts and cheers throughout the<br />
programme. Thank you PPP!!!!<br />
Ms. Shelly Singh<br />
As we reached the final phase of this academic year , students and teachers alike were busy reflecting on the year<br />
that sped by. As we looked back, I realised it was time for me to reflect deeply at my long personal journey in<br />
teaching too! All the memories that came awash had one element in common, fun! Unless learning and teaching<br />
has been fun, it is never worth a memory. As Dr. Seuss rightly writes in his book “Oh, the places you’ll go”, "If<br />
you never have, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”<br />
This month, we look at how the PYP adds this fun element to learning, making it precious and treasured. Across<br />
activities and subjects, our children are surely having a lot of fun in school, and at the same time soaking in all<br />
the learning!<br />
Field trips and explorations galore,<br />
Celebrations of special days and more,<br />
Reflecting back at all the fun we had,<br />
A pinch of salt with the good and the bad!<br />
A meaningful year spent learning all the way,<br />
In PYP, fun filled was every single day!<br />
But summer is here and it’s getting hot,<br />
Time for a break, a holiday… why not?<br />
Here is wishing everyone a cool and refreshing break. We will see you all again in August! Happy Holidays from<br />
the entire Editorial and Primary Team!!<br />
Mr. Abhimanyu Das Gupta<br />
AN APTITUDE FOR PYP ATTITUDES<br />
I am aware that the students in PYP are encouraged<br />
to exhibit the “PYP attitudes” like commitment,<br />
cooperation, tolerance and empathy. But what I<br />
witnessed some days ago, made me speechless!<br />
It was the 30th of March, with the entire <strong>Pathways</strong><br />
campus community and the world outside cheering<br />
loudly to support Mother India’s eleven warriors<br />
on the field! The match graduated to be an outstanding<br />
event at <strong>Pathways</strong>, as the Senior <strong>School</strong><br />
students organized the screening of the match on<br />
a big screen, for our support staff, as part of their<br />
service projects. It was a splendid evening for all<br />
of us who live on campus and especially for our<br />
support staff who were given chips and cold drinks<br />
to add more flavour to the ongoing excitement.<br />
The excitement was at its peak; we all cheered for<br />
team India at the highest possible pitch, paying<br />
little heed to the mess we were creating in the<br />
amphitheatre. Then I noticed something which<br />
made me pull out my camera immediately and start<br />
taking lots of photographs. A few children from<br />
Primary <strong>School</strong> had got together to clean up the<br />
mess. They were picking up all the trash thrown<br />
around, and dumping them in the trash bin. It was<br />
such a delight to see them doing it so confidently and<br />
it was quite clear that they were self-motivated and<br />
completely believed in what they were doing. By<br />
the time our house-keeping team reached to do the<br />
needful, all the litter had been put in the bins and<br />
the amphitheatre was as clean as before the match.<br />
Students like Sahil, Akash and Maan are certainly<br />
those who have incorporated their learning into<br />
a real-life situation with great pride. In an amphi<br />
theatre full of spectators, only they had the right<br />
aptitude to<br />
display their<br />
‘attitudes’.<br />
The world is<br />
certainly<br />
going to be a<br />
better place<br />
to live in with<br />
such young<br />
minds around. I must also congratulate the entire PYP<br />
team, for inspiring these young minds to this extent.<br />
This is an eye opener for all of us that we<br />
can make a big difference in small ways.<br />
Mr. Santanu Bhowmik<br />
(IB-IGCSE Mathematics Teacher<br />
& Co CAS Coordinator)<br />
1
KNOW ABOUT<br />
LEARNING THROUGH DRAMA<br />
Drama is a fabulous way for anyone to communicate, connect with one<br />
