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Community Service at Future Hope School

External Events 15-Mar-2024

Venue:Future Hope School
Participants:Taisei Naito (XI A)
Highlight:Our exchange student Taisei Naito participated in community service by teaching Japanese dance, a few Japanese words and Origami art to the students of "Future Hope".

International Cyberfair Competition 2024

External Events 15-Mar-2024

Organized By: GlobalSchoolnet.org
Participants: Students of pre-primary till Class XI and Teachers of LSA
Highlight: Every year our academy participates in this international competition. This year we submitted our project on the topic LSA’s tribute to 100 years of Sukumar Ray’s Abol Tabol under the category Local Music and Art Forms. Result awaited.

Website Link: https://lsakolcyberfair.wixsite.com/aboltabol

Year End Strategies to Support Students with Challenges

Workshops 14-Mar-2024

Organized By: Ebility School Success Team
Resource Person: Ms. Smita Tripathi
Participants: Ms. Manmeet Kaur, Ms. S. Anandhi, Ms. Anurag Sultania, Ms. Asfia Rafique, Ms. Suranjana Chakrabarti, Ms. Udita Chakraborty, Ms. Runa Ghosh, Ms. Sharmila Bera, Ms. Poulomi Saha, Ms. Ruchira Bhar Das, Ms. Rupa Mazumdar, Ms. Sarbani Saha, Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: The session reflected on the mixed feelings of the students at the end of the year and how to tackle them. Different ways to help students revise the previous concepts were discussed. The session highlighted the benefits of reflection by the teacher, strategies for teachers to collaborate with parents and six steps recommendation on conducting the PTM. It was an informative and interactive session. The resource person had a detailed discussion on the problems of the student and gave some positive solutions to overcome those in upcoming academic session.

CBSE x Adobe Collaboration on Digital Creativity Skills

Workshops 14-Mar-2024

From Date: 07/02/2024 To 14/03/2024
Organized By: CBSE and Adobe
Resource Person: Representative of Adobe India
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight We have learned different express tools offered by Adobe and organized by CBSE. We have learned to create generative AI poster, Web page, Comic strip etc. It was an excellent experience to learn the new software.

Scouts and Guides trip

Educational Trips 09-Mar-2024

Venue: Mirik, NJP
Organized By: Scouts and Guides Teacher incharges
Participants:89 Scouts and Guides Students of Classes VI & VII along with Teachers
Highlight: It was a fun-filled trip with thrill and excitement. The students enjoyed their outdoor activities and night games. They learned to interact with each other, gathered knowledge on rules and regulations of Scouts and Guides, learning the skills of collaboration and co-operation.

Frontiers of Discovery : Shaping the Future of Science Education

Workshops 08-Mar-2024

Venue: Modern High School for Girls'
Organized By: Ashoka University
Resource Person: Dr. Somak Raychaudhury, Dr. Sourav Pal, Dr. Debayan Gupta, Dr Rama Akondy
Participants: Ms. Jaya Misra
Highlight: The session brought together eminent scientists who delved into the next era of scientific advancements and helped spark new avenues of thought among the educators.

Picnic to Nicco Park

External Events 05-Mar-2024

Venue:Nicco Park
Participants:Students of Classes VIII & XI
Highlight:The students enjoyed various rides at Nicco Park and played many games. The premises of Nicco Park echoed with laughter and joy as students scampered around the various rides enjoying, bonding and unwinding themselves with their peers post Final Exam. A great way to start off the next leg!

A session on Comics in Bengal

Educational Trips 04-Mar-2024


Venue: Kolkata Centre for Creativity
Organized By:KCC
Participants: Selected Students of Classes V – VIII
Highlight: Students saw the history of Bengali comics, history of the writers and other related information. They also witnessed the process of conservation and restoration of art followed by a quiz.

Canva for Education

Workshops 27-Feb-2024

Organized By: CBSE and Canva

Resource Person: Ms Smita Jain, Ms Annapoorni

Participants: Teachers of IT department

Highlight: Basic handling of Canva application was explained. Teacher edition of Canva was discussed with features like Certificate creation or bulk production of digital formats. How to use the application as a teaching tool in our classroom was also discussed. A few more sessions will be conducted later next month.

Event Training programme on Skill Education

Workshops 21-Feb-2024

Organized By : CBSE Skill Education
Resource Person : Rahul Sehgal Multimedia and Game Creator
Participants : Ms. Sudakshina Datta
Highlight : Discussion was done on two skill subjects Multimedia and Mass Media. Use of animation and gamification to enhance any subject was also told. Theoretical concept on animation was discussed.

Teaching Mathematics

Workshops 17-Feb-2024

Event: Teaching Mathematics
Participants: Ms. Bindiya Kaur Gill
Highlight: Goals of learning Mathematics and approaches of teaching Mathematics was explained through a PowerPoint presentation

Internship Program

External Events 16-Feb-2024

Organized By: Luneblaze, a Holistic Ecosystem Development Partner of Educational Institutions.

Participants: Selected students of classes VIII to XII

Highlight: Students got the opportunity to do internship on various domains like Content Writing, Graphic Designing & Video Making, Human Resource Management, Marketing Campaign Designing, Website Development, Data Analytics etc. under companies like GeniusHub, Inspirin, and Luneblaze. All have received Internship Completion Certificate.  

Saraswati Puja

Activities in LSA 14-Feb-2024

Participants: Students, teachers and staff members

Highlight: Saraswati puja was celebrated in LSA with great fanfare. Students from classes I to class XII attended the puja ceremony. There was a special puja for the students of classes X and XII. After the puja, Prasad and Bhog was distributed among the students and staff.

Annual Picnic for Teachers and Staff

Activities in LSA 09-Feb-2024

Venue: Shiv Shakti Gardens
Participants: All teachers and staff
Highlight": Staff picnic was arranged for the LSA and LSAI family members after 3 years. All the members enthusiastically participated in various activities like quiz, mishti melody, balance game, memory game related to Rosogolla for the members.
Group song with the guitar, cricket and housie were other events which were enjoyed by the staff members. It was a refreshing event.

Workshop on Child Protection Policy

Workshops 03-Feb-2024

Venue: Frank Anthony Public School      

Organized By: The Teachers' Centre Kolkata

Resource Person: Rainbow Homes

Participants: Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta and Ms. Sumona Dasgupta

Highlight: Significance and need for Child Protection Policy for school and guidelines were shared through activities for framing a policy. Best practices of schools in Kolkata were also discussed

Building Positive Relationship

Workshops 03-Feb-2024

Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: Student teacher relationships have long lasting implications for students' academic and social development and contribute to higher achievement levels.
When teachers choose to be guides instead of critics, students show trust, are more engaged in learning, & behave better in class.

Integration of Art and Culture in Curriculum

Workshops 03-Feb-2024

Participants: Teachers of Primary Department
Resource Person: Ms. Aloka Sen Sharma
Highlight: Art and Culture, influences the manner we learn, live and behave. It is an important shaper of our personality.

Innovative Pedagogies in the Age of ChatGPT

Workshops 30-Jan-2024

Organized By Knowledge Exchange: Ed Talk Series V
Resource Person Prof. (Dr.) MM Pant
Participants Manmeet Kaur, Asfia Rafique, Runa Ghosh, Suranjana Chakraborty, Sharmila Bera, Sanju Jaiswal,
Sohini M Jain, Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Rupa Mazumdar, Sanzeeda Mirza, Sharmita Bhattacharya,
Manidipa Lahiri, Soumyo Ghosh, Pushpa Dayani
Highlight The session was highly engaging and informative.With changing times and continuous technological
improvement, various tools have become available for everyone's use. One such feature is ChatGPT.
One should try to adopt relevant technology and use it to promote critical thinking. Examples of
educationists like Mike Sharples and Anthony Seldon were given.

Republic Day

Activities in LSA 26-Jan-2024

Highlight:The tricolor flag was hoisted with full honor and decorum. The event was celebrated with grace.

Formal Farewell

Activities in LSA 20-Jan-2024

Participants Students along with parents of class XII
Highlight A very solemn occasion for LSA which unfolds the meticulous blend of tradition and emotion. Each
graduating student approached the Director, Ms. Meena Kak, and the Principal, Ms. Jaya Misra, with
a diya, to receive the light of knowledge and to light up their own lives. The yearbook, 'Au Revoir,'
was inaugurated during the occasion. The event took a personal turn as parents, students, and class
teachers shared their feelings, about the profound impact the school has had on the growth from
the toddler to a matured adolescent. Teachers and students could not control their emotions and
were in tears when they tried to recollect and share their memorable experiences of the days spent
with each other. The event represented the unique bond between every member of the LSA family.

Vartah 2.0 Winter Programme National Summit on Mental Health

Workshops 20-Jan-2024

                        

Venue: G D Goenka University Delhi

Organized By: G D Goenka University and Fortis Delhi

Participants: Ms. Anita Chandra

Highlight: It was a life time experience to listen to so many eminent personalities and to interact with them. There were participants from all parts of India. The sessions on both the days were highly informative.

Tana Bana

Activities in LSA 17-Jan-2024

From Date:16/01/2024 to 17/01/2024
Resource Person:Textile Exhibitors
Participants:Students of Classes VI – IX
Highlight: It is a textile exhibition cum sale organized by the Academy to sensitize students to the various textile traditions of India. Parents were also invited to encourage and appreciate the skills of the local artisans. The exhibits were on sale to motivate them.

Student Exchange Programme 2023 – 2024 between LSA and Germany

Beyond Boundaries 15-Jan-2024

From Date: 04/01/2024 to 15/01/2024

Participants: 8 students from Lakshmipat Singhania Academy studying in Classes 9 – 11. 8 Students from Kaufmanische Schule, Aalen, Germany studying in Classes 11 – 13.LSA teachers – Ms Sohini Mitra Jain and Mr Darshan Singh Gill. KSA teachers – Mr Jochen Worner and Mr Benjamin Manz
Highlights: The exchange visit was organized for 2 weeks for the Indian team and 10 days for the German team. The students were hosted by the families in both countries. KSA students and teachers visited Taki,RBI museum, Alipore Museum, Rail Museum and Birla Planetarium accompanied by their host friends and teachers from LSA. The students spent quality time with the host families in the evenings and on Sundays. The KSA teachers were taken out by LSA teachers and enjoyed shopping, meeting families over dinner or lunch. The KSA students participated in the LSA Intra Mural Sports Day at Gitanjali stadium. The event achieved a truly international dimension when, in the closing march past, the 4 Houses of our school were joined by the German students, proudly carrying the National Flag of their country. Each activity highlighted the cultural bond and a strong feeling of camaraderie between the two schools.

Sahodaya Athletic Meet, CBSE along with Principal’s Meet

External Events 09-Jan-2024

Venue Asian International School
Organized By: CBSE Sahodaya School, Kolkata
Participants: Students of Classes VI – VIII
Highlight: Four boys and four girls participated in this athletic meet. They gave their best. It was a great learning experience for them which will help them in the future. Mr. T. Mate and Mr. Srinivasan addressed the Principals and clarified doubts regarding the policies
to be implemented in the next academic session.

Trip to Bangalore, Mysore and Ooty

Educational Trips 01-Jan-2024

Date :24/12/2023 To 01/01/2024

Participants: Students of Classes VII – VIII
Highlight: 74 students of classes VII and VIII accompanied by 4 teachers went on a 9 day school trip to Bangalore, Ooty and Mysore. Students enjoyed visiting different sights at Ooty namely Coonoor, Horticulture, and few places in Mysore like Mysore Palace, Botanical Garden, Zoo and Chamundi Sri Temple. They enjoyed their stay.

Donation for Christmas

Beyond Boundaries 22-Dec-2023

Venue: Jyotirmoy Club
Organized By: LSA Social Service Committee
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Students made great arrangements for 200 underprivileged students.

Christmas Celebration

Activities in LSA 22-Dec-2023

Organized By: Students and teachers of LSA
Participants: Students and teachers of LSA
Highlight: Christmas was celebrated with great enthusiasm. Classes PSII to class 8 witnessed the Christmas
programme which had nativity play and fashion show, dance by preprimary, skit on essence of
Christmas, Nukkad natak followed by Christmas carols sung by teachers. Santa Clause visited all the
classes from Montessori to class 2 and gave them gifts. Students enjoyed every bit of the
programme and participated in singing carols.

Choir Performance: River Festival

External Events 08-Dec-2023

Venue Champatala Ghat, Kolkata
Organized By Kultx
Resource Person Kultx Organization
Participants Students of Classes VIII – IX
Highlight 20 students participated in the Choir Performance for the River Festival organized by KULTX at
Champatala Ghat, Sovabazar. The students performed a street play which focused on the diverse
ways in which people consciously and unconsciously pollute the rivers. They portrayed the misery
caused in the lives of birds, animals and fishes as a result of human behaviour. Students performed
an original song, as an ode to the Ghats of river Ganga. A big thanks to the organizers for providing
such a unique platform where our young minds can explore their talents under a breathtaking
atmosphere.

Talk by Dr Gautam Chattopadhyay senior scientist NASA

Workshops 30-Nov-2023

Venue: Science City
Organized By: JC Bose museum
Participants: Students of Class X –XII
Highlight: It was an amazing session by Dr Chattopadhyay on different instruments used in space exploration.

Event Conserve my Planet: Session 5

Beyond Boundaries 28-Nov-2023

Organized By SHARP NGO
Resource Person Schneider Electric, India
Participants Students of Class VII
Highlight It was an awareness programme. A quiz on Conservation of Energy Resources was conducted to see the response of the students towards each category of conservation. Students were excited to give
the correct responses and could gather important information as green ambassadors.

 

Experimenter Curators Hub

Workshops 25-Nov-2023

Venue Experimenter Gallery, Hindustan Road
Organized By Experimenter Gallery
Participants Amritah Sen
Highlight It was a long intense seminar held for two days, where speakers came from all across the globe. They discussed their own views on art in the present context and its impact on our society and politics in contemporary situation and also in the future. The brightest highlight was to listen to the works of Jacinta Kerketta, a poet and journalist from the tribal community of Jharkhand.

LSAMUN23

Activities in LSA 25-Nov-2023

Resource Person:STUDENTS OF LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY
Participants:Students of Classes IX – XII and 8 Reputed Schools
Highlight LSA Model UN simulations help students to learn more about the principles of the UN and how it functions. International Peace Corps, UN Security Council and UN Office on Drugs and Crimes are some of the wings of this event. Total 8 reputed schools participated in it. St. James School secured the 1st position and Sri Sri Academy secured the 2nd position.

Commemorating Lala Lakshmipat Singhania Ji's Birthday

Activities in LSA 23-Nov-2023

Organized By:Dept. Of Nutrition & Dietetics and Social service Committee
Participants: Students of Classes IX – XII
Highlight : To commemorate Lala Lakshmipat Singhaniaji's birthday, the Social Service Committee members in collaboration with the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics organized a sumptuous meal for 30 students of the NGO Tomorrow's Foundation.

A Visit to Help Age India

Beyond Boundaries 23-Nov-2023

Venue: Kaylan Old Age Home
Participants: Students of Class V and Teachers
Highlight: Some students accompanied by their teachers, Aloka Sen Sharma and Kulbir Kaur, visited the old age home to have an interactive session with the inmates of the house. Students gave various performances like singing, poetry recitation and dance. All were mesmerized by their performances and blessed them. Students too were moved to meet the inmates and have a warm interactive session with each one of them.

Mindler workshop

Workshops 21-Nov-2023

Organized By: Mindler
Resource Person: 6 Career coaches
Participants : Students of Class
Highlight : The workshop discussed career options and helped the students with their career choices.

Children's Day celebration

Activities in LSA 20-Nov-2023

Participants: Teachers of LSA
Highlight:Children's Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm and pomp. Teachers put up a grand show for the students which consisted of medley of songs, dance , skit, game shows and fashion show. Students enjoyed watching their teachers perform for them.

River Festival: Clean Up Drive: Mullick Ghat, Kolkata

External Events 18-Nov-2023

Venue:Mullick Ghat, Kolkata
Organized By:Kultx
Resource Person:Kultx,River Rangers.
Participants:Students of Classes VIII – IX
Highlight: The students were extremely enthusiastic and self-motivated about cleaning the Ghats. They showed immense dedication towards the work. The students not only learned about the life of those residing beside the Ghats,through the heritage walk exploring the historical aspects, but also became an intrinsic part of the life through their cleaning efforts.

Chak De `India` - make us proud once again

Activities in LSA 17-Nov-2023

Participants:Students of Classes Pre School I – XII
Highlight: As India prepared to face their final opponent, we stood united in our support and unwavering belief in their ability to bring home the ultimate glory. Throughout the day, students performed different kinds of activities, to show their support for the team.

Movie Screening for Children's Day Celebration

Activities in LSA 16-Nov-2023

Resource Person: Ms.Subha Das Mollick and Sabarno Sinha
Participants: Students of Classes III – XI
Highlight: Students were shown animated movies as well as rare world documentaries like Please Vote for Me and Little Peace Within. After the movie screening, students also participated in activities related to the movies shown.

Session on Child Rights and Online Gaming

Workshops 15-Nov-2023

Venue:The Grand Oberoi
Organized By:CyberPeace and Unicef
Resource Person Mr. I A Narsimha Rao, Mr. Hari Kishore Kusumakar IGP
Participants: Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: The 6 hr. session focused on how to create a balanced and safe cyber space for our nextGen netizens, as they have made themselves an integral part of the cyber world by playing online games, specially after the Covid- 19. The resource persons talked about the legal and ethical aspects also.

Visit to Science City

Educational Trips 13-Nov-2023

Venue:Science City
Participants:Students of Classes VII & VIII
Highlight: Students enjoyed their trip to Science City where they got to visit the 3-D space theatre, panorama on human evolution and ‘science on a sphere ' sections. This experience will help the students develop a scientific attitude and temper and understand science from a different perspective.

 

Leading People and Teams: Inspiring and Motivating Individuals

Workshops 10-Nov-2023

Venue: Coursera
Organized By: University of Michigan
Resource Person: Prof. Maxim Sytch
Participants: Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight: The course dealt with sets of fundamental leadership skills. Prof. Sytch shared research validated insights along with the ways to apply them in the context of leading a team. Every learner was given the opportunity to apply the skills by working through a series of practical leadership assignments.Sudeshna scored 94.94%.

EDUCIS workshop

Workshops 08-Nov-2023

Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy and EDUCIS
Resource Person EDUCIS
Participants: Students of Classes VI – VIII
Highlight: Power of 3 Purpose, Personal Anecdote, Perspective in Public Speaking was discussed in this activity based Public Speaking Workshop organized by EDUCIS. The students analyzed public speaking videos of eminent personalities and learned the importance of body language and personal touch in effective communication. They engaged in various activities which allowed them to learn essential skills of convincing listeners and expressing individual opinions with clarity. The students also
engaged in a collaborative activity of evaluating each other's speeches, which allowed all to receive first-hand reviews of their content and confidence. The workshop provided a platform to the students to hone their communication and convincing skills.

Conserve my Planet Programme: Visit to Petrol Pump

Educational Trips 03-Nov-2023

Venue: Petrol Pump, Alipore and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By: Schneider electric and SHARP NGO
Resource Person:Sharp NGO
Participants: Students of Class VII
Highlight: Students participated enthusiastically in the outdoor activity based on the survey of carbon footprints, reduction of carbon emissions and the pros and cons of using individual transport. Students shared the ways and measures to reduce carbon emissions with all the people they came across in the petrol pump. They distributed e passes among the people and also pasted green stickers to spread awareness of energy consumption.

 

Webinar on gifted and talented students

Workshops 03-Nov-2023

Organized By Power club IPN Foundation
Resource Person IPN Foundation
Participants S. Anandhi, Sharmila Bera
Highlight Discussion was held by a panel of school leaders on how to identify the gifted and talented children in and beyond academics. A variety of models to develop various gifts and talents among them were also discussed.

Visit to Alipore Museum

Educational Trips 01-Nov-2023

Venue:Alipore Museum
Participants:Students of Class IV
Highlight: Children enjoyed their visit to the Alipore Museum with great enthusiasm. They gathered a lot of information about our national heroes by reading the display boards in front of all the cells. Children also enjoyed the patriotic songs played over the entire campus. It was a successful educational trip for our students.

Conserve my Planet Programme, SHARP NGO

Activities in LSA 30-Sep-2023

Organized By: SHARP NGO
Resource Person: Schneider, Electric India, Ma’am Simrah
Participants: Students of Class VII
Highlight: Students enjoyed the Green Assembly and session one of onserve my Planet programme because it was an enriching session. The methodologies to live a sustainable life was shared, students were given green t shirts, green caps and power pledge cards. All took the oath to save power and be a responsible citizen. It was an interactive session to understand and focus on saving electricity and to be a green ambassador.

Cubs and Bulbul Tour

Educational Trips 27-Sep-2023

Venue: Mandarmoni, Hotel Sonar Bangla
Participants: 100 children from classes IV & V
Highlight: The camp contributed to the education of children through a value system based on the Cub/Bulbul promise and law to built a better world where people are self fulfilled as individuals and play constructive role in society. It helped in building confidence and self esteem among the students.They learnt important life-skills, team building, outdoor adventure, education and fun. It helped them to explore, to discover the world beyond classroom, and also helps in all round development.

CPR Training Session, Healthy Heart talk by Cardiologist Dr. Anjan Siotia

Activities in LSA 25-Sep-2023

Organized By: B.M. Birla Heart Research Institute

Resource Person: B M Birla Hospital, Dr. Anjan Siotia

Participants: Teachers and students of Class IX

Highlight: Students had a training session conducted by specialists from B.M. Birla Heart Research Institute on handling patients suffering from cardiac attacks in emergency. They demonstrated how to give CPR techniques on a mannequin. Dr. Anjan Siotia, one of the leading cardiologists in the city, practicing in B.M. Birla Heart Research Institute interacted    with the students of class 9 and teachers regarding the causes and remedy of general heart diseases.

 

Ask Me Anything (AMA) – while teaching AI

Workshops 25-Sep-2023

Venue: YouTube Live
Organised by: Centat Team
Resource person: Mr. Pratik Rajurkar.
Participants: Sudakshina Datta, Niladri Motilal, Sanzeeda Mirza, Swati Mukherjee
Highlights: It was a 1 hour virtual session where we could ask any question related to Artificial Intelligence in the teaching profession. In the teaching learning process we come across certain contradictory questions which become difficult to answer. This session helped us to get answers to our queries. The importance of few topics and how to teach those topics were also discussed.

Chinmaya Indic Fest Revealing India to Curious Indians

External Events 24-Sep-2023

Venue: International Management Institute

Organized By: Chinmaya Mission Kolkata and Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth

Resource Person: Dr B.Mahadevan, Dr Sampath Kumar, Dr Sampadananda Mishra

Participants: Teachers of our academy

Highlight: The sessions conducted aimed to promote and cultivate the appreciation of Indian Knowledge Systems and provided a journey of enlightenment and exploration of India's rich heritage. The illustrious talks focussed on Arthashastra and Chanakya's relevance in present day management and inclusion in modern day education as well as on the magnificence of the Sanskrit language and its literature.

Capacity building programme on Business Studies

Workshops 23-Sep-2023

Venue: Hariyana Vidya Mandir

Organized By: CBSE Centre for excellence, Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person: Dr. Ramesh Agarwal and Mr. Ravinder Singh

Participants: Abhishek Sarkar, Bijay Raj Shaw, Poulomi De

Highlight: The following were discussed - i) How to make the class interesting, ii) Revised guidelines of projects, iii) Topics to be deleted for BOARDS.

STEM on the Wheel at IIT Kharagpur

External Events 22-Sep-2023

Venue: IIT Kharagpur

Participants: Students of Classes X – XII with their Mentor Mr. Dipankar Pal

Highlight :Rolling into the Future with 'STEM on Wheels' at IIT Kharagpur! What an amazing journey it was, exploring the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics on wheels. Thanks to IIT Kharagpur and our dedicated team for making this educational adventure possible. The IIT Kharagpur opened its gates for the school children on Saturday to kindle a spirit of scientific acumen and curiosity and explore the world of science, technology and other associated fields in this Institute of Excellence. The orientation programme was addressed by Prof. V K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur in the presence of Prof. Amit Patra, Deputy Director; Prof. Bhargab Maitra. “The initiative focuses on arousing the innovative approach, critical thinking, and problem-solving ability of students in accordance with the objective of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) along with other related fields needed in the current-day’s higher education.

STEM Future ready conclave

Workshops 22-Sep-2023

Venue: The HHI
Organized By: Tinkrwork Get Set Learn
Resource Person: Mr. Kartik Sharma
Participants: Dipankar Pal, Swati Mukherjee,Pabitra Kumar Baidya
Highlight: We have learned different ways to integrate with subject skills. Different real life examples were given to implement the chatbot and find out a solution. We have seen demonstration of their various curriculum module. This six hours workshop was a great experience.

Workshop on Think Outside the Box- A Creative Workshop using Canva

Workshops 22-Sep-2023

Venue: The Frank Anthony Public School
Organised by: Teachers Centre
Resource person: Ms. Aditi Jhunjhunwala
Participants: Soumitra Maji, Sweata Gomes,Bindya K. Gill
Highlights: The workshop focused on designing posters, logos and cards, all of which can be used to enhance teaching. It further emphasized on combining audio and video using canva to make lessons interactive. The possibilities of engaging students in the lesson using Canva was explored.

HCL TechBee

Workshops 19-Sep-2023

Organised by: HCL

Resource person: Mr. Manabindu Saha

Participants: Students of Class XII

Highlights: A new career avenue for the students was discussed. They can join HCL and at the same time pursue a course in IIM.

Mass Media Studies Class 12 Field Trip

Educational Trips 16-Sep-2023

Venue:Kolaghat

Participants: Students of Class XII

Highlight:  43 students accompanied by their subject teachers and other teaching staff went to Kolaghat Sonar Bangla to record 43 individual films to be sent to the Board.

        

Celebrating Teacher's Week

Workshops 14-Sep-2023

Venue:Rotary Sadan
Resource person:Institute Of Company Secretaries Of India
Organised by:Institute Of Company Secretaries Of India
Participants:Abhishek Sarkar ,Bijoy Raj Shaw ,Poulomi De
Highlight: Discussion on stress management, GST and scope of CS as a career. Teachers were updated about the enrollment process of CS and the various career options after successful completion of the course. Teachers were also guided on how to manage stress.

 

Empowering Inclusive Learning

Workshops 06-Sep-2023

Organized By:Rapl learnx
Resource Person:Dr. Daniel Fung and Dr. Chintan
Participants: Teachers of Middle School Department
Highlight:The webinar delved into pressing issue of teenage self- harm and the importance of inclusive learning, It was a good session to understand the teenage minds and their vulnerabilities. It dealt with the issue of teenage self harm and importance of inclusive learning. Explored effective strategies to prevent self-harm and nurture resilience among teenagers. Ways to handle students carefully, to deal them with emotion and care,to help them in difficult situations were discussed.

 

Edquest Project 2023-24

Activities in LSA 02-Sep-2023

Resource Person: LSA Samaritans Volunteers of class IX and X
Participants:Students from Tomorrow's Foundation
Highlight: The students from Tomorrow's Foundation attended the sessions on IT and Sports which were taken by LSA Samaritans Volunteers of classes IX and X.

Teachers Training Boot Camp | Kolkata Centre,

Workshops 26-Aug-2023

Venue: The BSS School
Organized By: IPN Academy
Resource Person:Soumya Katuppa
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sanzeeda Mirza, Swati Mukherjee
Highlight: The resource person talked about diversity and inclusion in education through various examples. He talked about the difference between innovation and invention. There was an interactive session on how to include diversity in education.

Capacity Building Programme Artificial Intelligence for Class 10

Workshops 25-Aug-2023

Organized By CBSE and Intel
Resource Person CBSE and Intel
Participants Sudakshina Datta
Highlight Extensive training given on AI for class 10. Both theoretical concepts as well as Python practical concepts were explained very efficiently. The resource person shared links to various resources which can be used while teaching.

ART Integration Workshop

Workshops 19-Aug-2023

Venue: The Park Hotel
Organized By: Oxford University Press
Participants: Amritah Sen
Highlight: The workshop on Art Integration was taken by Anahita Lee, teacher and writer of children's art book series 'Little Artist' which we have used in our school for quite a few years. Her knowledge on the subject was profound and workshop was fun, intruiging and very resourceful.

Workshop Principle of Pedagogy and Planning for Teaching

Workshops 19-Aug-2023

Resource Person: Subhi Vijay Vargiya
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The workshop emphasized on Panchaadi the five stepped approach (Adhiti Introduction, Bodh Conceptual Understanding, Abhyas Practice, Prayog Application, Prasar Expansion) to pedagogy as a good way for teachers to formulate the lesson plan.

Workshop on Foundational Literacy

Workshops 19-Aug-2023

Resource Person Ms. Afshan Nahid
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The workshop dealt with Fundamental Literacy which refers to the skills and strategies involved in reading, speaking, writing and interpreting thoughts. It helped the teachers understand the importance of Fundamental Literacy

Workshop on Common Errors in Maths

Workshops 19-Aug-2023

Resource Person Shubhasree Das Gupta
Participants Teachers
Highlight The topic was Common Errors in Mathematics Error in computing addition and subtraction of like and unlike fractions .Discussed the steps to be taken to eradicate the problem. Same steps have been taken while pointing out the problem in comparison of decimals and other topics like subtraction, division and unitary method.

Workshop on Integration of Technology in Curriculum

Workshops 19-Aug-2023

Resource Person: S.Anandhi
Participants: Teachers of Primary Department
Highlight: The workshop was conducted on Integration of Technology in curriculum. It dealt with various ways of including technology in the curriculum planning that leads to effective teaching learning environment. It also highlighted the importance of achieving the learning objectives while using technology.

Conversations 2023

Beyond Boundaries 18-Aug-2023

Venue: ITC Royal Bengal
Organized By: Admission Tree
Resource Person: Sri Gaur Gopal Das, Dr Kunal Sarkar & others
Participants: Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra
Highlight: It was a congregation of educators where the panel discussion was on 'To Challenge and To Change'. This was followed by an address by Sri Gaur Gopal Das, in which he spoke about how educators can make a difference in the lives of their students, thereby impacting the society. Some concern areas were addressed in a humorous way but the essence of the pertinent issues were raised.

Scientific Churning

Workshops 18-Aug-2023

Venue: 3, Jodhpur Park, Kolkata
Organized By: The Progressive Educational Techniques Society
Participants: DEBARATI BANERJEE, INDRANI DAS
Highlight: The workshop was interesting with different kind of learning methodology which can be used while teaching Science in the Middle School.

Vigilance Quiz

External Events 15-Aug-2023


Venue Bengal Paddle Vessel
Organized By SMPK
Participants Students of Classes X & XI
Highlight Four students have participated in the quiz conducted by the Vigilance Department. They have enjoyed the quiz session and learnt a lot from the participation. They have received participation certificates. Names of participants are Arinjoy Mukherjee and Amol Dalmia from class X, Sourish Ghosh and Aneek Chakraborty from class XI.

Mindler School Leaders Symposium

Workshops 05-Aug-2023

Venue:lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By:LSA and Mindler
Resource Person:Mindler
Participants:School leaders of Kolkata
Highlight: Mindler School Leaders Symposium was organised by LSA and Mindler collaboratively which focused on enlightening the schools to Create an NEP Ready Career Guidance Ecosystem. 20+ school leaders and counselors participated in the event. The event helped shape the future of school career guidance ecosystem.

Educators Meet

Workshops 05-Aug-2023

Venue Caring Minds
Organized By:Caring Minds
Resource Person:Ms Minu Budhia
Participants:Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra
Highlight: The educators were invited to apprise them of the facilities offered by the institute and the silent work they are doing to improve the mental health. They also apprised us of the upcoming inter school event Love You Zindagi.

Cinema in classrooms-Filmit Orientation Programme

Workshops 01-Aug-2023

Organized By:INTACH Kolkata Chapter
Resource Person:INTACH (Mrs. Subha Das Mollick)
Participants:Students of Classes VI to VIII
Highlight: LSA hosted the INTACH FilmIT orientation programme for FilmIT Kolkata chapter participants. The students learnt the basics of filmmaking camera shot exercise and editing. FilmIT movies mainly focus on conservation of heritage.

Anti corruption Run up activities

Activities in LSA 31-Jul-2023

Venue: School premise (8th floor Avr)
Organized By: Vigilance department , Kolkata Port
Resource Person: Ms Rashika Dubey
Participants: Students of Classes VIII to XII
Highlight: The Students participated under various activities like poster making and essay writing competition conducted by Kolkata Port. Students collected cash prize along with certificate after evaluation process. It was a great experience for them. In poster making activity, Bavrabi Dutta stood 1st, Navya Mohta came 2nd and Taraasha Sharma secured 3rd position and received cash prizes of 1000/-, 700/- and 500/- respectively. In the essay writing activity Shravya Agarwal stood 1st, Panavi Agarwal came 2nd and Rishika Kala secured 3rd position and received cash prizes of 1000/-, 700/- and 500/- respectively. 3 little children came from Flower 2 school and recited poems in the junior assembly.

 

The Three Tier Certificate program

Workshops 31-Jul-2023

Organized By: LearNX and Niti AAyog
Resource Person: LearnX
Participants: Sudakshina Datta, Ashis Mazumder,
Highlight: Teachers of our academy joined The Three Tier Certificate program on RAPL learning platform in the educators Masterclass series. Many teachers of our academy received the yellow belt. The green belt training will start after 15th August.

Dance is Healing

Workshops 28-Jul-2023

Venue: Modern High School for Girls
Organized By: Teachers' Centre
Resource Person: Ms. Mahoya Chakravorty
Participants: Manjaree Mukherjee, Sweata Loreto Gomes, Asfia Rafique
Highlight: The session was fascinating and engaging. Teachers learnt the integration of dance with Physics and Mathematics. The teachers were explained how dance can be de-stressing. Songs of Rabindranath Tagore were referred to.

Visit to Raj Bhawan (Governor's House)

Workshops 26-Jul-2023

Venue Raj Bhawan
Organized By: The Times of India NIE
Resource Person: The Times of India NIE
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: Aditya Hans (XIA) and Rasita Singh (XID) are the NIE correspondents of the session 2023 24. As a part of their one year student training programme with NIE, they were taken to the Raj Bhawan for an educational tour.

The Telegraph Young Metro Orientation

Workshops 26-Jul-2023

Venue: Gyan Manch
Organized By: The Telegraph Young Metro
Resource Person: The Telegraph Young Metro
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Ayushi Singh (XIIB) and Arijit Ghosh (XIID) have been selected as the YM force members for the academic year 2023 24. They were oriented about their roles in this meeting. Past year's YM force members Riddhima Koley & Muskan Goel were also felicitated on this occasion.

Modern Classroom Techniques

Workshops 20-Jul-2023

Venue: La Martiniere for Girls
Organized By: Teachers' Centre
Resource Person: Ms. Rupkatha Sarkar
Participants: Asfia Rafique, Khadija Aamir Choonawala
Highlight: The session was highly engaging and relevant to the current education scenario.

Project - Edquest

Activities in LSA 15-Jul-2023

Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy Social Service group LSA Samaritans
Participants: Avisha Gupta(XII D), Gaurav Poddar(XII A), Manvi Lohia(X B), Shlok Tahlani(X A), Suhani Bhagat (XI B), Urvi Murmuria(XII D), Vansh P Patel(XII D), Yuthika Sikaria(X B)
Highlight: LSA Samaritans volunteers of LSA are imparting their knowledge and skills to the marginalized students of few NGOs for the last five years under the Project Edquest. They teach four vocational subjects IT, Art & Craft, Sports and Spoken & Written English on every working Saturdays. 23 students from Tomorrow's Foundation came to take the training under the guidance of our school volunteers.

Workshop on CyRaksha

Workshops 15-Jul-2023

Venue: ISOEH ,Saltlake
Organized By: ISOEH
Resource Person: Mr Sandip Sengupta
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal, Swati Mukherjee, Divyansh Shah (XI A)
Highlight: The Cyber Security Workshop held on Saturday, 15th July 2023, proved to be an outstanding success. Everyone present there left with enhanced knowledge and a better understanding of the evolving cyber threat landscape. The event facilitated networking opportunities and fostered collaboration among professionals in the field. The workshop's practical approach and informative sessions made it a valuable learning experience for all attendees. It is hoped that such initiatives will continue to be organized to promote cyber security awareness and empower individuals and organizations to safeguard against digital threats.

Workshop on Ways of Organizing Content

Workshops 15-Jul-2023

Resource Person: Tikshna Chopra
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The ways of organizing lesson plans was discussed to make teaching learning process more effective. All three methods thematic approach, project based approach and story based approach were discussed with relevant examples. The advantages of each method was highlighted.
Examples of each method were given and how they can be adopted in class to make learning process more meaningful was discussed.

Workshop on Conversation with Toys

Workshops 14-Jul-2023

Resource Person: Jyoti Gondi
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The impact of toys on children was discussed in details. Advantages of toys and play-way method was explained. Choice of toys and the kinds of toys which can be used in class was demonstrated. 
The teacher made few toys in class with recycled materials and showed them as examples. Finally, clay dough was given to everyone to make toys out of it and teach a topic with the same.

Event: VANAMAHOTSAV WEEK

Activities in LSA 14-Jul-2023


Participants: Students of class X
Highlight: We celebrated Vanmahotsav week to create awareness among students, to raise awareness among individuals regarding the importance of trees and inspire citizens to plant more of them.The main objective of Van Mahotsav is to promote the conservation and protection of forests and to create awareness about the importance of trees in maintaining ecological balance and ensuring environmental stability. Students were excited to plant trees as they planted banana saplings,
spinach, curry leaves. They learned the ways of soil tilling and soil rejuvenation too.

VANAMAHOTSAV WEEK

Activities in LSA 14-Jul-2023

Participants: Students of classes IX & X
Highlight: We celebrated Vanmahotsav week to create awareness among students, to raise awareness among individuals regarding the importance of trees and inspire citizens to plant more of them.. The main objective of Van Mahotsav is to promote the conservation and protection of forests and to create awareness about the importance of trees in maintaining ecological balance and ensuring environmental stability. Students were excited to plant trees as they planted banana saplings, spinach, curry leaves. They learned the ways of soil tilling and soil rejuvenation too.

C20 999 Challenge for the Students

Activities in LSA 12-Jul-2023

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes VI to VIII
Highlight: 44 students of various section of class 6 8 participated in this challenge program. Participants of
the challenge have reported experiencing more optimism in their life perspective, better energy
levels and an overall sense of well being. This 999 challenge influence the integration of holistic
healthcare approaches into the global health care system.

Mindler Career Guidance Program

Workshops 11-Jul-2023

Organized By: Mindler and School
Resource Person: Mindler Career coaches Mr. P. Dhanda, Mr. Abhishek Gulati
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta and students of classes IX to XII
Highlight: Workshop was held for classes 9 to 12. Orientation and guidance sessions were conducted

Workshop: Scanning Media

Workshops 07-Jul-2023

Venue: The Progressive Educational Techniques Society
Organized By: The Progressive Educational Techniques Society, The Teachers' Centre
Resource Person: Mrs. Subha Das Mollick
Participants: Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight: The workshop was on media, its various facets and influence in the modern world. The activities were aimed to share the responsibility of preparing students of all ages, for living in a world of powerful yet ethical images, words and sounds.

Artificial Intelligence in Lesson Plans

Workshops 05-Jul-2023

Venue: Sushila Birla Girls School
Organized By: Sushila Birla Girls School
Resource Person: Teachers ( faculty members of Sushila Birla Girls School)
Participants: Anindita Pal, Indrani Das, Poulomi Saha, Sunitha R Dey, Vrinda Mishra
Highlight: The session discussed how to explore the benefits of using AI application in our daily classes for all subjects in order to make the class more interactive and lively by approaching such tools with the students. It will help them to know, think and analyze the data and critically think and solve problems. New innovative tools on AI application were shared.

Team Kolkata We Care Meet

External Events 05-Jul-2023

Venue: iLead Institute

Organized By: Team Kolkata We Care

Resource Person: Mr Pradip Chopra, Mr Imran Zaki & others

Participants: Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra, Mr. Darshan Singh Gill

Highlight: The think tank group met to decide how the city can be made clean with the support of KMC, and how can Kolkata improve when schools join hands and support this cause. It was indeed a pleasure to see the exhibits displayed in iLead ampus, an example of how to promote upcycling in the society.

 

Junior Investiture Ceremony

Activities in LSA 03-Jul-2023

Participants: Students of Classes IV and V
Highlight: The Investiture Ceremony of the Junior Student Council for the academic session 2023 2024 was held in the school premises on 3rd July 2023. The House Captains, Vice Captains and the Sports Captain were officially handed over their badges and appointment letters. The solemn occasion was presided over by the Director Ms Meena Kak.The Coordinator of the primary section, Ms Sohini Jain, administered the oath and the Principal Ms Jaya Misra delivered the vote of thanks.

Celebration of International Yoga Day

Activities in LSA 21-Jun-2023

Participants: All students of our Academy

Highlight:All the students participated in the yogic kriyas and asanas that was shown by the PE department. It was an enriching session.

Youth for Unnati and Vikas with AI-Bootcamp

Workshops 15-Jun-2023

Date 06/06/2023 To 15/06/2023
Organized By MeiTY, NEGD
Resource Person Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Nation eGovernance Division
Participants Students of Classes IX & X
Highlight All students of classes IX and X took part in YUVAi innovative idea submission. 5 of their ideas were selected amongst top 200 innovative ideas across the nation and qualified for 2nd round. The students are Tanish Kedia, Avni Khodiar, Vaneesa Parikh, Priyansh Singhania,Devesh Patwari. They have been given deep drive AI training by Intel Certified AI coaches.

Global Competence Certificate programme

Beyond Boundaries 15-Jun-2023

Date 17/04/2023 To 15/06/2023
Organized By AFS
Participants Subrato Chakraborty
Highlight It was an amazing experience. Discussion on different cultures and education for all was also discussed. Learning outcome: Education is very important for every citizen of the world even though they are from different cultures.

Industry Engagement and Technology Exposure

Workshops 09-Jun-2023

Date 01/06/2023 To 09/06/2023
Organized By CBSE and Microsoft
Resource Person CBSE and Microsoft
Participants Deeva Sharma, Shaurya Bothra, Yuvraaj Bhatter, Akhil Jatia
Highlight 4 students of classes XI & XII, were selected for this programme. Students learnt a lot about soft skills like problem solving skills, time management, and stress management skills. They have gained a deeper understanding of how different Microsoft solutions integrate and work together to meet various industry needs.

Workshop on Empowering Educators for holistic health

Workshops 09-Jun-2023

Organized By AIM ,NITI AAYOG & LearnX
Resource Person MR. Chandrakant Singh
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight The resource person welcomed us to the learnX community and explained 3 steps certification course process. They have introduced simple tools to prepare plan for class, how to measure effectiveness of teaching and manage disruptive behavior.

Zero Shadow Day

Activities in LSA 08-Jun-2023

Venue Live Event
Participants Students of Classes I – X
Highlight Students were excited to see their own shadow and were enthusiastic to know the meaning of Zero Shadow Day. Students enthusiastically participated, uploaded their images and won digital certificates for correct responses. They came to the conclusion that residents of Kolkata had the opportunity to witness Zero Shadow Day, a fascinating celestial event, on 5th June, Monday at 11.34am. This extraordinary phenomenon occurs twice a year when the Sun is directly overhead, causing objects to lose their shadows for a brief moment.

Hungary HOMESTAY program

Educational Trips 05-Jun-2023

Venue- Budapest

Organised by- AFS
Resource persons- AFS Hungary
Participants - Aanya Surana and Prisha Patel class 11
Highlight- Aanya and Prisha Patel on an amazing journey to Hungary experience the cultural dimensions

Online Training on “Safety and Security in Digital Space”

Workshops 05-Jun-2023

Date                  05/06/2023 To 09/06/2023

Organized By     CIET, NCERT

Resource Person CIET, NCERT

Participants          Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sudakshina Datta

Highlight              It was a five- day training on how we can be safe in our digital space. Cyber ethics and laws were part of this training too. Various initiatives by the Government of India, citizen centric services have also been promoted in this training. The training was followed by an online quiz as well.

The Times of India NIE Internship

Workshops 02-Jun-2023

Venue: TOI Office Salt Lake
Organized By: TOI
Resource Person: TOI
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: Aditya Hans of Class XI Science and Vaanya Agarwal of Class XII Science were selected for this prestigious 5 day programme. In these 5 days the students learnt the basic operations and functioning of a newspaper organization.

Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Workshop

Workshops 02-Jun-2023

Organized By: Tech Avant Garde Global Training partner of Microsoft
Resource Person: Mr. Prashant Kumar Jha
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: The 5 day online comprehensive workshop was based on training the educators on various tools on Microsoft like sway, flip, minecraft MakeCode which could be used by teachers for effective teaching and learning process. The software could be effectively used by students for increasing their technical and critical thinking skills.

Workshop on How to use ChatGPT in classroom curriculum

Workshops 31-May-2023

Venue: Online
Organized By: IPN Leadership Academy
Resource Person Ms. Jaya Ramchandani
Participants: NILADRI KUMAR MOTILAL, SANZEEDA SULTANA MIRZA

Highlight: The workshop gave an insight into the benefits of using the ChatGPT and also explained its limitation. The application can be effectively used to create MCQs, fomative assessment questions and even worksheets based on one’s queries. One has to be specific with learning objectives in order to get the desired results.

TinkrCode Workshop

Workshops 30-May-2023

Venue: ATL Lab
Organized By: Tinkrcode
Resource Person: Mr. Sashank Sanas
Participants: SWATI MUKHERJEE, PABITRA BAIDYA

Highlight: We have learnt few more coding in order to complete complex activity using light and movement simultaneously. We have learnt how to structure the program with the help of subroutine. We could cover various upcoming sessions using Tinkrcode.

Student Exchange India Germany Programme

Educational Trips 27-May-2023

Venue: Aalen, Germany
Organized By: LSA and KSA
Participants: DARSHAN SINGH GILL, SOHINI MITRA JAIN, 8 students from classes IX to XI
Highlight: Our academy took part in the Student Exchange India Germany Programme. A group of 8 students from classes IX to XI, escorted by Mr. Darshan Singh Gill and Ms. Sohini Mitra Jain, took off for a 2 week programme to Germany from 12th May 2023 to 27th May 2023. The team of students and teachers stayed in Aalen, Germany with their respective host families. The first part of the exchange programme was indeed a memorable one.

Ek Sham Hindi teachro ke naam

External Events 27-May-2023

Venue Badmash cafe
Organized By Sanmarg Hindi Newspaper Organisation
Resource Person Sanmarg Hindi Newspaper
Participants Lilawati Mishra, Radhika Shaw, Jyotshna Jyoshi
Highlight Had a great evening. All the Hindi teachers got collaborated and enjoyed themselves. They discussed about the importance of Hindi language in today's era. It was a refreshing moment from the mundane life.

COLLABORATIVE ART PROJECT DECLARED

External Events 24-May-2023

Venue: ONLINE
Organized By: Malavika Mandal Andrews
Participants: PRISHA BAJAJ(X B), TANVI JAIN(X B)
Highlight: Two students from class X participated in this online digital image making collaborative project where they had to team up with other school students and share their digital images made on specific themes.

Excursion Trip to Darjeeling and Kalinpong, from 12th May to 17th May

Educational Trips 17-May-2023

Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Participants: Students of classes IX and X

Highlight: 102 students from classes IX and X were a part of the trip. They had a good time. The stay and sight visits at Kalimpong was magnificent. The visits to Lava monastery and Deolo Park was enjoyed by all. The students got an opportunity to shop at the Hong Kong Market in Siliguri too.

Farewell of Ruth Annherrlinger

Beyond Boundaries 11-May-2023

Event: Farewell of Ruth Annherrlinger
Organized By: Nutrition and Dietetics students of our Academy
Resource Person: Ms. Deepa Das
Participants: Nutrition and Dietetics students of our Academy
Highlight: The students of Nutrition and Dietetics arranged a farewell for Ruth Annherrlinger, an international exchange student. Students prepared muffins themselves and arranged other snacks items for her. She was given a box of Indian spices as a memento.

Digital Financial Security Quiz

Workshops 11-May-2023


Venue: Computer Lab
Organized By: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Participants: All teachers of our Academy

Highlight: During India’s presidency of G20, The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (is running a campaign titled ‘Stay Safe Online’ aimed at creating awareness among citizens to stay safe in an online world on the widespread use of social media platforms and rapid adoption of digital payments. Teachers of our academy from different levels has participated in this quiz session and received certificate after successfully completion of the quiz event. The event sensitizes all teachers about online risk & safety measures and promoting cyber hygiene thereby reinforcing the cyber safety of citizens.

Youth for Unnati and Vikas with AI

External Events 10-May-2023

Venue: Online
Organized By: National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, in collaboration with Intel India
Resource Person: National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology with Intel India
Participants: Students of Classes IX and X
Highlight: It is a national level programme in which classes 9 and 10 took part as a lesson extension of the skill based subject AI. Students registered themselves and within a month they will be submitting their ideas through video making on AI solutions at various domains. Each student received a certificate of appreciation after submitting their project.

PARENT ORIENTATION FOR CLASS XI

Activities in LSA 10-May-2023


Venue:              GROUND FLOOR ASSEMBLY HALL
Organized By:    Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person:Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Participants:       Parents of Class XI
Highlight:           LSA organised a Parent Orientation Programme for the parents of Class XI, with the objective of familiarizing parents with the rules and regulations of the school, the curriculum, the marking scheme and the various opportunities offered by the school. The meet was addressed by the Director, Ma’am Meena Kak, the Principal, Ma’am Jaya Misra and the Senior Secondary Coordinator. Parents were elated to know of the various accolades achieved by the students and staff across the world.

 

Workshop on Good Touch and Bad Touch

Workshops 10-May-2023

Venue: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person: Teresa Gomes
Participants: The support staff of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Highlight: It was an interactive session. The support staff interacted well. The support staffs also shared their experiences about the topic.

Showcase during National Technology Day

External Events 09-May-2023

From: 09/05/2023 To 15/05/2023
Venue: New Delhi
Organized By: Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog
Resource Person: NITI Aayog
Participants: Vishwesh Kumar, Neerav Nagori and Gaurav Poddar
Highlight: 3 of our students Vishwesh Kumar, Neerav Nagori and Gaurav Poddar, along with their Mentor teacher Mr. Dipankar Pal, received the opportunity to showcase their prototype model "Jeevanam" which gives a futuristic solution in the domain of Medicine.

Workshop on Seizures

Workshops 06-May-2023

Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person: Malkit Roy
Participants: Teachers of LSA
Highlight: All teachers were trained about how to give medical treatment to anyone who is having seizures. The teachers were made aware about the symptoms of seizures and how to provide first aid to students.

Workshop on updated features of ERP Software-Campuscare

Workshops 06-May-2023


Organized By: LSA
Resource Person: Mr. Shrinath Verma
Participants: All Teachers of LSA
Highlight: A training was provided to all the teachers about the class diary assignment, sending internal messages over Campus Care ERP software which would be beneficial for both teachers and parents.

AIoT integration in Science and Social Science

Workshops 06-May-2023

Venue: ATL
Resource Person: Mr. Dipankar Pal, Ms. Nandini Chanda, Ms. Debarpita Koley, Mr Niladri Motilal
Participants: All IT Teachers, Social Science and Science teachers of Middle and Senior School
Highlight: An AIoT training was organised for Middle School and Secondary teachers teaching Science and Social Science on 6th May 2023.The teachers were updated on Design Thinking that involved ideation, innovation and prototyping. An idea of algorithmic thinking, data gathering and pattern recognition was also discussed. A prototype of a model was shared with the participants. Teachers also prepared a draft lesson plan on the subjects based on their year plan.

Ways to be an effective facilitator

Workshops 06-May-2023

Venue: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person: Runa Ghosh
Participants: Teachers of primary department
Highlight: The workshop focused on the difference between a teacher and a facilitator, the aim of a facilitator and the ways to be a facilitator. It was an interactive session where the teachers shared their best practices with each other

Integration of the Environment with the Curriculum

Workshops 06-May-2023

Venue: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Acadmey
Resource Person: Manmeet kaur
Participants: Teachers of Primary Department
Highlight The session highlighted the benefits of integration of curriculum across subjects. The need to integrate the environmental issues and concerns with the curriculum was emphasized in order to motivate the students to work towards the betterment of our planet.

Introduction of Hindi through Mother Tongue

Workshops 06-May-2023

Venue: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY
Organized By: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY
Resource Person: Rama Poddar
Participants: Teachers teaching Preprimary section of LSA
Highlight: Importance and benefits of teaching Hindi through mother tongue was discussed along with the role of teacher as well as of the school. It was an interactive and informative session.

Creating Positive Classroom Environment and Organizing the Environment

Workshops 06-May-2023

Venue: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person: NCF Foundational Stage
Participants: Afshan Nahid, Arwah Hussain Deesawala, Bindiya Kaur Gill, Ishita Valentina Gomes, Khadija Aamir Choonawala, Priya Mozumdar, Rekha Dayani, Tikshna Chopra
Highlight: The role of the teacher is very important in guiding children in their behaviour and in forming strong positive relationships. Teachers, therefore, have to be thoughtful and responsive towards the needs of children.

Principals' Conclave 2023

Workshops 05-May-2023


Venue: The Park
Organized By: Times of India
Resource Person: Dr Suman Mukherjee, Professor Suranjan Das & others
Participants: JAYA MISRA

Highlight: There were 3 panel discussions on the following topics Experiential & Competency based Learning ; Physical & Mental Wellbeing among students ; Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Education. The guest speakers presented their views on these topics and gave the audience food for thought.

TTIS Tiger Hunt Orientation

External Events 29-Apr-2023

Venue: Buwalka Hall
Organized By: The Telegraph
Resource Person: The Telegraph In Schools
Participants: Students of Classes X & XII
Highlight: Pratyusha Gupta (Class 12) and Maanvi Lohia (Class 10) have been selected from the school to cover activities and events as reporters on behalf of the school.

Climate Conference 2023

External Events 29-Apr-2023

Venue: Offbeat CCU
Organized By: Techno India Group
Resource Person: Techno India Group
Participants: XII D
Highlight: Vanshika Kothari and Pratyusha Gupta represented LSA on the topic Traffic Congestion.

Webinar on 'How to be a Lawyer?'

Workshops 29-Apr-2023

Organized By: The Telegraph Online Edugraph
Resource Person: Ms. Vaneeta Patnaik
Participants: Sneha Singh and the students of Legal Studies.
Highlight: Precise and useful information was provided on skills required to pursue legal profession and opportunities available to students of law.

Study In UK

Workshops 28-Apr-2023

Organized By: SIUK and LSA
Resource Person: Abir Mukherjee & Aishwarya Jaiswal
Participants: Students of Classes XI – XII
Highligh:t It was an interesting event where students were told about the benefits of studying in the UK.

Paper Bag Making

Activities in LSA 28-Apr-2023

Participants: Students of classes III-V
Highlight: Children made paper bags using newspapers. They watched the video and made the paper bag. They then decorated the bags with different decorative items like stickers, sequins, flowers, ribbons etc.
Lastly, they used a satin ribbon or a jute string to make the handle of the bag. They even exchanged the bags with their friends.

Workshop on Depression Symptoms and Remedies

Workshops 28-Apr-2023

Organized By: Dayanand Sagar University
Resource Person: Dr. Kaul
Participants: Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Symptoms and remedies of depression which is a serious mental health condition affecting students and signs to watch out for in students were discussed. Strategies were discussed which would help students suffering from depression.

Radio Mirchi Tour

Educational Trips 27-Apr-2023

Venue: Radio Mirchi Station
Organized By: Times NIE
Resource Person: Radio Mirchi
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Two students Anushka Ghosh and Aditya Goswami were part of this tour. They learnt individual expression and communication techniques from RJ Agni.

Tinkerwork

Workshops 27-Apr-2023

Venue: Tinkering Lab at School
Resource Person: Dipjyoti Das
Participants: Pabitra Kumar Baidya, Swati Mukherjee
Highlight: We have learned different theoretical concept of sensors and hardware components of robots. We were oriented about the different classes and how to use supporting content during the session.
We have constructed the robot and program accordingly.

Workshop on Experiential Learning

Workshops 23-Apr-2023

Venue: Hariyana Vidya Mandir, Kolkata
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Dr Ramesh Agarwal And Dr Akhilesh kumar
Participants: Sneha Singh
Highlight: Extremely interactive and hands on training. Learnt how to integrate experiential activities in various Subjects and also how to integrate various subjects while teaching.

CBP CBSE Workshop on Happy Classrooms

Workshops 21-Apr-2023

Venue: Asian International School, Howrah
Organized By: Asian International School
Resource Person: Dr S.P.Gupta,Ms Debi Saha Seal
Participants: Tikshna Chopra
Highlight: The resource person kept the participants engaged by sharing real life examples. An interesting
session that helped in learning classroom situation and acting accordingly to make the pupils happy.
Knowledge of self and environmental factors affecting happiness, challenges faced in classroom and
how to overcome those were discussed.

Capacity Building Workshop (CLASS XII)

Workshops 20-Apr-2023

Venue : Hariyana Vidya Mandir
Organized By : CBSE
Resource Person : Ms Anjana Dey & Ms Indrani Bhattacharyya
Participants : Srabanti Deb
Highlight : It was an interactive session coupled with activities.

Celebrating ATL Community Day

Activities in LSA 14-Apr-2023

Organized By: NITI Aayog and LSA-ATL
Resource Person: Mr. Dipankar Pal
Participants: 18 middle school Students of LSA and 26 students of Future Hope Foundation (an NGO) Highlight ATL Community Day celebration is an important event that promotes the spirit of innovation,creativity and entrepreneurship among students in India and encourages them to develop skills that
are critical for the 21st-century workforce. It provides a platform for young innovators to connect with each other, share their ideas, learn from experts and gain exposure to the world of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Youth for Unnati and Vikas with AI

Workshops 14-Apr-2023

Organized By: National eGovernence Division, Intel, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Resource Person: Intel, NeGD, MeITy
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sudakshina Datta
Highlight: It was a teacher orientation aimed to foster a deeper understanding of AI and to enable school students from class 8 to 12 across the nation with AI skills to become human centric designers and users of AI. Students will be given similar orientation programme in due course of time. Later students will be encouraged to submit their ideas through a 120 seconds video explaining a proposed AI enabled solution for any one of the eight core themes.

Parent Orientation Programme

Activities in LSA 11-Apr-2023

Participants: Parents
Highlight: An orientation programme was organized and conducted on 11th of April 2023 for parents of classes VI-VIII to familiarise the parents with the examination structure, rules and regulations, teaching methodologies and co-scholastic activities of the middle school. Director, Principal and Coordinator addressed the parents and enlightened them about the holistic development that the curriculum offers and implementation of innovative teaching strategies.

Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony

Activities in LSA 08-Apr-2023

Highlight: Academy organised its Annual Awards Ceremony after 2 years to reward students for their achievements in various scholastic and co-scholastic fields for the academic year 2022-23. Prize winners as well as their parents were invited to the ceremony, so that they could witness this proud moment of their child’s life. The Chief Guest for the ceremony was Ms. Gitanjali Ghosh, a social worker and Director of the Anando Trust which is an NGO for underprivileged children. Prizes were given for General Proficiency from classes I-XI as well as trailblazers like Best Behaved students, Star Class Award,
Prashasti Award for National and International recognition in co-scholastic activities, Samman and Sadachar awards for excellence in academics as well as discipline, Helpage India Award as well as Awards for 100% attendance for 7 years or over. Children were given certificates, trophies as well as books.

Workshop

Workshops 06-Apr-2023

Resource Person: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta, Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Students of Class VII
Highlight: Students were given exposure to self awareness and mindfulness and building positive self esteem and self confidence. Activities were done on awareness on mindfulness and ways to practise mindfulness.

IT Workshop

Workshops 06-Apr-2023

Organized By: IT Dept of LSA
Resource Person: Teachers of IT Department
Participants: Students of Classes IV to VIII
Highlight: We have conducted IT workshops for classes 4 to 8. Students did selective activities from Stay Safe Online project of Government of India and Be Internet Awesome project of Google and CBSE.
Students of different classes gained knowledge on how to be safe while being online. They have done various activities like SSO pledge, SSO Quiz , Being a good search engine and Identification of real or fake. We are able to complete "Be Internet Awesome" Activity launched by CBSE through this IT workshop.

Workshop

Workshops 05-Apr-2023

Resource Person: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta, Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Students of VIII
Highlight: Students were given understanding of Resilience through fun filled activities. What is Resilience, understand the differences between Growth and Fixed mindset, ways to be Resilient (Activity) were explained to them.

Workshops and activities conducted in week 1

Workshops 05-Apr-2023

Participants Students of Classes III to V
Highlight The new session (2023 24) began with some activities and workshops conducted for the students of classes 3 to 5. These were held in week 1 from 3.4.23 to 5.4.23. The activities and workshops included yoga session, physical education and dance, archery, IT sessions, workshop on etiquette, life skill, art, music and on dental hygiene.

Workshop

Workshops 04-Apr-2023

Resource Person: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta, Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Students of class VI
Highlight: Students were made aware about the transitions to the new class. They learnt about gratitude, being thankful for the small things around them and finding ways to be happy.

Workshop on Essential Etiquettes

Workshops 04-Apr-2023

Resource Person Sunitha R Dey, Nandini Chanda
Participants Students of Classes VI to VIII
Highlight All the students of Middle School were subject to a workshop on Essential Etiquettes. They sat house wise during the workshop and derived their own essential etiquettes that they thought was important to follow. They then enacted out situations to display the right code of conduct in various situations given to them. All the students participated whole heartedly. It was wonderful to see some quiet students taking up active roles during the role play.

Sewing for Survival

Workshops 04-Apr-2023

Participants: Students of Class VI

Highlight :Students were very excited to use the needle and thread for the 1st time. They learnt how to thread a needle, stitch a button, secure the thread and hemming.

Doctor's Workshop on Puberty and Nutrition

Workshops 04-Apr-2023

Resource Person Dr. Rituparna and Dr.Vikram Chaturvedi
Participants Students of classes VI to VIII
Highlight It was an interactive workshop on changes during puberty and how to handle them and the importance of health and nutrition.

Workshop on Oral Hygiene

Workshops 04-Apr-2023

Resource Person: Dr. Shreya Bose (Endodontist)
Participants: Students of Classes III to V
Highlight: Dr. Shreya Bose highlighted the importance of maintaining oral hygiene for children through an interactive session and video presentations. The children enjoyed the session thoroughly and understood the relevant points explained to them.

AI at schools

Workshops 01-Apr-2023

Organized By IPN Leadership Academy
Participants Swati Mukherjee
Highlight Enjoyed learning in the workshop session and was able to learn different AI tools with the help of hands on activity.

The following major points were covered:
-Connecting AI to core teaching, Coexistence of Human & Artificial intelligence, Possible Integration of AI in schools
-Understanding the potential threats
-Coping with changing times

AIoT Integration Teacher Training

Workshops 28-Mar-2023

Venue: Hotel Monotel, Salt Lake
Organized By: CBSE, NITI Aayog, intel
Resource Person: Facilitator from intel, Special Guest –DrBiswajit Saha, Director, Skills Education, CBSE. AIoT Integration in Curriculum handbook
Participants: Debarpita Koley, Dipankar Pal, Nandini Chanda, Niladri Kumar Motilal
Highlight: 13 Schools from across the country participated. This is a Train the Trainer Model where Master Trainers are being created to impart training to the school teachers on pragmatic and rational integration of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things to teaching learning process in school.

Webinar to create awareness on National Curriculum Framework – Foundational Stage

Workshops 28-Mar-2023

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Mr. Ranjan Arora
Participants: Mitali Mukhopadhyay
Highlight: The webinar enlightened us about the features of the National Curriculum Framework – Foundational Stage. Holistic development based on 5 domains - Physical & Motor, Socio – Emotional- Ethical, Cognitive, Language & Literacy and Aesthetic & Cultural It stressed on play to be the centre of child’s learning. Play includes story telling, toy based learning, Music & Rhymes, Art & Craft, Games, Field trips and Nature walks.
Thematic and integrated learning pedagogy to include planning, building positive relationship, learning through play, four block approach for literacy and Mathematics, creating positive classroom culture. Four Block Approach for Literacy - Oral, Word Recognition, Reading and Writing; Four Block Approach for Numeracy - Oral Math Talks, Skill Teaching, Skill Practice, Math Game. Method of Assessment to include Checklist, Event Sampling, Portfolios, Work Samples, and Worksheets. Early identification of children who are at risk is needed. Variety of Teaching Learning Materials to be developed.

Cubs/Bulbuls Camp

Educational Trips 25-Mar-2023

Venue: Taki Sonar Bangla
Participants: Students of classes IV and V
Highlight: A total number of 151 students joined the camp along with 11 teachers and 3 support staff. The students were overjoyed and enthusiastically participated in the various camp activities. Their stay at the resort was comfortable and they enjoyed the delectable cuisine. The various activities included group presentation, shadow dance, scorpion tail, chariot race, night trail etc. These activities helped to inculcate many skills among students like critical thinking skills, emotional and social skills, leadership skills, problem solving skills and developed s elf- awareness, empathy and decision-making abilities among them. It was a great learning experience for the students as they got the opportunity to bond with their teachers and peers, learn wonderful things in a stress-free environment and boost their self-confidence.

