CBSE Workshop on AI Curriculum of Class IX

Organized By CBSE and INTEL
Resource Person Mr. Anoop Singh, Sarthak Naroor, Prachi Chandra
Participants Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight CBSE in association with INTEL organised the workshop to provide an insight to the CBSE curriculum of AI for class 9. The resource people explained the topics in detail and provided resources for teaching the subject effectively. It was a fruitful session.

Student Say

Organized By Education World
Resource Person Education World
Participants Anahita Bhadra(VII D)
Highlight Anahita Bhadra was selected from the entire school to undergo a training in Journalism for over a year. She also completed her individual film & news report.

Workshop on Deliberating on Ethics and Integrity

Organized By CBSE COE Allahabad
Resource Person Dr.Ambika Prasad Gaur
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The meanings of deliberation and integration were explained. Examples for each were given. Types of integrity was explained. Vision and mission statement was elaborated in detail.

Stress Management Techniques

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Aparna Jamuar
Participants S. ANANDHI
Highlight The workshop was informative as it focussed on various ways that can be followed by the teachers to reduce their stress level as well as to keep a track of the students’ stress.

Teaching and Learning Styles

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Lizarani Das
Participants Teresa Gomes, S. Anandhi
Highlight The workshop was engaging as the resource person spoke very effectively about the different learning and teaching styles of students and teachers respectively.

Webinar – Let’s Jam Together

Organized By Arizona State University
Resource Person Claire McLaughlin
Participants Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight Interactive session on Jamboard was organized by the Senior Global Educator at ASU Global Launch. Technology enriched teaching was the focus.

Cambridge Zonal Community Meet 2022

Venue Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon
Organized By Cambridge Assessment International Education
Participants Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Piu Mahapatra
Highlight It was a platform which helped us to get connected with the Cambridge schools pan India. We came to know about the latest developments in the curriculum through the Seminar.

Salient features of NEP 2020

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Pallabi Mohapatra
Participants S. Anandhi, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight The workshop was very informative as the resource person explained the salient features of NEP 2020 and how it can be implemented in our regular classes to achieve the goal.

CBSE Budding Authors Programme

rganized By CBSE
Resource Person Menaka Raman
Participants Asfia Rafique, Kulbir Kaur, Runa Ghosh, Sohini Mitra Jain
Highlight The session was highly engaging and informative. The resource person discussed about the ways to improve creative writing skills. It was wonderfully explained how writing a story is like baking a cake - it requires different ingredients like characters, setting, drama and resolution. Tips on how to be a better writer were also shared.

Financial Literacy

Venue Sushila Birla Girls School
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mr. Alok Ghosh
Participants Around 20 teachers from our school
Highlight The session highlighted the basics of financial and retirement planning, term insurance policies, share market etc. with special mention to janaushadi.gov.in (central government based) from which people can get medicines in nominal rate.

Experiential Learning in Practice

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mr. Prasanta Panda
Participants Asfia Rafique, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight The session was highly informative. It focussed on the fact that experiential learning is an engaged learning process where students 'learn by doing' and by reflecting on the experience. Different ways to incorporate experiential learning in the lesson plan were also discussed.

Anger Free Schools

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Sushil Kumar Sinha
Participants Asfia Rafique, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight The session was very informative. The resource person discussed how to make schools anger free, what is anger management, ways to identify the anger signals and ways to stop an argument. He also talked about the consequences of anger and how it can affect individuals.

Setting Learning Outcome in Teaching and Learning

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Mr. Sarbeswar Samal
Participants S. Anandhi
Highlight The workshop was engaging as the resource person explained how to set the learning outcome while planning and if needed to be modified after the class or after the assessment process according to the students understanding level. He also mentioned that learning outcome may be set section wise to be very specific.

Parents Orientation (Cambridge Qualification)

Resource Person Mr. Satyajit Sarkar & Dr. Anuradha Das
Participants Parents of Classes V to VIII
Highlight Mass participation of parents. Interactive session of Dr. Anuradha Das

Capacity Building Workshop on Item Authors for Grade 11 & 12 History and Geography

Event Capacity Building Workshop on Item Authors for Grade 11 & 12 History and Geography
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Mistuni Mukherjee, Mumu Mukherjee
Highlight Based on the Competency Based Assessments held from 5th October to 14 th October 2022. Both were selected for a training session for authoring question paper and reviewing question papers from paper setters from all over India.

STEAM CONFERENCE with TinkRworks

Venue Oberoi Grand Banquet
Organized By UJ learn
Resource Person Dr. Anu Mahajan, Mr. Drew Yemm, Mr. Gil Levendel
Participants Dipankar Pal, Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight The Spokesperson gave an insight into the importance of integrating STEAM into our curriculum and also talked about the potential of the subject in the worldwide market. TinkRrworks aims at providing a hands on projects and experiential learning solutions to school students.

Understanding Multiple Intelligence

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Sankar Prasad Dutta
Participants Asfia Rafique, Suranjana Chakrabarti, Teresa Gomes
Highlight The session was highly engaging and informative. The following were discussed in detail -
> Howard Gardener's Theory of Multiple Intelligence
> Nine types of intelligence and how to identify them in a classroom environment.
> Lesson Planning with Multiple Intelligence
> Effect of Multiple Intelligence on teaching learning styles.

2nd Sahodaya Meeting

Venue Saltlake Shiksha Niketan
Organized By Sahodaya Kolkata
Participants Jaya Misra
Highlight It was a platform to discuss common problems and upcoming activities of Sahodaya were shared.

SSWS 42 school synergy games in Mathematics classroom

Organized By TISS
Resource Person Dr. Ruchi S Kumar
Participants Indrani Das, Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight Explanation of a concept through interactive games.

Navigating our way in Post Covid Times

Venue Indus Valley World School
Organized By Association for Primary Education & Research (APER) Territory
Resource Person Dr. Reena Sen & Ms. Amita Prasad
Participants Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami
Highlight The Kolkata Chapter for APER was launched at this educator's meet. Dr Sen delivered the key note address which was followed by an interactive session to share the best practices. Each school was requested to tie up with an NGO and adopt and if students can be engaged in social service in an organized manner.

CBSE Workshop on Developing Resilience in Students

Organized By COE Bhubaneshwar
Resource Person Prasanta Kumar Panda
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The need for developing resilience through classroom activities was stressed by the resource person.
Building resilience is the key to helping students develop the ability to overcome stressful and challenging experiences. Children face challenges at various levels and resilience helps them to overcome obstacles and bounce back from perceived failures.

What Great Teachers Do Differently

Resource Person Bindiya Kaur Gill
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight PowerPoint Presentation was shared where skills that an educator needs to be an effective teacher in this century was discussed in details. Importance and types of praise were discussed by sharing a video on the same.

Workshop on Engaging the Disengaged

Resource Person Manmeet kaur
Participants Teachers of Primary Department
Highlight The topic for the workshop was 'Engaging the Disengaged'. The session highlighted the meaning of student engagment and different ways how the students display engagement. It also emphasized the need for engaging the students to ensure effective learning. Certain strategies were discussed in
order to make the curriculum engaging. Strategies to motivate the reluctant learners were also discussed.

Workshop on Learning Styles and Strategies

Resource Person Rama Poddar
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight It was an interactive session. The features of different types of learners and strategies for each type
was discussed. Video clips relevant to the topic were shown after the PowerPoint Presentation.

Future of Education 5.0

Venue Hyatt Regency, Kolkata
Organized By ASSOCHAM & Affairs
Resource Person Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon'ble Minister of Education, Government of India
Participants Jaya Misra, Jayati Gowami
Highlight It was an interactive session with the Minister where future plans were shared with representatives from the industry, colleges, universities and schools.

KIC Career Fair

Organized By KIC
Participants Students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight 18 University representatives put up their stalls to interact with students of classes 11 12.

Save Soil Movement

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Students of classes III – V
Highlight The students were apprised about the movement and the need to save soil as the planet is in danger because of the depleting layer of soil. In accordance to the CBSE guidelines, the children wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of our country in their own language based on their understanding.

Author Led Training on New Oxford Modern English Coursebook

Organized By Oxford University Press (OUP)
Resource Person Prakriti Srivastava
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Developing communication skills through phonetics was discussed. Emphasis was on Critical and Creative Thinking elements, figurative speech and psycholinguistic aspect. How to make phrases, idioms and story telling interesting. Stressed upon using blended words and importance of talking in the classroom. Taught a life skill through preposition. Showed how associated learning helps.
Suggested ways to work upon lack of focus amongst the children. Videos shown and activities were done for better understanding.

75th Independence Day

Participants Selected students of our academy with various talents
Highlight The 75th Independence Day was celebrated in the school premises on 15th August 2022 . Students of classes V XII witnessed a variety of programmes presented by the students of the Academy. The national flag was hoisted at 9 am followed by the speeches of Director Ma'am, Meena Kak, the Chief Guest, Brigadier Debasis Das, speeches by students in both English and Hindi, a patriotic song, a couple of group dances, a Nukkad Natak and a video presentation and vote of Thanks by the Vice Principal, Ms. Jaya Misra.

Scholastic India Meeting

Organized By Scholastic
Participants Ms. Meena Kak , Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight Writers Academy, Teacher enhancement program and Students Internship Plan was broadly discussed.

KL YES

Organized By AFS INDIA
Resource Person AFS USA
Participants Navya Khemka (XI B)
Highlight Navya Khema will be in Cleveland, USA to study in Chardon High school under the prestigious scholarship of Kenedy Lugar YES program

exeBIT 2022

Venue Horticulture, LSA, online
Resource Person IT Department
Participants Students of Classes III – XII
Highlight The IT fest organised by the IT department was conducted in a hybrid mode this year. Total 29 schools participated out of which 26 were city, 2 national and 1 international school. The events catered to the students of classes 3 to 12. Some events were online which catered to national and international schools and some were offline. Events ranging from photography, coding, art, quiz, ATL, fashion show, Desktop publishing made the children excited and engaged.

SAMHITA –Art Event

Venue Birla Bharati School
Organized By Birla Bharati School
Participants Students of Classes X – XI
Highlight Four students from class 10 and 11 participated in the art event Samhita of Birla Bharati fest Svatantryam. They worked as a group and used recycled objects on a specific theme.

ICC ED TECH SUMMIT

Venue TAJ Bengal
Organized By ICC
Participants Ms. Meena Kak , Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight A hybrid event Enrich, Equip and Execute by listening to visionaries.

Orientation Session for Principals on School Health and Wellness programme

Venue Delhi (Virtual)
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person NCERT, UNESCO, CBSE
Participants Ms. Meena Kak , Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight Discussions on the physical and mental well-being of our students, empowering students and implementation of the health curriculum were held.

CBSE Workshop on Strengthening Reading Competency

Organized By COE Noida
Resource Person Ms Rekha Pachauri
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Reading is the root competency which leads to understanding, analysing, interpreting, evaluating and creating. Reading involves much more than reading the written word. The resource person emphasised on teaching reading through various ways(independent reading, paired reading, group reading, games, use of school library, reading corner, visuals in the school environment) to aid children's progress in school.