another and build their confidence and social skills. The students of Grade<br />
3 were inquiring into non-verbal and verbal communication through their<br />
unit Let’s Talk. Thus, a workshop combining the two was conducted by Ms.<br />
Cathy, the Drama Teacher in the Senior <strong>School</strong> for these students to help them<br />
understand the different perspectives of verbal and non - verbal communication.<br />
The workshop created a safe environment for the students to explore and<br />
express themselves. The activities were ‘Self- Introductory Game’ and ‘Bang<br />
Bang’, where the students had to respond to a particular situation. They also<br />
ART SPEAKS<br />
Grade 2 has been<br />
inquiring about different<br />
forms of art as<br />
a part of their unit<br />
‘Art Speaks’ under<br />
the TD theme "How<br />
we express ourselves".<br />
Their learning reached<br />
a new dimension with<br />
the inputs from our<br />
guest speakers: Mr. Paul Hume – international artist, Ms.<br />
Cathy - theatre artist and Ms. Charuvi – animator. Paul<br />
Hume is a famous visual artist. He shared a few of his art<br />
pieces (paintings and videos) from his campaign on malnutrition<br />
and upcoming exhibition in Singapore. He explained to<br />
students that Art can also be used to convey meaningful and<br />
thoughtful messages besides abstract ideas. Ms. Cathy, theatre<br />
artist taught the students non-verbal forms of Art through an<br />
activity to demonstrate how different people can have a diverse<br />
perspective about the same thing. Ms. Chaurvi, an animator,<br />
unveiled the mystery of animation to the students. The sessions<br />
were immensely enjoyed by the students and they understood<br />
how these art forms can be used to express ideas, feelings,<br />
spread messages and awareness globally.<br />
Ms. Rekha Saluja<br />
MATH IS FUN... THE INQUIRY WAY<br />
It’s always a question<br />
as to how an inquiry<br />
happens in Numeracy!<br />
Yes, Numeracy!<br />
Inquiry is the root<br />
of the PYP curriculum<br />
and the teachers<br />
strive their best to<br />
deliver a lesson<br />
in Literacy,<br />
Numeracy, Units<br />
of Inquiry, Hindi or<br />
for that matter P.E., through inquiry.<br />
Let us take the example of a Grade<br />
3 inquiry into Measurements. For<br />
the tuning in activity, the teacher divided<br />
the class into groups. The students<br />
were given some tools and<br />
were asked to measure the class<br />
cupboard, white board, desk, etc.<br />
using any one tool they felt appropriate.<br />
The students used their thinking skills<br />
and social skills while working in the<br />
group and justified why they used a foot<br />
ruler or an inch tape to measure. Once<br />
students got an idea that they would be<br />
working with measurements they<br />
embarked on the finding out stage. The<br />
students were then given some cut outs<br />
of whales (and other animals) with<br />
different sizes and were asked to sort<br />
them out according to the sizes from<br />
ascending to descending order. This<br />
was then the sorting out stage. Having<br />
arranged it according to their sizes,<br />
the students then made a bar graph to<br />
did a ‘3 Photo Frame’ activity where they had to depict<br />
a situation of their choice using non - verbal cues.<br />
Through this workshop, children gained a sense of<br />
achievement in creating their own work, both individually<br />
and as a team, while having fun at the same time. It<br />
also focused on each individual’s perspective of different<br />
situations. Learning through drama was truly FUN!!<br />
Ms. Dura Shawar<br />
MIRROR MURAL<br />
Arts engage students in creative processes<br />
through which they explore and experiment<br />
in a continual cycle of action and<br />
reflection. Such creative processes are<br />
seen by the PYP as the driving force in<br />
learning through inquiry incorporating a<br />
lot of fun! In a quest to help students get<br />
a better understanding of the Visual Art<br />