International Cyberfair Competition

External Events 23-Mar-2023

From Date 15/11/2022 To 23/03/2023
Event: International Cyberfair Competition
Organized By: Globalschoolnet
Participants: Class XI Mass Media Students and Web Application students
Highlight: CyberFair is an award-winning authentic project-based learning program. Class XI students of Mass Media Studies and Web Application conducted research and published their findings using digital media by making a website. This year we chose the category Community Groups and Special Populations. The overall theme was Be Kind and Unite. The Title of our project is Caring Cosmopolitan Learners and our website address is https://lsacyberfair22.wixsite.com/my-site-2

Visit to the Science City

Educational Trips 23-Mar-2023

Venue: Science City
Participants: Students of Classes VIII & IX
Highlight: It was a fun filled and enriching day where students witnessed an informative 3D show, travelled through the geological timeline of life on earth and experienced motion simulator. The models displayed in the gallery helped the students understand the principles of Science.

Scouts and Guides Camp at Dooars

Educational Trips 21-Mar-2023

Venue: Dooars
Resource Person: Scouts and Guides Teachers
Participants: Students of Classes VI and VII
Highlight: A four day Scouts and Guides Camp for the session 2022 23 was organized by school at Prime Murti in Dooars. 192 students of classes VI and VII participated in the camp. It was a great learning experience and an enjoyable session for the students through various kinds of activities. 14 teachers accompanied the students.

National Coding Challenge

External Events 16-Mar-2023

Organized By: Juanatech and CBSE
Resource Person: Juanatech and CBSE
Participants: Avaneesh Bajaj(VIII D), Bhavya Agarwal(VIII D), Devesh Patwari(VIII B), Saurjesh Chatterjee(VIII B), Shreeyash Kejriwal(VIII D), Swapnil Ghosh(VIII B), Tanish Singhania(VIII B)
Highlight: 2 teams of class 8 took part in this event. It was an opportunity for them to showcase their 21st century skills to solve some of the real life issues with technology. They made code based games using makeCode to cater to these real life issues. Result awaited.

Workshop on Continuous Professional Development

Workshops 12-Mar-2023

Organized By: Super Teachers
Resource Person: Mr. Vasudevan
Participants: Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: The workshop emphasized on the need of completion of 50 hours of professional development workshops conducted by both external sources and inhouse sources by every teacher as per NEP 2020 and notification from the CBSE. Super Teacher’s organization can help in arranging workshops for schools for the above purpose.

English in Multilingual Classroom

Workshops 12-Mar-2023

Organized By: British Council
Resource Person: British Council
Participants: Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight: Various approaches of incorporating English as a second language were illustrated through numerous exercises.

Convocation Ceremony 2022-23

Activities in LSA 11-Mar-2023

Participants: Students of Classes II & V
Highlight: The Convocation is an annual programme held in the school premises, which serves as a formal send-off for the students of class 2 and 5 as they move to the Primary and Middle School sections respectively. The performances by the students of Classes I, III and IV were well appreciated.

Grandparent’s Day

Activities in LSA 09-Mar-2023

Participants: Students of Montessori
Highlight: Thursday, morning saw grandparents' of the youngest members of our academy go down memory lane playing games, tapping their feet and voicing their feelings in the school premises.

Workshop on Making AI projects that helps the society.

Workshops 08-Mar-2023

Organized By CBP Intel AI4Youth
Resource Person Mr. Sarthalk Narnor
Participants Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight The workshop focused on the AI projects which becomes unproductive due to lack of practicability. One needs to be focused on the usage area and the practical aspect of the projects in real life. Then only the project will have better implementation. The resource person explained a few successful and unsuccessful projects with reasons.

Visit to BITM

Educational Trips 03-Mar-2023

Venue: BITM
Participants: Students of Montessori
Highlight: Children were very excited and well mannered. They had a great time in the children’s gallery, television and digital gallery.

Workshop – Soulful Schools

Workshops 26-Feb-2023

Organized By: Future School Leaders
Resource Person: Dr. Kiran Bedi and others
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: It was an enriching experience to hear the stalwarts who are aiming to humanising schools and make the world a better place.

Capacity Building Workshop on 'GENDER SENSITIVITY'

Workshops 25-Feb-2023

Venue: Saini International School, Howrah
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Dr. Dhananjay Pan and Ms. Jharna Das
Participants: Debarpita Koley
Highlight: Concept, gender and gender sensitivity was introduced Related terms (like Gender Role, Gender Gap, Gender Equity, Gender Equality etc.) were discussed with examples. Handouts were provided to the trainees. Discussion with a few activities was conducted. Implementing Gender Equality through subject teaching was demonstrated

India Early Education Dialogue 2022 Play based learning.

Workshops 24-Feb-2023

Organized By IPN Leadership Academy
Resource Person Ms. Harsha G. Ramaiya
Participants Clara Karmakar, Moneera Sadique
Highlight It was indeed an enriching workshop which showcased the numerous ways to involve play based method of teaching as a vital part of curriculum in order to impart fun learning.

Master Trainer Workshop on Be Internet Awesome

Workshops 21-Feb-2023

Organized By: CBSE and Google Mahatattva team
Resource Person: Dr. Amit Bajaj
Participants: Sudakshina Datta
Highlight: It was an elaborative and interactive session on how we can make our teachers and students more Internet Smart and ourselves become a certified master trainer as well. A guideline to train teachers and students were given along with content resources.

Capacity Building Programme on Health and Wellness

Workshops 18-Feb-2023

Venue: Abhinav Bharati High school
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Dr. Sankar Prasad Dutta and Mrs. Vijay Lakshmi Kumar
Participants: Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty
Highlight: The information provided during the workshop was useful and can be implemented in classroom teaching. The examples given from classroom situations helped us understand the situation better and make the workshop appealing for the attendees.

Universal Design for learning

Workshops 17-Feb-2023

Venue: Manovikas Kendra
Organized By: Manovikas Kendra
Resource Person: Dr. Richard Ross, Dr. Narayan
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Teaching method for all, multisensory, social and emotional learning was discussed

A Trip to the Zoo (Educational Excursion)

Educational Trips 17-Feb-2023

Venue: Alipore Zoo
Participants: Students of Pre School I to Class II
Highlight: The children were elated on seeing the animals at the zoo and were curious to find more about their habitat and food habit.

Cyberfair - Bulletin Board

Activities in LSA 06-Feb-2023

Organized By: Cyberfair students team
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: Students from classes 3 to 5 (one from each section) made a bulletin board for Cyberfair Bulletin Board competition on the theme "Be Kind & Unite". They had taken up the topic: Love for all kinds of animals.

Formal Farewell (Class XII)

Activities in LSA 04-Feb-2023

Saying adieu to the outgoing students of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy is always done in a formal way every year, through a unique diya ceremony. The ceremony signifies the act of formally unleashing the chains of protection with which we had bound our students. Director, Ms. Meena Kak said that the beauty of this ceremony marks the beginning of a new life that awaits our outgoing students. Our blessings will always be there with you all as they fly away towards their dream destinations. Some of the teachers, parents and students also were given opportunities to share their emotions for the outgoing batch of the Academy.

Embracing Multi Lingual Aspects in Classrooms

Workshops 04-Feb-2023

Organized By: CBSE COE Bhopal, CBSE COE Bangalore
Resource Person: Dr. Ambika Prasad Gaur, Mr. Suryavathy
Participants: Priti Kedia
Highlight: The resource person spoke in great detail regarding the benefits of learning multiple languages and how it can help in the overall development of a child.

 

Traffic Rule Awareness Week Posters

Activities in LSA 03-Feb-2023

Organized By: Kolkata Police
Resource Person: Darshan S. Gill
Participants: Students of Classes VII - IX
Highlight: Students of our academy made posters for Kolkata Police on Traffic Rule Awareness week. Out of these, 12 posters were selected and sent to the Kolkata Police which they displayed in their exhibition to celebrate the event.

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Workshops 27-Jan-2023

Organized By: CIET
Resource Person: Dr. R. C. Sharma, Dr. Biju K, Dr. A. R. Ramesh, Dr. P. Ashkarali
Participants: Udita Chakraborty
Highlight: Need and scope of LMS, introduction to the LMS- MOODLE, resource used for course enrichment, activities, how to take assessment were discussed. It is an advanced version of Google Classroom and other online questionnaire platforms like Kahoot, Quizzes that use different features for making online teaching effective and interactive.

Saraswati Puja Celebration

Activities in LSA 26-Jan-2023

Participants: All Teachers and Students of Classes III – XII
Highlight: Saraswati Puja was celebrated with great pomp like every year followed by Bhog distribution. All staff members along with students offered flowers and asked for blessings from the deity. Flag was also hoisted inside the school premises. Poster making activity was also conducted for classes III – VIII as an extension of International Cyberfair Project.

 

Workshop on Team Building

Workshops 21-Jan-2023

Resource Person: Ms. Afshan Nahid
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The workshop was conducted on Team Building which is one the most important skills among the 21st Century Life Skills. The teachers were engaged in different team building activities which they can utilize in their classes.

Workshop on Team Building

Workshops 21-Jan-2023

Resource Person: Ms. Afshan Nahid
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The workshop was conducted on Team Building which is one the most important skills among the 21st Century Life Skills.The teachers were engaged in different team building activities which they can utilize in their classes.

Tana Bana

Activities in LSA 20-Jan-2023

Resource Person: Individual artisans
Participants: The students, teachers and the parents of LSA
Highlight: It was an initiative by the school to support local purpose driven textile business and give them the recognition that they deserve.

Batch 63 - CBSE Peer educator Life Skills Training Program

Workshops 20-Jan-2023

Organized By: Team CBSE and Expression India
Resource Person: CBSE and Expression India
Participants: Manvi Lohia(IX B), Priyank Rai(IX D), Sambhaavya Upadhyay(IX C), Vanessa Parikh(IX A) 

Highlight: The Peer Educator Life Skills Training Program is designed and conducted by CBSE in collaboration with Expression India to empower students as Life Skills and well-being ambassadors who as peer leaders, will promote mental health awareness among the school students.

Intramural Sports Meet 2022

Activities in LSA 10-Jan-2023

Venue Gitanjali Stadium
Participants All Students from Montessori to Class XI
Highlight LSA celebrated its 25th Annual Sports meet this year. Ms. Dola Banerjee was the chief guest and Air Marshal Arup Raha was the guest of Honour. The drill was based on 75 years of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav showcasing various sports of India.

Orientation Programme on IPS for districts of West Bengal

Workshops 09-Jan-2023

Venue Haryana Vidya Mandir
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE representatives
Participants Jaya Misra, Niladri Kumar Motilal
Highlight The resource persons demonstrated how to fill the details in integrated payment system. They discussed about common errors and also took feedback about the problems faced during entry.

Capacity Building Program on NEP2020

Workshops 07-Jan-2023

Venue Asian International School
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mr. Sushil Kumar Sinha, Dr. R.K. Agarwal
Participants Anindita Pal
Highlight Discussion through activities and role play on - Early childhood care and education; Fundamental literacy and numeracy; Curtailing drop- out rates and ensuring universal access to education at all levels; Curriculum and pedagogy in schools and Equitable and inclusive education.

Workshop - Teamwork

Workshops 07-Jan-2023

Resource Person Subhi Vijay Vargiya
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Teachers shared their experiences of working in a team. They divided themselves into groups and chose a word that starts with each letter of the word TEAMWORK which describes what makes a successful team.

Training on Animation as Digital Resource for Teaching and Learning

Workshops 30-Dec-2022

Organized By CIET NCERT
Resource Person CIET NCERT
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight It was an extensive training for 4 days on various animation tools which can be used as digital resource for teaching.Various animation types, 2D, 3D and stop motion animation explained in details. Thorough demonstration of free open source applications like Pixton, Krita, Wick Editor were done by different resource person from various institutes.

Edu Carnival 2022 : Reimagining & Rebuilding K 12 Education

Workshops 30-Dec-2022

Venue IIT Delhi
Organized By Edu Excellence
Resource Person Prof Harish Chaudhry, Mr Manish Sisodia, Mr Shiv Khera & others
Participants Jaya Misra
Highlight It was an enriching experience where 400+ delegates from different corners of India assembled to address common concerns, seeking solutions for the K 12 learners. A number of sessions left the attendees with thought provoking questions and gave a new dimension to the teaching learning process.

Workshop on Animation as digital resource for teaching and learning

Workshops 30-Dec-2022

Organized By: CIET
Resource Person: Dr. Rejaul Karim Barbhuiya, Mr. S. Simon Peter Paul, Ms. Pratima Singh, Mr. Santosh Kumar Bisin, Mr. M. Thangaraja
Participants: Udita Chakraborty
Highlight: Use of animation in the teaching- learning process was discussed. Use of different tools like Stop Motion , Comic Strip, Pixton, Krita and Wick Editor for creating animation and thereby learn to make their own story and even comics was demonstrated.

industrial incubation at the AIC-Atal Incubation Center under the Nalanda Institute of Technology (Bhubaneswar)

External Events 28-Dec-2022

Three teams from Lakshmipat Singhania Academy (Sambhav, Park-at and Cancer Care) are going through the process of industrial incubation at the AIC-Atal Incubation Center under the Nalanda Institute of Technology (Bhubaneswar) to create MVP-Market Viable product. They are among the ATL Marathon's top 350 teams from thousands of pan-India teams.
ATL Marathon is the flagship program by ATAL Tinkering Lab across 10,000 schools.
Wishing them the very best !

Visit to Alipore Jail Museum

Educational Trips 22-Dec-2022

Venue: Alipore Jail Museum
Participants: Students of classes VI to IX
Highlight: The students took part in an educational trip to the Alipore Jail Museum. It was a walk through the history of pre independent India as the correctional home has been a silent witness to the brutalities inflicted upon the freedom fighters. It was a deep learning experience for the students. Students understood, how and where our freedom fighters were imprisoned, their contribution in freedom, important facts about them and their sacrifices.

Japanese Calligraphy workshop

Workshops 20-Dec-2022

Resource Person: Sensei Nigamaha
Participants: Students of classes VIII, IX & XI
Highlight: Sensei Nigamaha conducted a wonderful workshop of doing authentic Japanese Calligraphy for 30 students of class VIII to XI. They were introduced to a special kind of paper, brush and ink and learnt to write two words in Japanese. It was a very rewarding workshop. Aarav Bharany, the Head Boy, specially attended the workshop to interact with her in Japanese and convey her words to our students in English

Earth Reel Finals

External Events 19-Dec-2022

Organized By: Earth Day Network
Resource Person: Earth Day Network
Participants: Anikait Chakraborty, Riddhima Koley, Shivangi Dey and Megha Dasgupta
Highlight: 4 students of class 12 D (Anikait Chakraborty, Riddhima Koley, Shivangi Dey and Megha Dasgupta) had prepared a film titled 'Phataphati Fashion'. After qualifying the prelims, the team presented its film and research to the jury. The films speaks about sustainable fashion and how we must be more responsible in safeguarding the environment. 

Video Link: Click Here

Emerging Trends in Computer Science Education for K 12

Workshops 18-Dec-2022

Organized By Super Teachers
Resource Person Mr. Vasudevan Natarajan
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight The session emphasized on the importance of Computer Science education post NEP 2020. It is not considered as an additional subject but should be considered as one of the mainstream subject. The organization has come up with a comprehensive study material for Computer Science for classes 1 to 8 at the present moment.

CBSE Science Exhibition

External Events 13-Dec-2022

Venue Hariyana Vidya Mandia
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Students of Classes IX X
Highlight It was a good experience by the students. Lot of amazing exhibits were there. It’s a very good platform for students to learn. Our teams were named as Oushadh and Nerro. Oushadh team made a protottype of an oxygen concentrator by mixing ancient and modern techniques where as team Nerro made a pocket water filter which can remove pathogens and produce filtered water.

Christmas Craft to celebrate Christmas

Activities in LSA 09-Dec-2022

Participants: Students from Montessori to Class PS II
Highlight: Children learnt different ways of art work to make apt christmas crafts for the season. They learnt to share materials and not to waste the same.

Class XII Batch trip to Taki

Educational Trips 07-Dec-2022

Venue: Sonar Bangla Hotel at Taki
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Students enjoyed the trip with a lot of fun. Food and accommodation was good. Lot of activities such as volleyball, cricket and football were organized.

Embracing Multilingualism in Classrooms

Workshops 05-Dec-2022

Organized By COE Dehradun
Resource Person Prashant Kumar
Participants Runa Ghosh
Highlight The session discussed the requisites of multilingualism in classrooms and its advantages and disadvantages. It stressed on the need to make multilingualism a resource in the classroom.

NEP 2020 Progressive Leader

Workshops 03-Dec-2022

Organized By KIDEX
Participants Ashis Majumder
Highlight Received certificate for active contribution towards implementation of section 4.35 of National Education Policy 2020.

Founder's Day 2022

Activities in LSA 03-Dec-2022

Venue: Kala Mandir
Participants: All Students and Staff of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Highlight: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy celebrated its 27th Founder's Day with immense enthusiasm. Upholding the ideals of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, students presented a dance drama Onward and Upward tracing the contours of India's momentous milestones across 75 years. It brought in a confluence of the five elements, Agni, Vayu, Prithvi, Jal, Vyom, and relived how India charted its course from a battered economy to one of the largest democracies of the world across the symbolic elements.

Raise awareness of human trafficking in cyberspace

Workshops 30-Nov-2022

Organized By Central Academy for Police Training, Bhopal under Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. Of India
Resource Person Sutapa Sanyal, former Director General of Police
Participants Students of Classes X & XII
Highlight It was an awareness programme against Human trafficking in cyberspace (with reference to child trafficking) for students of classs X and XII. Former Director General of police Ms. Sutapa Sanyal discussed about the reason of such trafficking, Economic ad social causes underlying the trafficking. 
The program also highlighted on how does cyber trafficking actually happen and how children are more vulnerable in getting into it. How do the trafficked people behave and how we can prevent it was also discussed.

Visit to Antara Gram Hospital for mentally Ill.

Educational Trips 29-Nov-2022

Venue Antara Gram
Resource Person Dr Biyoy Jacob
Participants Students of Class XII
Highlight It was a day trip, the journey was very comfortable. Students got an opportunity to interact very closely with the patients of Antara. A cultural program was organised by them as well as our students also performed. Students visited all the different wards. The Psychology students were sensitized about mental illness. It was a life time experience for all Psychology students.

Workshop on Bharhut Gallery

External Events 29-Nov-2022


Venue: Indian Museum
Organized By: Indian Museum
Resource Person: Mistuni Mukherjee
Participants: Chandril Mukherjee(XII D), Muskan Goel(XII D), Riddhima Koley(XII D), Yamini Agarwal(XII D)
Highlight: The workshop was conducted taking the artefacts as sources of writing history, teaching
Buddhist philosophy and exposing students to Gandhara and Mathura school of art.

IBM Virtual Under 18 Internships

External Events 28-Nov-2022

Organized By IBM
Participants Srikar Ayalasomayajula, Saurjesh Chatterjee, Amol Dalmia, Aneek Chakrabarti, Neev Attalani
Highlight They enjoyed the internship as they faced a glimpse of the corporate and its challenges. It taught them innovative thinking based on real life problem solving and there were sessions conducted by people from IBM. They were broken into groups and each group was guided by an IBM mentor who
helped them put together projects to solve real world issues. Their teams created a project to solve the rising air pollution in cities like Delhi and a Portable Smart Water Purification Technology.

Experiential Learning

Workshops 27-Nov-2022

Venue Jyotirmoy Public School
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person COE , Bhubaneswar
Participants Mousumi Mukherjee, Rupa Mazumdar
Highlight The workshop was on experiential learning based on a number of activities which could be done with different subjects catering to different types of learners.

Book donation drive

Activities in LSA 26-Nov-2022

Resource Person Nirdhan Development & Microfinance
Participants All Students of our Academy
Highlight Students Pre primary to Senior sec. participated in Book donation drive. To serve the underprivileged section of the society by providing them with resources LSA organized book donation drive hand in hand with Nirdhan Development and Microfinance. School received an over whelming response from the students of Pre primary to Senior section. A huge number of books were being donated to the NGO who is trying their level best to make the people of local community 'functionally literate'.

Career Fair

Activities in LSA 25-Nov-2022

Resource Person Mindler
Participants Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight 25 Universities: FLAME, KREA, ASHOKA, MARQUETTE etc National and International participated in the career fair organised by our school in collaboration with Mindler for classes IX to XII.

Mindler Career Counselling

Activities in LSA 24-Nov-2022

Resource Person Mindler Coaches
Participants Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight Class X students, 1 1 session was conducted about their aptitude and interests. students got guidance on stream selection. workshops for classes 9 to 12 were also conducted.

West Bengal School Debating Championship

External Events 23-Nov-2022

Venue Akash institute, Deshapriya Park
Organized By Calcutta Debating Circle
Resource Person Calcutta Debating Circle
Participants Students of Class IX & XI
Highlight Mahey Jain (9D) and Vanshika Kothari (11D) represented the school. The topic was The house is desirable of Brain drain. Mahey spoke against while Vanshika was for the house.

Workshop on Demistifying AI

Workshops 23-Nov-2022

Organized By CBSE and Intel
Resource Person Ms Sapna Bist
Participants Sudakshina Datta
Highlight Importance of AI as subject had been discussed. Discussion about promotion sessions and bootcamp done to promote the topic amongst students.

Times School Quiz

External Events 23-Nov-2022

Venue Hyatt Regency Kolkata
Organized By Times of India Quiz
Participants Students of Class X B
Highlight Vanalika Rathi, Manya Chopra and Ayush Anchalia from class 10 got selected from preliminary round. They were invited to attend the Times School Quiz 2022 Grand finale .They have enjoyed the quiz session. They received participation certificates at the end of session.

Mid Day Meal

Activities in LSA 23-Nov-2022

Venue Jankalyan Vidya Peeth
Participants Students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight Students learnt to prepare nutritional mid day meal for students of Jankalyan Vidyapeeth, Behala.They organised the collection of food ,cutting vegetables cooking the items in school premises packaging and distributing to the students

Joyful Mathematics

Workshops 22-Nov-2022

Venue Indus Valley World School, Kolkata
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Pankaj Kumar Jha and Bibhash Saha
Participants Soumitra Maji
Highlight Teachers learned common errors of maths, tricky sums, GeoGebra also did many activities.

English Language Teaching

Workshops 19-Nov-2022

Venue: The Park Hotel
Organized By: Oxford University Press
Resource Person: Dr. Sabina Pillai
Participants: Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: The workshop threw light on the different teaching strategies that are expected to be incorporated during classroom teaching. A teacher is a scaffolding agent who reinforces the topics learnt.
The workshop successfully connected pedagogy with the future roll out of NEP 2020.

The Times of India School Quiz

External Events 18-Nov-2022

Organized By: Times Of India
Resource Person: Times Of India
Participants: Students of Classes VII – XII
Highlight: The preliminary round was conducted in school for students of classes VII to XII. Only 3 students will be selected from here for the final round. The quiz covered aspects from all walks of life allowing to understand the student's range of general knowledge.

Event: Studying Sources: Teaching History with a Difference

Workshops 18-Nov-2022


Venue: Indian Museum
Organized By: Teachers' Centre
Resource Person: Dr. Amita Prasad
Participants: Kanak Shankar Mukherji, Mistuni Mukherjee, Sneha Singh
Highlight: Research and Activity oriented workshop conducted in Bharut gallery and the coins section. It integrates and interprets sources in teaching history.

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External Events 16-Nov-2022

Venue: Shiksha Bhawan
Organized By: RMSA KOLKATA
Resource Person: Sanjay Bhattacharya
Participants: Avni Khodiar (IX C)
Highlight: A tough competition where each and every participant was well trained and talented. Each participant had to answer questions from judges after performance.

Embracing Multilingualism in Classrooms

Workshops 16-Nov-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Gurmeet Kaur
Participants Udita Chakraborty
Highlight Use of mother tongue at the elementary level, transition between languages and mixing words and expressions from different languages in the same spoken or written utterance was discussed.Speaking a second or third language will boost confidence and increase self esteem. Being multilingual or bilingual often helps children learn at school because it helps them with problem solving, multitasking, creativity and flexible thinking

Tinkering Day

Activities in LSA 14-Nov-2022

Organized By NITI Aayog and Atal Innovation Mission
Resource Person Mr. Dipankar Pal
Participants Students of Classes VI upwards
Highlight Students from schools across India have joined together to perform a mega tinkering activity on Atal Tinkering Day. They have enjoyed making a motorized mini fan.

Children's day celebration

Activities in LSA 14-Nov-2022

Participants All students of Montessori to Class XII
Highlight Children's day programme was celebrated with great pomp and enthusiasm. Students enjoyed their teachers performing skits, dance to the tune of their favourite programme and fashion walk with traditional attires. They also enjoyed the class party.

Capacity building Accountancy workshop

Workshops 11-Nov-2022

Venue Abhinav Bharti High School
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ravindra Singh, Subhasish Mazumdar
Participants Abhishek Sarkar, Bijay Raj Shaw, Sanjeeb Banerjee
Highlight Teachers are given handouts related to the subject and were apprised about the recent changes in the accountancy. Teachers discussed common errors and gave suggestions how it can be solved.

Behavioural Problems in Children and in the Classroom

Workshops 06-Nov-2022

Resource Person Teresa Gomes
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The topic was very interesting and informative. Teachers found it relatable and so actively participated in the discussions and shared their problems.

Teacher Training on Be Internet Awesome Programme

Workshops 05-Nov-2022

Resource Person BIA Programme conducted by Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The workshop helped the teachers to identify the different types of spams online and verify sources of news. The teachers were made aware of the impact of their digital footprint and how they can
monitor it.

Changing Face of Education in conjunction with NEP

Workshops 04-Nov-2022

Venue Hariyana Vidya Mandir
Organized By CBSE Sahodaya School Complex
Resource Person Dr. G. Balasubramanian & Dr. G. Thangadurai
Participants Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami
Highlight The workshop gave an insight on dealing with the current scenario in schools post pandemic in light of the NEP. It was an enriching session.

Soil Conservation

Activities in LSA 04-Nov-2022

Participants Piu Mahapatra
Highlight Active learning Selected students of class 8 and 9 decorated the bulletin boards of school to promote soil conservation. Resource room Topic Tree of life. Students learned while creating the boards about the importance of soil preservation and the bigger message that what holds us together (trees) are raised from soil.

Orientation and Q&A session on DTI

Workshops 31-Oct-2022

Organized By Ministry of Education Innovation Cell
Resource Person Dr Pooja Rawat
Participants Niladri Kumar Motilal
Highlight The session aimed to introduce ‘Design Thinking and Innovation’ skill module to 6th class students in academic year 2022-23 to provide students with the tools and exposure to be able to address problems using the design thinking process. It focused more on hands-on knowledge, learning by doing and acting upon challenges discovered within the community and surroundings.

Humanizing Education

Workshops 29-Oct-2022

Organized By LuminatEd, Learners International School, Greater Noida
Resource Person Ms Manisha Trivedi
Participants Amritah Sen, Mumu Mukherjee
Highlight The program was about bringing the student out of classroom and work in the society in a meaningful way. The participating teachers and the students shared their experiences. It was encouraging to know about an alternative way of teaching/learning that has a direct way to take part in the society. The engagement models at three levels was discussed along with the inward journey through community service.

BP 6th Annual Lecture

Workshops 29-Oct-2022

Venue Nehru Children's Museum
Organized By Bichitra Pathshala
Resource Person Dr. Ananda Lal
Participants Sourina Bose, Kanak Shankar Mukherji
Highlight The topic of the lecture was The teacher as theatre. Professor Dr. Lal drew several parallels between teaching, act of teaching and theatre elements. The session focused on how as teachers we spend time within classroom and planning for lessons is almost like time spent for preparing a self scripted and self directed solo theatre performance day after day.

Story telling in the classroom

Workshops 28-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Chitrakala Ramachandran
Participants Kulbir Kaur
Highlight The workshop was on using stories to make the classroom teaching learning more interesting. It also emphasized on how storytelling enhances visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners in different ways.
Story telling can be integrated in all the subjects and not only just languages.

Child Psychology Understanding development strategies

Workshops 27-Oct-2022

Organized By COE Prayagraj
Resource Person Dr.Andalib Zahera
Participants Shubhasree Das Gupta
Highlight The session discussed that development mostly involved changes, both growth and decline, as observed in old ages. Freud described human mind by two models: they are topographic model and psychic triad model. Topographic model contains human triad that is conscious mind, preconscious mind and subconscious mind and psychic triad model consists of id, ego and super ego.

Importance of Gratitude

Workshops 26-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Chand Trehan
Participants Kulbir Kaur
Highlight The topic was Importance of Gratitude in today's world. The resource person focussed on how we educationists need to introspect on the importance of gratitude and how to pass this virtue on to the upcoming generation. Later she also discussed about the significance of the same in the long
run.

21st Centry Skills

Workshops 25-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE COE Bhopal
Resource Person Lizarani Das
Participants Priti Kedia
Highlight It was an interesting workshop with focus on developing 21st century skills for the learners.

Workshop on financial literacy

Workshops 21-Oct-2022

Venue School premises 8th floor assembly hall
Participants Students of Class IX
Highlight Students participated in question - answer session of the workshop to clarify their doubts in personal finance.

Effective Communication

Workshops 21-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Sarada C
Participants Kulbir Kaur
Highlight The workshop was on effective communication and the 4 communication skills. Different types of communication were discussed namely, non verbal, verbal, formal and informal. Apart from this various barriers in effective communication and how to overcome them were discussed.

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Activities in LSA 21-Oct-2022

Venue LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY
Organized By LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY
Resource Person VARIOUS CRAFT ARTIST
Participants IX A, IX B, IX C, IX D

Highlight The students were exposed to art integrated education and experiential learning through a 10 hour workshop held over five days.
Students specialising in pattachitra paintings had managed to create beautiful tribal art paintings depicting man’s relationship with nature. They had even interacted with the artisan teaching them and learnt about her roots.

The most dedicated crowd was found at the corner of the room where carpentry was being taught. Students were working with their chisels and mallets, eager to create the perfect boat, doll or box. A variety of skills such as wood cutting, shaping and carving were learnt.

Shell art progressed at a gradual rate from making simple to complicated items. However, by the end of five days, students seemed to have mastered the art. They started by making jewellery such as hairpins out of shells. This progressed to making animals such as deer and lovebirds. By the fifth day, they had made statues of gods such as Ganesh and Krishna.

Another unique craft was making dolls out of cloth and cotton. Students learnt important life skills such as how to cut and sew cloth via this activity. This activity required a lot of intricate work and patience. However, as a result students got to take back lifelike bewitching dolls to adorn their homes.

Another group of students were taught to make earrings, necklaces and bracelets using reed, colourful beads and date palm leaves. Jewellery making can be very subjective. Each student depicted their creativity by adding their own little touches to the jewellery they made.

At the end of the five day workshop, students were proud of their creations and had embraced their country’s traditional crafts. Students underwent a full circle right from starting to making finished products and also buying crafts item in the kaarigar haat.

A Visit to HelpAge India

Educational Trips 21-Oct-2022

Venue Kalyan Ashram
Participants Aarshia Das and Ikshita Agarwal (V Bluebells)
Highlight On the occasion of Deepawali, a visit to HelpAge India (Kalyan Ashram, Chetla) was made by the students of class V accompanied by two teachers Ms. Aloka Sensharma and Ms. Kulbir Kaur. They distributed sarees and diyas among the 10 inmates of the old age home. Students amused them with a dance performance and by singing a song. It was a good experience for the students as well as the inmates of the old age home.

Bagless Days

Activities in LSA 21-Oct-2022

Participants: Students of Classes III to V
Highlight: In accordance with NEP 2020, our academy conducted Bagless Days for the students. During these 2
weeks, students had Open Book Projects, participated in various interesting activities and had
educational excursions. Some of the activities conducted were as follows: Non - gas cooking, a
fruitful session by the peer educators, Zumba, Mandala Art, Diya designing, Story Telling (with
puppets), Math Workshop, English Vocabulary sessions, Jewellery designing, Aerobics, Indian Folk
dance, Music workshop on the importance of music in films, Foley music, Beat boxing etc, Karate,
Awareness on Bullying, Indian folk Music, Lantern making, demonstration of Reverse Osmosis, Save
Soil Activity and Activity based on Veergatha (SSC). Apart from the above a workshop was conducted
by Young Indians which focused on Cyber Safety, Road Safety and Positive Affirmations. Teachers
also had a Circle Time to instill discipline, etiquette, confidence building, managing emotions and
accepting failure. Overall, it was an enriching experience for all the students of classes IV to VIII.

Salient features of NEP

Workshops 20-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Shitala Prabhu
Participants Shubhasree Das Gupta
Highlight The resource person discussed about the policies which we are practising. It was also discussed that expectations from the schools under NEP is to enable teachers to design practical and application based activities which will enhance critical, creative thinking skills and other skills among the students.

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Activities in LSA 20-Oct-2022

Resource Person Craft Artists and few NGOs
Participants Students of Classes III to XII
Highlight Students of classes 3 to 12 visited the Kaarigar Haat at the scheduled time and bought craft items from the craft artists. Students were exposed to various traditional crafts of India and they became supporters of the same by purchasing products made by them.

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Happy Teachers creating Happy Spaces

Workshops 20-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Namita Agarwal
Participants Udita Chakraborty
Highlight The session was about how to create happiness through achievements and success, how the growth mindset, learning from our mistakes, stickers, smileys help to enhance happiness. It also talked about the importance of positive self-thought like I am enough, I can control my happiness etc.
Stress was put on how to maintain Home-School and Work-Life Balance through - Meditation, Spirituality, hobby etc. and discussed the pathways to happiness through Empathy, Gratitude, Optimism etc.

All India Arithmetic Genius Contest 2022 (Round 1)

External Events 20-Oct-2022

Organized By SIP Academy
Resource Person SIP Academy
Participants Students of Classes I to V
Highlight The competition was a good way for students to gauge their problem solving skills as they had to complete the sums on mental ability within the stipulated time.

All India Arithmetic Genius Contest 2022 Round 1

Activities in LSA 20-Oct-2022

Organized By:        SIP Acad

Resource Person :   SIP Academy

Participants    :        Students of Classes I to V

Highlight       :         The competition was a good way for students to gauge their problem solving skills as they had to complete the sums on mental ability within the stipulated time.

 

Workshop on Introducing Physical Computing and Project Based Learning

Workshops 19-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE and Arm School Program
Resource Person Arm School Program
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight The details of involvement of Physical Computing in classroom teaching was discussed.

Role of theatre and drama in classroom

Workshops 19-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Ritu Bajpayee
Participants Shubhasree Das Gupta
Highlight How riddles and puzzles in Mathematics will help the students to enhance their logical skills were discussed.

Excel with K W L

Workshops 18-Oct-2022

Organized By Arizona State University
Resource Person Dilafruz Vosieva
Participants Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight It was an informative session on K W L charts, extension activities and how to engage students with the same.

Addressing Socio emotional needs of students

Workshops 18-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Sandeep Kumar
Participants S. Anandhi
Highlight The resource person discussed in detail about the five keys of socio emotional learning skills – Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills and Responsible Decision Making.

Trip to BITM

Educational Trips 18-Oct-2022

Venue BITM
Participants Students of Classes IV
Highlight A trip to BITM was planned for the students of class 4 on Tuesday, 18th October 2022. A total number of 128 students enthusiastically joined the excursion. The students enjoyed the 3D show, science show, coal mine and science gallery. The trip was informative and exciting and helped to augment the curiosity and knowledge of the students.

Practicing Blended Learning

Workshops 17-Oct-2022

Organized By CBSE COE Delhi East
Resource Person Vandana Banga
Participants Priti Kedia
Highlight The workshop was very interesting as the resource person discussed about the various online platforms that can be used to make teaching and learning more meaningful and enjoyable.

Leadership - Leading from the Frontg

Workshops 17-Oct-2022

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Anil Kumar Patnaik
Participants Ranjini Chakravarty
Highlight Leading from the Front session taught elements of being a successful leader. As a leadership style, leading from the front means playing an active and visible role in the everyday life.

CBSE Workshop Promoting Mental Health

Workshops 17-Oct-2022

Venue Online
Organized By COE Bubaneshwar
Resource Person JHINUK DUTTARAY
Participants AFSHAN NAHID, ARWAH HUSSAIN DEESAWALA, KHADIJA AAMIR CHOONAWALA, PRIYA
MOZUMDAR, REKHA DAYANI, TIKSHNA CHOPRA
Highlight This session was designed to build participants’ awareness about common mental health conditions. The session explored the signs of common mental illnesses, their types, how they might present in a school setting and provided tips to starting a mental health conversation.

Educational Trip to Science City

Educational Trips 17-Oct-2022

Venue Science City
Organized By Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person
Participants V ASTERS, V BLUEBELLS, V CARNATIONS, V DAISIES

Highlight: Students of class 5 enjoyed all the shows- Dark Ride, Evolution of Life on Earth, Panorama of Human Evolution and Mirror Magic Exhibition in Space . They could relate them with SSC and EVS topics learnt. The Mirror Magic Exhibition was most interesting. Students interacted very well with the presenter of the show. Overall it was a good learning experience for them.

LEADERSHIP LEADING FROM THE FRONT

Workshops 17-Oct-2022

Venue WEBEX
Organized By COE BHUBENSHWAR
Resource Person ANIL KUMAR PATNAIK
Participants RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY

Highlight Leading from the Front session taught elements of being a successful leader. As a leadership style, leading from the front means playing an active and visible role in the everyday life.

Practicing Blended Learning

Workshops 17-Oct-2022

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE COE Delhi East
Resource Person Vandana Banga
Participants PRITI KEDIA

Highlight The workshop was very interesting as the resource person discussed about the various online platforms that can be used to make teaching and learning more meaningful and enjoyable.

Abhilakshya and Bullionaire 2022

Activities in LSA 15-Oct-2022

Venue LSA
Organized By LSA
Participants Students of classes 6 to 12
Highlight The halls of LSA echoed with loud cheers on 14th and 15th October as the school organised interschool fest Abhilakshya and Bullionaire 22 for classes 6 12. 11 schools participated in the 2 days event. LSA was declared as the champions followed by first runners up -DPS Megacity and 2nd Runners up - Army Public School Barrackpore.

CYBER SECURITY AND ETHICS

Workshops 15-Oct-2022

Venue WEBEX
Organized By CBSC
Resource Person CEO NOIDA
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA
Highlight Cyber ethics is a branch of computer technology behaviour that defines the best practices that must be adopted by a user when one uses the computer system. In simple words, cyber ethics refers to the basic ethics and etiquette that must be followed while using the computer system.

Strengthening Reading Competency

Workshops 14-Oct-2022

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Patna
Participants UDITA CHAKRABORTY

Highlight What is reading, importance of reading, benefits of reading, components of effective reading, what is involved in reading, its purpose, and vocabulary enhancement was discussed. Reading helps in comprehension. The resource person also talked about problems faced while reading.

Career Guidance

Activities in LSA 13-Oct-2022

Organized By BML Munjal University
Resource Person Mr Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Prof Vikas
Participants Students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight The students were in awe of the speaker and they got an insight into the courses offered by this University which is an initiative of the Hero group. It was an enriching session where the students had an interactive session with the Professor.

Workshop by Ashoka University

Activities in LSA 12-Oct-2022

Organized By Ashoka University
Participants Students of Class XII
Highlight Different career options in Ashoka University were discussed.

Working with Learning Disabilities

Workshops 11-Oct-2022

Organized By COE Chandigarh
Resource Person Mr. Ajay Khosla
Participants Ms. Teresa Gomes

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Jyotsna Grover
Participants S. ANANDHI


Highlight The workshop was very informative as the resource person shared his knowledge and experience regarding working with children with learning disabilities and shared ways to support and educate them.

Storytelling in Classroom

Workshops 11-Oct-2022

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Richa Ghosh
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Date 15/10/2022
Organized By COE Tiruvananthapuram
Resource Person Vasanthi Thiagarajan
Participants AFSHAN NAHID, ARWAH HUSSAIN DEESAWALA, KHADIJA AAMIR CHOONAWALA, PRIYA MOZUMDAR, REKHA DAYANI, TIKSHNA CHOPRA, RUNA GHOSH

Highlight The session was highly informative and engaging. The webinar highlighted that storytelling is an effective way of teaching as it allows students to understand the complex subject matter, creates an opportunity for deeper learning and develops communication. Ways to make storytelling effective in a classroom were discussed. Gibb's Reflective Cycle Model was discussed as well.

ART INTEGRATION ACROSS CURRICULUM

Workshops 11-Oct-2022

Venue ONLINE
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mrs. Manjula A
Participants SURANJANA CHAKRABORTY

Highlight The workshop helped to understand the following:
> 3 major forms of art
> Ways to integrate art into curriculum
> Music, dance and sports as tools for art integration

Adopting Inclusive Practices in Classroom

Workshops 10-Oct-2022

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Sujatha Girish
Participants S. ANANDHI

Highlight The session dealt with human differences, the definition of inclusive classroom, planning of a differentiated classroom etc. It also discussed about the different types of adaptations.

Constructivism

Workshops 10-Oct-2022

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms Stella Pauline Punitha
Participants S. ANANDHI

Highlight The session was very informative. Discussed about different stages, theories, concepts and principles of constructivism in detail.

Thinking Classroom Towards a Brighter Tomorrow

Workshops 08-Oct-2022

Venue Online
Organized By TDEACT
Resource Person Thanga Durai
Participants KULBIR KAUR

Highlight The workshop was on Thinking Classroom Towards a Brighter Tomorrow. It laid stress on the Critical Thinking and experiential learning listed down by NEP.

Setting Outcomes in Teaching Learning

Workshops 07-Oct-2022

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Chennai
Participants UDITA CHAKRABORTY

Highlight Essence of Learning Outcomes, Need for Learning Outcomes, Difference between Learning Objectives and Learning Outcomes, Result of Framing Learning Outcomes , Expectation parameter achieved or not were discussed. . It was helpful for the teachers.

21st Century Skills

Workshops 06-Oct-2022

Venue webex
Organized By COE NOIDA
Resource Person Vandana Banga
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, JILL SHAH, JYOTI GONDI, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, RAMA PODDAR, RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA
Highlight The workshop laid emphasis on how to prepare the students to be more flexible and adaptable in the constant changing workforce and be able to take on positions of leadership.

Child Psychology Understanding Developmental Stages

Workshops 06-Oct-2022

Venue Online
Organized By COE Delhi West
Resource Person Gurjeet Kaur
Participants TERESA GOMES
Highlight The resource person discussed in great detail the various development stages that occurs in a child’s life.

Content and Time Management

Workshops 06-Oct-2022

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mosam Sinha
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Highlight The session was informative. The session highlighted the importance of time management. Time management helps us spend time doing things we like and helps in professional growth. The session talked about how one should avoid distractions and set aside time for oneself.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Workshops 06-Oct-2022

Venue Webex
Organized By CBSE COE CHENNAI
Resource Person Mrs. Padmini Sriraman
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, JILL SHAH, JYOTI GONDI, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, RAMA PODDAR, RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA

Organized By COE CHANDIGARH
Resource Person NAVNEET KAUR
Participants RUNA GHOSH

Organized By CBSE CoE Pune
Resource Person Martha Veronica Pinto
Participants TERESA GOMES

Highlight The session discussed Slant Strategy in Communication Sit up, Lean in, Acknowledge the speaker, Nod, Track the speaker.
An effective strategy which can be implemented in class.

 

 

Bloom's Taxonomy and Its Application

Workshops 04-Oct-2022

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Jyotsna Grover
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Highlight The session was highly informative. The different cognitive domains of Bloom's Taxonomy were explained with examples. The educational objectives of Bloom's Taxonomy and how to include it in the Lesson Plan were discussed as well.

DIGITAL LEARNING AND MANAGEMENT

Workshops 04-Oct-2022

Venue ONLINE SESSION
Organized By COE BHOPAL
Resource Person DR RAJESH CHANDEL
Participants JILL SHAH, JYOTI GONDI, RAMA PODDAR, RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY, S. ANANDHI

Resource Person Mr. Chandan Singh
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Highlight It was a very well designed workshop where the term digital learning was explained. Its components, importance and use in teaching- learning method were discussed giving a clear picture about digital learning.

Date 07/10/2022
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Karpagam C Arasappan
Participants S. Anandhi
Highlight The session was informative. The webinar highlighted the fact that digital learning is essential as it increases access to education and knowledge. Names of digital tools were also shared.

IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL HYGIENE AND NUTRITION

Workshops 04-Oct-2022

Venue Webex
Organized By COE Thiruvananthapuram
Resource Person Rekha Pachauri
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA

Highlight The workshop was very enriching and it spread the awareness regarding the importance of maintaining a balanced diet and an oral hygiene which were explained with a lot of examples. Emphasis was given on Nutrition and its appropriate consumption for a healthy living. The resource person was a confident speaker.

VALUE EDUCATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

Workshops 04-Oct-2022

Event VALUE EDUCATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
Venue ONLINE
Organized By COE NOIDA
Resource Person MADAN SAWHNEY
Participants RUNA GHOSH

Highlight The session dealt with the need of value education, its aims and different levels. It stressed on how value education empowers the students to develop skills that are needed in the contemporary world.

CBSE WORKSHOP LIFE SKILLS

Workshops 03-Oct-2022

Venue ONLINE WEBEX
Organized By CBSE CHENNAI
Resource Person MRS DEETI SHARMA
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, JYOTI GONDI, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, RAMA PODDAR, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA
Highlight The resource person was a confident speaker and could deliver the lesson through an interactive session which was wonderful.

DEVELOPING RESILIENCE IN STUDENTS

Workshops 03-Oct-2022

Venue ONLINE
Organized By COE CHANDIGARH
Resource Person Anupama Sharma
Participants RUNA GHOSH

Highlight The session helped to understand the concept of resilience and acquire knowledge about the tools to help address resiliency issues among students.

Importance of Gratitude

Workshops 03-Oct-2022

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Yogesh Gambhir
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Highlight The session was highly engaging and informative. The session helped in understanding the importance of gratitude and the unexpected power it holds. Different ways to cultivate gratitude and its benefits were discussed as well.

Item Writing Multiple Choice Questions

Workshops 03-Oct-2022

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Noida
Participants UDITA CHAKRABORTY

Highlight Types of multiple choice questions and benefits of multiple choice questions were discussed. Options like all the above or none of the above should be avoided. Words with explicit meaning should be given so that there is no confusion and options given should be short and simple.

Exposure to coding

Workshops 29-Sep-2022

Organized By Microsoft
Resource Person Mrs Niti Dwivedi
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight We learned different units of coding to be taught for classes 7. We have understood the strategies to use coding by creating fun games. We have learned the coding using MakeCode software. We enjoyed the session and learned a lot from the workshop.

Capacity Building Session for class X AI Curriculum

Workshops 29-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE in association with Intel
Resource Person Mr. Sarthak Kumar, Ms.Ruchi Prasad
Participants Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight The resource people gave an insight to the class 10 AI Curriculum with adequate examples and samples for teaching the students effectively.

Experiential Learning in Practice

Workshops 29-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE CoE Pune
Resource Person Ms. Shahila Chandrashekar
Participants Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight The session explained how the class can be made interesting if examples of real life can be used while teaching. Integration with other subjects is also necessary for experiential learning. The resource person provided examples subject wise.

Happy Teachers Create Happy Classrooms

Workshops 28-Sep-2022

Organized By COE DELHI EAST
Resource Person Mr.Madan Sawhney
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The workshop was interesting. It helped us realize how to make others happy and what is happiness altogether. Characteristics of a happy teacher was explained and how to integrate happiness in a classroom was discussed in detail. Different domains of happiness and how it leads to a happy classroom were well explained.

Art Integration Across Curriculum

Workshops 27-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Delhi West
Participants Ms. Udita Chakraborty
Highlight The session stressed on the fact that Art Integration is a framework of experiential learning providing equitable learning environment for all learners through their own access points.
Students’engagement in art activities with the 5 W 's (what, why, who, where, and when) was discussed. It involves students in learning that is actively built, experiential, evolving, collaborative, problem-solving and reflective.

A Global Conclave On Emerging Trends in Computer Science Education

Workshops 26-Sep-2022

Organized By Super Teachers
Resource Person Dr. Sitanshu Mishra, Ms.Sonia Wadhwa,Ms. Vasudevan Natarajan
Participants Mr. Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms.Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight All the resource persons recognised the huge task that was undertaken and the paradigm shift in the roles of IT teachers in all schools during the pandemic situation and in the post pandemic era. There were expert talks of self up-skilling opportunities of CS teachers.

Art Gallery Visit

Educational Trips 23-Sep-2022

Venue: Kolkata Centre for Creativity
Participants: Students of Classes X & XII
Highlight: The students of class X and the Commercial art students of class XII went to experience artist Probir Gupta's show "Room Full of Mirrors" at Kolkata Centre for Creativity. They took a tour through the exhibition, interacted with the artist and made drawings of the piece that attracted them the most.

Representative Meet

Activities in LSA 23-Sep-2022

Participants Aarav Bharany, Shagun F
Highlight The representative Meet for Abhilakshya and Bullionaire 2022 was conducted on an online mode.
Representative teachers of other schools joined and clarified their doubts. The queries were efficiently handled by the Head Boy and the Head Girl.

SPICMACAY Programme

Activities in LSA 23-Sep-2022

Organized By SPICMACAY Kolkata
Resource Person Dr. Preeti Patel
Participants Students of Classes IX – XI
Highlight The students were witness to the cultural heritage of India in the form of Manipuri dance.
Wonderful session of classical dance rekindled the SPICMACAY culture in our school.

Does Sound matter?

Workshops 22-Sep-2022

Venue: Programmes and Logistics Centre, Jodhpur Park, Kolkata’s Teacher
Organized By: Programmes & Logistics Centre
Resource Person: Ms Arpita Chatterjee
Participants: Ms. Manidipa Lahiri, Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: Sound is a very effective medium of communication. It also helps in self defense. Sound is applied in various medical instruments. It is used as a therapy because sound has a lot of impact in psychology and behaviour. We all need to experience and get exposed to silence to introspect, improve concentration, de stress ourselves. It was suggested that schools can play soothing music when the students come to school and during dispersal time.

Teacher's Day Celebration

Activities in LSA 22-Sep-2022

Participants Students of class XII
Highlight The council and Committee members celebrated Teacher's Day with a theme Back to 90's. The event had dances, song and fashion show. The event took all the teachers back to their own childhood days.

Mass Media Studies - Board Practical Field Trip

Educational Trips 20-Sep-2022

Venue Taki, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal
Resource Person Ms.Sourina Bose
Participants Students of Class XII
Highlight 28 students of class 12 having Mass Media Studies as a Vocational subject went to Taki for a overnight field trip. They explored the flora and fauna of the place and captured every nuances of it.
River Ichhamati which separates India from Bangladesh was the centre of attraction. All 28 students carried their pre-approved scripts and shot individual films for the board practical.

Cyber Security and Ethics

Workshops 20-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Geetanjali Hota
Participants Ms.Asfia Rafique, Ms.Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight The session was highly informative as it guided the teachers about cyber security. The different rules to follow to help keep oneself safe in the cyberspace were explained along with relevant videos.
Solutions for viruses, adware and spyware were discussed as well.

Education for Peace

Workshops 20-Sep-2022

Event Education for Peace
Organized By COE - Dehradun
Resource Person Dr. Prakash Choudhary
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The role of a teacher as an educator for students was very well explained. Also, the basic source of peace- inner, social and natural was explained in detail. It helped us teachers to learn to promote peace through education among our students.

 

The Red Data Book of LSA

Activities in LSA 19-Sep-2022

Resource Person Book_ The Great Race - Art materials and online reliable sources for individual research
Participants Ms.Piu Mahapatra
Highlight An integration between Science and visual art. Students of class VIII were asked to create a Red Data Book where each one of them will collect data on any animal/plant from the conservation list and visually represent it in the Red Data Book using their prior learning of 'Data Visualization'. The style of Art form introduced is 'Wagrahi’, artist-Jagdish Chitara.

Donation Drive

Activities in LSA 18-Sep-2022

As per the requirement of HOPE KOLKATA FOUNDATION , dry grocery items like Rice, Dal, Oil, Atta, Maida, Biscuits, Muri, Dalia, Sattu, other dry snacks etc were collected by students and teachers over a span of 15 days and were distributed to the organization
We have these kind of drives many times in a year.

IT workshop

Workshops 17-Sep-2022

Resource Person All IT teachers
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight IT Department conducted IT workshop for teachers of several departments like English, Mathematics, Science and Social Science.The topic was machine learning. All teachers have completed the activities and they have discussed how they can implement the same in their teaching learning process.

Anger free schools

Workshops 16-Sep-2022

Organized By Mr.Anurodh Chitra
Resource Person COE-Chandigarh
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The importance of how to control oneself and their anger was explained in detail. Anger is not an entity but absence of something in a person was learnt.

 

 

YES Program

Beyond Boundaries 16-Sep-2022

Organized By AFS USA
Resource Person KL- YES
Participants Dayna Yoo, Ruth Ann Herrlinger
Highlight Dayna Yoo and Ruth Ann Herrlinger arrived from California and Denver respectively to engulf themselves in the Cultural Heritage of India. They will be residing with Prisha Bajaj and Mahey Jain.

CBSE Workshop on AI Curriculum of Class IX

Workshops 15-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE and INTEL
Resource Person Mr. Anoop Singh, Sarthak Naroor, Prachi Chandra
Participants Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight CBSE in association with INTEL organised the workshop to provide an insight to the CBSE curriculum of AI for class 9. The resource people explained the topics in detail and provided resources for teaching the subject effectively. It was a fruitful session.

Student Say

External Events 14-Sep-2022

Organized By Education World
Resource Person Education World
Participants Anahita Bhadra(VII D)
Highlight Anahita Bhadra was selected from the entire school to undergo a training in Journalism for over a year. She also completed her individual film & news report.

Workshop on Deliberating on Ethics and Integrity

Workshops 12-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE COE Allahabad
Resource Person Dr.Ambika Prasad Gaur
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The meanings of deliberation and integration were explained. Examples for each were given. Types of integrity was explained. Vision and mission statement was elaborated in detail.

Stress Management Techniques

Workshops 10-Sep-2022

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Aparna Jamuar
Participants S. ANANDHI
Highlight The workshop was informative as it focussed on various ways that can be followed by the teachers to reduce their stress level as well as to keep a track of the students’ stress.

Teaching and Learning Styles

Workshops 10-Sep-2022

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Lizarani Das
Participants Teresa Gomes, S. Anandhi
Highlight The workshop was engaging as the resource person spoke very effectively about the different learning and teaching styles of students and teachers respectively.

Webinar – Let’s Jam Together

Workshops 09-Sep-2022

Organized By Arizona State University
Resource Person Claire McLaughlin
Participants Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight Interactive session on Jamboard was organized by the Senior Global Educator at ASU Global Launch. Technology enriched teaching was the focus.

Salient features of NEP 2020

Workshops 09-Sep-2022

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Pallabi Mohapatra
Participants S. Anandhi, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight The workshop was very informative as the resource person explained the salient features of NEP 2020 and how it can be implemented in our regular classes to achieve the goal.

Life skill

Workshops 09-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE

Participants Ms.Udita Chakraborty
Highlight The resource person talked about the ten core life skill strategies and techniques as: problem solving, critical thinking, effective communication skills, decision making, creative thinking, inter-personal relationship skills, self awareness building skills, empathy and coping with stress and emotions.

CBSE Budding Authors Programme

Workshops 08-Sep-2022

rganized By CBSE
Resource Person Menaka Raman
Participants Asfia Rafique, Kulbir Kaur, Runa Ghosh, Sohini Mitra Jain
Highlight The session was highly engaging and informative. The resource person discussed about the ways to improve creative writing skills. It was wonderfully explained how writing a story is like baking a cake - it requires different ingredients like characters, setting, drama and resolution. Tips on how to be a better writer were also shared.

Financial Literacy

Workshops 07-Sep-2022

Venue Sushila Birla Girls School
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mr. Alok Ghosh
Participants Around 20 teachers from our school
Highlight The session highlighted the basics of financial and retirement planning, term insurance policies, share market etc. with special mention to janaushadi.gov.in (central government based) from which people can get medicines in nominal rate.

Experiential Learning in Practice

Workshops 07-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mr. Prasanta Panda
Participants Asfia Rafique, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight The session was highly informative. It focussed on the fact that experiential learning is an engaged learning process where students 'learn by doing' and by reflecting on the experience. Different ways to incorporate experiential learning in the lesson plan were also discussed.

Anger Free Schools

Workshops 06-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Sushil Kumar Sinha
Participants Asfia Rafique, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight The session was very informative. The resource person discussed how to make schools anger free, what is anger management, ways to identify the anger signals and ways to stop an argument. He also talked about the consequences of anger and how it can affect individuals.

Setting Learning Outcome in Teaching and Learning

Workshops 06-Sep-2022

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Mr. Sarbeswar Samal
Participants S. Anandhi
Highlight The workshop was engaging as the resource person explained how to set the learning outcome while planning and if needed to be modified after the class or after the assessment process according to the students understanding level. He also mentioned that learning outcome may be set section wise to be very specific.

Content and Time Management

Workshops 06-Sep-2022

Event Content and Time Management
Organized By CBSE
Participants Ms.Udita Chakraborty
Highlight The key points discussed were to work out our goals, prioritise the important tasks break tasks down into manageable steps, recognise and reward our achievements and to value our time.

Capacity Building Workshop on Item Authors for Grade 11 & 12 History and Geography

Workshops 02-Sep-2022

Event Capacity Building Workshop on Item Authors for Grade 11 & 12 History and Geography
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Mistuni Mukherjee, Mumu Mukherjee
Highlight Based on the Competency Based Assessments held from 5th October to 14 th October 2022. Both were selected for a training session for authoring question paper and reviewing question papers from paper setters from all over India.

STEAM CONFERENCE with TinkRworks

Workshops 01-Sep-2022

Venue Oberoi Grand Banquet
Organized By UJ learn
Resource Person Dr. Anu Mahajan, Mr. Drew Yemm, Mr. Gil Levendel
Participants Dipankar Pal, Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight The Spokesperson gave an insight into the importance of integrating STEAM into our curriculum and also talked about the potential of the subject in the worldwide market. TinkRrworks aims at providing a hands on projects and experiential learning solutions to school students.

Understanding Multiple Intelligence

Workshops 01-Sep-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Sankar Prasad Dutta
Participants Asfia Rafique, Suranjana Chakrabarti, Teresa Gomes
Highlight The session was highly engaging and informative. The following were discussed in detail -
> Howard Gardener's Theory of Multiple Intelligence
> Nine types of intelligence and how to identify them in a classroom environment.
> Lesson Planning with Multiple Intelligence
> Effect of Multiple Intelligence on teaching learning styles.

2nd Sahodaya Meeting

Workshops 27-Aug-2022

Venue Saltlake Shiksha Niketan
Organized By Sahodaya Kolkata
Participants Jaya Misra
Highlight It was a platform to discuss common problems and upcoming activities of Sahodaya were shared.

SSWS 42 school synergy games in Mathematics classroom

Workshops 27-Aug-2022

Organized By TISS
Resource Person Dr. Ruchi S Kumar
Participants Indrani Das, Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight Explanation of a concept through interactive games.

Navigating our way in Post Covid Times

Workshops 23-Aug-2022

Venue Indus Valley World School
Organized By Association for Primary Education & Research (APER) Territory
Resource Person Dr. Reena Sen & Ms. Amita Prasad
Participants Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami
Highlight The Kolkata Chapter for APER was launched at this educator's meet. Dr Sen delivered the key note address which was followed by an interactive session to share the best practices. Each school was requested to tie up with an NGO and adopt and if students can be engaged in social service in an organized manner.

CBSE Workshop on Developing Resilience in Students

Workshops 22-Aug-2022

Organized By COE Bhubaneshwar
Resource Person Prasanta Kumar Panda
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The need for developing resilience through classroom activities was stressed by the resource person.
Building resilience is the key to helping students develop the ability to overcome stressful and challenging experiences. Children face challenges at various levels and resilience helps them to overcome obstacles and bounce back from perceived failures.

What Great Teachers Do Differently

Workshops 20-Aug-2022

Resource Person Bindiya Kaur Gill
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight PowerPoint Presentation was shared where skills that an educator needs to be an effective teacher in this century was discussed in details. Importance and types of praise were discussed by sharing a video on the same.

Workshop on Engaging the Disengaged

Workshops 20-Aug-2022

Resource Person Manmeet kaur
Participants Teachers of Primary Department
Highlight The topic for the workshop was 'Engaging the Disengaged'. The session highlighted the meaning of student engagment and different ways how the students display engagement. It also emphasized the need for engaging the students to ensure effective learning. Certain strategies were discussed in
order to make the curriculum engaging. Strategies to motivate the reluctant learners were also discussed.

Workshop on Learning Styles and Strategies

Workshops 20-Aug-2022

Resource Person Rama Poddar
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight It was an interactive session. The features of different types of learners and strategies for each type
was discussed. Video clips relevant to the topic were shown after the PowerPoint Presentation.

Future of Education 5.0

Workshops 18-Aug-2022

Venue Hyatt Regency, Kolkata
Organized By ASSOCHAM & Affairs
Resource Person Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon'ble Minister of Education, Government of India
Participants Jaya Misra, Jayati Gowami
Highlight It was an interactive session with the Minister where future plans were shared with representatives from the industry, colleges, universities and schools.

KIC Career Fair

Activities in LSA 18-Aug-2022

Organized By KIC
Participants Students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight 18 University representatives put up their stalls to interact with students of classes 11 12.

Save Soil Movement

External Events 18-Aug-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Students of classes III – V
Highlight The students were apprised about the movement and the need to save soil as the planet is in danger because of the depleting layer of soil. In accordance to the CBSE guidelines, the children wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of our country in their own language based on their understanding.

Author Led Training on New Oxford Modern English Coursebook

Workshops 17-Aug-2022

Organized By Oxford University Press (OUP)
Resource Person Prakriti Srivastava
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Developing communication skills through phonetics was discussed. Emphasis was on Critical and Creative Thinking elements, figurative speech and psycholinguistic aspect. How to make phrases, idioms and story telling interesting. Stressed upon using blended words and importance of talking in the classroom. Taught a life skill through preposition. Showed how associated learning helps.
Suggested ways to work upon lack of focus amongst the children. Videos shown and activities were done for better understanding.

75th Independence Day

Activities in LSA 15-Aug-2022

Participants Selected students of our academy with various talents
Highlight The 75th Independence Day was celebrated in the school premises on 15th August 2022 . Students of classes V XII witnessed a variety of programmes presented by the students of the Academy. The national flag was hoisted at 9 am followed by the speeches of Director Ma'am, Meena Kak, the Chief Guest, Brigadier Debasis Das, speeches by students in both English and Hindi, a patriotic song, a couple of group dances, a Nukkad Natak and a video presentation and vote of Thanks by the Vice Principal, Ms. Jaya Misra.

Scholastic India Meeting

Workshops 14-Aug-2022

Organized By Scholastic
Participants Ms. Meena Kak , Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight Writers Academy, Teacher enhancement program and Students Internship Plan was broadly discussed.

KL YES

Beyond Boundaries 14-Aug-2022

Organized By AFS INDIA
Resource Person AFS USA
Participants Navya Khemka (XI B)
Highlight Navya Khema is in Cleveland, USA to study in Chardon High school under the prestigious scholarship of Kenedy Lugar YES program

SAMHITA –Art Event

External Events 12-Aug-2022

Venue Birla Bharati School
Organized By Birla Bharati School
Participants Students of Classes X – XI
Highlight Four students from class 10 and 11 participated in the art event Samhita of Birla Bharati fest Svatantryam. They worked as a group and used recycled objects on a specific theme.

ICC ED TECH SUMMIT

Workshops 11-Aug-2022

Venue TAJ Bengal
Organized By ICC
Participants Ms. Meena Kak , Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight A hybrid event Enrich, Equip and Execute by listening to visionaries.

Orientation Session for Principals on School Health and Wellness programme

Workshops 10-Aug-2022

Venue Delhi (Virtual)
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person NCERT, UNESCO, CBSE
Participants Ms. Meena Kak , Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight Discussions on the physical and mental well-being of our students, empowering students and implementation of the health curriculum were held.

CBSE Workshop on Strengthening Reading Competency

Workshops 10-Aug-2022

Organized By COE Noida
Resource Person Ms Rekha Pachauri
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Reading is the root competency which leads to understanding, analysing, interpreting, evaluating and creating. Reading involves much more than reading the written word. The resource person emphasised on teaching reading through various ways(independent reading, paired reading, group reading, games, use of school library, reading corner, visuals in the school environment) to aid children's progress in school.

