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Chinmaya Vidyalaya

Kundanbagh, Begumpet,

Hyderabad-500016

NEWSLETTER- APRIL & MAY 2017

You are not born in this world to fail. Failure can only be “Success Delayed” to every seeker

of the Higher.

Be a sportsman.

When you play well, say to yourself, “Good Shot!”

When you make a goof, say to yourself , “Better luck next time!”

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2nd April 2017: JEE-Mains Entrance Exam:

Our Vidyalaya was a centre for the JEE- Mains Entrance Examination 2017. A total of 540

students took this exam in our Vidyalaya. The Vidyalaya staff was involved in all areas of

conducting this exam, in accordance with the strict norms and security standards laid down by

the CBSE.

4th April 2017: Ramanavami Celebrations:

The birthday of our beloved Lord Rama was celebrated in our Vidyalaya and the Dhyana

Nilayam (Temple). Seeta Rama Kalyanam was conducted in the Dhyana Nilayam on 5th April.

On 4th April, the primary staff prepared delicious Panakam and VadaPappu as Prasadam

for the entire Vidyalaya staff and students. This was distributed to all the students and staff

members. SriRama Stotram was chanted in the morning Assembly and a small reminder about

the qualities of Lord Rama, was instilled in our children.

Teachers distributing Prasadam to the primary children

Teachers distributing Prasadam to the Middle school children

Classroom Activities:

On 9th April 2017, Science Teachers of class IV, Hemalata Teacher, Padmini Teacher,

HimaBindu Teacher and Soumya teacher took all the students of Class IV to the Vidyalaya

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Garden adjacent to the Saraswati Nilayam wing and showed them the different kinds of leaves

and plants. This was in connection to the chapter on “ Living Things - Plants”. Children

thoroughly enjoyed this little outing and got a lungful of oxygen while doing their Botany lesson.

Reminds us of Sri Rabindranath Tagore, and his beautiful way of teaching amongst trees at

Shantiniketan!

Class IV students learning about plants

13th April 2017: Results of the French Olympiad:

43 students from Class VI to X from our Vidyalaya participated in the French Olympiad

examination which was held on 15th Dec 2016. This was organized by Silver Zone Foundation,

New Delhi in collaboration with the French Embassy.

The top three students from each class at school level were awarded gold, silver and

bronze medals.

CLASS NAME MEDAL

VI Chi. Ragav Krishna Gold

Chi. Y. V.Parshuram Silver

Saathvik. V Bronze

VII Vedanta Chandurkar Gold

Deepa Silver

P.N.Shreya Mukund Bronze

VIII Akshay Ranganathan Gold

Krutardh Tirunahari Silver

A.Anirudh Bronze

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IX Avaneesh.C Gold

Pragnya. D Silver

Apurv Patel Yadav Bronze

X Sukeerthi Uppala Gold

K. Shreya Silver

Tejas Mahajan Bronze

Congratulations to all the above students and to our French faculty members, Karishma

teacher and Umakalyani Madam.

Students who won medals in the French Olympiad Examination accompanied with their mentors Karishma ma’am and Umakalyani madam

15th April 2017: Fire Safety Week:

14th to 20th April 2017 is observed as the Fire Safety Week. In order to commemorate

this campaign, and create an awareness amongst students and teachers of our Vidyalaya, a

demonstration was conducted by the team of Sri. K. Basavaraju Garu, AGM- Airport Rescue Fire

Fighting (ARFF). His team consisted of Sri.Sanjay Shil - Fire Prevention Officer, Sri. Javed Iqbal-

Emergency Planning and Training manager, Sri. Sanjeev Singh & Sri. Raghavendra – Crew

Commanders, Sri. Bathini – Senior Coordinator, Sri. Balaji and Sri. Aravind – Fire Fighters.

Vidyalaya children welcoming Sri. Basavaraju Garu and his team

Students listening in rapt attention to the fire fighting team

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These brave warriors went about in a very subtle way, explaining things about major fire

accidents in a very simple manner , very useful for school children. They explained about the

different types of fire extinguishers, the causes and origin of fire, and the ways to put out fire.

