RADIANCE(SEPT-OCT EDITION)

G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

VISION The drive of the institution is to endow the learners with varied
competencies to awaken the intelligence and cultivate a global perspective which
stimulates them to reconcile scientific temperament with core traditional values and
ethos, leading to genesis of futuristic citizens with humane values.

Editorial Board: Ms. Bhavneet Kaur , Ms. Pravesh Sharma , Ms. Anju Budhiraja

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G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

Wielding the pen with
grace, we unravel
words; and so, we
unravel worlds...

Dear Parents and Students,

It brings me immense pleasure to unveil the issue of Radiance this year, an
initiative to reap the seeds of aesthetic appreciation and creative ingenuity
sown in our students. As they wield their pens and paint the canvas with their
vivid creative intellect, we provide yet another platform to them for
showcasing the astounding synergy of the worlds of reality and imagination.
The web of the ordinary and the extraordinary comes to a confluence as our
learners interweave their co-scholastic aptitude with their linguistic prowess
and awareness of the world. We believe in upholding high standards for
commitment towards values and experiential learning in the school, and
keeping the same in mind, myriad opportunities are provided to our students
for grooming them into meritorious achievers in all fields. This magazine is also
an initiative to enable our ever-blossoming parent-community to be apprised
about our endeavours into collaborative learning.

An admirable montage prepared by our prolific and profound students awaits
you as they enlighten us with their distinctive perspective on the world,
contemporary issues and their blooming lives. With this, I would like to
congratulate the Editorial Committee for bringing the first issue of Radiance
together.

Anuradha Pant
(PRINCIPAL)

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G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

MESSAGE FROM SENIOR SCHOOL INCHARGE

“Only when the last light perishes, do we realise that the radiance
of our existence glimmers as beautifully as the netted moon.”
With our students we learn and bloom together.

Dear Students and Parents,
As we stride forward with our children, providing a holistic experience of education to
them, we realise the need to bring about academic rigour, co-curricular development,
a healthy emotional and physical state along with awareness of the socio-political
concerns of this contemporary world. We strive to provide a value based environment
to our learners so that they grow with positive ideals and affirmations. Facilitating
their intellectual development, we also focus on their interpersonal skills to ensure
that they are able to experience life in its entirety. Multifarious leadership initiatives
such as Cabinet Body, community service, field visits ensure that their skill-sets are
honed and their potentials developed to the optimum. In the competitive world we
inhabit, it becomes our imperative to provide the best from the society to them in
order to enable them for imbibing the most humane virtue of giving back to the
society. The confluence of scholastic development through Olympiads and Talent
Search Examinations, and co-curricular development through an exposure to
theatrical and musical performances ensure that the learners traverse many more
ways than one. Our focus on blended education and our endeavours like integrated
activities and interdisciplinary curriculum facilitate our learners to cultivate
innumerable capacities. Radiance, another initiative by our students, is there to let
their creative wings take flight and to enable them to relish even unconquerable
horizons and embrace the radiance of the warm and glowing sun.

Nisha Aneja
(SENIOR SCHOOL INCHARGE)

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G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

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Ryan Mehra
VIII-C

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G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