Har Ghar Tiranga : Hoist a flag at your house

External Events 08-Aug-2022

Organized By Ministry of Culture
Resource Person Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav
Participants Students
Highlight It was an innovative event to participate in and pin a flag at their location with the help of Google map. Won a digital e certificate after successful participation.

Workshop on Design Thinking and Innovation

Workshops 06-Aug-2022

Organized By LSA and CBSE and Ministry of Education Innovation Cell
Resource Person Dr. Sonal Yadav Rupa Chakravarthy Ravi Poovah and Prajakta Kulkarniiah
Participants Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami, Mousumi Mukherjee, Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Sudakshina Datta 

Highlight Ministry of Educations Innovation Cell and CBSE conducted the Design Thinking and Innovation workshop for 60 teachers/ heads of various institutions. It was a mix of online and offline sessions which was a one day orientation for the DTI curriculum, assessment matrix and exposure to the teacher’s manual. The resource people explain the curriculum guideline of Design Thinking and Innovation and how to introduce the same at school level. Various hands on activities were there to hone innovation among participants. All were given a certificate at the end of the programme

The importance of Critical Thinking

Workshops 06-Aug-2022

Resource Person Runa Ghosh
Participants Teachers of Primary Department
Highlight The session dealt with the need to train students to think critically so as to develop their problem solving ability. Various strategies to incorporate critical thinking in classroom learning was discussed.

Blood Donation Camp

Activities in LSA 06-Aug-2022

Organized By Kothari Hospital
Resource Person Kothari Hospital
Participants Deepa Das
Highlight Students motivated parents to come and donate blood which is a social cause. They made banners, charts, hung balloons throughout the school to spread awareness. 35 parents and teachers had donated blood.

Workshop on Art Integration across Curriculum

Workshops 03-Aug-2022

Organized By COE Noida
Resource Person Deepa Sharma
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The need for integrating Art with the subjects was explained in simple words. The resource person shared various examples of making learning meaningful through art integration. Some of the ideas were unique and will lead to cooperation and collaboration among students in classes.

Mindler Career Counselling Workshop

Workshops 02-Aug-2022

Organized By Mindler and LSA
Resource Person Mr Prikshit Dhanda
Participants Students of Classes IX – XII
Highlight Parents and students of various classes had been called in different slots. It was an excellent counselling session. The timeline provided to the students of class XII was very relevant.

KENNEDY LUGAR YES PROGRAM

Beyond Boundaries 01-Aug-2022

Hightligh: Navya Khemka of Class XI has been selected for KENNEDY LUGAR YES PROGRAM.
She is in a Chardon High school for 10 months on a full scholarship.

PEHCHAAN

Activities in LSA 01-Aug-2022

Organized By VASUNDHARA ART
Participants Students of Classes II – V
Highlight Several students from different sections from Primary and Middle school participated in this online event of making posters on wildlife.

CBP Constructivism Online Workshop

Workshops 01-Aug-2022

Organized By COE Delhi East
Resource Person Dr Akshita Bahuguna
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Knowledge is constructed, rather than innate, or passively absorbed. The workshop gave ideas how to make learning interactive and engaging so that the learners build on their knowledge. The primary responsibility of the teacher is to create a collaborative problem solving environment where students become active participants in their own learning.

Workshop

Workshops 30-Jul-2022

Resource Person Aloka Sen Sharma
Participants Teachers of primary department
Highlight Teachers can never be always right. You also have to show your students what is it to be like wrong and admit it. Encourage students to think for themselves. Treat your classroom as a group of individuals, and celebrate their diversity. It is also important to know how students learn and help them to explore the unknown. She also stressed on incorporating community service into one of their lessons.

Junior Investiture Ceremony

Activities in LSA 28-Jul-2022

Participants Students of Class V
Highlight This year the Student Council in the Primary Section comprised 4 Captains, 4 V Captains and the Sports Captain. The auspicious ceremony commenced with the school song followed by the pinning of the badges and distribution of the appointment letters by Director Ma'am, Vice Principal Ma'am and Headmistress Ma'am. Next, was the oath taking ceremony. Director Ma'am then addressed the students with her inspiring words. A motivating video followed this. The programme ended with the National Anthem.

Young Indians Cyber Security

Workshops 25-Jul-2022

Organized By Young Indians
Resource Person Young Indians & Manjari Damani
Participants Students of Classes IX – XII
Highlight Impromptu Debate was conducted where students from each class volunteered. The workshop was for students of 11 and 12. Young Indians Yuva aims to develop responsible youth for the future and engage in nation building. They educated students on cyber security and road safety.

Skill Fest 2022

External Events 22-Jul-2022

Organized By: The Telegraph Edugraph
Resource Person: The Telegraph Edugraph
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Anikait Chakraborty of 12 D was shortlisted among the top 5 in content creation while Dimitri Majumder (2021 22) batch was shortlisted in top 5 of Digital Design.

Iskule Bioscope 2022

Activities in LSA 19-Jul-2022

Organized By Sauce Brand Communication
Resource Person Bichitra Pathshala
Participants Students of Classes VI – VIII
Highlight 15 students from classes 6 8 having Bengali as 2nd language had participated in this event. They were shown the film Adventures of Jojo.

Workshop on Story Telling

Workshops 16-Jul-2022

Organized By Priya Mozumdar
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The elements of a story, the need for weaving stories was stressed upon in the workshop. Teachers learnt to create stories on a given topic. Story map gave an idea regarding the story sequencing.

Investiture Ceremony

Activities in LSA 08-Jul-2022

Participants:-               Students of Classes XI and XII

Highlight:-                    After the announcement of the council and committee members on 7th July, the investiture ceremony, the most solemn and important event was held after 2 years. The old committee and council members handed over the duty to the new ones and the new members took the oath solemnly to perform their duties to the best of their abilities.

Student Council Election

Activities in LSA 07-Jul-2022

Resource Person:-    Mr. Kanak Shankar Mukherjee

Participants:-           Students of Classes VI to XII

Highlight :-              Setting aside the online mode of election of the past 2 years this year's students' council election was held in a hybrid mode. Aarav Bharany and Shagun Fogla were elected as the head boy and head girl respectively along with the various council and committee members.

Event Master Training in Digital Citizenship

Workshops 04-Jul-2022


Organized By:- CBSE and Department of Global Communications UN


Resource Person:- Saffin Mathew


Participants :- Teachers of IT Department

Highlight:- A two-day long workshop was conducted by DGC of United Nations along with CBSE to train the teachers about how to conduct workshops on Digital Citizenship. The resource person highlighted of key aspects of being a good digital citizen and how to disseminate the knowledge amongst the students and teachers.

 

Event Storytelling

Workshops 03-Jul-2022


Participants:- Ms. Jill Shah


Highlight:- It was an interactive session. The essence and benefits of storytelling were discussed. The activity on storytelling was fun and engaging.

Workshop on Microsoft forms and One Drive utility

Workshops 02-Jul-2022


Resource Person:-  IT TEAM


Participants:-  Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Ganga Sinha, Ms. Jyotsna Joshi, Ms. Lilawati Mishra, Ms. Priyanka Das, Ms. Radhika Shaw, Ms. Srabanti Deb, Ms. Sudeshna Chowdhury, Ms. Uma Jaiswal


Highlight:- It was observed that teachers were using Google drive which had limited capacity. Due to that they were creating multiple email IDs or even buying spaces. To solve the problem they were made aware of the usage of One Drive which has unlimited space and also taught the usage of Microsoft forms which has more features than Google forms. Teachers found the workshop very fruitful.

Workshop on Multiple Intelligences

Workshops 02-Jul-2022


Resource Person Ms. Sohini Mitra Jain


Participants Teachers of Primary Department


Highlight:- The workshop focused on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and how the same can be identified in students. It also emphasized on ways how activities related to Multiple Intelligences Theory can be implemented in the curriculum to provide holistic learning environment to the learners.

Workshop – What Great Teachers do Differently

Workshops 02-Jul-2022


Participants:- Teachers of Pre Primary Department


Highlight:- It was a well timed and well organised session. There was a good balance of discussion, use of video and graphics. It was an interesting topic and worth pondering over.

Microsoft Innovative Educators Workshop

Workshops 30-Jun-2022

Organized By            Microsoft partner Tech Avant Garde

Participants              Ms. Sudakshina Datta, Ms. Pushpa Dayani

Highlight                  It was an extensive training programme on various Microsoft tools useful in the field of education. This will lead to Microsoft Innovative Educators certification.

Celebration of International Yoga Day

Activities in LSA 21-Jun-2022

Highlight: Students of III to V participated in a video on International yoga day which was merged with 5 other schools on a theme of Growth and Nutrition which was released on the Sahodaya website. The whole school also performed Yoga in their PE  and yoga classes.

Farewell to Emmy

Beyond Boundaries 17-Jun-2022

Highlight: We bid a farewell to our dear Emmy from Issore, France who returned home after a 9 months stay at LSA. She was here on an exchange programme.

Japan Kakehashi program

Beyond Boundaries 17-Jun-2022

Highlight: Gaurav Poddar ( Class 11) off to Japan to study in Tokyo International school for 9 months  winning the Japan Kakehashi program

Workshop on Cinema Vs Theatre

Clubs & Special Activities 14-Jun-2022

Resource Person    Ms. Rijita Chatterjee

Participants           Students of Classes III to X

Highlight : The workshop was an interactive one. The resource person, with her skills of theatre, explained how facial expressions and    voice modulations innately bring out the thoughts we want to deliver. It focused on space and how to infuse life into space through music and stories created on the spot.

Workshop on Importance of Gratitude

Workshops 05-Jun-2022

Resource Person Khadija Aamir Choonawala
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Gratitude plays an important role in our lives. The more gratitude we have, the more content we are. Studies show that gratitude leads to less stress and better overall health. Ways of practicing gratitude were discussed in details.

STEM @ home - Zero Shadow Day

Activities in LSA 05-Jun-2022

Highlight: Students participated for the live activity of capturing image of Zero Shadow Day and shared their responses through Google form. There were many participants from various classes who gave the correct response and were awarded digital certificates from school for their correct response.

Training on Flipgrid with Certification

Workshops 28-May-2022

Organized By: Tech Avant Garde in association with Microsoft Education
Resource Person: Prashant Kumar Jha
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: It was a training session for Flipgrid which is a free and simple, social learning video platform.

Digital Tools For Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Specific Subjects

Workshops 27-May-2022

Organized By: CIET.NCERT
Resource Person: Dr Madhu B (Mathematics), Dr Anand Arya (Science), Dr Shruti Tripathi ( English), Dr Nidhi Singh
(Social Science)
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: The objective of this online training was to orient teachers, teacher educators and students, and various stakeholders to know more about digital tools related to teaching, learning and assessment of specific subjects.

Workshop on Academic Excellence Program for Teachers

Workshops 20-May-2022

Organized By: Super Teachers
Resource Person: Ms Veena Raizada
Participants: Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: The workshop gave an overview about how present day teachers can upgrade their skills through 4U Model which are Upgrading the assessment pattern, understanding the curriculum, utilizing technology and upskilling the pedagogy. According to the resource person, it will help in improving academic standards.

Introduction to Coding & Minecraft & Make Code

Workshops 16-May-2022

Organized By: CBSE in partnership with Microsoft
Resource Person: Cyberdiction Technology
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: In this training session, how to communicate with the computer using a language to give instruction to the computer was explained in great detail. Learned Block Coding in Make Code App.

Workshop on Financial Literacy

Workshops 11-May-2022

Resource Person: Abhishek Sarkar
Participants: Students of Classes IX and X
Highlight: It was a very informative session on how to manage savings, pay bills, make small investments. There was also a detailed discussion on the role of insurance in covering and managing risks and indemnity.

Parent Orientation Programme – Montessori to Class XII (Except Class XI)

Activities in LSA 09-May-2022

Resource Person: Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra , Ms. Jayati Goswami, Academic Co –coordinators, Special Educators, Counsellors
Participants: Parents of classes Montessori to Class XII (Except Class XI)
Highlight: Parents were apprised of NEP, board results of 2021-22, examination Structure, ethos of the school and rules and regulations, code of conduct for online and offline classes, information about Happy hour, Indradhanush, LSAMUN and awards received by the Academy in the last session.

Workshop on the Importance of Lesson Plan

Workshops 06-May-2022

Resource: Person Ranjini Chakravarty
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The workshop on how to design a lesson plan was beneficial as it will enable the teachers to plan their upcoming lessons constructively.

Workshop on developing 21st century skills among students

Workshops 06-May-2022

Resource Person Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary department
Highlight The workshop focused on the various 21st century skills like learning, literacy and life skills that needs to be developed among students. The workshop highlighted the various aspects like what are the skills, why do they need to be included in the curriculum and how can they be developed. They understood the terminologies related to the 21st century skills. Some activities were also shared to
develop the same.

Coding Challenge 2022

External Events 05-May-2022

Organized By CBSE and Juanatech a Microsoft partner
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Aarushi Bhroota, Bhavya Agarwal, Devanshi Dwivedi, Devesh Patwari
Highlight Four selected students from class VIII took part in this competition. They showcased their 21st century skills for solving some of the real life issues leveraging technology through the topic Accessibility. They made a solution to take sick people from remote places to the nearby hospital using online coding application Make Code..

Diabetic Awareness

Activities in LSA 29-Apr-2022

Participants:Students of Classes X and XII
Highlight :A very informative and enjoyable session with the doctor. It made the students aware of the
consequences and preventive measures of the disease.

Art Workshop on Landscape

Activities in LSA 27-Apr-2022

Participants: Students of Classes III – VIII
Highlight: The session was highly engaging and effective. Students learned that colours have emotions and
each colour signifies something, like yellow signifies glory, success, warmth and red signifies pride,
pain etc. Some people like certain colours as they signify something personal to them. Students
were then asked to say what various colours mean to them and why. Students were informed about
a German expressionist painter as well. The session concluded with the students painting a poppy
using water colours.

Career and Life skills

Activities in LSA 27-Apr-2022

Participants Students of classes IX – X
Highlight Students got the opportunity to know the various new emerging careers.

Workshop to retain Microsoft Certificate and Badge

Workshops 27-Apr-2022

Participants: IT Departments Teachers
Highlight:Microsoft Educator Community will be decommissioned on May 1st 2022. The workshop guided the educators how to connect to Microsoft Education Center (MEC) before May 1 and ensure their transcripts, achievements, and badges are successfully moved to Microsoft Learn.

The Awakened Citizen Programme

Workshops 23-Apr-2022

Participants Manjaree Mukherjee, Mumu Mukherjee, Poulomi Saha, Sneha Singh
Highlight Blended Learning with NEP, learning through self exploration and focus on peer learning were
discussed. Various evaluation processes were shared along with practical training on conducting
sessions.

Go Green Art commemorating Earth Day (22 April)

Workshops 22-Apr-2022

Resource Person: Ms. Piu Das Mahapatra
Participants: Students of Classes IX-X
Highlight To commemorate Earth Day, a creative art workshop was conducted using simple drawings of birds, trees on used scripts, newspapers, by students of class IX, X. The cut outs were pasted on used /left over paper boxes, brought by students from home, that can be reused.
The purpose was directed at a cross section of students who do not take interest in art or are not too skilled at it. The session was an extremely creative and engaging one.

Art Workshop on East Kolkata Wetlands

Workshops 20-Apr-2022

Organized By: Disappearing Dialogues Collective
Resource Person: Ms. Nobina Gupta, Ms. Prajwalika Bharatee and Sir Saptarshi Mitra
Participants: Students of Classes III – V and VI – VIII (in two different sessions)
Highlight: The session was an enriching one. Students got to know about wetlands, specifically about the wetlands of East Kolkata. They learned about the importance of wetlands and the different life forms that a wetland supports. They learned that the distinct ecosystem of a wetland is important as wetlands manage natural cycles and purify and replenish our water. The workshop concluded with an activity for the students. Students were asked to use their creativity and draw a wetland.

Career Choices

Workshops 20-Apr-2022

Resource Person: Peer Educators Harshita, Anikait, Pramit (12)
Participants: Students of classes 12
Highlight: The session dealt with effective career choices and unconventional career options. The importance of 21st century skills was also discussed.

 

Importance of Gratitude

Workshops 16-Apr-2022

Venue: Online Cisco Webex Meetings
Organized By: COE Chennai
Resource Person: Dr. Ganesh
Participants: Khadija Aamir Choonawala
Highlight: The workshop was well paced and engaging. Through several examples, the meaning and importance of giving thanks for everything and everyone we have in our lives was stressed upon.
The resource person through several stories linked the topic to the curriculum as well. On the whole, the session highlighted the need to be grateful and appreciative for the simple beauties of life.

Event:Workshop on Perspectives

Workshops 13-Apr-2022

Resource Person:Mr. Arindam Bhattacharya
Participants:Students of Classes III to VII
Highlight:The workshop on Perspectives for classes 3 to 7 was a highly engaging one. Students were encouraged to read Amar Chitra Katha and other books too. They were encouraged to be inquisitive and observant of their surroundings.Students were asked to identify different food items and the origins of the food items were discussed. They were asked to identify nursery rhymes and their origins were discussed as well. This motivated the students to discover new perspectives of known things. The session was very interactive and thought provoking.Students willingly participated in the sessions by giving answers to the Questions raised by the resource person.

Event:ATL Workshop

Workshops 13-Apr-2022

Resource Person:Dipankar Pal
Participants:Students of classes VIII , IX & X
Highlight:The workshop is to ignite the participation in innovation bootcamp of 9week ATL Tinkerprenuer 2022. It is a journey where the students learn the skills from the large repository of digital education to create real world solution. They will have to go through the stages of startup.

Webinar on Project Based Maths

Workshops 11-Apr-2022

Organized By: Teachers Centre
Resource Person: Mrs. Neelima Ghose
Participants: S.Anandhi, Shubhasree Dasgupta
Highlight: The workshop focussed on the how a particular topic can be taken for a project and modified according to different classes in the primary section. Learnt about how to evaluate while the project is in process.

NEP 2020 MANTHAN

Workshops 09-Apr-2022

Organized By:IPN
Resource Person:Mr. Gaurav Kumar
Participants:Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight:Eminent Principals and HOS came together to discuss The NEP implementation in letter and spirit and NEP Hits and Misses. A warm congregate with lots of learning.

Emerging Technologies—Cloud Computing AWS Cloud Practitioner essentials

Workshops 09-Apr-2022

Organized By: CBSE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NASSCOM
Resource Person: AWS
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. She learnt about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build AWS Cloud
knowledge. This course also helps to prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

Be Singular Future Leader Programme Orientation Session

Workshops 08-Apr-2022

Organized By Besingular, Vijay Bhoomi, Fraunhofer
Participants IT Department Teachers
Highlight It was a session on discussion about a three-week Global Summer Residential programme.
Students will learn from various startup founders. Students will stay for 2 weeks in India and 1 week in Germany. They will be exposed to new age technologies during this session.
Students of classes 9 to 12 are eligible for this programme. 

Internet and Some Facts

Workshops 06-Apr-2022

Resource Person Sankar P Das
Participants Students of classes III to V
Highlight The resource person spoke about what internet is and how it connects the whole world. He spoke about the various hardware and software components of computer and what assists in connecting the internet. He also spoke about how everything online cannot be trusted and one must check the authenticity of the same which would help them to be digitally smart citizens.

Pariksha Pe Charcha

Workshops 01-Apr-2022

Organized By Central Government
Resource Person Honourable Prime Minister
Participants Students of Classes X & XII
Highlight It was an interactive session where lot of queries on the existing curriculum were raised and answered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Webinar Evolving out of Darkness COVID-19

Activities in LSA 25-Mar-2022

Resource Person Dr. Suman Mitra
Participants Parents
Highlight Parents got the clarity of the present scenario of Covid 19 and understood how safe it is to send students to school.

Teachers training for Cubs and Bulbuls

Workshops 23-Mar-2022

Resource Person: Shri Kaushik Chatterjee
Participants: Suranjana, Afshan Nahid, Bindiya Gill, Ishita Gomes, Anuradha Gupta and Siddhartha Shankar. Rekha Dayani, Khadija Choonawala, Arwa Deesawala, Tikshana Chopra, Priya Mazoumdar,
Highlights The comprehensive workshop included outlines and plans of the flock and Pack meetings for both online and offline modes with hands-on practical sessions on woodcraft signs, knotting, etc.

AICTE Physical Education Programme 2022

Workshops 18-Mar-2022

Venue Amity University, Uttar Pradesh
Organized By Amity University, Uttar Pradesh
Resource Person AICTE, Amity University
Participants Arnab Bhattacharya
Highlight It was a very good experience in our field. This workshop based on technological application in the field of Physical education and sports. This changed our concepts.

Convocation Ceremony for Classes II & V

Activities in LSA 15-Mar-2022

Participants: Students of Classes II & V
Highlight: A celebration of the transition of students from one level to the next was held in school. Children were very excited for the next part of their academic lives. The convocation ceremony highlighted the effort and hard work put in by the students through the years. There were special performances by the students of class 1 and 4. Director ma'am's speech was thought provoking and inspiring for one and all present.

Hybrid Learning

Workshops 12-Mar-2022

Participants: Swati Mukherjee
Highlight: I have learned a new model for hybrid learning workshop. During the workshop I had a hands-on experience on learning a variety of software like Flip grid, Sway, Stream and how software can be used to create new learning content for students. The workshop concluded with a feedback test every day . On the final day there was an assessment after which certificates were awarded.

Capacity Building Programmes for teachers Artificial Intelligence in Class IX & XII in collaboration with intel

Workshops 10-Mar-2022

Organized By CBSE with Intel
Resource Person Inter representative
Participants IT Department Teachers
Highlight The workshop aimed at developing the learners’ mind set and skills set towards artificial intelligence and it encourages us to use methodology which helps students for holistic, inclusive and progressive development. The syllabus key concept was addressed.

Holistic Report Card

Workshops 07-Mar-2022

Resource Person: Jayati Goswami
Participants All: Teachers
Highlight: The concept of Holistic Report Card was introduced with a good discussion on the tools to be used. Difference between criterion based and norm based assessment was discussed. The session ended with a traffic light assessment for all.

Online Course on Indian Constitution

Workshops 07-Mar-2022

Organized By: NALSAR University of Law, sponsored by Department of Legal Affairs, Government of India
Resource Person: Faizan Mustafa, Vice Chancellor
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: This course helped in understanding the new proposals of reforms and the ongoing developments regarding the Indian Constitution.

IGKO result declaration

External Events 05-Mar-2022

Organized By SOF
Resource Person: SOF
Participants: Students of Classes III – IV
Highlight 5 students participated. All received participation certificates

CBSE Learning Standards Framework Social Science

Workshops 28-Feb-2022

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE CIRCULAR 20
Participants Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Mistuni Mukherjee, Ms Mumu Mukherjee, Ms Poulomi Saha, Ms Pushpa Dayani, Ms Sarbani Saha Ghatak, Ms Sneha Singh
Highlight Learning standards framework spoke about the nature of the subject, NCERT expectations, sample pedagogical process and assessment strategies .

Moving out from Darkness of Covid

Workshops 28-Feb-2022

Organized By CMRI
Resource Person Dr Suman Mitra
Participants Teachers of LSA
Highlight It was a wonderful session with the doctor of CMRI on various queries regarding re opening school and the safety precautions to be maintained.

Geography Olympiad - GEO Genius

External Events 28-Feb-2022

Organized By Geography Olympiad - GEO Genius
Participants Students from III - X
Highlight Following students qualified for level II
1) Aneek Chakraborty 9A - Senior Category
2) Mridul Chandak 3D- Sub Junior Category
15 students were selected from all over India for Level III. Level three will be conducted in the month of March 2022.

Vigyan Sarvatra Pujyate- Antarctica Live

Workshops 27-Feb-2022

Organized By Engage With Science
Resource Person Bharati Station, Antarctica
Participants Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Poulomi Saha, Ms Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight Interesting questions about life in Antarctica were discussed. Unique experiences were shared by the scientists group from Antarctica. Innovative approach done in Antarctica, new ways of saving and using water in sustainable manner was shared by the scientists.

Cultural deep drive with AFS Germany

Activities in LSA 27-Feb-2022

Venue- zoom
Resource person- AFS
Participants- Teachers of LSA and Germany
Highlight- A cultural confluence of music, dance, sports, cuisine and entertainment. Sharing cultural interests of both the countries

Webinar on National Education Policy 2020 on performing arts - its importance and implementation for schools and universities.

Workshops 26-Feb-2022

Organized By CBSE
Participants Ms Sweta Chakraborty
Highlight It was a good experience. All the eminent speakers were good and explained the need and objective of the policy. Points that need to be kept in mind while setting the curriculum and the procedure of assessment was also discussed.

National Counsellors Meet

Workshops 25-Feb-2022

Organized By Ashoka University
Resource Person Mentor ED Ashoka University
Participants Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight The conference aimed to discuss the changing landscape of higher education in India, the new career opportunities across multiple sectors and industries. The role of career counsellors in empowering students was discussed.

Exploring the brain and behaviour interface

Workshops 24-Feb-2022

Organized By Institute of Mental Health and Life Skills Promotion, Moolchand Medcity, New Delhi
Resource Person Ms. Aprajita Dixit
Participants Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight The four days sessions dealt with mental health issues (Depression and anxiety), Intelligence testing, Adaptive functioning, Personality test. The attendees were taught to use assessment tools ie. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), HAM-D, Raven's Standard Progress Matrices, Vineland Social Maturity
Scale, and SSCT.

eSummit on Cyber Security in education field

Workshops 24-Feb-2022

Organized By PHD Chamber
Resource Person Distinguished guests from education field and CBSE
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight Distinguished guests from education world and CBSE shared their ideas on cyber security at the education industry. Various ways of being alert and aware to remain cyber secure were discussed.
The Government portals and contact numbers were shared for any help during cyber fraud.

Implementing National Education Policy – Learning Standards Framework

Workshops 24-Feb-2022

Organized By CBSE
Participants Ms Lohita Nag
Highlight The following were discussed -
1. NCERT curriculum expectations and learning outcomes-board development in standard assessment framework in partnership with the British.
2. Microsite available for resources
3. Sample pedagogical processes-cross curricular approach and art integrated learning and nurturing multilingual competence
4. Learning subject specific content domain
5. Sample question paper design and marking scheme

Preparing Schools for Transformative School Based Assessment of Learning vis-a-vis NEP 2020

Workshops 21-Feb-2022

Organized By NABET, QCI
Resource Person Dr Gaurang Tewari
Participants Ms Jaya Misra
Highlight It was an informative session on re designing our assessment pattern and our report card keeping the NEP in mind.

Author's discussion on Stories from the New World

Workshops 20-Feb-2022

Organized By Story Teller
Resource Person Ms Geeta Ramanujam (Author)
Participants Ms Suranjana Chakrabarti, Ms Asfia Rafique

CBSE Pedagogical Learning

Workshops 17-Feb-2022

Organized By COE Bhuvaneshwar
Resource Person Mrs Pratima Rajgor
Participants Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight The construction of an Annual Pedagogical Plan for the school was taught. Each and every step was discussed in detail and finally all Principals of different schools presented their plans. It was an enriching learning experience.

Back to School- impact on student's mental health

Workshops 16-Feb-2022

Organized By Drishti enabling inclusion
Resource Person Dr. Avinash de Souza, Ms. Girija Singh and Dr. Smita Desai.
Participants Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight The session highlighted the importance of bringing back children to school after a gap of 2 years. Teachers had to be compassionate and empathetic towards them.

Workshop on Designing Effective Report Cards for Improving Learning

Workshops 12-Feb-2022

Organized By Australian Council for Education Research
Resource Person Mr. Bikramjit Sen
Participants Ms Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Ms Rupa Mazumdar
Highlight It was highlighted that teacher’s comments must identify a clear purpose and should be written at a level of detail that provides meaningful information to achieve this purpose.

Online Session on SIATP

Workshops 10-Feb-2022

Organized By Ministry of Education Innovation cell, CBSE and Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Resource Person Dr Pooja Rawat, Coordinator - Region 1, SIATP
Participants Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms Sudakshina Datta
Highlight The seminar highlighted the role of Innovation Ambassadors, benefits of SIATP and also briefed on School Innovation Council program.

Italy Short Term Program

Beyond Boundaries 07-Feb-2022

Venue Milena
Organized By AFS India
Resource Person AFS Italy
Participants Kaavya Tahlani (XI-D)
Highlight Home stay and cultural experiences of Italy was the main highlight of this program.

Career Fair

Activities in LSA 06-Feb-2022

Organized By Mindler and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person Panelists from Indian & International Universities
Highlight Mindler and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy organized a 2 day Career Fair, a deep dive into diverse career domains. A range of panel discussions were held. The most prominent universities in India and Overseas were invited. The speakers helped the students to understand the various programs, courses, and opportunities that are available at their respective universities.

The first day (5th Feb’22) was for International universities and the second day 6th Feb’22 was for Indian universities. Universities of Queensland, Trinity College, Dublin, University of Bristol was some of the eminent international universities in the panel. Indian universities included SRM. Shivnadar university, JK Lakshmipat University, Krea, O P Jindal, ICFAI and many more. Students from schools all over India
participated in this grand event.

Project Based Learning

Workshops 05-Feb-2022

Organized By CBSE and Arm School programme
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight It was a professional development session on “Engaging and inspiring learners in computing through Project-Based Learning”. Physical Computing through Project-Based Learning (PBL) was explained through physical computing devices – such as micro: bits, Raspberry Pi devices, and Arduino.

Bonding with Digital Natives

Workshops 04-Feb-2022

Organized By International Council for School Leadership
Resource Person Dr. Manjula Pooja Shroff, Mr James Nottingham
Participants Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Jayati Goswami, Ms Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms Sudakshina Datta
Highlight The resource person spoke about the current needs of the digital natives which are quite different from the one which were there before the pandemic. Educators and the schools will have to adapt to the need of the young challenging natives, that is our students.

Training on Coding

Workshops 03-Feb-2022

Organized By CBSE and Microsoft
Resource Person Microsoft
Participants Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal , Ms Sudakshina Datta
Highlight It was an extensive training on Coding and programming concepts. Algorithms and pseudocode were explained well. Hands on sessions on Minecraft and MakeCode platforms were really interesting.

Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav

External Events 31-Jan-2022

Organized By Ministry of Culture and Education
Participants Students (III – X)
Highlight The competition was very inspiring and children enthusiastically participated in it. Through patriotic songs and lullabies, they connected with patriotism and the golden future of the country. 112 students from class VI to X participated and got the participation certificates.

Peer Educators for leading the change

Workshops 29-Jan-2022

Resource Person CBSE
Participants Ms Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight The peer educator program along with counsellors and 4 students of the school took place on the online forum. The peer educators were trained on life changing skills and how to manage the 21st century challenges and improve resilience so that they could become the master trainers and train their classmates regarding the same. Various activities were done and taught by the trainers.

Google admin master training

Workshops 29-Jan-2022

Organized By COE Bhubaneshwar
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight CBSE has organised an online training programme to integrate technology with the education system. They learnt different tools under google workspace. The hands on practical workshop was helpful. They completed all module followed by short test. They also completed scheduled mock exam conducted by the authority.

Building Better Communication - With a touch of Theatre

Workshops 28-Jan-2022

Organized By: Programmmes and Logistics Teachers' Center
Resource Person: Ms Ramanjit Kaur
Participants: Mr Kanak S Mukherji, Ms Manidipa Lahiri, Ms Rupa Mazumdar
Highlight: There is no better interaction than Theatre in Life. We teachers should try to pull up the weaker ones by encouraging them and being kind to them. We must appreciate the small steps taken by them. Kindness is the tool to give success in many difficult cases. To create interests, we must play with the students even for 5 mins. There should be surprises in every class.

Curriculum Meeting

Activities in LSA 27-Jan-2022

Resource Person: Ms. Meena Kak
Participants: Teachers
Highlight: All parameters based on the NEP were discussed. The procedure in which the curriculum planning will be done was instructed in detail. The vision of the school plan was shared. Pisa competencies, digital faculty, project based, were among a whole lot of other details discussed.

Pariksha Pe Charcha 2022

External Events 27-Jan-2022

Venue www.mygov.in
Organized By CBSE
Participants Students, Parents and Teachers
Highlight This is the fifth chapter of PPC, an initiative by the Government of India. The topics provided for students were extremely pertinent to the present times and required a good bit of research.
Thereby the students, who are the future of the nation got a platform to probe, debate and view their own opinions. A certificate from the organizing authority was immediately issued to all the participants. A total of 474 students from IX – XII), 22 parents 37 teachers participated and uploaded their entries this time.

Overseas Education

Workshops 24-Jan-2022

Organized By: Mindler and LSA
Resource Person: Ms Ruchika Castelino
Participants: All students of class X
Highlight: All students attended the webinar and understood various aspects about overseas education after grade 12. They have been exposed to various methods for applying in foreign colleges.

Teachers Training of Employability Skills component of Skills Courses

Workshops 24-Jan-2022

Organized By: CBSE (CoE Delhi East)
Resource Person: Mr Vikram Jha & Dr Mridula Singh
Participants: Ms Jaya Misra
Highlight: The session gave an overview on how to help the students register on the portal.

The Telegraph Young Metro Force

External Events 22-Jan-2022

Organized By: Ananda Bazar Patrika Group
Participants: Riddhima Koley & Muskan Goel
Highlight: Two of our students have been selected as the Young Metro Force. They are given the opportunity to report all the school events for The Telegraph Young Metro from now onwards.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Workshops 20-Jan-2022

Organized By: The National Life Skills Program, Expression India
Resource Person: Ms. Aprajita Dixit
Participants: Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms. Sumona DasGupta
Highlight: An informative session and hands-on strategies were discussed to deal with the children having ADHD.

How to select a college / career

Workshops 20-Jan-2022

Organized By: JKLU AND LSA
Resource Person: Dr Dheeraj Sanghi (Vice Chancellor) and Prof. Balasubramanium (Director, Institute of Design)
Participants: 180 students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight: It was an informative session on designing as an emerging career.

Asia Kakehashi Interview

External Events 19-Jan-2022

Venue Delhi Online
Organized By AFS INDIA
Resource Person AFS
Participants Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight Was given the opportunity to take interviews of Asia Kakehashi finalists of Pakistan, India and Maldives over a span of 10 days. It was a great experience to be able to converse with the young aspirants.

Rangoli Making in Azad Ka Amrit Mahotsav

External Events 18-Jan-2022

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes III – X
Highlight: Students made colourful Rangoli patterns in their respective art classes. Many of them have uploaded their designs on CBSE website and received certificates as a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebration.

Super Teacher Initiative

Workshops 15-Jan-2022

Organized By: Open Door Assessment

Resource Person: Mr. Shailendra Purankar
Participants: All Science and Maths teachers
Highlight: The initiative was initially under taken as a competition for the teachers but it evolved as a positive feedback system for the remediation process. The objective behind the initiative is –
• To gain feedback of the process of remediation that happens in the classroom and accordingly development of the product by Open Door.
• Bring the committee of teachers together so that they can learn from each other same as peer-learning among students.
• Sharing of new ideas. Recognition of teachers.

Engage with Science

Workshops 15-Jan-2022

Organized By: Engage with Science
Resource Person: Mr. Sourav Sen/ Karanjit Singh
Participants: Manidipa Lahiri
Highlight: Engage with Science is an interactivity platform aimed at students which makes Science-Learning a lot of fun. It works as a catalyst to boost Science and Technology video content consumption from India Science. EWS is a collaboration between Vigyan Prasar , an autonomous organization of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India and IBM.

Craft by Reusing waste materials

External Events 14-Jan-2022

Participants: Students of classes III – V
Highlight: It was conducted in each section’s respective art periods. The students were ready with their ideas as well as the materials and assembled the things in the class. Students of classes 3 and 4 made wonderful wall hangings and dolls with the waste materials from their home. Students created very innovative craft items which was worth watching and appreciating.

International Olympiad for English Language

External Events 09-Jan-2022

Organized By SilverZone Foundation
Participants Students from Classes I - XII
Highlight Students of classes I to XII participated in the International Olympiad of English Language (IOEL22) organized by the SilverZone Foundation and came out with flying colours. Their hard work and determination deserve praise. Students learned how to be competitive and take part in International Olympiads. They got exposure to the varied questions and learned in the process.

Alternate Lab

Workshops 31-Dec-2021

Organized By: COE Bhubaneswar
Participants: Ms. Manidipa Lahiri
Highlight: Explained the usefulness of Alternate Lab which is specifically online during this pandemic when both the students and the teachers cannot use Physical Labs. Students can watch the activity as many times as they want. Simulation and animation help them understand the activity in a better way.

Exide Life Insurance Art Competition

External Events 28-Dec-2021

Organized By: Exide Life Insurance Company
Participants: Students of Classes I – VIII
Highlight: Children were asked to draw a picture of their dream career. They enjoyed drawing the pictures and uploaded it in the Google form with their personal details. They enjoyed the session thoroughly.

Webinar for Academic Excellence

Workshops 26-Dec-2021

Organized By: Super Teachers
Resource Person Mrs Veena Raizada
Participants: Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The GT4U model is holistic, advanced, and sustainable. This will definitely help us to reach new heights in the education system. This was just the introduction session.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Workshops 24-Dec-2021

Organized By; Expressions India
Resource Person: Ms Aprajita Dixit
Participants: Ms Jayati Goswami. Ms Jaya Misra
Highlight: The workshop focused on theories related to CBT, core features and characteristics, cognitive distortions along with the types. The techniques of identifying the cognitive behaviour and a case study was discussed too.

Career planning

Workshops 23-Dec-2021

Organized By: Mindler
Resource Person: Mr. Prikshit Dhanda
Participants: Mr Soumya Ghosh, Ms Sumona Dasgupta and Class XI students
Highlight: The session addressed relevant topics like profile building, steps to be followed for career planning and procedure for college admissions.

Christmas Celebration

Activities in LSA 23-Dec-2021

Participants: Students from Montessori to Class VIII and the teachers from these departments
Highlight: Students enjoyed watching the skit on 'spreading happiness' and the carols presented as a part of the Christmas celebration. They also wore colourful dresses based on the Christmas theme for the celebration.

59th National Roller Skating Championship 2020-21

External Events 22-Dec-2021

Venue: Rohini, New Delhi
Organized By: Roller Skating Federation of India
Participants: Vidishaa Mundhra (9A) and Naina Varandani (9D)
Highlight: They represented their state West Bengal among 1000 participants pan India.

India Maths Talent

External Events 22-Dec-2021

Organised by Counting Well
Recourse person Mr Nirmal Shah, Mr Ravi Jitani
Participants Students of classes VI - VIII
Highlights: Varishth Agarwal (VII B) was ranked among the top 250 rankers on India Maths Day 2021.

Conversation between India's top schools & Finnish educationists on nurturing kids' curiosity

External Events 20-Dec-2021

Organized By Kalam Labs & Finland Education Ministry
Resource Person Ms Ekaterina Kologrivaya, Ms Alejandra Chavez
Participants Mrs Meena Kak
Highlight Mrs Kak was invited as a key note speaker at the Indo Finnish Education Conference. She shared the school’s best practices to promote curiosity among the age group 6 14 years. It was an honour to be a part of this Conference.

Spellympic 2021

External Events 16-Dec-2021

Organized By: Birla High School Mukundapur
Resource Person Ms. Debarati Deb
Participants Ms Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight A host of literary activities were conducted. Attractive prizes were given out.

Teacher as a counsellor

Workshops 16-Dec-2021

Organized By: ICRTC
Resource Person: Dr Ravindran VS
Participants: Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The goals of Project Paradigm were discussed. Dr Ravindran emphasized that a teacher counsellor should be approachable, must not ridicule, convert technology into knowledge and all that the teacher conveys must have relevance to real life.

Parents Workshop

Workshops 12-Dec-2021

Resource Person: Mr. Prikshit Dhanda
Participants: Students of Classes III – VI
Highlight: The session was a highly enriching one. The parents were asked to focus on enhancing their wards' personality, help them focus on their co curricular activities and not put unnecessary pressure related to exams and securing marks. Students are the future nation builders and hence they should be encouraged to inculcate qualities such as independence, truthfulness etc., which will help in their all-round development.

26th Founder’s Day Programme

Activities in LSA 10-Dec-2021

Participants: Management, Academic Heads, Staff members
Highlight: Our Academy celebrated its 26th Founder's Day virtually. The school’s Head Girl Saanvi Nagar compered the show. The program opened with a beautiful welcome song, which was performed by the school choir that symbolized how the academy and its students stand out. This was followed by the invocation and the lighting of the lamp to mark the auspicious beginning of the ceremony; after which, the Director, Meena Kak Ma’am addressed the audience. Next, the school’s Vice Principal, Jaya Misra Ma’am presented the illustrious annual report of the school. Moving further, Shri Bharat Hari Singhania, Chairman of the Lakshmipat Singhania Education Foundation greeted the audience.
“We at LSA encourage the students to come out of their cocoons and explore all possibilities to discover their true potential and groom them to have a global vision while still being conscious of our country’s realities,” said Shri Singhania, leaving the audience inspired and motivated. Next, the Chief Guest of the event, Dr. Anupam Basu, who is presently the Director of National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, was asked to share a few words of wisdom. In his address, he stated, "the Anandam (as Tagore put it) lies inside; study, read, mix with others, and engage." Subsequently, a Prize Distribution ceremony took place wherein students who had achieved excellence in curricular as well as co-curricular activities were felicitated.
Following this, the much awaited Cultural Program began titled ‘Looking Back & Beyond’. This Founder’s Day, the LSA family tracked the 25 year journey of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy – an institution that has provided the necessary guidance and inspiration to many young minds. It presented all the glories and memories, advancements and innovations that has made LSA what it is today through a group of ex-students who participate in a reunion hosted at their beloved alma mater. The program culminated with the vote of thanks, which was delivered by the Head-Boy Kanishk Mehta who extended his gratitude to all the teachers, parents, and students for making the event a memorable one.

 

26th Founders Day Programme

Kalantar Annual Art Festival

External Events 09-Dec-2021

Organized By CBSE
Participants Aishika Chakraborty (VII A)
Highlight Aishika has been selected for the final round of English Story Writing for Kalantar 2021. It was a great experience for her.

Innovative Pedagogies for Digital Education

Workshops 07-Dec-2021

Organized By: NCERT
Resource Person: CIET NCERT
Participants: Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: The four day training covered various aspects of the digital classroom including flipped learning, blended learning, active and collaborative learning and safety concerns in online education. The resource persons were knowledgeable and explained the concepts in simple language that was easy to follow.

Questt App On boarding Session

Workshops 07-Dec-2021

Resource Person: Mr. Siddharth Sinha
Participants: Teachers of the Primary Department
Highlight: Teachers were apprised about the usage of this application. Some important points are: Home work can be given in a gamified format, readymade question papers are available, teachers can use resources of various classes .

Kalantar Online Art Competition

External Events 30-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes I – III
Highlight: 24 children participated from classes 1 3 in the Kalantar Art Competition. It has set a platform for the children to find expression of their hidden talents and produce creative works that demonstrate innovation in concept. Kalantar has set following learning opportunities for aspiring artists:
• getting recognition in huge public spaces
• recognize potential artists and help them in attaining career in their field
• bring all the sections of the society under one umbrella of Competition.

Maps in Our Daily Life

Workshops 27-Nov-2021

Organized By: Mr.Pradip K Sengupta and Association
Resource Person: Mr.Pradip K sengupta
Participants: Poulomi Saha, Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: The session was extremely informative and constructive learning for the students. They experienced a hands on understanding on how to use Google maps in Daily Lives.

Maps in Our Daily Life

Workshops 27-Nov-2021

Organized By: Mr.Pradip K Sengupta and Association
Resource Person: Mr.Pradip K Sengupta
Participants: Ms Poulomi Saha, Ms Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: It was informative and effective for daily need. How we can use Google maps in daily life was discussed.

VEER GATHA Project (Gallantry Award)

Activities in LSA 26-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE With Ministry of Defence
Participants: Students of Classes V - XII
Highlight: Veer Gatha Project was conducted in school over three weeks in the month of November where students participated in large numbers in competitions like Article and Poem Writing and Painting.
From each category one student had been selected from the Primary, Middle School, Senior, and Senior Secondary section, and the works were uploaded in the CBSE website. The event was to celebrate and commemorate the 75th Year of Indian Independence. The intent of this project is to inculcate feelings of nationalism and patriotism in the psyche of young learners and motivate them to know more research on the unsung heroes of Indian Defence Forces who sacrificed their lives for the security of the nation.

Test Item Writing Course Science 9 - 10

Workshops 26-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE and British Council
Resource Person: Ms Neeru and Ms. Sonali
Participants: Rupa Mazumdar, Indrani Das
Highlight: Teachers got an hands on experience on creating tests as per the guidelines of NCERT curriculum and also an idea to design different assignments as per CBSE regulations.

Circular 101 Veer Gatha Project

External Events 26-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes V, VIII, IX, XI & XII
Highlight: Commemorating 75 years of Indian independence, this project is a vision of Prime Minister Sir Narendra Modi, to inculcate the values of nationality among students and also gear them to do research work about unsung heroes of the lndian defence forces. Veer Gatha Project was conducted in the school for over three weeks in the month of November where students participated in large numbers in competitions like Article and Poem Writing and Painting. From each category one student had been selected from the Primary, Middle School, Senior, and Senior Secondary section, and the works were uploaded on the CBSE website. Through this activity students got to know about many heroes of lndia who have dedicated their lives serving the nation but are not popularly known.

Test Item Writing Course Science 9 10

Workshops 26-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE and British Council
Resource Person: Ms Neeru and Ms. Sonali
Participants: Ms Rupa Mazumdar, Ms Indrani Das
Highlight: The workshop taught how to write items and to design the assessment specifications for the CBSE end of class tests and how they can be used by teachers to create tests which meet the demands of the relevant aspects of the NCERT curriculum.

CBSE READING MISSION

Workshops 26-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Mr Malay Ghosh
Highlight: Stories and reading are an important part of a child’s growth and development. The main aim of CBSE reading programme is to inculcate reading habit among the students. The Reading Programme offers 144 beautifully illustrated multilingual age appropriate storybooks that provide a rich reading experience to all children.

INTACH Heritage Quiz

External Events 25-Nov-2021

Organized By: INTACH
Resource Person: Cradle Solutions
Participants: Students of Classes VII & IX
Highlight: Out of 8 schools LSA went to the finals of the Kolkata round. Knowledge on heritage buildings was imparted to the students.

Adolescent Peer Educators leadership program in life skills holistic health and wellbeing.

External Events 24-Nov-2021

Organized by: CBSE UNIT in association with Expressions India.
Resource Person: Dr. Jitendra Nagpal, Mr Manoj Ahuja (CBSE Chairperson), Dr Joseph Emmanuel (Controller of Examinations)
Participants: Khushboo Gupta (XI), Kunj Bhatia (XI)
Highlight: Khushboo Gupta spoke on importance of life skills on career choices. It was an honour as she was representing the school on a National platform infornt of the dignitaries.

CBSE First aid workshop

Workshops 19-Nov-2021

Organized By: Expressions India
Resource Person: Well known Doctors
Participants: Jayati Goswami, Malkit Roy
Highlight: An all-round discussion with famous doctors was conducted. The aim was to equip the teachers to ensure physical, socio-emotional well-being of the all stakeholder during such difficult times.

Hybrid Learning Education 3.0 training programme

Workshops 19-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE and Tech Avant Garde Microsoft partner
Resource Person: Tech Avant Garde
Participants: Jaya Misra, Sudakshina Datta
Highlight: It was a five day hands on training programme on Hybrid learning 3.0 platform containing Microsoft Teams and various applications compatible with Microsoft Teams. There was a test after the exam.
The participants have been awarded five certificates of completion and one certificate of Recognition. The participants are now certified Microsoft Innovative Educators.

Exposure to Data Science Curriculum Teacher Training Session

Workshops 18-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE and Microsoft
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal
Highlight: Session began with introduction to Data and Data Science and ethics in Data Science and Data Governance followed by training on arranging and collecting Data, data visualization and use of statistics in Data Science, Distributions in Data Science. It also trained us to identify patterns, data merging, assessing and forecasting on data with randomization. Introduction to R Studio with classification Algorithms and regression Algorithms was too good. It ended with project presentations.

Happy Teachers Create Happy Classrooms

Workshops 16-Nov-2021

Resource Person: Bindiya Kaur Gill
Participants: Bindiya Kaur Gill
Highlight: It was an interactive session on the topic Happy Teachers Create Happy Classrooms. The 7 step formula of a happy teacher and 7 strategies for a happy classroom was explained in details. The activity on 30 day happy teacher challenge was appreciated by all.

Children's Day Carnival

Activities in LSA 15-Nov-2021

Participants: Students of Classes Montessori - XI
Highlight: Preprimary teachers put a short programme which consisted of dance, song, quiz and each teacher wished all students through a medley. The primary and middle section teachers designed online games which the children enjoyed playing by entering into different breakout room. A movie were shown to the students of senior section. They were asked to watch the movie with their favorite snack item and enjoy the movie. It was an eventful day for the students of LSA to celebrate the day on online platform.

Revealing Term 1 Examination (2021 - 2022)

Workshops 13-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Poulomi Saha, Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: It was an informative workshop highlighting the rules given for students and teachers how to conduct the exams maintaining the Covid Protocols, the standard mode of assessment and marking.

Stay Safe in the Cyber World

Workshops 13-Nov-2021

Organized By: CIET, NCERT AND CDAC
Resource Person: ISEA
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: The 5 day training over YouTube, in the Official NCERT channel in observance of National Cyber security Awareness Month was well planned and presented. The feedback questions had the right amount of difficulty and covered all the topics introduced in the videos.

Mindler – One on One Career counseling program

Activities in LSA 11-Nov-2021

Resource Person: Mindler and Team
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Each student got an opportunity to discuss their areas of interest and career plans. Their strengths and weaknesses were identified. Career path was also discussed for each individual taking reference from the psychometry report done on the Mindler portal.

AFS 16th Birthday

External Events 11-Nov-2021

Organized By: Volunteers of AFS
Resource: Person AFS
Participants: Sharmita Bhattacharya, Kanak Shankar Mukherjee
Highlight; Mr Kanak Shankar Mukherjee and Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya showcased a video on universal brotherhood and Love

Mask Movement Workout

Activities in LSA 09-Nov-2021

Organized By Drama and Miming Special activity
Resource Person Mr. Debkumar Pal
Participants Students of classes IX & X
Highlight Special Activity students of Drama and Miming of classes 9 10 performed an activity in the drama classes on Mask Movement. Through the mask, the individual had the potential to challenge the understanding of who they are, through their body now being separated from the visual identifier.

AFS Principals Meet

Beyond Boundaries 08-Nov-2021

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person; Ms. Divya Arora
Participants: Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami
Highlight: National Director AFS INDIA met several principals of Kolkata and showcased the ethics of AFS.

Images of Men - Workshop

Workshops 06-Nov-2021

Organized By: Thinkarts
Participants: Students of Class IX
Highlight: A group of students was selected to attend this series of workshops and activities on gender issues and sociology where they were encouraged to see beyond common social norms. They were also given a chance to reflect on challenging the preconceived norms of gender created by the society.

Vocational Education

Workshops 04-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: NCERT
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was a comprehensive course that covered the meaning, history and current efforts of the Government for the integration of vocational education along with the general curriculum.

Abhilasha 2021

Activities in LSA 02-Nov-2021

Participants: LSA Middle School students and students from 22 schools
Highlight: Abhilasha 2021-22, a non- competitive Middle School Fest was held on an online platform on 2nd November which celebrated a total of 22 participating schools. There were 4 international schools namely, Greece, Ukraine, Russia and Nepal. There were 10 national schools from Indore, Guwahati, Churu, Chakradharpur, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh and Zirakpur. There were 7 city schools too.
There were some interesting events like Wordsworth ( a word quiz ), Megalo Epistimones (an event showcasing budding scientists) , Ambrosia ( non-gas cooking event), Fashion Fiesta ( a fashion show that conjured sheer magic from various indigenous fabric) and (a surprise detox event for all the participants) Happiness Genie. The theme for the fest was Chasing Happiness and the Chief Guest Dr. Jitendra Nagpal addressed the young leaders of tomorrow with an inspiring speech.
On the whole, the international event was a huge success and can be followed through the blog – https://abhilasha2021.blogspot.com

Kalantar Annual Art Festival

External Events 01-Nov-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes V - IX
Highlight: Several students from classes 5, 6, and 9 participated in this art competition and uploaded their pictures on the allotted portal of the CBSE website.

Delightful Days (Bagless Days)

Activities in LSA 01-Nov-2021

Participants: LSA Middle School students
Highlight: Delightful Days is a product of the Bagless Days that is suggested under the NEP as per the CBSE directives. A week full of skill based learning was organised for the middle school students. The students got a break from the monotonous online classes and indulged in various activities like storytelling, jewellery designing, public speaking and even Physical activities like zumba and yoga. 
The young minds got refreshed and they went back enlightened and happy each day. Some sessions were also organised for them with doctors and value educator. It was an enriching experience.

Maths Mela

Activities in LSA 01-Nov-2021

Resource Person: Maths Department (Primary)
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: The Mela was organised very well via the zoom platform. Student in charges conducted the games and activities with confidence. Student participants enjoyed playing various games in different break out rooms. It was also a brain storming session for them and an experiential learning.

Workshop on Bhasha Koushal

Workshops 30-Oct-2021

Participants: Puja Dubey
Highlight: Problems regarding Bhasha koushal faced by students were identified and solutions were explained. Norms to conduct effective online classes were also discussed.

Innovative Methods for Teaching Ethics and Integrity

Workshops 30-Oct-2021

Resource Person: Aloka Sensharma
Participants: Asfia Rafique, Kulbir Kaur, Sohini Mitra Jain, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: The Innovative Methods for Teaching Ethics and Integrity workshop was aimed at knowing newer modes of teaching and learning in accordance to today’s time.

ISEA Certified Cyber Hygiene Practioner

Workshops 30-Oct-2021

Venue: ISEA WEBSITE
Organized By: MeitY, Government of India
Resource Person: ISEA
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: The teacher concerned was certified as a Cyber Hygiene practitioner by the government. This would enhance her potential to deal with students who have been exposed to digital learning at the onset of their educational experience.

NISHTHA 3.0 FLN Courses

Workshops 25-Oct-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Teachers of Pre-Primary & Primary Department
Highlight: The courses highlighted the vision of the mission to create an enabling environment to ensure universal acquisition of foundational literacy and numeracy, so that every child achieves the desired learning competencies in reading, writing and numeracy at the end of Class III.

UAV (Drone)

Activities in LSA 24-Oct-2021

Venue: BITM
Organized By: BITM
Participants: Students of class VI
Highlight: Fun filled activities like Quiz, Plane making, Plane competition and the Physics behind working of plane were enjoyed by the students. The bronze medal was received by Dhairya Khetan. Students gained knowledge and experience

Special Assembly 3 - 5

Activities in LSA 21-Oct-2021

Resource: Video, speech, song
Participants: Students of classes III – V
Highlight: A special assembly was organized on 21st October 2021 to commemorate the provisional declaration of free government of India (INA Day). The assembly programme started with the morning exercise, religious thought and school prayer. Students then read out the Thought for the Day, Word of the Day and News. This was followed by a special programme comprising the following:
• A video presentation on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Indian National Army.
• A speech on Netaji and the song Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja presented by the students.

KL YES ABROAD

Beyond Boundaries 19-Oct-2021

Venue: USA
Organized By: AFS USA
Resource Person: AFS INDIA
Participants: KRISHANG GUPTA(XII A)
Highlight: Krishang Gupta is well settled in USA on a school exchange program through AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS in Sunnyslope High School, Phoenix, AZ. He is expected to be back after 10 months

AFS EXCHANGE

Beyond Boundaries 19-Oct-2021

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: AFS India
Participants: Ananya Karnany(XI A), Emmy Lilou Perrin (XI A)
Highlight: EMMY LILOU PERRIN is a new entrant to our Academy who hails from ISSOIRE France and has come to spend a year in India and study in our institution. She loves music and enjoys Biology. She is also showing interest in Language learning. Ananya Karnany is her host family.

Pathways to Global classrooms

Workshops 08-Oct-2021

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: Mrs Sarita Badhwar
Participants: Amrita Sen, Anandite Pal, Asia Rafique, India Kaur Gill, Ingrain Das, Kole Ghosh, Kubler Kaur, Lop mudra Ghosh, Man meet Kaur, Nandini Chanda, Poulomi Saah, Puja Dubey, Pushpa Dayana, Rekha Dayana, S. Ananth, Sarani Saah Ghatam, Sharita Bhattacharya, Subchaser Das Gupta, Sneha Singh, Sudarshan Chowdhury, Sanjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: Pathway to Global Classroom for Educators Workshop empowers the teachers to build global classrooms, recognize cultural differences and create a safe multicultural environment that celebrates diversity!

Gender Sensitivity

Workshops 07-Oct-2021

Organized By: Communicators of LSA
Resource Person: Ms. Anju Munshi, MS, Sumona Dasgupta, Ms. Namita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Namita Dutta Gupta, Simona Dasgupta
Highlight: The discussion was on gender sensitivity, gender partnership and no subjugation of genders. Importance of interpersonal relationship in the perspective of parent and parent child relationship was also discussed.

Social Engineering Attacks and Security Quiz

Workshops 07-Oct-2021

Organized By: NCERT
Resource Person: CIET
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It is a well research and well organized course with in depth explanation about cyber safety and threats.

Webinar Series on Competency Based Question Development.

Workshops 07-Oct-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Ms. Ramandeep Kaur, Ms. Vinita Rikhi & Ms Priyanka Vasudevan
Participants: Mistuni Mukherjee, Mumu Mukherjee, Poulomi Saha, Srabani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: 1. Discussion on Bloom's Taxonomy
2.Points on how to frame good questions.
3. Questions were shared with multiple examples.

tete a tetes

Activities in LSA 05-Oct-2021

Participants Teachers & Office Staff

Highlight A short informal get together for the teachers was arranged on International Teacher’s Day to lighten the mood of the LSA family members over a cup of coffee. It consisted of songs, dance, quizzes and some recreational games. New members were introduced and we were able to know more of about their innate talents when they talked about the other talents that they had. It was enjoyed by all.

Effect Plu

Workshops 30-Sep-2021

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: Ms Sarita Badhwar
Participants: Students of Classes IX & XI
Highlight: SDGs and Global change makers is what AFS focuses on while taking workshops for students. A well designed and engaging workshop.

Microsoft Innovative Educator Training Programme

Workshops 30-Sep-2021

Organized By: Microsoft Inc
Resource Person: Ms. Sneha Singh
Participants: Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: Microsoft Innovative Educator Training or the MIE Training is an exclusive programme created to recognize educators using technology to pave the way for their peers for better learning and student outcomes. MIEs use Microsoft tools in the classroom and the fundamentals of some of these tools were discussed. Received certificate for the same.

Spinning Tales A Webinar on Story Telling

Workshops 30-Sep-2021

Organized By: Macmillan
Resource Person: Prachitara Mishra
Participants: Asfia Rafique, Khadija Aamir Choonawala, Subhi Vijay Vargiya, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: It was an engaging and informative session. The resource person was very knowledgeable and expressive. The discussion on the different methods of storytelling to enhance classroom teaching was beneficial.

Session on Employability Skill

Workshops 28-Sep-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Mr. Vinod Jha
Participants: IT Department Teachers
Highlight: The session was very interactive and informative. Teachers learned various steps to register to the portal for teacher and student both. We have understood the process of completion of the employability courses. We have understood the process to see the updated report of students' progress. It has been told that teachers need to motivate students to complete the courses.

Use and Integration of Technology – Implementation of the Vision of NEP

Workshops 27-Sep-2021

Venue YouTube and Google Form Assessment
Organized By CIET NCERT
Resource Person CIET NCERT
Participants Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight The series of lectures on the YouTube channel about use of technology in the class was well designed and provided detailed explanation in light of NEP 2020.

Project Baby Einstein

Workshops 26-Sep-2021

Organized By: Brain Infinite
Resource Person: Mr. Amrut Jadhav and Ms. Tara Thombre
Participants: Students of classes PSI - PSII
Highlight: The webinar was about increasing focus, memory power and promoting creativity amongst children. It was also helpful in regards to brain development of the children. Memory game like creative visualisation and brain gym were interesting part of the webinar.

Certification program for computer teachers

Workshops 25-Sep-2021

Organized: By Eupheus Learning
Resource Person: Ms Gurpreet Kaur
Participants: IT Department Teachers
Highlight: The workshop showcased about a Professional Development Program for Teachers” through our Canadian University Partner – Concordia University and Eupheus Learning through a gamefied portal robo garden.

Circular 69 Read India Celebration

External Events 25-Sep-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight: 8 students from class XI and 2 students from Class XII have participated in this most talked about habit and art that's gradually dying out. They were given specific tasks after the registration process which they had to complete and submit by 15 the September. The students were Diya Sharma, Dia Marik, Meghal Jain, Saket Jaiswal,Ashesh Mishra, Arhaam Azhari Yamini Agarwal, Shivangi Dey, Shirshaa Saha, Saanvi Nagar.

Transitioning from a Constant to a Dynamic Board Exam

External Events 24-Sep-2021

Organized By: Mindler
Resource Person: Mrs Kak, Ms Rupa Chakravarty, Mr K V Arjun Rao, Dr Jagpreet Singh, Dr Skand Bali
Participants: Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami, Poulomi Saha, Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: The webinar focused on the challenges of the old system and how the students as well as the
teachers need to make changes in the learning process to fit into the new system. The panel also discussed the challenges in the new system, and gave their views / suggestions for all the stakeholders.

Indian Sign Language

Workshops 18-Sep-2021

Organized By: Crejo.Fun
Resource Person: Ms Smriti Nagpal
Participants: Students of Classes V – VIII
Highlight:The students from Classes V to VIII registered for the workshop. The objective of this workshop was to sensitize the youth about the difficulties faced by the differently abled and equip them with the basic skills. This was a new experience for our students.

The Art Of Environmental Science

Workshops 18-Sep-2021

Resource Person: Manmeet Kaur
Participants: Manmeet Kaur, Mitali Mukhopadhyay, S Anandhi, Sharmila Bera, Shubhasree Dasgupta
Highlight: The workshop was conducted keeping in mind the requirements of NEP 2020. The session dealt all the aspects of experiential learning. The strategies to be involved to enhance the critical thinking skills of the students were showcased. The resources and strategies to teach the lessons were explained using all the contemporary online tools to improvise on the teaching learning process. (As suggested by co teachers)

Workshop on Road to Digital Literacy

Workshops 18-Sep-2021

Resource Person: IT team of LSA
Participants: IT Teachers
Highlight: IT department conducted a workshop for teachers of science and social science streams. They have been made aware of how to be a good digital citizen. It has been explained what measures we take before choosing of information we should choose from the digital media and why. As the last part of the workshop teachers have been trained with the presentation application Prezi. A feedback form has been shared with all too.

CBSE Career Guide and Portal Training Program for School Teachers / Counsellors

Workshops 16-Sep-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Ms. Parmita Sarma
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Importance and need of career counselling. It gave an insight about the emerging new career choices. Each student would get their own dashboard where they can explore different subject combinations and related career options. The portal can be accessed by students free of cost.

Read India Celebration

External Events 15-Sep-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes VII – VIII
Highlight: RIC imparted the students the opportunity to read and express themselves based on their understanding of the text that they had read. The "small task" was intensely interesting and honed the literary and creative skills of the students.

Words are how we think, stories are how we link

Workshops 13-Sep-2021

Venue: American Centre
Organized By: American Centre
Participants: Srabanti Deb
Highlight: The workshop was conducted aimed at exploring methods to use performative and digital storytelling as a classroom tool to make it more engaging and interesting. The workshop focused on innovative storytelling methods like popcorn questions, tableau performances and teachers participated in the same to explore the multiple possibilities of teaching methodologies. The online tools like tablet, jamboard, quizzlet etc were introduced to keep students engaged and attentive in class.

All India Online Arithmetic Genius Contest

External Events 07-Sep-2021

Organized By: SIP ABACUS
Resource Person: SIP ABACUS
Participants: Students of Classes I – V
Highlight: Around 160 students from classes 1 to 5 have registered for the online contest. Students are receiving the schedule for the selection round and started appearing for the same. This round will get over in November 2021.

YES Abroad

External Events 01-Sep-2021

Venue: USA
Organized By: AFS USA
Resource Person: AFS India
Participants: Krishang Gupta (XII A)
Highlight: Krishang Gupta finally flew to Phoenix USA to Sunnyslope High school for an enriching experience of his life.

Culture program - Ranum Denmark Short term Program

Beyond Boundaries 30-Aug-2021

Venue: Ranum Efterskole College,Denmark
Organized By: AFS INDIA
Resource Person: AFS Denmark
Participants: Aakriti Agarwal(XII C), Arya Agarwal(X D)
Highlight: They spent a month at a Danish ETERSKOLE exploring cultural differences, learning Danish and participating in interesting activities and cultural excursions.

Birla Bharati Primary Fest 2021 ABHIGYATA

External Events 28-Aug-2021

Organized By: BIRLA BHARTI SCHOOL
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: The Birla Bharti Primary Fest was held from 26th to 28th August. Lakshmipat Singhania Academy was represented by 13 children from classes 3 to 5 who enthusiastically participated in all the six events organized by the host school.

