Setu Senior School

Volume 12 July 2015

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SHISHYANS EXCEL IN BOARD EXAMINATION 2015

Carrying forward the baton of academic excellence, Shishyans have once again

proved that they’re a force to be reckoned with! We are happy to share with

you the highlights of the Class XII Board Examination results.

COMMERCE STREAM

SCHOOL TOPPERS

SCIENCE STREAM

Disha Atolia 96.2 %

Paridhi Dass 95.8 %

Mitali Gupta 95.0 %

Pooja Consul 96.0 %

Yash Agrawal 94.8 %

Shreyansh Sharma 94.6 %

AN IMMACULATE 100 !

Shreyansh Sharma Mathematics

Tanushi Bhagat Commercial Arts

Akash Arora Business Studies

Chhaya Joshi Commercial Arts

Akshita Pandey Business Studies

Varnika Gupta Business Studies

The Shishukunj International

School has been adjudged one

of ‘Asia’s Best and Fastest

Growing Education Institutes’

by World Consulting and Re-

search Corporation (WCRC),

Delhi.

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CLASS X RESULTS—PERFECT TEN !

Proving their calibre once again, 37 students have scored a perfect ten CGPA in the Class

X CBSE examination. Out of the 180 students who appeared for the Class X CBSE exami-

nation, 80 students scored a CGPA between 9.1 to 10.0 and 51, between 8.0 to 9.0.

AAYUSH NALVAYA

ADITYA JAIN

AKSHAT KHANDELWAL

ANANY SHARMA

ANKIT SINGHAL

ANVI SALVI

AVNEESH BHALE

CHIRAG GOSWAMI

DARSHITA PATIDAR

FATEMA PRESSWALA

HARSH BANSAL

HARSHI AGRAWAL

HASNAIN ZEENWALA

ISHAAN MANUDHANE

KANISHKA CHOUHAN

MANSI RANKA

MISHIKA JINDAL

MOKSHA JAIN

NAMAN BIYANI

NIRAV BHANDARI

PRAGYA BHAGAT

RISHA JAIN

SAGRIKA NAGAR

SAKSHI MITTAL

SAMRIDDHI AGRAWAL

SANJANA HARKAWAT

SAUMY TIWARI

SHASHWAT JAIN

SHIVANG AGRAWAL

SHIVANSH TIWARI

SHUBHI PALIWAL

SIDDHARTH LILANI

SONAKSHI GUPTA

SUDHANSHUJAIN

SWASTI JAIN

TEESHA JAIN

YASHVI AGRAWAL

KVPY SCHOLARSHIP

Three students qualified

for the Kishore Vaigyanik

Protsahan Yojana (KVPY)

- Scholarship.

Pooja

Consul

Shantanu

Dubey

Siddharth

Pandit

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Students’ Council 2015-16

LEADERS OF TOMORROW—INVESTITURE CEREMONY

STUDENTS COUNCIL 2015 – 16

Head Girl : Muskan Salgia

Head Boy : Raaj Singh Parmar

Vice Head Girl : Arunima Rathi

Vice Head Boy : Anuj Khetan

Cultural Secretary : Aastha Mittal

Cultural Secretary : Goutam Soneja

Sports Secretary : Mahika Mehta

Sports Secretary : Chaitanya Vijayvargiya

Student Editor : Anjali Jhawar

Student Editor : Prachi Palod

With a gleam of triumph, the newly appointed

office bearers took an oath to be true to the

posts and duties assigned to them during the

Investiture ceremony.

Office Bearers 2015-16

Dhyanchand House Kalam House Kurien House Narayanmurty House

Junior

Captains

Debanshi Bansal Sheel Kataria Sejal Jain Vasudha Gupta

Atharv Chhabra Nikunj Gupta Prarabdh Shivhare Bhavit Gupta

Junior

Vice-captains

Asmi Manudhane Yashika Dawar Kritika Gupta Sanika Ghodke

Jush Dassani Atharv Taparia Parth Saklecha Harsh Khurana

Junior

Sports Captains

Aaliya Chandurwala Gauri Parashar Maria Malik Madri Agrawal

Prakhar Khandelwal Aniruddha Solanki Shreyansh Singhi Shlok Sabharwal

Senior

Captains

Vaishnavi Harish Sanika Fegade Sanya Sood Vagmi Gaiwak

Siddharth Sabharwal Pratyush Agrawal Suyash Jain Siddharth Lilani

Senior

Vice-captains

Nikita Bhatia Juhee Goyal Ananya Khandelwal Rishika Suri

Mohammad Alavi Parv Julania Abhyuday Parihar Nikunj Jain

Prabhavi Pipalia Anushka Nadkar Tanisha Kataria Nandini Zalani Senior

Sports Captains Samar Pratap Singh Akshat Sachan Udit Jain Kartik Jain

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HOUSE MEET

The baton of responsibilities was hand-

ed over to the new house mistresses

and house master during the first

house meet.