STORY OF ‘TIME’ WHAT’S YOUR SAVE THE TURTLES!!!!!
BEST!
Many years ago, there lived a person Ah! What a warm day it is, let me just
named TIME. TIME had few If you always try your grab a quick drink from starbucks! I
superpowers, one of them included best, mean, why not? (papa ke paise hain
that it could never stop. TIME had na!) You didn't notice anything wrong,
few friends named EARTH, Then you’ll never have to right? Well, well, well let me do the
HUMANS and GOD. After few wonder honours.
days, TIME passed away and Plastic straws are the worst thing that
About what you could happen to this world.
following changes took place-GOD could’ve done, Every time you get a disposable straw,
gave birth to WORLD,HUMANS it eventually gets thrown away.
started living in WORLD, GOD left If you’d summoned all Many of these straws, along with other
and after sometime, a person named your thunder plastic trash, ends up in the ocean,
HUMANITY arrived, HUMANS, where it can harm or kill sea turtles
EARTH and HUMANITY became And if your best was not and other marine wildlife.
friends. HUMANS misused EARTH as good, Straws can get into a sea turtle's nose,
for its selfish means. or a sea turtle can eat the straw,
As you hoped it would be because it thinks that it is food.
HUMANITY tried to I know what you're thinking - why to
intervene, HUMANS killed You still could say- “I save perhaps the slowest animal on
HUMANITY.EARTH is still GAVE TODAY earth? How does it affect me? Why
battling with HUMANS for its should I care?
survival. (Kanav Gupta-8B) ALL THAT I HAD IN If turtles were to ever go extinct, sea
ME” grasses would eventually die off and
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Sahana Vij (8B) life and eventually human life as well.
Sea turtles help support the fragile
ecosystem of the marine life when
they nest.
I'm not asking you to campaign, and
do things that are all time consuming.
Just one thing- switch to metal straws,
reusable cups. That is the only way to
save human life.
Sure, they are a little costlier than
plastic straws but at least they won't
cost you your life.
As John F. Kennedy once said," Ask
not what your country can do for you,
ask what you can do for your

country." (Mehar Chugh- 8B)

OPTIMISTIC THINKING

It was a long lonely night
Everything seemed out of sight

Just then it came on right
And held me close so tight
It was a thought, a thought so bright
That transformed my darkness into light
I had the power to evade my plight

I had it all to win the fight

(Bhargavi Bhargave-8D)

G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

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G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

Teacher’s Corner

Teacher’s Day Celebrations

NETFLIX AUDITIONS : A shout out to the Budding Actors

In collaboration with Casting Bay, Mumbai, the school has initiated a remarkable foray
for students interested in the world of theatre and acting. The glorious opportunity will
provide Goenkans the platform to be a participant of one of the most awaited shows to
be released by Netflix India. The first round of auditions for the same were conducted in
the school on 7 August wherein the confident Goenkans aged 12 to 16 years exhibited
their talent and skills by presenting an introduction for further screening. Small steps
like these are important in giving momentum to their journeys ahead.
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G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

INTER ZONAL TABLE TENNIS
SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP
EVENTS

It's raining accolades for Goenkans as they bagged the first position in both Girls
and Boys category in Zonal Table Tennis Championship held on
19 August 2019 by dint of their perseverance. Kudos to the proud
Girls team Tanisha Poddar (9A), Kejal Garg (9E), Sahana Vij (8B)
Boys team Adhyyan Bindal (9D), Manan Bansal (9C), Ayush Kejriwal (9C),

Aaditya Sharma (8D)

Art GALLERY

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G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

PROJECT A Step
towards Saving
NEER the Elixir of Life!

"Water, is taught by thirst. Land—by the Oceans passed.-Emily Dickinson

The growing need to conserve water resources and inculcate the appreciation
and judicious use of these, the school has initiated an innovative programme

called "Project Neer", an interactive

discourse that measures the participants’
water footprint and how one can undertake
small measures to contribute to water
conservation.

Save Water
Campaign by
the Goenkans

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PROJECT G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
PHULWARI SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

Speaker of the Year Workshop with RJ Lucky and
Peepal Baba

To promote sensitivity and communication skills amongst students, the school
organised Speaker of The Year workshop with RJ Lucky and Peepal Baba on 22

August 2019. The school's initiative, PROJECT PHULWARI was the

vision guiding these workshops. The famous environmentalist, Peepal Baba
credited for growing around 20 million trees inspired the students by discussing
the positive changes each one of us has the potential to bring about with our
right intentions and right actions. Conservation of nature, as he rightly says, is a
collective responsibility.

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G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
SECTOR 22, ROHINI

Senior School e-Magazine(Class VIII)

UPCOMING EVENTS

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