Har Ghar Tiranga : Hoist a flag at your house

Organized By Ministry of Culture
Resource Person Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav
Participants Students
Highlight It was an innovative event to participate in and pin a flag at their location with the help of Google map. Won a digital e certificate after successful participation.

Workshop on Design Thinking and Innovation

Organized By LSA and CBSE and Ministry of Education Innovation Cell
Resource Person Dr. Sonal Yadav Rupa Chakravarthy Ravi Poovah and Prajakta Kulkarniiah
Participants Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami, Mousumi Mukherjee, Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Sudakshina Datta 

Highlight Ministry of Educations Innovation Cell and CBSE conducted the Design Thinking and Innovation workshop for 60 teachers/ heads of various institutions. It was a mix of online and offline sessions which was a one day orientation for the DTI curriculum, assessment matrix and exposure to the teacher’s manual. The resource people explain the curriculum guideline of Design Thinking and Innovation and how to introduce the same at school level. Various hands on activities were there to hone innovation among participants. All were given a certificate at the end of the programme

The importance of Critical Thinking

Resource Person Runa Ghosh
Participants Teachers of Primary Department
Highlight The session dealt with the need to train students to think critically so as to develop their problem solving ability. Various strategies to incorporate critical thinking in classroom learning was discussed.

Blood Donation Camp

Organized By Kothari Hospital
Resource Person Kothari Hospital
Participants Deepa Das
Highlight Students motivated parents to come and donate blood which is a social cause. They made banners, charts, hung balloons throughout the school to spread awareness. 35 parents and teachers had donated blood.

Indradhanush

Participants Students of Classes I – V & 18 other schools
Highlight Indradhanush, an annual Inter School event was held online on 5th August. The theme for this session was Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Lakshmipat Singhania Academy and Mahadevi Birla World Academy, Kolkata emerged as winners.

Workshop on Art Integration across Curriculum

Organized By COE Noida
Resource Person Deepa Sharma
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The need for integrating Art with the subjects was explained in simple words. The resource person shared various examples of making learning meaningful through art integration. Some of the ideas were unique and will lead to cooperation and collaboration among students in classes.

Mindler Career Counselling Workshop

Organized By Mindler and LSA
Resource Person Mr Prikshit Dhanda
Participants Students of Classes IX – XII
Highlight Parents and students of various classes had been called in different slots. It was an excellent counselling session. The timeline provided to the students of class XII was very relevant.

KENNEDY LUGAR YES PROGRAM

Hightligh: Navya Khemka of Class XI has been selected for KENNEDY LUGAR YES PROGRAM.
She is in a Chardon High school for 10 months on a full scholarship.

PEHCHAAN

Organized By VASUNDHARA ART
Participants Students of Classes II – V
Highlight Several students from different sections from Primary and Middle school participated in this online event of making posters on wildlife.

CBP Constructivism Online Workshop

Organized By COE Delhi East
Resource Person Dr Akshita Bahuguna
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Knowledge is constructed, rather than innate, or passively absorbed. The workshop gave ideas how to make learning interactive and engaging so that the learners build on their knowledge. The primary responsibility of the teacher is to create a collaborative problem solving environment where students become active participants in their own learning.

Workshop

Resource Person Aloka Sen Sharma
Participants Teachers of primary department
Highlight Teachers can never be always right. You also have to show your students what is it to be like wrong and admit it. Encourage students to think for themselves. Treat your classroom as a group of individuals, and celebrate their diversity. It is also important to know how students learn and help them to explore the unknown. She also stressed on incorporating community service into one of their lessons.

Junior Investiture Ceremony

Participants Students of Class V
Highlight This year the Student Council in the Primary Section comprised 4 Captains, 4 V Captains and the Sports Captain. The auspicious ceremony commenced with the school song followed by the pinning of the badges and distribution of the appointment letters by Director Ma'am, Vice Principal Ma'am and Headmistress Ma'am. Next, was the oath taking ceremony. Director Ma'am then addressed the students with her inspiring words. A motivating video followed this. The programme ended with the National Anthem.

Young Indians Cyber Security

Organized By Young Indians
Resource Person Young Indians & Manjari Damani
Participants Students of Classes IX – XII
Highlight Impromptu Debate was conducted where students from each class volunteered. The workshop was for students of 11 and 12. Young Indians Yuva aims to develop responsible youth for the future and engage in nation building. They educated students on cyber security and road safety.

Skill Fest 2022

Organized By: The Telegraph Edugraph
Resource Person: The Telegraph Edugraph
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Anikait Chakraborty of 12 D was shortlisted among the top 5 in content creation while Dimitri Majumder (2021 22) batch was shortlisted in top 5 of Digital Design.

Iskule Bioscope 2022

Organized By Sauce Brand Communication
Resource Person Bichitra Pathshala
Participants Students of Classes VI – VIII
Highlight 15 students from classes 6 8 having Bengali as 2nd language had participated in this event. They were shown the film Adventures of Jojo.

Workshop on Story Telling

Organized By Priya Mozumdar
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The elements of a story, the need for weaving stories was stressed upon in the workshop. Teachers learnt to create stories on a given topic. Story map gave an idea regarding the story sequencing.

Representative meeting of exe.BIT

Organized By:-                       Students of class XII

Resource Person:-                   IT Department

Participants:-                          Aarav Bharany, Muskan Goel, Prisha Dogra, Sakt Jaiswal, Shubham Agarwal

Highlight:-                              The exe.BIT representative’s meet was conducted by the Presidents and the Chairmen of the Core Committee team of exe.BIT Meet 2022. Students and teachers of 29 schools across India and abroad attended the meeting. The rules and events were explained well and the queries were efficiently handled.

Investiture Ceremony

Participants:-               Students of Classes XI and XII

Highlight:-                    After the announcement of the council and committee members on 7th July, the investiture ceremony, the most solemn and important event was held after 2 years. The old committee and council members handed over the duty to the new ones and the new members took the oath solemnly to perform their duties to the best of their abilities.

Student Council Election

Resource Person:-    Mr. Kanak Shankar Mukherjee

Participants:-           Students of Classes VI to XII

Highlight :-              Setting aside the online mode of election of the past 2 years this year's students' council election was held in a hybrid mode. Aarav Bharany and Shagun Fogla were elected as the head boy and head girl respectively along with the various council and committee members.

Event Master Training in Digital Citizenship

Organized By:- CBSE and Department of Global Communications UN

Resource Person:- Saffin Mathew

Participants :- Teachers of IT Department

Highlight:- A two-day long workshop was conducted by DGC of United Nations along with CBSE to train the teachers about how to conduct workshops on Digital Citizenship. The resource person highlighted of key aspects of being a good digital citizen and how to disseminate the knowledge amongst the students and teachers.

Event Storytelling

Participants:- Ms. Jill Shah

Highlight:- It was an interactive session. The essence and benefits of storytelling were discussed. The activity on storytelling was fun and engaging.

Workshop on Microsoft forms and One Drive utility

Resource Person:-  IT TEAM

Participants:-  Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Ganga Sinha, Ms. Jyotsna Joshi, Ms. Lilawati Mishra, Ms. Priyanka Das, Ms. Radhika Shaw, Ms. Srabanti Deb, Ms. Sudeshna Chowdhury, Ms. Uma Jaiswal

Highlight:- It was observed that teachers were using Google drive which had limited capacity. Due to that they were creating multiple email IDs or even buying spaces. To solve the problem they were made aware of the usage of One Drive which has unlimited space and also taught the usage of Microsoft forms which has more features than Google forms. Teachers found the workshop very fruitful.

Workshop on Multiple Intelligences

Resource Person Ms. Sohini Mitra Jain

Participants Teachers of Primary Department

Highlight:- The workshop focused on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and how the same can be identified in students. It also emphasized on ways how activities related to Multiple Intelligences Theory can be implemented in the curriculum to provide holistic learning environment to the learners.

Workshop – What Great Teachers do Differently

Participants:- Teachers of Pre Primary Department

Highlight:- It was a well timed and well organised session. There was a good balance of discussion, use of video and graphics. It was an interesting topic and worth pondering over.

Microsoft Innovative Educators Workshop

Organized By            Microsoft partner Tech Avant Garde

Participants              Ms. Sudakshina Datta, Ms. Pushpa Dayani

Highlight                  It was an extensive training programme on various Microsoft tools useful in the field of education. This will lead to Microsoft Innovative Educators certification.

Celebration of International Yoga Day

Highlight: Students of III to V participated in a video on International yoga day which was merged with 5 other schools on a theme of Growth and Nutrition which was released on the Sahodaya website. The whole school also performed Yoga in their PE  and yoga classes.

Farewell to Emmy

Highlight: We bid a farewell to our dear Emmy from Issore, France who returned home after a 9 months stay at LSA. She was here on an exchange programme.

Japan Kakehashi program

Highlight: Gaurav Poddar ( Class 11) off to Japan to study in Tokyo International school for 9 months  winning the Japan Kakehashi program

Workshop on Cinema Vs Theatre

Resource Person    Ms. Rijita Chatterjee

Participants           Students of Classes III to X

Highlight : The workshop was an interactive one. The resource person, with her skills of theatre, explained how facial expressions and    voice modulations innately bring out the thoughts we want to deliver. It focused on space and how to infuse life into space through music and stories created on the spot.

Workshop on Importance of Gratitude

Resource Person Khadija Aamir Choonawala
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Gratitude plays an important role in our lives. The more gratitude we have, the more content we are. Studies show that gratitude leads to less stress and better overall health. Ways of practicing gratitude were discussed in details.

STEM @ home - Zero Shadow Day

Highlight: Students participated for the live activity of capturing image of Zero Shadow Day and shared their responses through Google form. There were many participants from various classes who gave the correct response and were awarded digital certificates from school for their correct response.

Training on Flipgrid with Certification

Organized By: Tech Avant Garde in association with Microsoft Education
Resource Person: Prashant Kumar Jha
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: It was a training session for Flipgrid which is a free and simple, social learning video platform.

Digital Tools For Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Specific Subjects

Organized By: CIET.NCERT
Resource Person: Dr Madhu B (Mathematics), Dr Anand Arya (Science), Dr Shruti Tripathi ( English), Dr Nidhi Singh
(Social Science)
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: The objective of this online training was to orient teachers, teacher educators and students, and various stakeholders to know more about digital tools related to teaching, learning and assessment of specific subjects.

Workshop on Academic Excellence Program for Teachers

Organized By: Super Teachers
Resource Person: Ms Veena Raizada
Participants: Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: The workshop gave an overview about how present day teachers can upgrade their skills through 4U Model which are Upgrading the assessment pattern, understanding the curriculum, utilizing technology and upskilling the pedagogy. According to the resource person, it will help in improving academic standards.

Introduction to Coding & Minecraft & Make Code

Organized By: CBSE in partnership with Microsoft
Resource Person: Cyberdiction Technology
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: In this training session, how to communicate with the computer using a language to give instruction to the computer was explained in great detail. Learned Block Coding in Make Code App.