The various

a c t i v i t i e s

p l a n n e d

during this

a c a d e m i c

s e s s i o n

were unveiled. Achievements of the

house during the last academic session

were highlighted and students were mo-

tivated to participate in the various

house activities and take their house to

greater heights.

The inter-house Maths Quiz was held for the students of Classes VI-VIII. The participants were assessed on their un-

derstanding of various mathematical concepts.

A set of 150 questions were uploaded on the school website and the students

were required to go through these ques-tions. The competition was not only for

the selected participants but for the au-dience as well! They were kept involved through a riveting audience round.

The first place was won by Narayan Murthy House, followed by Kurien

House and Kalam House.

The first inter-house competition for

Classes IX to XI, The General

Knowledge Quiz, consisted of innovative

and interesting rounds of Rapid Fire,

Guess Who, an activity and an auction

round. After several twists and turns,

Kalam House stood first, followed by

Kurien House and Narayan Murthy

House bagged the third position.

In the inter-house Poetry Competition for Classes VII – VIII, Shishyans dis-played their command over the lan-

guage through voice modulation, syn-

chronization and intonation. Kurien House bagged the first place, fol-lowed by Narayan Murthy House and Kalam House.

INTER-HOUSE GENERAL

KNOWLEDGE QUIZ

INTER-HOUSE MATH QUIZ

INTER-HOUSE ENGLISH POETRY

RECITATION

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MUN WORLD INDIA WORKSHOP

The school organized a two day work-

shop called Enlighten MUN for a group of 70 MUN delegates. The trainers Mr

Anansh Prasad and Mr Bhavik Muni trained the students on public speaking skills and the importance of spontaneity

in debating. On the second day of the workshop, in two committees, HSC and SPECPOL, the delegates debated on the

Kashmir issue and the Vietnam issue. Best Delegate Award: Kartik Devpu-

ra, Bhakti Badlani High Commendation: Garvit Zalani, Sanika Fegde, Sparsh Kasliwal, Fatema

Malik Special Commendation: Rash-

meet Muchchal, Abhimanyu Sethia, Parv Golwelkar, Vasudha Gupta, Jahnavi Shah

Verbal Commendation: Ishaan Nyati, Omisha Purohit, Juhee Goyal, Nandini Pillai, Nikunj Jain

National Talent Search Examination

This workshop is being conducted by our teachers for the benefit of the stu-

dents of Class X who wish to appear in NTSE 2015.

Western Dance Workshop

A western dance workshop comprising of 10 sessions was conducted by Mr. Tarun Barot for students of Classes VI –

X. It was enjoyed immensely by stu-dents who have a passion for dancing.

India’s leading career counsellors, Perveen Malhotra and Zubin Malhotra

conducted a seminar to enlighten the senior students about the various ca-reer options available in the present

times. They highlighted the fact, that in the present times, there are more ca-reers than anyone can think of …. the

catch lies in finding one’s passion in life. Once this is achieved, the related

career will find itself!

To give a platform to the students of

Class VI who have just joined the senior school, an inter-class Poetry Competi-

tion was held. All the poems were taken from the newly compiled book, ‘Enjoying Poetry’. It was a pleasure to

watch all the students recite the poems collectively on stage. Stress was on cor-rect pronunciation, correct posture and

of course, team work!

Class VI B stood first, with Class VI F and VI G in the second and third posi-

tions respectively.

HEARING IT FROM THE EXPERTS...

A TASTE OF THE FUTURE...

INTER-CLASS ENGLISH POETRY

RECITATION (CLASS VI)

WORKSHOPS

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CLUBS

To further augment the learning pro-

cess and help students develop their in-terests and skills, the Students’ Council

has taken the initiative to introduce five clubs in school:- The General Knowledge Club The Literary Club

The Model United Nations Club The Development Service Club The Photography Club

While coming to school by bus, stu-dents used to notice a lot of garbage in

a vacant plot in the vicinity of the school. Instead of just complaining and waiting for the ‘authorities‘ to do some-

thing, they decided it was time for AC-TION.