AFS Host Orientation and Counselor Meeting

Beyond Boundaries 27-Aug-2021

Organized By: AFS
Resource Person AFS: Mr.Ajay Mehta
Participants: Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Meeting with the Host Family, Roles and Responsibilities of a Host Family and Counselor. Rules and Restrictions were discussed. Monthly Learning Reflections is to be filled up by Counselor.

Workshop on Joyful Mathematics

Workshops 27-Aug-2021

Resource Person: Arwah Hussain Deesawala
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight A well prepared presentation with appropriate activities and videos to make mathematics more joyful for children was shown. The resource person encouraged attendees to actively take part in the activities and share their view points. Principles for creating joyful learning plans, elements of
joyful learning and effective strategies for teaching elementary level were well covered. How to make children more creative by giving them chance and options to create their own games was discussed in details.

Graphic Novel A way forward ... A Pedagogy

Workshops 25-Aug-2021

Venue Youtube Live
Organized By CBSE Academics and Trainings
Resource Person Mr. Sandeep Sethi and Principals of various schools
Participants Asfia Rafique
Highlight The session was highly informative. It highlighted the effectiveness of Graphic Novels and that it must be a part of our pedagogy. Learnt
1. Graphic novels can teach visual literacy.
2. It can be effective to engage reluctant readers.
3. As Graphic novels are application based, they encourage students to apply critical thinking effectively.

Kindness Matters - UNESCO MGIEP

Activities in LSA 25-Aug-2021

Organized By UNESCO
Participants Students of Class X
Highlight This is a round-the-year activity where individual contributions towards the family and community at large are recorded. Participants Urja Goyal, Parina Jain, Harshit Doshi, Rajnandini Jain, Vanshika Kabra

ShikshaShilpi Aahaar Kranti

Workshops 23-Aug-2021

Organized By Shiksh Shilpi (Mondays)
Resource Person Dr. Rashmi Kulkarni, Dr. Yelloji Rao Mirajkar, Dr. Anjali Abhay Kulkarni
Participants Anurag Sultania, Kulbir Kaur, Manmeet Kaur, Puja Dubey
Highlight The lectures are held every Monday at 7:00 pm. The sessions are very informative and give valuable suggestions on maintaining a healthy diet at all ages. These sessions are enriching and encourage every individual to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

eRaksha 2021 Screen Master

External Events 22-Aug-2021

Organized By CBSE and CyberPeace foundation
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Students of classes 11 and 12
Highlight All students of classes 9 and web application and computer science students of classes 11 and 12 participated in the eRaksha 2021. They have been guided to participate in screen master event which was a video making competition on the theme ‘My Idea of a Safe and Peaceful Cyber Space’.
All the students uploaded their video in youtube as per the guidance and shared the same in e raksha website during registration. Few students applied for the special category event eAvishkar. Results are awaited.

Cybersmart Workshop

Workshops 21-Aug-2021

Organized By WNS Cares Foundation
Resource Person WNS Cares Foundation
Participants All Teachers & Office Staff
Highlight The importance of protecting one’s privacy online and the need to be alert and vigilant while using online games and services were stressed upon. Ways for students to manage their accounts and the meaning of cyber bullying was explained in detail. Every teacher and student who attempts the course will be provided with a certificate. This was necessary for the school to be declared as a Cybersmart school.

Workshop on ways to make the subject interactive and interesting

Workshops 21-Aug-2021

Resource Person Priya Mozumdar
Participants APre-Primary Teachers
Highlight The details of websites to be used for providing an enriching experience to the children through games was discussed. The available activities in each website were demonstrated. The use of 3D images was also shown.

AFS Bulletin Board Competition

External Events 18-Aug-2021

Organized By AFS India
Resource Person Jayati Goswami, Amritah Sen
Participants Students of Classes VIII - XII
Highlight There were two groups of students, one of classes 8 9 and the other of classes 10 12. 8 students participated in class 8 9 group and 7 students participated in class 10 12 group. They came to school on 18th August to make the bulletin boards on the topic: INTERFAITH HARMONY. Both the teams did a commendable job.

Friendly football match for substaffs of LSA

Activities in LSA 15-Aug-2021

Resource Person Mr. Darshan Singh Gill
Participants Chandrashekhar Das, Raghunath Guchhayat & all Support Staff
Highlight A football match was organised for the sub staffs after the virtual Independence Day celebration. All the members of the sub staffs took part in the match and played well. It was an initiative to give them a feeling of belongingness and, that they are an important part of the institution. The PE department were the referees and helped in conducting the match smoothly. It was an enjoyable session for all the members.

Celebrating Online Independence Day

Activities in LSA 15-Aug-2021

Participants Students of Classes PS I to XII
Highlight Lakshmipat Singhania celebrated the 75th Independence Celebration on virtual platform. The Chief Guest for the day was Brigadier Debashish Das. The flag hoisting ceremony was relayed live on YouTube, which was done within school premises, performed by our school’s director Ma’am Meena Kak. It was followed by showcasing patriotic songs, dance performances, powerful speeches in English and Hindi followed by a pledge. The programme ended with a video presentation.

exeBIT 2021

Beyond Boundaries 07-Aug-2021

Participants Harshvardhan Jalan(XII B), Mahak Garodia(XII A)
Highlight The academy celebrated 10th edition of its IT fest exeBIT - Imagine, Innovate, Ignite, which was an amalgamation of NEP, 25 years of our academy and 10th year of the fest. 33 schools participated of which we had 6 schools based out of Kolkata and 1 school from Nepal. There were 21 events and 2 workshops. All the schools have been given an award based on their participations.

Cyber Security

Workshops 01-Aug-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was an elaborate course and spoke about the different aspects of cyber security. Detailed explanation, video content and reading materials provided helped to thoroughly understand the topic.

Shikshashilpi Aahar Kranti Online Lecture Series

Workshops 01-Aug-2021

Venue: Zoom and shikshashilpi website
Organized By: Ministry of Health
Resource Person: GIST, VIBHA and PRABHASS
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was a month long training with video lectures and weekly feedbacks and the chance of participating in a nationwide contest for teachers. It has been a wonderful learning experience.

Art Integration in Learning

Workshops 31-Jul-2021

Resource Person Runa Ghosh
Participants Teachers from English Department (Primary)
Highlight The session focused on art integration in learning and what NEP recommended regarding this. Why art integration is needed in English and how to do so was also discussed. Integrating art with LSRW skills was talked about.

AFS Local Chapter Meet

External Events 26-Jul-2021

Organized By AFS India
Resource Person PARVEZ
Participants Jayati Goswami
Highlight The following was discussed: Session preparation; PowerPoint template; process of finalization of
presentation . Responsibilities of volunteers; what it means to be a presenter from India?
Communication guidelines to be followed while talking to other countries

Workshop on - MATHEMAGIC – to discover the magic of maths and make students fall in love with the subject

Workshops 16-Jul-2021

Resource Person Mitali Mukhopadhyay
Participants Ms. Sharmila Bera, Ms. S. Anandhi, Ms. Shubhasree Dasgupta, Ms. Manmeet Kaur
Highlight The workshop focussed on the 4 basic principles to make an engaging mathematics class:
A) Problem Solving
B) Experiential Learning
C) Catering To Multiple Intelligences
D) Inclusion of Mathematical Games
In all the activities / games discussed, the teacher provided support and aroused the interest among
the students as these activities are completely based on experiential learning and developing their
critical thinking skills to find a solution - TEACHER’S ROLE AS A FACILITATOR.

Make Learning Fun

Workshops 03-Jul-2021

Resource Person: Sohini Mitra Jain
Participants: Teachers from English Department (Primary)
Highlight: The workshop dealt with various teaching strategies that can make learning fun, meaningful and engaging.

UNESCO PROJECT Kindness Matters

External Events 25-Jun-2021

Organized By UNESCO MGIEP
Participants Students of classes IX & X
Highlight This is a yearlong project. Fivestudents each from class IX and X will participate every month.
Names of participating students for June
1XB Taraksh Garodia
IXC Aadarsh Singh,Drishti Bhagat
IXD Divyansh Shah, Vidisha Jaiin
XB Harshvi Banka, Mehak Baid
XC Shruti Chowtaria
XD Arya Agarwal, Tanvi Agarwal

Helping children adapt to learning from home

Workshops 24-Jun-2021

Organized By: SCOO News
Resource Person: Lt. Col. A. Sekhar, Lina Ashar, Fatema agarkar, Chandni bhagat and Reena Valecha
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: We learned the ways to keep children motivated, by increasing communication skills, use of technology, promoting creativity, helping children to form buddy groups and giving them breaks in between their online classes by introducing games or activities to keep their attention and interest.

Teacher's toolkit for emotional wellbeing of students

Workshops 24-Jun-2021

Organized By: Drishti Enabling Inclusion, Mumbai
Resource Person: Ms. Karishma Dhrolia and Ms. Haveesha Budhdev
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Hands on strategies to take care of holistic wellbeing of students, fostering SEL in virtual classroom and strategies of self-care for students.

The Adolescent Speak

External Events 23-Jun-2021

Organized By: Expression India and Ministry of Education
Resource Person: Manodarpan Ministry of Education
Participants: Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: It was a live webinar series where Peer Educators from 22 schools all over India were present in the forum. The importance of Life Skill, Mental Health and Wellbeing was discussed in the forum. Srishti Maheswari of class 12 represented our school as a Peer Educator. She got an opportunity to share
her viewpoints.

Importance of Reading

Workshops 22-Jun-2021

Organized By: PN Paniker Foundation
Resource Person: PN Panicker members
Participants: Jayati Goswami
Highlight: With the roll out of the National e Governance Plan, the ICT is being taken to the remote corners of the country with access to the rural masses to draw the benefits of the development of IT for inclusive growth. There is a need to bridge the digital divide by spreading e literacy for social inclusion.

Machine Learning

Workshops 22-Jun-2021

Organized By: VIPNET India
Resource Person: Mr.Vigyan Prasar
Participants: Jaya Misra, Poulomi Saha, Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: Machine learning key points were shared, along with its importance, its requirements and its benefits in day to day life. It gave them the basic knowledge of algorithm which helps to read the data for learning. We should have the basic knowledge of machine learning as in today's world it is
very important to face the challenges in daily based innovative learning. Machine learning helps in face detection, speech recognition, and stock prediction.

Super Teacher Workshop on Hybrid Schooling (Online teaching tools and open Resources)

Workshops 21-Jun-2021

Organized By: Super Teachers
Resource Person: Vasudevan from Super Teachers
Participants: Poulomi Saha
Highlight: The various applications of live demonstration in class was learned. It was very interesting to know the lab facilities can be arranged online too. Participant learned new applications like Dicovery .org, Nearpod application, Google Earth where you can virtually visit places, live and can have a virtual
tour with your students.

Student say

External Events 20-Jun-2021

Organized By: Education World
Resource Person: Shweta Parakh
Participants: Class VI
Highlight: Training on how to prepare news on the audio visual medium has been given nicely to the selected students.

Invest Seminar

Workshops 20-Jun-2021

Organized By: Future School Leader
Resource Person: Anuppama Das, Puneet Ahuja, Bindeshwar Pathak, Kieron, Nancy Ekpezu, Neelkantha Bhanu, Mandeep Gill, Bindu rana, Mahesh Sangade
Participants: Darshan Singh Gill, Joy Chakraborty, Nandini Chandra, Ranjini Chakravarty
Highlight: The seminar was enriching and emphasized on different ways to invest money and how to invest on oneself to grow. It had eminent speakers specializing in the fields on investment and other areas which aim at self growth.

Post Pandemic Education : Emerging Trends & Innovations

Workshops 19-Jun-2021

Organized By: Times of India
Resource Person: Dr. Kusum Kanwar, Mr Pranay, Mr Anand Kumar, Ms Santrupti
Participants: Jaya Misra, Jayati Gosami, Manidipa Lahiri, Soumya Ghosh
Highlight: The webinar was to promote a coding platform, Tekie, which uses the Art of Storytelling as teaching strategy.

Workshop on Road to digital literacy

Workshops 19-Jun-2021

Organized: By IT dept of LSA
Resource Person: IT department of LSA
Participants IT Department Teachers
Highlight: Teachers of Commerce, humanities, sports and Music department were trained by IT dept on Road to digital literacy. It was a scheduled Workshop session assigned by the heads of the academy. The teachers were given guidance for being a good digital citizen, awareness tips to make them
information literate. The session ends with imparting technology literacy on Prezi the online presentation software. A feedback form had been distributed by IT dept. for further improvement.

Hindi workshop

Workshops 19-Jun-2021

Resource Person: Uma Jaiswal
Participants: Teachers from Hindi Department (Primary)
Highlight: The workshop helped in improving teaching skills in the era of virtual learning. We were able to know the importance of LAC in teaching Hindi. Discussed the points on the challenges of virtual learning like steps to organize virtual learning efficiently, Story Reading, Poetry Reading, Quiz, Debate, Virtual travel based learning to teach Hindi.

 

2D Animations and Doodle like animations

Workshops 18-Jun-2021

Organized By: Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Resource Person: Ms Bharani N
Participants: Mumu Mukherjee
Highlight: Advanced Presentation techniques were elaborated and Animation Tools were showcased related to teaching-learning activities.

Junior Skills 2021

Workshops 15-Jun-2021

Organized By NSDC
Resource Person NSDC
Participants Jayati Goswami
Highlight The championship aims at giving students practical insight into established and emergent skill categories, and access to industry experts who will guide them throughout Junior Skills. The process and interactions with experts are also designed to help students make informed career choices.

Awareness Program

Workshops 14-Jun-2021

Organized By AICTE
Resource Person AICTE
Participants Jayati Goswami
Highlight Awareness program about the initiatives has been taken by All India Centre for Technical Education. All program content and learning outcomes were discussed.

Various initiatives of CBSE in collaboration AICTE

Workshops 14-Jun-2021

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Manish Ahuja,Abhay Jere,AICTE
Participants Poulomi Saha
Highlight Orientation webinar programme on various initiatives of CBSE with collaboration AICTE was the topic of discussion. 5 modules were discussed which were of duration of 72 hours for teachers. Initiatives of NEP were also discussed. Objectives of NEP, Buckets of NEAT products were emphasized, well implemented as the training modules gave us the brief explanation on Online Innovation Ambassador training programme.

Workshop( Build in Immunity Quotient)

Workshops 12-Jun-2021

Organized By: Pfizer
Resource Person: Doctor Debjani Bose
Participants: Arwah Hussain Deesawala, Jyoti Gondi, Ranjini Chakravarty
Highlight: Parents were appraised about building immunity by regular vaccination, proper sleep and adequate love and nutrition. The detailed presentation was demonstrated and discussed.

Workshop on Programming in Python

Workshops 07-Jun-2021

Organized By: Orange Education
Resource Person: Rahul Ranjan CEO of Leaplearner
Participants: IT Department Teachers
Highlight: The Resource person spoke about the use of Python and how the software is more user friendly than other languages. He also demonstrated some codes with their outputs.

Covid Vaccination

Activities in LSA 04-Jun-2021

Venue: Techno India Dama Hospital
Participants: Teachers & Office staff
Highlight: It is great news the management has arranged for Covid vaccination for all the staff of our academy. They have arranged the same in collaboration with Techno India Dama hospital. Many of the staff had taken their first dose of CoviShield vaccine.

Counselling Sessions on ‘Grieving’

Workshops 02-Jun-2021

Organized By: Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Participants: Teachers
Highlight: It was a very interactive session. We were made to do certain activities which were very rejuvenating. Individuals were asked to speak about their own experiences

Workshops organised by Centre of Excellence, Bhubaneswar and attended by our Teachers throughout the month of MAY

Workshops 01-Jun-2021

• Workshop on Gamification in Learning
• Strategies of a happy classroom
• Innovative Pedagogy in Social Science Experiential Learning
• Integration of Arts in Social Science
• Workshop on Anger Free Schools
• Connecting and Communicating with Parents
• Enhancing life skill Decision Making
• Positive Mindful Mantras for Fighting Stress
• Interdisciplinary Project
• CBSE Training, Understanding Gender and their relationship
• CBSE Training, Managing Change
• Positive mindful mantras for fighting stress
• Communicating with Parents
• Teaching strategies /Methodology in Social Science
• Enhancing Life Skills Interpersonal Relationships
• NEP EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION
• Online workshop on Fostering Critical and Creative Literacy
• CBSE TRAINING ON MENTORING AND TEAM TEACHING
• LIFE SKILLS DEALNG WITH STRESS
• Understanding Blooms Taxonomy and its application in Social Science
• WORK SHOP ON MADHYMIK STAR PAR HINDI BHASHA ME AAKALAN
• CBSE workshop Enhancing Life Skills Critical Thinking
• Positive MINDFUL Mantras for fighting Stress
• Teaching Strategies / Methodologies in Social Science
• The Value to Reckon need of value education
• Understanding classroom management and its components

BSG Annual General Meeting

Workshops 30-May-2021

Organized By South Calcutta Association
Resource Person South Calcutta Association
Participants Ishita Valentina Gomes, Joy Chakraborty
Highlight The meeting was well conducted. The points in the agenda were discussed. Forthcoming events and trainings were mentioned.

 

e-competition to observe international day for biological diversity 2021

External Events 26-May-2021

Organized By: TERI’s Green Boot Camp
Participants: Students of classes V – X
Highlight: Theme of the competition – ‘We are the solution’. Painting for Students from classes V to VII and PowerPoint Presentation for students from classes VIII to X.

Parents Orientation - Online

Workshops 24-May-2021

Participants: Meena Kak, Anjali Chopra, Anju Munshi, Class XI HRT’s & Soumyo Ghosh
Highlight: 125 parents of class 11 students attended the meeting along with Ma'am Meena Kak, Ma'am Anjali Chopra, Ma'am Anju Munshi and all four HRTs of class 11. Parents were apprised of NEP, Class 11 and 12 Board results of 2020, examination structure, ethos of school and rules and regulations.

Counselling Workshop

Workshops 21-May-2021

Organized By: Tata Institute of Social Science
Resource Person: Ms.Sukanya Ray
Participants: All Teachers & Office Staff
Highlight: Teachers shared the different feelings that they are currently going through and the resource person gave us suggestions to overcome negative feelings specially grief. Few exercises were also shown which would help us to contain ourselves and our emotions during these difficult times.

Parents Orientation - Online

Activities in LSA 21-May-2021

Resource Person: Meena Kak, Jayati Goswami, Sohini Jain, Nabomita Duttagupta.
Participants: Aloka Sen Sharma, Suranjana Chakraborty, Asfia Rafique, S. Anandhi and Parents of students From class III and New Admission from classes IV & V
Highlight: Parents were apprised of NEP, Board results of 2020-21, examination structure, ethos of school, rules and regulations, code of conduct for online class, information about Happy Hour, Indradhanush, LSAMUN and awards received by the Academy in the last session.

Workshop on Effective Computer Teaching in Scratch

Workshops 21-May-2021

Organized By: Orange Education
Resource Person: Ms. Nidhi Gupta
Participants: Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: The spokesperson discussed about computer education in schools, traits of a good computer teacher and the impact of teaching programming from the lower level. She also demonstrated scratch programming features with some good examples.

 

Summer Camp

Activities in LSA 20-May-2021

Participants: Students of classes III – V
Highlight: In the Summer Camp children could choose from a wide range of activities and learn something new. The wide range of engaging and innovative activities helped them gain new skills and in expanding the ones, they've already got.
The various activities provided were - Poetry Workshop, Fusion Camp, Magic of Maths, Rhythmaerobics, Doodle Zoodle, Coding, Food Basket and Craft.
The learning outcome of the Summer Camp –
> Helped students to build a unique interest.
> Students learned new skills.
> The Summer Camp reinforced confidence and independence.
> Students learned to be creative.

Breath and Mind in the times of COVID-19

Workshops 20-May-2021

Organized By: AIM, NITI Aayog and Learning Links Foundation
Participants: Teachers of LSA
Highlight: It was a very useful session to keep our mind and body in a relaxed state in the on- going pandemic situation.

Little Leap Public Speaking Olympiad

External Events 19-May-2021

Organized By: Little Leap
Participants: 41 Students from classes 3 to 5
Highlight: Little Leap Public Speaking Olympiad helped the children to develop social and interpersonal skills and enhanced their English speaking, Public speaking, Creativity and Critical Thinking skills through fun, playful and engaging sessions. These sessions are guided by the trainers in preparing their speech using Magician’s tricks. These sessions helped the children to enhance their confidence to become good public speakers. The prizes for the good speakers are announced every fortnight under 3 different age groups.

Assistive Technology for Inclusion

Workshops 18-May-2021

Organized By: CBSE Coe Dehradun
Resource Person: Ms. Sanjaya Walia
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: How technology can be used in various types of inclusion like disability, first generation learner, slum children, creative children etc. Examples of different tech tools for hearing aids, hardware and software for better accessibility were also discussed.

Cultural Grip over Virtual trip AFS India and Hungary

Beyond Boundaries 15-May-2021

Organized By: AFS India and Hungary
Participants: Jayati Goswami, Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: It was an interesting virtual exchange program to share the cultural aspects of the two countries. Learnt about different historical places, cuisine, sports, literature etc of Hungary.

Education Transformation Framework Webinar

Workshops 15-May-2021

Organized By: Juana Technologies
Resource Person: Juana Technologies
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: The event introduced technologies that will drive the change and also enable critical conversation needed for effective transformations.

Meeting for finalizing special activity

Activities in LSA 12-May-2021

Resource Person: Sanzeeda Mirza, Coordinators of each department, Manmeet Kaur, Indrani Das, Rupa Mazumdar, Bijay Raj Shaw
Participants: Students of classes III – XII
Highlight: A meeting was organised for each department to finalize the activities, promotion of activities like handicraft was done to balance the number of participants in each activity.

Action Research

Workshops 11-May-2021

Venue: Diksha Custodian ORG
Organized By: NCERT
Resource Person: NCERT
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was a useful course and discussed action research in depth. With appropriate video lessons and different types of questions used in the quizzes, the course was well balanced and helped her to analyze and reflect on her learning.

ICT 2.0 workshop Teacher empowering

Workshops 10-May-2021

Organized By: Edulitehouse
Resource Person: Seema Gupta and Mr. Desai
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: Had a great session to understand the change of technology in near future. Through the session we have understood the implementation of NEP through the application of technology. We have learned to understand the methodology to convert the theoretical concept into practical application.

Decoding NEP: Making multidisciplinary approach a reality.

Workshops 08-May-2021

Organized By: Edudevs
Resource Person; Madam Devyani, Maheshwara Chaitanya
Participants: Hindi Teachers Department
Highlight: The session stressed on teaching in interdisciplinary manner, more of experiential activities and learning and no rote learning in classes. Interactive sessions should be conducted with students making multidisciplinary approach a reality. Students to find out critical thinking skills, critical question and answer along with problem solving questions.

Webinar on elucidating the assessment criteria

Workshops 06-May-2021

Organized By: CBSE, NPSE
Resource Person: Chairperson of CBSE
Participants: Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: Discussion on Assessment criteria of CBSE class X took place. It was an informative session where we have understood the various ways that we should consider as an assessment and how to prepare students for their assessment.

Adobe Creative Educator – Professional Development Workshop and Technology for Blended Learning

Workshops 29-Apr-2021

Organized By: CBSE, NITI Aayog, ATAL Innovation Mission in collaboration with Google
Resource Person: Adobe
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was a well conducted and well organized session. The resource persons were approachable and helped in solving doubts while using the Adobe Spark platform. It was comprehensive and well explained. The virtual training sessions on YouTube were very effective and helped us know more about the use of Google classroom and various other tools that come under educational technology. The resource person was knowledgeable and well versed in the use of technology in the classroom.

Adobe Professional Developmental Webinar on Digital Literacy and Creativity Skills

Workshops 27-Apr-2021

Organized By: Adobe Creative Educator
Resource Person: Adobe
Participants: Primary department Teachers
Highlight: The session that was conducted opened a plethora of opportunities to work on the digital platform. Teachers learnt aspects of Adobe Creative educator that was highly enriching and engaging.

Teacher's Orientation workshop

Workshops 27-Apr-2021

Organized By: Freadom (Smiles to Milestone)
Resource Person: Sukhanya and Suchita
Participants: Teachers of Primary, Pre Primary & Middle School Department
Highlight: Freadom is an upcoming reading application which can easily be downloaded on the mobile as well as on a desktop. There are more than 1000 books with many interactive activities for ages 3 to12. There are daily positive news updates too for children. The resource person also discussed a club 1 Br web Page for teachers to join which has a virtual staff room with interesting topics of discussion.

AI for India 1.0

Workshops 25-Apr-2021

Organized By: GUVI
Resource Person: AICTE & GUVI
Participants: Teachers of IT department and selected students from classes 10 to 12.
Highlight: A One Day Online workshop on Python Programming skills that aim to break the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD by upskilling 10 Lakh participants with Python Programming skills was conducted. This program is aligned with the broader vision to ‘make India lead among the Top 3 countries in Artificial Intelligence.

# Kindness Matters

External Events 25-Apr-2021

Organized By: UNESCO MGIEP
Participants: Students of Classes IX – X
Highlight: A big opportunity for students and school, to be part of this global campaign. Students got a platform to express every possible way that they could, to go out and make a difference, through their act of kindness. 12 students from class 9 and 23 students from class 10 got this opportunity this month. This will be a continuous process.

Digital literacy and creativity for ATL incharges

Workshops 21-Apr-2021

Organized By: CBSE, NITI Aayog and Adobe
Resource Person: Krithika Rao and Suraj shetkar
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: The implementation of various Adobe tools as a useful teaching tool was taught through a hands-on session.

My ON Reader

Workshops 20-Apr-2021

Venue: Delhi online
Organized By: My ON India
Resource Person: Mr. Devashish Gandhi
Participants: Jayati Goswami, Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Sohini Mitra Jain
Highlight: My ON Reader is a personalized Reading Solution for students and teachers. They provide unlimited high quality reading practice that fuels literacy growth. They are well equipped with unlimited access, curriculum support and deep data insights. It was understood that this could be a useful medium for smooth transmission of knowledge.

Adobe Creative Educator

Workshops 19-Apr-2021

Venue: Microsoft team
Organized By: Adobe creative Educator, Adobe India
Resource Person: Adobe India
Participants: Teachers of Middle School Department
Highlight: A short video highlighting features of the unique features of Adobe Creative Educator was displayed in order to teach the educators about the essentials of the application. Educators had a hands-on experience creating a designed post to apply their learnt skills.

Digital Literacy and Creative Skills webinar series

Workshops 19-Apr-2021

Organized By: AIM in partnership with Adobe
Resource Person: Adobe Experts
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: The workshop primarily focused on using Adobe Spark, certification for Adobe Creative Educator and access to Adobe Education Exchange.

Diplomathon Global India Connect 2021 Orientation Program

Workshops 19-Apr-2021

Organized By: Education World & Diplomathon Global
Resource Person: Mr. Hriday Bhatia & the team
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: This was an Orientation session that provided the details of the event. They would orient all the students and the ones who register for the program would undergo four workshops before the event. The students would compete at the Regional level first in this Model UN which is with a difference, and the qualifiers would reach the Nationals.

Experiential Learning Introductory to learning experience

Workshops 19-Apr-2021

Organized By: COE Delhi East
Resource Person: Ms Neera Kohli
Participants: Aloka Sen Sharma
Highlight: It was a very interactive and effective session. It was opined that children learn from their experiences with natural occurrences and with concrete objects in the environment. Newspapers are very important sources of real life experiences hence should be used effectively in the process of teaching and learning.

The Teacher Tech Summit

Workshops 17-Apr-2021

Resource Person: Various speakers
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: More than 45,000 teachers across the globe registered for this Summit and it was screened live via Facebook and YouTube. This was a platform where some of the best practices were shared globally leading to digital learning revolutions in schools. An inspiring session that gave new ideas and resources to make the teaching learning process more effective in the online mode.

PAN India Principal’s Conclave

Workshops 16-Apr-2021

Organized By: Effatha Life Zone
Resource Person: Mr Wilson Joseph
Participants: Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The conclave discussed topics on Hybrid Blended learning, Technological and Psychological Challenges and solutions. World Cafe, PHYGITAL (Physical and digital) classes were some new entrants in the PAN India forum.

Bengal Can

Activities in LSA 15-Apr-2021

Organized By: Bengal Clean Air Network
Resources used: Pen and paper
Participants: Students of classes IV, V & IX
Highlight: The Students got an opportunity to express their concern on pollution, through handwritten letters that were scanned and mailed. They were sent to the honourable Prime Minister Sir and Chief Minister Madam. Through this letter writing activity the students were taught to voice out their opinions in an agreeable manner.

Whole School Approach to Fitness

Workshops 15-Apr-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Joy Chakraborty, Kuntak Gupta
Highlight: This energizing session was attended by the teachers of PE Department. New techniques relating to exercises at home and indoor activities in school were taught and explained.

Dramatics in Teaching

Workshops 14-Apr-2021

Resource Person: Cap. Dr. Dimisha Bharadwaj Singh
Participants: Manidipa Laihiri
Highlight: Dramatics in teaching is being incorporated in new methods of teaching and learning. Through dramatics we can draw the attention of students with various abilities and also make our lessons more interesting. It was inferred that deeper learning takes place through improvisation, mirroring, role-play, designing costumes, drawing or making props etc. It was indeed an informative and practical session.

Self-Assessment for free online training in collaboration with Google

Workshops 13-Apr-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE and Google
Participants: IT Department Teachers
Highlight: The teachers of IT department were hugely benefitted from this training as it helped them to understand the different models of technology integration, ways to develop integrated technology lesson plans, the use of technology in the classroom in all curriculum areas and to teach higher order thinking skill thus raising the bar for the learner.

Systematic Data Analysis

Workshops 11-Apr-2021

Organized By: NABET, QCI
Resource Person: Ms Sheela Ragavan
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: The session highlighted various sources of data, study of trend analysis and how data interpretation can help the school in improvement, thereby ensuring continual improvement.

Online Museum Visit

Workshops 10-Apr-2021

Resource Person: Roopa Mohan
Participants: Aloka Sen Sharma, Mumu Mukherjee, Poulumi Saha, Sneha Singh
Highlight: A wonderful virtual experiential learning experience was conducted for primary school students. The stories behind each artefact belonging to different countries and civilisation, displayed was narrated by the docents of the museum. It was truly an enriching experience for the students.

merging Technologies—Cloud Computing AWS Cloud Practitioner essentials

Workshops 09-Apr-2021

Organized By CBSE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NASSCOM
Resource Person AWS
Participants Pushpa Dayani
Highlight This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. She learnt about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build AWS Cloud knowledge. This course also helps to prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

Creativity in classrooms

Workshops 02-Apr-2021

Organized By:ICSL
Resource Person:Prof. G. Balasubramanian, Mr. Giri, Mr. Atul Nischal
Participants:S. Anandhi
Highlight:In this highly informative webinar. It was discussed that school learning should be made fun and a lot of scope must be given to the students to allow them to think critically as well as creatively. Creativity has been a part of human existence since times immemorial especially in India. Teachers were acknowledged to be extra ordinarily creative.

Workshops organized by CBSE Centre of Excellence and attended by our Teachers throughout the Month of March

Workshops 31-Mar-2021

• Application of Life Skills in a day to day life
• Artificial Intelligence Integration across subjects
• Bloom's Taxonomy and It's Application in English
• Competency Based Education – Module 1,2,3 & 4
• Competency based Modules of Teaching
• Effective classroom management
• Enhancing Practical skills and project in Mathematics
• Experiential Learning Course
• Exploring Happiness
• Gamification in Learning
• Handling Misbehaviour during Online Classes
• Hindi Bhasha Ke Gadya Padya and Vyakaran Ka Sikshan
• ICT integration in teaching of Mathematics ICT integration in teaching of Mathematics
• Innovative Methods for Students to Teach Ethics and Integrity
• Integration of Art in English Teaching
• Integration of Arts in curriculum through Experiential learning
• Integration of Arts in Science
• Link Between Learning Outcomes and An Activity of Arts
• Local art and how they can be integrated to teach a concept
• Mental Health and wellness
• Myths about Stress
• NEP 2020: Shift to competency based teaching
• Online Training Session on Integration of Arts in Chemistry
• Recreational Mathematics
• Session on NEP Teachers Preparedness
• Strategies of Effective Curriculum Plan
• Teaching Strategies/Methodologies in English (Speaking)
• Teaching Strategies/Methodology in Social Science
• The values to reckon, need of value education
• Understanding Bloom's Taxonomy and its Application in English
• Webinar on Gamification of Learning
• Webinar on Innovations in Science Experiential Learning
• Webinar on Joyful Mathematics Joyful Assessment in Mathematics
• Workshop on Essential of a Lesson Plan in Accountancy
• Workshop on Experiential Learning
• Workshop on Literary Devices in teaching Poetry
• Workshop on Positive Discipline
• Workshop on Priority Management
• Workshop POSCO Act 2020

Online Holi celebration with the residents of Help Age India

Activities in LSA 26-Mar-2021

Organized By: Help Age India
Resource Person: Indrani Sen
Participants: Students of Class PS II & Class VII
Highlight: Help Age India in association with Surf Excel organized a colourful event to connect with residents of Old Age Homes.

Delivering academic success for children with ADHD

Workshops 20-Mar-2021

Organized By: Eblity
Resource Person: Shivani Wadhwa
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Overview of challenges faced by children with ADHD and impact on academic performance due to ADHD were discussed.

Developing Critical & Creative Thinking Skills for the 21st century

Workshops 19-Mar-2021

Organized By: USIEF
Resource Person: Ms. Bishakha Sen, Ms. Diya Dutt & Ms. Shevanti Narayan
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: A new term was introduced during the session 'Question storming' as a way of problem solving instead of brain storming technique. Another technique to encourage students to think innovatively, is adopting a visible thinking routine .... I see ... I think ... I wonder.

Ficci ARise de mystifying Myths about Covid 19 special edition on safe return to schools

Workshops 19-Mar-2021

Organized By: FICCI ARISE
Resource Person: Dr. Vivek Nangia
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Highlight: The challenges faced due to covid 19 mainly stress of teachers, parents unprepared for distance and home schooling, interrupted learning and promoting hybrid

Asia Kakehashi Program

Beyond Boundaries 18-Mar-2021

Venue: Japan
Organized By: AFS JAPAN
Resource Person: AFS INDIA
Participants: Ashlesha Bhagat(XI)
Highlight: Ashlesha Bhagat made us proud by being selected in the most prestigious Japan Exchange Program. She studied in NAKAMURA GAKUEN SENIOR GIRLS SCHOOL I in Fukuoka Japan. She received a certificate of appreciation from Japan and is fluent in Japanese now. She returned from Japan this month.

The Power of Social Sciences

Workshops 14-Mar-2021

Organized By: IIT, Delhi
Resource Person: Shri Harsh Chauhan, Dr Ashok Kumar Thakur, Shri Prashant Divekar, Shri Prakash Somayaji
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: This was a part of the Naya Bharat e Series, with a focus on Social Sciences. The importance of the subject was dealt with in the Isha Home School Approach, Jnana Prabodhini's approach.
The purpose to learn the subject is national integration and social harmony.

 

Bridging the Gap

Activities in LSA 12-Mar-2021

Date: from 01/03/2021 to 12/03/2021

Venue: Online (Microsoft Teams/Zoom)
Resource Person: HRTs, Ms. Esha Kak and Activity Teachers
Participants: Students of classes III – V
Highlight: Students were engaged in a constructive ways through many activities after their assessments. The activities honed their artistic skills, kinesthetic, imaginative, creative, fine motor skills and life skills.

Bridging the Gap

Activities in LSA 12-Mar-2021

Participants: Students of Pre School I to Class II
Highlight: The mornings from 8th March to 12th March were packed with fun filled activities such as culinary delights, karate, PE, music, dance and the world of colours where children made beautiful seasonal crafts. The response was overwhelming and children thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Convocation Ceremony

Activities in LSA 12-Mar-2021

Participants: Students of Classes I – V
Highlight: The ceremony was conducted online for the students of classes 2 and 5 graduating to the next department . The students put a cultural programme for the graduates. A motivational video on the joy of sharing was also showcased.

My Kolkata in Kolkata 2.0

External Events 12-Mar-2021

Venue: Kolkata Centre For Creativity
Organized By: KCC
Resource Person: Ms. Reena Dewan
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: Arjun Agarwal's photograph titled RECESS OF RESPITE will be showcased in the exhibition at Kolkata Centre for Creativity from March 12 to March 21, 2021.

Transacting Transition Managing Behaviour Problems in Adolescents - new challenges

Workshops 03-Mar-2021

Organized By: ICTRC
Resource Person: Dr. VS . Ravindran
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Highlight: The session focused on ways to manage behavioural problems of adolescents by being non judgmental and giving students a patient hearing.

Awareness workshop on Action Research

Workshops 02-Mar-2021

Organized By: NABET
Resource Person: Ms. Sheela Ragavan
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: Various examples were shared during the session which helped clear our doubts on the topic.

COE Trainings

Workshops 28-Feb-2021

       Workshops organized by Centre of Excellence, Bhubaneswar and attended by our Teachers throughout the Month : -

  • Workshop? English 1X?X Integration of Arts in Teaching of English
  • Dramatics in teaching
  • Strategies of a Happy Classroom
  • Weaving life skills into school curriculum
  • Learning Outcomes
  • Local Art Integration in any subject area
  • Online workshop? NEP 2020 in Early Childhood Education
  • Pathways to 21st Century Skills
  • Gamification in Learning
  • Assessment in Pre?Primary classes? issues and challenges
  • Essentials of Lesson Plan in Social Science
  • Literature in English Language
  • Workshop on Pathways to Critical Thinking
  • Inclusive Education
  • Learning of Spellings made easy
  • Teachers Training of Employability Skill Component of all Skill Course
  • Virtual Classes ? The New Normal
  • Assessment in Geography
  • Experiential learning – Diksha portal

Influence Summit

Workshops 28-Feb-2021

Organized By: Future School leaders
Resource Person: Eminent speakers
Participants: Meena Kak, Anjali Chopra, Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The summit discussed National Education Policy(NEP), the issues facing our nation and how to develop possible strategies as educators.

Naya Bharat Series

Workshops 28-Feb-2021

Organized By: Unnat Bharat Abhiyan
Resource Person: Smt Sudha Murthy
Participants: Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The series featured Sushri Sudha Murty as the Chief Guest (TBC), and several other storytelling experts from schools and beyond. The speakers shared their experiences and discussions ranged from opening the mind of children to inculcating values.

Pariksha Pe Charcha

External Events 28-Feb-2021

Organized By: Ministry of Education, Government of India
Participants: Teachers, Students and parents of Senior Department
Highlight: Our students , teachers and parents of classes 9-12 participated enthusiastically in the event. They expressed their views on the paradigm shift in the education system due to pandemic. Selected students will get an opportunity to interact with the honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Town Hall Meeting

External Events 27-Feb-2021

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: Ms. Divya Arora, Director
Participants: Jayati Goswami
Highlight: During the meet, AFS India staff presented the Highlights of 2020, wherein they showcased some important events in each AFS department that were successfully implemented in 2020.

Stream Selection for students of class X

Activities in LSA 26-Feb-2021

Organized by - Ms. Meena Kak

Participants - Students of class X

Highlight - Ms. Meena Kak conducted a counselling session with the students of class X apprising them on how to choose the right stream and subjects in class XI.

Asia Kakehashi Panel Interview

External Events 24-Feb-2021

Organized By : AFS – Intercultural programme

Participants - Ms. Jayati Goswami and Pranav Choudhury (XII)

Highlight - Ms. Jayati Goswami was invited for the Asia Kakehashi project student's interview process. Asia Kakehashi Project is a study abroad scholarship program for Asian high?schoolers interested in building their global competence sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). 15 students from Pakistan were shortlisted for the Asia Kakehashi Project and the interviews were conducted online over the zoom platform.

Stream Selection

Workshops 24-Feb-2021

Organized By - Mindler

Resource Person - Ms. Shilpi Singh

Participants - Students of class X - Mindler Registered students

Highlight - The session explained the ways to build a strong profile which combined academics with  extra- curricular  activities, exchange programs, internships etc. Future prospects of some uncommon subjects like History, Nutrition, Biotechnology were discussed. Students were explained the need to choose a stream which they were passionate about and had an aptitude for.

 

Celebrating Matribhasha Diwas

Workshops 23-Feb-2021

From Date - 21/02/2021 To 23/02/2021

Organized By - CBSE

Participants - Students of the Pre primary department

Highlights - Teachers of the preprimary section designed various activities like poetry writing, character presentation, creative writing   etc. to celebrate Matribhasha Diwas. Several videos of the activities, were posted in the LSA face book page.      

Workshop on "Passion for Science and Skills for Teaching"

Workshops 19-Feb-2021

Organized By - JBNSTS

Resource Person - Prof. Maitreyi Bhattacharya

Participants - Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight - The session was informative and interesting.

Webinars on Junior Skills Championship in collaboration with NSDC

Workshops 17-Feb-2021

Organized By - CBSE and National Science Development Corporation (NSDC)

Resource Person - Representatives of NSDC

Participants - Mr. Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms. Sudakshina Datta

Highlight - Details of what was expected at each level of the competition was shared by the representatives of NSDC.

Celebrating Saraswati Puja

Activities in LSA 16-Feb-2021

Organized By- LSA

Participants - Teachers (offline), all students (online mode)

Highlight - Saraswati Puja was held with usual fervour in the school premises attended by the staff members, following all Covid protocols. The Zoom link for Saraswati Puja Live was shared with all the students.

Naya Bharat - eSeries

Workshops 14-Feb-2021

Organized By - NAYA BHARAT

Resource Person - IIT Delhi

Participants - Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The panelists stressed on the importance of meeting the needs of Gifted students. They emphasized that apart from the cognitive needs their social emotional needs must also be satisfied.  

Reopening of schools

Workshops 13-Feb-2021

Organized By - Sharp NGO

Participants - Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The main points of discussion were challenges and guidelines for commuting to school during Covid times, SOPs for reopening of school & caring for mental health.

CBSE Heritage India Quiz 2021

External Events 10-Feb-2021

From Date - 20/01/2021 To 10/02/2021

Organised By - CBSE

Participants - Students of classes 1-12

Highlight - Around 120 students from classes 1 -12 registered and participated in the quiz. Students had to go through the study material provided by the board and then attempt the quiz. It was a good learning session.

ICTRC Workshop on Mental Health

Workshops 10-Feb-2021

Date - 9th & 10th February 2021

Organized By - ICRTC

Resource Persons - Dr. Ravindran , Mr. Sanjay Padode

Participants - Teachers of Preprimary and primary, Middle & Senior School department

Highlight - It was a very informative session on ways to deal with discipline problems once schools reopen and what new skills had to be adopted by teachers. The session also emphasized on ways to identify mental health issues and how teachers could help the students to cope with them.

Effective E?Assessment Strategies in Education

Workshops 07-Feb-2021

Organized By - Super Teachers

Resource Person - Mr. Vasudevan Natarajan

Participants - Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza

Highlight - The workshop gave an insight into how assessments can be taken effectively using softwares like Quizzies, plicker cards and Edpuzzle.

Webinar on AI in school curriculum

Workshops 06-Feb-2021

Organized By - KIPS

Resource Person - Ms. Jatinder Kaur

Participants - IT Department Teachers

Highlight - The resource person elaborated on the newly introduced subject – Artificial Intelligence by CBSE. The books launched by KIPS were also showcased.

COE Trainings

Workshops 31-Jan-2021

Workshops organized by Centre of Excellence, Bhubaneswar and attended by our teachers throughout the Month : -

  • Enhancing Practical skills and Project in Mathematics
  • Thinking out of Box and being an active listener
  • NEP?Teacher Preparedness
  • Teaching Strategies/ Methodologies in English (Writing)
  • Humor as a teaching technique
  • NEP?2020 Empowering the teacher
  • Workshop on Recreational Mathematics
  • Workshop on Common errors committed in Science
  • Workshop on Critical and Creative thinking in Mathematics
  • Designing effective lesson plans (Hindi)
  • Designing MCQs
  • Pre Primary Teaching – Phonetics
  • Using Art as a Teaching tool
  • Pathways to Critical Thinking
  • Teaching and Learning in 21st Century? Issues and Prospects
  • Common Grammatical Errors in English and How to Correct it
  • Integration of Art in Geography for class XI & XII
  • Assessments in Mathematics
  • Workshop on Kolb's Cycle of Experiential Learning
  • Innovative ways of introducing lessons & poems (Hindi)
  • SCIENCE?Innovative pedagogy in Science experiential learning
  • How to be a good online Teacher

Olympiads

External Events 31-Jan-2021

From Date - 05/12/2020 To 31/01/2021

Event - International General Knowledge Olympiad(IGKO), International English Olympiad(IEO), National Science Olympiad (NSO), International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO)

Organized By - Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF)

Participants - Students of classes II to XII

Highlight - 154 students registered for IGKO, 294 for IEO, 252 for NSO and 350 for IMO from classes II to XII. Results awaited.

Meaningful School Education - Mind Mingle Masterclass

Workshops 31-Jan-2021

From Date - 27/01/2021 To 31/01/2021

Resource Person - Sir S Gopalan

Participants - Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The workshop emphasized on moving towards an investigative and project-based learning approach for facilitating the development of critical thinking and reasoning skills in students.

Transforming Education via Indian Knowledge Systems for Schools

Workshops 31-Jan-2021

Organized By - IIT Delhi

Resource Person - Mr Anil Sahsrabudhe, Mr Michel Danino, Mrs Geeta Nair, Dr Arundhati Sundar

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight - An inspiring 4 hour session that covered the Indian Knowledge Systems in depth and made the audience extremely proud of  the rich cultural heritage. It was an eye opener to find that CBSE is offering Knowledge Traditions & Practices of India as an elective course for Classes XI & XII.

My Prized Possession

Activities in LSA 30-Jan-2021

From Date - 15/01/2021 To 30/01/2021

Venue - Residence of Students

Participants - Students of Classes PS I & PS II

Highlight - Children used their imagination and designed paperweights using pebbles. They learnt the importance of making wealth out of waste.

Vocab?o?Pedia Quiz Competition

External Events 29-Jan-2021

From Date - 13/01/2021 To 29/02/2021

Organized By - Jayshree Periwal Global School, Jaipur

Participants - Students of classes I & II

Highlight - Twelve students from classes I & II were selected to participate in this pan India quiz competition. Amogh Rathi of II Daisies qualified for the final rapid fire round.

Make Social Science Classes Most Interesting Using E? Learning

Workshops 29-Jan-2021

From Date - 27/01/2021 To 29/01/2021

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute

Resource Person - Ms Nithyapriya; Ms Philo Sumi

Participants - Ms. Aloka Sen Sharma

Highlight - It was interesting to learn about the different E Platforms that could be used for teaching. The Map Work learning through School Bhuvan was particularly interesting.

13th ED Leadership Round Table

Workshops 29-Jan-2021

Organized By - GETI (Global Education and Training Institute)- Learn

Resource Person - Innovation in quality management

Participants - Ms. Jayati Goswami, Ms. Meena Kak

Highlight - This virtual conference of solicitous and innovative conversations has created history and has redefined the efforts of GETI. In such a momentous year, when various socio?economic issues have fogged the way ahead for all, this summit  helped to become a guiding light for innovative, avant?garde, discerning and zealous educators.

 

Sustainability MasterClass

External Events 29-Jan-2021

Organized By - AB InBev

Resource Person - Mr Ashwin Kak

Participants - Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami, Ms. Meena Kak

Highlight - Discussion on various facets of how Sustainability is gaining prominence amongst consumers and learning from the shared experiences of those who live it every day.

Abhilasha 2020 ? 21

Activities in LSA 28-Jan-2021

Organized By - LSA

Participants - Students of Class VIII

Highlight - 28 schools from Poland, Georgia, Greece, Nepal, Bangladesh and our motherland met virtually with a common goal of Healing The World. Ms Sujata Sen, CEO of Future Hope was our Chief Guest. The off screen events Geo News, VIBGYOR, Ambrosia including Cadence were uploaded on the Abhilasha Blog and the quiz was conducted live via Kahoot. A unique endeavour where students shared and learned about the cultural heritage of their respective countries.

Blog Link - https://abhilasha2021.blogspot.com/

ICT Integration in Teaching of Geography

Workshops 27-Jan-2021

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms. Shalini Swarup

Participants - Ms. Mumu Mukherjee

Highlight - An effective workshop on use of ICT in Geography. Various Internet resources and links were provided.

Pariksha Pe Charcha

External Events 27-Jan-2021

Organized By: CBSE and Government of India
Participants: Students from classes IX - XII ; Teachers and parents.
Highlight: 376 students, 32 teachers and 13 parents participated in the event by submitting write ups, poems, videos etc. Students of class XII Web Application stream prepared relevant video based on the theme “Exam stress during Covid 19”. They have enjoyed the process of editing/making videos which have been showcased in our school’s website. Teachers have voted for their videos to motivate them for such zealous initiatives and based on the voting the Top 5 videos were uploaded to the Facebook page of our school. All the participants had received certificates for completion of the activity.

International Informatics, Maths, GK and English Olympiad

External Events 25-Jan-2021

From Date - 23/01/2021 To 25/01/2021

Organized By - Silverzone

Participants - Students of classes III ? XII

Highlight - 155 students from classes III – XII participated in the Informatics, English and GK Olympiads.  

 

Restore Old Bridges Vs Old Buildings

Workshops 24-Jan-2021

Organized By - Tales Talks Walks

Resource Persons -  Ms Neline Mondal & Ms Navpreet Arora

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight - This was a real eye opener as they gave an insight into the history of Bengal from a new perspective. The examples shared   during the presentation were from Kolkata and Bandel mainly, and the need to preserve old bridges.

Inter School Folk Song Competition

External Events 23-Jan-2021

Organized By - Pariwar Milan

Participants - Prajakta Angelina Behera (V Asters)

Highlight - It was a wonderful experience and a well organised programme. There were 8 Schools in this competition and all of              them performed extremely well. We secured the 3rd position.

22nd Friday@5: Mathematicak Thinking is beyond Mathematics

Workshops 22-Jan-2021

Organized By - ICSL

Resource Person - Dr. Jonaki Ghosh, Mrs. Anita Sharma, Mrs. Meneka I Singh, Mrs. Priyadarshini Kelkar

Participants - Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight - Inculcation of Mathematical thinking through Conceptual Teaching was discussed.

Dance for Change

External Events 21-Jan-2021

Organized By - AFS India

Resource Person - Ms. Virali Parekh

Participants - Aabha Pareek(VI?D)

Highlight - A famous Choreographer, Virali Parekh taught the participants the various nuances of fusion dancing.

Observance of Road Safety Month

Activities in LSA 18-Jan-2021

From Date - 18/01/2021 To 17/02/2021

Organized By - CBSE – Circular 6

Participants - Students of LSA

Highlight - Road Safety month is being observed from 18th January to 17th February 2021 on the theme ‘Sadak Suraksha, Jeevan Raksha’. Students wrote poems, made videos of their artwork, prepared comic strips, wrote essays and slogans on road etiquettes and road safety. The best activities were uploaded in the google form link provided in the circular.

Mindler College Application & Course Selection

Workshops 18-Jan-2021

Organized By: Mindler
Participants: Class XI
Highlight: Creating and Drafting College Applications Indian and Overseas and for Selecting the right college and course

National Sahodaya Conference

External Events 18-Jan-2021

Venue: Gwalior
Organized By: CBSE and Sahodaya Gwalior
Resource Person: Eminent Personalities
Participants: Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami,
Highlight: An amalgamation of various ideas and thought processes of eminent personalities, giving an insight towards how to rediscover India @ 75

Understanding and Managing Adolescents

Workshops 18-Jan-2021

Organized By: Rainbow Foundation
Resource Person: Ms. Satya Pillai
Participants: Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms. Sumona DasGupta
Highlight: Understanding Adolescents and dealing with their issues and concerns in context with the pandemic situation.

Exam Preparatory Sahodaya

Workshops 16-Jan-2021

Organized By - Sahodaya

Resource Person - Ms. Priti Khandelwal

Participants - Ms. Mumu Mukherjee

Highlight - The webinar focused on common errors committed by students, tips on time management, certain good practices and the new question paper pattern.

Infotsav 2K21

External Events 15-Jan-2021

From Date - 11/01/2021 To 15/01/2021

Organized By - Birla Bharati School

Participants - Students of Classes VI-XI

Highlight - Selected students participated in this IT fest and secured the 1st position in 4 events - PowerPoint presentation, Quiz, BOT designing and movie making competition. They secured the 2nd position in Tech fluidity based on coding.

Human Trafficking Webinar

Workshops 14-Jan-2021

Organized By: VIHAAN: A Project of Waste Management Society
Resource Person: Ms. Padmini Patla, Ms. Sumedha Pandit, Ms.Heenu Singh, Mr.Dhanesh Unnikrishnan
Participants: Middle School Students and teachers
Highlight: The video on human trafficking was an eye opener. It was an informative webinar with real-life stories, well-illustrated and innovative examples. The students were shown the bitter consequences of life where they had to be brave and defensive. The ways to get safe and be prepared for dreadful and harsh situations were specifically mentioned.

VIVARTAAN 2022

Workshops 14-Jan-2021

Organized By: Vijaybhoomi University
Resource Person: Dr. Attish Chattopadhyay, Prof. Kamolika Chakraborty, Ms. Smriti Bharti, Mr Sharman Joshi
Participants: Ms. J.Misra, Ms Poulomi Saha, Ms. Priyanka Das, Ms. Sarbani Saha Ghatak, Ms Puja Dubey
Highlight: The webinar was more about the success story in spite of not being a topper or maybe a backbencher in the beginning of climbing the staircase of their career. Education has different arenas and interests. It is actually more a student's interest and passion into a particular field or subject to outshine in his or her career. Interactive session with practical questions from different people of different backgrounds was an eye-opener. Education is all about holistic learning, about the choice, about how to grow up with one' s interest. We should balance our life in terms of our choices.

Celebration of Swami Vivekananda’s Birth Anniversary

Activities in LSA 12-Jan-2021

Organized By : CBSE – Circular no 4

Participants : Students of LSA

Highlight : To celebrate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda as National Youth Day, special assemblies were held where students gave speeches, showed presentations on their beliefs on youth of India. All their efforts were posted on the LSA face book page and published in the e newsletter of January. 

Webinar Entrance Exam Selection & Interview Preparation

Workshops 10-Jan-2021

Organized By: Mindler
Resource Person: Mindler
Participants: Students of class XII
Highlight: Helping the students prepare well for Interviews, CV and Profile Building and Entrance Exam Selection/ Selection Process were discussed.

Google Certified Educator Level 1 Certification

Workshops 09-Jan-2021

From Date  - 29/12/2020 To 09/01/2021

Organized By - Super Teachers

Resource Person - Mr. Vasudevan

Participant - Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza

Highlight - A two week comprehensive Live Training programme for preparing educators for the Google Certified Educator Level?1 examination. We were apprised of various Google tools and their usage.

Bridging The Gap

Workshops 09-Jan-2021

Organized By - Trailblazers

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight - This webinar had a number of panellists from across the globe, and the focus was on the 'Gap Experience'. Various learning activities and projects that can be undertaken were shared.

Together for Education: Nurturing Explorers

Workshops 09-Jan-2021

Organized By - Notebook

Resource Persons - Mr P. Burrett, Ms S. Ahmed, Ms A. Razdan, Dr T. Mulchandani

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight - This webinar focused on the need for research-based projects in the school system that enable pupils and make them            future ready.

Interactive session with class IX students and teachers

Workshops 07-Jan-2021

Organized By - LSA Teachers

Participants - Teachers of Class IX & X

Highlight - A fruitful interaction with subject teachers and students, where they addressed concerns and difficulties faced by them in online classes.

Workshop on Experiential Learning

Workshops 06-Jan-2021

From Date - 05/01/2021 and 06/01/2021

Resource Person - Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Participants - Teachers of primary & middle school department

Highlight - Meeting was held with primary and middle school teachers where experiential learning was explained. It was emphasized that all learning should be project based, integrated with art, PE and ICT.

Vedic Math Learning System

External Events 05-Jan-2021

Organized By - VMLS

Resource Person - Mr. Hardik Parikh and Ms. Paridhi Parikh

Participants - Students of classes VI & VII

Highlight - 22 students participated in the National Level Monthly Vedic Math Quiz. It helped to impart the knowledge of Vedic Maths and the techniques of solving mathematical calculations swiftly.

CBSE First Aid Training

Workshops 03-Jan-2021

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Doctors, Psychologist
Participants: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Informative session on Physical and Psychological First Aid

Pedagogy in Environmental Science

Workshops 01-Jan-2021

From Date - 01/09/2020 To 01/01/2021

Organized By - SWAYAM

Resource Person - Professor Kavita Sharma

Participants - Teachers of the Primary Section

Highlight - The teachers learnt innovative ways of teaching EVS.

Awareness Programme on Future PRIME: An e?Learning Platform on emerging technologies and professional skills

Workshops 30-Dec-2020

Organized By       Ministry of Electronics, NASSCOM and CBSE

Resource Person  NASSCOM representative

Participants          Teachers of IT Department 

Highlight - The platform uses technology where one can seamlessly access content, assessments, virtual labs and get certified on industry-defined skills.

Mathematics Workshop

Workshops 29-Dec-2020

Organized By - Jodo Gyan

Participants - Mathematics teachers of the Primary department

Highlight -  It was an enriching workshop which highlighted on the basic concepts of Fractions and Geometry. The workshop                   emphasized on the use of stories to generate interest among students.

Webinar on Exams

Workshops 23-Dec-2020

Organized by - Mindler

Resource Person - Mr. Dhanda

Participants - Students of classes X and XII

Highlight - Sessions were taken on how the students must face the present challenges and prepare for the forthcoming examinations and get rid of uncertainties they may have about board, Entrance and University exams

Special Assembly - Christmas Programme

Activities in LSA 23-Dec-2020

Participants - Students of classes III – V

Highlight - A virtual Christmas celebration programme was organised for the students featuring a skit and dance   performances by the students. Teachers as well as the students sang Christmas songs and celebrated the true essence of Christmas, that is, the joy of sharing with others.

Pre - School Teaching

Workshops 22-Dec-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - Delhi East?CBSE Online Session

Resource Person - Ms Anurodh Chitra

Participants - Ms Ranjini Chakravarty

Highlight - Educating the stakeholders in the present scenario and learning through the play?way method was emphasized on.

 

Webinar on security of question papers

Workshops 22-Dec-2020

Resource Person - Ms Meena Kak

Participants - Teachers of secondary department

Highlight - Teachers of the secondary department were cautioned on the security of exam question papers in the digital world where students seemed to be knowing more than teachers. They were apprised of strategies to keep their question papers secure in the following ways

-Question papers should be shared from the email id not known to others especially students. All were advised to create a new id to send papers to the exam department or HODs
-To give a strong password for the question paper that can't be traced easily by anyone
-Exam paper should not be kept in any shareable device.
-Question papers should not be in any sent folder of the mail but to be copied in a pen drive and kept safely
-Question papers sent for checking should be deleted from the sent folder of email id at the earliest

Special Assembly to celebrate FIT India week

Activities in LSA 21-Dec-2020

Resource Person - PE Department along with IT department

Participants - Students of Primary and Middle school

Highlight - A special assembly was conducted for the Primary Section and the Middle School students to celebrate FIT INDIA campaign. All the students participated in the warming up exercises, stretching exercises and yoga in the junior school. A Sports quiz in kahoot was organised for the middle school students which all the students took part and enjoyed attempting the quiz on a virtual platform.

CBSE Expression Series

External Events 20-Dec-2020

Organized By - CBSE

Participants - Students of Classes I – XII  

Highlight - Students participated in the CBSE EXPRESSION SERIES. They wrote articles, poems and also made paintings celebrating the unification with their paired state/UT, Ladakh. The best entries were uploaded on the CBSE website.

REGALIA 2020 – Interschool fest

External Events 20-Dec-2020

Organized By - Asian International School

Participants - Students of classes III - VIII

Highlight - Students participated in various events like recitation, mono acting and painting. Tanay Gondi of 1B secured the third position in the recitation competition.

Post Card Diaries

External Events 19-Dec-2020

Organized By - ThinkArtsGhoreBaire Museum

Participants - Students of Classes VI – IX

Highlight- In collaboration with the new GhoreBaire Museum Think Arts conducted workshops for students to make them more conscious about our Art heritage.

Spell Bee

External Events 19-Dec-2020

Participants  - Students of Classes I – VIII

Highlight - 45 students qualified for second round of Spell Bee.

26th National Confluence of Sahodaya

External Events 18-Dec-2020

Organized By - Bangalore Sahodaya Schools

Participants - Ms Meena Kak, Ms Anjali Chopra, Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The conference was a confluence of eminent personalities, CBSE officials and Educationists. Ms Anita Karwal, Secretary, School Education & Literary Ministry of Education, stressed on the need for schools to plan and prepare for NEP’20. Shri Manoj Ahuja, Chairman CBSE expounded the various aspects of NEP’20. The Hon’ble Minister of Education, Shri Ramesh Pokriyal released CBSE Manuals on Inclusive Education, Joyful Learning and Physical Education (IX & XII). There were various other sessions on Self Affirmation by (BK) Sister Shivani & webinars on Experiential learning & Art Integration.

Zoom In Zoom Out Using Sozi and Inkscape

Workshops 17-Dec-2020

Organized By - Bannari Amaan Institute of Technology

Resource Person - Mr Sajjan Philip

Participants - Ms Afshan Nahid

Highlight - The workshop dealt with creating presentation using Softwares, like Inkscape. These can be used for subjects like Science and Mathematics.

Making A Bird House

Activities in LSA 16-Dec-2020

Resource Person - Mr. Darshan Singh Gill

Participants - Mr Chandrashekhar Das, Mr Raghunath Guchhayat, Mr Ravi Nayak with other Grade 4 staff.

Highlight - A competition was organised for the support staff to make bird houses with the discarded materials. They made beautiful bird houses with the waste materials which have been hung in different corners of our school ground.

Enhancing life skills ? coping with stress

Workshops 15-Dec-2020

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Mrs. Michelle Ganeshani

Participants - Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty

Highlight - The session focused on different relaxation techniques & exercises to develop life skills and cope with stress.

ATL Marathon 20

External Events 15-Dec-2020

Organized By - ATL

Resource Person - Mr. Dipankar Pal

Participants - Students of classes VIII - XI

Highlight - It was a live event which helps students to move towards an Atma Nirbhar Bharat. It allows one to vote for the problems one are more passionate about.

        

Dealing with Misbehaviour in Class

Workshops 14-Dec-2020

Organized By - COE, Delhi West

Resource Person - Ms Neeta Rastogi

Participants - Mr Joy Chakraborty, Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty

Highlight - The resource person explained how to deal with students with inappropriate behavior in school, and be effective problem solvers.

Disaster Preparedness and Safety Course

Workshops 14-Dec-2020

From Date - 14/12/2020 To 19/12/2020

Organized By - Jadavpur University, Centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management, 24th Ashoka Group BS&G

Participants - Ms Anuradha Gupta

Highlight - The online multi?disciplinary course provided an understanding of natural hazards and disasters, knowledge of disaster mitigation, preparedness and response and recovery.

 

Happy Classroom: Happy Teachers creating Happy Spaces

Workshops 14-Dec-2020

Organized By - COE, Delhi West

Resource Person - Ms Vibha Khosla

Participants - Mr Joy Chakraborty

Highlight - The resource person discussed some techniques through which teachers can make themselves happy and stress free.

Survey of reducing weight of school bag

Activities in LSA 14-Dec-2020

Organized By - LSA

Participants - Students of classes Montessori-VIII

Highlight - A survey was conducted for the parents of Montessori to Class VIII to take their suggestions on reducing the weight of the school bag and their opinion on digitization of text books.

Integrating the Arts for Inquiry Based Learning

Workshops 08-Dec-2020

Organized By - Oxford University Press

Resource Person - Ms Mansa Pande

Participants - Ms Anuradha Gupta

Highlight - The session emphasized on the ways in which inquiry-based learning leads to learning by doing through exploration. The learning of art is more than just drawing skills and includes appreciating art and understanding it and sharpening the eye of an artist in each child.

BP Global Stem

External Events 07-Dec-2020

Organized By - AFS

Resource Person - AFS Kolkata

Participants - Shrishti Maheshwari (XII?A)

Highlight - Shrishti Maheshwari's parents presented a beautiful zoom presentation about their home, and celebrations in their house. This was showcased to the BP Global US participants.

The National All Round Championship by Kidex

External Events 07-Dec-2020

From Date - 07/12/2020 To 28/02/2021

Organized By - Kid.ex.com an initiative of ATL

Resource Person - Mr. Dipankar Pal

Participants - 140 students from PSI-XII of LSA

Highlight - 10 students from each class was chosen to registered in various activities conducted grade wise. They would be going through different activities and the uploading their activity by 28th February, 2021

Interdisciplinary Talent Search

External Events 07-Dec-2020

Organized By - JKLU Genius Academy

Resource Person - NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation and JKLU

Participants - Students of classes IX - XII

Highlight - It is India’s first interdisciplinary Talent Development Initiative which encourages students to innovate in Technology Design and Business. Students will have the to know about their own aptitude and the theme this year is Innovation for the new Normal which includes working, learning, Entertainment, Home, Business Health in the new normal. Selected ideas will receive a prize of Rs. 5 lakhs.

Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan

External Events 06-Dec-2020

Organized By - VYM Core Committee

Participants - Students of classes 3-12

Highlight - The objective of the organisation is to create interest amongst students and educate school children about India’s contributions from tradition to modern, to the world of science and technology. Students registered to participate in Guinness World Records Attempt activity.

Online Geography using Google Earth and ISRO Bhuvan

Workshops 06-Dec-2020

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Resource Person - ISRO

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Poulomi Saha, Ms. Mumu Mukherjee

Highlight - Learned the ways of mapping through various techniques. Chloropleth, Zoning, Shading and Drainage Systems were effectively shown.

Virtual 25th Founder’s Day Programme

Activities in LSA 05-Dec-2020

Organized By - LSA

Highlight - Founder’s Day is traditionally one of the most important day in the school calendar, a day when all teachers, students and staff come together to commemorate the birth anniversary of Lala Lakshmipat Singhania, the founder of our esteemed  institution. An atmosphere of celebration took over as always, only this time, it was on a virtual platform instead of the stage of Kala Mandir. Being the 25th year of our school, all the students and staff were set to make this year's commemoration one to remember.

Beginning with a heart-warming song by students of the middle school section, the event proceeded with the ceremonial lighting of the lamp. The inspiring words of our very own director, Ma’am Meena Kak and the presentation of the annual report by Principal, Ms. Anjali Chopra followed. We were also graced with the presence of honourable Chairman of the Lakshmipat Singhania Education Foundation, Shri Bharat Hariji Singhania and the President of the Executive Committee of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Shrimati Shardaji Singhania. Our chief guest for the occasion was Dr. Nakul Parashar, Director, Vigyan Prasar. In his address, he motivated and inspired the students to think critically and innovate. Shri Bharat Hariji Singhania inspired the students to introspect and gear up for the upcoming challenges in the new world following the pandemic. His words were a motivation for the students to stay strong and give in their best. Even amidst these tough times, students put up a spectacular one-of-a-kind skit blended with recitations, dance performances and symphonies performed by students each making the best of technology. Overall, it was the sheer passion of all that helped us overcome all obstacles and make this event a grand success. ??

LSA MUN 2020

Activities in LSA 04-Dec-2020

From Date - 04/12/2020 To 05/12/2020

Organized By - LSA

Participants - Students of 32 renowned schools of Kolkata

Highlight - LSAMUN 2020 was the sixth instalment. LSAMUN is a high school conference that has attracted delegates from across the city and the country. Over a period of two days, students assume the role of delegates representing various countries and debate on diverse topics of global importance. Apart from gaining confidence to articulate on global issues, students also familiarize themselves with the nuances of world politics. This year the students discussed on a wider paradigm of subjects like the situations of the middle east, status of minority in Asia, Electoral violence and political instability in Africa, formulating the roadmap post the covid pandemic in Europe, covering the situation in USA respectively.

Virtual State Level Astronomy Camp

External Events 04-Dec-2020

From Date - 04/12/2020 To 06/12/2020

Organized By - Bharat Scouts & Guides, West Bengal

Participants - Students of Class IV

Highlight - The camp focused on activity?oriented learning. Participants enjoyed the star gazing activity & were exposed to various facts about outer space.

Preparation of forth coming Board exams

Workshops 03-Dec-2020

From Date - 03/12/2020 and 14/12/2020                            

Organized By - LSA

Resource Person - Ms. Meena Kak

Participants - Students of class X and XII

Highlight - Sessions were taken with the students of classes X & XII on how they must face the present challenges and prepare for the forthcoming examinations.

Pedagogy of Languages

Workshops 01-Dec-2020

From Date  - 01/12/2020 To 15/12/2020

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Nishtha

Participants - Teachers of the Primary Section

Highlight - The course aimed to familiarise teachers with the approach of integrated skills and competencies for literacy and language   learning, engaging children in context based and continuous assessment.

Pedagogy of Science and Social Science

Workshops 01-Dec-2020

From Date - 01/12/2020 To 15/12/2020                              

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Nishtha

Participants - Teachers of the Primary Section

Highlight - In this course, the focus was to facilitate more feasible and efficient teaching learning of science and Social science through activities and experiential learning.

Reduction in syllabus and everything you need to know about it

Workshops 29-Nov-2020

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - Times of India

Resource Person - Mr Anurag Tripathi, Mr. Mahesh Bala Krishnan, Ms.Meeta Sengupta, Ms.Tanisha Johi

Participants - Teachers of IT department

Highlight  - The logic behind removal of some portions of the syllabus and how to go about   the syllabus for the upcoming board examinations were discussed.

Naya Bharat - eSeries

Workshops 29-Nov-2020

Venue                          Online via Webex

Organized By               Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan (Ministy of Education, Govt. Of India) & IIT Delhi

Resource Person         Shri Sadguru, Dr Dhir Jhingaran, Ms Anuradha Joshi

Participants                 All the teachers of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

Highlight                      All our teachers attended this inaugural ceremony to get enriched and enlightened by the words of wisdom from Shri Sadguru. The panelists shared their best practices with a focus on 'Importance of Early Education in the Mother Tongue'.

 

 

B W Top Education Leadership - Summit

External Events 28-Nov-2020

Organized By - Business World

Resource Person - Mrs Meena Kak, Mr Vinesh Menon, Mr Sanjay Hooda, Ms Rupa Chakravarty, Dr Vidukesh Vimal

Highlight - There was a panel discussion on 'Reclaiming Lost Learning due to COVID 19, the road ahead.' All the panelists shared their views on how these challenging times will bring about changes in the days ahead and the training that parents and teachers would require to deal with this generation.

If I made a Film

Workshops 27-Nov-2020

Venue                          Zoom

Organized By               Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata

Resource Person         Think Arts

Participants                 Students of class XI D

Highlight                      They learnt the importance of being sensitive & how to deal with transgenders.

Friday@5Building Teacher - Students Relationships

Workshops 27-Nov-2020

Venue                          Zoom

Organized By               International Council for School Leadership

Resource Person         Mr Atul Nischal, Dr. Sangeeta Arora

Participants                Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Poulomi Saha

Highlight                   Learned various ways of engaging students in class and to make the class more interactive and interesting.

Workshop on Empowering your team

Workshops 24-Nov-2020

From Date - 09/10/2020 & 24/10/2020

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Mr. Anirodh Chitra

Participants - Teachers of Primary section

Highlight - The resource person explained the importance of having a strong team and leading the team to success by spreading positive vibes.

Mindfulness of a Leader

Workshops 22-Nov-2020

From Date                   21/11/2020     To       22/11/2020                      

Venue                          IIM KHOZIKODE

Organized By               IIM KHOZIKODE

Resource Person         Dr. Debashish Chatterjee

Participants                 Ms Anjali Chopra, Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight                      A well known educationist and an author of many books Dr. Debashish Chatterjee took an enlightening session for School leaders on mindfulness of a leader.

International Education Week

Workshops 20-Nov-2020

From Date                   16/11/2020 To 20/11/2020

Organized By               GEIST International Foundation

Resource Person         Resource persons from USA, Ukraine, Vietnam, Tanzania, Brazil, Nepal, Bangladesh, India

Participants                 Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight                      Educators from across the globe discussed on topics like Women Leadership, Education for Global Citizenship,     Voice of the Voiceless, Global Learning Connections, Moving towards International Education.

Transform Early Mathematics Learning Using Technology

Workshops 20-Nov-2020

Venue                        Webinar

Organized By              CBSE Bharath Sahodaya and matific joint webinar

Resource Person         Raz Kupferman

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight                      The vision of Matific platform is to inculcate critical thinking, provide every child with a mathematical experience, develop a sense of capability, curiosity and playfulness.

Asia Kakehashi Pre Departure Orientation

External Events 18-Nov-2020

Venue                          Delfi Online

Organized By               AFS India

Resource Person         Ms. Divya Arora

Participants                 Ashlesha Bhagat (XI_A)

Highlight - Ashlesha Bhagat has been selected for the AFS Japan Kakehashi Programme whereby she has received a 3 months scholarship from the Government of Japan. An orientation session was held by AFS for all the participants before their departure to Japan.

Training on Positive Mindful Mantras for fighting stress

Workshops 17-Nov-2020

Organized By               COE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person         Dr. Sangeet Sharma

Participants                 Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta

Highlight            Taught us to be positive in life. Practicing mindful meditation will help being positive in life amidst the stress.

Stress Management Technique

Workshops 16-Nov-2020

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Dr. Pramod Kumar

Participants                 Ms  Amritah Sen

Highlight                      The resource person discussed the various Reasons of stress and how to handle it. He gave examples from     classic texts, Sanskrit verses and Urdu poetry.

Art Integration by Nishtha

Workshops 15-Nov-2020

From Date                   01/11/2020 To 15/11/2020

Venue                          Diksha Portal

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Nishtha

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight   - The integration of art was taught in details. The instructor discussed on the importance of holistic development of students.

Integrating Gender in the Teaching Learning Process

Workshops 15-Nov-2020

From Date                   01/11/2020 To 15/11/2020

Venue                          DIKSHA Portal

Organized By               NCERT

Resource Person         Nishtha

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight       The course focused on a new outlook in teaching learning pedagogy through exclusion of stereotypical approaches and gender biasness.

Integration of ICT in Teaching Learning and Assessment

Workshops 15-Nov-2020

From Date                   01/11/2020 To 15/11/2020

Venue                          Diksha Portal

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Nishtha

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight                      The course modules comprised of many interesting videos and inter- active quizzes to make teaching learning more engaging and interactive for the students.

Children’s day celebration

Activities in LSA 14-Nov-2020

Participants                 Teachers of Primary and Pre-primary department

Highlight                     Children enjoyed watching the video compiled by the teachers in celebration of children’s day.

Creating a culture of Mathematics Learning

Workshops 12-Nov-2020

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               COE  Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         Ms Tulika Samal

Participants                 Ms Ranjini Chakravarty

Highlight                      The session discussed concrete ways to encourage, motivate and excite students to learn Maths and ways           to develop curiosity and creativity and integrate it with other subjects.

Nurturing Creativity

Workshops 11-Nov-2020

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Mrs. Vipin Sharma

Participants                 Ms Amritah Sen

Highlight                      She emphasized on Teachers keeping an open mind and a positive mindset to welcome new ideas, appreciate out of the box approaches to encourage children to take their own decisions and speak their minds, which eventually enhances creativity.

Art Appreciation for Children: Challenges & Solutions

Workshops 07-Nov-2020

Organized By               Thinkarts

Resource Person         Prof Soumik Nandy Majumdar

Participants                 Ms Amritah Sen

Highlight - It was an intense session discussing the possibilities, needs and difficulties faced in applying Art appreciation at different levels in schools. He focused on the heritage of one’s own visual art culture as well as the world view.

Art Competition for Bulbuls

External Events 07-Nov-2020

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               South Calcutta Local Association

Resource Person         The Bharat Scouts and Guides, Kolkata District Association

Highlight                    Our students participated in the art competition and received Certificates of Appreciation.

Workshop on how to Organise Virtual Pack and Troop Meetings

Workshops 07-Nov-2020

Organized By               Kolkata District Association,Bharat Scouts & Guides, West Bengal

Resource Person          Mr Smriti Sourabh Ray, Mr Kaushik Chatterjee, Mr Bhuvan Babu and Mr Sandipan Chowdhury

Participants                 Teachers in charge of Cubs & Bulbuls

Highlight - Fundamentals of good planning for virtual ‘pack’ and ‘troop’ meetings were discussed in details.

Mental Health Awareness

External Events 07-Nov-2020

Organized By               AFS India

Resource Person         Ms Priti Modi

Participants                 Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms Sumona Dasgupta

Highlight   Discussed the importance of mental health specially in this pandemic, acknowledging that mental health issue is as important as any other illness.

YES Abroad 2nd Virtual Meet

External Events 07-Nov-2020

Organized By               AFS India

Resource Person         AFS

Participants                 Mahey Jain (VIIA)

Highlight                      USA meets India. Mahey Jain and her family met their host from USA Isabelle Richard over a 45 minutes zoom call to interact with her personally and celebrate the festival of lights.

AFS East Principals Meet

External Events 06-Nov-2020

Organized By               AFS India

Resource Person         Ms. Divya Arora, National Director

Participants                 Ms Anjali Chopra, Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight -  Ms Meena Kak , President of AFS Kolkata chapter  is also HEAD of the East Zone AFS. Ms Kak welcomed the    dignitaries and the school principals of 9 schools of the East zone. The meeting was then taken forward with members of AFS India and the National Director. All activities of past and future were discussed and the meeting concluded with a SWOT analysis done by Ms Kak.

Critical and Creative Thinking Fostering Critical Literacy

Workshops 04-Nov-2020

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         COE Delhi East

Participants                 Ms Arwah Hussain Deesawala, Ms Khadija Aamir Choonawala

Highlight                      The resource person stressed on the inclusion of Experiential earning, co-curricular and art activities for critical and creative thinking needed for the overall development of each student.

Cultural grip over virtual trip 2020 between India and Sri Lanka

External Events 01-Nov-2020

Organized By               AFS

Resource Person         AFS

Participants                 Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta

Highlight                      Virtual trip of Sri Lanka focusing on their art forms, places to visit, food, and cultural heritage.

 

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

Activities in LSA 31-Oct-2020

From Date                   01/10/2020 To 31/10/2020          

Organized By               Students and Teachers of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

Participants                 Students of Class III – XII

Highlight                      Academy celebrated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020 with the theme “Do Your Part.           #BeCyberSmart.” Events like awareness workshop by the industry experts, game based learning _ Safe online Surfing from FBI website, awareness poster, awareness drive, skits were organised for students, teachers, staffs and parents.

Health and Well Being in schools

Workshops 31-Oct-2020

From Date                   16/10/2020 To 31/10/2020        

Venue                          Diksha Portal

Organized By               NCERT

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight                     A comprehensive course which elaborated on emotional, mental and physical well-being, and the needs of special children in an inclusive classroom set up.

New Education Policy Important points

Workshops 31-Oct-2020

Organized By   COE Nioda

Resource Person         Ms Swapna Nair

Participants     Ms Manidipa Lahiri

Highlight   Explained the important points of New Education Policy.

Stress Management

Workshops 31-Oct-2020

Organized By               COE Bhuwaneshwar

Resource Person         Dr. Sangeet Sharma

Participants        Ms  Nabamita Dutta Gupta

Highlight - The session was on how to distinguish between the different sources of stress and ways to manage stress through hobbies, yoga and meditation.

Curriculum and inclusive classrooms

Workshops 30-Oct-2020

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Diksha

Participants - Teachers of Pre-Primary Section

Highlight -  A very impactful course on the curriculum of a classroom. The NEP policies related to the curriculum were also discussed.

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangthan Developing Personal Social Qualities

Workshops 30-Oct-2020

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Diksha

Participants                 Ms Teresa Gomes

Highlight                      The Course focused on developing interpersonal relations.

CBSE Workshop on Stress and Burnout

Workshops 30-Oct-2020

Organized By               COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         Mr. Arvind Shrivastava

Participants                 Ms Swati Banerjee

Highlight - Various causes of stress for school teachers and students and the ways to overcome the stress were discussed.

Enhancing Life Skill Creative Thinking

Workshops 30-Oct-2020

Organized By               COE Noida

Resource Person         Ms. J. Ramachandran

Participants -  Ms Manidipa Lahiri

Highlight - Activity oriented webinar which focused on life skills and the need for teachers to be creative and innovative.

Webinar on Cooperative Learning

Workshops 30-Oct-2020

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               COE Bhubhenshwar

Resource Person         Ms Seema Chaudhury

Participants                 Ms Priti Kedia, Ms Ranjini Chakravarty

Highlight                      The session taught every aspect of Cooperative Learning.

Online Training Session on Teaching of Literature in Language Classroom Poetry

Workshops 30-Oct-2020

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               CBSE COE Patna

Resource Person         Shri. Vahinipati Anand Kumar

Participants                 Ms Sohini Mitra Jain

Highlight                      The workshop focused on the importance and the nuances of teaching poetry at different levels.

Teaching mathematics using technology

Workshops 29-Oct-2020

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               CoE Noida

Resource Person         Mr V.K. Mishra (Principal DPS, Bareilly UP)

Participants                 Mr Soumitra Maji

Highlight - Different tools of teaching, technological & pedagogical content, were discussed.

Workshop on Teaching Strategies/ Methodologies in Science

Workshops 28-Oct-2020

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         CBSE

Participants                 Ms Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight                      The workshop was based on Teaching Science using the concept of Bionics.

MANODARPAN an online Art Exhibition

Activities in LSA 27-Oct-2020

From Date                   18/10/2020 To 27/10/2020

Event                           MANODARPAN an online Art Exhibition

Organized By               Art Department of LSA

Participants                 Students of Classes X – XII

Highlight           An online art exhibition was organized where the artworks of our students were featured on the school facebook page.

CBSE Webinar Strategies for A Happy classroom

Workshops 27-Oct-2020

Venue                         Online

Organized By               COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         Ms. Laxmibati Das

Participants                 Ms Shubhasree Das Gupta

Highlight  - The session discussed how teachers can maintain a perfect balance between fun and work in order to enhance the happiness quotient.

Health and Physical Education

Workshops 27-Oct-2020

Organized By  - CBSE

Resource Person  - Mr Vahinipati Anand Kr.

Participants - Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty, Mr Joy Chakraborty

Highlight  - Discussion on the development and care of the body, calisthenic exercises, hygiene, and athletic games.

Training on foundation of learning

Workshops 27-Oct-2020

Venue                          Google meet

Organized By               CBSE (COE Patna)

Resource Person         Ms Subhoshree Sarkar

Participants                 Ms Teresa Gomes

Highlight                      The principles of NEP in relation to school education were discussed.

The Creative Building Blocks of Problem Solving

Workshops 26-Oct-2020

Venue  - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE COE Noida

Participants - Ms Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight  An effective session which elaborated on problem solving and ways to encourage our learners to think out of the box and innovate.

GITA class

Workshops 24-Oct-2020

From Date - 17/10/2020 To 24/10/2020

Venue - Pune Online

Organized By - SUSAMSKAR Foundation

Resource Person - ISKCON

Participants - Teachers

Highlight - Lessons on basics of the Bhagwat Gita will be conducted every Saturday.

AFS Global Conference

Beyond Boundaries 23-Oct-2020

From Date - 22/10/2020 To 23/10/2020

Venue - Paris Online

Organized By - AFS India

Resource Person - AFS EuropeE

Participants - Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The main highlights were critical thinking, empathy, focus on education, Importance of Intercultural competence, learning       of life skills and importance of virtual exchanges.

Storytelling as Pedagogy

Workshops 23-Oct-2020

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - CBSE Training Portal

Resource Person - Ms. Vasanthi Thiagarajan

Participants - Ms Asfia Rafique

Highlight - Storytelling as an important pedagogical tool to strengthen concepts, examine perspectives etc. was explained.

Super Teacher's Fast Track Course

Workshops 21-Oct-2020

From Date - 17/10/2020 To 21/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - Super Teachers Edureforms

Resource Persons - Mr Sai Ram Paleti, Ms Shwetha, Mr. Vasudevan Natrajan

Participants - Teachers of all sections

Highlight - This was a 15 hour course on Online Teaching Tools and Resources which covered topics like Assessments with Quizzes, remote proctoring, Augmented Reality Vs Virtual Reality in Education, Student engagement platforms and various resources available on the Web planet.

Webinar On NEP 2020‑School Education Curriculum and pedagogy

Workshops 21-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - LSA

Resource Person - Mrs. Meena Kak

Participants - All Teachers

Highlight - NEP 2020 was discussed step by step in a simple way. Important points were discussed. Necessary contents which are required for making pedagogy were also discussed.

NIRANTAR AFS Quiz

External Events 20-Oct-2020

From Date -19/10/2020 To 20/10/2020

Venue - Kolkata, Online

Organized By - AFS Kolkata

Participants - Pranav Choudhury (XII‑B), Shrishti Maheshwari(XII‑A)

Highlight - AFS INDIA asked our school to host the EAST ZONE AFS QUIZ. We prepared a quiz on UNO and SDGs and the quiz was conducted by the Head boy (AFS KAKEHASHI ALUMNI) and Head Girl (AFS Host Family).

Experiential Learning ‑ NEED OF THE HOUR

Workshops 20-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Dr. Sankar Prasad Dutta

Participants - Teachers

Highlight - Aim of Experiential learning was shared. The difference between experiential learning and hands on activities was beautifully explained.

Workshop on Classroom Management

Workshops 19-Oct-2020

From Date - 05/10/2020 & 19/10/2020

Venue - Virtual Platform ‑ Zoom

Organized By - CoE ‑ Delhi East

Resource Persons - Ms. Priyanka Bhatkoti, Mr Madan Sawhney

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The workshop was quite interactive and importance of classroom management were discussed.

        

Assessment in Science

Workshops 19-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CoE, Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Mr Subhamay Banerjee

Participants - Ms S. Anandhi

Highlight - The purpose of taking different kind of assessments to monitor the progress of students was discussed.

Bhashik kaushal avam unka sikshan

Workshops 19-Oct-2020

Venue  - Online

Organized By - COE Delhi

Resource Person - Dr. Nirmal Popli

Participant - Ms Anurag Sultania

Highlight - The session explained the importance of using the correct language form in the correct place and in the correct way.

Decoding Portfolio and Subject Enrichment activities

Workshops 19-Oct-2020

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - CoE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person - Ms. Apala Chakraborty

Participants - Ms S. Anandhi

Highlight - The resource person had a detailed discussion on portfolio, and also on subject enrichment activities such as Surveys and case studies, Field Trips etc.

Pathways to Global Classrooms

Workshops 17-Oct-2020

From Date - 12/10/2020 To 17/10/2020

Venue - INDORE Online

Organized By - AFS India

Resource Person - Mrs Sarita Badhwar

Participants - Teachers

Highlight - It was an interactive workshop spanning three days which gave our educators information about AFS. It explored the            meaning of culture along with the different metaphors used to define culture.

FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: Exploring Art of Chittaprasad

External Events 17-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - Victoria Memorial & Dag with Think arts

Participants - Students of classes VI – IX

Highlight - Students enjoyed the workshop and were impressed to experience Chittaprasad's Art.

Classroom management - dealing with misbehaviour in class.

Workshops 17-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE‑COE‑Pune

Resource Person - Mr Sasmita Mohanty

Participants - Mr. Bijay Raj Shaw

Highlight - The positive approach that should be adopted by the teacher was explained.

Pre - School Teaching

Workshops 16-Oct-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - COE Bhubaneswar

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The training session was interactive and included various aspects of preschool teaching.

Application of Life Skills in our daily life

Workshops 16-Oct-2020

Venue - Online Session

Organized By - COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Ms Lizarani Das

Participants - Ms. Anindita Pal, Mr. Arnab Bhattacharya

Highlight - It was an interactive session and it highlighted the various life skills needed to be applied in our daily lives.

IRiS (Psychology Fest)

Activities in LSA 16-Oct-2020

From Date  - 16/10/2020 To 17/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - Psychology students of XI – XII  

Participants - Students of various schools

Highlight - Eleven schools participated in this virtual fest.

Innovative pedagogy in Science ‑ Experiential Learning

Workshops 15-Oct-2020

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - CoE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person - Ms Apala Chakraborty

Participants - Teachers of Science of the middle section

Highlight - The resource person had a detailed discussion how to encourage students to practice collaborative and cooperative learning.

Enhancing Practical skills and Projects In Science

Workshops 15-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - COE Allahabad

Resource Person - Mr. Gautam Mishra

Participants - Teachers of Science of the middle & senior section

Highlight - Ways to conduct practicals and Projects and the learning outcomes were explained.

Raamcharitmanas Sturi Gayan Competition

External Events 14-Oct-2020

 From Date  - 03/10/2020 To 14/10/2020

 Venue - Zoom meeting

 Organized By - Pariwar Milan

 Resource Person - Mrs Durga Vyas

 Participants - Manvi Bajaj – 6C

Highlight - Manavi Bajaj of 6C secured the second position in this competition amongst 8 participants from various schools. It helped students to connect with their roots and know more about Hindu religion and Ramayan.

Madhyamik shtar par Hindi Bhasha main aaklan

Workshops 14-Oct-2020

Venue - Online Session

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Dr.Madan Singh Rawat

Participants - Ms Radhika Shaw

Highlight - It helped in the enhancement of Hindi speaking and learning process.

CBSE FMM Training Subject code 405

Workshops 13-Oct-2020

From Date - 10/10/2020 To 13/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE & NSE Academy

Resource Person - NSE Academy

Participants - Mr  Bijay Raj Shaw

Highlight - Great lecture on FFM and Investments. Could understand a lot about trading of shares. The application used by them was easy to operate.

        

Priority Management

Workshops 13-Oct-2020

Venue - Online Session

Organized By - CoE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person - Ms Seema Choudhury

Participants - Ms Aloka Sen Sharma, Ms Sweta Chakraborty

Highlight  - The session emphasised on setting of long and short term goals.

Happy Classroom: Happy Teachers creating Happy Spaces

Workshops 12-Oct-2020

From Date - 10/10/2020 and 12/10/2020

Venue - Online Google Meet

Organized By - COE. Pune

Resource Persons - Dr. Majula Nair , Principal, PR Pote Patil International School

Participants - Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Ms. Amrita Himatsingka

Highlight - The webinar focussed on the influence of teachers who are happy, content and satisfied and talked about the fact that children learn better if the classrooms where theya re learning is a happy one!

Application of life skills in day to day life

Workshops 12-Oct-2020

Venue -  Virtual

Organized By - COE Noida

Resource Person - Ms.Lisa Roy

Participants - Pimary Teachers

Highlight - Emphasis was given on four pillars of learning that is learning to know, live together, to do and to be.

CBSE Workshop on Mindfulness

Workshops 12-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms Monika Mohan

Participants - Ms Afshan Nahid

Highlight - Resource person explained the importance of keeping oneself stress free and managing life peacefully.

Learn2Code ‑ coding certificate programme

Workshops 12-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - LSA and Learn2Code

Resource Person - Learn2Code

Participants - Students of Class XI

Highlight - Students of XI Web Application have been introduced to this 15 days (at their own pace) certificate course in coding.

AFS Panel Discussion on GCC

External Events 12-Oct-2020

Venue - Jammu Online

Organized By - AFS

Resource Person - AFS India

Participants - Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight - Ms Jayati Goswami was invited as a panelist for a panel discussion on Global Competence Certificate.

CBSE Workshop on NEP 2020: Empowering Teachers

Workshops 10-Oct-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE CoE Patna

Resource Person - Ms. Shanti Singh

Participants - Ms. Sudeshna Chowdhury

Highlight - A comprehensive overview of the newly formulated National Education Policy was given along with its transformative aims.

Innovative Pedagogy in English

Workshops 10-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Mr Ravi Sharma

Participants - Ms Runa Ghosh

Highlight - It was an interesting session where strategies to promote experiential learning were discussed.

How to conduct Assessments online?

Workshops 10-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Resource Person - Ms Sinduja M.E.

Participants - Teachers

Highlight - This workshop was extremely helpful as it made us aware of the additional features of Google Form.

Capacity Building Programme on Career Guidance and school

Workshops 09-Oct-2020

From Date - 03/10/2020 & 09/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE. Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Ms. Binapani Das

Participants - Teachers of Senior section

Highlight - Career guidance session was informative. 

Workshop on Coding

External Events 09-Oct-2020

From Date  - 05/10/2020 To 09/10/2020

Venue - Online on Teams

Resource Person - Ms Purabi Banerjee

Participants - Students of Classes VI – XII

Highlight - A total of 280 students attended the workshop on coding.

INFINITY 2029/ WHAT'S YOUR IDEA?

External Events 09-Oct-2020

From Date - 05/10/2020 To 09/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - Infinity Tech Education

Participants - Students of class VIII – XI

Highlight - 8 team entries and 2 individual entries of business ideas based on the themes given were sent by students. They learned how to pitch the business ideas by dividing into the three basic categories of Problem, Motivation and Solution.

Managing Virtual Classes

Workshops 09-Oct-2020

Venue - Online ‑ Google Meet

Organized By - COE ‑ Delhi East

Resource Person - Ms. Archana Narain

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The session was made interesting and interactive by emphasising the need for effective teaching & learning in classrooms.

The Art and Craft of Mathematics-- Fun with Maths

Workshops 09-Oct-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE COE Delhi East

Resource Person - Ms. Ishita Mukherjee

Participants - Ms. Shilpi Sett

Highlight - She taught how to integrate Mathematics with art and make it interesting for the children.

Enhancing Life Skill‑ Self Awareness

Workshops 09-Oct-2020

Venue - Online Session

Organized By - COE ‑ Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Ms. Sapna Bhalla

Participants - Ms. Aloka Sen Sharma

Highlight - The training emphasised on self-concept through self-assessment activities like meditation, discipline, listening to music or enjoying hobbies etc.

Webinar on Hindi Bhasha ke Navachari Shikshan

Workshops 09-Oct-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms Ekta Bajpayee

Participants - Ms. Puja Dubey

Highlight - How art and experiential learning may be incorporated in Hindi teaching was conveyed clearly.

COE – Training – Teaching Strategies and Methodologies

Workshops 09-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE COE - Panchkula

Resource Person - Dr. Neeru Arora

Participants - Ms. Sunitha R. Dey

Highlight - The resource person suggested some easy strategies to enhance speaking skills among the students.

CBSE Workshop in Accountancy

Workshops 09-Oct-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - Centre of Excellence, Delhi East

Resource Person - Mr Jagat Narayan Mehra

Participants - Ms. Swati Banerjee

Highlight  - Detailed discussion was held on changes implemented in project and practical examination in Accountancy in Classes XI and XII.

How to create an effective presentation using MS PowerPoint for online teaching with audio and video editing tools

Workshops 08-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Resource Person - Ms. Sannyasi Chakravarthy

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The importance of making online classes more engaging and effective for the students using MS PowerPoint was explained.

Pre - School Teaching

Workshops 08-Oct-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE COE Delhi East

Participants - Ms. Shilpi Seth

Highlight - The workshop focused on the basics of preschool teaching (virtually) which will be very helpful during this pandemic as         it will help us to manage the online classes well. The presentation was well conducted and was very informative.

Understanding Bloom's Taxonomy and Its Application in English

Workshops 07-Oct-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms. Meenakshi Duarah, Headmistress, Delhi Public School, ONGC

Participants - Ms. Sohini Mitra Jain

Highlight - The workshop focussed on various questions and activities that can be designed by language teachers to help the students to remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create from the acquired knowledge.

Webinar on Ethics-- Role of teachers and elders

Workshops 07-Oct-2020

Venue - Online ‑ Google meet

Organized By - CBSE, COE Delhi (West)

Resource Person - Mrs. Alka Kapoor‑Principal Modern Public School

Participants - IT Teachers

Highlight - The role of a teacher or any elder in developing ethics among children was discussed through various case studies.                

Effective utilisation of Google Classroom

Workshops 06-Oct-2020

Venue -  Online session on Zoom

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Resource Persons - Mr Sajjan P.Philip, Ms. Sannasi Chatterjee

Participants - Teachers of Middle & Senior sections

Highlight - How to use Google classroom for taking classes effectively, assigning homework, classwork, how to give rights to the users to edit the assigned work and send it easily.

Workshop on Dealing with misbehaviour in Classrooms

Workshops 06-Oct-2020

Venue - Online session

Organized By - COE ‑ Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person - Ms. Jhinuk Dutta Ray

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The session was interesting as different teaching procedures based on Harry Wong's principles were explained.

        

CBSE Workshop on Essential of Lesson Plan (English)

Workshops 06-Oct-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Mr. Vivek Tiwari

Participant - Ms Sudeshna Chowdhury

Highlight - The meaning of lesson plan along with its need, importance and components were discussed.

Enhancing Life Skills: Critical Thinking

Workshops 06-Oct-2020

Venue - Google Meet: Online

Organized By - COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Mr. Sushil Kumar Sinha

Participants - Ms. Kulbir Kaur, Ms. Poulomi Saha

Highlight  - How students should enhance their life skills, interpret, interfere, explain,solve  problems, self-regulate the situation and cope up with was explained.

Nurturing Creativty

Workshops 06-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE COE(Patna)

Resource Person - Mrs Vipin Sharma

Participants - IT Teachers

Highlight - In this session the presenter discussed project based teaching, where students can use creativity to understand the subject.

Super School Leadership Program

Workshops 06-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Resource Person - Mr. Bhanuprasad

Participants - Mrs. Meena Kak, Mrs. Anjali Chopra, Mrs. Jayati Goswami,

Highlight - It was a micro‑workshop for school leaders for sustainable Hybrid schooling.

Teaching strategies and methodologies in English

Workshops 05-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms Swapna Nair

Participants - Ms. Runa Ghosh

Highlight - The workshop focused on the various strategies that can be used in the classroom to enhance listening skills.

CTiS 2020 ‑ Conference on Computational Thinking in Schools Confirmation

Workshops 03-Oct-2020

From Date -  02/10/2020 To 03/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CSpathsala

Resource Person - Prof Jeannette M Wing, Prof Sridhar Iyer

Participants - IT Teachers

Highlight  - The conference featured presentations of selected abstracts with sessions on implementation of computational thinking, fun activities and innovative examples used by teachers in classrooms.

Workshop on Stress Management Techniques

Workshops 03-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Dr. Rakesh Sachdeva

Participants - Primary and Pre primary teachers

Highlight - Definition and meaning of stress and the copying mechanisms were discussed.

Host Family Meet

External Events 03-Oct-2020

Venue - USA Online

Organized By - AFS USA

Resource Person - Volunteers

Participants - Mahey Jain & her family

Highlight - Mahey Jain and her family presented a beautiful presentation about their family, school and Kolkata to orient Isabelle Richard. She is our host student for this year's US ABROAD.

NSLV ‑Y AFS PROGRAM

External Events 03-Oct-2020

From Date - 03/10/2020 To 06/10/2020

Venue - USA(Online)

Organized By - AFS India

Resource Person - AFS Volunteers

Participants - Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight - In order to showcase Indian Cuisine, our AFS Volunteer Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya recorded a video on Bengali fish curry and explained the preparation and the ingredients. This video will be showcased at the NSLV‑Y Program of AFS, USA

Menstrual Hygiene Training Programme for Girls

Workshops 03-Oct-2020

Venue - Microsoft Teams

Organized By - UNICHARM

Resource Person - Ms. Roshni Bhowmick & Vidya Ma’am

Participants - Students of Class VI ‑ VII

Highlight - The sessions provided health education for adolescent girls and enlightened them with necessary safety measures to be        followed.

NSHM Y Frames 3.0

External Events 03-Oct-2020

Venue - Facebook Streamyard

Organized By - NSHM

Resource Person - Bichitra Pathshala

Participants - Students of Class XI

Highlight -  The Academy's film 'ILISH FINISH' was premiered at the festival. Director Harshvardhan Jalan had joined in a chat with  moderator Mr. SV Raman.

Cyber safe with Saket Modi

Activities in LSA 03-Oct-2020

Venue - Online via Zoom

Resource Person - Mr Saket Modi, Co-founder & CEO of Lucideus

Participants - Students of class VIII to XI & Parents

Highlight - This session was conducted as a part of the National Cyber Security Awareness month. This was an endeavour to keep our students and parents cyber safe.

Duties for School Children: Strive for excellence

Workshops 02-Oct-2020

Venue - Online: YouTube channel

Organized By - Atal Innovation Mission

Resource Person - Mr.R.Ramana, Mr.Niraj Kumar Gayagi, Ms Dola Banerjee

Participants - Ms. Poulomi Saha, Students of middle and senior sections

Highlight - Discussion on Citizen's duties for school children, how one can promote good wealth and healthcare facilities and sanitation to remote areas, sense of responsibility, to empathize with everybody.                             .

Gandhi Jayanti

Activities in LSA 02-Oct-2020

Venue - Online

Participants - Students of classes Preschool - XII

Highlight - The 150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma was celebrated by the students from Pre Primary to the Senior Secondary section with great enthusiasm.

Workshop on Emotional Intelligence

Workshops 01-Oct-2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person : Mr. Arvind Shrivastava

Participants : Ms. Priti Kedia

Highlight : The importance of Emotional Intelligence in our lives as compared to Intelligent Quotient was explained.

Clothes Donation Drive

Activities in LSA 01-Oct-2020

Participants : Students of Classes PS II to V

Highlight : The Academy organised a clothes donation drive for Hope Foundation – home for the underprivileged.

Understanding the need of Adolescent Education

Workshops 01-Oct-2020

Venue : Google Meet

Organized By : CBSE ‑ COE Delhi East

Resource Person : Ms. Bhavika Gidwani

Participants : Ms. Sourina Bose

Highlight : Fabulous insights on how to deal with both the male and the female students in the classroom

Learning & Practicing Gratitude ‑ The Purpose of Life

Workshops 01-Oct-2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : Aditya Birla Education Academy Masterclass

Resource Person : Dr Vasudha Neel Mani

Participants : Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight : This interactive webinar talked about the Curriculum of Gratitude and the 21 day journey of self realization. Expressing gratitude brings in positivity and empathy which is so important in today's world.

Poetry Workshop

Workshops 01-Oct-2020

From Date : 02/09/2020 To 01/10/2020

Venue : Online

Organized By :  Little Bright Sparks

Resource Person : Ms. Esha Kak

Participants : Students of Class V

Highlight : A poetry workshop was held for the students of class V. They would meet every alternate week in lots ranging from 16 to 25 students per session. They were taught various kinds of poems like Haiku, Hyperbole, Simile, to name a few.

Training on Amrita Olab

Workshops 30-Sep-2020

From Date  : 29/08/2020 To 30/09/2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : CBSE

Participants : Teachers

Highlight : Received training on how to use online labs in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Math and English

 

Soulful School Masterclass

Workshops 30-Sep-2020

From Date : 01/09/2020 To 30/09/2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : Future school leaders

Resource Person : Different school leaders

Participants : Ms Meena Kak, Ms Anjali Chopra, Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight : Different types of schools were showcased and the school leaders shared their best practices.

 

Art Education and Art Integration ‑ the Art1st Approach

Workshops 30-Sep-2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : Art First (Art1st)

Resource Person : Ms Ritu Khoda, Dr Sangeeta Gole, Ms Rivika sadarangani & Ms Penny Hay (Bath University, UK)

Participants : Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight : This workshop focused on how a pedagogical shift is required towards Art Education.

Assessment in Mathematics

Workshops 30-Sep-2020

Venue : Virtual

Organized By : COE Pune

Resource Person : Dr Shitala Prabhu

Participants : Mr. Subrato Chakraborty

Highlight : Discussion about different assessment patterns

eRaksha Competition

External Events 30-Sep-2020

From Date - 20/08/2020 To 30/09/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE, NCERT, Cyber Peace foundation

Resource Person - NCERT, Cyber Peace foudation

Participants - Students of classes V – XII

Highlight - It was a competition focusing on digital citizenship and online safety. The first round of the events like artcade,          wordmaster, screenmaster etc were organsied within the school for all the students of Classes 5 to 10 and selected students from classes 11 and 12 participated. Selected posters, articles, blogs, videos have been uploaded to the designated website.

Celebrate 80 years of IVLP

External Events 29-Sep-2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : US Department of State & GEIST

Resource Persons : Panelists from Nepal, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Greece and Guatemala

Participants : Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight : The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) completed 80 years and as a part of this the panelists from different countries shared their stories and their projects undertaken. This was an enriching and a motivating session.

Storytelling as Pedagogy

Workshops 28-Sep-2020

From Date : 28/09/2020 & 01/10/2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : COE Panchkula

Resource Persons : Dr. Raj Sangwaan, Ms. Ranjana Bhardwaj

Participants : Teachers of Primary section

 Highlight : The workshop focused on the importance of storytelling and the skills associated with it.

Panel Discussion ‑ COVID 19 ‑ Entrepreneur Challenge or Opportunity

Workshops 27-Sep-2020

Venue : Webinar via Google Meet

Organized By : Loreto College Alumni Association

Resource Person : Ms Anjum Katyal (Moderator) and other panelists

Participants : Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight : Renowned panelists explained how they are helping poor and needy during this pandemic.

Pathways to Critical Thinking

Workshops 26-Sep-2020

Venue : Webinar via Google Meet

Organized By : CBSE

Resource Person : Ms. Anuja Sharma

Participants : Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight : Why Critical Thinking is important for developing a concept and how it can be incorporated were discussed in the session.

Poetry Workshop

Workshops 25-Sep-2020

From Date 02/09/2020 To 25/09/2020

Venue  Online

Organized By        Ms. Esha Kak

Resource Person Ms. Esha Kak

Participants -    Students of class IV

Highlight -  A poetry workshop was held for the students of class 4. The session was highly interactive and enriching. Students thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. They learned about different forms of poetry such as Acrostic, Haikus, Limericks and the different poetic devices such as personification and hyperbole. Students also wrote poems by themselves.

Workshop on AR by school of Innovation from facebook

Workshops 25-Sep-2020

From Date            23/09/2020 To 25/09/2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person Pupil first

Participants          Niladri K Motilal, Sudakshina Datta, Sanzeeda Mirza

Highlight               It was a comprehensive workshop where we had to complete a self paced learning course and learn about the need of Augmented reality and the scope of this technology in the education industry.

ISRO Cyberspace competitions

External Events 25-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        ISRO (ICC‑200)

Participants          Students of Classes I- V

Highlight               8 students secured ranks within 500 in this national event.  

CBSE assessment scheme Decoding board/PT papers

Workshops 24-Sep-2020

Venue           Online

Organized By        COE Ajmer

Resource Person    Ms Anita Dutta

Participants          Mr Subrato Chakraborty

Highlight               Discussion on the exam pattern. Different types of projects of different levels were discussed. Portfolio should consist of c/w, h/w and self-assessment.

 

Enhancing Life Skill ‑ Self Awareness

Workshops 23-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        COE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person  Ms Neera Kohli

Participants          Ms Bindiya Kaur Gill

Highlight               The workshop focussed on self awareness which is the basis of all life skills. The need for daily introspection of our feelings, thoughts and actions was emphasized.

Experiential Learning

Workshops 23-Sep-2020

Venue           Online

Organized By    COE Pune

Resource Person Ms Apurva Pande

Participants          Mr Subrato Chakraborty

Highlight               What is experiential learning and how to introduce it in class room teaching was explained.

Learn2Code

Workshops 19-Sep-2020

From Date            16/09/2020 To 19/09/2020

Venue                   Online ‑ Microsoft Teams

Organized By        Eupheus Learning

Participants            Students of Classes I – V

Highlight               Students were taught coding through games.

Story telling session

Workshops 16-Sep-2020

From Date       02/09/2020 To 16/09/2020

Venue                   Zoom class

Organized By        Scholastic India

Resource Person Ms.Chitralekha Bhasker

Participants          Students of Classes I & II

Highlight               The session was very interesting and interactive. Children enjoyed the story narrated to them and were very enthusiastic  to answer the questions. It also helped to enhance their vocabulary and critical thinking skills and they are now looking      forward to many such interactive sessions.

 

Mrs YGP Memorial Quiz

External Events 16-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Knowledge Tribe Greycaps and TCSion

Resource Person    PSBB Group Of Schools, Chennai

Participants          Srikar Ayala Soumayjula (VIII‑A)

Highlight               Srikar stood 3rd in the National Quiz. He was the only participant from Kolkata to qualify for the finals and competed with 2400 students across the country.

Dramatics in Teaching

Workshops 16-Sep-2020

Venue                 Google Meet

Organized By       COE Pune

Participants          Ms Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight               It was an inspirational session which highlighted the importance of using dramatics in teaching and how it benefits student learning.

Magic of Gratitude

Workshops 16-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person Ms Isha Ipshita Satpathy

Participants         Ms Priti Kedia

Highlight               The workshop highlighted the fact that by practising gratitude we can bring positivity and happiness into our everyday life.

Online Education: Solutions and Possibilities

Workshops 14-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online Session

Organized By        Socrates Foundation for Enhanced Learning

Resource Person  Ms Charu Mathur

Participants          Ms Ganga Sinha, Ms Puja Dubey, Ms Uma Jaiswal

Highlight               Various tips on online teaching were provided. We learnt how to take the online classes more effectively.

Online Hindi Webinar

Workshops 14-Sep-2020

Venue                   Youtube

Organized By        New Saraswati House

Resource Person    Dr. Kshama Sharma

Participants          Ms Puja Dubey

Highlight               ‘Hindi Linga’ was simplified very well. Learned to identify ‘Linga’ through ‘Vachan’ in Hindi.

Pidilite Craft Activities

External Events 14-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Pidilite Company

Resource Person   Mr Partha S Saha

Participants          Students of Classes III – V

Highlight               Students learnt to make various craft items.

INter School Public Speaking Competition

External Events 13-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Edu Excellence

Participants            5 Students of Class VIII

Highlight               Rasita Singh of Class VIII A secured the 2nd position. She had to give an impromptu speech on the given topic  'MY AIM IN LIFE'. 350 schools from across the country participated in this event.

Happiness at work place

Workshops 12-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences

Resource Person Professor Sanjeev P Sahni, Tithi Bhatnagar

Participants          Teachers

Highlight -  The speaker reinforced positive thinking, so that it spreads around and makes the students too feel the same.

Discussion on Digital Divide

Activities in LSA 12-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online using Microsoft Teams

Organized By        IT Club‑ Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

Resource Person - Ms. Medha De, Business Consultant‑ Content Marketing at TCS

Participants          IT Teachers

Highlight               Ms. Medha De discussed on few ways how students can bridge the technological gap between them and society.

Resurgence' 20

External Events 11-Sep-2020

From Date            10/09/2020 To 11/09/2020              

Venue                   Online Platform

Organized By       Bishop Cotton Boy’s School, Bangalore

Participants          Students of Classes XI – XII

Highlight               30 students participated in this commerce fest. They secured the 2nd position in the event 'Triangle of Trade'.

Practice Session on Google Form

Workshops 11-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Resource Person        IT Teachers

Participants          Teachers

Highlight               A workshop on the use of Google form was conducted for the teachers by the IT department.

Education Summit - Thinking Beyond the Classroom

Workshops 11-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Lenovo and CNBC TV18

Resource Person Amitav Kant, CEO NITI Aayog and Anil Shahasrabiudhe CEO AICTE

Participants          IT Teachers

Highlight               An informative and interactive session on future of learning with emerging technology. Keynote addresses by eminent speakers from IT industry on Smarter India project of the government were very insightful.

Orientation Programme for IT teachers

Workshops 11-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online facebook

Organized By        SSNASSCOM

Participants           IT teachers

Highlight     The programme focussed on the Employability Skills of Information Technology

From Art O Part: A Peep into digital fabrication

Workshops 10-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        B.I.T.M. Kolkata

Participants          Ms Amritah Sen

Highlight               An illustrated lecture was given by Dr. Guruprasad Rao, Director and Mentor of Imaginarium India Pvt. Ltd

Integration of Art in Science (AIL)

Workshops 08-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person Ms. Jhinuk Dutta Roy

Participants          Ms Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight               It was an informative session. The workshop enlightened us on ways to integrate Art with Scence and emphasized its importance.

Role of Teachers in Transforming Society: Insights and Policy Implication

Workshops 05-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online (google Meet)

Organized By        O.P. Jindal Global University

Resource Person Prof. Dr. Tanushree Sharma

Participants          Teachers

Highlight  Techniques of managing online classes and the role of a teacher in this new normal were discussed in detail. Following were discussed :

  • Role of teacher as a change agent
  • Self awareness skills
  • Social awareness skills
  • Relationship skills
  • Responsible decision making skills
  • 6 Steps to mindfully deal with difficult emotions

Webinar on Teacher’s Day

Workshops 05-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Millennium Mams

Resource Person Mr Anand Kumar

Participants          Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight               It was indeed a pleasure to hear the real hero behind Super 30, Mr Anand Kumar and his motivational strategies. There were more than 500 participants on the Zoom Webinar, and all were in awe of his simplicity.

 

EFFECT PLUS

Beyond Boundaries 03-Sep-2020

From Date      31/08/2020 To 03/09/2020

Venue           Indore Online

Organized By        AFS India

Resource Person  Mrs Sarita Bhadwar

Participants          Students of Class IX

Highlight       Effect + workshop for students focused on developing the global 21st century skills and how to be a change maker in the society.

Workshop on Happy Classroom ‑Happy teachers creating happy spaces

Workshops 02-Sep-2020

Venue                   Google Meet

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person Mr. Ganesh R. Tarate

Participants          Ms Sweta Chakraborty

Highlight               It was a useful session. A number of tools were provided for teachers that will help them to make their classes more joyful and interesting.

Host Family Orientation

Beyond Boundaries 01-Sep-2020

Venue                   Rajkot online

Organized By        AFS India

Resource Person Mr. Ajay Mehta

Participants          Ananya Karnany(X‑C), Mahey Jain(VII‑A)

Highlight               Mr. Ajay Mehta, a senior mentor of AFS India was introduced to the parents of Ananya Karnany and Mahey Jain who have been selected for 2020‑2021 hosting cycle. Mr Mehta explained to them the whole hosting process in details and also clarified all their doubts.  Virtual hosting will start very soon.

Workshop on challenges in online teaching and strategies to overcome them

Workshops 01-Sep-2020

Venue                   Online Through Zoom

Organized By        Dr Aswini Sharma

Resource Person Dr Vijaya Sundar M

Participants          Mr Ashis Majumder, Mr Sanjay Bhattacharya

Highlight               Importance of online teaching and how to overcome these challenges was discussed. Tools and techniques that help in teaching in the virtual mode was explained in details.

Enhancing blended and online training capability though Hands on training

Workshops 31-Aug-2020

Venue  - Online

Organized By  -  NABET

Resource Person  - Sr Advisor QCI, Dr Patanjali Misra, QCI ICT Team, Dr Jai Singh, Dr Gaurav Singh

Participants - Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms Sudakshina Datta, Ms Swati Mukherjee

Highlight  - It provided an understanding of different type of govt. digital initiatives relevant for online education, OERs (Open Educational Resources), Creative Commons (CC) and its different modalities of license etc. Acquired skills to develop educational videos through freely available digital tools; acquired skills for creating Learning Management System (LMS) through freely available GOOGLE SITE & GOOGLE CLASSROOM ICT. Packages and acquired skills for using Google Jam board, Google Docs & Google Forms.

CBSE WORKSHOPS

Workshops 31-Aug-2020

 

Below mentioned are the various workshops organized by Centre of Excellence, CBSE, which were attended by our teachers in August 2020:

  • Kolb's cycle of experiential learning
  • Application of Life Skills in Day to Day Life
  • Experiential Learning in Pedagogy
  • Innovative methods for Students to teach Ethics and Integrity
  • Engaging with Empathy
  • Storytelling as Pedagogy
  • CBSE‑WWF‑India Wild Wisdom Digital Quiz
  • Workshop on Universal Design for Learning ‑ Planning Multilevel Instruction
  • Integrating of arts in curriculum through experiential learning
  • ICT in Teaching English
  • Accountancy‑ Teaching Strategies
  • Classroom Management and its Components
  • English IX‑X – Literature in Classroom Teaching
  • ICT integration in Science
  • Global Best practice Using Technology & Digitisation to enhance student outcomes
  • Sustainable Green School
  • Teaching Methodologies in Business Studies
  • Geography‑ Teaching Strategies/Methodologies in Geography
  • Content Management in Class ‑ Time Management
  • Experiential Learning – Introduction to Experiential Learning
  • Awareness Programme on Physical Activity Trainer
  • Methodologies in Science
  • Gamification of Learning
  • Online session on teaching strategies for English for reading
  • Awareness program on physical activity trainer
  • Social Science: Assessment in Social Science class IX and X
  • Mathematics‑ Common errors committed in Mathematics
  • Teaching Strategy and Methodology in Writing
  • Bloom’s Taxonomy and Questioning techniques in assessment
  • Designing Pre Primary Curriculum
  • Workshop on Introduction to Cybersecurity and safety
  • Workshop on Leading Transformation in schools
  • Mathematics in Primary Classes
  • Strategies for Happy Classroom
  • Building Blocks of Logical Thinking
  • Outcome Based Learning
  • Teaching Vocabulary
  • Workshop on Bloom's Taxonomy and its Application in English
  • Understanding Bullying
  • Out of the Box
  • Synthesis of life skill education
  • Workshop on NEP
  • Project/ Practical Work in Business Studies
  • Mask Quest IX‑XII
  • Integration of Arts in Mathematics
  • Managing Virtual Classes
  • Pathways to Critical Thinking
  • Integration of Arts in English
  • Developing Communication Skills that make Teachers more effective
  • CBSE workshop on Assessment in Accountancy
  • Enhancing Practical skills and projects
  • Enhancing Practical Skills/ Projects and Map Work in Geography.
  • Introduction to Arts and how the Arts are Powerful engagement tools
  • The issues related to cyber ethics
  • Happy Teachers create Happy Spaces
  • Dramatics in Teaching
  • Mass Media & Value
  • Roles and Responsibilities of a Counsellor
  • Common Errors committed in Mathematics
  • Integration of Arts in English
  • CBSE Workshop on Stress Management ‑ sources and its response

Rashtriya Kavi Sangam Dinkar Kavya Path

External Events 31-Aug-2020

From Date                   31/08/2020 To 20/09/2020

Venue                   Online session

Organized By        Rashtriya Kavi Sangam West Bengal

Resource Person Dr. Girdhar Rai

Participants          Students of Classes VI-X

Highlight               5000 contestants from all over West Bengal participated and Neerav Nagori qualified for the semi finals. Students had an enriching experience.

NEP 2020 & Higher Education ‑ Impact & Opportunities & NEP 2020 : Hits & Misses for School Education

Workshops 30-Aug-2020

From Date  - 29/08/2020To 30/08/2020

Venue  - Online

Organized By - Mindler & Education World

Participants  - Ms  Jaya Misra

Highlight  - The panel consisted of industry experts who discussed the plans laid out in the policy and some challenges associated with them. It gave us an insight and identified the areas that are praiseworthy at the same time, some parts in the policy cannot be overlooked. The discussion focused on topics like ‑ the impact on the student preparedness, the systemic changes, the attitudinal shift it will bring in the students as well as educators.

PSP Training Workshop

Workshops 29-Aug-2020

From Date  28/08/2020 To 29/08/2020

Venue -  Online session

Organized By  -  Quality Council of India

Participants  -   Mr Darshan Singh Gill

Highlight    - Strategies that schools should adopt for re opening were discussed at length during the two day workshop. The different aspects covered were – Health & Hygiene, Physical Infrastructure, Governance & Management, Teching & Learning. The inputs provided were extremely helpful and enriching.

Rekindling Minds

Workshops 29-Aug-2020

Venue - Online

Organized By -  Susamskar Foundation

Resource Person - Dr. Chitra

Participants - Students of Class VIII

Highlight  - Susamskar Foundation has arranged  value education classes for the middle school students. IIT scholars take these classes and try to develop good thoughts and positive guidance. Students interact very well with the resource person. This is a continuous process and will be done with all classes.

CS+X, unlocking new Computer Science

Workshops 28-Aug-2020

Venue    - Online

Organized By  - Ashoka University

Resource Person - Prof Debayan Gupta

Participants  - Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms Sudakshina Datta, Ms Swati Mukherjee

Highlight - The webinar was on overview of interdisciplinary Computer Science courses available at Ashoka University.

Fit India Workshop

Workshops 28-Aug-2020

Venue  -     Delhi

Organized By -   SportsZgrid

Resource Person  - Mr Mohanti

Participants  - Mr Arnab Bhattacharya, Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty, Mr Joy Chakraborty

Highlight  - To make the people fit in India all must do some physical activity at least 30 to 40 min to get rid of obesity, laziness, stress, anxiety, diseases and others.

Grey caps Memorial Quiz

External Events 28-Aug-2020

Venue  -   Online session

Organized By - PSBB group of school

Participants - VII & VIII

Highlight  - Students enjoyed a lot and gained extensive knowledge. SrikarAyalasomayajula and Vidishaa Mundhra of class VIII, and Rishika Kala of class VII qualified round 1.

 

AFS India Master Chef

External Events 27-Aug-2020

From Date - 01/08/2020 to 27/08/2020                               

Venue -  Online submission

Organized By - AFS India

Participants - Students of Classes X - XII

Highlight  - Our students participated in the First round of the competition with the guest country, Paraguay by cooking various cuisines and uploading it on the AFS website along with pictures, and the recipe. Results awaited.

0ne Classroom

External Events 27-Aug-2020

Venue - Brazil Online

Organized By - AFS INDIA

Resource Person - AFS Brazil

Participants - Students of Class XII, Ms. Jayati Goswami, Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya, Mr. Kanak Sankar Mukherjee, Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra

Highlight - We got a wonderful opportunity to display our Indian Cultural Heritage and also Be introduced to Brazil's culture. We connected with Interativa Flores da Cunha, their students, professors and AFS Brazil volunteers. Our students gained a lot of knowledge by interacting and making friends with them.

Cyber security and inculcating Cyber Hygiene

Workshops 27-Aug-2020

Venue  - Online

Organized By - Indian Chamber of Commerce

Resource Person  - Mr Vinod Natarajan

Participants - Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms Sudakshina Datta, Ms Swati Mukherjee

Highlight - In the session, we discussed about what is information security, its elements, roles and responsibilities, its threats and impacts and some examples of awareness program was given.

VD / The Art of Story telling/Multiplying #AFSEffect

External Events 25-Aug-2020

Venue                                 Online

Organized By                      AFS India

Participants                        There were 7 participants registered for in different events based on the given criteria.

Highlight                               The prize winners are – 4-6 years Category : Aarya Agarwal & Vatsal Harlalka of PS II Bluebells & Amogh Rathi of II Daisies ; 7‑8 years Category : Dhani Modi – III Asters & Anushka Dua – IV Daisies

New Movements in the Solar System

Workshops 24-Aug-2020

Venue - Zoom

Organized By  - Bichitra Pathshala

Resource Person - Dr. Debiprasad Duari

Participants - Ms Sourina Bose

Highlight  - Spoke on the developments that are continuously going on in the solar system. His area of concern was also Mars & life in Mars.

Dell Aarambh Advanced Webinar: Making an Impact with Online Teaching

Workshops 23-Aug-2020

Venue   - Online

Organized By - Dell

Resource Person - Ms. Madiha Ahmed

Participants - Ms Anuradha Gupta, Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight The session provided insights into the essential skills for conducting online classes and understanding the performance of students using the VARK Model to assess their visual, auditory, reading and writing and kinaesthetic skills. The importance of planning for better learning outcomes, family engagement and collection of timely feedback were discussed. The operation of various digital tools and platforms that can be utilised to make classes more engaging for the students was demonstrated.

Cultural grip on a Virtual trip

External Events 22-Aug-2020

Venue  Malaysia Online

Organized By  AFS India

Resource Person   AFS Malaysia

Participants  Ms  Jayati Goswami

Highlight  The program started with the Independence day celebration of Malaysia ,we heard the National song and understood the meaning. It was intriguing to see that Deepawali, Pongal are celebrated in Malaysia with a lot of devotion. They showcased their fabric printing techniques. It was a beautiful presentation about a beautiful country.

Everest & Beyond : Passion, Grit & Resilient Leadership

Workshops 22-Aug-2020

Venue  - Online

Organized By - iLead

Resource Person - Mr Ajeet Bajaj & Ms Deeya Bajaj

Participants  - Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight - It was a thrilling experience to hear the father ‑ daughter duo share their experiences of various expeditions across the globe. They are the first father ‑ daughter Indian team to climb Mt Everest on May 16th 2018. They talked about their resilience in spite of the hardships they faced during the climb. They also shared a few experiences from Greenland, Mt. Aconcagua, Mt Vinson. It was indeed a pleasure to know that they have traversed six out of seven summits of the world.

Bullionaire 2020

Activities in LSA 22-Aug-2020

From Date                      21/08/2020  To  22/08/2020

Venue                             Online

Resource Person              Students and Teachers of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

Participants                      Students of classes XI – XII

Highlight                          With innovation and survival playing a critical role in business, Bullionaire 2020@ Lakshmipat Singhania Academy would patronised the creativity of every business aspirant. There were 7 events where 120 participants of 12 Kolkata schools  participated in the fest which was held in 4 sessions spread over 2 days.               

 

New system of physical education from 9 to 12 std.

Workshops 19-Aug-2020

Venue                                  Delhi

Organized By                      SportsZgrid.

Resource Person              Mr Sujit Panigrai CEO of S.A.I.

Participants                        Arnab Bhattacharya

Highlight                               Physical education should be used as a career options from 9th to 12 std. Information oriented

Cinema in the Classroom

Workshops 18-Aug-2020

From Date     06/07/2020 to 18/08/2020

Venue           Online

Organized By  Bichitrapathsala

Participants   Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya, Ms. Sunitha R Dey

Highlight     It was an exciting experience on the whole teachers were taught the entire process of film making right from scripting to animating to shooting and finally editing. Various resource persons came in turns to train them and give tips to make a movie of their choice. The workshop was loaded with information and all of them were inspired to make a good film. We were guided all through the month by the resource persons and both of them completed their first film successfully.

Remembering the partition ‑ In the shadow of 1947

External Events 17-Aug-2020

Venue  - Online

Organized By  - Kolkata Centre for Creativity

Resource Person - Ms Amritah Sen, Ms Paula Sengupta, Mr Vinayak Bhattacharya, Mr Debashish Mukherjee, Dr Rajasri Mukhopadhyay, Ms Reena Dewan

Participants  - Ms Amritah Sen, Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight - The webinar focused on the artist portrayals of the partition of India (both Pakistan and Bangladesh) and the repercussions on the masses dwelling on both sides of the border. One could observe the plight of the people in the art work and decades later, despite the haunting memories, one could trace cultural commonalities between the two lands.

Wild Wisdom Quiz

External Events 16-Aug-2020

From Date                           09/08/2020 to 16/08/2020

Venue                                  Online

Organized By                      WWF‑ India

Participants                        Students of Classes III – V

Highlight      There were 87 participants who appeared for the Preliminary round of the quiz. 13 students passed the preliminary round and appeared for the Final round. In the final round, 2 students cleared the exam. The names are, 1) NIDHISH AGARWAL of 3 Daisies, 2) VIVAN K. CHOKHANI of 4 Daisies

Decoding the Socio-Emotional Wellbeing of children and Adolescents

Workshops 16-Aug-2020

Venue  -    Online

Organized By -  Institute of mental Health &Life skill promotion with expression India

Resource Person  - Mr. Jitendra Nagpal, Mrs. Aparajita Dixit

Participants  - Ms Anjali Chopra, Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight - They focussed on the role of all the stakeholders to curb bullying in schools. They emphasized on the need to have a safe and conducive environment for students to express themselves freely and to integrate life skills and divinity with all the subjects

Python (XI‑XII) Coding Clubs

Workshops 14-Aug-2020

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By  - CBSE COE Delhi East 8

Resource Person - Gurpreet Kaur

Participants - Mr  Niladri Kumar Motilal

Highlight - Discussed about the importance of coding club, why coding is important, importance of Training in coding. Coding club; information of codes cook, code club etc. was shared. Website like kaggle.com, edx etc is was shared.

Bichitra Pathshala Annual Lecture ‑The Empire Gazes Back

External Events 14-Aug-2020

Venue          -      Online ‑ Zoom

Organized By -    Bichitra Pathshala

Resource Person - Professor Chandak Sengoopta, University of London

Participants - Ms  Sourina Bose

Highlight  - The session was on 'British presence in the films and fiction of Satyajit Ray'.

Essay Competition

External Events 07-Aug-2020

Venue  - Online submission

Organized By  - CBSE

Participants - Students of Classes IX – X

Highlight  - The students conducted a research on the vision of ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT in light of the recent crisis due to the pandemic caused by the spread of corona virus. Then they honed their writing skills and put their thoughts about their conception of self reliant India based on the various themes provided by the organizers.

exe.BIT 2020

Activities in LSA 07-Aug-2020

From Date                           05/08/2020 to 07/08/2020

Venue                                  Online

Organized By                      Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

Resource Person              exeBIT student core committee

Participants                        Students of classes VI – XII

Highlight                               The motive behind the fest was to combine technology with empathy in these unprecedented lockdown times and act as a break in our new stressful schedules. 474 Students from 28 reputed schools from all over India shared the same platform to showcase their prowess and talents through participation in various activities.

                                                 

Continuous professional development for educators

Workshops 06-Aug-2020

Venue  - Online

Organized By - Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust

Resource Person - Dr. Eziquiel Molina and Sir Mark Grundy

Participants - Ms Swati Mukherjee, Ms Manmeet Kaur, Ms Amritah Sen, Ms Ruchira Bhar Das

Highlight - The session highlighted that the teaching- learning process should be made innovative and interactive through activities and ‘learning by doing’ methods, and by use of technology.

