Newsletter September

Daffodils English school

Affiliated to CISCE, New Delhi & Recognised
by Govt. of Karnataka

Sanjaynagar, Bengaluru – 560094

‘Fear is not real. It is the product of thoughts you create. Danger is very real. But
fear is a choice’.
- Will Smith
Actor
(Born on September 25th, 1968)

Newsletter 2021



Highlights of the month!!!

 Sanskrit Day was celebrated on 20th August
 Teachers Day was celebrated on 5th of September
 Hindi Divas was celebrated on 14th of September
 KISA Sub Junior competitions were held at State &

National Levels
 Mid Term Examinations were held from September 20th

to October 5th for the Grades 3 —10

We are indeed proud to announce that Krithika M of Grade 8 has won the
Third Place in ASISC National Level Sub-Junior Declamation
Competition.
She stood first in KISA Sub-Junior Declamation Competition and
qualified to represent Karnataka at the National level.

HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS to Krithika!

Happy to present the newly selected MIE Experts for the year 2021 - 2022.
Microsoft selects Innovative Educator Experts to be part of the exclusive
global community paving the way for their peers to share ideas, try new
approaches, and learn from each other.

We are delighted by our teachers' achievement.

Mr. Narasimha Murthy was selected as an MIE Fellow for the year 2021 –
2022.

CONGRATULATIONS on your selection as an MIE Fellow. Wishing you
all the best in creating an environment of innovation in education using
technology.





We celebrate Teachers’ Day every year on the 5th of September, to
mark the birth anniversary of India’s second President
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. It is a day filled with lots of
excitement, joy and happiness as students eagerly look forward to
tell their teachers how and why they are special to them.

Teachers’ Day celebrates the unique role that teachers play in the
lives of young minds and in turn help shape the future of a
country.

Daffodils English School celebrated Teachers’ Day virtually on
the 5th September 2021. The students put together a wonderful
program which included an invocation, song, dance and a
documentary highlighting the efforts taken by teachers to make
sure children do not miss out on education during the
pandemic.

The alumni of the school created videos with messages
thanking the teachers for nurturing, guiding, instilling values
and being there for them whenever they needed support or
helping clear even the smallest of doubts be it in school or after
school. The program ended with felicitation of teachers who have
completed milestone years of service at Daffodils English School.



Daffodils English School had celebrated “Sanskrit Day” with great pomp
and splendor. The Sanskrit students of all the Grades were involved in
many activities, some of which are as follows:

कथा सङ्गरहणं -

The students of Grade 8 had performed “कथा सङ्गरहणं”, which is an
assortment of 4 stories from Panchatantra narrated by 4 students as
follows:

Sl.no Name of the Story Student
1. The Crane and the Crab Abhinav
2. Uddhava
3. Shabari Meets Rama Jagannath
4. The Story of the Potter Sankalp

The Thirsty Crow

GLIPMSES OF THE KATHA SANGRAHANAM …

नाटक मञ्चनम् -

The students of Grade 9 had performed a skit titled” अमुल्यानि िाण्यकानण” or
also known as the “The Precious Coins”.
The characters of this story are:

Sl.no Name of the student Role Played
1. Ritisha Chavan Narrator
2. Krithi Tummala The Father
3. Shriya.P The Son
4. Shanteri.S.Kini The Mother/The Grandfather/
The Shopkeeper

SKIT AT A GLANCE …

रसप्रश्न स्पर्ाा -

A quiz competition was organized for the students of Grades 6, 7,8 and 9.
It consisted of two rounds: A preliminary round which was held on 28th
August 2021 which was conducted through Microsoft Forms and a final
round which was conducted a week later on 4th September 2021 with
Aditi.V. Pai of Grade 10 being the Quiz Master, Shanteri. S. Kini and
Ritisha Chavan of Grade 9 and Mr. Dattatreya Dixit being the
scorekeepers.

The event commenced at 10:00 a.m. This was a live event conducted
through Microsoft Teams in which all the participants coordinated with
each other virtually. Smrithi K of Grade 6 invoked the blessings of the
Almighty by reciting an invocation song followed by Shanteri S Kini who
addressed the gathering. The quiz then began. The students who were
selected based on their performance in the preliminary round were grouped
into 5 teams namely: - Vayu, Prithvi, Agni, Jalam and Akash.

There was an ambience of excitement along with simultaneous nervousness
among the participants. The quiz went on smoothly and became more
exciting towards the end. Team Jalam emerged victorious by bagging 145
points, Team Vayu were the runners up with a score of 133 points and
Team Prithvi secured the third place with 110 points.

