From anxiety to paranoia to even being excited, the first day for  toddlers and their parents is a bit of an emotional roller coaster.

Defying those standard first-day-to-school jitters, the Primary section of Udgam welcomed the kids of Grade 1 with utter patience and support. Director of the Primary Section, Pratima Ma’am, with Vice-Principal of the Primary section, Meetika Ma’am along with other primary teachers warmly welcomed the kids and ensured their parents of a happy and fun-filled first day at school.

The corridors and classes of the school are spiffed up with caterpillar theme along with doremon, spider-man, batman, and many of  kids' beloved characters dazzling with colourful balloons. They were so intrigued by the welcome decoration that they had no signs of nervousness, in fact, many kids were seen posing besides their favourite cartoon and entered the class with a big, bright smile on their faces. The parents too left the school with a satisfied smile.

SOF-1^st Level NSO Winners

Students with Medal of Distinction and Medal of School Rank.

The students of grade 1 had a Drama activity in oral expression. The drama selected was GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS.

The whole drama was divided into 8 scenes and each scene was performed by different groups to incorporate all the children. . Each group had 5 students , playing  5 different characters ,that is, Narrator, Goldilocks, Papa Bear, Mother Bear and Baby Bear. Chairs, bowls, spoons, hairband, bench and placards were used as props .It was indeed a pleasure to see  students immerse in their characters and enact to the best of their ability.

The aim of this activity was to set the stage for playful learning. Through this, the students enriched their vocabulary and enhanced their story comprehension abilities.

Environmental Science is an interesting subject with variety of topics concerning our day to day life. We do our best to make the concepts clear by doing hands on activities. One such topic is making of cloth (WEAVING). Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or a cloth. To clear this concept, grade II children did the paper weaving activity. The whole weaving process was taught by the teachers using two papers which were cut into strips. The strips of paper were woven together to form a mat. The students finally coloured their hand made mats, decorated and laminated them. All the students thoroughly enjoyed this activity and worked with great enthusiasm.

“Best out of waste” is one of the most enjoyable activity that children can be engaged in. This activity was organized for grade II, to explore and encourage creativity in children and to offer them a platform to showcase their skill. The motive behind such an activity is to make children learn and progressively understand that resources should be used carefully. They can reuse waste materials and they should not always depend on new things. A variety of waste materials like pistachio shells, coconut shells, ice-cream sticks, plastic bottles etc were used to make useful things like Pen stand, Toys, Lanterns, Pencil boxes, Bird feeders, Bird house, Aquarium, Dice, Flower etc. Articles prepared by the children were a treat to the eyes. This fun filled activity witnessed an enthusiastic participation by all the students.

Cricket is a game played  throughout the world. It is a thrill both to play the game and to watch it. Students of Class 5 (both boys and girls )were taught the basic rules and given training in playing cricket by their PE teacher.  The Inter Class tournament started with the selection round. Then, there were the quarter final matches between the sections followed by the semi – finals. Finals were amongst the 2 best teams and the winners were declared. The winning teams were awarded with gold medals and silver medals were given to the runners-up teams. The series of matches between the sections  gave students a chance to cheer their fellow mates. We could see lot of zeal and competitiveness among the players as well as the spectators. Children left no stone unturned in cheering their favourite teams!!

The game of cricket encouraged team spirit, fostered discipline, helped build up character & brought out the quality of leadership in the students!!!

Combination of brain storming and vocabulary-building turns into an amazing activity. Students of Class 3  had a  spectacular Riddle Competition in Gujarati. In this, the students were divided into four groups i.e. Kairi (mango), Gulab(rose), Mor(peacock) and Sinh(lion). There were total five rounds i.e. Common round, Buzzer round, Call a friend round, Visual round and Rapid fire round. There was a very interesting round for teachers also. Riddles were put up to teachers and they had to rack their brains to answer them . From the starting till the end, students learned a lot and increased their vocabulary bank.

WINNING TEAM- Kairi ( Saumya M Shah(III B), Naitik B Desai(III C), Dhyani J Trivedi(III E))

RUNNERS-UP TEAM -Sinh ( Kahaan T Shah(III A), Paridhi R Dave(III C), Yug P Patel(III B))

Winners and participants were applauded and awarded with certificates.

Finally, the most awaited Computer Science Education Week 2017 (Dec 4 to Dec 10) is here.

Udgam School for Children is constantly looking for ways to engage constructively with the society. The Hour of Code is endorsed by figures like Malala Yusufzai, Barack Obama, Shakira, NBA star Chris Bosh, musician William, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and many others.
This event is a chance for all of us to see what computer science is about. With a hope it’ll spark interest in students to keep learning, Udgam school is a part of this global event.

Internationally, the Hour of Code has reached more than 100 million students in 180+ countries, defying all age and gender barriers – the activities are aimed at ages “4 to 104″ and over 10 million girls participated in 2013.

HAVE HAPPY CODING WITH FUN AND LEARNING THIS COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION WEEK!!