Student Orientation

Workshops 05-Aug-2020

Venue  - Delhi Online

Organized By - AFS INDIA

Resource Person - Mrs Divya Arora

Participants - Students of classes VIII – IX

Highlight - Students were apprised about the history and purpose of AFS. The National Director addressed the students and told them about the need of Global citizenship. How young children could be great change makers for the society? Many new programs were also announced.

Global Best Practices

Workshops 04-Aug-2020

Venue  - Online London

Organized By  -  CBSE COE

Resource Person - Mr. K Krishnan

Participants - Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami, Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Sourina Bose

Highlight - Mr. K Krishnan started with the onset of industrialization and then shifted our focus towards AI. The new global skills are learning skills, literary skills and life skills but the most important skill is to Learn and Unlearn. Technology must be used efficiently. Resilience Quotient is also very important apart from IQ and EQ.

Transforming Learning with Technology and Importance of Skill is the new normal for K12 Sector Confirmation

Workshops 04-Aug-2020

Venue  - Webinar

Organized By -  Times of India in Association with Sankalp world championships

Resource Person  - Jan Day (VP Certiport), Omijawan Gupta (Director of education Microsoft India),

Participants  - Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms Sudakshina Datta, Ms Swati Mukherjee

Highlight - Expert Industry Speakers from Microsoft,  Certiport (a Pearson brand), and Times of India discussed on various challenges and new findings in the K12 sector globally. This was followed by the announcement of 2021 Sankalp World Championships, the launch of 2021 Microsoft Office Specialist and Adobe Certified Associate World Championships in the country.

National Talent Search Examination

External Events 02-Aug-2020

Venue  -       Delhi Online

Organized By - JCI India

Resource Person  - Mr. Devesh Nagori

Participants  - Students of classes IX–XII (126 students)

Highlight -  JCI India (jciindia.in/), its India chapter, as every year conducts National level talent Search Examinations for young students to encourage them and increase their general knowledge. This year NLTS has gone online. Questions based on General Information was asked and students were also awarded E-certificates.

A word with the World

External Events 01-Aug-2020

 Venue -  Online

Organized By - HLS, India

Resource Person  - Mr Amitabh Mohan

Participants  - Pranav Choudhury (XII‑B)

Highlight - Pranav Choudhury was invited for an interactive session on relationships in school and the stress related to it. It was a fruitful session where the students felt that relationships are the core of a society. There were 4 students from cities like Gurugram, Lucknow and Kolkata who poured their hearts out, on friendship, relationships and the emotions surrounding it.

Sports Quiz

External Events 31-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        GCPE Alumni Association, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Participants           Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty

Highlight              The quiz provided an opportunity to recall the rules and regulations of different games. It was an enriching experience

AFS ‑ Story telling and writing Impact stories

Workshops 31-Jul-2020

Venue                   Delhi Online

Organized By        AFS

Resource Person  Ms. Divya Batra

Participants          All Teachers

Highlight               The workshop was a discussion on how story telling can make great impact stories. They talked about picture, painting and     travelogues. Narrative empathy ie putting ourselves in others shoes, was discussed. They also talked about connecting stories with experiential learning, theme, language, style, character, tone , hook etc.

Digital Earth Reel 2020

External Events 31-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Earth Day Network

Participants          Students of Classes IX - XII

Highlight               We have submitted 4 films for the competition based on the theme ‑ LOCKDOWN

IIHM Young Chef India (Junior)

External Events 31-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online event

Organized By        IIHM Kolkata

Resource Person  Malabika Bannerjee

Participants          Harshit Saraogi (VII‑C), Priyansh Saraf (VII‑A), Rohit Verma (VIII‑B)

Highlight               It was a unique experience as the cooking competition was online. Students had to prepare a snack item and a dessert item within 90 minutes. They will be judged on their recipe, process, food safety, utilization of ingredients, presentation and     time management. Results are awaited.

Individual and the horizon in Satyajit Ray's Cinema

Workshops 31-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Fulbright India

Resource Person  Professor Moinak Biswas

Participants          Ms Sourina Bose

Highlight               The webinar focused on Solitude expressed in Ray films.

Interschools Student Conference

Workshops 31-Jul-2020

Venue                   DPS , Howrah ( Zoom Meet)

Organized By        DPS, Howrah

Resource Person  Mr.Palash Chaurvedi

Participants          Saanvi Nagar(XI‑D)

Highlight              TOPIC: It is often said that when you educate a woman you educate an entire generation.     How do you think education affects woman differently and how can they transform the world through education? The contestant drew various insights from other speakers, confidently tackled impromptu questions and learnt how to handle technology in such forums.

ATL Inter School Online Tinkerfest

Activities in LSA 30-Jul-2020

From Date                   27/07/2020 To 30/07/2020

Venue                   Online

Participants           11 Schools – Total 283 Students

Highlight                  Tinkerfest 2020 organized by our school, brought with it learning opportunities accompanied with a hands-on experience of various softwares that enhanced the knowledge of students. The fest commenced with an inauguration ceremony which witnessed enthusiastic participation. This was followed by an address from our Chief Guest Mrs. Mitali Chatterjee, Senior Director STQC Directorate, Dept. of Electronics & Abd.IT, MCIT Govt of India , our director Mrs. Meena Kak followed by our principal, Mrs. Anjali Chopra. The fest consisted of different webinars and competitions like GIMP: The New Age Photo Editor, Blender: Revolutionizing the 3D Design, LDCAD: The Computer Aided Design, Artificial Intelligence, Ethical Hacking, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, IOT: The Future - a debate competition.

Psychomotor abilities and performance in sports

Workshops 30-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Department of Physical Education, Periyar University

Resource Person   Dr. S.T.N. Rajeswaran

Participants           Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty

Highlight               The session discussed the various ways to develop Psychomotor abilities such as hand-eye coordination, balance, and  reaction time. It was interesting and informative.

International Space Settlement Design Competition

Educational Trips 28-Jul-2020

From Date            24/07/2020 To 28/07/2020

Venue                   Virtual through ZOOM

Organized By        National Space Society in colaboration NASA

Participants           Students of Classes  X – XII

Highlight         LSA emerged as the runners up in the International Space Settlement Design competition. It was the first time that the competition was conducted virtually.     

Awareness Workshop on Teacher Competency Matrix & its impact on professional development

Workshops 28-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online Google Meet webinar

Organized By        NABET

Resource Person  Ms Sheela Ragavan

Participants          Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay

Highlight               It was an enlightening workshop which helped to understand the difference between the competence matrix and skill matrix. Also, the impact of the same was explained to carry out need based training for all the teachers of the academy.

Mindfulness

Workshops 28-Jul-2020

Venue                   Webinar

Organized By        CBSE Online Training Session

Resource Person  Ms. V. S. Kalpana

Participants          Ms Asfia Rafique

Highlight              The session was an enriching one explaining the meaning of Mindfulness as being aware of our thoughts, feeling, surrounding and environment. The goal of mindfulness, which is to achieve a state of alert and focused relaxation was also discussed.

Training on Experiential Learning

Workshops 27-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online session on Diksha Portal

Organized By        CBSE

Participants          Ms Khadija Aamir Choonawala, Ms Priya Mozumdar, Ms Subhi Vijay Vargiya, Ms Tikshna Chopra

Highlight               The session focused on the need of experiential learning in the teaching learning process. How to connect the lessons to the  experiences of students and help them acquire the required skills was conveyed through the course material.

Teaching strategies on English (listening)

Workshops 27-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online session

Organized By        CBSE‑COE Bhubaneshwar

Participants         Ms  Sudeshna Chowdhury, Ms. Tikshna Chopra

Highlight             The session focussed on skill development in English, activities that promote listening and the role of a teacher in the  process. Listening was presented not as a language tool but as an important life skill. Different stages of listening were discussed in detail along with the occurrence of barriers. The session ended with a list of activities that improve active listening.

 

Ms. Meena Kak - ED Talk with Mr. Amitabh Mohan

Workshops 27-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Resource Person   Mr Amitabh Mohan

Participants          Ms Meena Kak

Highlight              Ms. Kak discussed about her passion for perfection since childhood. She emphasized that she had decided to take up teaching as her profession since her school days. Whatever she could achieve in her life is because she turned her passion of teaching into her profession. She discussed her professional journey with highs and lows but each incident made her stronger than before. She added that small pleasures of life inspires her such as her school students’ achievements and the feeling that she has not yet achieved enough inspires her further. She further stressed that we must handle children with patience and love and motivate them by praising their small achievements to bring out the best in them. She quoted Mr. Dalai Lama ‘when educating the minds of the youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts’. She sent a strong message to parents asking them not to confine their children in their own learning for they were born in another time. She concluded her talk by stressing on the need to build a conducive environment in schools, full of warmth and appreciation for students.

Lesson Planning for Online classes

Workshops 26-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        IECS

Resource Person  Prof B L Handoo

Participants          Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight               The focus was on equipping teachers to deliver lessons effectively in this current situation and how to introduce instructional sequence in blended lessons.

Mental Health 360: What is your teen thinking? Anxiety and depression in young adults.

Workshops 26-Jul-2020

Venue                   Webinar

Organized By        Caring Minds

Resource Person  Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Suvina Shunglu, Ms. Minu Budhia, Ms. Atrayee Chandra

Participants          All Teachers and parents

Highlight               The session focused on the awareness of depression and anxiety in teens which can be dealt with communication and     support from parents. The panelists discussed the ways to help the teachers identify the red flags. The need to continue with    the thread of communication was stressed upon.  Calling the students individually to make them feel that they are cared for in this challenging time was suggested. The need to help students stay motivated by encouraging them and praising them and also making them aware about the future prospects was recommended.

Teaching Mathematics with Technology

Workshops 25-Jul-2020

Venue                   Virtual Google Meet

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Ms Anuradha Dhandapani

Participants          Mr Subrato Chakraborty

Highlight               Use of Geogebra and different mathematical tools were discussed.

IIHM Italian Bake Workshop

Workshops 25-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online Workshop

Organized By        IIHM

Resource Person   Mr Harsh Neerav

Participants          Ms Anurag Sultania, Ms Ishita Valentina Gomes, Ms Madhu Berry, Ms Priti Kedia, Ms Rama Poddar

Highlight               The workshop was organised by IIHM and conducted by Harsh Neerav. The session was well organised and the making of the dishes was well explained with demonstration of three baked items.

Ensuring children's academic & emotional well‑being in the COVID era

Workshops 25-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Education World & Mindler

Resource Person  Dr. Kannan Gireesh, Mr. K V Arjun Rao, Mr. Roshan Gandhi, Dr Sujata Singhi, Mr. Bhavin Shah & Ms Padmini Sambasivam

Participants          Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight               The focus of the webinar was on the profound impact of the current pandemic that will be felt on the health & economic aspect as well as the emotional well being of children in the years to come. All the panelists shared their good practices with the parents and educators.

Making Portfolio

Workshops 25-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        ISDI Mumbai

Resource Person   Prof. Bulbul Chowdhary, Dean of Admission & Academics

Participants          Mrs. Meena Kak, Mrs. Anjali Chopra, Mrs. Jayati Goswami , Ms Amritah Sen, Mr Manoj Kumar Das, Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms Sumona Dasgupta

Highlight               Prof. Chowdhary took a workshop on how to make portfolios to present in Art and Design Schools.

ICT integration in teaching Mathematics

Workshops 24-Jul-2020

Venue                   Vrtual through Google Meet

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Ms Deepti Sharma

Participants          Mr Subrato Chakrborty

Highlight               Different tools used to learn Mathematics and how to use Geogebra in Mathematics were discussed. The session focused on different sites which can be helpful for teaching Math in the class. Photomath, Microsoft Math, use of Google docs etc was discussed

 

Poetry workshop

Workshops 24-Jul-2020

From Date            30/06/2020 To 24/07/2020

Venue                   Online

Resource Person  Ms Esha Kak

Participants          Students of Class V

Highlight               The workshop introduced the students to the different kinds of poems like haiku, limericks and free verse with ample examples. Various poetic devices like personification, oxymoron, analogy and metaphors were discussed and examples read. On the second day of this interactive and enjoyable session the students learnt about the history and rhyme scheme of  limericks. They were then encouraged to write limericks on their own.

Critical and Creative Thinking

Workshops 24-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE COE

Participants               Ms Anuradha Gupta

Highlight               The session focused on the importance of critical and creative thinking in the teaching learning process. It highlighted the ways in which classroom activities may be designed to enhance critical and creative thinking in students.

Story telling as a Pedagogy

Workshops 24-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE COE Delhi

Resource Person  Mrs. Binu K Raj

Participants          Ms Afshan Nahid

Highlight               Story telling as a pedagogy was discussed well. The importance of story telling and the scientific data given related to the impact of stories on a  learners' mind was astonishing and enlightening too.

Recalibrating the Media Landscape : Challenges & Opportunities

Workshops 23-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        iLEAD

Resource Person  Ms. Subha Das Mollick, Mr Karma Paljor, Ms. Tanushree Hazarika

Participants          Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Sourina Bose

Highlight               This session gave an insight into the changing face of the media under the pandemic. It also stressed upon the need to go digital and the effect of it on the society at large.

Adapting Teaching Methodologies when working with students with intellectual, developmental or physical disabilities

Workshops 22-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Museum of Modern Art

Participants          Ms Anuradha Gupta

Highlight               The session focused on the different needs of students with intellectual, developmental or physical disabilities. It  included real life examples of specific instructions and activities that enhance the learning process of specially abled students and students  with learning challenges.

COE Online Training on Learning styles

Workshops 22-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online – Google Meet

Organized By        CBSE COE Kakinada

Resource Person  Ms.K. Madhuri (Principal  VSCPS Kakinada)

Participants          Ms Sunitha R Dey

Highlight               It was an enlightening session on various online learning styles. It provided valuable inputs on the topic.

Ethics and Integrity

Workshops 22-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Mr Hemant Kumar S Sharma

Participants          Ms Pushpa Dayani

Highlight         My circle of influence, control and concern were well taught

Pre School Teaching by CBSE

Workshops 21-Jul-2020

 Venue                 Online

Organized By        CBSE Teachers Training

Resource Person  Ms. Neera Chopra

Participants          Ms Priya Mozumdar

Highlight               An interesting session where examples were given on how to deal with pre primary children. The workshop was very well conducted. More stress was given on reading than on writing.

Conduct Management in Class ‑ Management of Interpersonal Relationships

Workshops 20-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Ms Priyanka Tripathi, Principal, Krishna Public School, Raipur

Participants          Ms Suranjana Chakrabarti

Highlight              The following were the highlights of the session: Harry Wong's simple 3 step Approach for Teaching Procedures ‑ Explain, Rehearse, Reinforce and The 5 P's of Classroom Rules ‑ Prompt, Prepared, Productive, Patient, Polite

Integration of Arts in Curriculum through Experiential Learning

Workshops 20-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE COE

Resource Person   Ms. Neera Chopra

Participants          Ms Anuradha Gupta, Ms Khadija Aamir Choonawala

Highlight              The session provided examples of art integrated experiential learning activities that might be conducted in the classroom. It  was an interesting and informative session.

Teaching strategies in chemistry

Workshops 20-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        COE Trivandrum

Resource Person   Anila M Jayachandran

Participants          Ms  Indrani Das, Ms Rupa Mazumdar

Highlight               Different methodologies for teaching chemistry were discussed.

Blended Learning

Workshops 19-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        IECS

Resource Person  Dr B. L. Handoo

Participants          Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight              The term blended learning was explained. The impact of blended learning on the teaching learning process was also  discussed. 

Life Skills ‑ Enhancing Life Skills ‑ Critical Thinking

Workshops 19-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online via Google Meet

Organized By        CBSE ‑ COE East Delhi

Resource Person  Ms. Sanchita Verma

Participants          Ms Priti Kedia

Highlight              The session focused on the importance of enhancing life skills and critical thinking in the teaching learning process. The use of technology to develop critical thinking skills was demonstrated well during the session.

Integration of Art in Accountancy

Workshops 18-Jul-2020

Venue                   Google meet

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Coe.Chandigarh‑2

Participants         Ms.  Swati Banerjee

Highlight               Detail discussion on how to integrate Art in Accountancy took place.

Workshop on Self Assessment & PRM

Workshops 18-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online via Microsoft Teams

Organized By        NABET, QCI

Resource Person  Ms. Sheela Ragavan

Participants          Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight              The entire process of self‑assessment and Performance Review Meeting was discussed in details. Relevant examples were given which made the process quite clear to the participants.

Enhancing Life Skills: Effective Communication

Workshops 17-Jul-2020

Venue                   Webinar

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Ms. Indrani Bhattacharya

Participants          Ms. Asfia Rafique

Highlight               The session which was highly informative and engaging focused on how life skills enable an individual to deal effectively  with the demands and challenges of everyday life. It highlighted that effective communication and empathy are two important life skills according to WHO.                

Content Management in class – Time Management

Workshops 17-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Mr. Shyam Narayan Sahu

Participants          Ms. Pushpa Dayani

Highlight               The session was well expressed through multimedia presentation

Integration of Arts in English

Workshops 17-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Ms. Sudha Mahajan

Participants          Ms Saiqua Nahid

Highlight               I loved the way Ms. Mahajan conducted the workshop on Integration of Arts in English. It was interesting and insightful. She explained that various forms of art like music, dance, drama and painting can be incorporated in the subject to make learning more effective.

Life Skills ‑ Weaving Life skills in school curriculum

Workshops 17-Jul-2020

Venue                  Google meet

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Ms Ranjna Jangra

Participants          Ms Moneera Sadique

Highlight               The session focused on the need to incorporate life skills in the school curriculum. It was an interesting session that  described the skills necessary for participation in everyday life.

NSLI‑Y Virtual Seminar

Beyond Boundaries 17-Jul-2020

Venue                   USA Online

Organized By        AFS India

Resource Person  AFS

Participants          Aarav Bharany (X‑B)

Highlight               AFS East region family was the family of Aarav Bharany who hosted Italian student Roberto Andreozzi from Italy. They represented Bengal and talked about the highlights of Kolkata, cuisine, dress, Durga Puja etc. There were 4 more families who also represented their regions, and this was witnessed by 8 USA students as a language activity for NSLI‑Y Summer program ‑ a US Education Department Program

Pedagogy of Scicene

Workshops 17-Jul-2020

Venue                   Diksha

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person    Ms. Nishtha

Participants        Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight               The course gave examples of classroom teaching and application of experiential learning in the teaching learning process. Divergent thinking methods in teaching of science was also discussed in detail.

CBSE Expression Series

External Events 16-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online submission

Organized By        CBSE

Participants          Harshita Saraf(X‑B), Janvi Bajaj(V‑ASTERS), Vidishaa Mundhra(VIII‑A)

Highlight              CBSE organised the first expression series for the session 2020‑21 which provided a platform to students to creatively express their ideas or views on the theme THINKING INNOVATIVELY IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES LIKE COVID‑19. Competition comprised paragraph or painting for classes 3‑5, essay writing or painting or poem writing for classes 6‑12 respectively. Only 1 entry was to be uploaded in each category.

Pedagogy of Mathematics

Workshops 16-Jul-2020

Venue                   Diksha

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Nishtha

Participants          Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight              The course spoke about the importance of Mathematics in our life and the challenges faced by teachers. It demonstrated how to rectify the common errors made by children in class and meaningful activities to engage them in. It also differentiated  learning outcomes from learning objectives and described creative pedagogies and assessments that can be incorporated in the classroom.

Google Code to learn 2020

External Events 15-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online contest

Organized By        Google India

Participants          Students of Class VI

Highlight               Students got the opportunity to use a new level of technology to create a game or story using the tools provided  by Google India. They enjoyed creating projects using software like Scratch, App inventor and Cloud AutoML .50 students   from classes 6‑12 have registered for this contest.

Essentials of a lesson plan in English‑ English XI‑XII

Workshops 15-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE COE Dehradun

Participants           Ms. Anuradha Gupta 

Highlight               The session discussed the various aspects of making a lesson plan in English. Strategies and specific activities that may be  included in the lesson plan to increase student engagement in the classrooms were discussed.

Meditative Movement

Workshops 15-Jul-2020

Organized By       Fulbright India

Participants         Ms.  Anuradha Gupta

Highlight             The session highlighted various asanas that are used in Indian classical dance forms and their benefits both for the body and mind.

Reading as a Classroom Activity

Workshops 14-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE COE Delhi West

Participants            Ms. Anuradha Gupta

Highlight               The session focused on the importance of reading as a classroom activity. Strategies to encourage close reading skills and meaning making process amongst students were dealt with.

Online Awareness on Action Research

Workshops 14-Jul-2020

Venue                   NABET Online

Organized By        Quality council of India

Resource Person  Ms. Sheela Raghavan

Participants          Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight               Workshop was on the challenges faced with respect to action research. The three standards discussed were compliance towards excellence, self introspection and institutionalize system driven processes. Any recurring problem can be      attended through Action Research.

CBSE workshop on Gender Sensitivity and Class Environment

Workshops 13-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Mr P.S. Kalra

Participants         Ms Swati Mukherjee, Ms Santosree Bhattacharya

Highlight               Had an interactive session regarding gender sensitivity and how to maintain it in the class environment and spread the awareness among the students.

Literature in Classroom (English)

Workshops 13-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE COE Chandigarh

Participants           Ms Anuradha Gupta

Highlight               The session stressed on the importance of making classroom lessons on English literature interesting. The understanding of the various aspects of a text like subject, theme, tone, imagery, form and feeling along with the context of the work, the other works produced by the author or poet and the contemporary writers prepares the students to successfully analyse a particular piece of literature.

Pedagogy of Language

Workshops 13-Jul-2020

Venue                   Diksha

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Nishtha

Participants          Ms Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight               It was a detailed course on the various aspects of language teaching in the classroom. Relevant examples were taken up and tests to check progress was discussed.

Quiz for Teachers in observance of Natoinal reading month 2020

Workshops 13-Jul-2020

Venue                   P.N. Panicker Mobile App

Organized By        P.N. Panicker Foundation

Participants          Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight               The quiz the interesting and informative. It was expansive and covered various areas of reading.

Value Education ‑ Integrating Values in the Curriculum

Workshops 13-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online via Google Meet

Organized By        CBSE COE East Delhi

Resource Person  Dr. Savita Arora

Participants         Ms.  Khadija Aamir Choonawala

Highlight              It was an informative and an engaging session. Understanding what values are and their importance in our life today was explained well. Importance of teaching values through our own culture was highlighted.

 

Discussion on reduced CBSE syllabus in Accountancy 2020‑2021

Workshops 12-Jul-2020

Venue                   Webinar

Organized By        Sultan Chand educational publisher

Resource Person  Dr.G S Grewal

Participants         Ms Swati Banerjee

Highlight               Detailed discussion on how to deal with the reduced syllabus took place in the webinar.

The Experiential Learning Model

Workshops 12-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Indira Educational Consultancy Services (IECS)

Resource Person  Dr. B. L. Handoo

Participants          Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight              The need to implement this model was addressed along with the 9 keys to experiential learning in details. The course of progress and skill development that includes acquisition, specialization and integration was explained with relevant examples. How to apply it during online classes was addressed too. It was an enriching experience on the whole.

The Look of the Book by Dr. Pinaki De

Workshops 12-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Hoogly Engineering and Technology College

Participants                Ms Anuradha Gupta

Highlight               The session shed light on the aesthetics of cover design and various aspects of visual anthropology while critically appreciating works of Satyajit Ray, Peter Mendelsund, Jack Maggs and Mallika Favre. The relationship between the art of the cover design of a book and the book's content was discussed in details.

Workshop on Experiential Learning

Workshops 12-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online Meet Session

Organized By        COE Delhi

Resource Person  Prof.Suchitra Syjinth

Participants          Ms Jyoti Gondi, Ms Subhi Vijay Vargiya , Ms Sudeshna Chowdhury, Ms Tikshna Chopra

Highlight               The session was informative. The presenter discussed the meaning of experiential learning and its types. She also            discussed the process of Experiential learning in the human brain. How it can be applied in our class was explained in detail.

Cultural Grip over Virtual trip

Beyond Boundaries 11-Jul-2020

From Date 04/07/2020 To 11/07/2020
Venue Indonesia Online
Organized By AFS
Resource Person AFS Indonesia
Participants Ms Jayati Goswami, Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms Sharmita Bhattacharya, Ms Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight A beautiful journey into Indonesian Islands like Sumatra, Borneo, Sulavesi and Papua. It was an ethnic presentation about cuisine, dances, musical instruments, their textiles of batik, basic culture and etiquettes. They also played the national anthem and taught basic words of their language. An enriching experience !

Open Art Contest

External Events 11-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Participants                  Students of Classes I – X

Highlight             Open Art Contest was organized to celebrate National Reading Day (Panicker Art Contest). More than 100 students       from Pre‑primary level to Secondary participated in this art contest.

IIHM Masterclass on Flavors of Britain

Workshops 11-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        IIHM

Resource Person  Chef Mona Das

Participants          10 Pre primary and Primary teachers

Highlight               The course was on British cuisine three food items were prepared and the session was enjoyed by all.

Integration of ICT in teaching, learning and assessment

Workshops 11-Jul-2020

Venue                   Diksha

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Nishtha

Participants          Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight               The session highlighted the importance of ICT in the 21st century teaching learning process. The participants learnt about an array of tools available as open resource and their application in the classroom.

Enhancing Blended and Online Teaching capability through Hands on Training

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

From Date            08/07/2020 To 10/07/2020

Venue                   Online Google Meet Session

Organized By        National Accreditation Board for Education & Training

Resource Person    Professionals from NABET

Participants          Ms. Manidipa Lahiri, Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Mr. Subrato Chakraborty

Highlight               The session on Learning Management System (MOODLE) based on four quadrant approach was quite insightful.

Competency based education system

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue                   Delhi

Organized By        PN Panicker Foundation

Resource Person  Sri Manoj Ahuja, Chairman

Participants         Ms  Jayati Goswami

Highlight               The stress was on developing reading habits and comprehension skills among students. Focus was on literacy and      numeracy. Reading enhances values, students learn about personalities, inculcate diversity, develop empathy, and are able   respect role models. The NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY has been opened to all.

Competency Building Training on Teaching Strategies /Methodologies in English (Writing)

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Participants          Ms. Anuradha Gupta

Highlight                Strategies to cater to multiple intelligence in which children process, respond to and express their ideas on particular topics in a variety of ways and encourage students to express their thoughts creatively were discussed. Enhancing writing skills while teaching grammatical concepts through parallels from areas of their interest and devising real life tasks makes the classes more engaging for the students.

Crisis Management

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue                   Panchkula Online

Organized By        COE Panchkula

Resource Person  Mrs  Neeru Arora

Participants         Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight               A discussion on Crisis Management and its strategies was held. Types of crisis discussed were internal, external, natural,  situational, adventitious   crisis etc.  The crisis management objectives also discussed were ‑ reducing tension, demonstrate expertise, control accurate information and manage resources.

Guiding Teachers for the New Normal

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online Portal

Organized By        Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences

Resource Person   Dr. Sanjeev Sahni

Participants          Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, All Teachers

Highlight               It was a very informative session for the teachers where Dr. Sahni equipped us for the new normal in the covid    situation. He discussed various pedagogical methods which were backed by valuable statistics from around the world and his own personal experience as a psychologist. Dr. Sahni discussed the 4 main principles that schools should adopt while conducting online classes.

Hindi bhashik kaushal yabam unka shikshan

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online session

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Dr Shiksha Kaushik

Participants          Ms. Radhika Shaw

Highlight               The session was very interactive and knowledgeable. There was a discussion on the reduced and revised syllabus, project works, ASL etc.

Integration of Art in Curriculum through Experiential Learning

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online via Google Meet

Organized By        CBSE COE Delhi East

Resource Person  Dr. Manisha Sharma

Participants          Ms. Kaveri Singh, Ms. Priti Kedia, Ms. Priya Mozumdar

Highlight              In the session emphasis was given on Art Education which allows students to express themselves and think out of the box. It was discussed how children easily retain topics taught through art education.

Joyful Assessment of Mathematics

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue        Online

Organized By    CBSE

Resource Person  Ms Ishita Mukherjee

Participants          Mr Subrato Chakraborty

 Highlight              Joyful assessment of Maths was on how to make Maths more interesting in the classroom teaching. Different strategies like puzzles, games and various tricks of Maths were discussed.

The new revised syllabus, Assessment and Transaction

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Springdales School, Pusa Road

Resource Person  Dr. Joseph Emmanuel, Dr. Ameeta Wattal, Ms. Aditi Mishra

Participants          Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, All Teachers

Highlight               The webinar highlighted the new changes brought in by the CBSE related to the reduced syllabus and the Assessment pattern.

Webinar on Ethics and Integrity

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Mr.Hemant kumar Sharma

Participants          Ms. Swati Mukherjee

Highlight         The session focused on how to build ethics in our mind. Different case studies were solved on how to improve the thought process in terms of ethics and integrity.

Webinar on online education platform

Workshops 10-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        DigitalEd

Resource Person  Mr. Avik Dutta

Participants          Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms Sudakshina Datta, Ms Swati Mukherjee

Highlight               Resource person gave an introduction on online education technologies and demonstrated their platform and tools for  creating and delivering online education content.

Intellectual disabilities‑nature and strategies

Workshops 09-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        COE Patna

Resource Person  Ms. Shika Asthana

Participants         Ms Arwah Hussain Deesawala

Highlight               It was an interesting session.  Learnt about different strategies to handle children in the classroom and the role of the  teacher in inclusive education was explained very well.

Psycho regulatory techniques in sports

Workshops 08-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Department of Physical Education, Kongu Arts and Science College

Resource Person   Dr. S.T.N. Rajeswaran

Participants          Mr. Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty

Highlight              It was a very informative session that gave insight on how to develop our visualization, to find out the distractions and set goals accordingly. The participants also learnt about different ways to overcome all the barriers to learning.

Math in the morning with Miss Suzy

Workshops 08-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Math & Movement

Resource Person   Ms. Suzy Koontz

Participants          Ms. Anuradha Gupta, Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes, Ms. Priti Kedia, Ms. Rekha Dayani

Highlight              Live demonstration of activities made for a very exciting session. The session displayed how physical exercises, cross body movements and interesting props and floor mats may be used to make Maths classes more engaging for students. The participants were instructed to participate in the live demonstration of various cross-body exercises while learning number concepts.

Understanding Classroom Management and its components

Workshops 08-Jul-2020

Venue                   Google Meet, Online Training

Organized By        COE Bhubaneswar‑1, CBSE

esource Person  Ms. Priyanka Tripathi

Participants          Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes, Ms. Runa Ghosh, Ms. Sourina Bose

Highlight               The session discussed ways to devise effective discipline plans for the classroom and to create an effective teaching style to  enhance teaching and learning. It was an interactive session with a lot of sharing and inputs from teachers of various schools  of the eastern region.

Classroom Management ‑ Content Management in Class ‑ Time Management

Workshops 07-Jul-2020

Venue                   Google Meet

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  COE Delhi East

Participants          Mr. Niladri Kumar Motilal

Highlight          Importance of pre‑planning in teaching, giving small breaks in between online classes and discussion-based learning were discussed.

Enhancing Life skills‑critical thinking

Workshops 07-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE‑CoE(East)

Resource Person  Dr. Sridevi Pradeep

Participants          Ms. Sudakshina Datta

Highlight               Various examples were discussed on how to teach any subject applying experiential learning. Different ways to inculcate critical thinking among students were also taken up in this session.

Classroom management‑ time management

Workshops 07-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Kalyani Balakrishna

Participants           Ms  Indrani Das

Highlight              Time management in classroom teaching was discussed.

Innovative Teaching Of Mathematics (Joyful Mathematics)

Workshops 07-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online Google Meet Session

Organized By        COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person  Ms. Kakali Bagchi

Participants          Ms Mitali Mukhopadhyay

Highlight               The workshop emphasized on making Mathematics more child friendly by relating it to the daily lives of the students. Some activities were shared which could be used in the classroom situation.

 

Understanding the issues related to Cyber Ethics

Workshops 07-Jul-2020

Venue                   On line

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Dr. Rajesh Kumar Chandel

Participants          Ms. Manidipa Lahiri

Highlight              Various issues related to cyber ethics were discussed in detail. The participants got a clear idea about different types of  ethics to be followed while working on the NET.

Workshop on dealing with misbehaviour in classroom

Workshops 07-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online through google meet

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Ms. A Lakhsmi Prabha, Principal

Participants          Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza

Highlight               It was an interactive session where the speaker started with case studies which reflected different types of misbehavior amongst students in classrooms. It was discussed that being an introvert is also considered as misbehavior. A guided approach instead of punishment is a better option to eliminate misbehavior. We should keep rewarding in form of social, activity based, tokens, and material based is more effective that punishments.

Training session on Taxonomy of Manual for life skills‑ Enhancing Critical thinking

Workshops 06-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online through Google meet

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Ms. Lakshmibati Das

Participants          Ms Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms Amritah Sen

Highlight               The speaker spoke about the different methods to be adapted to infuse critical thinking amongst the students through            different kinds of audio visual aids. She showed videos from films and asked the participants to analyze them critically. It was a  fruitful and interactive session.

Exploring Happiness

Workshops 06-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE, CEO Chandigarh

Resource Person  Mr. Pankaj M

Participants          Ms Bindiya Kaur Gill

Highlight              An interesting session where the resource person gave examples on how we need to prioritize relationships and physical  facilities. He emphasized that right understanding or thought is a product of value education and skill education.

Learning Outcomes and Pedagogies

Workshops 06-Jul-2020

Venue                   Diksha

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Nishtha

Participants          Ms Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight              The course highlighted the difference between learning objectives and learning outcomes and helped teachers frame  SMART learning outcomes based on Bloom's Taxonomy. It also demonstrated how 21st century competencies can be  incorporated in teaching and learning and the pedagogical approaches required to attain intended learning outcomes. Finally, it showed how to evaluate learning outcomes and involve students in the process of assessment.

Workshop on challenges in online teaching and strategies to overcome them

Workshops 06-Jul-2020

Venue                   Zoom

Organized By        JK University

Resource Person  Prof. Vijaya Sunder M, ISB Hyderabad

Participants         Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra and All Teachers of LSA

Highlight             The following were discussed in the session.

  • Teachers should try to make the online sessions interesting and engaging for the students. 
  • Teachers need to explore new challenges and avenues in online teaching and devise strategies to overcome these challenges.
  • Teachers must plan the size and content of online classes.
  • Teachers must allow students to raise hands virtually and clarify their doubts.
  • Concepts taken up by teachers in the online classes need to be simple.
  • It is essential to give breaks to the students during online classes.

Results of Essay Writing Competition

External Events 06-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online submission

Organized By        P.N. Panicker Foundation

Resource Person  P.N. Panicker Memorial Reading Day, Week, Month celebration

Participants          Students of Classes VI – X

Highlight              Suhani Goyal of VI D secured the third position in the middle school category and Ananya Surana and Diya Toshniwal of IX A secured the third position from the secondary section.

Let's Be Ready

Workshops 05-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        IECS

Resource Person  Dr. B. L. Handoo

Participants          Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight              It focused on strategies to be employed to make online classes more effective and introduced the concept of hybrid    teaching. Sir also gave effective teaching tips that will help in improving the teaching ‑ learning process. There were around 400 participants during this one and half hour session.

Stress Management – Myths about Stress

Workshops 05-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online Workshop

Organized By        CBSE Shiksha

Resource Person  Mr. Parveen Kumar Papatia

Participants          Ms. Anindita Pal

Highlight               The session had a discussion regarding stress, how it occurs, its symptoms and various myths about stress. It was an interactive and interesting session.

Online training of trainees

Workshops 05-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Khelo India physical fitness for school going children.

Participants           Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty

Highlight               An Online evaluation was conducted on 5th July 2020, following the zoom Webinar attended on 24th and 25th June, 2020.

Developing Social-Personal Qualities and Creating Safe and Healthy School Environment

Workshops 04-Jul-2020

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Diksha Portal
Participants Priti Kedia
Highlight The session discussed how social – personal qualities are necessary to provide a healthy environment in school and in the classroom. The effect of a positive social – personal on the mental health and well being of young students was highlighted.

Enhancing Life Skills – Effective Communication

Workshops 04-Jul-2020

Venue Webinar
Organized By CoE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person - Ms Indrani Bhattacharya
Participants Ms Manmeet Kaur, Ms Sohini Mitra Jain
Highlight The session highlighted the process of effective communication beginning from encoding of message, to transmitting the message and decoding it and giving a feedback to the sender. Ways to overcome barriers in virtual communication were also highlighted.

Happy Classrooms - Happy Teachers creating Happy Spaces

Workshops 04-Jul-2020

Venue Online
Organized By Centre of Excellence - Delhi (East)
Resource Person Ms. Anupama Sharma
Participants - Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Monidipa Lahiri, Ms Priti Kedia
Highlight It gave a deep insight into reasons for misbehavior, understanding why children act the way they do and empowered teachers to manage their students better. The workshop addressed the domains of Emotional Intelligence and functional behavior analysis in depth.

IIHM Special Masterclass for Teachers – Wraps and Rolls

Workshops 04-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        IIHM

Resource Person  Chef Clement D’Cruz

Participants          16 teachers of LSA from Primary and Middle school

Highlight               The various fillings made for the wraps and rolls were easy and innovative. They were also healthy. It was a good     experience and the same fillings could also be made at home for children with normal daily chapattis. The presentation was appealing to the eyes.

Online training session on enhancing Life skills ‑ Empathy

Workshops 04-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person  Ms. Kalpana Singh Principal, DPS, Chattisgarh

Participants          Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza

Highlight               It was an interactive and an engaging session where the speaker spoke about the importance of developing various life skills in the covid times where we are trying to adapt ourselves in this virtual lifeless world. With effective communication, empathy must be incorporated to understand the young minds and to help them to get adapted to the ‘new normal’. The speaker also emphasized how to develop critical thinking, improve interpersonal relations and to understand  the feelings of others.

Redefining CS Education ‑ The Computational Thinking Angle

Workshops 04-Jul-2020

Venue                   online

Organized By        IIT Madras

Resource Person  Ashwini Sharma (Google), Kevin Wang (Microsoft), Madhavan Mukund (Dean of studies from Chennai Mathematical                          Institutes)

Participants          Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Sudakshina Datta, Swati Mukherjee

Highlight               The esteemed panel threw light upon issues like how CS can be introduced in all sections starting from the very beginning and how it should be improved to lay a better foundation for future technocrats.

Webinar on Experiential Learning

Workshops 04-Jul-2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE‑Diksha

Resource Person  Dr. Anupam Jagga

Participants          Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sudakshina Datta

Highlight              The session explained Kolb's model of experiential learning. How we can implement it in our regular classroom teaching was also explained with ample  examples.

Introduction to Sustainable Development in Business

Workshops 03-Jul-2020

From Date             05/06/2020  To 03/07/2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Open University of Mauritius and Commonwealth of Learning

Participants           Ms. Anuradha Gupta

Highlight               Specific steps towards embracing and achieving the sustainable development goals were discussed through the course material. The relationship between the Gross Domestic Product and social progress, the Social Progress Index, plan of action and specific steps for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs and the interrelationships between the SDGs were discussed in details.

CBSE workshop on Multiple Intelligence

Workshops 02-Jul-2020

Venue - Webinar
Organized By - COE Bhubaneshwar
Resource Person - Dr. Sankar Prasad Dutta
Participants - Ms. Tikshna Chopra, Ms. Priti Kedia
Highlight An interesting session where various kinds of intelligences and their characteristic features were discussed. She highlighted that education that treats everybody in the same way, is the most unfair. She stressed on the need to move away from traditional methods of teaching and focus on child- centric learning, where children learn according to their abilities. Examples were given on how intelligence affects the learning process - like how children who are creative draw inspiration from hands on activities. The resource person discussed multiple Intelligences suggested by Howard Gardener in detail.

Pedagogy of Environmental Studies

Workshops 02-Jul-2020

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Diksha Portal
Participants Ms Priti Kedia
Highlight The course highlighted the integration of the curriculum for a seamless learning experience for students. It emphasized on the need to develop a sense of responsibility and sensitivity towards various environmental concerns students.

Kinesthetic Strategies to Improve Math Outcomes for the Classroom, Online and Home Instruction

Workshops 01-Jul-2020

From Date 01/07/2020, 02/07/2020 and 07/07/2020
Venue Online via Zoom
Organized By Math and Movement
Resource Person Ms. Suzy Koontzsubr
Participants Teachers of pre primary department
Highlight It was an interesting and engaging session where the participants were shown real life videos of students who faced difficulties in picking up mathematical concepts. Kinesthetic strategies to help students improve were discussed.

Experiential Learning Course

Workshops 29-Jun-2020

Venue : DIKSHA Custodian Org
Organized By : CBSE
Participants : Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight : Well developed course structure with examples from classroom activity.

ChinaX Book Club

Workshops 29-Jun-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By :  Harvard University
Participants :  Ms. Anuradha Gupta
Highlight :  The interactive sessions with the legendary authors like Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, Ha Jin and Wang Anyi.

International Certified Career Coach Program Foundation Level 1

Workshops 28-Jun-2020

From Date        :     27/06/2020  To    28/06/2020     
Venue :    Online
Organized By : Mindler
Participants : Ms. Anuradha Gupta
Highlight : The multitude of academic and professional career opportunities and institutions both within the country and abroad were laid out.

Preparing Schools for Pandemic

Workshops 28-Jun-2020

Venue : Online through Microsoft Teams
Organized By : NABET , QCI
Resource Person: Ms. Sheela Ragavan
Participants : Ms. Jayati Goswami , Ms. Jaya Misra            
Highlight : This was an awareness workshop to equip the educators with various strategies and guidelines to be prepared, as they initiate re opening plans for schools. The workshop focused on three aspects   planning after assessing the current scenario, implementation of the plan and surveillance at different levels.

Cinema in Classroom

Workshops 27-Jun-2020

Venue  : Online
Organized By :  Bichitra Pathshala
Resource Person:  Ms Subha Das Mallik
Participants  :  Ms. Aloka Sen Sharma
Highlight  : A training course of a unique and very effective pedagogy on cinema in classroom.

Opening Schools after Lockdown, Facing the Challenge

Workshops 27-Jun-2020

Venue : Online via Zoom
Organized By : Indra Educational Consultancy Services
Resource Person: Prof. (Dr.) B.L.Handoo & Dr. Subhash Arora
Participants : Ms. Jaya Misra                
Highlight : A very enriching workshop where the features of the new normal and the new possible normals were discussed in depth. The primary focus being infrastructure, health & hygiene, teaching learning process and surveillance once we reopen schools. Certain tips on how to create engaging lessons for students were also discussed.

Course on Health and Well Being in Schools

Workshops 27-Jun-2020

Venue :    Diksha Portal
Organized By :    CBSE
Participants :    15 teachers of LSA
Highlight : The workshop focused on physical, mental and social health of today's generation. The course was a self paced course. Short, crisp and very informative.

Online training on creating explanation content on Mathematics

Workshops 27-Jun-2020

Venue : Online training in Diksha
Organized By : Diksha
Participants : Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Ms. Priya Mozumdar, Ms. Tikshna Chopra                
Highlight : How to develop an effective explanation content using animation, images, audio, text etc. using various softwares was shown.

International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Traffic

Activities in LSA 26-Jun-2020

Venue : Webinar Microsoft Team Link
Resource Person : Mr. Bobby Chakraborty
Participants : Students of classes IX to XII
Highlight : It was an interactive session throughout. It covered drug and other substance abuse among school children. Total 367 students and teachers participated in this webinar.

Consultant Training

Workshops 26-Jun-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By : Math & Movement
Participants : Ms. Anuradha Gupta
Highlight : Very informative session in which the roles of educators in enhancing the facilities in the organisation were touched upon.

Training on Pedagogy of Environmental Studies

Workshops 26-Jun-2020

From Date : 03/06/2020 To     26/06/2020
Venue :  Online Training on Diksha Platform
Organized By : CBSE
Participants : Ms. Ajanta Shaoo, Ms. Manidipa Lahiri, Ms. Nandini Chanda, Ms. Poulomi Saha, Ms. Pushpa Dayani, Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya, Ms. Sheuli Sen, Mr. Soumitra Maji
Highlight  : The training was based on the ways to make students curious about the Social and cultural phenomenon, To teach students based on cognitive and affective activities. To increase the cognitive capacity of the students and make them more resourceful. To train students to comprehend relationship between Natural, Social and Cultural Environment.

Movement and Literacy : Kinesthetic Strategies for ELA

Workshops 25-Jun-2020

Venue:  Online
Organized By: Math & Movement
Participants : Ms. Anuradha Gupta
Highlight : The training practically demonstrated how movement and activities can be helpful in English Language Acquisition in the classroom along with real life examples of improvement in student performances.

Training on Pedagogy of Environmental Studies

Workshops 25-Jun-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By : DIKSHA PORTAL
Participants : 12 teachers of Pre primary section
Highlight : Environmental education has been a core curricular area at the primary level. The teacher plays the role of a facilitator to make the learning interactive and fun filled and creates opportunities for experiential, creative and critical thinking along with collaborative learning. A well developed course content with examples and additional resources was discussed.

NICT Pedagogy integration in teaching learning

Workshops 25-Jun-2020

Venue : DIKSHA Custodian org
Organized By : NCERT
Participants : Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight : Informative and practical course on the planning and use of ICT in the classroom.

Kinesthetic Strategies to Improve Math Outcome

Workshops 25-Jun-2020

Venue : Online on Zoom.
Organized By : Ms. Suzy Koontz
Participants : Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes, Ms. Priya Mozumdar, Ms. Rekha Dayani, Ms. Priti Kedia
Highlight : The concept of kinesthetic strategies to improve math outcome was very well explained. Lessons in addition and skip counting were shown through videos.

Fit India Workshop

Workshops 24-Jun-2020

Venue :  Zoom Webinar
Organized By    :  SAI and  CBSE
Resource Person:   Mr. Sujit Panigrahi (Co–founder & CEO Sequoia Fitness and Sport technology Pvt. Limited, Ms Ritu Singh  (General Manager, Khelo India Fitness Program), Mr P. R. Rathis, Mr S Surya Prakash
Participants :  All PE teachers of LSA
Highlight  : Use of Fit India app and assessment was elaborately discussed.

Learning Outcomes and Pedagogy of languages

Workshops 24-Jun-2020

Venue : Diksha Portal
Organized By: CBSE
Participants : Ms. Ruchira Bhar Das
Highlight : Better views on learning outcomes were projected. Language curriculum was also explained.

World Music Day

Activities in LSA 21-Jun-2020

Venue  : Online
Participants :  Students of class X-XII
Highlight : Students sang the famous song Bela Ciao, both Italian Version and its English version very nicely. The video of the song was edited by our students only.

International Yoga Day

Activities in LSA 21-Jun-2020

Venue    : Own Residence
Participants : Students of Classes PSI to XII
Highlight : It was practised at home by everyone. Prime Minister's speech on International Yoga Day was shown in the assembly the following day.

Workshop on 'Do goldfish really have a longer attention span than students of today?

Workshops 19-Jun-2020

Venue : Online Zoom Webinar
Organized By : CBSE
Resource Person: Dr Gurion Ang
Participants : Ms. Sohini Mitra Jain
Highlight : The workshop dealt with the ways to make teaching more engaging by incorporating activity based learning.

Weave A Verse Poetry Slam Poetry

External Events 19-Jun-2020

Venue        :     Microsoft Teams
Organized By    :      Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity University, Noida
Resource Person:      Ms. Devika  Anand;  Ms. Aakriti  Agarwal
Participants    :     Anshika Doogar(XI D), Dimitri Majumder(XI D), Harsh Ghoshal(XI D), Prishaa Sinha(XI D), Shreeya Kajaria(XII B)     Highlight    :      The weave a verse poetry competition commenced with the inaugural function. Ms Smriti Irani, honourable union minister was the chief guest and Mr. Dushyant Chautala, honourable chief minister of Haryana, was the guest of honour. They spoke about the importance of education and governmental policies pertaining to education. The competition commenced with the participants enthusiastic delivery. Almost 94 participants from 35 schools took part in the slam poetry competition. this self-composed English slam poetry competition has been instrumental in providing a concrete platform for the students to bring forth and showcase their talent in the field of poetry. This not only helped them gain confidence but also proved to be a constructive articulation of powerful emotions and thoughts.

Book Redefinition Poster Making Competition

External Events 19-Jun-2020

Venue        :       Microsoft Teams
Organized By    :     Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity University, Noida
Resource Person:       postermakers5@gmail.com
Participants    :      Aira Dutta(XI D), Chaitanya Gupta(IX C), Ishika Somani(XI D), Saachi Goyal(XI D), Sakshi Madhogaria(XI D)
Highlight    :       Slideshow of the illustration of several book covers was displayed followed by presentations of the posters by the participants with a brief introduction. Approximately 94 students from around India participated in the competition.





Workshop Project Based Learning

Workshops 17-Jun-2020

From Date :  15/06/2020 To 17/06/2020
Venue : Online Zoom Webinar
Organized By: Mind Mingle
Resource Person: Mr Swaminathan Gopalan
Participants : Ms. Sohini Mitra Jain, Ms. Manidipa Lahiri                            
Highlight : The workshop focused on integration of projects into the teaching methodology. This method of teaching inculcates creativity in the learner and allows them to experience, perceive and express themselves. An effective project must be appealing to the students; it should cover the subject content as well as provide ample scope for investigation and analysis. Got an idea how to frame integrated simple research based projects. Students needs to be involved in research work to draw their attention.

The New Normal online classes

Workshops 17-Jun-2020

Venue : Mumbai online
Organized By :  US Consulate General Mumbai
Resource Person: Ms. Charu Mathur
Participants : Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami                    
Highlight : Discussion on the Paradigm shift towards Virtual learning, augmented reality, seamless learning online and offline, synchronous and asynchronous learning. There should be a closed loop instructional system where students know about the learning outcomes. Focus must also be on Social and Emotional curriculum.

Ancient Masterpieces of World Literature

Workshops 17-Jun-2020

From Date :  02/06/2020 To 17/06/2020 
Venue :  Online
Organized By :  Harvard University
Participants :  Ms. Anuradha Gupta
Highlight : The close reading section and interactive sessions.

To Flip or Not to Flip Classrooms in Digital Learning

Workshops 15-Jun-2020

Venue    : Online
Organized By :     Educational Initiatives
Resource Person: Asset Team
Participants :    Ms. Jaya Misra                    
Highlight : The differences between a flipped classroom and a traditional classroom were shared, along with how to select topics for flipped classrooms was explained.

AFS Volunteer Meet

Workshops 14-Jun-2020

Venue        :      Kolkata Online
Organized By    :      AFS India
Resource Person:      Kolkata and Rajkot Chapters
Participants    :     Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami, Ms.Sharmita Bhatacharya, Mr. Kanak S Mukherjee
Highlight    :       East Meets West was exactly that happened through AFS volunteers. Wonderful dances, beautiful songs, sumptuous cuisine, Exchange of ideas, Learning about Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore and a great mix of emotions and thoughts.

Modern Masterpieces of World Literature

Workshops 11-Jun-2020

From Date  :  01/05/2020 To 11/06/2020
Venue  : Online
Organized By : Harvard University
Participants :  Ms.  Anuradha Gupta
Highlight : Interviews with stalwarts and noted commentators of comparative literature and world literature.

Empowering Online Safety

Workshops 09-Jun-2020

Venue    :  Webinar
Organized By:    National ICT Webinar
Resource Person: Ms. Chandni Agarwal
Participants : Mr. Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms. Sudakshina Datta, Ms. Swati Mukherjee
Highlight : Various tips on cyber hygiene were discussed which can be followed during this lock down period. Certain tools and methods were demonstrated to increase the safety while working online.


Webinar on Transition to online learning

Workshops 08-Jun-2020

 Venue  :  Online
Organized By :  Educational Initiatives
Resource Person:  Lizarani Das
Participants    : Ms. Jaya Misra, Mr. Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms. Sudakshina Datta, Ms. Swati Mukherjee
Highlight    :  The five levels of technology integration matrix were explained with suitable examples.

Workshop on goodbye to traditional classroom

Workshops 06-Jun-2020

Venue : Online through webinar
Organized By : Educational Initiatives
Participants : 4 IT teachers
Highlight : The workshop highlighted how the education in slate changed through ages into tablets, from pencil to stylus. Every equipment had its own benefits and disadvantages. But with the change in scenario we as teacher as parent have to change our thought process and accept the change with positivity. Then only there will be actual learning.

Celebrating Bio-Diversity

External Events 05-Jun-2020

Venue :    Online
Organized By : Zoological Survey of India
Participants : Students of Classes V to VIII        
Highlight: The age group was 9 to 12 years so students from class 5 to 8 participated online. 8 students from class 5, 4 students from class 6, 9 students from class 7 and 5 students from class 8 participated and made paintings on the topic.

Essay writing Topic: Celebrating Biodiversity

External Events 05-Jun-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By : Training and Extension Division , ZSI, Kolkata
Resource Person : Dr. Shelly Acharya
Participants : Students of Class VIII
Highlight : The students did an extensive research on the need for biodiversity and its role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem.

ATL Gaming solution

External Events 05-Jun-2020

Venue        :      Webinar
Organized By    :      AIM, NITI Aayog, Dell
Resource Person:     Learning Links Foundation
Participants    :    Jagrat Jain (XI C)                
Highlight    :     The webinar was very interesting where students were introduced to an interactive and immersive platform for game development. It was aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals. 98 students from all over India participated in this webinar.


Time for NATURE

Workshops 05-Jun-2020

Venue  : Delhi Online
Organized By : AFS India
Resource Person:  AFS Chapters
Participants : Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight : This conference was held to celebrate World Environment Day 2020. Col Anurag Shukla showed how to preserve sanctuaries and the world around us. Dr. Diwekar showed everyone how he has created a small forest in a nearby ground. How to create and take care of a terrace garden was also talked about. Very informative seminar.

Kinesthetic strategies to master multiplication for classroom, online and at home instruction

Workshops 05-Jun-2020

 Venue  : Web session
Organized By : Mathandmovement.com
Resource Person:  Ms.  Suzy Koontz
Participants : Ms. S. Anandhi
Highlight : Practical demonstration of physical activities related to multiplication to enhance the learning ability of the students was conducted

Kinesthetic strategies to improve Math outcomes for the Classroom and Online

Workshops 04-Jun-2020

From Date :  02/06/2020 To 04/06/2020
Venue  : Webinar
Organized By : Mathandmovement.com
Resource Person :  Ms. Soozy Koontz
Participants : Ms. S. Anandhi, Ms. Tikshna Chopra, Ms. Sharmila Bera
Highlight :  To encourage children to learn the basic concept of maths through physical activity, play way method. Involvement of parents along with teachers is equally important to develop mathematical concepts was highlighted in the workshop.

Chai and Why? - Just a glass of Water

Workshops 31-May-2020

Venue                          :   Online

Organized By             :  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

Participants                :  Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay

Highlight                     :  Some interesting experiments were conducted by the resource person to explain simple concepts like refraction, surface tension of water, solutions etc which can be conducted by our students in class as well as at home. He also used the Tea Leaf Paradox to explain the concept of meandering rivers.

MASK-A-THON

External Events 31-May-2020

Venue    :   ONLINE

Organized By   :  KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART

Participants     :  Selected students of Classes IV to XII

Highlight       :  Students of all levels participated in this competition with enthusiasm. 5 students from Primary, 13 from Middle School,11 from Senior and 2 from Senior Secondary participated,

AFS Lets Meet

Beyond Boundaries 31-May-2020

Venue                          :  Kolkata Online

Organized By             :   Ms. Jayati Goswami

Resource Person         :  AFS Kolkata

Participants                :  Mr. Kanak S. Mukherji, Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight                     : As an AFS volunteer activity, we at Kolkata chapter arranged for a virtual call with our last year’s host families and host students, Anna Keyzer, Dontae Ryan II , and Roberto Andreozzi.

AFS Volunteer Development Workshop

Workshops 30-May-2020

Venue                          :  Delhi Online

Organized By             :   AFS INDIA

Resource Person         :   AFS INDIA

Participants                :   MS. JAYATI GOSWAMI

Highlight                     :  The workshop dealt with ways to recruit new volunteers to the chapter, and how to engage Prospective Volunteers.

 

 

Cyber Space: Navigating Opportunities Taming Threat

Workshops 30-May-2020

Venue     :  Webinar

Organized By  :  Admitkard

Resource Person  : Mr. Rajshekhar Pullabhatla

Participants   :   4 IT teachers

Highlight  :  An eye opener for all the teachers and parents about the warning sign that indicate whether the child is showing any negative comments that can be taken.( not clear)

Decoding MCQ's in schools

Workshops 29-May-2020

From Date    : 26/05/2020     To   29/05/2020

Venue   : Online Workshop Session

Organized By  : TLC- The Learner's Confluence

Resource Person  : Mr. Senthil Kumaran

Participants  : 10 teachers

Highlight  : It was a 4 day workshop held from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm daily. The resource person and his team gave a detailed analysis on Formative Assessments and MCQ, framework development and effective implementation of MCQ, Performance Analysis- review and improvement for student and teacher and Action plan for Implementation.

 

Essay Competition : The First Science Museum of Our Country

External Events 29-May-2020

Venue                          :  Online Interactive Event

Organized By             :  BITM

Resource Person         :   BITM

Participants                :  16 students from Classes VI - VIII          

Highlight                     :  The students who participated in this competition wrote an essay on the topic ‘BITM - The First Science Museum of Our Country’ within 300 words and sent their entries online.

Workshop on Leadership Skills

Workshops 29-May-2020

Venue                          :  Online workshop session

Organized By             :  CBSE

Resource Person         :  Ms.Lizarani Das

Participants                :   Ms. Radhika Shaw

Highlight                     :  The session was very motivating and interesting. The participants got to learn many new things. It also helped in developing one's personality and gave a thrust to the hidden leadership qualities present in a person. 

Handling Adolescents as a Special Age Group

Workshops 28-May-2020

Venue    : Webinar-Online

Organized By    : CBSE, Bhuwaneswar

Resource Person  :  Dr S S Agarwal

Participants   :  Ms. Sudakshina Datta, Ms. Sunitha R. Dey                                                           

Highlight   :   The characteristics of an adolescent were discussed. The role of parents and teachers was also explained. Certain biological changes and diseases of this age group were pointed out.

Inspire and Lead during COVID - 19

Workshops 27-May-2020

Venue                          :   Webinar

Organized By             :   ASSET Digital Learning Programme Team

Resource Person         :  Mr. Shekhar Hardikar

Participants                :  20  teachers

Highlight                     :   The informative session had a discussion on how to lead a more balanced and productive life through resilience and positive thoughts.

 

Thriving Cohort (DO YOUR BIT)

Workshops 27-May-2020

Venue                          :   Delhi online

Organized By             :  AFS India

Resource Person         :   AFS alumni

Participants                :   Jash Shah XII-C

Highlight                     :  Jash Shah, Class XII (2018-19 BATCH) was selected to be a part of the Thriving 2020 Cohort. The project undertaken will provide participants with practical and theoretical knowledge to raise awareness on climate change and equip them to carry out integrated initiatives to collaborate in addressing the issue.

Making Connections: Joyful Experiential Learning as the Way Forward

Workshops 27-May-2020

Venue  :   Online

Organized By   :   Mahatma Gandhi International School, Ahmedabad

Resource Person    :   Ms. Anju Musafir Chazot

Participants   :  15 teachers

Highlight  : 127 participants participated from all over India. The workshop focused on the following: a) Purpose/Aim of Experiential Learning is to make a real difference in the world regardingthe various problems that we are facing in our day to day lives. b) To discover ourselves, identifying real life issues and problems and working with real people. c) To engage in real projects which will develop compassion and empathy in learners. d) Emotional and spiritual well being of the learners to be taken care of.

Introduction to AI

Workshops 26-May-2020

Venue                          : Webinar

Organized By             : Goyal Brothers Prakashan

Resource Person         : Dr. Niti Dwivedi

Participants                : 4 IT teachers

Highlight                     : The session provided a better understanding of Artificial Intelligence and the challenges and benefits of implementing AI in school. Future prospects of AI globally and its scope for the new generations were discussed.

Physics Around You

Workshops 26-May-2020

Venue                          : Online

Organized By             : United States India Education Foundation

Resource Person         : Mr. Rahul Chatterjee

Participants                : 4 teachers

Highlight                     : The resource person showed various experiments on how surface tension acts. It was very interesting as these experiments can be performed by the  students with materials that are easily available at home, like liquid soap, 3D shapes made of wire and a straw.

Emotional Well Being and Stress Management during Covid Times

Workshops 25-May-2020

From Date                  : 25/04/2020  To Date           25/05/2020

Venue                          : Haryana

Organized By             : OP Jindal Global University

Resource Person         : Dr. Sanjeev Sahni

Participants                : Ms. Meena Kak , Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight                     : The workshop dealt with the importance of redesigning learning goals during Covid times. Stress was laid on the need to take care of the attention span of students and to empathize with them, Introduction of  technological infrastructure protocols, and societal entrust education was also discussed.

 

Online Training Session On Emotional Intelligence

Workshops 23-May-2020

Venue                          : Online Through Google Meet

Organized By               : CBSE

Resource Person         : Ms.Ipshita Satpathy

Participants                : Ms. Bindiya Kaur Gill                              

Highlight                     : The session was on teaching and learning methods, emotional intelligence and subject expertise which make a perfect teacher. The qualities of an emotionally intelligent teacher and her impact on classroom teaching as well as on her colleagues was discussed.

 

MENTOR MENTEE PROGRAM

External Events 22-May-2020

From Date                  :   06/05/2020                          To  Date           22/05/2020

Venue                          :   Delhi Online

Organized By             :   AFS

Resource Person         :   AFS India

Participants                :    ASHLESHA BHAGAT (XI-A), KRISHANG GUPTA(XI-A)

Highlight                     :   This is an online programme of AFS which connects the new participants of YES ABROAD and Kakehashi with their respective Alumni, so that they can be guided through the process of orientation and acceptance of the new countries.

SATYAJIT RAY CENTENARY CELEBRATION

External Events 20-May-2020

From Date                  :   13/05/2020                          To  Date           20/05/2020

Venue                          :   ONLINE

Organized By             :   BICHITRA PATHSHALA

Resource Person         :   Ms. Aloka Sensharma

Participants                :  IV – X

Highlight                     :   Students participated in this online centenary celebration of Satyajit Ray. The students prepared props and dressed themselves as the King of the Ghost from the movie Gupi Gayen Bagha Bayen and Borfi, the magician, from the movie Hirak Rajar Deshe respectively. They answered the questions after watching the movies. The senior students prepared and mailed emojis describing the stories written and movies made by Satyajit Ray.

'Happy Teachers creating Happy Spaces'

Workshops 20-May-2020

Venue                          : Webinar

Organized By             : CBSE, CoE Bhuvaneshwar

Resource Person -      : Ma'am Archana

Participants                : Ms. S. ANANDHI                                               

Highlight                     : The webinar was basically on self awareness, self regulation and the different pathways to happiness.

 

Innovation Enabled by Microsoft Teams and Technologies

Workshops 19-May-2020

Venue                          :   Webinar

Organized By             :   ASN Sr Secondary School and Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd

Resource Person         :   Dr Vinnie Jauhari

Participants                :   4 IT teachers

Highlight                     : Hands-on demonstration on Application of Microsoft Teams Application like Forms One note etc. which could be effectively used in teaching learning session

Introspecting Schools Post Covid

Workshops 19-May-2020

Venue    :   Online via zoom

Organized By  :   Spring Dales School

Resource Person  :   Dr. Ameeta Mulla Wattl

Participants  :   Ms. Meena Kak , Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight   :   The session dealt with the three levels on which the school will change post covid – finances would be affected, technology and training must be enhanced and communication with parents is a must. The other changes discussed were - CBSE is planning for 30% syllabus reduction, practical classes to be kept away, different ways of online assessments to be checked and building trust with parents should be done through workshop activities and webinars. Student’s well being also to be kept in mind.

Mind Magic

Workshops 18-May-2020

Venue                          :   Online

Organized By              :   Dr. Sangeet Sharma

Participants                 :  Ms. Rekha Dayani         

Highlight                       :  Well conducted workshop where the importance of making learning easy and fun with kids was discussed and demonstrated through some exercises.

Preparing School for Accreditation

Workshops 16-May-2020

From Date    :  15/05/2020    To  16/05/2020

Venue :   Online

Organized By  :  NABET, QCI

Resource Person  :   Ms. Sheela Ragavan

Participants  :   Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight :   This was an online platform to clear doubts regarding the accreditation process. The sessions on both days were very helpful.

Workshop on Classroom Management and Content Management

Workshops 16-May-2020

Venue                          :   Online training session from home through Google meet.

Organized By             :   COE Bhubeneshwar

Resource Person         :   Mr. Niakantha Panigrahi

Participants                :   Poulomi Saha, Sneha Singh

Highlight                     :   The workshop dealt with the various ways of classroom management in different situations. It was very informative and innovative. The session will be useful to deal with content    management in classroom situations.