After the quiz, the platform was open to all the participants to put forth
their views on how the quiz was conducted, followed by Dixit Sir’s
observations. The program then concluded at 12:00pm with a melodic
rendition by Riddhi

Ritisha Chavan rendered the vote of thanks.

Overall, it was a very informative, insightful, and amazing experience for
the participants as all of them received a deeper knowledge on the two
great epics — Ramayana and Mahabharata.

PODIUM 2nd Place 3rd Place
Team Vayu Team Agni
1st Place Grade 6 Grade 6
Team Jalam Riddhi M.D, P. Thanmayi,
Grade 6
Sameksha Gupta Grade 7 Grade 8
Sreenivasa, Vrindha.R. Iyer, Uddhava Kamath
Hundi
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8
Arjun Degala, Tejas.S, Krithika.M,

Grade 8 Grade 8 Grade 9
Rohini Bharadwaj, Adithi Madhyasta, Eakansh.G,
Grade 9
Grade 9 Deekshitha.G,
Krithi Tummala,

14th September every year is celebrated as ‘Hindi Diwas’. “Hindi is the
symbol of our social and cultural unity and is the main connecting
language of the people of India. The knowledge and application of Hindi
language is a powerful tool in the hands of Indians.”

Students tried to spread the message “Hindi hamaari shaan hai; desh
ka abhimaan hai.” Students emphasized that we should be proud of
our national language and should learn to speak in the public domain
without any hesitation. This urged everyone to feel proud of our official
language, Hindi. The students were made aware of the significance of
Hindi language and were urged to make an endeavor to learn and
enhance Hindi communication skills so that they can enjoy the language.

Students expressed the importance of Hindi and the way it is accepted as
an official language. Students from Grades 6 to 10 recited poems by
famous Hindi poets and brought about the richness and beauty of the
language.

Children thoroughly enjoyed the activities as part of the Hindi Diwas. It
was an enriching virtual celebration of the Hindi Diwas that reached out
to the students in their homes.





Rendezvous with the future – Exploring future prospects...

An interactive session was organized for the students of Grades 9
and 10 – [Economic Applications] with the first batch of
Economic Applications students of the year 2018—2019.

The session was organized to give the students an idea of the var-
ious options available with the first-hand experience and advise
of the seniors acting as guiding principles.

The students who addressed the session were Vibha Kamat, Aditi
Shetty, S.Purvika, Mihir Joshi, Andrew Winston,
Vishal Nagaraj and Sai Kshitij. These students are poised to
pursue their graduate courses in various branches of commerce
and economics. Hence, this workshop was conducted to give an
encouraging insight to the students.

The Guest speakers gave clear and concise information which
was well received by the students. Their queries were well
answered by the seniors. The icing on the cake in this hour long
session were the experiences shared with the students by our dear
Secretary.

In all, it was an eventful session for the Economic Applications
students of Grades 9 and 10.



Grade 1 students had activity-based learning to understand the concept
of "Adjectives".

Each child had to come on camera and show different objects that he/
she came across. The child had to describe those objects and tell the
different adjectives used to describe them.

It was a wonderful and interactive session.

Grade 1 students understood the properties of water while learning a les-
son on the same in EVS.

Children discussed and spoke about the properties of water by having a
glass of water during the class. They shared their observations which
included water being shapeless, colorless, odorless and tasteless.

Children enjoyed the hands-on activity by coming on camera and
learned the concept effortlessly.

'The whole cap came off…must have been a recap'- quote by Dale
Earnhardt Jr.

Embrace active revision techniques...

This was followed for the recap sessions for Grades 6 and 7 students for
Chemistry and Biology classes respectively.

Reading textbook and notes is a passive revision technique which doesn’t
fully engage our brain. Active revision is more efficient as it provides
many benefits. It makes our brain work, it activates the memory centers
of our brain, and makes stronger memories of the information that we
are trying to take in. It makes us re-assess the information that we think
we might know, and also will force us to work towards re-learning it. It
is more interesting than passive revision exercises.

Here are the snippets of the students who used examples from daily life
to explain-solids can have any number of free surfaces, they do not need
a medium to hold, use of magnets for separation of mixtures etc.

Students of Grade 7 also used regular dough and created model to
explain binary fission in Amoeba...

Gyan for the month!!!

Dussehra Vacation for the Grades 1—10 will start from
October 6th. School will reopen on 21st of October…

That’s all for now….
Watch this space for more updates in the

coming months!!!
All the very Best….