School E magazine Primary School April-July- 2019-20

MENAGE – NOW & THEN: Walk In With Style

Grade Pre-Primary

MENAGE – NOW & THEN: Model of Houses

Grade II

MENAGE – NOW & THEN: Model of Houses

Grade III



EARTH DAY 22nd April 19

Earth Day is celebrated every year on respective pledges showcasing their
22nd April to raise awareness about the efforts towards protecting mother
fast depleting natural resources and Earth. Grade II focused on the use of
thereby realizing the importance of popular magic formula of 4 R’s
protecting our planet. The young referring to Reuse, Recycle, Reduce and
zealous learners of Lotus Valley Refuse. Learners of Grade III were
International School were involved in educated about the Natural
diverse activities to reiterate the Resources and their classification
importance of this day. The day began as Renewable and Non-Renewable
with a celebration in the form of Sources of Energy. They culminated the
special assembly conducted by the activity by highlighting the ways to save
vibrant learners of Grade III. The Pre energy at school and at home. All the
Primary learners were educated about activities were carried out as a means to
the importance of Green Earth and demonstrate the urgent need for
were involved in making newspaper everyone to work towards the caring and
bags. The Learners of Grade 1 created saving our planet Earth as our duty
an Earth Day mobile and wrote their towards the future generations.

EARTH DAY

EARTH DAY

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES 15th May 19

International Day of Families is celebrated

all over the world to reflect the

importance of spending quality time with

our families and express gratitude for the

bond and connection we share with our enthusiastic parents. Learners of Grade 1
family. At Lotus Valley International School, invited one of their family members to
we lay emphasis on the importance of a their classrooms and created precious
happy, healthy and a well-balanced family moments with each other while singing
and celebrated this special day with and dancing. The learners of Grade II
aplomb on 15th May. The learners of Grade bestowed their gratitude towards their
Nursery presented different types of family by making a ‘Thank You’ card
cuisines, festivals and houses through a depicting the bond of love and affection
“Show and Tell “activity whereas the towards their family. Learners of Grade III
learners of Grade Prep participated in researched on different family
“Walk in Style” along with their
arrangements and variant houses these

families stay in countries of Japan, Wales

and India.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES

WORLD YOUTH SKILLS DAY 15th July 19

We cannot always build the
future for our youth, but we can
build our youth for the future!

With an aim to encourage our learners to
identify and present confidently what they
are passionate about, our school
celebrated the World Youth Skills Day on
15th July 2019. Learners of Grade III
participated enthusiastically in this special
day by sharing with peers their dreams and
aspirations. This was followed by learners
penning down their thoughts on the skills
they foresee themselves developing in
order to achieve their dreams. While a
learner wrote about becoming an author,
another dreamt of becoming an
international singer and using the profits
for upliftment of the underprivileged.
Many such dreams were shared by these
young minds. It was indeed very reassuring
to know that the future of our country lies
in the small capable hands of learners,
whose eyes are filled with great dreams
and hearts with compassion.

WORLD YOUTH SKILLS DAY

EDUCATIONAL EXCURSION TO USA

NASA VISIT – Grade VI-XI (2018-19)

We learn by doing because we do by
learning. At lotus Valley International
School ,Gurugram, we firmly believe in
providing opportunities to our students to
learn by exploring and experiencing .Taking
this thought forward, a group of 20 learners
accompanied by the Headmistress, Ms. Ritu
Jawa and Ms. Ragini Mall visited the United
States from 29th May 2019 to 8th June
2019. The much awaited overseas
Educational trip is planned each year to
provide an International platform of
learning to our students. The highlight of
the Trip was the visit to Kennedy Space
Centre (KSC) NASA wherein the Students
got an opportunity to discover, experience
and interact closely with an Astronaut.
Learners watched a number of
presentations regarding the initiation and
establishment of NASA. A detailed bus tour
of the NASA premises helped in
understanding the making and launching of
space shuttles. They also observed the
Space shuttle mission simulations, which
was truly an inspirational and prolific
experience.

NASA VISIT

The visit to 9/11 memorial, One
World Observatory along with New
York City tour added more
knowledge to their learning. The
expedition extended to a visit to
Niagara Falls -Maid of the Mist &
Statue of Liberty followed by a tour
around Harvard University and MIT
,Boston. It was truly a blend of fun
and learning for our students with a
delightful time spent at Disney
World and Universal Studios.
Learners learnt the skills to think
independently, work as a team,
share and care as a group and
manage time and money prudently.
Learners not only enjoyed and
bonded very well with each other
while basking in the sun at Cocoa
Beach in Florida, but also shopped
to their hearts content at Walmart
and other Malls during the tour.