Strategic Planning Management

Workshops 16-May-2020

Venue                          :   Online via Zoom

Organized By              :   AKS (Alert Knowledge Services)

Resource Person         :   Dr. Dinesh Kamra

Participants                :   Ms. Meena Kak , Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight                     :  Standard operating procedure, all priorities for stakeholders, strategic decisions and process of

formulation and implementation were discussed. It was told that online processes should be dynamic and resource persons should be like catalytic agents. Emotional needs (of students?) to be taken care of. Plans for school opening like sanitization, cleaning and checking temperature were also discussed. It was highlighted that school community partnership needs to be enhanced.

Career Guidance & Schools

Workshops 16-May-2020

Venue                          :   Online via Google Meet

Organized By              :   COE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person         :   DAV Model School, Durgapur

Participants                :   Ms. Kaveri Singh

Highlight                     :  The main focus of the workshop was how to guide a student of secondary or senior secondary to choose the right career. The components, strategies and resources for imparting career information were discussed in detail.

 

Cultural Diversity of India

External Events 15-May-2020

 Venue  :   Online

Organized By  :   AFS INDIA

Resource Person  :   AFS

Participants  :   Students of class VIII

Highlight : The programme was an amalgamation of 3 regions of India – North, East and South. Patiala School displayed the strength of Punjab, Madurai School displayed their multi-talented dances and our students represented Bengal and paid their tribute to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. They  sang Rabindra Sangeet, recited poems from Gitanjali and danced to the tune of Rabindra Sangeet. This programme produced a beautiful mix of cultural diversity of India. It was mentored by Kanak Shankar Mukherjee, Sharmita Bhattacharya and JayatiGoswami.

Sustainability in the New Normal

Workshops 15-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Webinar

Organized By             :   KREA UNIVERSITY

Resource Person         :   Prof. Bharat Sundaram

Participants                :  9 teachers

Highlight                     :  The workshop focused on the short and long term effects of Covid 19 on the environment and the economy. There were 136 attendees from all over India.

Session on Stress Management

Workshops 15-May-2020

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Venue                          :   Online

Organized By              :   COE BHUBANESHWAR

Resource Person         :   Mr. Lokanath Pradhan

Participants                :  Ms Moneera Sadique, Ms Arwah Hussain Deesawala

Highlight                     :   In this informative session, ways on how to manage stress was discussed in detail by Mr. Lokanath Pradhan.

Emotional Stress

Workshops 14-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Online

Organized By             :   COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         :   Mr. Ramesh Agarwal

Participants                :   Ms. Sharmila Bera

Highlight                     :  The workshop dealt with emotional skills required to keep one mentally stable in this pandemic situation. The suggestions provided were useful.

Enhancing Life Skills: Emotional Skills

Workshops 14-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Online via Google Meet

Organized By             :   COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         :   Mr. Ramesh Agarwal

Participants                :  Ms. Khadija Aamir Choonawala

Highlight                     :   The session was highly informative and interactive. It dealt with the different types of life skills needed for productive teaching learning process, in detail.

 

HANDLING ADOLESCENCE

Workshops 14-May-2020

 

Venue                          :  ONLINE

Organized By             :   DR. S.S. AGARWAL

Participants                :   Ms. Anuradha Gupta

Highlight                     :  The session clearly delineated the teacher's role in delivering proper guidance to students going through adolescence with empathy and the need to help in this transition period.

Webinar on Experiential Learning

Workshops 14-May-2020

Venue                          :   Web

Organized By             :   Alert Knowledge Service

Resource Person         :   Mr. Y.N. Kaushal

Participants                :   Ms Anindita Pal, Ms Indrani Das

Highlight                     :   The session was very informative. Different training methods such as reverse role playing and video conference were touched upon.

Online Training Session on Blended Learning

Workshops 13-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Google Meet

Organized By             :   CBSE-COE BHUBANESWAR

Resource Person         :  Ms. Seema Chaudhary

Participants                :  5 teachers of LSA    

Highlight                     :   The webinar was conducted on a very crucial topic, keeping in view the present scenario. The workshop talked about giving students the opportunity to learn at their own pace. It was extremely helpful in highlighting the effective methods of integrating digital learning with classroom teaching. Discussion on how to get prepared for online classes and time management was done. Planning for those who cannot connect due to lack of technical resources was also discussed. It dealt with the need to combine traditional learning with digital medium while providing students with a personalised experience.

 

Training session on Online Teaching

Workshops 13-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Online mode

Organized By             :   COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         :   Ms. Archana Agrawal

Participants                :  Ms.  Clara Karmakar

Highlight                     :   The session was interactive and informative. The speaker discussed the different techniques and strategies to conduct on line teaching in a productive manner. Child centric teaching was also highlighted for different subjects. 

Capacity Building Programme on Inclusive Education

Workshops 12-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Google Meet (webinar)

Organized By             :  C.B.S.E.

Resource Person         :   Mr. Dhananjay Kumar Pan

Participants                :  Ms.  Ishita Valentina Gomes                                                

Highlight                     :   The session was informative and well - paced. The speaker created awareness about disability via a questionnaire. The concept of inclusive education was well explained.

 

Health and Happiness

Workshops 12-May-2020

 

Venue                          :  Online via Zoom Application

Organized By             :  Mr. Amit Chatterjee

Resource Person         :   Mr. Amit Chatterjee

Participants                :  20 teachers              

Highlight                     :  The session taught us the importance of meditation or pranayam in our daily life and how they have become a necessity in this present pandemic situation. The benefits were also discussed.

Webinar on Virtual Classroom Management

Workshops 12-May-2020

Venue                          :   Online Zoom Session

Organized By             :   Alert Knowledge Services

Resource Person         :   Ms. Kalpana Lathar

Participants                :   Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay                                                  

Highlight                     :The workshop discussed that the online classes should be a mix of asynchronous (uploaded videos) and synchronous (live classes). Some interesting teaching tools like Mind Master Tool, Menti.com, EdPuzzle, Nearpod, ClassDojo etc. were shared.

Online Classroom

Workshops 11-May-2020

Venue                          :   Webinar

Organized By             :  CBSE

Resource Person         :   Ms. Rita Chatterjee

Participants                :   Ms. Asfia Rafique                                                  

Highlight                     :   The session was informative and interesting. It helped to have a better understanding of how to conduct online classrooms and the safety measures that should be undertaken.

Baking Cake and Life

Workshops 11-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Zoom Online Session

Organized By             :   Mr Amit Chatterjee

Resource Person         :   Mr Amit Chatterjee

Participants                :   5 teachers of LSA               

Highlight                     :   The session taught us how to bake a Black Forest Cake at home and how it is much better to make all kinds of food items at home during these testing times.

 

Children learning

Workshops 11-May-2020

Venue                          :   Online

Organized By             :  Coe Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         :   Mr. Sangeet Sharma

Participants                : Ms Jyoti Gondi, Ms. Jill Vasant Shah

Highlight                     :   It was an informative, interesting and interactive session. Speaker discussed about different strategies of planning a lesson according to the different levels of learning abilities. Spoke  about different types of learners.

Workshop on Emotional Intelligence

Workshops 09-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Online Training Session

Organized By             :   COE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person         :   Ms Ishalpsita Satpathy

Participants                :    3 teachers

Highlight                     :   The workshop was very informative. Self motivation and effective communication skills were discussed.

Webinar - Cyber Security for Educators

Workshops 09-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Online using Zoom

Organized By             :   TheTeacher.in

Resource Person         :   Mr. Sai Sushanth-a cyber-law expert

Participants                :   5 teachers

Highlight                     :   An informative webinar for this lock down period when both students and teachers are online for long hours. Various safety measures for educators were discussed which would be helpful to avoid problems for our students and teachers when they are online.

Health 360- Therapist Speak

Workshops 08-May-2020

Venue                          :   Webinar

Organized By             :   Caring Minds

Resource Person         :   Ms. Chandrima Manocha

Participants                :   Ms. Jayati Goswami, Ms. Nobomita Dutta Gupta , Ms. Sumona Dasgupta

Highlight                     :   The speaker being a Speech and Language therapist spoke about ways to identify the problem areas or special needs in children. The speaker also provide detailed intervention techniques to help the children. Provided certain guidelines for parents to deal with their special need children during this crisis period.

Workshop on Lifeskills

Workshops 08-May-2020

Venue                          :   Online

Organized By             :   CoE Bhubneshwar/CBSE

Resource Person         :  Ms. Lizarani Das

Participants                :   Ms. Kulbir Kaur & Ms. Mamata Dev

Highlight                     :   The workshop discussed the various skills required in day to day life. The skills that would help enhance ones adaptability and create a positive environment for conducive learning were highlighted. The importance of life skills in everyday life was stressed upon.It was conducted in the lecture method.

Celebrating 61st Anniversary of BITM

Workshops 07-May-2020

From Date                  :   02/05/2020                          To  Date           07/05/2020

Venue                          :   Online Portal

Organized By             :  Birla Industrial and Technical Museum

Resource Person         :   BITM

Participants                :   Students from classes VI-X

Highlight                     :   The creativity of the students was at full flow as they researched and wrote about the first Science Museum of our country recounting their personal and hands-on experience.

Workshop on Emotional Skills

Workshops 07-May-2020

Venue                          :   Google meet (online)

Organized by              :   CBSE

Resource person         :   Ramesh Agarwal

Participants                :   Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight                     :   The workshop dealt with the role of emotion in life and the varied ways of coping with stress or negative emotions

Truth, Lies and Secrets: A Brief History on Privacy

Workshops 06-May-2020

Venue                          :   Online seminar

Organized By             :   Ashoka University

Resource Person         :   Prof. Debayan Chakraborty

Participants                :   The 4 IT teachers

Highlight                     :   The workshop focused on the fact that in this digital world, all information of what we are receiving and giving online at every moment is available to the government and online companies.

Suicide First Aid Guidelines

Workshops 06-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   online seminar

Organized By             :   NIMHANS

Resource Person         :   Dept. of Psychiatric Social Work

Participants                :   The 4 IT teachers

Highlight                     :   A detailed discussion on guidelines and policies was held. Different warning signs in teenagers i.e. difference in behavior, sudden change in moods etc,, the role of a gatekeeper and their intervention techniques were discussed.

Teaching in Digital Era

Workshops 04-May-2020

Venue                          :   ONLINE through Cisco Webex

Organized By             :   TCS

Resource Person         :   Mr. Ramaswamy

Participants                :  Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight                     :  The workshop dealt with innovative questions, remote assessment pattern, project based learning and the golden triangle of parents, teachers and students. The challenges of stake holders and the ways to nullify them were also discussed. A TCS ion Digital Glass Roomwas showcased which would work with cloud based platform and collaboration processes.

Quest - Quiz on Science Experiments

External Events 03-May-2020

From Date                  :   02/05/2020                          To  Date           03/05/2020

Venue                          :  Online Interactive Event

Organized By             :  BITM

Resource Person         :   BITM

Participants                :   Students from V - X                       

Highlight                     :   The young science enthusiasts were asked to observe a set of experiments on the BITM website and send the scientific explanations of those experiments online. The students observed the videos intently and sent their answers. Result awaited.

REMOTE LEADERSHIP

Workshops 02-May-2020

From Date                  : 25/04/2020                            To Date           02/05/2020

Venue                          : Delhi Online

Organized By             : Alert Knowledge Series

Resource Person         : Dr Dinesh Kamra

Participants                : Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight                     : The workshop focussed on the usage of various ICT collaborative tools and the virtual meeting

etiquette to be followed. The speaker also demonstrated hands-on experience on zoom, google classroom and google docs.

Managing Time And Stress

Workshops 01-May-2020

From Date                  :   29/04/2020              To  Date           1/05/2020

Venue                          :   Online

Organized By             :   IIT Delhi

Resource Person         :   Dr. Harish Chowdhary

Participants                :  Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight                     :  Types of emotional stress, self-awareness and reality perception gap were highlighted. Strategies to reduce stress, time management and ways to improve relations were discussed.

Enhancing Personal and Organizational Product

Workshops 01-May-2020

 

Venue                          :   Online

Organized By             :   IIT Delhi

Resource Person         :   Dr. Harish Chowdhary

Participants                :  Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight                     :  The workshop focused on how to energize oneself first and pass on the energy to the organization and motivate the teachers. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Skinner’s approach was highlighted for positive reinforcement.

ICT tools for Education

Workshops 30-Apr-2020

From Date : 21/04/2020 To 30/04/2020
Venue : Delhi Online
Organized By : NCERT
Resource Person : NCERT
Participants : Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight : Use of MOODLE and GOOGLE CLASSROOM in the teaching learning process.

BRICS Math Online Competition 2020

External Events 30-Apr-2020

From Date : 22/04/2020 To 30/04/2020
Venue : Online competition
Organized By : BRICS Countries
Resource Person : CBSE
Participants : Classes I to XII
Highlight : Total students registered from classes I-XII as of now is 760. It's an international competition. Participating countries are Brazil , Russia, India, China, South Africa, Indonesia and Vietnam. The preparatory tasks were quite engaging and students enjoyed solving them thoroughly.

Cyber Security: Increasing Concerns & Solutions for students and parents

Workshops 30-Apr-2020

Venue : Facebook Live
Organized By : International United Educationists Fraternity
Resource Person : Ravindra Dutt, Pankaj B Bafna, Chetan Mahe
Participants : Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sanzeeda Sultania Mirza, Sudakshina Datta, Swati Mukherjee
Highlight : Addressed issues on late reaction to the surge of cyber threat, insufficient IT (Information Technology) and IS (Information Security) Staff in almost all schools in India, shadow IT very common for the school administrator, legacy Infrastructure like using pirated software where device go unpatched, lack of security awareness of parents and children.

Effective Chapter Meeting Training

Beyond Boundaries 30-Apr-2020

Venue : Delhi Online
Organized By : AFS India
Resource Person : AFS India
Participants : Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight : Introduction to Pan India Volunteer coordinators, discussion on formats, agenda, action plans and managing time.

World Dance Day celebration

Activities in LSA 29-Apr-2020

Venue : Student’s home
Organized By : LSA
Resource Person : Mr. Ashish Majumder and Mr. Sanjay Bhattacharya
Participants : Selected students from classes VI to XII
Highlight : Dance teachers and selected students recorded videos in their respective homes which was compiled into one video .Both the dance teachers and the students worked in unison to bring forth the essence of the World Dance Day.

Changemakers Challenge 2020

External Events 27-Apr-2020

Venue : Bangalore Online
Organized By : Inventure Academy
Resource Person : Inventure Academy
Participants : Gaurav Poddar, Kanika Bhagat, Krisha Sureka, Mehak Baid, Saket Fatehpuria, Siddharth Ajitsaria, Tanisha Tusnail, Tejas Khemka
Highlight : It is an ongoing competition of change making ventures which would bring in a huge difference in the teaching learning experience during COVID 19 based on the theme ‘opportunities which arise during crisis period’.

Future Ready Knowledge Series

Workshops 26-Apr-2020

From Date : 12/04/2020 To 26/04/2020
Event :
Venue : Online
Organized By : Great Place To Study
Resource Person : Stalwarts of different fields
Participants : 14 teachers of various sections
Highlight : 15 series of webinars, which guide future cohorts across a variety of key and contemporary topics which are the next big professions in the 21st century.

Global Youth Service Day 2020

Beyond Boundaries 26-Apr-2020

Venue : Kolkata
Organized By : AFS INDIA
Resource Person : AFS ALUMNI
Participants : Pranav Choudhury, Rushil Khajanchi, Sanskriti Jain
Highlight : Prepared and posted videos of COVID-19 awareness campaign, appreciating the health workers of AFS.

GYSD 2020

Beyond Boundaries 26-Apr-2020

Venue : Kolkata
Organized By : AFS India
Participants : Ms. Jayati Goswami, Ms.Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight : A beautiful collage made by Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya and poetry and voice over by Ms.Jayati Goswami.

Great Place to Knowledge webinar

Workshops 25-Apr-2020

Venue : Zoom webinar
Organized By : Great Place to Knowledge
Resource Person : P K Parthasarathy
Participants : Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sanzeeda Sultania Mirza, Sudakshina Datta, Swati Mukherjee
Highlight : Discussed different careers in the Gaming industry.

Career Counseling and Orientation session

Workshops 24-Apr-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By : LSA
Resource Person : Mr. P. Dhanda, Mindler Career Counselling, Asia, Kolkata
Participants : Students of classes IX - X
Highlight : Mr. Dhanda addressed classes 9 and 10 students along with some parents from 6 pm to 7 pm. He counselled the students about various career paths which could be opted for besides the known traditional career options. He briefed them and guided them on how to prepare to achieve their goals. He along with his team offered to help the students individually to understand their aptitude and to know about ways to prepare for the goal against a nominal charge if they register through school.

An online national quiz on Ganga

External Events 23-Apr-2020

From Date : 22/04/2020 To 23/04/2020
Venue : Online
Organized By : National Mission for Clean Ganga with Tree Craze Foundation
Resource Person : CBSE
Participants : Students of classes V - XII
Highlight : 95 students from class 5 to class 12 registered for the quiz. The quiz will end on May 22. The quiz comprises 3 rounds. The winner and the result will be declared on 5th June (World Environment Day).

Online teacher's training on Microsoft Teams

Workshops 23-Apr-2020

Venue : Virtual online class
Organized By : Microsoft
Resource Person : Rahul Bhatnagar and Mohit Agarwal
Participants : 25 teachers from all sections.
Highlight : Initially all online classes were taken through zoom. However several flaws in the security features of the software were reported in the news recently. Since we were using the free version teachers had to face a lot of security issues with the software. So the school decided to switch to a more secured application. More than 65 teachers joined the training provided by Microsoft on their online class app called Teams.

Earth Day Celebration

Activities in LSA 22-Apr-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By : Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person : Sanzeeda Mirza
Participants : Montessori to Class 12
Highlight : The lock down has not minimized the enthusiasm of the LSA students to celebrate Earth Day. A separate email id was created where children posted videos, article, poems drawings, and sketches pertaining to the theme "Earth is Breathing.... the entries were from Montessori to class 12. Some really unique and beautiful videos were posted on LSA LIVE facebook and our websites too. The entries showed the involvement of parents too.

Webinar on ICT tools for Education

Workshops 21-Apr-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By : NCERT
Resource Person : Mr Raghavendra Rao
Participants : Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sanzeeda Sultania Mirza, Sudakshina Datta, Swati Mukherjee
Highlight : Learned how to use Storymap JS and StoryLine JS for interactive storytelling.

AI - THON webinar

Workshops 21-Apr-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By : CBSE
Resource Person : CBSE
Participants : Anushka Saraf, Disha Narang, Tanisha Tusnial, Ujjwal Chanda
Highlight : The first discussion was about AI, and then the subsets of AI that is ML (Machine Learning) and DL (DeepLearning). This was followed by a discussion about the AI Project Cycle, AI Modelling, Family of ML Models, components of computer vision, etc.

Teachers Training on implementation of Microsoft Teams

Workshops 11-Apr-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By : V5 Global Services Pvt Ltd
Resource Person : Rahul Bhatnagar and Mohit Agarwal
Participants : Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Sudakshina Datta, Swati Mukherjee
Highlight : Learned how to implement Microsoft Teams or online classes.

Creation and implementation of student’s log in for solving open Door questions during lockdown period

Workshops 11-Apr-2020

Venue : Online
Organized By : Open Door Education
Resource Person : Mr. Shailendra Purankar
Participants : HOD’s of Mathematics and Science of classes 3 -10
Highlight : Discussed the dynamics of students’ personalized log in and steps that needed to be followed after the log in. 10 questions per chapter for extra assessment cycles will be provided by the organization.

YES Abroad and AFS Italy

Beyond Boundaries 12-Mar-2020

From Date    :    06/09/2019 To 12/03/2020
Organized By    :         AFS, India
Resource Person    :    AFS, India
Participants    :    Anna Sofia Angelus Keyzer (XID), Dontae Lamont Ryan II (XIA), Roberto Andreozzi (XID)
Highlight    :         Anna Keyzer from Kentucky, Dontae Ryan II from Maryland and Roberto Andreozzi from Napoli, Italy had arrived in our country in July and they came to Kolkata to be hosted by us. Caring families of our academy hosted them for 10 months.

Japan Kakehashi

Beyond Boundaries 12-Mar-2020

From Date    :     06/09/2019 To 12/03/2020
Venue        :     Osaka, Japan
Organized By    :     AFS, Japan
Resource Person    :     AFS, India
Participants    :     Pranav Choudhury (XI B)             
Highlight    :     As a part of Student Exchange Program, we have one of our students – Pranav Choudhury studying in Osaka, Perfetural KITANO High School in Osaka, Japan under the Kakehashi program of the Japanese Government for a span of 10 months.

Star Class Award

Activities in LSA 11-Mar-2020

Highlight         :     Star Class of the academic session 2019-20 was secured by : I Daisies (HRT-Ms. Khadija Chunawala) , III Asters (HRT-Ms. S. Anandi) , receiving 7 certificates each and VIII C (HRT – Ms. Radhika Shaw) receiving 12 certificates.

Convocation Ceremony

Activities in LSA 06-Mar-2020

Participants    :    Students of Class II – V             
Highlight        :     The annual convocation ceremony for the young graduates of classes II and V was held on 6th March 2020 at Lakshmipat Singhania Academy with much fervor. This is a much awaited event in every student's life as it acknowledges the efforts put in by them for all these years. The pledge taking ceremony was conducted by Headmistress Ma'am and the students vowed to live up to the promise to do their best and meet the expectations that have been set for them. The ceremony included an audio-visual presentation and musical performances by the students of classes I and IV. Principal Ma’am spoke a few words of encouragement to the students and wished them well for their forthcoming academic year. The programme concluded with ‘Celebrating Bonds’ and thanking the support staff of the academy for their dedicated service.

Visit to BITM

Educational Trips 06-Mar-2020

 Participants    :    Students of Montessori            
Highlight    :    Children enjoyed their visit to BITM. They were excited to see the magic show and loved playing in the play area. They also followed the code of conduct.

Teachers as Moulders

Workshops 02-Mar-2020

From Date    :    28/02/2020To 02/03/2020          
Venue          :    South City International School            
Organized By    :    South City International School            
Resource Person    :    Ms. Ananya Das            
Participants    :       Ms. Sudeshna Chowdhury, Ms. Tikshna Chopra            
Highlight    :    It was an interactive session where the role of the teacher was identified with the help of case studies.

Picnic

Activities in LSA 28-Feb-2020

Venue : Lions Safari Park
Participants : Students of Montessori
Highlight : It was a fun filled picnic. Children enjoyed the scenic beauty and the nature walk. They also enjoyed swinging, sliding and playing around the park.

First Robot Citizen SOPHIA @ Techno India Group

Workshops 18-Feb-2020

Venue : Najrul Mancha
Organized By : Techno India Group, Saltlake    
Participants : Mr. Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms.Sanzeeda Mirza, Ms.Sudakshina Datta, Ms.Swati Mukherjee
Highlight : All computer Teachers of the academy attended a seminar organized by Techno India Group. It was an interactive session with Sophia, 1st Robot Citizen with students.

CBSE INTEL AI-THON: AI Readiness Workshop

Workshops 17-Feb-2020

Venue : Delhi Public School, Howrah  
Organized By : CBSE
Resource Person : CBSE and INTEL
Participants : Anushka Saraf(VIII-D), Disha Narang(VIII-D), Ujjwal Chandak(VIII-A)
Highlight : It was a thrilling and challenging experience for the participants. The workshop introduced the learners to three domains of AI. The participants constructed the meaning of AI through interactive participation and engaging in hands-on activities.

Trip to BITM

Educational Trips 17-Feb-2020

Venue : BITM
Participants : Students of Class II      
Highlight : Students enjoyed the Coal Mine and Science Magic Show.

Project Sahayta

Activities in LSA 14-Feb-2020

Organized By :    Scouts & Guides     
Participants  :   Students of Class VIII     
Highlight  :  The Guides of Class VIII undertook a Medicine Drive to help Hope Hospital. They collected medicines and old spectacles from different classes and the same was handed over to the Hope Foundation representative.

Staff Picnic

Activities in LSA 12-Feb-2020

Venue :  Imly Garden, Bishnupur
Participants :  All Teachers and Office Staff
Highlight : Everyone enjoyed the picnic organised by the school where Cyberfair Quiz on Unsung Heroes was organised along with games for all. Food and venue was appreciated by all.

Trip to the Zoo - PS II

Educational Trips 07-Feb-2020

Participants    Students of Class PS II     
Highlight    It was a fun filled day as the children of PS2 Asters and Bluebells were excited to see the animals in the zoo. The weather was pleasant and the children enjoyed the trip.

Future Readiness Summit

Workshops 06-Feb-2020

Organized By    The Park Hotel
Resource Person    Director, Great Place To Study
Participants    Ms. Jayati Goswami   
Highlight    Career Development and Accelerating Platform, Positive Psychology, Future evaluation Pattern
                                        

Trip to the Zoo - Class I

Educational Trips 04-Feb-2020

Participants    Students of Class I     
Highlight    The children were very excited to visit the zoo. The children were well behaved and enjoyed seeing the different animals and sharing their tiffin at the end of the trip.

FORMAL FAREWELL 2020

Activities in LSA 01-Feb-2020

Saying adieu to the outgoing students of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy is always done in a formal way every year, through a unique diya ceremony. The ceremony signifies the act of formally unleashing the chains of protection with which we had bound our students. The lighting of the diyas from the Principal's diya signifies that our students are the messengers of our hopes and aspirations. We hope that they will keep the flame of hope burning in the coming decades and spread the goodness of values and virtues which we have instilled in them. They must remain loyal to their Alma Mater, their motherland and above all themselves. Principal Ms. Meena Kak said that the beauty of this ceremony marks the beginning of a new life that awaits our outgoing students. Our blessings will always be there with you all as they fly away towards their dream destinations. Some of the teachers, parents and students also were given opportunities to share their emotions for the outgoing batch of the Academy.

Workshop on Exam anxiety

Workshops 30-Jan-2020

Resource Person    Ms. Sumona Dasgupta and Ms. Nabamita Dutta gupta
Participants    Students of Classes III – V
Highlight    Students learnt how to prepare themselves by studying regularly which will help them deal with exam stress and anxiety in a better way. Exam tips were discussed where the students also interacted. There was a question answer session with the subjects teachers who also guided them how to answer the questions in the exams.

Workshop on Exam anxiety

Workshops 30-Jan-2020

Resource Person    Sumona Dasgupta & Nabamita Duttagupta
Participants    Students of Classes VI - VIII    
Highlight    The meaning of Exam Anxiety, the reason for its occurrence were explained. The measures of overcoming exam anxiety through 3 controls, Cognitive-Emotional-Physiological Control were discussed. Strategies for coping with exam stress and important tips needed during examinations were shared with the students. They were also informed about the common errors they do during exams and ways to avoid those errors were also shared. At the end the subject teachers gave certain subject specific instructions and information to the students. 

Saraswati Puja

Activities in LSA 29-Jan-2020

Participants    Students from Montessori – XII, teaching and non-teaching staff
Highlight    The Saraswati Puja celebration conducted to celebrate the holy occasion of saraswati puja. All the students gathered to give “Anjali” to goddess saraswati followed by Prasad distribution. All the teachers along with the non-teaching staff joined hand to prepare for the Puja and havan. Pandit enchanted the mantras and everyone paid their tribute to Goddess Saraswati. The very next day pandit enchanted mantras to release the Goddess followed by distribution of Dashakarma.

Informal Farewell

Activities in LSA 28-Jan-2020

Participants    Students of Class XI & XII outgoing batch
Highlight     The outgoing batch of the Academy was given a farewell by their Juniors. The show took the Seniors down the memory lane which made them very nostalgic and emotional. The show comprised of dances, songs, magic show, award ceremony, fashion show and a self composed poem on school life stole the show.  Aryaman Agarwal was declared Mr LSA and Seerat Bhura was crowned Miss LSA for the session 2019-20. Principal Ms Meena Kak blessed all the XIIs and told this is the beginning of a new phase in their lives which is going to be challenging as the parents and teachers wont be holding their hands. But we are all confident that each one will be shining in their own fields as they have been groomed all these years.   

Gender Sensitivity

Workshops 24-Jan-2020

Venue    Gurunanak Public School,Alampur, Howrah    
Organized By    CBSE
Resource Person    Mr. Ramesh Kumar Agarwal ,Dr. Sankar Prasad Dutta
Participants    Sangita Hore, Swati Mukherjee, Anindita Ray    
Highlight    The entire session was very informative and interactive. Teachers enjoyed all activities. They came to know that CBSE has launched Gender card with gender sensitivity books for students .The resource persons were quite knowledgeable

Symposium on Climate Change and Global Environment: Science and Interpretation

External Events 24-Jan-2020

Venue    La Martinere for Boys Kolkata    
Organized By    La Martinere for Boys Kolkata
Resource Person    Dr. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Ms. Minal Pathak, Mr. Joydeeep Bhattacharya, Prof. Dipesh Chakraborty, Mr. Bill Brown, Mr. mark Williams, Mr. Benjamin Morgan
Participants    20 students from Class 9
Highlight        There were 2 panels of discussion about causes, effects and how to spread awareness about global warming and climatic change. The platform was well equipped to sensitize students on the topic. The students enjoyed the question answer session where they could interact with panelists on various issues about the society and how to bring about a change in the attitude of the people towards environment. The ambiance and food was also good. Over all it was a very good learning experience for both students and teachers.

Exhibition cum sale of handicraft items

Activities in LSA 22-Jan-2020

Resource Person    Soma Pal Roy
Participants    Parents of Classes VI-VIII
Highlight    On Open House day (VI-VIII) two organisations ie. Behala Nabo Proyash and Asha-Niketan who are working for the Persons with Disabilities set up their stalls to exhibit and sell their handicraft items made by the students of their organisations. Parents were quite enthusiastic to buy the handmade crafts to help these organisations.

Trip to the Zoo

Educational Trips 22-Jan-2020

Venue    Alipore Zoo    
Participants     Students of PS l Carnations and Daisies.    
Highlight    Children enjoyed the trip and enjoyed all the animals .They saw the peafowl with it’s open feathers.The bear, white tiger and elephants were of great entertainment. Children learnt the names and habitats of the animals.

Trip to the Zoo

Educational Trips 21-Jan-2020

Venue    Alipore Zoo    
Participants    Students of PS l Asters and Bluebells    
Highlight    Children enjoyed the trip and enjoyed all the animals .The chimpanzees, giraffes and elephants were of great entertainment. Children learnt the names and habitats of the animals.

24th Annual camp to Mandarmani

Educational Trips 21-Jan-2020

From Date     18.01.20 To 21.01.20    
Venue    Hotel Sonar Bangla
Participants    Students of Classes IV and V    
Highlight    125 children along with sufficient number of leaders went for the camp. The camp was completed successfully. Children were involved in varied outdoor and indoor activities. All the activities were team based. It helped them learn cooperation. The camp also helped them to become independent.

Workshop on The Fish Philosphy

Workshops 18-Jan-2020

Venue     British Council Library    
Organized By    British Council Kolkata
Participants     Ms. Asfia Rafique and Ms. Anita Chandra    
Highlight     The Fish Philosophy modelled after the “Pike Place Fish Market” is a technique which is aimed at creating happy individuals in the workplace. After the workshop we learned to communicate effectively, understood the importance of developing creativity at workplace and realized the importance of enhancing relationships at work.

Workshop on Learning Disability

Workshops 18-Jan-2020

Venue    Caring Minds- Psychological Wellness Centre        
Organized By    Caring Minds- Psychological Wellness Centre        
Resource Person    Ms Mohini Ojha
Participants    Ms Runa Ghosh and Ms Mitali Mukhopadhyay    
Highlight    The workshop enlightened teachers regarding the various learning disabilities, how to assess and identify the ‘at risk’ students and ways of interventions. It made teachers better equipped to identify the ‘at risk’ students and give interventions to help students overcome the same.

Student Exchange Programme, Aalen, Germany

Beyond Boundaries 17-Jan-2020

From Date    04.01.20  To 17.01.20    
Resource Person    Nandini Chanda, Darshan Singh Gill, Monidipa Lahiri
Participants    Students of Classes VIII - XI    
Highlight    16 students and 2 teachers from Kaufmanische Schule, Aalen visited our school for a fortnight. The German students were hosted by LSA students and the German teachers were accommodated in our Guest House.  Educational and recreational tours and trips were organised for the team and the host students of our school became wonderful guides and mentors to their German friends by taking them in and around the city, as well as a weekend trip to Mandarmoni. The visiting students and teachers were exposed to the     Indian way life, the cultural heritage and also the academic ethos of our Academy. The entire school – teachers, students and support staff welcomed the team under the guidance of the principal.

Vital Waste Recycling Championship

Activities in LSA 16-Jan-2020

From Date    15.01.20 To 31.01.20    
Organized By    Vital Waste
Resource Person    Vital Waste
Participants    Students of Classes I - XI (Except the board classes)    
Highlight    A Total of 1174 students (including 3 teachers) registered for the competition and received a recycler’s Kit- a bamboo tooth brush, a metal straw along with the cleaner and a cloth tote bag. All of them took a pledge to recycle on 16th January at 11:00 am. together in the school ground. The students now started using their kit and also inspired others to follow them. They submitted videos/ photos as evidences of their campaign to their HRTs. They also wrote short stories/ poems and submitted to the HRTs. The 5 best entries of the school will be shortlisted and sent to Vital Waste for the final selection in the 1st week of February. All the students are very active and excited. It is a win-win situation for the individual, school, home as well as the environment as a whole.

Evacuation Drill

Activities in LSA 09-Jan-2020

A mock fire drill was conducted in the school premises on Thursday, 9th January, 2020 to create awareness among students and staff to respond swiftly in case of such an emergency. Teachers and support staff were positioned at the key areas to assist the students during the drill. The evacuation procedure commenced immediately after the fire alarm alerted everyone. The students, led by the teachers, evacuated the classrooms and assembled at the assigned 'Assembly Points' as identified in the basketball court and the field. This mock fire drill helped to familiarise everyone with the evacuation process and prepared them for emergency situations.

INTACH Essay Competition on Gandhiji

External Events 20-Dec-2019

Venue : Shri Shikshayatan School

Participants : Students of Class VIII

Highlight : The students had an interesting educational experience. We got to know more about Gandhi. After the competition the host educated us about the manufacturing of papers of different types and how to recycle them. Total 25 students participated out of which 10 students were from our school. Results are awaited.

CBSE Art Education Summit

Workshops 18-Dec-2019

From Date : 18/12/2019 To 20/12/2019            

Venue : Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi

Participant :  Ms. Amritah Sen

Highlight : The experience was enriching. Though all the workshops were not directly related to classroom teaching, attending them and interacting with other participants and speakers was an inspiring experience.

Excursion to Jodhpur & Jaipur

Educational Trips 18-Dec-2019

From Date : 18/12/2019 To 23/12/2019             

Participants : Students of Class XI

Highlight : Students had an enjoyable time with their classmates. The visits to palaces, forts and other tourist spots of the two cities, gave them and exposure to India’s rich cultural heritage. A visit to J.K. Lakshmipat University, in Jaipur was an enriching experience. Two workshops were conducted there for the students by the faculty. One was on Critical Thinking and the other on Design. On the whole it was an eventful trip.

Navy Day

Educational Trips 13-Dec-2019

Venue : Kolkata Port Trust

Organized By : Indian Navy

Participants : Students of Classes VI – VIII

Highlight : It was a very informative tour around the dock that hosted two war ships INS AIRAVAAT and INS KIRPAN.

Learning through Cinema Guppy's Journey

Workshops 09-Dec-2019

Venue : BGES

Organized By : Bichitra Pathshala

Resource Person : Ms Subha Das Mallik

Participants : Ms. Aloka Sen Sharma, Ms. Rupa Mazumdar, MS. Ruth Samarpita Sarkar

Highlight : Audio visual tool in a cinematic way grabs immediate attention of every child in the class, especially for junior and middle school children. Subjects can be integrated in the teaching learning process.

Shaping the way we teach English in the 21st Century

Workshops 07-Dec-2019

Venue : Middleton Chambers

Organized By : Pearson

Resource Person : Mrs. Mini Joseph

Participants : Ms. Asfia Rafique, Ms. Sheuli Sen

Highlight : Innovative teaching methods were discussed involving a lot of interesting activities.

Mass Media Studies Field Trip

Educational Trips 06-Dec-2019

From Date                   06/12/2019 To 07/12/2019          

       Venue                   Shantiniketan / Sonajhuri

       Resource Person   Sourina Bose

       Participants          Students of Class XI

       Highlight               The trip was a part of the subject's practical curriculum. Students took videos of the

                                    Sonajhuri Haat & various aspects of the place. These videos will be culminated into

                                    individual films for the end semester practical examination.

Times NIE Newsmaker’s Meet

External Events 05-Dec-2019

Venue : Hotel Swagath

Organized By : Times NIE

Resource Person :  Ms. Madhushree Pal

Participants : Abhijato Sensarma & Shreya Dubey

Highlight : The students were exposed to the nuances of the media. The outgoing NIE Star Correspondent, Ms. Sumedha Maheshwari was felicitated.

Virtual Class Exchange

Beyond Boundaries 05-Dec-2019

Venue : Class XI D

Organized By : AFS INDIA

Resource Person : Ms. Jayati Goswami

Participants : Students of Class XI

Highlight : The module 1 and 2 of Virtual Class Exchange was performed through a presentation. Moddule 2 will be performed by students based on research and charts on local community

Hungary Peace Program

Beyond Boundaries 05-Dec-2019

From Date : 06/09/2019 To 05/12/2019

Venue : Budapest

Organized By :       AFS

Resource Person :  AFS India

Participants :         Students of Class XI

Highlight :Peace Program is initiated to foster mutual knowledge and understanding between ASIA and EUROPE, recognizing formal and informal learning and promoting Global Citizenship Education.

The Creativity Challenge

External Events 03-Dec-2019

From Date - 01/11/2019 To 03/12/2019

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE and Adobe

Resource Person -   CBSE

Participants - Students of Classes VI - XII

Highlight - 15 of our selected students from classes VI – XII took part in this event. CBSE and adobe had organized it honoring the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Students used various Adobe applications to create digital outputs like graphics, video and presentation. Result awaited.

The Principal's Conclave

External Events 29-Nov-2019

Venue: The Park
Organized By: The Times group
Resource Person: The Times of India
Highlight: Many principals of different schools were present. There were eminent speakers like Mr. Chandrasheker Ghosh. Dr. J.R.Ram.The Topic of Discussion was Education 2020.

Workshop on Sensory Play

Workshops 29-Nov-2019

Venue: Primary Colours Montessori
Organized By: Primary Colours Montessori
Resource Person Efterpi Soropos
Participants Jyoti Gondi, Teresa Gomes
Highlight The workshop was interactive and informative. There were innovative hands-on activities to enhance sensory skills.

Teacher Chef Prelims

External Events 23-Nov-2019

Venue: International Institute of Hotel Management, Salt Lake
Organized By: International Institute of Hotel Management
Resource Person: International Institute of Hotel Management
Participants: Aloka Sen Sharma, Ranjini Chakravarty, Sheuli Sen, Swati Banerjee, Pushpendu Gupta
Highlight: Sheuli Sen, Swati Banerjee, Aloka Sensharma, Pushpendu Gupta and Ranjini Chakraborty were selected for the Teachers Chef Prelims. They were asked to prepare selected dishes using the ingredients assigned to them. Swati Banerjee qualified for the final scheduled in December.

5th CII School Excellence Conclave

Workshops 23-Nov-2019

Venue: Hotel Taj Vivanta
Organized By: Confederation of Indian Industry
Resource Person Confederation of Indian Industry
Participants: Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Pronita Gupta
Highlight Theme : Innovating education and educating innovation.
There were 4 sessions of panel discussions 1.Schools at the crossroad of innovation. 2. Innovative practices for achieving with adversities. 3. Leveraging innovation in school 4. Master class on innovating education the way forward.
All the speakers were well known in their field and it was an interesting discussion.
Some new methods and innovations in teaching or its need was discussed in details.

Awareness Workshop on Accreditation Standard for Quality School Governance

Workshops 23-Nov-2019

Venue: Hariyana Vidya Mandir
Organized By: Quality Council of India
Resource Person: Mr. Gaurang Tiwari, Mr. Runu Bagchi & M. Ruchira Mukherjee
Participants Darshan Singh Gill, Hari Shankar Jaiswal, Jaya Misra, Mitali Mukhopadhyay, S Raveendran, Sunitha R Dey
Highlight It was a reinforcement of the three domains in accreditation and the benefits of accreditation.

Workshop on Effective Teaching of English

Workshops 23-Nov-2019

Venue: CCR
Organized By: Ratna Sagar
Resource Person: Ms. Uma Raman, Dr. Asher Jesudoss
Participants: Khadija Aamir Choonawala, Shreerupa Banerjee, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: Use of various activities while teaching English to make the lesson more interesting. The importance of Phonetics and correct Pronunciation.

Basic Life Support

Workshops 23-Nov-2019

Organized By: Charnock Hospital
Resource Person: Charnock Hospital
Participants: Teachers
Highlight Under the able guidance of Dr. Nishant Agarwal, Emergency Department Head of Charnock
Hospital, Teachers of Junior section took training in theoretical and practical emergencies faced by the school. The training provided knowledge to deal with giving CPR and what to do in case of choking and convulsion along with other day to day emergencies. CPR mannequin provided the practical experience to each and every teacher present.

Young Chef India Juniors

External Events 21-Nov-2019

Venue: IIHM Salt Lake
Organized By: IIHM
Resource Person: IIHM
Participants: Students of Classes V VII
Highlight: Razah Sanghera, Kudrat Kaur Sidhu, Harshit Saraogi, Viraj Harlalka, Priyansh Saraf, Saurya Bothra and Rohit Verma were selected for the Semi Finals YCI Juniors. They were asked to prepare selected items using the ingredients given by IIHM. Results are awaited.

Erlebte Geschichte im DAF Unterricht

Workshops 17-Nov-2019

Venue: Kurseong
Organized By: Goethe Institute & INDaF
Participants: Kakali Bandyopadhyay
Highlight: Very informative session on the History of German.

Teacher's Mental Health Awareness Programme You are not alone

Workshops 16-Nov-2019

Organized By: Over a cup of Tea
Resource Person: Over a cup of Tea Sanya and Dhwani
Participants: Teachers
Highlight: Awareness on mental health issues of children, identifying their needs & helping them out

Unleash your creativity in your lesson plan

Workshops 16-Nov-2019

Venue: The Creative Arts Studio, Tollygunge
Organized By: Thinking Arts
Resource Person: Ms. Ramanjeet Kaur
Participants: Kaveri Singh, Ranjini Chakravarty
Highlight: The workshop was very enriching and each member could learn and participate well as the strength was very restricted and the organiser interacted well with each member.

YES Panel Interview

Workshops 15-Nov-2019

Venue: American Center
Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: AFS India
Participants: Harsh Ghoshal, Krishang Gupta, Pranav Ashar, Saanvi Nagar
Highlight: 4 of our students were among 26 finalists of the YES program. 2 of our students who are alumni of the YES program also got the privilege of being on the panel.

Children's Day Celebration

Activities in LSA 14-Nov-2019

Participants: Students of Montessori to Class XII
Highlight: Carnival along with Crazy Castle was organised for students from Montessori to class II.
Colourful Program was put up by teachers for the students from class III to class XII. In the programs, teachers presented a variety of activities like song, skit, dance, and quiz. Students appreciated the efforts taken by the teachers.

India International Science Festival 2019

External Events 12-Nov-2019

Venue: Viswa Bangla
Organized By: Minister of Culture
Participants: Students of Classes IX – XI
Highlight: IISF 2019 was a great fest in which the students gave a new experience and great knowledge.
It was truly a remarkable fest which was very well organized and executed. The fest itself was held at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre and Science City from 5th – 8th November. The students that came from varying states were grouped in houses named after notable persons and scientists. The different houses had to attend different modules/sessions accordingly.

Food Nutrition Stall

Activities in LSA 08-Nov-2019

Resource Person: Deepa Das
Participants: Students of Classes XI
Highlight: Students made nutritious food to cater to the needs of the adolescent age group. The food items were on sale in the lunch break. Students organised the stall, managed monetary accounts, understood the demand and supply relationship.

International Certified Career Coach

Workshops 08-Nov-2019

Venue: Hotel Radisson
Organized By: Mindler
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: First Level training on Career Counselling. Detailed information about the procedures followed by Mindler in Career Counselling programme. New career opportunities, psychometric testing, an overview of overseas education.

Workshop on

Workshops 08-Nov-2019

Venue: American Center, Kolkata
Organized By: American Center, Kolkata
Resource Person: Patricia Mathews
Participants: Students of Class IX
Highlight: Teachers participating in MUN along with students was a unique experience. Teachers received training to mentor the students to prepare for Model United Nations. It was an extremely useful and well-organized workshop which helped in gaining knowledge about how the critical global problems are resolved through dialogue and discussion. Helped to understand how to arrive at a resolution of dispute not through conflict but through cooperation, compromise, mediation, and negotiation.

India International Science Festival 2019

Workshops 07-Nov-2019

Dates: 05th November to 8th November 2019

Venue: Biswa Bangla Convention Centre

Participants: 15 students from IX - XI

Highlight - It was a wonderful opportunity to get a hands-on experience and knowledge through different modules/sessions and interact with the students from different states.

Awareness on Vocational subjects

Workshops 07-Nov-2019

Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: R.P Singh and Vishaman Saha
Participants: Students of Classes XI – XII
highlight: Awareness of vocational subjects done. Teachers cleared their doubts in the open forum.

Workshop on Sustainable Development Goals

Workshops 06-Nov-2019

Venue: ATL Lab

Participants: Class VIII

Highlight -  The social, environmental and economic components of the ATL ecosystem were explored. It was a UNESCO and NITI Aayog initiative to promote the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in ATL. ….https://www.globalgoals.org/

India International Science Film Festival 2019

Workshops 06-Nov-2019

Venue: Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute
Organized By: Vigyan Prasar
Participants: Students of Classes XI
Highlight: 1. Knowledge in making science films, 2. Attending master classes on film making, 3. Interaction with film directors

Sustainable Development Goal

Workshops 06-Nov-2019

Organized By: Prantha Katha
Resource Person: Ms. Ankita
Participants: Students of Class VIII
Highlight The class VIII students attended a workshop on Sustainable Development Goals. The social, environmental and economic component of the ATL ecosystem was explored with the student to understand the dimension of ATL. It was an initiative by the UNESCO and NITI Aayog to promote the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Sustainability and Social Innovation

Workshops 06-Nov-2019

Venue: London
Organized By: AFS
Resource Person AFS India
Participants: Sahil Lakhmani (XII)
Highlight: To empower young future leaders with theoretical and practical knowledge of the important areas of corporate, government and social focus today. It is a month-long course.

Talk Session

Workshops 06-Nov-2019

Resource: Person O.P Jindal Global University
Participants: Students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight: Professor (Dr.) C.Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor and Dean Tom Goldstein addressed the students on the scope of law and journalism as a career. The talk was interesting and students participated in the session well.

PRP (Prospective Resource Person)

Workshops 05-Nov-2019

Venue: Sushila Birla Girls School
Organized By: Sushila Birla Girls School
Resource Person: Sangita Sanghvi
Participants: Lilawati Mishra, Radhika Shaw
Highlight: The session was well organized and very interactive. It was interesting and we got to learn many things.

IEO

External Events 05-Nov-2019

Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight 117 students participated in the IEO. It was a learning and enriching experience for all the participants.

International Informatics Olympiad

External Events 05-Nov-2019

Organized By: SilverZone
Participants: Students of Class III - XII
Highlight: 138 students participated in the IIO. It was an enriching experience for them all. Result awaited.

Annual Scout Guide Camp (VI to VIII)

Educational Trips 03-Nov-2019

Venue: Mandarmoni
Participants: Students of classes VI – VIII
Highlight: 189 campers from classes VI-VIII went for their Scout Guide Camp to Mandarmoni. They were exposed to the different camping activities like wide games, cooking activities, sense training games, night games and various other activities selected from their proficiency and efficiency syllabus to enhance various skills like handling responsibility, taking initiative, leadership, cooperation with positive attitude.

Green Diwali 2019 - Say No to Crackers

Activities in LSA 24-Oct-2019

Participants    Students of Classes III – VII
Highlight    The mela was well organised supported with different NGO's like Asha Arko, Asha Niketan, Behala Nabaproyas, Noble Mission and Ashar Alo. Stalls were set up with diyas, candles, greeting cards and other handicraft items. Students and staff got lot of options in selecting the items for the noble cause.

Green Olympiad

Beyond Boundaries 21-Oct-2019

Participants    Students of Classes III - V
Highlight    The students from classes III to V participated in the Green Olympiad. They attempted the question paper and could finish the same on time. It was an enriching experience for the participants.

Trip to Shillong

Educational Trips 08-Oct-2019

Date    08/10/2019 To 13/10/2019
Venue    Shillong
Organized By    LSA & Travel India
Resource Person   Mr. Suman Kumar Samanta and Ms. Radhika Shaw
Participants    Students of Classes IX & XI
Highlight    21 students went for this trip. They enjoyed the natural beauty, visited the zoo, Kaziranga National Park and Orchid Farm.

AFS Navratri

Beyond Boundaries 04-Oct-2019

From Date    04/10/2019 To 07/10/2019
Venue    Ahmedabad
Organized By    AFS Gujarat
Participants    Students of Class XI
Highlight    Dontae Lamont Ryan II, Srishti Maheshwari, Anna Keyzer and Roberto Andreozzi got the opportunity to explore Gujarat and learn about the rich cultural heritage of India.

Teachers' Day Celebration

Activities in LSA 30-Sep-2019

Event: Teachers' Day Celebration
Venue: School
Participants: All Teachers & Office Staff
Highlight: Teachers' day programme was conducted by the Senior students where exciting games, skit, songs, dances were presented for their teachers. Students presented a hand made craft item as a token of love for the entire faculty.

Talk session

Workshops 30-Sep-2019

Event: Talk session
Organized By: J K Lakshmipat University, Jaipur
Resource Person: Office of admissions
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: Discussed the courses offered by the university.

National Creativity Olympiad

Activities in LSA 30-Sep-2019

Event: National Creativity Olympiad
Organized By: NCO
Resource Person: NCO
Participants: Students of classes VI - XI

Talk on admission

Workshops 26-Sep-2019

Event: Talk on admission
Organized By: Carlton University, Canada
Resource Person: Mr. Finlayson
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: He gave a talk and presentation about Carlton University, Canada. Their admission process and courses offered were discussed.

Career workshop

Workshops 25-Sep-2019

Event: Career workshop

Organized By: Mr. Dhinda
Resource Person: Mindler
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: Mr. Dhinda counselled the students about various career options and admission criteria for undergraduate studies.

Maths Quiz

Activities in LSA 25-Sep-2019

Event: Maths Quiz
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: The students of all the houses participated in the Maths Quiz which was held in the classrooms. There were 5 rounds based on their class level. The students were engaged in solving various kinds of sums while they were seated in their respective houses. They enjoyed all the levels of competition.

NGSE Mains 2020

Activities in LSA 24-Sep-2019

Event: NGSE Mains 2020
Organized By: NGSE
Resource Person: NGSE
Participants: Students of Classes IV – XI
Highlight: The test was conducted successfully.

Workshop for Students

Workshops 24-Sep-2019

Event: Workshop for Students
Organized By: Over a cup of tea
Participants: Students of Classes VII & X
Highlight: Over a Cup of Tea a leading Psychological Wellness Centre in Kolkata with an objective to create mental health awareness conducted an hour-long workshop on two separate days.

Visit to BITM

Educational Trips 21-Sep-2019

Event: Visit to BITM
Venue: BITM
Participants: Students of Class VIII
Highlight: 12 teachers were involved in this trip. Students enjoyed the Chemistry Magic, Balloon Show and Digital World

Textile Exhibition cum sale

Activities in LSA 20-Sep-2019

Event: Textile Exhibition cum sale
Venue: LSA
Highlight: To sensitise our students regarding the beauty of traditional Indian Textile and to support the craftsperson regarding sales. It was a very successful venture.

Visit to Antaragram

Educational Trips 20-Sep-2019

Event: Visit Antaragram
Venue: Antaragram
Resource Person: Anita Chandra
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: Students had a one to one interaction with the patients of Antara. Doctors too interacted with them to explain the problems the patients had. They were allowed to go forward visits.

Safe Drive Save Life

External Events 20-Sep-2019

Event: Safe Drive Save Life

Venue: Taratala
Organized: By Kolkata Traffic Police
Participants: Students of Classes VI-XII
Highlight: Art work of our students was appreciated. Certificates were given to 30 students.

Workshop

Workshops 19-Sep-2019

Event: Workshop
Resource Person: Sumona Dasgupta, Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants Students of Classes VI - VII
Highlight Interactive, a brainstorming session with boys on gender sensitivity and respect towards parents, teachers, and school. They could share their opinions and grievances.

International Dance Workshop

Workshops 17-Sep-2019

Event: International Dance Workshop
Venue: Twist and Turns
Organized By: Calarts
Resource Person: Nina Flagg
Participants: Ashis Majumder and Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight It was a great opportunity to be a part of the workshop and learn something from California School of Arts. We have learned about body warm-up, some Jazz moves along with contemporary and freestyle dance. The style and technique were great.

ATL Marathon

External Events 09-Sep-2019

Venue: The Better India
Organized By: AIM Atal innovation Mission
Participants: Students of Class X
Highlight: Four students from LSA created history for being the first and the only school from Kolkata to achieve such feet. LSA was among the top 100 innovators on the pan India challenge.

AFS Mid Term Orientation

Beyond Boundaries 06-Sep-2019

Event: Mid Term Orientation
Venue: Delhi, Chennai
Organized By: AFS India
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: Language classes, one to one interviews on well being and quality circle.

CBSE Capacity Building Programme Mass Media Studies

Workshops 06-Sep-2019

Event: CBSE Capacity Building Programme Mass Media Studies
Venue: Gurgaon
Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Sourina Bose
Highlight: A session on Syllabus Design, Question Paper Booklet Preparation and Course Insight

Peace Programme

Beyond Boundaries 06-Sep-2019

Event: Peace Programme
Venue: Hungary
Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: AFS
Participants: Rushil Khajanchi, Sanskriti Jain
Highlight: To learn about intercultural differences and promote world peace.

Spell Bee

Activities in LSA 02-Sep-2019

Event: Spell Bee
Participants: Students of Classes I - V
Highlight: Out of the students from classes I to V who participated in the Spell Bee competition in the year 2018 19, 14 qualified for the State Grand Finale Level. The ones who qualified are:
Class I: Ansh Agarwal, Chirag Goenka, NIdhish, Vrittee Fogl and Devansh Dalmia.
CLass II: Mohammad Abdullah & Vedika AGarwal.
Class III: Rishita Todi, Ritabrata Chakrabroty & Sachish Sarawgi.
Class IV: Addhyan Tikmani, Pranavi Agarwal, Devesh Patwari, & Dhriti Gupta.

Inter school patriotic song competition

External Events 31-Aug-2019

Venue: Gyan Manch
Organized By: Pariwar Milan
Participants: Students of Classes VI-IX & XI-XII
Highlight: Six students participated in a group song. They sang very well and secured 4th position and consolation trophy amongst 13 participating schools.

Capacity Building Program Science

Workshops 31-Aug-2019

Venue: Birla Bharati School
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Ms. Ranu Datta, Ms. Bhawvani Ravi Shankar
Participants: Deepa Das, Rupa Mazumdar, Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: It was a well-organized programme to share our experiences in teaching Science, on preparing lesson plans and on making question papers according to the examination format given by CBSE Board.

Hub of Learning

Workshops 31-Aug-2019

Event: Hub of Learning
Venue: B D M International
Organized By: B D M I
Participants: Ajanta Shaoo, Mumu Mukherjee, Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: Effective discussion on Question Paper format for class 9 and 10 Social Science.

Workshop Karo Sambhav School Programme 2019

Workshops 31-Aug-2019

Organized By: Artsforward with Karo Sambhav School Programme
Resource Person: Paromita Saha
Participants: Ajanta Shaoo, Anindita Pal, Asfia Rafique, Indrani Das, Jyotsna Joshi, Lilawati Mishra, Manidipa Lahiri, Mousumi Mukherjee, Nandini Chanda, Pushpa Dayani, Radhika Shaw, Runa Ghosh, Ruth Samarpita Sarkar, Sanzeeda Mirza, Sheuli Sen, Sneha Singh, Soumitra Maji, Sudakshina Datta, Swati Mukherjee
Highlight Explained the waste management, especially plastic and E wastes.

Lecture on Chandrayaan 2

Workshops 30-Aug-2019

Event: Lecture on Chandrayaan 2
Venue: BITM
Organized By: BITM along with Discovery Channel
Resource Person: Prof. Somak Rayhaudhury, Director, The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
Participants: Manidipa Lahiri
Highlight: Got to know the basic difference in the working plan, the programme of ISRO with that of NASA.Very informative, well-described.

Students' Science Seminar on Periodic Table of Chemical Elements: Impact on Human Welfare

External Events 29-Aug-2019

Venue: BITM
Organized By: BITM
Participants: Ishaan Jain
Highlight: There were 50 participating schools. Ishaan showcased his lecture along with the PowerPoint presentation in front of an august gathering.

Techniche 2019

External Events 29-Aug-2019

Dates – 29th August – 1st September 2019

Venue: IIT Guwahati

Participants: Shriyansh Dalmia, Rachit Kumar, Tarun Goenka, and Ashesh Mishra

Highlight - It was a first-hand STEM experience which helped greatly in student learning.

Capacity Building Program

Workshops 28-Aug-2019

Venue: DPS, Ruby Park, Senior School
Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Mishtuni Mukherjee & Jayati Goswami
Highlight: Conducted The Capacity Building workshop on Class Room Management as Resource Persons

Capacity Building Workshop

Workshops 28-Aug-2019

Venue: Sister Nivedita University, New Town
Organized By: TIGPS, Hooghly
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Sunitha R. Dey
Highlight: The workshop was on gender sensitivity in schools. The topic and content were very relevant and interesting. Received lots of inputs about the topic and guidance to apply them in the school

Durand Cup Semifinal 1

Educational Trips 21-Aug-2019

Venue: Salt Lake Stadium
Organized By: DFTS
Participants: LSA Football Team
Highlight: It was a great opportunity for the football team to witness the semifinal with their coach Mr. Joy Chakraborty. Students learned a lot of skills as they watched the match live.

 

U.S. University fair

Workshops 21-Aug-2019

Event: U.S. University fair
Organized By: KIC UnnivAssist
Resource Person: KIC UnivAssist
Participants: Students of classes XI and XII
Highlight: 18 U.S. universities participated. Students asked relevant questions regarding admission procedure and facilities for undergraduate studies in the USA.

AFS Hungary Orientation

Workshops 20-Aug-2019

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: Heena Shahzad
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: Information about Hungary peace program, gateway orientation of parents and clearing their queries.

Community Service

External Events 19-Aug-2019

Event: Community Service
Venue: HelpAge India
Organized By: AFS
Resource Person: Arindam
Participants: Students of Classes VIII – XI
Highlight: Meeting inmates of Old Age Home, spending valuable time with them, engage them with cultural programs.

INNOVENTURE 2019

External Events 19-Aug-2019

Event: INNOVENTURE 2019
Organized By: IntelligencePlus
Participants: Students of Classes VI-IX
Highlight: Round 1 of INNOVENTURE 2019, India's first national-level Ideation and Entrepreneurship challenge was held in which 92 students from classes VI to IX participated. Result awaiting.

Voice of Peace Workshop

Workshops 19-Aug-2019

Event: Voice of Peace Workshop
Organized By: AFS INDIA
Resource Person: Heena Shahzad, Soumya Agarwal
Participants: Students of Class IX
Highlight: Difference between violence and conflict, conflict resolution, international peacebuilding, making the world a better place to live in.

Capacity Building Workshop on Social Science

Workshops 17-Aug-2019

Venue: South Point High School. Kolkata
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Ms. Swati Das, Ms. Bandana Bharati
Participants: Mishtuni Mukherjee, Mumu Mukherjee
Highlight: Revision of the new syllabus, question paper pattern, marking scheme and Blueprint were discussed.

Independence Day Celebration

Activities in LSA 15-Aug-2019

Participants: Students of Classes V – XII
Highlight: Gaiety and exhilaration marked the 73rd Independence Day celebrations. The programme began with the march past by our scouts and guides along with our principal and the Chief Guest, Colonel HS Grewal. The cultural programme comprised a melodious rendition of a patriotic song, poignant speeches in Hindi, English and Bengali, a dance performance and a skit based on Mahatma Gandhi's life and a Nukkad Natak on Digital Citizenship.

Earth Reel Awards East

External Events 09-Aug-2019

Event: Earth Reel Awards East
Venue: ILEAD College
Organized By: Bichitra Pathshala
Resource Person: Earth Day Network
Participants: Students of Classes X – XII
Highlight: Our film ILISH FINISH was appreciated by the jury & it was recommended that the film must be uploaded on web platform for the world to see.

FRRO Meeting

Workshops 05-Aug-2019

Venue: FRRO Kolkata Office
Organized By: FRRO
Resource Person: Mr Chadive
Participants: Jayati Goswami, Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: The legal procedures regarding FRRO registration was discussed. The role of our school is vital in hosting foreign students. Regular follow up of academic results have to be done.

Virtual Exchange Training

Workshops 05-Aug-2019

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: Ms. Bhavya
Participants: Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The training was conducted in order to equip the facilitator (Jayati Goswami) to be able to conduct virtual exchange programme with a school in Brazil.

A Bag full of Smiles

External Events 01-Aug-2019

Organized By: Daan Utsav team
Resource Person: Ms. Anamika Lodha
Participants: Afshan Nahid, Ajanta Shaoo, Aloka Sen Sharma, Anita Chandra
Highlight: 43 ladies bag full of goodies brought by our staff members were handed over to the representative of the Daan Utsav team as a part of this campaign.

Literacy Through Photography

Workshops 01-Aug-2019

Event: Literacy Through Photography
Venue: South City International School
Organized By: Teacher's Center
Resource Person: Dr. Katie Hyde
Participants: Mr. Soumya Ghosh, Ms. Sudakshina Datta, and Ms. Sourina Bose

Highlight: Teaching module using pictures were taught. Assignments were executed during the workshop.

Workshop

Workshops 01-Aug-2019

Organized By: ISDI
Resource Person: ISDI
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: A talk on designing as a career. What are the different types of design courses, names of institutes that offer them and courses available in ISDI were discussed. A powerpoint presentation was shown.

Inclusion and Inclusive Education

Workshops 30-Jul-2019

Event: Inclusion and Inclusive Education
Venue: DPS, Ruby Park
Organized By: CBSE, Capacity Building
Resource Person: Ms. Rashmi Mantri
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Informative awareness of different PWD and RTI Acts. The standard operating procedures applicable in the classroom situation were also discussed.

Interactive session

Workshops 30-Jul-2019

Event: Interactive session
Organized By: Ashoka University
Resource Person: Ashoka University
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: A brief talk on the courses and curriculum of the university, Admission process, infrastructure and facilities available were presented by Ms. Himi Purkayastha, Senior Manager, Office of Admissions and Outreach. Two students of the university also discussed the PPT presented.

Press Conference

Activities in LSA 30-Jul-2019

Event: Press Conference
Resource Person: Principal Ma'am Kak
Participants: Anita Chandra, Anjali Chopra, Darshan Singh Gill, Jaya Misra, Kanak S. Mukherjee, Niladri Kr. Motilal, Pronita Gupta, Santosree Bhattacharya, Sunitha R. Dey.
Highlight: Representatives from different media houses like The Telegraph, Times of India, Sanmarg, The Statesman and Samagya attended the meet and got apprised of the different events coming up in the school. They were also made aware of the innovative methodologies that exist in our system.

CS First

Clubs & Special Activities 29-Jul-2019

Event: CS First
Venue: LSA Saturday Club
Organized By: LSA with Google India
Resource Person: Google India
Participants: Computer club students of Class VI - IX
Highlight We: have launched CS First in our Saturday Computer Club for classes 6 to 9. It is the new project of Google India. Students have started doing alot of logic and programming-based projects with online support of Google.

 

Excursion

Educational Trips 29-Jul-2019

Event: Excursion
Venue: The Times of India Kolkata
Organized By: Subject teacher
Resource Person: The Times of India Production team
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: As a part of the Mass Media studies board portfolio, 30 students visited the Times of India Press to observe how newspaper production is done. It was a very enriching & informative experience.

