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Newsletter
CAS
“It is an inside vibration, it
is how not how much.”
August 2017
Raksha Bandhan
Celebrations
On Raksha Bandhan the festival of eternal love and bond,
the students of MIT's Vishwashanti Gurukul - IB School
participated in a ‘Rakhi Making Contest - Desh ki Rakhi’.
But unlike any ordinary competition, this event had a twist,
the rakhi’s and cards made by the students have been
“The essence of
dispatched to the Indian border for the Army and Air force
patriotism is the sacrifice
soldiers. This made the whole activity more meaningful as
of personal interest to the students poured their heart and soul in to rakhis of love
public welfare.” and protection they crafted. The diligence
and dedication shown by
- WILLIAM H. BURNHAM
the students resulted in
beautiful creations
that can’t be
described in words.
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Hyderabad, India
Harvard Model United Nation Conference
Hyderabad, India
Participating in the Harvard Model Apart from the committee sessions they
United Nations – One of the best and most were also exposed to interesting speakers
prestigious MUN in the world, was indeed from a diverse range of fields including
a rewarding experience for the students, a Education, industry, and environment.
platform that offered an exceptional Each of them are change makers and
opportunity to delve into the insights of leaders in their respective fields. These
global diplomacy. leadership conferences were based on the
idea of Generation ‘S’: the generation of
Apart from making our students more solvers. They emphasized on students’
cognizant of the various issues that have ability to create substantial reforms in
plagued the world in their various directing the world towards sustainability.
domains of human rights, global economy, It promoted the idea of them as the
and security; the conference also helped leaders of tomorrow, in lieu with the
them to develop valuable interpersonal dynamics of the MUN conference.
skills such as public speaking, lobbying HMUN presented our students with
and negotiation to help us emerge as competition of impeccable standards, and
effective leaders. they had a lot to take back with them. It
made them realise the complexities and
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird nuances of the conferences and further
without wings” - Salvador Dali motivated them to improve.
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Placard and prop making activity
In the experience students’ had a chance to
Creativity showcase their creative planning and execution
skills, along with time and self management. The
“It involves breaking out of outcome was wonderful and could be seen during
established patterns and the time of showcase.
order to look at things in a
different way.”
- Edward de Bono
Students of Grade 12 used
their creative ideas to
make placards and props
for use in the dance
performance by our
PYP and MYP students at
the Independence day
function held on 15th
August,2018 in MANET.
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a Career
in Sports
– by Mr Neel Shah
MIT Vishwashanti
Gurukul has always
emphasised on the
importance of sports in
student life. In order to
encourage their passion in
sports, we had organized a
special session for the
IBDP students on the scope
of Sports Management as a
career and the various
opportunities for athletes
in college life.
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of Sports Management, Mr Shah introduced the
evolving industry of Professional Sports to the
students and the necessary skills required for 1 The session was
working in this industry. He also shared the conducted on the 17 th
benefits of attending college as Student Athletes of August (Thursday)
by Mr Neel Shah, CEO
and the world of opportunities for these students of DSK Shivajians
to pursue their passion at the global level. He Football Club.
briefed them about the sports scholarships
available and the ways to earn them as
international students.
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session, it was good to
see that quite a
number of students
were motivated to
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
consider Universities
- Vince Lombardi
that met their athletic
and academic
preferences.
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Digital Citizenship
Computer Science and ITGS students of Followed by the importance of adhering to
Grade 11 conducted an interactive AUP (Acceptable Use Policy). Excellent
seminar for the MYP students on 9 th the use of technology (with the
August 2017 in the school auditorium appropriate use of the PowerPoint
from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm. The topic the presentations, graphs videos quizzes)
team addressed was Digital Citizenship-
augmented with application of critical and
Ethical usage of cell phones and social
media. The cross curriculum continuum creative thinking for the interactive
helped the presenters and audience to session, sensitized the audience.
reflect on need of appropriate usage of The DP Students (presenters) explored
technology.
CAS and their ATL Skills (Thinking,
Communication, Social, Self-Management
The students explained the term “Digital
Citizenship” and Global Society, the actual and Research). With excellent planning of
purpose of technology, and then quiz and interactive session, they
showcased videos on the ill effects of over- incorporated the exploration of the ATL
use of Technology and Gadgets. They did skills and learner profiles in the MYP
an excellent research from different students too. The Mime presented by the
primary and secondary source of data, and DP Students on the habits of cell phone
provided statistical data on how much and social media addiction, did provoke
time a student invests on apps like the entire audience to reflect on the ill
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and
effects of overuse of technology. The MYP
YouTube per day. They emphasized on
students were asked to provide their
how excessive use of smartphones can
cause severe health hazards and how it reflections on the topic addressed.
affects our social lives. The event was a success.
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” – Christian Lous Lange
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Activity The activities were one-minute- long and hence
the name of the activity ‘Minute to win it’ was
derived from the same. It was lovely to see the
“The activity you are most enthusiasm and creativity in applying the ideas
avoiding contains your
biggest opportunity.” amongst the students as they went from one to
another like in the activity of keeping the balloon
Robin Sharma in the air without touching it from point A to
point B. Trying to flip tea bags dangling from
each side of the cap to the centre of the cap.
These activities brought out the competitive
spirit, team building, strategy planning and the
On 24th August 2017, best honesty to the forefront. Overall the
during CAS period we had
students went out of their comfort zone to help
planned a session to
incorporate Activity in each other.
which the students have
been in three teams for
conducting an experience
called ‘Minute to win it’.
There were eight activities
in all. All the activities had
one member from each
team who competed each
other.
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World Humanitarian Day 19th of August every year is dedicated to “The World’s Humanitarian Day” by U.N; on that day 9th IGCSE, MYP and DP 1 students put together an amazing and moving play to honour and respect the day. The themes of War, Communalism, Ecological disaster and poverty was well crafted and enacted by the students. The play was inoffensive in manner and yet drew the audience’s attention to central point. The wonderful speech given at the end by students of the play was very meaningful. The students also displayed a video of how war affects daily life and is only destructive in nature. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” - Ronald Reagan In its entirety, the assembly motivated and enlightened the students to choose the right path. Guest Speaker Col. Rohit Tewari’s The guest of honour Col. Rohit Tewari’s didactic speech helped our students understand how the army works. What are the measure we must take to avoid war. Col. Tewari engaged all the students in a dialogue. He probed students of all age groups. He posed question to elicit the right answers. He spoke about the cause and effect of war and what the word Humanitarianism means. He, also encouraged us to truly educate ourselves and contribute to the entire Humanitarian cause.
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Trek to Ramdara
“The best view comes
after the hardest
climbs” – Author
unknown
On 26 August the students
of DP1 and DP2 reached
the Ramdara temple for a
trekking expedition at
about 8:00 a.m.
3 The students started climbing at a very brisk pace in
the beginning. As they moved up the steepness of the
hill increased. The students at the top of the hill could 1 The The 3 kilometre
feel the cloud right above them. It was indeed a scenic trek took about 3 hours
beauty to oversee the Pune city skyline from the top of to scale up and get back
the hill. down.
The students were motivated to help each other at
every difficult checkpoint and successfully completed
the trek till the last checkpoint. Senior students were
seen encouraging the juniors and showing the way up 2 It tested endurance &
to climb the top. team work skills of the
participants.
4 The students learnd to
develop patience,
confidence and will
power during this trek
activity. These
attributes can be used
in other extreme
situations of life.
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