NASA VISIT

Mrs. Anita Malhotra, Principal of Lotus Valley
International School, Gurugram was invited to visit
SERBIA along with 14 Principals of Delhi/NCR.

Meeting with the Sports & Tourism Minister, Mr.
Vanja Udovicic & the Mayor of Vrnjacka, Mr.
Boban Bjurovic was a great experience. The four
day experience in Serbia was amazing.



INDO GERMAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM : Grade X - XII

Lotus Valley International School, under
the guidance of the Principal, Ms Anita
Malhotra gives ample opportunities to
the learners and acknowledges the
importance of understanding and
appreciating the education systems and
ethos in the era of globalisation.
The second phase of the Indo-German
Language Immersion Programme
concluded with the visit of 15 learners of
Grades X-XII accompanied by the
Headmistress, Ms Harvinder Kaur and
the German facilitator, Ms Reshu Bansal
to the partner school, Clara Schumann-
Gymnasium, in Lahr, Germany. starting
from 23rd June till 7th July 2019. The
exchange programme had a profound
and life-transforming influence on all the
participants who learnt to appreciate
the diversity in cultures. The relationship
between Indian and German partner
school has indeed grown from strength
to strength in the past three years.

INDO GERMAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM : Grade X - XII

INDO GERMAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM : Grade X - XII

INDO GERMAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM : Grade X - XII

INDO GERMAN LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROGRAM : Grade X - XII

PUBLISHED IN THE LAHR NEWSPAPER



BOOK RELEASE - ‘I AM TAMANA’

Born with cerebral palsy, Tamana Chona wasn't an easy one, but she overcame each
had delayed milestones. While her hurdle with a Spring in her step. Someone
progress was slow in the beginning, who couldn't stand on her own two feet for
surrounded by the immense love of a the first ten years of her life, she now
wonderful family and a valiant mother by regularly runs marathons. This one-of-a-
her side, she emerged from the ashes like a kind book will inspire you, make you see
Phoenix. Tamana is a Ray of sunshine. the world through Tamana’s rose-tinted
Whether she is hanging out with her glasses and restore your belief in the
friends and family or meeting with the top power of love. She is a force to be
brass of a country, her calm and positive reckoned with and this is her story in her
presence leaves everyone in high spirits. words.
Her journey

If You Can
Dream It,
You Can
Do It.

BUDDING WRITER: EKAANSH AGARWAL

There are many little ways to enlarge
your child’s world. Love of books is
the best of all. – JACQUELINE
KENNEDY. We, at Lotus Valley, believe
that there is no better way to open
the mind of learners’ and prevent any
dreariness from creeping in, other
than reading a good book! And so, it
has been one of our constant
endeavours to inculcate the habit of
reading in our learners since books
are one of the best sources to provide
inspiration, thought as well as
reflection to the young minds!We are
immensely pleased to share that yet
another shining star of Lotus Valley,
Ekaansh Agarwal from Grade III
Pigeons, has come up with his own
book, a mind boggling thriller series
named CLUEHUNTERS. Inculcating
the habit of reading from his elder
brother, Ekaansh loved creating and
sharing his stories in his free time,
which eventually led him to pen
down his thoughts and come out with
his book. The school management is
proud of the accomplishment of this
little genius who is currently working

on the next book in the series.

Heartiest Congratulations to

the International School,

Gurugram for winning the Best

Film Award for the Movie –

Pata Nahi, created by Shaurya

Babbar, Siddant Saxena,

Aryaman Dash, Arnav Nagpal

at the Chinh Media Private

Limited Filmmaking

Competition held at Tagore

International School, Delhi

w.e.f 16th – 18th May 2019.

An Award Show was organized by AIAT
on 22nd May 2019 at India International
Centre, New Delhi to felicitate the
learners for their exceptional
performance in the final round of the
test. Learners securing All India
Ranking under 150 were felicitated.

They were awarded with certificate
and a VR box by the Chief Guest Dr.
Nanditesh Nilay and the Guest of
Honor Mr. Randheer Kumar Sinha.
There were seven learners from Lotus
Valley International School,
Gurugram amongst the top 150 rank
holders.

