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KASHISH AND MANROOPS ‘BUSY BEE’ UPDATES YOU ALL WITH THE SCHOOL NEWS OF APRIL & MAY 2014

The School Session 2014-15 started on a traditional note with the lighting of the School Lamp on ‘Orientation Day’ on April 6, 2014.

The ‘new’ parents were apprised of the philosophy and methodology followed by ‘The Millennium School.

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The highlight of the term was a visit from the Olympian Abhinav Bindra who had a very good inter active session with the students.

The children related to him beautifully because of his ‘down-to-earth’, practical approach to life. He made it seem that anyone, with proper hard work and focus could become an Olympic Medal winner! We loved meeting him.

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SCHOOL RALLY Prior to April 30, the senior students took out a rally in Mohali, emphasising to the general public on the importance of voting. Colourful posters accompanied this interesting event, which also attracted the media.

WORLD BOOK DAY The Library came up with a unique idea to mark ‘World Book Day’. Classes IV to X were asked to do up their class doors like a book cover. It was an intersection competition and the students did a fantastic job. The following sections emerged as winners: IV A

VII B

VA

VIII B

IX B X

VI B

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CLASS II SOFT BOARD DECORATION CONTEST

Class II C won the inter-section soft board decoration contest with ‘Animal Planet’ as the theme.

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INTER HOUSE INTELLECTUAL MARATHON The ‘Intellectual Marathon’ is a much looked forward for competition. With a view to exposing students to intellectual and physical abilities on one platform, the school organizes an ‘Inter-House Intellectual Marathon’ for students of classes II to IX. The idea of such a marathon is to reiterate the point that all students may not be good at everything but all students are good at something. In such a marathon, each House sends a student each to represent Sports, English language, Hindi, Punjabi, French, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Computers, and General Awareness. Each student contributes points towards the final score. The students have great fun while they got an opportunity to present their intellectual abilities too. This marathon is based on the premise that multiple -intelligence is the base of education today. It is important to maintain the self-esteem of every child, which is wonderfully exhibited in such an event.

JAL HOUSE EMERGED AS THE OVER-ALL WINNERS.

INTER HOUSE DECLAMATION CONTEST The Inter House Declamation Contest in English had PRITHVI HOUSE get the first over-all position. Classes VIII to X had extempore speeches, while classes II to VII had topics given to them in advance. Class I had an inter section competition on the theme ‘national bird or animal of any country of the world.

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WINNERS OF THE INTE-RHOUSE DECLAMATION CONTEST

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Winners of the Class II Story Telling Competition 8

WINNERS OF THE CLASS I STORY TELLING COMPETITION 9

WINNERS OF THE INTER HOUSE CAROM TOURNAMENT

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JAL HOUSE--WINNERS OF THE INTER HOUSE CHESS TOURNAMENT TRIP TO ANANDPUR SAHIB The students of classes VI to X went for a trip to ‘Virasat E Khalsa’ where they were saw an amazing ‘light and sound show’ on the history of the Sikhs.

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THE INVESTITURE & ACHIEVERS’ AWARD CEREMONY The ‘Student Council’ from class X and the ‘Prefect body’ from class IX took their oath of office on May 20 2014 after being democratically elected by the students of VI to X.

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WINNING HOUSES 2013 14

AWARD CEREMONY About 250 students were awarded for achievements of the session 2013 14, including those of the class X that graduated in March 2014, and the CBSE 10 pointers of March 2013.

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Achievers of class X, session 2013 14

CBSE 10 Pointers of March 2013

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WORLD ASTHMA DAY 2014 Organized and sponsored by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), ‘world asthma day’ was held on May 6, 2014 in partnership with Fortis Health Care, Mohali. Dr Mandal, Additional Director, Pulmonology, held an inter active session with the senior students and teachers groups to raise awareness about asthma. The theme of World Asthma Day 2014 is ‘You Can Control Your Asthma’.

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THALASSEMIA Thalassemia is a blood disorder passed down through families (inherited) in which the body makes an abnormal form of haemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. The disorder results in excessive destruction of red blood cells, which leads to anaemia. To raise awareness among Parents and students about early detection of thalassemia, the Red Cross conducted talks and ‘board decoration’ amongst the schools of the tri-city.

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LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME Yi Chandigarh TriCity Chapter, in collaboration with Taaleem India, launched a Leadership Development Programme, LEAP (Leadership Excellence Accelerator Programme) for its School Nets in which elected young leaders from the school will be trained & mentored on various aspects of Leadership. This programme of 20 hours will be conducted over the year for students of each Yi School Net. Yi conducted the Leadership Assessment Session, part of "LEAP" at TMS, Mohali on 21st May 2014.

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A SESSION IN CAREER COUNSELLING

Students of class X attending an inter-active career counselling session

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TMS ADVENTURE AND LEADERSHIP CAMP AT THE GANGA Students of classes V to X, accompanied by 7 staff members and led by Lt Col Manoj of PEPTURF, set up a camp on the banks of the Ganga. They did river rafting, rock climbing, and rappelling. Camp fire, living in tents, beach Zumba, yummy food, added to the thrill of the outing.

