The Central Board of Secondary Education organized a “Capacity Building Programme” on English Class X, Mrs Sita A.kumar, Educator with experience of 30years as a lecturer in BITS, Pilani and various schools in India and International
school in Dubai. Mphil, B. Ed, and Ms Cherry Goyal, PGT Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls School were the resource persons.
The workshop aspired to cast light on tips for the lesson plan. Teachers from the various school participated in this workshop. It was a training workshop for deepening teachers’ knowledge of the intriguing subject. Learning-based activities were conducted to make teaching-learning more effective and interesting. Various handouts/PPT presentations were given by the resource persons.
Teachers appreciated the use of innovative ideas and proactively took part in brainstorming activities and discussions. They gave presentations on lesson plan based on the first flight/grammar curriculum and writing skills. The enthusiastic involvement was commendable. Participants’ queries in some of the challenging areas were elucidated.
The workshop was quite informative and productive as it gave an integrated overview for setting up of question papers. The participants gained a lot of assistance in developing a strategy for effective teaching.
Lastly, Joint director Dr Pooja Singh and Mrs Anu Bhatia expressed her warm appreciation to resource person and to the teachers as it was a fruitful session for all the faculty who attended the event.
On Monday, July 15, St. Edmunds School, Jawahar Nagar Jaipur hosted a discussion on the topic of sensitivity towards the more vulnerable sections of society. Students from RAJKIYA UCH MADHYAMIC SANSKRIT VIDYALAYA(our adopted government school) were asked questions about their lives, their aspirations and other questions related to their studies. The whole school also sang melodies and learned to play instruments. The Edmundites organized activities for their students from the government school, like pebble painting, short quiz and others. Many students participated and the confident answers and positive thinking of the students from both schools made the event a great success.
St. Edmund’s school Jawahar Nagar Jaipur celebrated 45th foundation day. On this auspicious occasion Director, Dr Sudhir Singh and Principal Mrs Anu Bhatia paid tribute to Late Ranbir Singh ji (the founder of St. Edmund’s) by garlanding his portrait. Edmundities organized a special assembly in which they got a chance to reflect not only the beginnings of the school but also on the significant development since the school inception.
It has been a milestone in the journey of the school which has grown from humble beginnings to its eminent stature today.
The celebrations ended with an inspiring and motivational speech by the school director Dr Sudhir Singh.
International Yoga Day was celebrated by the students and teachers at St Edmund’s School, Jawahar Nagar with great enthusiasm.
The idea behind this was to reduce the stress level that the children are going through anxiety, depression & restlessness, due to the technology-driven world. Practising yoga helps to improve attentiveness and concentration to perform tasks with creativity for achieving success. Teachers demonstrated various asanas followed by Omkar chanting. Warm up exercises were taken, the importance of these was explained simultaneously. The celebration concluded with the synchronized recitation of shlokas. School joint director Dr Pooja Singh encouraged students to practice regular yoga to remain fit and improve concentration.
St.Edmunds has created its own niche to work at international level. French HOD Dr.Dolly Setia visited Wellington school, Scotland (one of the international partner school). She experienced their working on digital education and discussed audio-visual books, Chromebooks and the use of Google classrooms. Dr Setia also shared different ways which St.Edmunds is continuously following to make the environment paperless and eco-friendly.Mrs.Susan Coontz the international coordinator also shared impressive ideas to enhance learning french language. This sharing of information will help the students and staff of both countries to enhance their knowledge in various fields.