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	June 2009

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BACK TO SCHOOL

June is back to school and the board results - both ICSE and ISC. We congratulate the staff and the students for their consistent, outstanding performance at the Boards.

With great pleasure we welcome you
to the New Academic year 2009-10.

We WELCOME all our new Staff too!

The first day of the academic year 2009-10 commenced with the Principal addressing the faculty of Lilavatibai Podar Senior Secondary School. It was basically an orientation session for the teachers of both ‘A’ and ‘B’ School in two different meetings. The Principal, Mrs Norina Fernandes highlighted:

Innovative ways of conducting class assembly with inclusion of yoga , mediation, importance of reading books, building up good vocabulary, singing of hymns. Innovative classroom teaching methods with special emphasis on mind mapping.

From 03- 05 June, 2009 in-house workshop sessions were conducted for all staff in various groups, in rotation. They were innovatively planned to embark on a journey of establishing our school as a multidisciplinary center and to create a new synergy. The various sessions were as follows:

Effective Class Assembly and Mind Mapping by the principal, Mrs Norina Fernandes. She discussed the advantages of creating a positive classroom environment through effective daily assembly.
Classroom Management by the Vice Principal, Mrs Dorothy D’Souza and she discussed how to tackle disciplinary problems in the classroom. She emphasized on now the pupils could be fruitfully involved by providing right learning ambience in class.
First Aid in the School was taken by Mrs Nini Ghaie (HOD Environmental Education) and Mrs Latha Sunderajan. It was an informative session on how to acquire the qualities of a First Aider in the school.
Various interactive sessions on subjects such as English,Mathematics and Science were conducted by Ms Ekta Bhatia and Ms Harsha took a session on how to make English more effective. Mr Jayesh Bahirwani (HOD Math) and Ms Priya Fernandes (HOD Science) took sessions on effective handling of their subjects. The techniques discussed would enhance the learning process in a classroom by making the pupil active learners.

Another important feature of the re-opening day was a workshop conducted by Dr. Jagmeet Madan, Head, Dept of Food and Nutrition from SNDT College of Home Science. The session’s highlight was PROJECT ‘MARG’ (Medical Education for Children and Adolescents for Realistic Prevention of Obesity and Diabetes, for Healthy Growth and Ageing). The project targets the age group of 9 – 18 years school children and junior college students. It aims to sensitize children about the ill effects of obesity and to create awareness about health hazards viz. Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes, Cancer etc due to obesity. The main issues discussed in the session were – causes of obesity, factors contributing to health, what are the risks? And thus, prevention of the same. Earlier in the month of April, the same MARG team trained our Std X cookery students on how to take anthropometric measurements.