in society, the students of Grades 4 and 5<br />
were involved in creating an outdoor mural<br />
in cement and glass. The mural has<br />
been inspired by a two dimensional linear<br />
clay-relief element adorned with bits and<br />
pieces of glittering mirrors. This creates<br />
an aura of mystic revelation in the clay<br />
murals, synonymous to the cultural<br />
identity of Kutch in Gujarat. During the<br />
process the students learnt about creating<br />
and appreciating art. The experience<br />
was fun filled and gratifying for us and<br />
will continue to encourage students to<br />
explore such creative ventures throughout<br />
their lives.<br />
represent the data.<br />
This was again a<br />
task to strengthen<br />
their understand<br />
ing of Bar Graphs<br />
through an<br />
activity done in<br />
Measurements. The<br />
students made connections<br />
of their<br />
undestanding<br />
about measurements<br />
by cutting pictures of grocery<br />
items and writing down how much<br />
each item would weigh by giving<br />
valid reasons to their answers. The<br />
students by this time were so very<br />
keen in knowing about how much<br />
each item actually weighed or<br />
measured, that they observed<br />
the shopkeepers’ weighing<br />
machines carefully in order to check,<br />
if the weight written on the product,<br />
matched with that on the machine. Wow,<br />
now that is what we call ‘taking action’!<br />
Thus, by using inquiry in<br />
Numeracy,<br />
learning<br />
is a whole<br />
lot of fun!<br />
Ms. Sabeena Menon<br />
Ms. Aditi Singh<br />
FUN WITH<br />
TOYS<br />
A workshop based on toy design<br />
and development was conducted<br />
by Prof. Sudarshan Khanna and Ms. Aarti Srivastav on the 28th April<br />
2011 at Vasant Valley <strong>School</strong>, New Delhi and was attended by two teachers<br />
from the Early Years, Ms. Sona and Ms. Neetu. The workshop commenced<br />
with a brief talk on how learning can be fun and understood as a process<br />
by experiencing the relationship between design, science and technology.<br />
The teachers were introduced to a couple of concepts in toy<br />
design after which they proceeded to designing and developing two or<br />
three toys by using the simple materials and tools provided to them.<br />
Ms. Sandeep Kamboj<br />
LITERACY DAY<br />
saaxarta vaar<br />
p`aqaimak ivaValaya ko p`aMgaNa maoM,<br />
saaxarta idvasa ko ]plaxya maoM<br />
caaraoM trf baccaaoM ko cahknao<br />
kI AavaajaoM gaU^Mja rhI qaI.saBaI<br />
kxaaAaoM maoM ivaiBanna p`kar kIo<br />
rcanaa%mak gaitivaiQayaa^M cala rhI<br />
qaI .ijasamaoM rivand` naaqa TOgaaor kI<br />
khainayaa^M, kivatae^M^M, phoilayaa^M^M,naaTk<br />
,SabdaoM ka jaadU, , ek imanaT maoM, khanaI<br />
rcanaa Aaid gaitivaiQayaaoM maoM<br />
saBaI iSaxaaqaI- vyast qao.saBaI bahut<br />
]%saaiht AaOr KuSa qao.<br />
rMjanaa vaaYNao-ya<br />
To reinforce our love for the Languages<br />
the Primary <strong>School</strong> marked<br />
Literacy Day on the 6th May. The<br />
students were introduced to the life<br />
of Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath<br />
Tagore whose birthday falls on the 7th<br />
May. The activities that were planned<br />
included Treasure Hunt, Buddy<br />
Reading, riddles, creating superheroes,<br />
picture dictation, word splash and many<br />
more to remind the students about the<br />
magic that can be woven with words.<br />
The students of Grade 4 and 5 had also<br />
m e t i c u l o u s l y<br />
prepared for Buddy Reading by reading<br />
the stories and making props and puppets<br />
to make the story sharing experience,<br />
with their juniors, an enriching one.<br />
The Literacy Day helped the students<br />
connect with English and Hindi through<br />
activities that were fun and helped<br />
them to enjoy the magic of languages.<br />
Ms. Renu Kaushal<br />
2
PLAY, THINK, LEARN<br />
Hide and seek, Dark Room,<br />
Hopscotch, Name Place<br />
Animals Things, Knots and<br />
Crosses… Oh god it was such fun!<br />
We all took such delight in playing<br />
