Star of the week 9

                                                       Vaishnavi.K (VIII A)

                                                     Roshith Bhanu (VIII B)

Prefects' Council Election

Orchids has been following a tradition of having elections for the various school appointments for the past two years. In this context, students of Classes X who nominated themselves for the posts of Head Boy, Head Girl and the House Captains gave speeches as part of the campaign.

On 29/6/2013 all the students of Classes VI – X participated in voting for the representatives with a lot of interest and enthusiasm. Stiff competition is anticipated in terms of votes especially for the Head Boy and Head Girl, the most prestigious posts for the senior most students.    

Star of the week 8

                                                        A.Sahithi - VIIIA

                                                         Sai Shanmukh - VIII B

Koffee with parents

22.6.12 was a day meant for ‘KOFFEE with Parents’ at Orchids. ‘Parents of Orchids, Hyderabad’ attended the interactive session which started with Principal, Ms. Mona Mehdi’s introductory, informative and promising address.  Orchids’s Mission and Vision, its Philosophy, Policies and Rules, activities and constant endeavours to progress were detailed. Orchids is committed to groom students who can become confident and able to deal with all situations. Ethical and moral values always have a predominant importance while pursuing technology-oriented education. Traditional and modern ideas go hand in hand in imparting education. Orchids is a certified Cambridge school and follows CBSE curriculum from classes VI-X.

 The report on the recent achievements of Orchidians, as in Olympiad contests, was very impressive.

The PowerPoint presentation by the Principal gave tips on parenting and advised parents to spend quality and quantity time with their children. They need to encourage their child to cultivate reading habit and motivate the child to offer a book with the child’s name, year and class written, to the school library on his/her birthday.

Parental cooperation in all the events and activities is quite essential and Orchids looks forward to it.  Parents need to encourage their children to grab opportunities and participate in all the programmes, activities and competitions which gradually improve their skills and performance.

Mr. S. Raj Kumar, Regional Manager and Mr. Kameshwara Rao, SAT Executive of South India, Kokuyo Camlin ltd. gave a demonstration of how painting can be made easy. Painting, just as any art, requires interest, patience and guidance and the experts motivated the viewers to learn the art.

A few students of class IX displayed their skills of Rubik’s cube to the delight of the audience.

The Session impressed the audience and closed with the nomination of Parent Representatives for all the classes who can be supportive and contribute ideas for the school’s progress. The session ended with another beginning!

Theme: Florence Nightingale - The Lady with the Lamp

The students of VIII B conducted an assembly based on the theme ‘Florence Nightingale’. A brief introduction of Florence Nightingale and her entry to the Nursing profession was presented on the first day. A skit regarding ‘The Crimean War’ and how Florence Nightingale nursed the wounded soldiers was presented on the stage on the second day. On the third day students demonstrated the Candle Light Ceremony of Nurses and informed about her contributions in Mathematics and Statistics. On the subsequent day a PowerPoint presentation on the Life of Florence Nightingale and a video presentation were given. And on the fifth day, a Quiz was conducted by students about Florence Nightingale.

World Music Day

Music expresses a way that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.                                                                                                                -Victor Hugo   

World Music day, also known as ‘La Fete de la Musique’, was a festival that began in 1982. The idea was conceived by the French Minister of culture, Jack Lang, in 1982. Since then 21st June has been celebrated every year as the Music Day.

The students of Orchids-The International school had a great opportunity to showcase their musical talent on the stage during the Assembly on 21-06-2013.

Niranjan  of class X performed on an electronic guitar and Subhasree of class IX on a classical Guitar and the keyboard was played by their Music Instructor Mr. Samuel

The group rendered a National song ‘Vandemataram’ both in Western and Classical style.

The song on delights of music sung by the school choir was accompanied by Guitars (Electrical and Classical) and Keyboard. The song is in Praise of God by Nature in its own sense of music and we join it in our own sense of music.

It was really a delightful conclusion of the musical performance of the day. 

RAJA RITHVIK, THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS CHAMPION - 2013

RAJA RITHVIK, studying in the 5^th class made Orchids - The International School proud yet another time. He has become the New National Schools Champion -2013 and bagged Gold medal on 11/6/2013 by scoring 7.5 points out of 9 rounds at Chennai. In the 9^th and Final round Rithvik defeated Mehta Naitik of Gujarat in a well fought encounter. Rithvik received the gold medal and Merit Certificate from Indian Grand Master Adhibhan of Chennai. Orchids congratulates him and wishes him all the best in his future endeavours.

