Spendid dance performance by Pt. Deepak Maharaj

On 16th January 2019, Deepak Maharaj, the son of esteemed Birju Maharaj, in alliance with Spic Macay performed in St. Edmund’s School, Jawahar Nagar. Deepak Maharaj, after receiving his training at a very young age from his father went on to perform around the world in countries like U.K., U.S.A, Canada, Italy, Dubai, Germany, France, Australia, Russia etc, where his performance received critical acclaim.
Deepak Maharaj, the winner of various national and international awards was invited to perform in St Edmund’s to widen the horizons of young minds and cultivate an interest in the direction of various national art forms which the world is yet to see.

The presentation started with Ganesh Vandana followed by a series of performance like the beating of one’s heart, the chirping of birds, the noises of children at play and ‘Kanha Dekho’ a thumri in teen taal truly exposed growing students to different forms of exclusive art. With a deft hand and foot movements, he captured the essence of Lord Krishna .It developed a sense of pride for the country’s innate art forms developed wholly in the country. The students experienced an international level performance full of intricate music and artistic style and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a splendid show that kept the audience spellbound throughout the performance. The programme was well anchored by the head of Hindi department Ms Sharda Sharma.

School principal, Mrs Anu Bhatia presented memento to Pandit Deepak Maharaj Kathak maestro and his accompanist Pranshu Chaturlal (Tabla) and Janaab Ghulam Varis(Vocal & Harmonium) and Janaab Muhammad Ayyub(Sarangi).

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Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojna(KVPY)

St. Edmund’s School, Jawahar Nagar is proud to announce that its students performed outstandingly on the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojna examination, a National scholarship entrance exam conducted by II Sc, Bangalore initiative to encourage students to take up careers in the Sciences. Five students from St. Edmund’s School - Arushi Kunthal, Aditya Vishal of XII Class and Akash Dhaker, Ashutosh Sharma and Kartikeya Jain from XI class qualified in the SA & SX aptitude tests. The program will encourage these talented students to pursue careers in research.
School Joint Director Dr Pooja Singh Congratulated the students for their sheer hard work and dedication.

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Community service shows children's generous nature

St Edmund’s School, Jawahar Nagar organized a community service programme with a series of cultural and information-disseminating activities for the students of their adopted school RAJKIYA UCH MADHYAMIC SANSKRIT VIDYALAYA, Triveni Nagar, including several kinds of skits, musical performances and public service announcements.

The children performed very well and enjoyed each and every scene. Students were taught about health and hygiene, and sanitary napkins were distributed to the girls of RAJKIYA UCH MADHYAMIC SANSKRIT VIDYALAYA. St. Edmund’s School students taught their adoptive school peers about musical instruments and gave a spectacular performance on the issue “No use of plastic” and “Road safety”. Lessons on manners and etiquette were delivered by Edmundites. In order to make the students more tech-savvy, computer training was also provided.

As St.Edmund’s School is a member of interact club (RCJ), prominent Rotarians Moses Phillamin, Manoj Singh(Secretary) and Mr Sudhir Gupta were also present.
They appreciated the generous attitude of the children and were happy to see Edmundites making all efforts to connect with their peers at the government school.

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"Our voice, their vision, An initiative towards inclusion"

To cater the learning needs of visually impaired children students of St. Edmund’s School, Jawahar Nagar, made an audiobook of Political Science for Classes IX and X (NCERT based textbook)for visually impaired children which were presented at the festival organized at City Palace on World Disability Day.
Joint director and mentor Dr Pooja Singh, and School Principal Anu Bhatia along with Mrs Pallavi Bhagchandani and Mrs Poonam Singh who guided the students have attended the function with the students of class 9th and 10th (Tanish katta, Shubham Krishnawat, Nidhi Meena, Kanishka Aswal, Dixita Jaiswal and Pari Jain).
During the launch of Audio Books, MLA Diya Kumari praised the participating schools and said that these types of efforts will help the visually impaired children to study.

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Capacity Building on Economics

On November 26th and 27th, the Central Board of Secondary Education organized a “Capacity Building Programme” for senior teachers of Economics at St Edmund’s School, Jawahar Nagar. Teachers from various schools participated in the master training workshop, which gave them the opportunity to further their knowledge of their subject of study.
In describing the objectives behind organising this workshop, resource person Mrs Malti Modi (Vice Principle Bhawani Singh) and Mr Shankar Rao Kulkarni (HOD Economics Jayshree Periwal) placed emphasis on teaching methodology to make the teaching-learning process more interesting. In particular, use of the Bloom taxonomy, a framework for categorising educational goals and how they should be implemented in classroom teaching, was emphasized. The workshop aspired to cast light on critical and augmentative topics like multiple intelligences (verbal, logical, visual etc.)
As part of the workshop, teachers participated in role play activities that allowed them to reflect on teaching techniques. The faculty were further asked to study case studies in order to understand the practical application of these concepts, facilitating a deeper understanding of students.
The workshop proved to be beneficial in widening the scope of knowledge of the versatile subject of Economics.
Lastly, Mrs Anu Bhatia Principal of the school expressed her warm appreciation to the resource person and all the 43 participants from local and outstation schools as it was a fruitful session for all the teachers who have attended the event.

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