Workshop on Financial Literacy

Resource Person: Abhishek Sarkar
Participants: Students of Classes IX and X
Highlight: It was a very informative session on how to manage savings, pay bills, make small investments. There was also a detailed discussion on the role of insurance in covering and managing risks and indemnity.

Parent Orientation Programme – Montessori to Class XII (Except Class XI)

Resource Person: Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra , Ms. Jayati Goswami, Academic Co –coordinators, Special Educators, Counsellors
Participants: Parents of classes Montessori to Class XII (Except Class XI)
Highlight: Parents were apprised of NEP, board results of 2021-22, examination Structure, ethos of the school and rules and regulations, code of conduct for online and offline classes, information about Happy hour, Indradhanush, LSAMUN and awards received by the Academy in the last session.

Workshop on the Importance of Lesson Plan

Resource: Person Ranjini Chakravarty
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The workshop on how to design a lesson plan was beneficial as it will enable the teachers to plan their upcoming lessons constructively.

Workshop on developing 21st century skills among students

Resource Person Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary department
Highlight The workshop focused on the various 21st century skills like learning, literacy and life skills that needs to be developed among students. The workshop highlighted the various aspects like what are the skills, why do they need to be included in the curriculum and how can they be developed. They understood the terminologies related to the 21st century skills. Some activities were also shared to
develop the same.

Coding Challenge 2022

Organized By CBSE and Juanatech a Microsoft partner
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Aarushi Bhroota, Bhavya Agarwal, Devanshi Dwivedi, Devesh Patwari
Highlight Four selected students from class VIII took part in this competition. They showcased their 21st century skills for solving some of the real life issues leveraging technology through the topic Accessibility. They made a solution to take sick people from remote places to the nearby hospital using online coding application Make Code..

Diabetic Awareness

Participants:Students of Classes X and XII
Highlight :A very informative and enjoyable session with the doctor. It made the students aware of the
consequences and preventive measures of the disease.

Art Workshop on Landscape

Participants: Students of Classes III – VIII
Highlight: The session was highly engaging and effective. Students learned that colours have emotions and
each colour signifies something, like yellow signifies glory, success, warmth and red signifies pride,
pain etc. Some people like certain colours as they signify something personal to them. Students
were then asked to say what various colours mean to them and why. Students were informed about
a German expressionist painter as well. The session concluded with the students painting a poppy
using water colours.

Career and Life skills

Participants Students of classes IX – X
Highlight Students got the opportunity to know the various new emerging careers.

Workshop to retain Microsoft Certificate and Badge

Participants: IT Departments Teachers
Highlight:Microsoft Educator Community will be decommissioned on May 1st 2022. The workshop guided the educators how to connect to Microsoft Education Center (MEC) before May 1 and ensure their transcripts, achievements, and badges are successfully moved to Microsoft Learn.

The Awakened Citizen Programme

Participants Manjaree Mukherjee, Mumu Mukherjee, Poulomi Saha, Sneha Singh
Highlight Blended Learning with NEP, learning through self exploration and focus on peer learning were
discussed. Various evaluation processes were shared along with practical training on conducting
sessions.

Go Green Art commemorating Earth Day (22 April)

Resource Person: Ms. Piu Das Mahapatra
Participants: Students of Classes IX-X
Highlight To commemorate Earth Day, a creative art workshop was conducted using simple drawings of birds, trees on used scripts, newspapers, by students of class IX, X. The cut outs were pasted on used /left over paper boxes, brought by students from home, that can be reused.
The purpose was directed at a cross section of students who do not take interest in art or are not too skilled at it. The session was an extremely creative and engaging one.

Art Workshop on East Kolkata Wetlands

Organized By: Disappearing Dialogues Collective
Resource Person: Ms. Nobina Gupta, Ms. Prajwalika Bharatee and Sir Saptarshi Mitra
Participants: Students of Classes III – V and VI – VIII (in two different sessions)
Highlight: The session was an enriching one. Students got to know about wetlands, specifically about the wetlands of East Kolkata. They learned about the importance of wetlands and the different life forms that a wetland supports. They learned that the distinct ecosystem of a wetland is important as wetlands manage natural cycles and purify and replenish our water. The workshop concluded with an activity for the students. Students were asked to use their creativity and draw a wetland.

Career Choices

Resource Person: Peer Educators Harshita, Anikait, Pramit (12)
Participants: Students of classes 12
Highlight: The session dealt with effective career choices and unconventional career options. The importance of 21st century skills was also discussed.

Importance of Gratitude

Venue: Online Cisco Webex Meetings
Organized By: COE Chennai
Resource Person: Dr. Ganesh
Participants: Khadija Aamir Choonawala
Highlight: The workshop was well paced and engaging. Through several examples, the meaning and importance of giving thanks for everything and everyone we have in our lives was stressed upon.
The resource person through several stories linked the topic to the curriculum as well. On the whole, the session highlighted the need to be grateful and appreciative for the simple beauties of life.

ATL Workshop

Resource Person Dipankar Pal
Participants Students of classes IX & X
Highlight The workshop is to ignite the participation in innovation bootcamp of 9week ATL Tinkerprenuer 2022. It is a journey where the students learn the skills from the large repository of digital education to create real world solution. They will have to go through the stages of startup.

Event:Workshop on Perspectives

Resource Person:Mr. Arindam Bhattacharya
Participants:Students of Classes III to VII
Highlight:The workshop on Perspectives for classes 3 to 7 was a highly engaging one. Students were encouraged to read Amar Chitra Katha and other books too. They were encouraged to be inquisitive and observant of their surroundings.Students were asked to identify different food items and the origins of the food items were discussed. They were asked to identify nursery rhymes and their origins were discussed as well. This motivated the students to discover new perspectives of known things. The session was very interactive and thought provoking.Students willingly participated in the sessions by giving answers to the Questions raised by the resource person.

Event:ATL Workshop

Resource Person:Dipankar Pal
Participants:Students of classes VIII , IX & X
Highlight:The workshop is to ignite the participation in innovation bootcamp of 9week ATL Tinkerprenuer 2022. It is a journey where the students learn the skills from the large repository of digital education to create real world solution. They will have to go through the stages of startup.

Webinar on Project Based Maths

Organized By: Teachers Centre
Resource Person: Mrs. Neelima Ghose
Participants: S.Anandhi, Shubhasree Dasgupta
Highlight: The workshop focussed on the how a particular topic can be taken for a project and modified according to different classes in the primary section. Learnt about how to evaluate while the project is in process.

NEP 2020 MANTHAN

Organized By:IPN
Resource Person:Mr. Gaurav Kumar
Participants:Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami
Highlight:Eminent Principals and HOS came together to discuss The NEP implementation in letter and spirit and NEP Hits and Misses. A warm congregate with lots of learning.

Emerging Technologies—Cloud Computing AWS Cloud Practitioner essentials

Organized By: CBSE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NASSCOM
Resource Person: AWS
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. She learnt about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build AWS Cloud
knowledge. This course also helps to prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

Be Singular Future Leader Programme Orientation Session

Organized By Besingular, Vijay Bhoomi, Fraunhofer
Participants IT Department Teachers
Highlight It was a session on discussion about a three-week Global Summer Residential programme.
Students will learn from various startup founders. Students will stay for 2 weeks in India and 1 week in Germany. They will be exposed to new age technologies during this session.
Students of classes 9 to 12 are eligible for this programme. 

Internet and Some Facts

Resource Person Sankar P Das
Participants Students of classes III to V
Highlight The resource person spoke about what internet is and how it connects the whole world. He spoke about the various hardware and software components of computer and what assists in connecting the internet. He also spoke about how everything online cannot be trusted and one must check the authenticity of the same which would help them to be digitally smart citizens.

Go Green Art commemorating Earth Day (22 April)

Resource Person: Ms. Piu Das Mahapatra
Participants: Students of Classes IX-X
Highlight: To commemorate Earth Day, a creative art workshop was conducted using simple drawings of birds, trees on used scripts, newspapers, by students of class IX, X. The cut outs were pasted on used /left over paper boxes, brought by students from home, that can be reused. 
The purpose was directed at a cross section of students who do not take interest in art or are not too skilled at it. The session was an extremely creative and engaging one.

Pariksha Pe Charcha

Organized By Central Government
Resource Person Honourable Prime Minister
Participants Students of Classes X & XII
Highlight It was an interactive session where lot of queries on the existing curriculum were raised and answered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Webinar Evolving out of Darkness COVID-19

Resource Person Dr. Suman Mitra
Participants Parents
Highlight Parents got the clarity of the present scenario of Covid 19 and understood how safe it is to send students to school.

Teachers training for Cubs and Bulbuls

Resource Person: Shri Kaushik Chatterjee
Participants: Suranjana, Afshan Nahid, Bindiya Gill, Ishita Gomes, Anuradha Gupta and Siddhartha Shankar. Rekha Dayani, Khadija Choonawala, Arwa Deesawala, Tikshana Chopra, Priya Mazoumdar,
Highlights The comprehensive workshop included outlines and plans of the flock and Pack meetings for both online and offline modes with hands-on practical sessions on woodcraft signs, knotting, etc.

AICTE Physical Education Programme 2022

Venue Amity University, Uttar Pradesh
Organized By Amity University, Uttar Pradesh
Resource Person AICTE, Amity University
Participants Arnab Bhattacharya
Highlight It was a very good experience in our field. This workshop based on technological application in the field of Physical education and sports. This changed our concepts.

Convocation Ceremony for Classes II & V

Participants: Students of Classes II & V
Highlight: A celebration of the transition of students from one level to the next was held in school. Children were very excited for the next part of their academic lives. The convocation ceremony highlighted the effort and hard work put in by the students through the years. There were special performances by the students of class 1 and 4. Director ma'am's speech was thought provoking and inspiring for one and all present.

Hybrid Learning

Participants: Swati Mukherjee
Highlight: I have learned a new model for hybrid learning workshop. During the workshop I had a hands-on experience on learning a variety of software like Flip grid, Sway, Stream and how software can be used to create new learning content for students. The workshop concluded with a feedback test every day . On the final day there was an assessment after which certificates were awarded.

Capacity Building Programmes for teachers Artificial Intelligence in Class IX & XII in collaboration with intel

Organized By CBSE with Intel
Resource Person Inter representative
Participants IT Department Teachers
Highlight The workshop aimed at developing the learners’ mind set and skills set towards artificial intelligence and it encourages us to use methodology which helps students for holistic, inclusive and progressive development. The syllabus key concept was addressed.

Holistic Report Card

Resource Person: Jayati Goswami
Participants All: Teachers
Highlight: The concept of Holistic Report Card was introduced with a good discussion on the tools to be used. Difference between criterion based and norm based assessment was discussed. The session ended with a traffic light assessment for all.

Online Course on Indian Constitution

Organized By: NALSAR University of Law, sponsored by Department of Legal Affairs, Government of India
Resource Person: Faizan Mustafa, Vice Chancellor
Participants: Pushpa Dayani
Highlight: This course helped in understanding the new proposals of reforms and the ongoing developments regarding the Indian Constitution.