these games. Picture this: the kittens<br />
pouncing on the mother cat’s tail<br />
and the mother running away from<br />
them. Visualise the game again. Wait<br />
a second! Think again! The mother<br />
cat is actually trying to teach her<br />
kittens the skill of hunting. This<br />
proves that playing games is<br />
nature’s way of learning. Why do<br />
we like to play games? We find<br />
games challenging, it gives us a<br />
thrill, we feel an adrenalin rush as<br />
the dice spins, or as the mystery of<br />
the card we pick unfolds. We also<br />
see that our opponents have not<br />
seen through our strategy … and we<br />
can win the game! What are more<br />
important when children learn<br />
through games is however, the<br />
objectives that are subtly met.<br />
First and foremost, the child<br />
learns about strategies. In a game<br />
using flash cards, a child learns and<br />
practises how to place the flash<br />
cards, read them and move their<br />
hands with lightning reflex before the<br />
other team members can. It also<br />
requires a lot of thinking<br />
by gauging the other team<br />
member’s moves and body<br />
language, and reading aural and<br />
visual signals. Through a<br />
simple game of hide and seek,<br />
a child can even learn how to<br />
plan and strategise. Games<br />
enable us to multitask in a<br />
stress free manner. In our thirst<br />
to win the rat race, we often<br />
ignore the spirit and<br />
understanding of playing games to<br />
learn. We tend to concentrate more<br />
on very structured, text oriented<br />
learning based on paper and<br />
pencil tasks, within the four<br />
walls of the classroom. But, as at<br />
<strong>Pathways</strong>, we are a thinking<br />
community of parents, teachers<br />
and students who are conscious<br />
of this reality we are continuously<br />
trying to include a lot of games for<br />
learning how to read, learn time<br />
tables, develop vocabulary , develop<br />
concentration, understand fractions,<br />
thereby making learning a lot of fun!<br />
Ms. Mrinalini Sinha<br />
COMIC TIMING<br />
The students of Grade 5 learnt<br />
Comic Writing in Hindi and<br />
had amusing discussions<br />
about humour in their daily<br />
life. While working on their<br />
summative task, one group of<br />
students went on a nature walk<br />
to interact with the P.E. staff<br />
and Middle and Senior <strong>School</strong><br />
students about special incidents<br />
in their lives, while the other<br />
group went to the Admin Block to select any two members of<br />
staff working in the Admin Block as characters for creating a<br />
caricature of them through comic strips. The students closely<br />
observed and interacted with these people to find out more<br />
about their lives and based their comic strips on that.<br />
The resulting creations reflected the students’ interpretation<br />
of the conversations and their observations from their own<br />
points of view. The outcome was humorous and lively!<br />
Ms. Komal Dua<br />
COOL IN<br />
THE POOL<br />
The most awaited<br />
Primary <strong>School</strong><br />
Swimming Gala was<br />
a fun filled event<br />
where students of<br />
Grades 2 to 5 showcased<br />
their Swimming<br />
skills in the<br />
form of events and<br />
fun games & Early<br />
Year kids splashed<br />
around with games<br />
like ‘Ping Pong<br />
Ruckus’ and ‘Beach<br />
Ball Race’. To bring<br />
the event to an end<br />
they were rewarded<br />
with chocolates and<br />
a promise to have<br />
m o r e o f s u c h e v e n t s !<br />
SUMMERTIME<br />
ACTIVITIES<br />
Ms. Rajeshree Singh<br />
A Cactus that Never Needs Watering<br />
2 pieces of green paper (card stock), Scissors, Balck Marker.<br />
1. Take one piece of paper and trace<br />
your hand. Do the same thing with the<br />
other piece of paper.<br />
2. Cut out both of the hand shapes.<br />
3. In the center of one of the hands cut<br />
a line half way up from the bottom.<br />
On the other hand cut a line half way<br />