S.No. Name Grade/Section All India

Ranking

1 Aviraj Goyle VIII/Tapti 21
2 Mayan Bhaskar
3 Ishit Rastogi V/Neems 51
4 Vidhi Vashisth
5 Shivenn Gupta V/Pines 58
6 Garvit Singhal
7 Ananya Lakara VI/Narmada 76

V/Birches 103

V/Birches 106

V/Maples 135

HRIDYANSH GAUTAM –
ACHIEVER AT FIRST LEGO LEAGUE
Lotus Valley International School
proudly shares the achievement
of Hridyansh Gautam of Grade VII
Yamuna who participated in the
First Lego League competition
held at Detroit, USA from 24th-
27th April 2019.
He was a part of Team Space
Robonauts which secured 8th
position out of 106 teams from
across the globe. His team was
appreciated by all the judges for
Pit decoration, project
presentation, robot design
presentation and active
participation as a rookie team.
The team was also nominated for
Project Research award as well as
for Strategy and Innovation
Award. All team members
including Hridyansh were
presented with individual medals.

Arya Jain & Aryav Mathur

Two learners from Lotus Valley International
School, Gurugram, Arya Jain of Grade VII
Yamuna and Aryav Mathur of Grade VI Nile,
represented India at the First Lego League
held in Turkey in June 2019. Their team, ‘High
Voltage’, won the third prize in Core Values
Inspiration Award category.



THE PROBIOTIC WORKSHOP –

in association with the Gut Microbiota
and Probiotic Science Foundation, India

When health is absent, wisdom cannot adjudicated by an eminent jury of
reveal itself, art cannot manifest,
strength cannot fight, wealth becomes Doctors and Academicians, namely, Prof
useless, and intelligence cannot be
applied. Lotus Valley International (Dr.) A.K. Shrivastava, Vice President,
School, Gurugram, hosted the Probiotic
Workshop on 15th May, 2019, in National Academy of Agricultural
association with the Gut Microbiota and
Probiotic Science Foundation, India, Science, Dr. Namita Jaggi, Chief, Lab
under the Presidentship of Padma
Bhushan Awardee, Prof. Nirmal Kumar Services, Infection Control and Education
Ganguly. May 15th marks the birth
anniversary of Dr. Elie Metchnikoff who and Research, Artemis, Dr. Neelam
revolutionised the field of medicine by
emphasising on the role of probiotics in Mohan, Director-Paediatric
the human immune system. The event
was graced by the presence of guests Gastroenterologist and Hepatology,
from Japan including the Managing
Director of Yakult Dannone, India, Mr. Medanta, The Medicity and Dr. Pooja
Minoru Shimada. The programme
commenced on an exuberant note with a Sharma, Sr. Scientist and Head Medanta
melodious rendition of the song, ‘I Would
Walk 500 Miles’ by the school choir. The Institute of Education and Research. A
Principal, Mrs. Anita Malhotra welcomed
the distinguished guests and the student street play showcasing the importance of
delegates and reinforced the pressing
need for a healthier lifestyle. In his probiotics in maintaining a heathy
speech, Prof. Ganguly dwelt on the
history of Probiotics and how it impacts nutrient balance in our body was also
our health. Around 30 of the most
prestigious schools of Delhi/NCR presented on the occasion. The students
participated in the competition to deliver
PowerPoint Presentations on the received awards for their enlightening
importance of ‘Probiotics’ and how it
impacts our health; motivating the presentations in the categories of Best
gathering to adopt healthier lifestyle
choices. The competition was Content, Best Presentation, Best Future

Application, and Best Speaker. The

position of the Second Runner-Up was

bagged by Blue Bells Public School,

Sector-10, and the First Runner- Up was

Lotus Valley International School,

Gurugram. The Lotus Valley team

(Niharika Rajput and Riya Bhanot) was

also awarded for Best Content. The First

position was secured by DPS, Sushant

Lok. Two consolation prizes were also

awarded to the deserving teams. The

programme concluded on a successful

note and it generated immense

enthusiasm among the young learners as

it helped in creating awareness about the

significance of Probiotics.