IGKO result declaration

Organized By SOF
Resource Person: SOF
Participants: Students of Classes III – IV
Highlight 5 students participated. All received participation certificates

CBSE Learning Standards Framework Social Science

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE CIRCULAR 20
Participants Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Mistuni Mukherjee, Ms Mumu Mukherjee, Ms Poulomi Saha, Ms Pushpa Dayani, Ms Sarbani Saha Ghatak, Ms Sneha Singh
Highlight Learning standards framework spoke about the nature of the subject, NCERT expectations, sample pedagogical process and assessment strategies .

Moving out from Darkness of Covid

Organized By CMRI
Resource Person Dr Suman Mitra
Participants Teachers of LSA
Highlight It was a wonderful session with the doctor of CMRI on various queries regarding re opening school and the safety precautions to be maintained.

Geography Olympiad - GEO Genius

Organized By Geography Olympiad - GEO Genius
Participants Students from III - X
Highlight Following students qualified for level II
1) Aneek Chakraborty 9A - Senior Category
2) Mridul Chandak 3D- Sub Junior Category
15 students were selected from all over India for Level III. Level three will be conducted in the month of March 2022.

Vigyan Sarvatra Pujyate- Antarctica Live

Organized By Engage With Science
Resource Person Bharati Station, Antarctica
Participants Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Poulomi Saha, Ms Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight Interesting questions about life in Antarctica were discussed. Unique experiences were shared by the scientists group from Antarctica. Innovative approach done in Antarctica, new ways of saving and using water in sustainable manner was shared by the scientists.

Cultural deep drive with AFS Germany

Venue- zoom
Resource person- AFS
Participants- Teachers of LSA and Germany
Highlight- A cultural confluence of music, dance, sports, cuisine and entertainment. Sharing cultural interests of both the countries

Webinar on National Education Policy 2020 on performing arts - its importance and implementation for schools and universities.

Organized By CBSE
Participants Ms Sweta Chakraborty
Highlight It was a good experience. All the eminent speakers were good and explained the need and objective of the policy. Points that need to be kept in mind while setting the curriculum and the procedure of assessment was also discussed.

National Counsellors Meet

Organized By Ashoka University
Resource Person Mentor ED Ashoka University
Participants Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight The conference aimed to discuss the changing landscape of higher education in India, the new career opportunities across multiple sectors and industries. The role of career counsellors in empowering students was discussed.

Exploring the brain and behaviour interface

Organized By Institute of Mental Health and Life Skills Promotion, Moolchand Medcity, New Delhi
Resource Person Ms. Aprajita Dixit
Participants Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight The four days sessions dealt with mental health issues (Depression and anxiety), Intelligence testing, Adaptive functioning, Personality test. The attendees were taught to use assessment tools ie. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), HAM-D, Raven's Standard Progress Matrices, Vineland Social Maturity
Scale, and SSCT.

eSummit on Cyber Security in education field

Organized By PHD Chamber
Resource Person Distinguished guests from education field and CBSE
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight Distinguished guests from education world and CBSE shared their ideas on cyber security at the education industry. Various ways of being alert and aware to remain cyber secure were discussed.
The Government portals and contact numbers were shared for any help during cyber fraud.

Implementing National Education Policy – Learning Standards Framework

Organized By CBSE
Participants Ms Lohita Nag
Highlight The following were discussed -
1. NCERT curriculum expectations and learning outcomes-board development in standard assessment framework in partnership with the British.
2. Microsite available for resources
3. Sample pedagogical processes-cross curricular approach and art integrated learning and nurturing multilingual competence
4. Learning subject specific content domain
5. Sample question paper design and marking scheme

Preparing Schools for Transformative School Based Assessment of Learning vis-a-vis NEP 2020

Organized By NABET, QCI
Resource Person Dr Gaurang Tewari
Participants Ms Jaya Misra
Highlight It was an informative session on re designing our assessment pattern and our report card keeping the NEP in mind.

Author's discussion on Stories from the New World

Organized By Story Teller
Resource Person Ms Geeta Ramanujam (Author)
Participants Ms Suranjana Chakrabarti, Ms Asfia Rafique

CBSE Pedagogical Learning

Organized By COE Bhuvaneshwar
Resource Person Mrs Pratima Rajgor
Participants Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight The construction of an Annual Pedagogical Plan for the school was taught. Each and every step was discussed in detail and finally all Principals of different schools presented their plans. It was an enriching learning experience.

Back to School- impact on student's mental health

Organized By Drishti enabling inclusion
Resource Person Dr. Avinash de Souza, Ms. Girija Singh and Dr. Smita Desai.
Participants Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight The session highlighted the importance of bringing back children to school after a gap of 2 years. Teachers had to be compassionate and empathetic towards them.

Workshop on Designing Effective Report Cards for Improving Learning

Organized By Australian Council for Education Research
Resource Person Mr. Bikramjit Sen
Participants Ms Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Ms Rupa Mazumdar
Highlight It was highlighted that teacher’s comments must identify a clear purpose and should be written at a level of detail that provides meaningful information to achieve this purpose.

Online Session on SIATP

Organized By Ministry of Education Innovation cell, CBSE and Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Resource Person Dr Pooja Rawat, Coordinator - Region 1, SIATP
Participants Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms Sudakshina Datta
Highlight The seminar highlighted the role of Innovation Ambassadors, benefits of SIATP and also briefed on School Innovation Council program.

Italy Short Term Program

Venue Milena
Organized By AFS India
Resource Person AFS Italy
Participants Kaavya Tahlani (XI-D)
Highlight Home stay and cultural experiences of Italy was the main highlight of this program.

Career Fair

Organized By Mindler and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person Panelists from Indian & International Universities
Highlight Mindler and Lakshmipat Singhania Academy organized a 2 day Career Fair, a deep dive into diverse career domains. A range of panel discussions were held. The most prominent universities in India and Overseas were invited. The speakers helped the students to understand the various programs, courses, and opportunities that are available at their respective universities.

The first day (5th Feb’22) was for International universities and the second day 6th Feb’22 was for Indian universities. Universities of Queensland, Trinity College, Dublin, University of Bristol was some of the eminent international universities in the panel. Indian universities included SRM. Shivnadar university, JK Lakshmipat University, Krea, O P Jindal, ICFAI and many more. Students from schools all over India
participated in this grand event.

Project Based Learning

Organized By CBSE and Arm School programme
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight It was a professional development session on “Engaging and inspiring learners in computing through Project-Based Learning”. Physical Computing through Project-Based Learning (PBL) was explained through physical computing devices – such as micro: bits, Raspberry Pi devices, and Arduino.

Bonding with Digital Natives

Organized By International Council for School Leadership
Resource Person Dr. Manjula Pooja Shroff, Mr James Nottingham
Participants Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Jayati Goswami, Ms Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms Sudakshina Datta
Highlight The resource person spoke about the current needs of the digital natives which are quite different from the one which were there before the pandemic. Educators and the schools will have to adapt to the need of the young challenging natives, that is our students.

Training on Coding

Organized By CBSE and Microsoft
Resource Person Microsoft
Participants Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal , Ms Sudakshina Datta
Highlight It was an extensive training on Coding and programming concepts. Algorithms and pseudocode were explained well. Hands on sessions on Minecraft and MakeCode platforms were really interesting.

Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav

Organized By Ministry of Culture and Education
Participants Students (III – X)
Highlight The competition was very inspiring and children enthusiastically participated in it. Through patriotic songs and lullabies, they connected with patriotism and the golden future of the country. 112 students from class VI to X participated and got the participation certificates.

Peer Educators for leading the change

Resource Person CBSE
Participants Ms Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight The peer educator program along with counsellors and 4 students of the school took place on the online forum. The peer educators were trained on life changing skills and how to manage the 21st century challenges and improve resilience so that they could become the master trainers and train their classmates regarding the same. Various activities were done and taught by the trainers.

Google admin master training

Organized By COE Bhubaneshwar
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight CBSE has organised an online training programme to integrate technology with the education system. They learnt different tools under google workspace. The hands on practical workshop was helpful. They completed all module followed by short test. They also completed scheduled mock exam conducted by the authority.

Building Better Communication - With a touch of Theatre

Organized By: Programmmes and Logistics Teachers' Center
Resource Person: Ms Ramanjit Kaur
Participants: Mr Kanak S Mukherji, Ms Manidipa Lahiri, Ms Rupa Mazumdar
Highlight: There is no better interaction than Theatre in Life. We teachers should try to pull up the weaker ones by encouraging them and being kind to them. We must appreciate the small steps taken by them. Kindness is the tool to give success in many difficult cases. To create interests, we must play with the students even for 5 mins. There should be surprises in every class.

Curriculum Meeting

Resource Person: Ms. Meena Kak
Participants: Teachers
Highlight: All parameters based on the NEP were discussed. The procedure in which the curriculum planning will be done was instructed in detail. The vision of the school plan was shared. Pisa competencies, digital faculty, project based, were among a whole lot of other details discussed.

Pariksha Pe Charcha 2022

Venue www.mygov.in
Organized By CBSE
Participants Students, Parents and Teachers
Highlight This is the fifth chapter of PPC, an initiative by the Government of India. The topics provided for students were extremely pertinent to the present times and required a good bit of research.
Thereby the students, who are the future of the nation got a platform to probe, debate and view their own opinions. A certificate from the organizing authority was immediately issued to all the participants. A total of 474 students from IX – XII), 22 parents 37 teachers participated and uploaded their entries this time.

Overseas Education

Organized By: Mindler and LSA
Resource Person: Ms Ruchika Castelino
Participants: All students of class X
Highlight: All students attended the webinar and understood various aspects about overseas education after grade 12. They have been exposed to various methods for applying in foreign colleges.

Teachers Training of Employability Skills component of Skills Courses

Organized By: CBSE (CoE Delhi East)
Resource Person: Mr Vikram Jha & Dr Mridula Singh
Participants: Ms Jaya Misra
Highlight: The session gave an overview on how to help the students register on the portal.

The Telegraph Young Metro Force

Organized By: Ananda Bazar Patrika Group
Participants: Riddhima Koley & Muskan Goel
Highlight: Two of our students have been selected as the Young Metro Force. They are given the opportunity to report all the school events for The Telegraph Young Metro from now onwards.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Organized By: The National Life Skills Program, Expression India
Resource Person: Ms. Aprajita Dixit
Participants: Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms. Sumona DasGupta
Highlight: An informative session and hands-on strategies were discussed to deal with the children having ADHD.

How to select a college / career

Organized By: JKLU AND LSA
Resource Person: Dr Dheeraj Sanghi (Vice Chancellor) and Prof. Balasubramanium (Director, Institute of Design)
Participants: 180 students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight: It was an informative session on designing as an emerging career.

Asia Kakehashi Interview

Venue Delhi Online
Organized By AFS INDIA
Resource Person AFS
Participants Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight Was given the opportunity to take interviews of Asia Kakehashi finalists of Pakistan, India and Maldives over a span of 10 days. It was a great experience to be able to converse with the young aspirants.