Star of the week 7

                                                          Ashwini Akula - VIII A

                                                         

Rayyan Asif Khan

Tomorrow (15/6/2013) is a holiday as a precautionary measure (Nur-X).

Practising for Perfection

Related to ‘Focus of the month’ a guest lecture was organized on ‘Practising for Perfection’ by Dr.Sriram Kumar Chavali, Managing Director, First Object Technologies Ltd. for classes VI-X. Ardent passion precedes setting goals. A proper planning, sincere implementation and review of the work achieved are quite essential for an aspirant to hit the target. Clarity of goal and consistent practice to reach it yield perfect results. The lecture with PowerPoint presentation was impressive and interactive as students could relate themselves to the examples cited.

LEARNING LOG FOR JUNE AND JULY (2013)

Month’s Focus:  Practising for Perfection.

SUBJECT	SYLLABUS	FIELD TRIP/PROJECT WORK/ SPECIAL ACTIVITY
English	MCB-Unit 2 Art and culture Sections 3 and 4 Work book- Units 1 and 2 Literature - The Party                       More about people                       My father and I	Formal letter
Mathematics	Square and Square roots (cont.) Exponents and Powers Cube and Cube roots Algebraic Expressions and Identities	Application of Standard form of numbers in daily life. Geometrical Verification of the algebraic identity (a + b)2.
Social Science	G:Natural vegetation and Wildlife; Mineral & power resources	Marking & labeling of coniferous forests Making of chart of minerals
	H:Life in the rural areas; Tribal communities;	Collect some pictures of some houses of rural areas.
	C:The constitution and the need for laws(cont); Ideals of our constitution
Science	B: Crop production; Micro organisms	To demonstrate how milk will be converted to curd
	P: Force and Pressure     Sound	Propagation of sound theorem through Solids, Liquids and Gaseous medium.
	C: Metals and Non metals	Chemical properties of Metals
II Language	H:  Bus ki yatra ;Dewano ki hasti ;chintiyo aanuti duniya ;Bhagwan ke dakiye	Bus ki yatra per apna nubhav likeyange
	T:  Mathi Hinudu      Andhula Lipi nirmatha- Louis Braille      Chaldularagimcuta ; Hasyam	Write about the greatness of Louis Braille and collect some pictures.
	F: La révision d’avril     Jeanne d’art ; La vie d’un mannequin, est-elle facile ?    On voyage	Décrivez vos vacances. Parlez de votre journée. Speaking skills: Speak about your day to day activities.
III Language	H:  Vani ki visheshata ;Swachata; Veer thumnade chalo; Guru nanak	Swachata pere chitra shahit kuch vakya likhaye jhayenge
	T:  Ratnamu ;Eeswara Chandrudu      Vemana neetulu(2 poems)      Durasha ; Eddu	Ratnamu – Uses Durasha story
	F: à la cantine; Le pluriel des noms     Le déménagement     -Verbes au premier groupe     -Comment situer les personnes et les objets.	Worksheet -Le pluriel des noms                      -Les verbes au premier groupe
	S:  Nyayalay      Sanganakam      Yasholipsu karna      Swathanthratha sangram (ka)	Worksheet on “Computer”
Creative writing skills/English Language Enhancement skills		Class debate Paragraph writing
Computer Science	L2: Log on to Access; L3:Working with tables;	Creating database using design view & templates, using primary key to a table
Music	1. I got peace like a river; 2. The Sun comes with a great big    smile; 3. Ekta Swathantrata 4. God’s love
Games	Basket ball and Throw ball
Competitions	Mother & Child competition : 27/7/13

Events and Celebrations:-

1.  13/06/13 -Guest Lecture (VI-X)

2.  15/06/13 -House meeting (VI-X)

3. 21/06/13 –World Music Day (Assembly Presentation)

3.  22/06/13- Koffee with parents (Nur-X)

4.  29/06/13- Prefects’ Council (Election)

5.  11/07/13- World Population Day (Assembly presentation)

6.  13/07/13- Investiture Ceremony

7.  15/07/13 to 19-07-13 – USSR week

8.  20/07/13- PTM + Book fair

9.  26/07/13 Kargil Victory Day(Assembly presentation) + Van Mahostav (Nur- X)

10. 27/07/13 Mother and child competition

Assessments

      Formative assessment - I     01/07/13 to 09/07/13   (VI-X)

Holidays

22/6/13 - Saturday

27/7/13 - Saturday

Welcome back to school