English Week at GD Goenka World School

The English week was observed from 12th to 14th of September, 2012with active participation by the IGCSE and IB students. The Inter-house competition on Wednesday displayed Scintillating Soliloquies and Magnetic Monologues by students who delivered their presentation with passion and enthusiasm. It was Cycas house which ruled over the rest followed by Nyssa house.

The vibrant Inter-house competition was followed by an equally forceful IGCSE Assembly. The audience was regaled by the “Turncoat “, a very exciting battle of wits in which the participants exhibited their debating skills. This was followed by “Reading Rocket” which was a novel contest which required skills of good pronunciation, punctuations and expression. The Assembly ended with a short enactment of a Scene from Merchant of Venice. It was an enthralling beginning of the English week.

The final program of the English Week, was ‘International Book Awards’. The main focus was on three awards: the Booker Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Pulitzer Award. The students of grade 12—namely, ApoorvaJalan, Calvin Paperwala, Utkarsh Jain and Dhruv Tikekar—under the supervision of Mrs. JyotiAhuja, put together a spectacular presentation of the awards, with Apoorva as the compere for the show and Utkarsh, Calvin and Dhruv enacting scenes from books that had won at least one of these awards. While Utkarsh chose to give the author’s perspective of issues that had been addressed in the book ‘The White Tiger’,by Aravind Adiga, Calvin and Dhruv chose to enact scenes from the novels, ‘The Sisters Brothers’, by Patrick Dewitt and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, by Harper Lee, respectively.

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6th Inter House Swimming Competition - 2012

This year’s swim meet was an absolutely exhilarating event, with new students showing that our school has a knack for breeding talent as they challenged the previously dominating swimmers. The PYP, MSP and senior school events were all special in their own right as the primary children hoped to get their first exposure to a swimming competition, the Middle School kids expected to gain experience to challenge the seniors in the coming years and the senior students aiming to break last year’s records.

The final, tabulated results of the competition are below:
First - CEDRUS (210)
Second - CYCAS (205)
Third -  SORBUS (166)
Fourth – NYSSA (159)

Aryavrat Gupta, Aanika Sharma, Aman Jangira, Haruka, Saumya Chadha and Tanvi emerged as the best swimmers for the PYP, MSP and IGCSE & IBDP sections respectively. All in all, the Inter-house Swimming Meet of 2012 was extremely successful due to spectacular swimming ability of the Goenkans.

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G.D Goenka School Provides Ideal Growth for a Child

The ideal growth of a child requires that the child is brought up under strict and loving measures at the same time. They should be brought up in a healthy and friendly environment. You as a parent will want that your child remains safe and excel in everything he does. We at G.D.Goenka World school provide the best facilities and properly handle children so that they can positively influence. It is imperative to state that it is through the great care of us that the children receive their learning abilities. One of the best practices to assess in our institute where you will leave your child is that we have the best childcare structure that will be suitable to your child.  It is through the set up structures that we are able to relate well with your child. These will enhance their learning abilities giving the opportunity to grow up into balanced and healthy children.

We indulge in suitable child practices that are stated by any development pediatrician. The child grows, learn aspects about life and generally develop. The proper routine activities undertaken by the children in our school ensure that they fully engage with activities as this boosts their social confidence rates. Through this, they have the confidence to seek clarification, relate with other people and learn different things about life. We provide vital group dynamic that your child will be placed in has to be assessed and found suitable with their personality. We make sure that the learning abilities of the children grow and they develop themselves for the real world.

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G.D. Goenka World School Starts Interact Club

On the 6th of September 2012, the members of G.D. Goenka World School’s Interact Club, which has been recently started attended their first District Interact Leadership Assembly (DILA) at Apeejay School Sheikh Sarai, New Delhi. The crowd at the Apeejay School’s auditorium came alive when the Chief Guest, Mrs. Kiran Bedi came up to the dais to speak. She captivated the audience with extremely inspirational words. According to Mrs. Bedi, “Motivation, Persistence and Perseverance” are the distinct traits of determined, dedicated individuals who can make things happen. She interacted with an audience of about 1300 students present at the assembly and exchanged ideas on youth awareness and personality development.

The function started by pinning of badges by various Rotarians. This was followed by a series of performances by the students of Apeejay School who first of all elaborated upon the past, present and future activities of the Interact Club through short reports and then performed a cultural item.
At the assembly, the District Governor, Mr Ramesh Aggarwal spoke about his experience. In the brief training sessions that followed for the young interactors from various schools, senior Rotarians guided the interactors on how to organize various projects, hold meetings and utilize the handbook of the Rotary International about the various activities and projects.

The assembly was a wonderful experience as it enabled all of us to meet and to know Interactors from other schools and share views and ideas on various topics.

It was indeed an honor to be a part of such a wonderful function among various dignitaries and well-wishers.

The following students attended the assembly - Zuber Singh, Paurush Bali, Aditya Khanna, Sana Khanijo, Sakshi Bhargava, Ksheerja Batra, Yash Gupta and Zaigham Hameed Butt. They were accompanied by Miss Sona Bindra -the teacher-in-charge.

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IB-DPC Networking Meeting at GDGWS

The IB-DPC Networking meeting held on August 24,2014 at GDGWS. 12 Diploma Programme Coordinators from IB Schools from North India, The Doon School, Dehradoon, GDGWS, Sohna, Sela Qui International School, Dehradoon, Lancer’s International School, Gurgaon, attended this meeting. Agenda included IB-CC Global Engage and various other issues were discussed.

It was decided after discussion that the IB schools from Northen India will have a joint project on Global diseases and Literacy. At the culmination of the meeting, all co-ordinators escorted by DPC from GDGWS, Ms Sapna Yadav met the Head Of School, Mrs Neeta Bali, for a brief feedback.

To follow this up, there will be another meeting will be at The Pathways School , Gurgaon in October 2012.

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IT Week at GD Goenka World School

“The pace of change brought about by new technologies has had a significant effect on the way people live, work, and play worldwide.” With this idea in mind the IT Week was scheduled from 27th Aug’12 to 31st Aug’12. The main focus of the assembly was to introduce students to the working of Information Technology in their everyday lives.

The week began with the middle school assembly on the first two days. On 27th August, 2012 students of Grade- VIII presented a PowerPoint presentation on the topic “Computer Ethics”and on 28thAugust, 2012 students of Grade-VI delivered a presentation on the topic “Internetis a Boon or a Bane”.The third day brought a lot of excitement when a workshop on Cyber Crime was taken by the HOD (IT) Ms Monica Bahl for students of middle school and IGCSE during the house meeting periods.

The students of IGCSE students made everyone aware of the way technology is being used in G.D. Goenka World School by first studying the workings of the nerve centre and its controls for a week and then presenting it in the form of an informative assembly on 30th August 2012.These days social networking has become a part of life for teenagers who sometimes don’t think what they post by sending messages to each other via various social networking sites. Based on this issue a video was shown to students called “THINK BEFORE THEY POST” during the IB assembly. This came as an eye opener to all and was appreciated too.

All the presentations and the workshop gave a food for thought for students and faculty to think, analyze and discuss the advantages of the use of technology in our everyday lives .The students were also able to understand and appreciate the fact that the use of technology brings benefits and equal responsibility for us to handle and use it for the right purposes and create value in society..
 

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