down from the top.<br />
4. Use your marker to make small<br />
lines on both sides of each piece of<br />
paper.<br />
5. Lower the piece of paper with the line cut on the bottom over<br />
the other piece, and slide them together. They should join at the<br />
two cut lines in a + shape.<br />
6. And now you have a cactus that never needs watering.<br />
Enjoy!<br />
Banana Blizzard<br />
Bananas, Cinnamon, Sugar, Ice,<br />
Vanilla, Blender, Milk.<br />
SUMMER<br />
HUMOUR<br />
Q: What do you call a dog on the beach<br />
in the Summer?<br />
A: A hot dog!<br />
Q: Why do bananas use sunscreen?<br />
A: Because they peel.<br />
1. First you pour the milk in the blender.<br />
2. Then you cut the banana into slices and place inside the blender.<br />
3. Add sugar, ice, and vanilla, then blend it for 15 seconds.<br />
4. Pour it in a cup and top with a dash of cinnamon.<br />
Enjoy!<br />
Source: www.funology.com<br />
When It's Hot, Hot, Hot<br />
Yikes — it's hot outside, everyone is sweaty, and your<br />
legs are stuck to the seat of the car. What do you do?<br />
Swim, of course! But don't forget the safety rules. Make<br />
sure there's an adult around to<br />
watch you and no dunking! On<br />
land, you can have a water fight<br />
with friends.<br />
When you're playing in the<br />
heat, it is very important to remember to drink lots of<br />
water, even if you don't feel thirsty. Hot temperatures<br />
make you sweat more when you're out in the sun, so<br />
you must replace the water you lose to prevent heat<br />
exhaustion.<br />
More things to do when it's hot:<br />
• Take a nature walk on a shady trail.<br />
• Wash your dog outside.<br />
• Wash your parents' or neighbours' car.<br />
• Turn on the sprinkler and cool off!<br />
SUMMERTIME CROSSWORD<br />
when You're Stuck at<br />
Home<br />
Maybe you can't go out because the weather is rainy or<br />
too hot. But that doesn't mean you can't have some fun<br />
while you're inside. Turn on your favorite music and<br />
dance. Invite your dog or cat to join in the fun. Or grab a<br />
hula hoop and make up some hula-hoop dances. If there<br />
is enough room, you can jump rope and count how<br />
many times you jump without missing.<br />
More things to do when<br />
you're stuck at home:<br />
• Do some tumbling if you<br />
have enough room to do it.<br />
• Set up a treasure hunt.<br />
• Toss a balloon back and<br />
forth and try not to let it hit<br />
the floor.<br />
Use the given clues to rack your brains and solve this Summertime<br />
Crossword Puzzle.<br />
And here's one thing not to do: Try not to say, "I'm<br />
bored. There's nothing to do." As you just found out,<br />
there’s always something to do!<br />
ACROSS<br />
DOWN<br />
Source: www.kidshealth.org<br />
4. wear these on your feet to be cool<br />
6. use this to fish for crabs in the<br />
pools<br />
8. place with lots of sands<br />
10. a body of water with a beach<br />
11. a game people like to play at the<br />
beach<br />
13. little creatures used to live in<br />
them<br />
14. you can find lots of creatures<br />
hiding here<br />
15. what you wear to go to sea<br />
1. you need to blow air into<br />
this to play<br />
2. build using lots of sand and shells<br />
3. it moves sideways along the beach<br />
5. season after spring<br />
7. green, brown, slimy<br />
9. use this to put sand in bucket<br />
12. put sand in<br />
Answers in the next issue<br />
3
KNOW ABOUT<br />
Transdisciplinary Theme: Sharing the planet<br />
Unit: Plants<br />
To further enhance the Kindergarteners’ understanding about ‘Plants’ and<br />
their importance in our lives they were taken for a field trip on 10th May,<br />
2011. The students visited a farm on Tikli Road and a factory ‘Signature<br />
Industries’ which makes cornflakes and muesli. This trip gave them an insight<br />
into where food comes from and how it is processed. The students got<br />
an understanding of how a food source can be converted into its processed<br />
form such as cornflakes.<br />