Some students from Class VI to X were allowed to use the fire extinguishers to put out an

experimental dummy fire purposely caused by an LPG cylinder.

Vidyalaya students attempting to extinguish fire with the help of fire extinguishers under the supervision and advice of the fire fighting team.

Some of the staff members were also allowed to use fire extinguishers.

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Vidyalaya staff trying out their hand at extinguishing fire with the help of extinguishers.

The fire fighting staff demonstrated the rescue operations done in case of fire in high

rise apartments and how injured people are evacuated on stretchers during such accidents.

Rescue operations from High Rise Apartments

One of the officials, Sri. Javed Iqbal was an expert at making knots. Different kinds of

knots that are used to safely handle cargo and people were also explained and demonstrated.

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The knot expert, Sri. Javed Iqbal from the fire fighting team showing some techniques to the Vidyalaya students

Last but not the least, the team of Sri. Basavarajgaru, very patiently answered the

endless queries of our Vidyalaya students.

Question Answer Session for the Vidyalaya students

This was a wonderful opportunity for the Vidyalaya staff and students to interact with

some of our community helpers, the fire fighting warriors.

The fire fighting team who visited our Vidyalaya with a few Vidyalaya staff members

21st April 2017:

Students of the Vidyalaya had 21st April as the last working day prior to breaking for the

summer vacation. We hope the children come back in June, healthy and geared up for the next

session.

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29th April 2017: Teachers’ Felicitation and Last Vidyalaya working Day:

29th April was the last working day for Vidyalaya staff prior to taking a break for the

summer vacation. Also held was the felicitation of teachers on their completion of 15 years of

service. Three pillars of our esteemed Vidyalaya, Smt. Hemalata- our Yoga teacher, Smt. Parvati

Balaram – our Value Education teacher for secondary section and Shri. Praveen – our faculty

from the admin department were felicitated on the completion of fifteen precious years of

service. Smt. Valli Prasanna Garu, academic advisor of our Vidyalaya, graced the occasion and

presented the mementos.

Smt. ValliPrasanna garu felicitating

Smt. Parvati Balaram Smt. Hemalata Shri. Praveen

They were honoured with floral boquets, shawls and a memento. They shared their

experiences with the rest of the staff and had many fond memories to cherish. Lunch was

provided by the Management for the entire staff.

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May 7th 2017: NEET EXAM:

The All India Entrance exam for Medical Colleges – NEET Exam was held on 7th May

2017. Our Vidyalaya was a centre for this examination. A total of 480 students had registered

for this exam, which was very diligently invigilated by our staff.

May 8th 2017: Gurudev’s Birthday Celebrations:

Birthday of our Pujya Gurudev, Swami Chinmayananda was observed on 8th May 2017

by performing the Ashtotranama Puja in the Vidyalaya. May Gurudev’s deep Grace and

Blessings flow through each of us, and help us to maintain our composure and positive outlook

in all walks of life.

Other Awards and Laurels:

Grey Matters India (GMI) is a social enterprise that aims at inculcating real life skills like

critical thinking, perseverance and growth mindset among children.

Our Vidyalaya students, Chi. N.V.P. Pradeep of Class IX and Chi. N.S.V Prabhas of Class VI

have received participation certificates from GMI for their participation in the assessment of

critical thinking. Their exhibition of a healthy competitive spirit, and a great eagerness to learn,

explore and grow towards a better future is commendable. We hope more students participate

in such programs.

Chi. Pradeep with his certificates from GMI Chi. Prabhas with certificates from GMI

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Student Summer Camps at Chinmaya Garden Trust, Coimbatore:

Balvihar Camp 2017

The most awaited camp for Classes V and VI – the Balvihar camp at Chinmaya Gardens-

Coimbatore was held from the 19th to 21st of April 2017. An amazing trip, filled with fun and

frolic accompanied with activities ranging from games like “Filling the bottles”, preparation of

skits, making your own juices and a few more creative activities, this camp provided our nine

and ten year old children the experience of staying away from home and parents for three/four

days , thereby, appreciating the role of parents and caretakers in their daily lives. Also staying in

an ashram, in a very pious atmosphere gave them the strength to think correctly, reciprocating

and sharing their ideas with each other. This was the first step for our Vidyalaya students to be

in coherence with the CVP Principle of Universal Outlook.