Rangoli Making in Azad Ka Amrit Mahotsav

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes III – X
Highlight: Students made colourful Rangoli patterns in their respective art classes. Many of them have uploaded their designs on CBSE website and received certificates as a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebration.

Super Teacher Initiative

Organized By: Open Door Assessment

Resource Person: Mr. Shailendra Purankar
Participants: All Science and Maths teachers
Highlight: The initiative was initially under taken as a competition for the teachers but it evolved as a positive feedback system for the remediation process. The objective behind the initiative is –
• To gain feedback of the process of remediation that happens in the classroom and accordingly development of the product by Open Door.
• Bring the committee of teachers together so that they can learn from each other same as peer-learning among students.
• Sharing of new ideas. Recognition of teachers.

Engage with Science

Organized By: Engage with Science
Resource Person: Mr. Sourav Sen/ Karanjit Singh
Participants: Manidipa Lahiri
Highlight: Engage with Science is an interactivity platform aimed at students which makes Science-Learning a lot of fun. It works as a catalyst to boost Science and Technology video content consumption from India Science. EWS is a collaboration between Vigyan Prasar , an autonomous organization of the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India and IBM.

Craft by Reusing waste materials

Participants: Students of classes III – V
Highlight: It was conducted in each section’s respective art periods. The students were ready with their ideas as well as the materials and assembled the things in the class. Students of classes 3 and 4 made wonderful wall hangings and dolls with the waste materials from their home. Students created very innovative craft items which was worth watching and appreciating.

International Olympiad for English Language

Organized By SilverZone Foundation
Participants Students from Classes I - XII
Highlight Students of classes I to XII participated in the International Olympiad of English Language (IOEL22) organized by the SilverZone Foundation and came out with flying colours. Their hard work and determination deserve praise. Students learned how to be competitive and take part in International Olympiads. They got exposure to the varied questions and learned in the process.

Alternate Lab

Organized By: COE Bhubaneswar
Participants: Ms. Manidipa Lahiri
Highlight: Explained the usefulness of Alternate Lab which is specifically online during this pandemic when both the students and the teachers cannot use Physical Labs. Students can watch the activity as many times as they want. Simulation and animation help them understand the activity in a better way.

Exide Life Insurance Art Competition

Organized By: Exide Life Insurance Company
Participants: Students of Classes I – VIII
Highlight: Children were asked to draw a picture of their dream career. They enjoyed drawing the pictures and uploaded it in the Google form with their personal details. They enjoyed the session thoroughly.

Webinar for Academic Excellence

Organized By: Super Teachers
Resource Person Mrs Veena Raizada
Participants: Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The GT4U model is holistic, advanced, and sustainable. This will definitely help us to reach new heights in the education system. This was just the introduction session.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Organized By; Expressions India
Resource Person: Ms Aprajita Dixit
Participants: Ms Jayati Goswami. Ms Jaya Misra
Highlight: The workshop focused on theories related to CBT, core features and characteristics, cognitive distortions along with the types. The techniques of identifying the cognitive behaviour and a case study was discussed too.

Career planning

Organized By: Mindler
Resource Person: Mr. Prikshit Dhanda
Participants: Mr Soumya Ghosh, Ms Sumona Dasgupta and Class XI students
Highlight: The session addressed relevant topics like profile building, steps to be followed for career planning and procedure for college admissions.

Christmas Celebration

Participants: Students from Montessori to Class VIII and the teachers from these departments
Highlight: Students enjoyed watching the skit on 'spreading happiness' and the carols presented as a part of the Christmas celebration. They also wore colourful dresses based on the Christmas theme for the celebration.

59th National Roller Skating Championship 2020-21

Venue: Rohini, New Delhi
Organized By: Roller Skating Federation of India
Participants: Vidishaa Mundhra (9A) and Naina Varandani (9D)
Highlight: They represented their state West Bengal among 1000 participants pan India.

India Maths Talent

Organised by Counting Well
Recourse person Mr Nirmal Shah, Mr Ravi Jitani
Participants Students of classes VI - VIII
Highlights: Varishth Agarwal (VII B) was ranked among the top 250 rankers on India Maths Day 2021.

Cyber Ethics and Online Safety

Resource Person: Mr Rakshit Tandon of Cyber Peace Foundation
Participants: Students of classes VI – VIII
Highlight: Cyber security awareness for students where ways and methods of how to be secure and safe in different online platforms were discussed. They were provided with ways and means to check spam and fake websites. The workshop was followed by a Q/A session where every question put forward by the students was answered.

Conversation between India's top schools & Finnish educationists on nurturing kids' curiosity

Organized By Kalam Labs & Finland Education Ministry
Resource Person Ms Ekaterina Kologrivaya, Ms Alejandra Chavez
Participants Mrs Meena Kak
Highlight Mrs Kak was invited as a key note speaker at the Indo Finnish Education Conference. She shared the school’s best practices to promote curiosity among the age group 6 14 years. It was an honour to be a part of this Conference.

Spellympic 2021

Organized By: Birla High School Mukundapur
Resource Person Ms. Debarati Deb
Participants Ms Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight A host of literary activities were conducted. Attractive prizes were given out.

Teacher as a counsellor

Organized By: ICRTC
Resource Person: Dr Ravindran VS
Participants: Ms Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The goals of Project Paradigm were discussed. Dr Ravindran emphasized that a teacher counsellor should be approachable, must not ridicule, convert technology into knowledge and all that the teacher conveys must have relevance to real life.

Parents Workshop

Resource Person: Mr. Prikshit Dhanda
Participants: Students of Classes III – VI
Highlight: The session was a highly enriching one. The parents were asked to focus on enhancing their wards' personality, help them focus on their co curricular activities and not put unnecessary pressure related to exams and securing marks. Students are the future nation builders and hence they should be encouraged to inculcate qualities such as independence, truthfulness etc., which will help in their all-round development.

26th Founder’s Day Programme

Participants: Management, Academic Heads, Staff members
Highlight: Our Academy celebrated its 26th Founder's Day virtually. The school’s Head Girl Saanvi Nagar compered the show. The program opened with a beautiful welcome song, which was performed by the school choir that symbolized how the academy and its students stand out. This was followed by the invocation and the lighting of the lamp to mark the auspicious beginning of the ceremony; after which, the Director, Meena Kak Ma’am addressed the audience. Next, the school’s Vice Principal, Jaya Misra Ma’am presented the illustrious annual report of the school. Moving further, Shri Bharat Hari Singhania, Chairman of the Lakshmipat Singhania Education Foundation greeted the audience.
“We at LSA encourage the students to come out of their cocoons and explore all possibilities to discover their true potential and groom them to have a global vision while still being conscious of our country’s realities,” said Shri Singhania, leaving the audience inspired and motivated. Next, the Chief Guest of the event, Dr. Anupam Basu, who is presently the Director of National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, was asked to share a few words of wisdom. In his address, he stated, "the Anandam (as Tagore put it) lies inside; study, read, mix with others, and engage." Subsequently, a Prize Distribution ceremony took place wherein students who had achieved excellence in curricular as well as co-curricular activities were felicitated.
Following this, the much awaited Cultural Program began titled ‘Looking Back & Beyond’. This Founder’s Day, the LSA family tracked the 25 year journey of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy – an institution that has provided the necessary guidance and inspiration to many young minds. It presented all the glories and memories, advancements and innovations that has made LSA what it is today through a group of ex-students who participate in a reunion hosted at their beloved alma mater. The program culminated with the vote of thanks, which was delivered by the Head-Boy Kanishk Mehta who extended his gratitude to all the teachers, parents, and students for making the event a memorable one.

26th Founders Day Programme

Kalantar Annual Art Festival

Organized By CBSE
Participants Aishika Chakraborty (VII A)
Highlight Aishika has been selected for the final round of English Story Writing for Kalantar 2021. It was a great experience for her.

Innovative Pedagogies for Digital Education

Organized By: NCERT
Resource Person: CIET NCERT
Participants: Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: The four day training covered various aspects of the digital classroom including flipped learning, blended learning, active and collaborative learning and safety concerns in online education. The resource persons were knowledgeable and explained the concepts in simple language that was easy to follow.

Questt App On boarding Session

Resource Person: Mr. Siddharth Sinha
Participants: Teachers of the Primary Department
Highlight: Teachers were apprised about the usage of this application. Some important points are: Home work can be given in a gamified format, readymade question papers are available, teachers can use resources of various classes .

Kalantar Online Art Competition

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes I – III
Highlight: 24 children participated from classes 1 3 in the Kalantar Art Competition. It has set a platform for the children to find expression of their hidden talents and produce creative works that demonstrate innovation in concept. Kalantar has set following learning opportunities for aspiring artists:
• getting recognition in huge public spaces
• recognize potential artists and help them in attaining career in their field
• bring all the sections of the society under one umbrella of Competition.

Maps in Our Daily Life

Organized By: Mr.Pradip K Sengupta and Association
Resource Person: Mr.Pradip K sengupta
Participants: Poulomi Saha, Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: The session was extremely informative and constructive learning for the students. They experienced a hands on understanding on how to use Google maps in Daily Lives.

Maps in Our Daily Life

Organized By: Mr.Pradip K Sengupta and Association
Resource Person: Mr.Pradip K Sengupta
Participants: Ms Poulomi Saha, Ms Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: It was informative and effective for daily need. How we can use Google maps in daily life was discussed.

VEER GATHA Project (Gallantry Award)

Organized By: CBSE With Ministry of Defence
Participants: Students of Classes V - XII
Highlight: Veer Gatha Project was conducted in school over three weeks in the month of November where students participated in large numbers in competitions like Article and Poem Writing and Painting.
From each category one student had been selected from the Primary, Middle School, Senior, and Senior Secondary section, and the works were uploaded in the CBSE website. The event was to celebrate and commemorate the 75th Year of Indian Independence. The intent of this project is to inculcate feelings of nationalism and patriotism in the psyche of young learners and motivate them to know more research on the unsung heroes of Indian Defence Forces who sacrificed their lives for the security of the nation.

Test Item Writing Course Science 9 - 10

Organized By: CBSE and British Council
Resource Person: Ms Neeru and Ms. Sonali
Participants: Rupa Mazumdar, Indrani Das
Highlight: Teachers got an hands on experience on creating tests as per the guidelines of NCERT curriculum and also an idea to design different assignments as per CBSE regulations.

Circular 101 Veer Gatha Project

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes V, VIII, IX, XI & XII
Highlight: Commemorating 75 years of Indian independence, this project is a vision of Prime Minister Sir Narendra Modi, to inculcate the values of nationality among students and also gear them to do research work about unsung heroes of the lndian defence forces. Veer Gatha Project was conducted in the school for over three weeks in the month of November where students participated in large numbers in competitions like Article and Poem Writing and Painting. From each category one student had been selected from the Primary, Middle School, Senior, and Senior Secondary section, and the works were uploaded on the CBSE website. Through this activity students got to know about many heroes of lndia who have dedicated their lives serving the nation but are not popularly known.