Ms. Neetu Ruia<br />
Transdisciplinary Theme: How we<br />
organise ourselves<br />
Unit: Going Places<br />
Nursery went for a field trip to the airport, which<br />
gave an opportunity to the students to explore the aircraft<br />
from inside. It was a delight to observe their reactions<br />
on seeing the cockpit. The students used their<br />
mathematical skills to estimate the seating capacity of<br />
the plane and learnt related vocabulary. They met the<br />
airline officials and the crew and inundated them with<br />
a lot of questions. The trip was a wonderful experience<br />
for all of us and we are very thankful to Arunanshu’s<br />
parents, Mrs. and Mr. Ghosh for organizing this trip<br />
for us and for all the warm hospitality at INDIGO!<br />
Ms. Alka Rawat<br />
Transdisciplinary Theme : How we organise<br />
ourselves<br />
Unit: Right or not<br />
On 16th May 2011, students of Grade<br />
5 braved the heat and sun to visit the<br />
Salaam Baalak Trust, New Delhi, to<br />
know about the lives of street children<br />
and how their rights are protected by<br />
the NGO. The students are currently<br />
inquiring into human rights, specially<br />
the child rights under the transdisciplinary<br />
theme – ‘How we organise<br />
ourselves’ with the central idea – ‘Basic<br />
human rights and responsibilities are<br />
universal’.<br />
The class was divided into two groups.<br />
Each group, accompanied by three<br />
teachers, 1 parent volunteer and 3<br />
Salaam Baalak Trust guides, was taken<br />
for a City Walk, wherein, they saw how<br />
the street children live, how they earn<br />
their livelihood to survive and how they<br />
In Grade 3 we have had so much This year Grade 4 has been very exciting.<br />
There were a lot of exciting events<br />
fun this year! In the Numeracy<br />
classes we have played many interesting<br />
games. We had activities like Led Conference. Our parents had<br />
such as a debating session and Student<br />
come<br />
“Inch Worm’ and ‘Pizza Fractions’ for both. The debates were written by<br />
to introduce us to new concepts. In us and we enjoyed presenting them.<br />
the Literacy class we put on our As the year progressed, new things<br />
thinking caps to create poetry and were introduced to us and our teachers<br />
twist fairy tales. In the Unit of did not let us forget the things we had<br />
Inquiry classes we have inquired learnt in the past by reminding us.<br />
about histories of our family, flora They made sure that we understood<br />
and fauna, habitats, inventions and<br />
inventors, civilizations around the<br />
world, saving water and<br />
how we express ourselves<br />
and feelings. Malini<br />
ma’am and Shawar<br />
ma’am have made the<br />
learning in Grade 3 so<br />
special: a time that we<br />
shall always remember!<br />
Alia Mahajan, 3X<br />
spend the money they earn, without<br />
giving a thought to their future. The<br />
students were also taken to the Salaam<br />
Baalak office and a ‘contact point’<br />
where the rescued children are kept<br />
and given food and informal education..<br />
The students returned home with<br />
overwhelming inquiring minds and<br />
many of them pledged to contribute<br />
meaningfully, to make a difference to<br />
the lives of these children.<br />
Ms. Shalini Ranjan<br />
BEING REFLECTIVE<br />
when they were done with explaining<br />
something by clearing out all our<br />
doubts. Our teachers have<br />
taught us that we should<br />
make rough drafts before<br />
doing any fair work. It has<br />
made my life much easier<br />
by making rough drafts. I<br />
have had a wonderful year!<br />
Suhani Thandi, 4X<br />
The event that I learned a lot from was when Mr. Bobby Varky, a journalist<br />
came and spoke to us about newspapers. After we learned about<br />
newspapers and magazines, we decided to make our own newspaper.<br />
We were divided as editors and reporters with each group having a<br />
specific task to carry out. We two were part of the editorial board. We<br />