Balvihar Camp children during the travel In the Ganesha Temple

Outdoor activities during the camp

Bhajan Session in the Satsangh hall during Camp

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All the camp delegates performed Gayathri Homam during the last day of the camp.

These vibrations add on to make the ashram more pious and serene.

Children performing Gayathri Homam

The 27 students and accompanying staff members also visited the ISHA foundation,

Marudhamalai Temple (Murugan Temple) and Perur Temple(Shiva Temple)

Visit to ISHA Foundation and Perur Temple

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26th April to 1st May 2017: HariSeva Camp

33 students of Classes IX and X ,accompanied by three of our staff members, attended

the HariSeva Camp organized by the education cell of CCMT at Chinmaya Gardens, Coimbatore.

Onward Journey to Coimbatore

The present generation of children and youth are growing up in an environment of

extreme materialism which is making them more selfish and preventing them from appreciating

all they have. Seva/Service can transform them from a selfish consumer to a giving producer.

CCMT- Education Cell is introducing the Chinmaya Bala/Yuva seva Certificate so as to inculcate a

spirit of “Seva Bhava” and to bring in an internal transformation wherein they shed their ego &

selfishness and develop the right attitude towards work and society.

Pillow Making The end-product! Look at the pillow

Traditional art on cloth

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As part of this camp, students and staff were involved in various activities such as broom

making, tree painting, pillow making, pottery, appalam making, garbage pit making,

vermicompost making, traditional art on cloth, jewellery making, rope making, notebook

making etc. All these involved long hours of labour in the hot sun and absolute concentration

and whole hearted participation to get all the minute details of each activity in proper shape.

Tree Painting Rope Making

Pottery Jewellery making

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Broom Making Rewards at the end of a long day; yummy yummy food

served by us!

Final products made in this manner were sent to CORD (Chinmaya Organisation for

Rural Development) and sold to consumers. What an absolute beautiful way of realizing this

dream of producer to consumer through children as part of service! Kudos to the organizers of

this camp as well as all the participants.

Shubh Sahas Camp – 3rd May to 6th May 2017:

A group of 44 students accompanied by four teachers reached Coimbatore very

enthusiastically on the 3rd of May to participate in the Shubh Sahas Camp.

Onward Journey towards Coimbatore

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Tons of outdoor activities were waiting for our Class VII and Class VIII children. These

included Military Crawl, Burma Bridge, Commando ladder, Tarzan Swing, FireFox, RopeWalk,

etc.

Prayer by the Hyderabad children during the Camp

Inauguration

Military Crawling Burma Bridge

Commando Ladder Tarzan Swing FireFox

All the camp participants were taken for trekking to a small hill. Once the trekking was

done, they had other activities like Rapelling, Bouldering, Archery, Bamboo walk etc. They

tremendously enjoyed each and every activity conducted.

Trekking done by the Campers

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Archery Rapelling

Bamboo Walking

A major highlight of the Shubh Sahasi’s this year was firewalking done by each and every

person present in the camp, including the Camp co-ordinator, Ramani Amma and the Camp

Acharya, Swamini amma Vimalanandaji. Most of the teachers and all the students participated

in this activity.

Sumakalyani Teacher doing the fire walk Rashmi Teacher doing the fire walk

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Yet another breath taking activity was walking barefoot on pieces of glass.

The team building games and tug of war provided a lot of fun and bonding between all

the team members.

Team Building Activities

At the end of the camp, the performance of the Gayathri Homam provided the much

needed feeling of gratitude towards the Almighty .Every child participated enthusiastically and

abandoned his/her bad qualities in the Poorna Ahuti.

Gayathri Homam on the last day of the camp

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All the Vidyalaya children visited the ISHA Foundation also during this camp visit. They

returned back with very fond memories that would probably last a lifetime.

We stand as one family!

28th May 2017: Class XII Results:

Our Vidyalaya had good results for Class XII. Chi. Priyanka Mukund topped the

commerce stream with 95%. Chi. Akash Dakoor topped the science stream with 94.8%.

Congratulations to all the students and the PGT teachers.

***** HARI OM*****

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