Test Item Writing Course Science 9 10

Organized By: CBSE and British Council
Resource Person: Ms Neeru and Ms. Sonali
Participants: Ms Rupa Mazumdar, Ms Indrani Das
Highlight: The workshop taught how to write items and to design the assessment specifications for the CBSE end of class tests and how they can be used by teachers to create tests which meet the demands of the relevant aspects of the NCERT curriculum.

CBSE READING MISSION

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Mr Malay Ghosh
Highlight: Stories and reading are an important part of a child’s growth and development. The main aim of CBSE reading programme is to inculcate reading habit among the students. The Reading Programme offers 144 beautifully illustrated multilingual age appropriate storybooks that provide a rich reading experience to all children.

INTACH Heritage Quiz

Organized By: INTACH
Resource Person: Cradle Solutions
Participants: Students of Classes VII & IX
Highlight: Out of 8 schools LSA went to the finals of the Kolkata round. Knowledge on heritage buildings was imparted to the students.

Adolescent Peer Educators leadership program in life skills holistic health and wellbeing.

Organized by: CBSE UNIT in association with Expressions India.
Resource Person: Dr. Jitendra Nagpal, Mr Manoj Ahuja (CBSE Chairperson), Dr Joseph Emmanuel (Controller of Examinations)
Participants: Khushboo Gupta (XI), Kunj Bhatia (XI)
Highlight: Khushboo Gupta spoke on importance of life skills on career choices. It was an honour as she was representing the school on a National platform infornt of the dignitaries.

CBSE First aid workshop

Organized By: Expressions India
Resource Person: Well known Doctors
Participants: Jayati Goswami, Malkit Roy
Highlight: An all-round discussion with famous doctors was conducted. The aim was to equip the teachers to ensure physical, socio-emotional well-being of the all stakeholder during such difficult times.

Hybrid Learning Education 3.0 training programme

Organized By: CBSE and Tech Avant Garde Microsoft partner
Resource Person: Tech Avant Garde
Participants: Jaya Misra, Sudakshina Datta
Highlight: It was a five day hands on training programme on Hybrid learning 3.0 platform containing Microsoft Teams and various applications compatible with Microsoft Teams. There was a test after the exam.
The participants have been awarded five certificates of completion and one certificate of Recognition. The participants are now certified Microsoft Innovative Educators.

Exposure to Data Science Curriculum Teacher Training Session

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE and Microsoft
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal
Highlight: Session began with introduction to Data and Data Science and ethics in Data Science and Data Governance followed by training on arranging and collecting Data, data visualization and use of statistics in Data Science, Distributions in Data Science. It also trained us to identify patterns, data merging, assessing and forecasting on data with randomization. Introduction to R Studio with classification Algorithms and regression Algorithms was too good. It ended with project presentations.

Happy Teachers Create Happy Classrooms

Resource Person: Bindiya Kaur Gill
Participants: Bindiya Kaur Gill
Highlight: It was an interactive session on the topic Happy Teachers Create Happy Classrooms. The 7 step formula of a happy teacher and 7 strategies for a happy classroom was explained in details. The activity on 30 day happy teacher challenge was appreciated by all.

Children's Day Carnival

Participants: Students of Classes Montessori - XI
Highlight: Preprimary teachers put a short programme which consisted of dance, song, quiz and each teacher wished all students through a medley. The primary and middle section teachers designed online games which the children enjoyed playing by entering into different breakout room. A movie were shown to the students of senior section. They were asked to watch the movie with their favorite snack item and enjoy the movie. It was an eventful day for the students of LSA to celebrate the day on online platform.

Revealing Term 1 Examination (2021 - 2022)

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Poulomi Saha, Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: It was an informative workshop highlighting the rules given for students and teachers how to conduct the exams maintaining the Covid Protocols, the standard mode of assessment and marking.

Stay Safe in the Cyber World

Organized By: CIET, NCERT AND CDAC
Resource Person: ISEA
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: The 5 day training over YouTube, in the Official NCERT channel in observance of National Cyber security Awareness Month was well planned and presented. The feedback questions had the right amount of difficulty and covered all the topics introduced in the videos.

Mindler – One on One Career counseling program

Resource Person: Mindler and Team
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Each student got an opportunity to discuss their areas of interest and career plans. Their strengths and weaknesses were identified. Career path was also discussed for each individual taking reference from the psychometry report done on the Mindler portal.

AFS 16th Birthday

Organized By: Volunteers of AFS
Resource: Person AFS
Participants: Sharmita Bhattacharya, Kanak Shankar Mukherjee
Highlight; Mr Kanak Shankar Mukherjee and Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya showcased a video on universal brotherhood and Love

AFS Principals Meet

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person; Ms. Divya Arora
Participants: Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami
Highlight: National Director AFS INDIA met several principals of Kolkata and showcased the ethics of AFS.

Images of Men - Workshop

Organized By: Thinkarts
Participants: Students of Class IX
Highlight: A group of students was selected to attend this series of workshops and activities on gender issues and sociology where they were encouraged to see beyond common social norms. They were also given a chance to reflect on challenging the preconceived norms of gender created by the society.

Vocational Education

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: NCERT
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was a comprehensive course that covered the meaning, history and current efforts of the Government for the integration of vocational education along with the general curriculum.

Abhilasha 2021

Participants: LSA Middle School students and students from 22 schools
Highlight: Abhilasha 2021-22, a non- competitive Middle School Fest was held on an online platform on 2nd November which celebrated a total of 22 participating schools. There were 4 international schools namely, Greece, Ukraine, Russia and Nepal. There were 10 national schools from Indore, Guwahati, Churu, Chakradharpur, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh and Zirakpur. There were 7 city schools too.
There were some interesting events like Wordsworth ( a word quiz ), Megalo Epistimones (an event showcasing budding scientists) , Ambrosia ( non-gas cooking event), Fashion Fiesta ( a fashion show that conjured sheer magic from various indigenous fabric) and (a surprise detox event for all the participants) Happiness Genie. The theme for the fest was Chasing Happiness and the Chief Guest Dr. Jitendra Nagpal addressed the young leaders of tomorrow with an inspiring speech.
On the whole, the international event was a huge success and can be followed through the blog – https://abhilasha2021.blogspot.com

Kalantar Annual Art Festival

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes V - IX
Highlight: Several students from classes 5, 6, and 9 participated in this art competition and uploaded their pictures on the allotted portal of the CBSE website.

Delightful Days (Bagless Days)

Participants: LSA Middle School students
Highlight: Delightful Days is a product of the Bagless Days that is suggested under the NEP as per the CBSE directives. A week full of skill based learning was organised for the middle school students. The students got a break from the monotonous online classes and indulged in various activities like storytelling, jewellery designing, public speaking and even Physical activities like zumba and yoga. 
The young minds got refreshed and they went back enlightened and happy each day. Some sessions were also organised for them with doctors and value educator. It was an enriching experience.

Maths Mela

Resource Person: Maths Department (Primary)
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: The Mela was organised very well via the zoom platform. Student in charges conducted the games and activities with confidence. Student participants enjoyed playing various games in different break out rooms. It was also a brain storming session for them and an experiential learning.

Workshop on Bhasha Koushal

Participants: Puja Dubey
Highlight: Problems regarding Bhasha koushal faced by students were identified and solutions were explained. Norms to conduct effective online classes were also discussed.

Innovative Methods for Teaching Ethics and Integrity

Resource Person: Aloka Sensharma
Participants: Asfia Rafique, Kulbir Kaur, Sohini Mitra Jain, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: The Innovative Methods for Teaching Ethics and Integrity workshop was aimed at knowing newer modes of teaching and learning in accordance to today’s time.

ISEA Certified Cyber Hygiene Practioner

Venue: ISEA WEBSITE
Organized By: MeitY, Government of India
Resource Person: ISEA
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: The teacher concerned was certified as a Cyber Hygiene practitioner by the government. This would enhance her potential to deal with students who have been exposed to digital learning at the onset of their educational experience.

NISHTHA 3.0 FLN Courses

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Teachers of Pre-Primary & Primary Department
Highlight: The courses highlighted the vision of the mission to create an enabling environment to ensure universal acquisition of foundational literacy and numeracy, so that every child achieves the desired learning competencies in reading, writing and numeracy at the end of Class III.

UAV (Drone)

Venue: BITM
Organized By: BITM
Participants: Students of class VI
Highlight: Fun filled activities like Quiz, Plane making, Plane competition and the Physics behind working of plane were enjoyed by the students. The bronze medal was received by Dhairya Khetan. Students gained knowledge and experience

Special Assembly 3 - 5

Resource: Video, speech, song
Participants: Students of classes III – V
Highlight: A special assembly was organized on 21st October 2021 to commemorate the provisional declaration of free government of India (INA Day). The assembly programme started with the morning exercise, religious thought and school prayer. Students then read out the Thought for the Day, Word of the Day and News. This was followed by a special programme comprising the following:
• A video presentation on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Indian National Army.
• A speech on Netaji and the song Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja presented by the students.

KL YES ABROAD

Venue: USA
Organized By: AFS USA
Resource Person: AFS INDIA
Participants: KRISHANG GUPTA(XII A)
Highlight: Krishang Gupta is well settled in USA on a school exchange program through AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS in Sunnyslope High School, Phoenix, AZ. He is expected to be back after 10 months

AFS EXCHANGE

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: AFS India
Participants: Ananya Karnany(XI A), Emmy Lilou Perrin (XI A)
Highlight: EMMY LILOU PERRIN is a new entrant to our Academy who hails from ISSOIRE France and has come to spend a year in India and study in our institution. She loves music and enjoys Biology. She is also showing interest in Language learning. Ananya Karnany is her host family.

Pathways to Global classrooms

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: Mrs Sarita Badhwar
Participants: Amrita Sen, Anandite Pal, Asia Rafique, India Kaur Gill, Ingrain Das, Kole Ghosh, Kubler Kaur, Lop mudra Ghosh, Man meet Kaur, Nandini Chanda, Poulomi Saah, Puja Dubey, Pushpa Dayana, Rekha Dayana, S. Ananth, Sarani Saah Ghatam, Sharita Bhattacharya, Subchaser Das Gupta, Sneha Singh, Sudarshan Chowdhury, Sanjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: Pathway to Global Classroom for Educators Workshop empowers the teachers to build global classrooms, recognize cultural differences and create a safe multicultural environment that celebrates diversity!

Gender Sensitivity

Organized By: Communicators of LSA
Resource Person: Ms. Anju Munshi, MS, Sumona Dasgupta, Ms. Namita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Namita Dutta Gupta, Simona Dasgupta
Highlight: The discussion was on gender sensitivity, gender partnership and no subjugation of genders. Importance of interpersonal relationship in the perspective of parent and parent child relationship was also discussed.

Social Engineering Attacks and Security Quiz

Organized By: NCERT
Resource Person: CIET
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It is a well research and well organized course with in depth explanation about cyber safety and threats.

Webinar Series on Competency Based Question Development.

