One Minute Game

Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation and often both. Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. They bring out inherent talent of the participants.           

One minute games are great ways to begin an event or to engage a crowd of children. They are challenging and obviously don’t last very long! A very accommodating quality for those short-attention-spanners!

At Orchids - The International School[Hyderabad], we organized one minute games for kids from I-V classes on 28^th June 2013. Our students truly enjoyed these moments a lot. 

Winners':
1. Raihan Habeeb
2. Sahana Panda
3. N.Anshul & Nikheyll Garg

Home Studio

Orchids- The International School [Hyderabad] has taken a special initiative in inculcating and developing lifeskills as a pre-requisite in personality development among its students especially at the primary level.

 The first step was taken for the students of classes I – III ( in the age group of 5-8 yrs) They were taken to the ‘Home Studio’ , since most of them have difficulties especially in tying their shoe laces and were guided in this activity.

Most of the children took the task up as a challenge and were successful in tying their laces independently .

      Home Studio is a place were life skills are taught to the students in various activities like bed spreading, ironing, grooming, dusting, table manners, buttoning etc. 

Star of the week 8: Aarchini Dinesh

Koffee with parents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Colouring Competition

Children are born artists and colouring is of great importance for their development. Colouring gives children a sense of accomplishment, improves their motor skills, helps them recognise patterns, shapes and colours. It also develops their unique style and self expression. Colouring competition was organised for classes I-V at Orchids - The International School on 21-6-2013. The students were all very enthusiastic to showcase their mettle on the canvases with shades of colours, depicting various themes. 

Winners:

1. Sahana Panda

2. Laasya kanagala

3. Pranavi Teegala  & Riyan khan

World Music Day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RAJA RITHVIK, THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS CHAMPION - 2013

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

Star of the week 7: Aakash Gupta

Practising for perfection

Orchids – The International School organized a guest lecture for grades 1 to 5 on 12/6/2013. It was conducted by Mrs .Sunanda Rao Kommireddi on the topic ‘Practising for perfection’.

The presentation started with learning about what exactly is practice and why children need practice?  Practice is must and a simple learning method all over the globe. Next point of presentation was, How to practise? With the help of a small story the discussion concluded with, ‘Perfect practice is for perfection’. On the whole it was a very interactive and lively discussion with active participation of the children.

LEARNING LOG FOR JUNE AND JULY (2013)

Month’s Focus: Practising for perfection

Subject	Syllabus	Field trip/ Project work/ Special Activity
English	M.C.B: Ls-2:Out In the playground Ls-3:Off to School Ls-4:Let’s have a lunch Ls-5:Sunday Picnic W.B: Ls-2:Out In the playground Ls-3:Off to School Ls-4:Let’s have a lunch Ls-5:Sunday Picnic Lit: Ls-2:The Magic Pot Ls-3:Jankie and the Rabbit	·            Pasting pictures of activity in C.W (swims, sings, jumps etc.) ·            Draw/Paste pictures related to colours-red/yellow/green (e.g.: a red rose) ·            Pasting pictures of animals that can be kept as pets. ·            Write a few lines about a picnic with your friends.
Mathematics	Ch 2: Numbers up to 9 Ch 3: Addition and Subtraction up to 9 Ch 4: Numbers from 10-20	·               Asking the students to count ice-cream sticks / pencils/ erasers etc. ·               Addition and subtraction using chocolates. ·               Counting the number of children in the class
Social Studies	Ls-9: School is Fun Ls-10: My Classroom Ls-1: What do you eat? Ls-13:Being Good(Project)	·   Write a few lines about your school. ·    Draw/Paste pictures related to the things you find in your classroom. ·   Draw/Paste pictures related to fruits and vegetables. ·    Write three good things you have learnt at home & at school.
Science	Ls-6: Our Needs Ls-9: Good Habits(Project) Ourselves* Ls-1: A Green World Ls-2: Food from Plants Living & Growing*	·      Students will speak about different seasons. ·   Students will talk about one good & bad habit of their own. ·      Paste pictures of herb, climbers, tall & short tree. ·      Draw different types of fruits & vegetables. ·   Paste the pictures of living things and non- living things.
II Lang	Hindi: Vyanjan Matra Lesson- 1 Prayer	·         Identification of letters
	Telugu: Varnamala  2 letter and 3 letter words on pages 17 - 25	·            Identification of letters
	French: L’ alphabet, Les nombres	·            Learning letters of the alphabet using names of animals. ·            Showing the things around them in the class and ask them to count.
Creative Writing skills/English language/ Enhancement skills	·              Write a few lines about your school.
Computer Science	L-2: Computer … A Machine L-3:Uses of a computer	·         Comparison of various machines. ·         Listing out various uses of a computer.
Art and Craft	1.      Shading (shapes) 2.      Boat (origami)
General Knowledge	Pg: 11 to 20
Music	Songs: 1. I got peace like a river        2.The sun comes up with great big smile 3.Ektha swatantratha
Games	·         Skill assessment circuit ·         Parachute game ·         Rules are our friends ·         Throw your show
Lifeskills	·         Tying of a shoelace ·         Table manners

Events:                                                                                                       Competition:                       

12/6/13 – Guest Lecture (I – V)                                                            21/6/13 – Colouring Competition (I- V)

14/6/13 – House meeting (I- V)                                                           28/6/13 – One Minute Game (I –V)

21/6/13 – World Music Day (Assembly Presentation)                  12/7/13 - English Poem Recitation (I – V)      

11/ 7/ 13 – World Population Day (Assembly presentation)       27/7/13- Mother and child competition (I – X)

 15/7/13 – 19/7/13 – USSR                                                                                                                                    

19/7/13 – Field Trip (I- V)                                                                  

26/7/13- Kargil Victory Day (Assembly Presentation)             

26/7/13-  Van Mahostav ( Nur – X)

Note:                                                           

22/6/13 -  Koffee with parents (Nur – X)

15/7/13 – 19/7/13 – Unit Test - I

20/7/13 – PTM + Book Fair

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