THE PROBIOTIC WORKSHOP –

in association with the Gut Microbiota
and Probiotic Science Foundation, India

THE PROBIOTIC WORKSHOP –

in association with the Gut Microbiota
and Probiotic Science Foundation, India

WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS DAY 2nd April 2019

"The Highest Result of Education is
Tolerance" - Helen Keller

With this pursuit in mind, Lotus Valley for the cause, short Video on Autism was
International School, Gurugram celebrated shown to grades II, III, IV & V and Movie on
World Autism Awareness Day on Tuesday, Autism (RAIN MAN) was shown to grades
2nd April' 2019. It was a step towards VI, VII & VIII in their respective classrooms.
making our world a Tolerant Society. To TED TALKS on Autism were shown to Grades
create awareness, various activities were IX, X and XII. A team of 6 learners along
planned such as Informative Pledge tables with the School Counsellor, visited Tamana
wherein learners and teachers came Special School and participated most
forward and took pledge to be supportive enthusiastically in the Cultural Variety
Programme and various other activities.

WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS DAY

ATL COMMUNITY DAY 15th April, 2019

Lotus valley International school

Celebrated ATL Community Day on

15.04.2019. The school invited

collaborations from other non-ATL

schools and and NGO's. On the occasion education and fun filled manner, to
of Ambedkar Jayanti, we celebrated the encourage planning, leadership, teamwork
day by making our school's resources of and structure among other things. The
the Atal Tinkering lab available to other children were delighted at the opportunity to
budding innovators in order to foster engage with such infrastructure under the
their sense of curiosity. By exposing guidance of able mentors. These activities
them to our state of the art lab facilities play a vital role in enhancing their personal
we helped nurture their inventive young sense of achievement and self-worth. The
minds for future creativity and day culminated with a small celebratory meal
innovation efforts. Students from to mark the success of the event.
'BAGIYA- A Sanshil foundation' learned a

lot through a variety of sessions in an

ATL TINKERING FEST– 25th & 26th July, 2019

ATL-TinkerFest was celebrated in school as a 2-day
festival of Tinkering and Innovation
combining elements of Entrepreneurship,
Creativity, and Innovation creating a conducive
environment for students to Innovate leveraging

ATL Tinkering technologies.

Students from

'BAGIYA- A Sanshil

foundation' learned

a lot through a

variety of sessions in

an education and

fun filled manner, to

encourage planning,

leadership,

teamwork .

PLANTATION DRIVE – 25th & 26th July, 2019

Pehr Kshitij Urmil of Grade VI,
Godavari participated in a
Plantation Drive organized at her
society Uniworld Gardens II,
Sector 47, Sohna Road, Gurgaon
on Saturday, 25th May 2019. The
drive was a huge success drawing
many people from within the
society and outside as well. The
event was exclusively covered by
Navbharat Times' Gurgaon Times
on Sunday, 26th May 2019.



ENTRÉE PROGRAM 28th March 19

As is rightly said by Helen Keller,
“Alone we can do so little, together
we can do so much.”

On March 28, our school conducted the
much celebrated Entrée programme. The
event was efficiently and smoothly
conducted by the class teachers in the
respective classrooms. It served as a great
platform for the parents to familiarise
themselves with scholastic and co scholastic
activities that their child would undertake in
the forthcoming year. The programme was
effective in enlightening the parents with
the infrastructure and amenities available to
their wards. The valuable suggestions and
feedback of the parents laid the foundation
of a productive year ahead.

ENTRÉE PROGRAM

ENTRÉE PROGRAM

TOGETHER WE MAY
GIVE OUR CHILDREN,
THE ROOTS TO GROW
AND WINGS TO FLY…

ENTRÉE PROGRAM

WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS

It is said that the vision of a child’s success workshop on ‘Innovative Trails’ which gave
can only be accomplished when the the parents a deeper understanding of the
school, parents and teachers come methods employed by the mentors to
together and join hands. The sole aim of teach the little minds. Likewise, Grade I
Lotus Valley International School is to had a ‘Focus Workshop’ wherein the
ensure that each of its learners treads the parents were apprised of the teaching
path of success. With this objective in pedagogies deployed by the teachers for
mind, the school regularly organises an effective teaching learning process.
various workshops wherein the parents’ Such workshops not only help the parents
involvement is of utmost importance. to understand the teaching strategies that
Grades Pre Nursery and Nursery organised their child needs, but also aid in
'Stepping Stones', a workshop that strengthening the parent- school
touched upon various facets of a life of a partnership.
pre-schooler. Grade Prep organised a

STEPPING STONES – Pre Nursery - Nursery

STEPPING
STONES

INNOVATIVE TRAILS -Grade Prep

INNOVATIVE TRAILS -Grade Prep

INNOVATIVE TRAILS

FOCUS GROUP GRADE I