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Ms. Ramandeep Kaur, Ms. Vinita Rikhi & Ms Priyanka Vasudevan
Participants: Mistuni Mukherjee, Mumu Mukherjee, Poulomi Saha, Srabani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: 1. Discussion on Bloom's Taxonomy
2.Points on how to frame good questions.
3. Questions were shared with multiple examples.

tete a tetes

Participants Teachers & Office Staff

Highlight A short informal get together for the teachers was arranged on International Teacher’s Day to lighten the mood of the LSA family members over a cup of coffee. It consisted of songs, dance, quizzes and some recreational games. New members were introduced and we were able to know more of about their innate talents when they talked about the other talents that they had. It was enjoyed by all.

Effect Plu

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: Ms Sarita Badhwar
Participants: Students of Classes IX & XI
Highlight: SDGs and Global change makers is what AFS focuses on while taking workshops for students. A well designed and engaging workshop.

Microsoft Innovative Educator Training Programme

Organized By: Microsoft Inc
Resource Person: Ms. Sneha Singh
Participants: Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: Microsoft Innovative Educator Training or the MIE Training is an exclusive programme created to recognize educators using technology to pave the way for their peers for better learning and student outcomes. MIEs use Microsoft tools in the classroom and the fundamentals of some of these tools were discussed. Received certificate for the same.

Spinning Tales A Webinar on Story Telling

Organized By: Macmillan
Resource Person: Prachitara Mishra
Participants: Asfia Rafique, Khadija Aamir Choonawala, Subhi Vijay Vargiya, Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: It was an engaging and informative session. The resource person was very knowledgeable and expressive. The discussion on the different methods of storytelling to enhance classroom teaching was beneficial.

Session on Employability Skill

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Mr. Vinod Jha
Participants: IT Department Teachers
Highlight: The session was very interactive and informative. Teachers learned various steps to register to the portal for teacher and student both. We have understood the process of completion of the employability courses. We have understood the process to see the updated report of students' progress. It has been told that teachers need to motivate students to complete the courses.

Use and Integration of Technology – Implementation of the Vision of NEP

Venue YouTube and Google Form Assessment
Organized By CIET NCERT
Resource Person CIET NCERT
Participants Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight The series of lectures on the YouTube channel about use of technology in the class was well designed and provided detailed explanation in light of NEP 2020.

Project Baby Einstein

Organized By: Brain Infinite
Resource Person: Mr. Amrut Jadhav and Ms. Tara Thombre
Participants: Students of classes PSI - PSII
Highlight: The webinar was about increasing focus, memory power and promoting creativity amongst children. It was also helpful in regards to brain development of the children. Memory game like creative visualisation and brain gym were interesting part of the webinar.

Certification program for computer teachers

Organized: By Eupheus Learning
Resource Person: Ms Gurpreet Kaur
Participants: IT Department Teachers
Highlight: The workshop showcased about a Professional Development Program for Teachers” through our Canadian University Partner – Concordia University and Eupheus Learning through a gamefied portal robo garden.

Circular 69 Read India Celebration

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight: 8 students from class XI and 2 students from Class XII have participated in this most talked about habit and art that's gradually dying out. They were given specific tasks after the registration process which they had to complete and submit by 15 the September. The students were Diya Sharma, Dia Marik, Meghal Jain, Saket Jaiswal,Ashesh Mishra, Arhaam Azhari Yamini Agarwal, Shivangi Dey, Shirshaa Saha, Saanvi Nagar.

Transitioning from a Constant to a Dynamic Board Exam

Organized By: Mindler
Resource Person: Mrs Kak, Ms Rupa Chakravarty, Mr K V Arjun Rao, Dr Jagpreet Singh, Dr Skand Bali
Participants: Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami, Poulomi Saha, Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: The webinar focused on the challenges of the old system and how the students as well as the
teachers need to make changes in the learning process to fit into the new system. The panel also discussed the challenges in the new system, and gave their views / suggestions for all the stakeholders.

Indian Sign Language

Organized By: Crejo.Fun
Resource Person: Ms Smriti Nagpal
Participants: Students of Classes V – VIII
Highlight:The students from Classes V to VIII registered for the workshop. The objective of this workshop was to sensitize the youth about the difficulties faced by the differently abled and equip them with the basic skills. This was a new experience for our students.

The Art Of Environmental Science

Resource Person: Manmeet Kaur
Participants: Manmeet Kaur, Mitali Mukhopadhyay, S Anandhi, Sharmila Bera, Shubhasree Dasgupta
Highlight: The workshop was conducted keeping in mind the requirements of NEP 2020. The session dealt all the aspects of experiential learning. The strategies to be involved to enhance the critical thinking skills of the students were showcased. The resources and strategies to teach the lessons were explained using all the contemporary online tools to improvise on the teaching learning process. (As suggested by co teachers)

Workshop on Road to Digital Literacy

Resource Person: IT team of LSA
Participants: IT Teachers
Highlight: IT department conducted a workshop for teachers of science and social science streams. They have been made aware of how to be a good digital citizen. It has been explained what measures we take before choosing of information we should choose from the digital media and why. As the last part of the workshop teachers have been trained with the presentation application Prezi. A feedback form has been shared with all too.

CBSE Career Guide and Portal Training Program for School Teachers / Counsellors

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Ms. Parmita Sarma
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Importance and need of career counselling. It gave an insight about the emerging new career choices. Each student would get their own dashboard where they can explore different subject combinations and related career options. The portal can be accessed by students free of cost.

Read India Celebration

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes VII – VIII
Highlight: RIC imparted the students the opportunity to read and express themselves based on their understanding of the text that they had read. The "small task" was intensely interesting and honed the literary and creative skills of the students.

Words are how we think, stories are how we link

Venue: American Centre
Organized By: American Centre
Participants: Srabanti Deb
Highlight: The workshop was conducted aimed at exploring methods to use performative and digital storytelling as a classroom tool to make it more engaging and interesting. The workshop focused on innovative storytelling methods like popcorn questions, tableau performances and teachers participated in the same to explore the multiple possibilities of teaching methodologies. The online tools like tablet, jamboard, quizzlet etc were introduced to keep students engaged and attentive in class.

All India Online Arithmetic Genius Contest

Organized By: SIP ABACUS
Resource Person: SIP ABACUS
Participants: Students of Classes I – V
Highlight: Around 160 students from classes 1 to 5 have registered for the online contest. Students are receiving the schedule for the selection round and started appearing for the same. This round will get over in November 2021.

YES Abroad

Venue: USA
Organized By: AFS USA
Resource Person: AFS India
Participants: Krishang Gupta (XII A)
Highlight: Krishang Gupta finally flew to Phoenix USA to Sunnyslope High school for an enriching experience of his life.

Culture program - Ranum Denmark Short term Program

Venue: Ranum Efterskole College,Denmark
Organized By: AFS INDIA
Resource Person: AFS Denmark
Participants: Aakriti Agarwal(XII C), Arya Agarwal(X D)
Highlight: They spent a month at a Danish ETERSKOLE exploring cultural differences, learning Danish and participating in interesting activities and cultural excursions.

Birla Bharati Primary Fest 2021 ABHIGYATA

Organized By: BIRLA BHARTI SCHOOL
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: The Birla Bharti Primary Fest was held from 26th to 28th August. Lakshmipat Singhania Academy was represented by 13 children from classes 3 to 5 who enthusiastically participated in all the six events organized by the host school.

AFS Host Orientation and Counselor Meeting

Organized By: AFS
Resource Person AFS: Mr.Ajay Mehta
Participants: Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Meeting with the Host Family, Roles and Responsibilities of a Host Family and Counselor. Rules and Restrictions were discussed. Monthly Learning Reflections is to be filled up by Counselor.

Workshop on Joyful Mathematics

Resource Person: Arwah Hussain Deesawala
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight A well prepared presentation with appropriate activities and videos to make mathematics more joyful for children was shown. The resource person encouraged attendees to actively take part in the activities and share their view points. Principles for creating joyful learning plans, elements of
joyful learning and effective strategies for teaching elementary level were well covered. How to make children more creative by giving them chance and options to create their own games was discussed in details.

Graphic Novel A way forward ... A Pedagogy

Venue Youtube Live
Organized By CBSE Academics and Trainings
Resource Person Mr. Sandeep Sethi and Principals of various schools
Participants Asfia Rafique
Highlight The session was highly informative. It highlighted the effectiveness of Graphic Novels and that it must be a part of our pedagogy. Learnt
1. Graphic novels can teach visual literacy.
2. It can be effective to engage reluctant readers.
3. As Graphic novels are application based, they encourage students to apply critical thinking effectively.

Kindness Matters - UNESCO MGIEP

Organized By UNESCO
Participants Students of Class X
Highlight This is a round-the-year activity where individual contributions towards the family and community at large are recorded. Participants Urja Goyal, Parina Jain, Harshit Doshi, Rajnandini Jain, Vanshika Kabra

ShikshaShilpi Aahaar Kranti

Organized By Shiksh Shilpi (Mondays)
Resource Person Dr. Rashmi Kulkarni, Dr. Yelloji Rao Mirajkar, Dr. Anjali Abhay Kulkarni
Participants Anurag Sultania, Kulbir Kaur, Manmeet Kaur, Puja Dubey
Highlight The lectures are held every Monday at 7:00 pm. The sessions are very informative and give valuable suggestions on maintaining a healthy diet at all ages. These sessions are enriching and encourage every individual to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

eRaksha 2021 Screen Master

Organized By CBSE and CyberPeace foundation
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Students of classes 11 and 12
Highlight All students of classes 9 and web application and computer science students of classes 11 and 12 participated in the eRaksha 2021. They have been guided to participate in screen master event which was a video making competition on the theme ‘My Idea of a Safe and Peaceful Cyber Space’.
All the students uploaded their video in youtube as per the guidance and shared the same in e raksha website during registration. Few students applied for the special category event eAvishkar. Results are awaited.

Cybersmart Workshop

Organized By WNS Cares Foundation
Resource Person WNS Cares Foundation
Participants All Teachers & Office Staff
Highlight The importance of protecting one’s privacy online and the need to be alert and vigilant while using online games and services were stressed upon. Ways for students to manage their accounts and the meaning of cyber bullying was explained in detail. Every teacher and student who attempts the course will be provided with a certificate. This was necessary for the school to be declared as a Cybersmart school.

Workshop on ways to make the subject interactive and interesting

Resource Person Priya Mozumdar
Participants APre-Primary Teachers
Highlight The details of websites to be used for providing an enriching experience to the children through games was discussed. The available activities in each website were demonstrated. The use of 3D images was also shown.

AFS Bulletin Board Competition

Organized By AFS India
Resource Person Jayati Goswami, Amritah Sen
Participants Students of Classes VIII - XII
Highlight There were two groups of students, one of classes 8 9 and the other of classes 10 12. 8 students participated in class 8 9 group and 7 students participated in class 10 12 group. They came to school on 18th August to make the bulletin boards on the topic: INTERFAITH HARMONY. Both the teams did a commendable job.