named our newspaper ‘<strong>Pathways</strong> Waves’ because it had a lot of information<br />
about our school. We wrote about how the students and visitors<br />
from abroad liked the school, its sports , boarding and dining facilities .<br />
This task helped us improve our English and improved our social skills.<br />
Aakanksha Bhatia & Kritee Mahato, 4Y<br />
PYP GRADUATION CEREMONY 2011<br />
The PYP Graduation Ceremony was held on<br />
26th May 2011 in the Multi Purpose Hall, Panini.<br />
The ceremony was graced by Justice Leila<br />
Seth, the first woman Chief Justice of India,<br />
who was the Guest of Honour. It began with<br />
the ceremonial marching of the class of 2010-<br />
2011 led by the <strong>School</strong> Director, Dr. Sarvesh<br />
Naidu, the Primary <strong>School</strong> Principal, Ms. Rima<br />
Singh, the PYP Coordinator and Grade 5 Coordinator,<br />
Mr. Abhimanyu Das Gupta and all<br />
the Grade 5 teachers. There were two memorable<br />
song recitals by Grade 4 interspersed by<br />
performances on the keyboard and piano by<br />
some of the Grade 5 students. The graduating<br />
students who had completed five years at <strong>Pathways</strong><br />
were felicitated by the Guest of Honour. A<br />
parent of one of these students also took a walk<br />
down the PYP memory lane, sharing her experience.<br />
The Guest of Honour, Mrs. Leila Seth<br />
also honoured a few children who displayed attributes<br />
of the IB learner profile and were role<br />
models for the others. All the students were also<br />
felicitated with a souvenir and a certificate. The<br />
<strong>School</strong> Director, the Principal and the Guest of<br />
Speak Up!<br />
My name is Karmistha<br />
Bhimwal and I embarked on the<br />
PYP journey almost 7 years ago.<br />
Writing this article brings back<br />
warm memories, experiences<br />
and friendly interactions that I<br />
have been a part of in the Primary<br />
<strong>School</strong>. My PYP experience has helped me nurture<br />
positive attitudes and develop skills to solve problems<br />
independently with confidence. I take this opportunity<br />
to thank all my teachers and the support staff for facilitating<br />
my learning throughout my Primary years.<br />
I will treasure these special memories all my life.<br />
Shikhar Anand, 2Y<br />
For any query or feedback, do write to the Chief Editor at<br />
abhimanyug@pathways.in<br />
Honour addressed the graduating class with<br />
their words of wisdom and wished them all the<br />
best. The parents who attended the ceremony<br />
were filled with joy and pride to see their child<br />
graduate and incessantly clicked pictures to<br />
capture the memorable moments which they<br />
will cherish for life. The ceremony ended with<br />
a high tea against the backdrop of a rainstorm<br />
which brought relief from the scorching heat<br />
and came as a good omen for the graduates!<br />
Ms. Shalini Ranjan<br />
OUR JOURNEY THROUGH PYP<br />
My name is Isha Bhatnagar<br />
and I have been in the school<br />
for 7 years. My journey in<br />
Primary has been just amazing!<br />
I feel all my teachers and<br />
especially my form tutors have<br />
helped me a lot. I can say that<br />
I have tried to develop all the PYP attitudes, attributes<br />
and transdisciplinary skills. I gained a lot<br />
of confidence during the PYP Exhibition when<br />
I was able to do my work independently. I will<br />
never forget my dear teachers and will miss them<br />
all. I have learned a lot from you , so thank you!!<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
TEAM<br />
Chief Editor-<br />
Abhimanyu Das Gupta<br />
Editors-<br />
Renu Kaushal & Manjula Rao<br />
Content Coordinator-<br />
Monica Bhimwal & Malini Ghosh<br />
Designer-<br />
Devika Datta Elvin<br />
IT Support-<br />
Jim Elvin<br />
With the support of Ms. Rima Singh<br />
(Principal Primary <strong>School</strong>)<br />
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www.google.co.in is the source for some images