The following students were awarded trophies for extraordinary enthusiasm in every task given to them:

The following students were awarded trophies for outstanding leadership:

Angad Singh Grewal VI C

Jasdeepak Singh X A

Tanvi Sonker VI A

Navteshwar Singh X A

Aniket Dhaliwal X B

Parul Singh X B

Maitri Chahal VI B

Ishaan Walia X A Jasmeher Singh IV B

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STEP PROGRAM UNDER PROJECT SEARCH As part of phase VI of Project SEARCH by TERI and TetraPak, PRIYANSHU KAMBOJ of Class IX A was one of the eight students from Chandigarh selected for the STEP (Sensitizing, Training and Empowering Peers) – a unique leadership development programme for students held from 11 May 2014 – 17 May 2014 at Stone Water Eco Resort, Karma Woodhouse Estate, Santarem Beach, Issorcim, Goa.

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MARCH 2014 CBSE RESULT 100% RESULT BROUGHT FORTH 04 10-POINTERS AND 9 9-POINTERS

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STARS OF THE MONTH MATH WHIZ FOR APRIL & MAY Yaanis Kumar Apoorva Sidak Gyani Seerat Kaur Chawla Koosh Gupta Shubham Singh Rehmat Chawla Kashish Kapoor Yash karan Gurleen Kaur

IB ll C III C IV A VA VI C VII A VIII A IX B XB

PUNJABI SPELL BEE WHIZ FOR APRIL & MAY Anshdeep Singh Harsukirat Kaur Vishruti Anmoldeep Kaur Navleen Kaur Harmanjot Singh Gurleen Kaur

IV B VC VI A VII B VIII A IX A XB

HINDI SPELL BEE WHIZ FOR APRIL-MAY Harshit Rai Rutvi Sharma Tanmay Tejas Shandaliya Shiranshi Prashar Arjun Sagar Nehal Khosla Dhruv Pandey Komalika Koundal Iksha Gupta

ID II D III C IV C VC VI B VII A VIII A IX B XB

HINDI CREATIVE WRITER FOR APRIL & MAY Daksh Maini ID Vandita Jain II B Samridh Bahri III C Varun Rastogi IV B Koosh Gupta VA Arjun Sagar VI B Aayushi Gupta VII B Kashish Kapoor VIII A Yash Karan IX B Riya Singh XB

PUNJABI CREATIVER WRITER FOR APRIL & MAY Aahana Singla Vishruti Devinder Kaur Prabhjot Kaur Mann Lovleen Kaur Arvind Kaur

VA VI A VII B VIII B IX A XA

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ENGLISH SPELL BEE WHIZ FOR APRIL & MAY

CREATIVE WRITER IN ENGLISH FOR APRIL & MAY

SHIVESH CHAOUDHARY

1D

GURSEHAJ SINGH MEHTA

1C

B BALA HARINI

II A

GURNAZ TOOR

II C

VANIK SINGH

III A

KUDRAT KAUR

III C

TEJAS SHANDILYA

IV C

KRITSIMAR KAUR

IV A

VRINDA CHOPRA

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KOOSH GUPTA

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TANISHQ MEHTA

VI B

MANPRIA KAUR

VI C

NEHAL KHOSLA

VII A

JASHAN SEHMI

VII B

DHRUV PANDEY

VIII A

KASHISH KAPOOR

VIII A

JASNOOR KAUR

IX B

SIMAR PRABH KAUR

IX A

KSHITIJA KAUR

XA

RIYA SINGH

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FRENCH SPELL BEE WIZ FOR APRIL & MAY

FRENCH CREATIVE WRITER FOR APRIL & MAY

Amanveer Singh Kang Manpriya Kaur Parvita Singla Isha Sinha Sashank Bhargava Kshitija

Sashank Bhargava Kshitija

VB VI A VII A VIII A IXB XA

IX B XA

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LITTLE MILLENNIUM EARTH DAY A special assembly was conducted to teach children the importance of saving the planet earth. Children made a model of the Earth.

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LABOUR DAY May 1 was marked by the Pre Primary students by thanking the ‘support staff ‘ who work round the clock to make life comfortable for the students.

They presented a song & dance performance and gave hand made cards to express their gratitude.

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FUN FACTORY A visit to the ‘fun factory’ is always rolicking.

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SPLASH POOL IN THE SUMMERS---WOW!!

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MOTHER’S DAY Mother’s Day was marked by beautiful performances by the nursery students to express their deep rooted love for their Moms.

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MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA The term ended on a musical note with some scintillating performances by the students of UKG in an amazing extravaganza, applauded by all Parents and teachers.

The students performed dances of the various countries of the world

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And they sang songs in French, Spanish, and Sanskrit

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That’s all for this term folks---most of what we all did has been covered in this Newsletter. So here’s the three of us signing off---see you all next term.

Have a funfilled vacation!

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