Led by the Students Council and armed with gloves and bags, students decided

to go there and pick up every piece of litter that they could find on the plot.

Volunteers from the Development Ser-

vice Club have since revisited the plot to

ensure that it remains clean!

Students of Classes IX - XII are working

with the Helen Keller Centre for the vis-ually challenged children. Groups of

students visit the centre every week and conduct English classes, teach them poems and songs.

The school organized an educational trip to the United States. A perfect blend of fun and learning, the students

visited the MIT and Harvard campuses. The robotics workshop at MIT and thea-

tre workshop at Broadway were mind-boggling.

Visiting Disney, Niagra Falls, NASA, New

York, Boston and Orlando

was indeed a dream come true.

To quote the students, ‘It was the most amazing trip of my life. Each moment

was packed with fun and learning.’

EXTENDING A HELPING HAND

EDUCATIONAL TRIP TO USA – MAY/

JUNE 2015

OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD….

OUR RESPONSIBILITY

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

19 students visited Bresscia, Italy, for a period of two weeks under the AFS Class exchange programme. They at-

tended classes at Liceo Internazionale Per L’impresa Guido Carli. The host families went all out to make them feel

at home in a foreign country. The high-light of the trip was a visit to Milan and

Venice. Learning to appreciate and ad-just in a new culture, being independ-ent and responsible are some of the les-

sons learnt during this short stint in It-aly.

Fatema Rani Presswala spent two

months in Stuttgart, Germany, under an AFS exchange programme. She was

among the 10 students selected from the country for this very unique pro-gramme. It involved a two months stay

with a host family along with attending regular school.

Aditi Patel, Anshum Airen, Gautam Jhamad, Mishika Jindal and Yash

Khandelwal went to Hungary for a spe-cial Homestay and Sight Seeing Pro-gramme. The programme included a 10-

day sightseeing tour of Hungary and al-so a stay with a Hungarian host family.

Sarthak Sethi is presently in Italy for an

Intensive Program focused on

Italian traditions in music, cuisine, art and culture, as

well as Italian lessons.

Janhavi Upadhyay, Mitali Khatwani, Nandini Zalani,

Rhea Singhi and Riya Navlani attended a Summer Camp in Malaga, Spain. The camp included Spanish language clas-

ses, intercultural competence, confi-dence building activities, personal growth,

sport, cultur-al awareness

and team building ac-

tivities.

INTENSIVE PROGRAMME, ITALY

SHORT TERM RECIPROCAL PRO-

GRAMME, GERMANY

CLASS EXCHANGE, ITALY HOMESTAY AND SIGHT SEEING PRO-

GRAMME , HUNGARY

SUMMER CAMP, SPAIN

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SPORTS

Two new Sports were introduced for the girls, Football and Cricket. This will surely give a boost to all the girls who

are interested in these sports.

Congratulations to Shrishti Gupta of Class VI for being declared the Cham-

pion in the Open Inter School Badmin-ton Tournament (Under – 13) organized

at Atal Khel Parisar.

Amit Verma of Class XII was selected for the National Badminton tournament

for MP Team for Under -19 Age group to be held at Pune.

An inter house swimming competition was held in the school to give the bud-

ding swimmers a platform to showcase their talent. Kalam house was declared the champion.

The Cricket fever knew no bounds when the school’s under-12, under-15 and under-17 boys team played friendly

matches with the visiting teams of The Daly College, The Choithram Interna-tional School and Eicher Motors.

Shishyans stood victorious in all these matches. The performance of Siddharth

Sabharwal, Harshwardhan Davey, Pur-vansh Uppadhyay, Rudraksh Jha, An-nirudha Singh Solanki, Anugrah Thack-

ar, Swastik Gupta and Nikhil Kukreja was commendable.

Our Under -14 Basketball Girls team

won an excit-ing friendly

match against The Choithram

International

School.

Prachiti Suri,

Sanya Navla-ni, Ritu Ka-taria, Chavi

Gupta played remarkably

well.

BASKETBALL FERVOUR

INTER-SCHOOL BADMINTON

TOURNAMENT

NEW DIVISIONS CRICKET MANIA

NATIONAL BADMINTON

TOURNAMENT

INTER-HOUES SWIMMING

COMPETITION