Indradhanush – Fun on Wheels

Activities in LSA 26-Jul-2019

Event Indradhanush: Fun on Wheels
Participants: Students of Classes II – V
Highlight: Indradhanush 2019, Fun on Wheels attempted to celebrate the essence of childhood, which is one of curiosity, wonder, and joy. It was an earnest attempt to provide a platform through a gamut of activities for the young enthusiasts of classes II to V. The inter-school fest had leading schools competing together as they were merged to form different teams. Tintin, Marple, Gogol, Feluda, Karamchand, Byomkesh, Sherlock and Poirot were the teams named after the famous detectives. The venues of the games were BITM, HelpAge India, BCL, and Lascar. At each venue, the students were engaged in a few decoding activities such as Popsicle Puzzle, Code Avenger, Mathematical Decoding and Morse Coding which helped them to crack code and move ahead in their pursuit of treasure. Each and every activity kept the children on their toes the whole day with their relentless spirit to give their best for the team. Though they belonged to different schools yet they were united in their motive to give their best for their team. The exciting and fun-filled day, unique in its concept and execution, came to a close with a fashion show showcasing a few iconic personalities of Kolkata, down the ages, who have made an immense contribution in their respective fields along with being unique in their choice of attire. The closing of the event reached its pinnacle of excitement and thrill when the most awaited prize distribution was held. Team Tintin comprising Lakshmipat Singhania Academy and South Point School secured the first prize. The second prize was awarded to Team Poirot comprising Sushila Birla Girls School and Apeejay School, Park Street. The third prize went to Team Sherlock comprising Modern High School for Girls and Birla High School for Boys.

 

 

 

 

Odyssey

External Events 26-Jul-2019

Event: Odyssey
Venue: Space Circle and Vidya Mandir
Organized By: Birla High School
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: At the events organised at Space Circle, we came 1st in Lawn Tennis, 2nd in Basketball and 3rd in Bowling. At Vidya Mandir, we came 2nd in HAM and 3rd in Quiz and Band competition. We could leave a mark in the majority of the events where we participated.

Workshop

Workshops 26-Jul-2019

Event: Workshop "Ready for the World"
Venue: HHI
Organized By: Cygnus
Resource Person: Cygnus
Participants: Tanisha Bansal, Rushil Khajanchi, Pratham Gupta and Ms. Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Informative Awareness on how to develop a positive personality, self-confidence. A session on communication skills and proper body language.

3rd Atal Tinkering Fest 2019

Activities in LSA 26-Jul-2019

Venue: ATL Lab

Participants: Students from 14 schools in the city.

Highlight - It involved highly charged innovators.  The two day event was dotted with workshops and exhibitions. The participating students were provided a first-hand experience to tinker and showcase their innovations that helped solve real-life problems.

Workshop on Thinking Innovation

Activities in LSA 25-Jul-2019

Resource persons - Dr. Rituparna Basu and Dr. Rachna Chattophadhya, Associate Prof. IMI

Venue: ATL Lab

Participants: More than 100 students from 14 schools

Highlight - ATL LSA organized "Thinking Innovation Challenge 2019" an opportunity to understand the real-life problems from the viewpoint of the people who are at the receiving end. Our ATL Mentor Dr. Rituparna Basu and Dr. Rachna Chattopadhyay brainstormed the problems at hand.

Mathematics Teachers Workshop

Workshops 22-Jul-2019

Event: Mathematics Teachers Workshop
Venue: BITM Auditorium
Organized By: BITM
Resource Person: Mr. Tushar Sengupta
Participants: Anindita Pal, Jayati Goswami
Highlight: Various methods of teaching Mathematics using critical thinking skills and ‘learning by doing’ and Vedic Mathematics.

Workshop on Basic Life Support

Workshops 20-Jul-2019

Event: Workshop on Basic Life Support
Organized By: Charnock Hospital
Participants: Teachers
Highlight: Under the able guidance of Dr. Nishant Agarwal, Emergency Department Head of Charnock Hospital and in the presence of Mr. Prashant Sharma, MD of Charnock Hospital, teachers of Senior section went under rigorous theoretical and practical training to deal with emergencies faced by the school. The training ranged from providing CPR to choking to Convulsion and other common emergencies faced by in school.

 

Workshop on Awareness on Autism

Workshops 20-Jul-2019

Event: Workshop on Awareness of Autism
Resource Person: Dr. Aditi Bandhyopadhyay
Participants: Teachers
Highlight: A very well conducted session with the focus on the behavioral pattern of children with Autism and the difficulties they face in the learning process. Tips were given on ways to help them in the class.

CLICK - photography event of exeBYTE

External Events 20-Jul-2019

Event: CLICK
Resource: exeBYTE organising committee

Venue: Pincep Ghat

Participants: Students and teachers from 15 different schools participated in the event. The participants were divided into 3 categories. Students of VI-VIII was given the theme as Nature, IX-XII students were given the theme - portraits in monochrome and teacher participants were given the theme moods and emotions. The photographs will be judged both by popular choice and judges choice. Popular choice entries can be seen at www.facebook.com/lsaexebit.

Imagination and Interest In Geography

Workshops 19-Jul-2019

Event: Imagination and Interest In Geography
Venue: Loreto House School, Kolkata
Organized By: Mrs. Shernaz Chinoy
Participants: Ajanta Shaoo, Poulomi Saha
Highlight: They learned the ways to teach a continent in the form of a story, also learned the technique to teach students ‘How to find the places with the help of an Index in the Atlas’.

Shola Workshop

Workshops 19-Jul-2019

Event: Shola Workshop
Venue: ICCR
Organized By: MMB, Kolkata
Resource Person: Amritah Sen
Participants: Students of Classes IX & XI
Highlight: 17 students from the senior secondary section including 3 foreign students (Anna Keyzar, Roberto Andreozzi And Dontae Ryan II) went for a Shola craft workshop organized by MMB, Kolkata at ICCR hall. The students enjoyed thoroughly, learnt about the history of the craft and witnessed excellent craftsmanship. They also tried their hands out there.

A visit to Rathyatra Carnival

Educational Trips 11-Jul-2019

Event: A visit to Rathyatra Carnival
Venue: Park Street Ground
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: On 10th July, the 3 students of YES Program, Anna Keyzer, Dontae LaMont Ryan II and Roberto Andreozzi were taken to the Rathyatra Carnival at Park Street. They thoroughly enjoyed the visit.

Welcome Assembly for the students of Exchange Program

Activities in LSA 09-Jul-2019

Event: Welcome Assembly for the students of Exchange Program
Organized By: AFS volunteers of the school
Participants: Students of Classes IX-XII
Highlight: 3 students of 'YES PROGRAM', Dontae LaMont Ryan II (from the USA), Anna Keyzer (from the USA) and Roberto Andreozzi (from Italy) joined our school on 8/07/2019. There was a 'Welcome Assembly' arranged for them, where they were introduced and felicitated with bouquets and tilaks. At the end of the day, they had a special session with Principal Ma'am.

Chrysallis

External Events 08-Jul-2019

Event: Chrysallis - DPS Ruby Park Fest
Venue: DPS Ruby Park
Organized By: DPS Ruby Park
Participants: Students of Classes IX - XII
Highlight: We won the chess competition Checkmate and in Basketball we made it till the semifinals.

Road Safety Awareness

Activities in LSA 08-Jul-2019

Event: Road Safety Awareness
Participants: Students of Classes I - V
Highlight: The children had an interactive session about the road safety rules to be followed by them. Mr. Samir Panja, the officer incharge of South West Traffic Guard informed the students about the benefits of following traffic rules. They were told that they may inform the nearby police station by calling the helpline numbers in case of an accident.

Morpheus'19

External Events 06-Jul-2019

Event: Morpheus'19
Venue: South City International School
Organized By: South City International School
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: In the fest organised we came 2nd in Chess, 1st in FIFA, 2nd in Tug of war (Girls) and 1st in Treasure Hunt. 

Summer Internship

Workshops 03-Jul-2019

Venue: Fortis Hospital
Resource Person: Dr. Sanjay Garg
Participants: Students of Classes XI-XII
Highlight: Students got to witness a completely new perspective towards mental health. They interacted with all the other participating schools. They interacted with the actual patients and learned a lot of new methods of treatments.

Get your Acts Together

External Events 03-Jul-2019

Event: Get your Acts Together
Venue: Kala Kunj
Organized By: Fortis Hospital
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: The students who participated were excellent. They have announced the winners out of 24 schools and Raunak Chakraborti was awarded the best actor. Our school depicted the best act on "Mental Health and the Stigma Attached to it".

CS First Program

Activities in LSA 29-Jun-2019

Organized By : LSA and Google India
Resource Person : Google
Participants: Students of Classes VI to IX Computer Saturday club
Highlight : The computer club of our academy launched CS First Program by Google India. They have
started enjoying various programs using logic and Scratch. 

 

exeBYTE Representative Meeting

Activities in LSA 28-Jun-2019

Participants : Students of Classes X – XII
Highlight : Representatives of 15 reputed school of Kolkata participated in the event. 

Interactive Session on Air Quality in Kolkata

Workshops 26-Jun-2019

Venue : American Center
Organized By : American Center
Resource Person : Dr Jamie Schauer, US Science Envoy for Air Quality
Participants : Ms. Mumu Mukherjee
Highlight : Very informative and interactive session. Dignitaries from various areas such as Subhas
Dutta environment activist, Consul General Patti Hoffman, Jayanta Basu from The Telegraph
Dr Manas Ranjan Ray Former Asst Director from National Cancer Institute participated.

Artificial Intelligence Readiness Program for Teachers

Workshops 25-Jun-2019

Organized By : CBSE with support from Intel
Resource Person : Intel Team
Participants : Mr. Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms. Sanzeeda Sultania Mirza, Ms. Sudakshina Datta, Ms. Swati Mukherjee
Highlight : The Readiness Program for teachers was organised by CBSE with support from Intel to equip
the teachers with skill sets to teach Artificial Intelligence, which has been introduced as a
vocational subject for classes VIII and IX. 41 teachers, including Principals and Vice Principals
from all over India participated in the programme. The session was broken up in various
modules. Each module had content which would passively lead the students to understand
the technology.

World Ethnic Wear Day

Activities in LSA 19-Jun-2019

Participants All Teachers & Students
Highlight All the students and teachers wore ethnic clothes and brought ethnic food to school.

West Bengal Under 14 Chess Championship

External Events 16-Jun-2019

Venue:  Silver Point School
Organized By : Pioneer Chess School
Participants : Students of Classes I, II, IV, VI to VIII
Highlight : Under 14 Girls Category – Urja Goyal secured 1st position, Shreya Shree Bansal secured 2nd
position and Kriti Mundhra secured 3rd position.
Under 12 Girls Category – Dhruvi Sha secured 3rd place, Jagriti Agarwal secured 4th position
and Aditi Burman secured 5th position.
Under 10 Boys Category – Yug Desai secured 2nd position.
Under 10 Girls Category – Kaashvi Lohia secured 2nd position.
Under 8 Boys Category – Devansh Dalmia secured 4th position and &
Aayansh Burman secured 6th position.

Inter School Throw Ball

External Events 15-Jun-2019

Venue: Sri Sri Academy
Organized By:  Sri Sri Academy
Participants: Students of Classes VII, IX to XII - Ananya Khemka, Nandini Daga, Praachi Tikmani, Mahek Sethia, Kasvi Chindalia, Divija V
Agarwal, Aanya Didwania, Bhavya Athwani, Shagun Fogla and Naina Varandani 
Highlight: It was a big experience for them and learnt a lot. It was a good exposure in the field of throw ball.

World Cup Quiz Competition

External Events 15-Jun-2019

Date : 15/06/2019 
Venue : British Council
Organized By : British Council
Participants : Students of Class XII
Highlight : Sarvesh Agarwal and Vaibhav Balasaria participated. LSA qualified for the finals. (In the
finals we were fifth out of all the other schools).

Parent Orientation by AFS

Workshops 14-Jun-2019

Date: 14/06/2019 
Organized By: AFS
Resource Person : Ms. Divya Arora, Director AFS
Participants : Host parents, Counsellors, AFS Volunteers
Highlight:  It was a HOST FAMILY orientation with Ms. Divya Arora, Director of AFS Intercultural
Programs. She oriented parents about the hosting culture and briefed them about the
details on hosting the YES Program participants coming in July 1st week. Parents had a two
hour session where they clarified all their doubts and enjoyed the company of each other. It
was an open interaction between the director and parents.

23rd Annual Scouts and Guides Camp

Educational Trips 13-Jun-2019

From Date:  13/06/2019 To 18/06/2019
Venue : Pelling, Sikkim
Participants : Mr. Sambhu Nayak, Mr. Joy Chakraborty, Ms. Manidapa Lahiri, Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay & Students of Classes IX – XII
Highlight : 59 students participated in activities like hike to a Monastry, wide games, night games , flag break procedure had a good learning experience on all campers. They were enjoyed by each and everyone.

AFS Workshop

Workshops 13-Jun-2019

Date : 13/06/2019 
Organized By : AFS
Resource Person: Ms.Divya Arora
Participants: Students of Classes IX & X
Highlight:  Ms. Arora oriented our students with the new happenings in AFS regarding sponsored and
non sponsored programs.She spoke on Sustainable Growth and being a global citizen. She emphasized on the need of exchange programmes and how it strengthens the life of a student.

Under 15 West Bengal State Chess Championship

External Events 05-Jun-2019

Venue : Heritage School
Organized By : Bengal Chess Association
Participants : Students of Classes V, VI & VIII
Highlight : Vedika Agarwal ranked 9th in West Bengal, Urja Goyal ranked 13th and Shreya Shree Bansal ranked 15th
Category Prizes – Jagriti Agarwal secured 2nd position in Under 12 Girls and
Shreeyash Kejriwal secured 1st position in Under 10 Boys category

Workshop on Teacher Counsellor

Workshops 04-Jun-2019

From Date 04/06/2019 To 05/06/2019
Event Workshop on Teacher Counsellor
Venue Indian Social Institute, Lodi Road, New Delhi
Organized By Institute of Counsellor Training Research and Consultancy
Resource Person Dr. V S Ravindran
Participants Bindiya Kaur Gill, Darshan Singh Gill
Highlight It was a two day long workshop on Learning Problems Identification and Management and Behaviour Problems Causes, Prevention and Remediation. It was a well organised workshop where the topics were effectively explained and discussed.

Saturday Club Youth Chess Championship Rapid Rating

External Events 02-Jun-2019

Venue : Saturday Club
Organized By : Alekhine Chess Club
Participants : Students of Classes VIII & IX
Highlight : Under 14 Girls Category–Kriti Mundhra secured 1st position & Vedika Agarwal secured 2nd position.

National Under 7 Boys and Girls Championship

External Events 01-Jun-2019

From Date:  01/06/2019 To 06/06/2019
Venue: New Town School
Organized By : Bengal Chess Association
Participants : Students of Classes II & III
Highlight:  Aarya Beria was ranked 34th place in India in Girls’ section ; Bhavya Dhandhania scored 6/11 Points & Yatharth Poddar scored 5.5/11 Points

AFS Volunteer Exchange Programme

Beyond Boundaries 30-May-2019

Date: 17/05/2019 To 30/05/2019
Venue: Budapest
Organized: By AFS India
Resource Person: Gabor Csikos
Participants: Kanak S Mukherji
Highlight: This was the reciprocator programme to Hungary as the volunteer from Hungary Mr Gabor Csikos had visited India in October 2018.

Times NIE Summer Training

Workshops 29-May-2019

Date: 22/05/2019 To 29/05/2019
Event: Times NIE Summer Training
Venue: TOI Office
Organized By: Times NIE
Resource Person: Times NIE
Participants: Riddhi Agarwal, Tanisha Bansal & Krisha Sureka
Highlight: The Times NIE summer training was attended by Riddhi Agarwal, Tanisha Bansal & Krisha Sureka. They had hands-on experience in editing, production and result, and market development. They met senior officials of the media and were exposed to the functioning of the Print media.

 

AFS Process Training

Workshops 19-May-2019

Date 18/05/2019 To 19/05/2019
Event: AFS Process Training
Venue: Anand Bhavan, New Delhi
Organized By: AFS Intercultural Programs, India
Resource Person: AFS Trainers
Participants: Jayati Goswami & Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: The new upcoming programs were introduced. Information related to process, sending programs, hosting and volunteers were introduced. The two day round training had a mix of fast introductory lessons and brainstorming. Information about AFS was given followed by a pleasant stay at the guest house.

Online Workshop on Employability skill

Workshops 16-May-2019

Date: 16/05/2019
Event: Online Workshop on Employability skill for classes 9 and 11
Organized By: PSS Central Institute of Vocational Education, Bhopal
Resource Person: Mr. Jaswinder Singh and Mr. Vikrant Chandella
Participants: Niladri Motilal, Sanzeeda Mirza, Sudakshina Datta, Swati Mukherjee, Deepa Das, Manjari Damani, Swati Banerjee, and Sourina Bose.
Highlight: It was an online interactive session using zoom software. We got registered and trained to use online resources full of videos and presentations with activities to teach employability skill. We can register our classes too so that they can get the benefit of the same resources.
Students will get their online account credential for assessment and feedback.

Election and Investiture

Activities in LSA 10-May-2019

Date: 22/04/2019 To 10/05/2019
Participants: Students of Classes VI to XII
Highlight: The students were sensitized towards the democratic process. They elected the council members.

SATRANGI – An Inter school singing competition

External Events 09-May-2019

Date: 07/05/2019 To 09/05/2019
Event: SATRANGI – An Inter school singing competition
Venue: G. D. Birla Sabhaghar
Organized By: South Point High School
Participants: Jeet Chovatis, Pramit Banerjee & Yuvraj Jhanwar
Highlight: It was a tough and prestigious competition. Our school got the first position out of 12 participating schools in the prelims and were selected for the finals.

Rabindra Jayanti

Activities in LSA 08-May-2019

Date: 08/05/2019
Participants: Students and Teachers
Highlight: This sesquicentennial commemoration of Tagore's birthday witnessed a melodious song by Sweta ma'am in puja Porjay, a choreography of Sunale Sunale Balika by Sanjay sir and a harmonious song sung by the teachers of the institution and a programme presented by the school choir.

Workshop on Schools Climate Change and Environment

Workshops 08-May-2019

Date: 08/05/2019
Venue: Alliance Francaise Due Benagale
Organized By: Centre for Contemporary Communication
Resource Person: Dr. Tapati Ghosh / Ms. Mallika Jalan
Participants: Aarav Bharany, Biswaman Saha, Meghal Jain & Muskan Choudhary Highlight It was a workshop cum competition, which talked about the imprinting well being of climatic change on the young generations. It started with an intriguing film 'Kolkata 2070', followed by a panel discussion by various nature activists. The discussion was followed by poster making and debate.15 renowned schools participated in the events. The participants drew/sketched slogans on climate change and debated well on the topics ‘For youth environment stewardship EVS or nature clubs are enough in school’.

 

Career Counselling

Workshops 07-May-2019

Date: 07/05/2019
Organized By: Mindler
Resource Person: Mr. Parikshit Dhanda
Participants: Students of Classes IX, X, and XII
Highlight: There was an orientation on Career Counselling for Classes IX, X and XII had a follow-up session. Later during the day he addressed the Class X parents and helped them in the selection of subjects.

 

Investiture Ceremony

Activities in LSA 07-May-2019

Date: Investiture Ceremony
Participants: Students of Class V
Highlight: The Investiture Ceremony was held for the Junior School Council members. The proud parents of the council members were invited to witness the ceremony. The oath-taking ceremony was conducted by Headmistress Ma'am. Later the badges and the Appointment letters were handed over by Headmistress Ma'am and the Coordinator Ma'am respectively. This was followed by an audio-visual presentation which was very inspiring. The elected council members are: Vayu: Bhavya Agarwal and Pranavi Agarwal, Agni: Ananya Sharma and Samamvi Jhunjhunwala, Jal: Addhyan Tikmani and Kanushi Saraf, Prithvi: Avaneesh Bajaj and Kashvi Ruia, Sports Captain: Aarushi Bhroota and Krishnam Tikmani

YES Abroad Program

Beyond Boundaries 03-May-2019

Resource Person: AFS
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: It was the last working day for Dane Liebermann, our exchange student from the USA. He departed from Kolkata on 5th May and he left India on 8th May 2019 after a 10-months stay with us.

Educational Trip to Britannia Factory

Educational Trips 30-Apr-2019

Event: Educational Trip to Britannia Factory
Venue: Britannia Factory, Taratolla
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: 29 students of Cost Accounting class visited the Britannia Factory, Taratolla for CBSE project on process costing.

Demonstration of Science Activities

Workshops 26-Apr-2019

Event: Demonstration of Science Activities
Organized By: Monadipa Lahiri & Rupa Mazumdar
Resource Person: Dr. Samir K.Datta
Participants: Students of Class VII
Highlight: Dr. Samir K. Datta presented 10 activities on different Scientific concepts based on Pressure, Indicators, centre of gravity etc. Students could answer on their own on seeing the
activities the theory behind those.

Cerebrate

External Events 24-Apr-2019

Event: Cerebrate
Venue: South Point
Organized By: South Point
Participants: Rounak Chakraborty & Saborno Sinha
Highlight: Out of 18 schools participated they the were one of the Finals.

AFS Annual Meet

Beyond Boundaries 23-Apr-2019

Event AFS Annual Meet

Venue: Delhi Hotel Annya
Organized By: AFS Delhi
Resource Person: AFS India team
Participants: Anita Chandra & Shrishti Maheshwari
Highlight: It was a great experience. Met the complete team, got to know about all activities. It was very well organised.

One Word, One Poem, One Literary analysis

Workshops 23-Apr-2019

Event: One Word, One Poem, One Literary analysis
Venue: American Centre
Organized By: American Centre
Resource Person: Patricia Mathews
Participants: Srabanti Deb & Mayurika Banerjee Pal
Highlight: It was an interactive session with activities that involved all the teachers. Few innovative activities like non stop writing and writing poems with the words that were coined by each of them.

Atal Community Day

Activities in LSA 14-Apr-2019

Event: Atal Community Day
Venue: ATL Lab
Participants: Students of Classes VIII - X
Highlight: Eight schools participated in the event to explore the idea of innovation and entrepreneurship. More then 100 students and 30 adults participated in the day long event.

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

External Events 12-Apr-2019

Venue: Kolkata Centre for Creativity
Organized By: Thinkart Organization
Resource Person: Amritah Sen
Participants: Yuvraj Dujari, Vidisha Mundhra , Sampreeti Banerjee, Arijit Ghosh and Saadia Rahman, Havish Doshi, Hemaanya Bothra, Nishhank Gadia, Rishika Kala & Shreesh Agarwal
Highlight: Ten students went for a hands on art workshop where they were asked to look at a mounted art exhibition, react to the artworks and make some collage work on their own.
The centre is also very impressive.

Child Safety Awareness Initiative

Workshops 11-Apr-2019

Event: Child Safety Awareness Initiative
Venue: Heritage School
Organized By: Indian Chamber of Commerce
Resource Person: Charnock Hospital
Participants: Darshan Singh Gill & S. Raveendran
Highlight: This initiative was aimed at raising awareness towards dealing with health emergencies at schools.

Annual Prize distribution ceremony

Activities in LSA 06-Apr-2019

Event: Annual Prize distribution ceremony
Participants: Teachers & Students
Highlight: The students were felicitated for their endeavour and talents by the Chief Guest. Dr. Bhupati Chakraborty, Guest of Honour Mr Bhaswar Chatterjee and Principal madam.

Workshop on Anti Addiction

Workshops 05-Apr-2019

Event: Workshop on Anti Addiction
Resource Person: Mr. Bobby Chakraborty
Participants: Students of Classes VII & VIII
Highlight: It was a two hour interactive workshop for classes VII and VIII towards leading a healthy life against addiction of all sorts especially substance abuse.

Workshop by school counsellors

Workshops 05-Apr-2019

Event: Workshop
Organized By: Communicators
Resource Person: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta & Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Students of Class VI
Highlight: Transition from primary to middle school. The changes in school curriculum. Classroom behaviour, code of conduct and discussion on bullying.

Workshop by school counsellors

Workshops 05-Apr-2019

Event: Workshop
Organized By: Communicators
Resource Person: Sumona Dasgupta & Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Students of Class VII
Highlight: Discussion on code of conduct & bullying. The role of a bystander when bullying takes place. How these bystanders can prevent bullying by becoming upstanders.

Workshop with classes III students

Workshops 04-Apr-2019

Date 04/04/2019
Event: Workshop
Organized: By Communicators
Resource Person: Ms. Anju Munshi
Participants: Students of Class III
Highlight: Transition from pre primary to primary schools. The code of conduct and classroom etiquette through video presentation was discussed.

Workshop on Code of Conduct and Classroom etiquette

Workshops 04-Apr-2019

Event: Workshop on Code of Conduct and Classroom etiquette
Organized By: Communicators
Resource Person: Ms. Anju Munshi, Ms. Sumona Dasgupta & Ms. Nabamita DuttaGupta
Participants: Students of Classes VI - VIII  
Highlight: Students were told about the code of conduct and classroom etiquettes, what is bullying and proper ways to prevent bullying. Gender issues and personal hygiene were addressed in separate groups for boys and girls. 

Workshop on the Magic Words and Polite words

Workshops 03-Apr-2019

Organized By: Ms. Anju Munshi
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: The workshop was held for the students of Classes III to V. They were reminded of the Magic Words and Polite words to be used with their peers and teachers. Ma'am also reiterated the values by short role plays that they could relate with themselves in their day to day life.

Workshop by school counsellors

Workshops 03-Apr-2019

Event: Workshop
Organized By: Communicators
Resource Person: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta & Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Students of Class VIII
Highlight: Discussion on expected behaviour from the senior most class of the middle school. General rules and regulations of school and following the code of conduct. Discussion about the outcomes of indisciplinary act was discussed.

International Student Exchange Programme

Beyond Boundaries 30-Mar-2019

Event: International Student Exchange Programme
Venue: Rural Development Academy Laboratory School and College Boghura Bangladesh
Participants: 13 students from classes VI-VIII along with 2 teachers attended this exchange programme.
Highlight: The LSA team was received at the Hili Border. The students did 13 collaborative academic projects through interactive presentations and group discussions. LSA students attended a symposium highlighting the mass genocide during Bangladesh’s freedom war against Pakistan. Team India celebrated Bangladesh Independence Day by putting up a rhythmic dance show. They were also taken for various sightseeing tours to religious and archaeological sites. The students visited the 60 acres farmland where they had the opportunity to learn about rice cultivation, visited a dairy farm, a fruit orchard, and a vegetable research field. The students of both schools have framed a TREATY that has made both schools long term partners. The TREATY has been signed by Principals of both LSA & RDALS&C.
An overview: The students experienced a different culture and social order from very close quarters. They interacted with the teachers and students of RDALS&C and presented their own Academy with great respect.

Workshop on Critical Thinking

Workshops 26-Mar-2019

Event: Workshop on Critical Thinking
Resource Person: Jayati Goswami
Participants: Teachers
Highlight: All the teachers found the workshop interactive and crisp.

Annual Scout Guide Camp

Educational Trips 20-Mar-2019

Event: Annual Scout Guide Camp
Venue: Kolaghat
Participants: Students of classes VI-VIII
Highlight: 29 Campers from classes VI to VIII participated. A lot of activities ranging from lashing to treasure hunt was organized. It was well organized and well executed.

Exchange Programme to Nepal

Beyond Boundaries 16-Mar-2019

From Date 08/03/2019 To 16/03/2019
Event: Exchange Programme to Nepal
Venue: Shuvotara 3 Angles School, Pokhara, Nepal
Resource Person: Shuvotara 3 Angles School, Pokhara, Nepal
Participants: Vanya Nathani, Vaanya Agarwal, Navya Khemka, Yug Kedia, Sara Gupta, and Saurya Bothra along with two teachers
Highlight It was an exchange programme for our upcoming International School Award. It was a great experience for the students, through thorough interaction with students and teachers of the school in Nepal. Our students were excited to teach the girls of class7 karate as self-defense. They did projects on:– Nomenclature Nuances; Zone-In: The Case of Space; Love Thy Neighbour; Comtech – Communication & Technology and Cast a Spell – Wonder and Magic.

Convocation

Activities in LSA 11-Mar-2019

Event: Convocation
Participants: Students of classes II- V
Highlight: The students of classes II and V were given a formal farewell by celebrating the Convocation. The Ceremony was held to felicitate the students with the Convocation certificates and bidding them adieu as they move to the next level of class. The headmistress ma’am conducted the oath taking ceremony followed by principal ma’am giving away the convocation certificates to the respective HRTs of the graduating classes. Students of class II presented a dance performance. To culminate the ceremony the help staff were given gifts for which the students had contributed.

Visit to BITM

Educational Trips 08-Mar-2019

Event: Visit BITM
Venue: BITM
Participants: Students of Montessori
Highlight: Children enjoyed their visit. They enjoyed the television show and enthusiastically played in the children's play area

Visit to the Horticulture Garden

Educational Trips 07-Mar-2019

Event: Visit the Horticulture Garden
Venue: Horticulture Garden
Participants: Students of Montessori
Highlight: Children enjoyed their walk in the Horticulture Garden and were attracted to the vibrant Colorful flowers. They enjoyed playing in the children's park.

National Conference on Inclusion

Workshops 05-Mar-2019

Event: National Conference on Inclusion
Venue: India International Centre, Delhi
Organized By: Expression India
Resource Person: Expressions India and Nepmed
Participants: Ms. Anita Chandra
Highlight: Great exposure and a lot of exchange of views. Learned about many new laws regarding inclusions and its classifications.

AFS Annual Presidents, Board Members & Staff Meeting

Beyond Boundaries 09-Feb-2019

Venue : Ashok Country Resort, New Delhi

Organized by : AFS

Resource Person :  Ms. Divya Arora, National Director

Participants : Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight : It was the first time that Kolkata Chapter attended this meet. We got an opportunity to display, in front of the Board Members, all that we have done in the session related to the  AFS Exchange programs. The work done by the school was appreciated at the National Level in front of all the chapters under AFS.

 Trip to BITM

Educational Trips 07-Feb-2019

 Venue : BITM

Participants : Students of Class III 

Highlight : The children visited the Mock Coal Mine where they saw machines used for cutting and extracting coal. They enjoyed the Science Magic Show which was based on some scientific  experiments. Some children also got a  chance to participate in those experiments. The 3D show on Solar System was enthralling. The children enjoyed the Science Gallery where theysaw some simple machines and experiments based on Air Pressure and Mirror Image.

Interactive session on 'Mental Health ‑ Breaking the Stigma'

Workshops 02-Feb-2019

Venue : ICC Auditorium , ICC Towers

Organized by : Ms.Minu Budhia, Caring Minds

Resource Person :  Dr. Manoj Shah (Psychiatrist) & Dr. Prerna Shah (Neuropsychologist)

Participants : Ms.Soma Pal Roy, Ms.Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms.Sumona Das Gupta

Highlight : It was an interactive session on 'Mental Health‑Breaking the Stigma. Mr. Bruce Bucknell‑British Dy High Commissioner, Dr. Sashi Panja‑Hon'ble Minister (WB), Dr. Manoj Shah Psychiatrist (USA), Dr. Prerna Shah‑Neuropsychologist (USA) and Ms.Minu Budhia ‑ Chairperson were the eminent speakers.

 

Art Competition

External Events 02-Feb-2019

Venue : Future Foundation School

Organized by : Future Foundation School

Participants : Students of Classes IV, VI & VIII - Havish Doshi, Nishhank Gadia, Yuvraj Dujari, Srikar A., Disha Doshi & Pramit Banerjee

Highlight  : Children participated in the art competition divided in 3 different groups. The theme was about 'Caring'.

 

Visit to the Alipore Zoological Gardens

Educational Trips 01-Feb-2019

Venue : Alipore Zoological Gardens

Participants : Students of PS‑I to Class II (on different days) 

Highlight : Children enjoyed the trip thoroughly and the weather was suitable for an outing. All the animals were visible to the children. They were thrilled to see The Royal Bengal Tiger and Emu and could relate with the lessons taught in class. Some classes also did projects related to their trip. 

Math Challenge

Activities in LSA 30-Jan-2019

Event: Math Challenge
Organized By: Times of India
Resource Person: Meritnation
Participants: Students of Classes VI-IX 
Highlight: Students enjoyed Logical Thinking Questions and gave aptitude based assessment.

Capacity Building Workshop Career Guidance

Workshops 29-Jan-2019

Event: Capacity Building Workshop Career Guidance
Venue: Apeejay School, Salt Lake
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: It was a two-day workshop and there were 45 participants. The students experienced the different methods that can be used for creating career consciousness.

CBSE Regional Science Exhibition 2018

Activities in LSA 28-Jan-2019

Event: CBSE Regional Science Exhibition 2018
Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Various Schools
Highlight: CBSE Regional Science Exhibition 2018 was organised from 27th to 28th January 2019 for the first time at the school premises. 32 schools from all over West Bengal and some from the eastern region of India participated in the exhibition displaying 52 exhibits by nearly 104 students. Out of the 52 exhibits, 15 were selected to compete in the Nationals to be held at Delhi. Mr. T. Mate, RO Bhubaneshwar presided as the chief guest on 28th January and congratulated all on the grand success.

Class picnic

Activities in LSA 28-Jan-2019

Event: Class picnic
Venue: Monobitan
Participants: Students of Classes III to V
Highlights: The school organised a class picnic to Monobitan. All the students enjoyed as they were engaged in various games and fun activities. They enjoyed the magic show that was hosted for them. Overall it was a fun filled day for them.

Class Picnic

Activities in LSA 21-Jan-2019

Event: Class Picnic
Venue: Joyland (Amtala)
Resource Person: Travel India
Participants: Students of Classes VI-VIII
Highlight: 358 students of class VI-VIII along with 19 teachers and 3 support staff members went to Joyland for the class picnic. 7 buses were arranged. Students and teachers had a refreshing time there and spent quality time bonding with the teachers.

National Championship

External Events 20-Jan-2019

Event: National Championship
Venue: IIT Delhi
Organized By: Makeintern
Resource Person: Makeintern and Tryst IIT Delhi
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: 5 students namely, Chirag Surana, Debopam Dutta, Pratham Jain, Pratham Jalan, Yashaswi Kedia of class XI attended the event. 54 schools and colleges from across our country participated in the event. No awards won but we came back with a lot of appreciation from our co-participants.

Accreditation Orientation Programme

Workshops 19-Jan-2019

Event: Accreditation Orientation Programme
Organized By: Business Analyst Group
Resource Person: Mr. Runu Bagchi and Ms. Ruchira Mujherjee
Participants: Staff of LSA
Highlight: An orientation programme was held for the staff of our academy to know the processes of accreditation programme. Various formats were explained, Committee members were chosen and target dates were also set in this meeting.

Visit to the Zoo

Educational Trips 16-Jan-2019

Event: Visit the Zoo
Venue: Alipore Zoo
Participants: Students of Montessori
Highlight: Children were very happy to visit the zoo. They learned about different wild animals. They also followed the code of conduct.

Crafts and Textile Mela

Activities in LSA 15-Jan-2019

Event: Crafts and Textile Mela
Participants: Craftsmen of Bengal
Highlight: This was held to sensitize the children to textile and craft heritage of Bengal and it was to support the craftsmen. The feedback was positive as the children came and bought things and enjoyed the mela, parents also came in and bought materials from the mela.

Testing Meet of Scout Section

External Events 13-Jan-2019

Event: Testing Meet of Scout Section
Venue: The Scout Pavilion
Organized By: South Calcutta Association
Participants: Students of Classes IX & X
Highlight: Ayman Kabir, Nilesh Kothari, Krishang Gupta. Shubham Gupta, Pranav Asar attended the Testing Meet of Scout Section for Dwitiya Sopan. They were tested on Pioneering, Fire, First Aid and Estimation. Students did well in all the tests.

Workshop on Photography

Workshops 07-Jan-2019


Event: Workshop on Photography 
Venue: Alipore Zoo
Organized By: Ahava Communication
Resource Person: Ahava Communication
Participants: Students of Classes VI - VIII
Highlight: Students learned the basics of photography.

Sensitivity in Teaching

Workshops 05-Jan-2019

Event: Sensitivity in Teaching
Organized By: HLS India
Resource Person: Mr. Amitabh Mohan
Participants: Teachers of our Academy
Highlight: The renowned psychologist and teacher trainer Mr. Amitabh Mohan stressed on the need to focus on the teacher for a better teaching-learning environment. The analysis of the interpersonal style of the teachers was useful for the teachers. He also discussed about the staff room environment and its effect on the teachers. Sensitivity in dealing with the children and the parents was also discussed. It was a good learning experience. The teachers learned different ways to handle students and to motivate them in different aspects.

School Excursion for Class XI

Educational Trips 04-Jan-2019

Event: School Excursion for Class XI
Venue: Haridwar, Rishikesh, Musoorie
Organized By: Travel India
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: 73 students along with 5 teachers boarded the train on 24th of December and returned on 29th December. It was great fun for the students. They enjoyed the trip and the freezing climate.

Poem Recitation in Hindi

External Events 03-Jan-2019

Event: Poem Recitation in Hindi
Venue: Federation Hall
Organized By: Sambhunath
Resource Person: Sanskritik Punarnirman Mission
Participants: Students of classes IV & VII
Highlight: Students gained confidence.

Cubs and Bulbuls camp

Educational Trips 24-Dec-2018

Venue: Puri, Orissa
Participants: Students of Classes IV & V
Highlight: 23rd Annual Cub Bulbul camp was organised at Puri, Orissa with 94 campers, 7 teachers and 2 sub-staff. All the campers learned a lot from camping life. Games and activities based on badges were organised which was appreciated by all.

Khelo India workshop

Workshops 22-Dec-2018

Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi
Organized By: CBSE AND SAI
Resource Person: SAI
Participants: Mr. Arnab Bhattacharya
Highlight: Interesting, motivating and helpful for the students.

Cyber Safety Workshop

Workshops 14-Dec-2018

Venue: ITC Hotel Sonar
Organized By: KIPS learning solutions Pvt Ltd
Resource Person: Mr. Dheeraj Bhatia
Participants: Sudakshina Datta
Highlight: More than 200 educators from West Bengal attended. It was an effective guide to avoid cybercrime and ensure cyber security among students. Various case studies were discussed. New threats like Cybertension, Sextortion, Cyber jihadi, Sugar daddy were explained. The role of a school, a teacher was discussed, ground level remedies were told.
They even discussed the process of Intervention Officer Official Training programme. This workshop can be done with our teachers and parents.

Art Workshop

Workshops 08-Dec-2018

Venue: Modern High School for Girls
Organized By: Modern High School for Girls
Resource Person: Art Mela
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: Hanishi Shah and Ashwarya Tiwari participated in the Art Workshop. Children learned how to make cartoon drawings and they enjoyed the experience.

Field trip to Kalna

Educational Trips 07-Dec-2018

Venue: Kalna
Organized By: Sourina Bose
Participants: Students of Classes VII, IX & XI
Highlight: Students of Mass Media Studies & Lensocraft visited Kalna for Outdoor photography & monument film making.

Visit Naval ship

Educational Trips 04-Dec-2018

Venue: Khiddirpur dock
Organized By: Indian Navy
Participants: Students of Class VIII
Highlight: The students gained an enriching experience, learning about the parts of the ships, missiles, the training and working of the Indian Navy during a visit to INS Sumedha at the Indian Naval Base

Workshop on Sensitivity in Teaching

Workshops 01-Dec-2018

Organized By: HLS India
Resource Person: Mr. Amitabh Mohan
Participants: Teachers
Highlight: The teachers learned about the different techniques to motivate and educate the children in various ways. It was a good experience and enriching for all.

Awareness Workshop on Correct Behavioural Approach

Workshops 01-Dec-2018

Organized By: National Bureau of Human Rights & Legal Research.
Resource Person: Mr. Animesh Sanyal, Ms. Avantika Sanyal and Mr. Prasun Das
Participants: Non-teaching staff, Office staff , Management officials and Communicators 

Highlight The workshop was divided into three sessions. There was an open session where the support staff could interact and clarify their queries from the resource people. Certain guidelines were discussed for the support staff to avoid any kind of trouble.

Behtar India waste collection

Activities in LSA 30-Nov-2018

Organized By: Behtar India
Resource Person: Raza
Participants: Students of Classes III – VIII & X
Highlight: Students collected a large amount of waste paper for three months from houses and around the residence. They learned to reuse the paper.

National Stock Exchange Funancial Quest

External Events 28-Nov-2018

Organized By: Team NSE FUNancial Quest
Participants: Students of Classes VIII – IX
Highlight: National Stock Exchange presented a unique experiential financial literacy event to teach the students the intrinsic value of their financial resources. NSE sees it as essential that they learn this 21st-century life skill while at school, a prominent place of learning in their lives.

English Teaching workshop

Workshops 24-Nov-2018

Venue: The Lalit Great Eastern
Organized: By Oxford
Resource Person: Ms. Anahita Lee
Participants: Ms. Kulbir Kaur and Ms. Shreerupa Banerjee
Highlight: It was very enlightening and innovative in terms of what can be done in the classroom like voice modulation and stress-busting techniques. The participants were also given hands-on learning experience with regard to the practice of literary devices like alliteration and hyperbole which is commonly used in poetry.

23rd Founder’s Day

Activities in LSA 24-Nov-2018

Venue: Sangeet Kala Mandir
Resource Person: Students and Management of Our Academy
Participants: Students of Classes II – XII
Highlight: The programme started with an inspiring opening song. Then the prize distribution ceremony was held. The prizes were given away by the chief guest Ms. Patti Hoffman, US Consul General in Kolkata, Shri Bharat Hari Singhania and our Principal Ms. Meena Kak.
This was followed by a drama ‘Vaidehi Katha’ which showed the condition of women in today’s India. A large number of parents and students attended the function.

Guru Nanak Jayanti Celebration

External Events 23-Nov-2018

Venue: Maidan near Shaheed Minar
Organized By: Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Kolkata
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: Dane Liebermann, Aarushi Surekha, Samriddhi Gupta, Muskan Goyal accompanied by two teachers were a part of this celebration. They offered prayers, did Sewa (chopped vegetables, washed utensils, served food and made rotis). It was an enriching and satisfying experience for all.

Math Workshop

Workshops 23-Nov-2018

Venue: Kenilworth Hotel
Organized By: Oxford Publishers
Resource Person: Mr. A.T.B. BOSE. ( Ramanujan Museum)and Maths Education Centre
Participants: Susmita Roy, Tikshna Chopra
Highlight: Workshop based on Math activities. We learned about CPA ( Complete, Pictorial, and Abstract) representation of numbers. Introduction of 'Zero' was well explained. Activities related to Addition and Subtraction were well explained.

Start Up Your Life

External Events 22-Nov-2018

Venue: Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, New Town
Organized By: Vedanta Institute
Resource Person: Swami Parthasarathy
Participants: Arkaprovo Roy(XI), Dane Rowan Osborne Liebermann (XI), Ms. Jaya Misra, Mr. Kanak Shankar Mukherjee
Highlight: It was a session on the role of education in one's life and activities offered by Vedanta Institute.

YES Program (2019 - 20)

External Events 19-Nov-2018

Venue: American Centre
Organized By: AFS
Resource Person: Mr. Aadil, Mr. Vyom
Participants: Akhilesh Jhawar (XI), Kunaal Mundhra(X), Shreyansh Jain(X) 
Highlight: Kunaal Mundhra and Shreyansh Jain had the final interview for the YES Program. Akhilesh Jhawar was asked to Volunteer as a YES Alumni. It was a new experience for him and he assisted in the selection process.

Green Diwali Fair

Activities in LSA 17-Nov-2018

Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Participants: Students of classes III to XII.
Highlight: To sensitize students and parents about keeping our environment healthy and sustainable, our school has taken an initiative to celebrate 'Green Diwali'. On 5.11.18, card stickers and badges with a slogan 'SAY NO TO CRACKERS' were distributed among students. An exhibition cum sale was organised to sell diyas, candles and greeting cards. Five NGO's, who work with underprivileged and Intellectually and physically challenged children, namely IICP, Asha Niketan, The Hope Foundation participated in the event. 

AIMUN

External Events 17-Nov-2018

Venue: New Delhi
Organized: By Amity International
Resource Person: Ms. Ujwal Singh
Participants: Dane Rowan Osborne Liebermann(XI)
Highlight: Dane got an opportunity through AFS to participate in AIMUN. He represented Iceland in the General Assembly Committee. It was a good learning experience for him.

Plantation

Activities in LSA 15-Nov-2018

Venue: Rajarhat
Organized: By green for life
Participants: Students of class VIII
Highlight: Students planted saplings and learned to be sensitive towards the increasing pollution.

Children's Day Celebration

Activities in LSA 14-Nov-2018

Participants: Students of classes I to XII

Highlight: The Children's Day was celebrated with a lot of fervour and gusto. The students of Pre-primary sections enjoyed themselves on the crazy castle and various fun games. They were also happy to watch a movie. For the students of classes III to XII, a carnival was organised by their teachers which included table and field games, the latter being an added attraction for them. The ground floor hall was decorated with balloons and food counters were also put up for the students.

INFINITY 2K18 - Maths Mela

Activities in LSA 31-Oct-2018

Organized By Maths Department & Students of Classes III-XI
Participants Students of Classes III-XI
Highlight: Numerous interesting mathematical games and riddles like Maze, Crossword and other activities were showcased to strengthen numerical acumen. The students enjoyed the games a lot. The event had maximum participation.

 

International Informatics Olympiad

Activities in LSA 30-Oct-2018

Organized By: Silverzone
Participants: Students of Classes III XII
Highlight: 141 students from classes 3 to 12 participated in 15th International Informatics Olympiad. Result awaited.

Young Innovator's Programme 2018

External Events 28-Oct-2018

Organized By: IIT Kharagpur Branding and Relations Cell
Resource Person: IIT Kharagpur
Participants: Divija V Agarwal(IX), Mahak Garodia(IX) and Priyanshi Saraogi(IX)
Highlight: The competition had 4 rounds. In the 1st round more than 100 teams, 300 students from all over India and abroad registered. After a strict screening, only 24 teams qualified for Round 2 who got the opportunity to display their projects in front of 7 eminent judges. From round 2 only 6 teams qualified for Round 3 and 3 teams were selected. The participants demonstrated their deep knowledge, high levels of confidence and an innovative streak. 

Trip – Lucknow & Agra

Educational Trips 24-Oct-2018

Organized By: Travel India
Participants: Students of Classes VI & VII
Highlight: Students enjoyed alot. It was a lovely and fruitful trip. The students had an enriching experience.

Fete Cum Exhibition on various Subjects

Activities in LSA 12-Oct-2018

Participants: Students of Classes IX & X
Highlight: Presentation of the projects undertaken by the students on different subjects was showcased to the parents. The same was received and appreciated by the parents who were present for the event.

Hope Foundation distribution of clothes and shoes

Activities in LSA 11-Oct-2018

Resource Person: Mr. Sandip Kundu
Participants: our school students and staff
Highlight: As a part of the 'Joy of Giving Week Celebration' the school donated around 90 sets of clothes and shoes for the students of Kasba Girls'Home and Be Kind Boys' Home. Some students had come to receive the gifts before the festive season. It was a pleasure to see their smiling faces in the morning assembly.

Hope Foundation distribution of clothes and shoes

Activities in LSA 11-Oct-2018

Resource Person: Mr. Sandip Kundu
Participants: our school students and staff
Highlight: As a part of the 'Joy of Giving Week Celebration' the school donated around 90 sets of clothes and shoes for the students of Kasba Girls'Home and Be Kind Boys' Home. Some students had come to receive the gifts before the festive season. It was a pleasure to see their smiling faces in the morning assembly.

LSAMUN18

Activities in LSA 07-Oct-2018

Resource Person: Students of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Participants: Students of Classes VIII-XII
Highlight: 14 Schools took part in the MUN. There were 173 delegates who attended the conference.

Re Meducate

Activities in LSA 04-Oct-2018

Organized By: Hope Foundation
Resource Person: Mr. Sandip Kundu
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: 2 cartons of medicines and 1 carton of old spectacles were handed over to the Hope Foundation which will be used in the Hope Hospital at Taratala.

Abhilasha

Activities in LSA 04-Oct-2018

Participants: Students of Classes VI – VIII
Highlight: 11 Mainstream Schools along with our school participated in Abhilasha. Students from 6 Special Schools also participated in it. Around 400 students participated across all 6 events( on stage and off stage). Our school emerged as the overall champion followed by Modern High School.

Project Citizen – Inter House

Activities in LSA 03-Oct-2018

Participants: Students from Classes III – V
Highlight: All the four houses took up topics of public as well as individual interest. The participants put across the problems related to the topic and dealt with the existing policies and the Action Plan. Each house had some good speakers who put across their views confidently. The presentations were very informative. All the children in the audience enjoyed the presentation. The topics were: Being Late to School, Road Safety for the Pedestrians, Swach Bharat Swach Vidyalay & Noise Pollution.

Workshop of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Workshops 03-Oct-2018

Organized By: Behtar India
Participants: Students of Classes VI-VIII
Highlight: Students have learned about reduce, reuse, recycle. They enjoyed and were very much motivated by the program.

YES Abroad Mid Stay Orientation

Beyond Boundaries 02-Oct-2018

Resource Person: Mr. Roshan Sajan
Participants: Dane Rowan Osborne Liebermann
Highlight: Dane Rowan Osborne Liebermann (XI A1) attended the Orientation at Jodhpur.

YES Program

Beyond Boundaries 02-Oct-2018

Participants: Students of Class X
Highlight: Kunal Mundhra (Class 10) and Shreyansh Jain (Class 10) will attend the interview on 19th November 2018 for the AFS session 2019-2020.

Blood Donation Camp

Activities in LSA 29-Sep-2018

Organized By: Kothari hospital
Participants: Entire school and parents
Highlight: Blood donated for the cause of humanity

Accountancy Workshop

Workshops 28-Sep-2018

Venue: Mahadevi Birla Word Academy
Organized By: Sultan Chand Publishers
Resource Person: T.S.Grewal
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: The workshop was informative and interactive. It was attended by Swati Banerjee and Sanjeeb Banerjee.

Story Telling

External Events 28-Sep-2018

Event: One story at a time ending gender-based violence
Venue: American Center
Organized By: American Center
Resource Person: American Center
Participants: Students of Class X – XII
Highlight: Learnt the art of storytelling for films.

AFS Mid Stay Orientation

Workshops 26-Sep-2018

Date: 22/09/2018 To 26/09/2018
Venue: Chennai
Organized By: AFS
Resource Person: Mr. Roshan Sajan
Highlight: Rebekka Klinge went to Chennai for the Midterm Orientation with other AFS participants

Dental Camp

Activities in LSA 24-Sep-2018

Organized By: Kothari Hospital
Participants: School students
Highlight: Students had their dental checkup with doctors advice. 

JKLU Workshop

Workshops 24-Sep-2018

Resource Person: Pratishtha Ghosh, Associate Dean, Centre of Communication, JKLU
Participants: Students of Class XI & XII
Highlight: Students were given an idea about how to be 'job ready' and 'life ready'. They were enlightened about the importance of learning different skills.

 

Karo Sambhav School Programme

Workshops 19-Sep-2018

Resource Person: Karo Sambhav
Participants: Students of Classes VII – X
Highlight: The workshop gave the students a clear idea of waste management. Students got the idea on different types of wastes, especially E wastes and the harmful effects of these unless treated properly by experts.

Book Launch of a new Mathematics series

Workshops 18-Sep-2018

Venue: The Park hotel
Organized By: NIIT Nguru
Resource Person: Dr. Norhuda Musa
Participants: Mitali Mukhopadhyay
Highlight: Book Launch of a new Maths series 'My Pals Are Here' based on Singapore teaching methodology was followed by a workshop on Problem Solving in Maths. The workshop focused on the understanding of the concepts to ensure all students achieve a level of mastery in Mathematics that will serve them well in life.

 

Workshop at BITM

Workshops 08-Sep-2018

Organized By: Collins
Resource Person: Dr. Padmini Shankar
Participants: Kulbir Kaur, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: The mentor with 26 years of teaching experience conducted the workshop on English Language Teaching Methodologies. It focused on interactive and learner-directed methods to incorporate movement in their language class. It also focused on the attributes of a good teacher. Other areas that she touched upon were: Creating a positive learning environment in the classroom, Psychological distance between teacher and student.

Discovery Day YES Program

Workshops 02-Sep-2018

Venue: Jamshedpur
Organized By: AFS
Resource Person: Mr. Roshan & Mr. Suraj
Participants: Students of Class X
Highlight: Kunal Mundhra (Class - X) and Shreyansh Jain (Class - X) were shortlisted for this round of interview. Both of them have reached the next level of the selection process.

 

 

International Career Coach Certification

Workshops 01-Sep-2018

Venue: New Delhi
Organized By: Mindler
Resource Person: Mr. Prateek Bhargava, Mr. Parikshit Dhanda
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: Jaya Misra has successfully completed the credentialing requirement of the International Certified Career Coach Program by Mindler and Career Development Alliance (USA) and has been awarded a completion certificate.

Janmashtami

Educational Trips 01-Sep-2018

Venue: Kejriwal House
Participants: Students of Montessori 
Highlight: The children enjoyed their visit to the Kejriwal house. They were amazed to see the toy train and other scenes depicting Lord Krishna's life. They were also very happy to receive "prashad".

Collection for Kerala flood victims

Activities in LSA 31-Aug-2018

Participants: Students of Classes PS I to Class XII
Highlight: Items like a towel, rice, pulses, wheat flour, unused clothes, bed sheets, unused electrical appliances like wires, sockets, switches along with mosquito repellants, bandages, antiseptic liquids, sanitary napkins were collected through a collection drive from students and teachers
It was handed over to Kolkata Kairali Samajam who had set their base collection camp at Garden High School. The collection was huge which showed the empathy of all towards the affected.

eWaste Workshop

Workshops 30-Aug-2018

Venue: SOS circle
Organized By: Karo Sambhav
Participants: Indrani Das, Manidipa Lahiri
Highlight It was a well-appreciated awareness program for all showing how schools can play a vital role in the handling of e-waste.

American Universities Fair

Activities in LSA 16-Aug-2018

Organized By: KIC
Resource Person: Ms. Sweta
Participants" Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: 18 American Universities were a part of the fair (list in the email to be added) It was a wonderful platform for students of Classes XI & XII to address their queries and get details about the different Universities.

Visit by AFS Officials

Activities in LSA 16-Aug-2018

Organized By: AFS
Resource Person: Mr. Adil Fahim
Participants: Dane Rowan Osborne Liebermann(XI A1), Rebekka Klinge(XD)
Highlight: This was a visit to meet the exchange students, their teachers, counsellors etc and find out about their progress.

Independence Day Celebration

Activities in LSA 15-Aug-2018

Highlight: Gaiety and patriotic fervor marked the Independence Day celebrations in our school premises on 15th August 2018. The Chief Guest for the day was Mr. Amitabh Sen Gupta.
The programme began with the ritualistic flag hoisting ceremony. This was followed by a melodious rendition of a medley of patriotic songs by the school choir. The speeches by our principal, Mrs. Meena Kak, and the Chief Guest inspired all. This was followed by the much awaited Inter House Dance Competition.

Re-entry Orientation for YES Program 2017-18

Beyond Boundaries 11-Aug-2018

From: 09/06/2018 To 11/06/2018
Venue: New Delhi
Organized: By AFS
Resource Person: Ms. Divya Arora, Ms. Sonam Luthra
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Subhi Sarda and Akhilesh Jhawar returned from the USA on 9th June to India. They attended the re-entry orientation at New Delhi and landed on 11th June in Kolkata. They joined the school on the next day and have come back enriched with a number of ideas.

Educators Meet

Workshops 10-Aug-2018

Venue: The Lalit Great Eastern Hotel
Organized By: Juana Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Resource Person: Ms Carrie Ann Gibson
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal
Highlight: Learned about 2 applications read & write and equatIO

Safe Drive Save Life

External Events 10-Aug-2018

Venue: Alipore Zoo crossing
Organized By: Kolkata Police
Participants: Students of Class IX
Highlight" Class IX students of our school performed a street play and displayed placards, which were based on Road Safety issues for public awareness, in front of Alipore Zoo in collaboration with Kolkata Police.

Green Drive

Activities in LSA 06-Aug-2018

Venue: New Playground
Participants: Students of Class VII C
Highlight: Students of classes VIIC Pulkit Bhadani and Madhuram Lakhotia planted a tree in the new playground of the school and they water the plant every day.

YES PROGRAM Gateway Orientation 2018

Beyond Boundaries 05-Aug-2018

Venue: New Delhi
Organized By: AFS
Resource Person: Ms. Sonam Luthra
Participants: Jash Shah
Highlight: Jash Shah departed for Delhi for the Gateway Orientation on the 5th. He departed for USA on the 7th of August 2018 where he will be attending the Arrival Orientation at Washington DC before he leaves for Arundel High School, Gambrills, Maryland. He would be returning to India in June 2019.

Ponder, Protect and Prevent

Workshops 01-Aug-2018

Venue: Rotary Sadan
Organized By: Rise Against Child Sexual Harm and Abuse (RACSHA)

Participants: Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Nabamita DuttaGupta

Highlight: The session included two-panel discussions, the first one, Way to Sunshine by the young adults who are RACSHA members followed by a discussion, Understanding Child Sexual Abuse with eminent personalities from various fields.

CBSE Workshop on Remodelled Assessment Structure

Workshops 31-Jul-2018

Venue: Apeejay School, Salt Lake
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Details of Periodic Tests, Notebooks, Subject Enrichment were discussed.

Workshop on Digital E Commerce

Workshops 28-Jul-2018

Venue: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized: By Makeintern
Resource Person: Mr. Gnan
Participants: Students of Classes IX & XI
Highlight: 50 students from classes IX and XI participated.
5 students were selected for the National Round to be held at IIT Delhi in the month of January.

Indradhanush (for classes II - V) - An endeavor to make a plastic free world (27th July 2018, Friday)

Activities in LSA 27-Jul-2018

Participants: Students of Classes II – V of various Kolkata schools
Highlight: Indradhanush 2018, a fest to spread awareness to beat the plastic pollution on Earth. 11 teams competed against each other through games and activities. Teams were named after famous environmentalists. 1st prize went to the team Salim Ali comprising Lakshmipat Singhania Academy and Sushila Birla, the Second prize to Team Arun Krishnamurthy comprising Mahadevi Birla Girls' School and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, the Third prize to team Claude Alvarez comprising Sri Sri Academy and Modern High School for Girls.

 

CLICK - Photography event of exe.BIT

External Events 14-Jul-2018

Venue: Horticulture Garden
Organized By: exe.BIT
 
Highlight: Click, a photography event of exe.BIT Infinity 2018 was held in Horticulture garden, Alipore. 15 schools participated in the event from classes VI-XII and teachers also. The theme was Nature pertaining to the exe.BIT theme of Digital Detox. The participants had to come back to school and click photographs of Raths decorated by the Pre-primary students, as 14th July was Rath Yatra. The event went off smoothly and the students enthusiastically clicked photographs and submitted the same

All Faith Prayer

External Events 07-Jul-2018

Venue: Sri Sri Academy
Organized:By Sri Sri Academy
Participants: Students of Classes VII & VIII
Highlight: The atmosphere was very peaceful and everyone participated with due devotion.

Pre Departure Orientation for YES Program

External Events 20-Jun-2018

From: 18/06/2018 To 20/06/2018
Event: Pre Departure Orientation for YES Program
Organized by: AFS India
Venue: New Delhi
Participant: Jash Shah of XI B
Highlight: It was an intensive training provided to all the participants who will be traveling to the USA under the YES program in August 2018.

Workshop on Detox

Activities in LSA 20-Jun-2018

Resource Person: Ms. Sanzeeda Mirza
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: A workshop on Detox was conducted for classes III V about how life has changed with the advent and over usage of technological devices like smartphones televisions gaming consoles etc. A comparative analysis of the lifestyle of ten years back and present day was shown. The after effect like vision problem, obesity, posture defects were also discussed. The young ones were also advised to deal with the current situation through physical activity and ‘no screen Sunday.

Workshop on Yoga

Workshops 20-Jun-2018

Resource Person: Rachna
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: The students of classes III to V had a workshop on Yoga. It focused on the basic pranayamas and their importance in day to day life. The students were told how important these exercises are for their mind, body, and soul and how one should make it a practice to include them in their regime. Overall it was a useful session.

22nd Annual Camp (IX - XII)

Educational Trips 09-Jun-2018

From: 03/06/2018 To 08/06/2018
Venue: Lolegaon
Organized By: 3rd LSA Group
Participants: Students of Classes IX - XII
Highlight: The weather was ideal and the students enjoyed various new activities. Had a good learning experience. 

Satrangi

External Events 25-Apr-2018

Venue South Point High School

Organized By South Point High School


Highlight YUVRAAJ JHAWAR from VIII, PRAMIT BANERJEE from VIIB and SOMDYUTI DAS from XII participated in the event. Students performed very well. They were appreciated by the judges as well.

Sit and Draw Activity at Laskar War Memorial Ground

Educational Trips 09-Mar-2018

Venue: Laskar War Memorial Ground, Napier Road
Organized By: Laksmipat Singhania Academy- Cyberfair 2018
Highlight 28 students from classes VI - VIII participated in the Sit and Draw competition, organised by the school as an event of International Cyberfair competition 2017-18. The students sketched the Laskar War Memorial to get sensitized about preserving the built heritage of Kolkata. The competition was followed by video presentations by Commander Suruchi Gaur on the various career options that are available if one joins the Indian Navy as Indian Army is not the only option that all know.

Tinkering Fest 2018

Activities in LSA 22-Feb-2018

Highlight: Tinker Fest 2018 - Students are presented with the challenge of building a bridge at various locations. They come up with four types: Truss, Arch, String Straighted and Suspension bridges. They demonstrated two natural forces -Tension and compression- common to all bridges and structure. Many peripheral skills were learned during the workshop such as dremel drill, Carpentery skills, engineering measurment and markings, etc. Class VI & VII demonstrated their skills in electricity and electronic structure.

Heritage Tram Ride

Educational Trips 14-Feb-2018

Venue: Khidderpore - Esplanade - School
Highlight: 8 Students of LSA and 12 Students of Navanir participated in the Heritage Tram Ride - an activity that sensitized students to the built cultural heritage of our city and appreciate the value of maintaining this rich heritage for generations to come. This journey helped the students realize the beauty of our City of Joy that brings millions of tourists to our city.

Project Sahayta

Activities in LSA 24-Jan-2018

Venue: NGO - Chhaya
Highlight: Selected Scouts and Guides from Class X visited the NGO with biscuits, pedigree etc for the animals kept there. It was an enriching experience to hear the rescue stories of the animals and to see how these animals have been kept by the NGO. They have rescued more than 450 dogs, horses, cows, buffaloes, bull, eagles etc. There is a Vet Hospital too. Our students observed Solar panels within the campus, a bio gas plant and interacted with the dedicated staff at Chhaya.

Sahodaya Science Exhibition

External Events 18-Jan-2018

Venue: Sushila Birla Girls' School
Organized By: CBSE

Participants : Jagrit Bhojnagarwala, Tarun Goenka, Animesh Sachan & Nishant Agarwal 
Highlight: Total 28 schools participated. We were one of the few schools who made working models, on the topic ‘Save Environment’.

CBSE Science Exhibition Regional Level

External Events 08-Jan-2018

Venue: Apeejay School Salt Lake
Organized By: CBSE
Highlight: Pratham Jain & Yashasvi Kedia of Class X participated. The exhibit is a belt attached with sensors which will help the visually challenged person to walk comfortably along with the other people. The team qualified for the National Level.

Road Safety Week

Activities in LSA 08-Jan-2018

Venue: National Library Crossing
Organized By: Kolkata Police
Highlight: 40 students were a part of this Road Safety Week Celebration in association with Kolkata Police. The students campaigned on various days on topics like - No Horn Campaign, No to
Riding without Helmet Campaign, No to Use of Mobile Phones while Driving Campaign and No to Drink and Drive Campaign. On the final day students put up a Nukkad Natak as a part of the 'No to Use Mobile Phones while Driving' Campaign.

Spicmacay Heritage Walk

Activities in LSA 06-Jan-2018

Organized By:  Spicmacay & Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Highlight: Students were taken around the BBD Bag area to show the iconic colonial structures of our city.

FILMIT 2018 Orientation

Workshops

Venue: Sri Sri Academy
Organized By: INTACH
Resource Person: FILMIT INDIA
Participants: Students of Classes VI – VIII
Highlight: The orientation for 2018 FILMIT INDIA was introduced

Karo Sambhav School Program

Workshops

Date - 19th September 2018

Participants - Class VII - X

Artsforward has partnered with Karo Sambhav this year. The program is one-of-its-kind and aims at creating awareness on critical environmental issues - such as - Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipments (WEEE), engaging students on preventive environmental strategies and inspiring them to create a more sustainable world through their daily actions. 

Christmas Celebration

Activities in LSA

Organized By Pre-primary and Primary Department
Participants Students of LSA
Highlight The students of Classes 1 and 2 performed the Nativity Play. A play titled ‘Jojo finds a Home’ presented by the students of Classes 3 to 5 kick started the events of the day. The play highlighted the theme of love and joy as Jojo, a stray puppy finds home in the heart of Ivan, a lonely boy who is much like Jojo. This was followed by a beautiful rendition of ‘Joy to the World’ by the Primary choir. Santa Claus
went around all the classes from Montessori to class VIII distributing sweets and bringing that sweet smile on the faces of the little ones. All the students of class 7B brought stationery/ sweets/ snacks for all the support staff. Class 6 C took part in the Christmas mirth by engaging in a fun Secret Santa.
Students drew names of classmates from a bowl of chits and gifted them with gifts they had brought