Children have vivid imagination and can create beautiful worlds with their stories. They are influenced by so many things around them that we adults consider mundane. Therefore they can breathe life into even the simplest of stories and make us wonder…
A story telling event was conducted for Class 1 and the students entertained the class with their colourful stories. Although a few were well known ones from fables, some of them had a fair margin of originality in them. The little children were eloquent and spoke well while using props to go along with their stories and break the monotony.
 

Udgam School for Children has a scholarship program for merit students based on certain criteria, such as Academic results of the child for the past year, Behaviour and discipline of the child during the past year, Financial position of the parents and family as such, Attendance record of the child, Punctuality and other habits of the child.
Scholarships were given to the selected students yesterday in a special ceremony which was attended by their parents too. Executive Director Mr. Manan Choksi and Principal Ms. Radhika Iyer handed over the scholarships to the students. 
It is our firm belief that this kind of positive encouragement enables the child to pursue studies without hindrance while going the extra mile to achieve more because of the faith placed on them.
We wish the scholarship recipients a happy and bright future!

Around 260 students of primary section of Thaltej Municipal School, a school adopted by Udgam School, visited Udgam premises today. This is the first of such visits to follow.
In wake of 2014-15 being the 50th year of the school, students of TMS along with their teachers visited our premises.
They were involved in indoor and outdoor activities like cricket, tennis, badminton, singing, dancing, ball games, watching motivational stories etc. arranged by the team Udgam .
In each activity children were given prizes too which kept their morale up for upcoming event.
Not a single minute of their visit to our premises was wasted and they enjoyed the facilities to the utmost.
At the end of their visit they were provide with snacks and sweets.

Community Helpers are people in professions that directly impact the lives of others. They deliver a service that makes our lives easier. It is important for all of us to know the ways in which Community Helpers work. We can also help them do their jobs better if we understand the role they play. In many ways community helpers remind us of how inter-connected our lives are.
Many community helpers have easily identifiable work attire or clothes. This makes it easy to know their role in the community and is helpful if you need to approach them for help. A policeman or fire fighter’s uniform and a doctor’s coat thus become important clues of what they can do. Some community helpers also have identifiable means of transport e.g. the police car, the fire truck the mail van, the ambulance etc.
Children of Class 1 had an activity in which they dressed up as Community Helpers belonging to different professions. They enacted their roles with realistic props alongwith appropriate words. 
This activity will help to instill in them respect for all professions and learn to value them better.

Orange and Purple are two extremes when it comes to colours. So the theme Purple-Orange Day was celebrated in Preprimary section to make the little kids aware about these two diverse colours and how they add beauty to things around us. Children were made aware of these colours by using different themes like ice-cream parlour, ring game, garden, fruits & other innovative ideas. They were involved in exciting activities like Palm Printing, Potato & Bitter gourd dabbing, Colouring objects, playing with toys. Tiny toddlers were beautifully dressed in Orange & Purple. It was a fun & frolic day for these tiny tots.”

Udgam School for Children celebrated ‘Hindi Diwas’ with great enthusiasm and fervour. A variety of programmes stressed the significance of the national language. Students took part in a Song competition where they rendered Bhajans composed by renowned poets like Kabirdas, Soordas, Mirabai in a mellifluous manner to the accompaniment of musical instruments, captivating every heart in the gathering. A divine serenity pervaded the entire environment.
Students also spoke on the ability of the language to bind the nation. They threw light on the contribution of great litterateurs like Munshi Premchand, Mahadevi Verma, Bhartendu Harishchandra and others and dwelt on the impact and relevance of Hindi in today’s times. 
Extracts from literary masterpieces in Hindi, famous quotes, poems adorned the soft boards along the school corridors. 
The Principal Ms. Radhika Iyer commended the efforts of the students towards making the Hindi Diwas a success and distributed certificates to the winners in the Bhajan Competition. 

Recently Udgam School associated with KOOH Sports for after school football activity. One day free coaching by expert trainers was arranged in Thaltej Campus. Around 50 students registered and participated for the session which kicked off on 6th September.

KOOH Sports arranged for sending their team of experienced coaches- Mr. Spencer Johnson (US Born & International football player), Mr. Balpreet Singh (Former I league player) along with Regional Head Mr. Prashant Soni and Operations Head Mr. Ritesh Desai to our school to create awareness among young students about football and the importance of grass root level coaching.

They shared the knowledge and educated our students about the basic techniques, skills required for playing football.

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As a part of their Computer Class Activity students of Class 5 were taught the use of MS Word.
They made posters of Indian Leaders which included text and content. The computer teachers taught them the versatile use of MS Word including background, border, picture, special effects, Word Art, different fonts, headings and bullets. Now they can create excellent projects on paper while saving time while being more productive.

Rutvi Shah of class 7 A, Kavil Patel of class 4 C, Jainum Shah of class 5 D and Jaivat Shah of class 4 G participated in “Munshaw” Inter School Chess Tournament 2014 and brought laurels to school.

Because of their extremely good performance they were presented with a trophy for ‘School’ for it being on first position.

School appreciates their contribution. 

A debate competition was conducted by the Board of Studies of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India at the branch level for students of classes XI and XII.

Ishita Shah won the first prize and was awarded a trophy and Paras Shah won a certificate of participation.
The topic of debate was Reservation:Is it dividing or promoting the nation?
Udgam School was awarded a trophy too for the excellent participation.