Friendly football match for substaffs of LSA

Resource Person Mr. Darshan Singh Gill
Participants Chandrashekhar Das, Raghunath Guchhayat & all Support Staff
Highlight A football match was organised for the sub staffs after the virtual Independence Day celebration. All the members of the sub staffs took part in the match and played well. It was an initiative to give them a feeling of belongingness and, that they are an important part of the institution. The PE department were the referees and helped in conducting the match smoothly. It was an enjoyable session for all the members.

Celebrating Online Independence Day

Participants Students of Classes PS I to XII
Highlight Lakshmipat Singhania celebrated the 75th Independence Celebration on virtual platform. The Chief Guest for the day was Brigadier Debashish Das. The flag hoisting ceremony was relayed live on YouTube, which was done within school premises, performed by our school’s director Ma’am Meena Kak. It was followed by showcasing patriotic songs, dance performances, powerful speeches in English and Hindi followed by a pledge. The programme ended with a video presentation.

exeBIT 2021

Participants Harshvardhan Jalan(XII B), Mahak Garodia(XII A)
Highlight The academy celebrated 10th edition of its IT fest exeBIT - Imagine, Innovate, Ignite, which was an amalgamation of NEP, 25 years of our academy and 10th year of the fest. 33 schools participated of which we had 6 schools based out of Kolkata and 1 school from Nepal. There were 21 events and 2 workshops. All the schools have been given an award based on their participations.

Cyber Security

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was an elaborate course and spoke about the different aspects of cyber security. Detailed explanation, video content and reading materials provided helped to thoroughly understand the topic.

Shikshashilpi Aahar Kranti Online Lecture Series

Venue: Zoom and shikshashilpi website
Organized By: Ministry of Health
Resource Person: GIST, VIBHA and PRABHASS
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was a month long training with video lectures and weekly feedbacks and the chance of participating in a nationwide contest for teachers. It has been a wonderful learning experience.

Art Integration in Learning

Resource Person Runa Ghosh
Participants Teachers from English Department (Primary)
Highlight The session focused on art integration in learning and what NEP recommended regarding this. Why art integration is needed in English and how to do so was also discussed. Integrating art with LSRW skills was talked about.

AFS Local Chapter Meet

Organized By AFS India
Resource Person PARVEZ
Participants Jayati Goswami
Highlight The following was discussed: Session preparation; PowerPoint template; process of finalization of
presentation . Responsibilities of volunteers; what it means to be a presenter from India?
Communication guidelines to be followed while talking to other countries

Workshop on - MATHEMAGIC – to discover the magic of maths and make students fall in love with the subject

Resource Person Mitali Mukhopadhyay
Participants Ms. Sharmila Bera, Ms. S. Anandhi, Ms. Shubhasree Dasgupta, Ms. Manmeet Kaur
Highlight The workshop focussed on the 4 basic principles to make an engaging mathematics class:
A) Problem Solving
B) Experiential Learning
C) Catering To Multiple Intelligences
D) Inclusion of Mathematical Games
In all the activities / games discussed, the teacher provided support and aroused the interest among
the students as these activities are completely based on experiential learning and developing their
critical thinking skills to find a solution - TEACHER’S ROLE AS A FACILITATOR.

Make Learning Fun

Resource Person: Sohini Mitra Jain
Participants: Teachers from English Department (Primary)
Highlight: The workshop dealt with various teaching strategies that can make learning fun, meaningful and engaging.

UNESCO PROJECT Kindness Matters

Organized By UNESCO MGIEP
Participants Students of classes IX & X
Highlight This is a yearlong project. Fivestudents each from class IX and X will participate every month.
Names of participating students for June
1XB Taraksh Garodia
IXC Aadarsh Singh,Drishti Bhagat
IXD Divyansh Shah, Vidisha Jaiin
XB Harshvi Banka, Mehak Baid
XC Shruti Chowtaria
XD Arya Agarwal, Tanvi Agarwal

Helping children adapt to learning from home

Organized By: SCOO News
Resource Person: Lt. Col. A. Sekhar, Lina Ashar, Fatema agarkar, Chandni bhagat and Reena Valecha
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: We learned the ways to keep children motivated, by increasing communication skills, use of technology, promoting creativity, helping children to form buddy groups and giving them breaks in between their online classes by introducing games or activities to keep their attention and interest.

Teacher's toolkit for emotional wellbeing of students

Organized By: Drishti Enabling Inclusion, Mumbai
Resource Person: Ms. Karishma Dhrolia and Ms. Haveesha Budhdev
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Hands on strategies to take care of holistic wellbeing of students, fostering SEL in virtual classroom and strategies of self-care for students.

The Adolescent Speak

Organized By: Expression India and Ministry of Education
Resource Person: Manodarpan Ministry of Education
Participants: Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: It was a live webinar series where Peer Educators from 22 schools all over India were present in the forum. The importance of Life Skill, Mental Health and Wellbeing was discussed in the forum. Srishti Maheswari of class 12 represented our school as a Peer Educator. She got an opportunity to share
her viewpoints.

Importance of Reading

Organized By: PN Paniker Foundation
Resource Person: PN Panicker members
Participants: Jayati Goswami
Highlight: With the roll out of the National e Governance Plan, the ICT is being taken to the remote corners of the country with access to the rural masses to draw the benefits of the development of IT for inclusive growth. There is a need to bridge the digital divide by spreading e literacy for social inclusion.

Machine Learning

Organized By: VIPNET India
Resource Person: Mr.Vigyan Prasar
Participants: Jaya Misra, Poulomi Saha, Sarbani Saha Ghatak
Highlight: Machine learning key points were shared, along with its importance, its requirements and its benefits in day to day life. It gave them the basic knowledge of algorithm which helps to read the data for learning. We should have the basic knowledge of machine learning as in today's world it is
very important to face the challenges in daily based innovative learning. Machine learning helps in face detection, speech recognition, and stock prediction.

Super Teacher Workshop on Hybrid Schooling (Online teaching tools and open Resources)

Organized By: Super Teachers
Resource Person: Vasudevan from Super Teachers
Participants: Poulomi Saha
Highlight: The various applications of live demonstration in class was learned. It was very interesting to know the lab facilities can be arranged online too. Participant learned new applications like Dicovery .org, Nearpod application, Google Earth where you can virtually visit places, live and can have a virtual
tour with your students.

Student say

Organized By: Education World
Resource Person: Shweta Parakh
Participants: Class VI
Highlight: Training on how to prepare news on the audio visual medium has been given nicely to the selected students.

Invest Seminar

Organized By: Future School Leader
Resource Person: Anuppama Das, Puneet Ahuja, Bindeshwar Pathak, Kieron, Nancy Ekpezu, Neelkantha Bhanu, Mandeep Gill, Bindu rana, Mahesh Sangade
Participants: Darshan Singh Gill, Joy Chakraborty, Nandini Chandra, Ranjini Chakravarty
Highlight: The seminar was enriching and emphasized on different ways to invest money and how to invest on oneself to grow. It had eminent speakers specializing in the fields on investment and other areas which aim at self growth.

Post Pandemic Education : Emerging Trends & Innovations

Organized By: Times of India
Resource Person: Dr. Kusum Kanwar, Mr Pranay, Mr Anand Kumar, Ms Santrupti
Participants: Jaya Misra, Jayati Gosami, Manidipa Lahiri, Soumya Ghosh
Highlight: The webinar was to promote a coding platform, Tekie, which uses the Art of Storytelling as teaching strategy.

Workshop on Road to digital literacy

Organized: By IT dept of LSA
Resource Person: IT department of LSA
Participants IT Department Teachers
Highlight: Teachers of Commerce, humanities, sports and Music department were trained by IT dept on Road to digital literacy. It was a scheduled Workshop session assigned by the heads of the academy. The teachers were given guidance for being a good digital citizen, awareness tips to make them
information literate. The session ends with imparting technology literacy on Prezi the online presentation software. A feedback form had been distributed by IT dept. for further improvement.

Hindi workshop

Resource Person: Uma Jaiswal
Participants: Teachers from Hindi Department (Primary)
Highlight: The workshop helped in improving teaching skills in the era of virtual learning. We were able to know the importance of LAC in teaching Hindi. Discussed the points on the challenges of virtual learning like steps to organize virtual learning efficiently, Story Reading, Poetry Reading, Quiz, Debate, Virtual travel based learning to teach Hindi.

2D Animations and Doodle like animations

Organized By: Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Resource Person: Ms Bharani N
Participants: Mumu Mukherjee
Highlight: Advanced Presentation techniques were elaborated and Animation Tools were showcased related to teaching-learning activities.

Junior Skills 2021

Organized By NSDC
Resource Person NSDC
Participants Jayati Goswami
Highlight The championship aims at giving students practical insight into established and emergent skill categories, and access to industry experts who will guide them throughout Junior Skills. The process and interactions with experts are also designed to help students make informed career choices.

Awareness Program

Organized By AICTE
Resource Person AICTE
Participants Jayati Goswami
Highlight Awareness program about the initiatives has been taken by All India Centre for Technical Education. All program content and learning outcomes were discussed.

Various initiatives of CBSE in collaboration AICTE

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Manish Ahuja,Abhay Jere,AICTE
Participants Poulomi Saha
Highlight Orientation webinar programme on various initiatives of CBSE with collaboration AICTE was the topic of discussion. 5 modules were discussed which were of duration of 72 hours for teachers. Initiatives of NEP were also discussed. Objectives of NEP, Buckets of NEAT products were emphasized, well implemented as the training modules gave us the brief explanation on Online Innovation Ambassador training programme.

Workshop( Build in Immunity Quotient)

Organized By: Pfizer
Resource Person: Doctor Debjani Bose
Participants: Arwah Hussain Deesawala, Jyoti Gondi, Ranjini Chakravarty
Highlight: Parents were appraised about building immunity by regular vaccination, proper sleep and adequate love and nutrition. The detailed presentation was demonstrated and discussed.

Workshop on Programming in Python

Organized By: Orange Education
Resource Person: Rahul Ranjan CEO of Leaplearner
Participants: IT Department Teachers
Highlight: The Resource person spoke about the use of Python and how the software is more user friendly than other languages. He also demonstrated some codes with their outputs.

Covid Vaccination

Venue: Techno India Dama Hospital
Participants: Teachers & Office staff
Highlight: It is great news the management has arranged for Covid vaccination for all the staff of our academy. They have arranged the same in collaboration with Techno India Dama hospital. Many of the staff had taken their first dose of CoviShield vaccine.

Counselling Sessions on ‘Grieving’

Organized By: Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Participants: Teachers
Highlight: It was a very interactive session. We were made to do certain activities which were very rejuvenating. Individuals were asked to speak about their own experiences

Workshops organised by Centre of Excellence, Bhubaneswar and attended by our Teachers throughout the month of MAY

• Workshop on Gamification in Learning
• Strategies of a happy classroom
• Innovative Pedagogy in Social Science Experiential Learning
• Integration of Arts in Social Science
• Workshop on Anger Free Schools
• Connecting and Communicating with Parents
• Enhancing life skill Decision Making
• Positive Mindful Mantras for Fighting Stress
• Interdisciplinary Project
• CBSE Training, Understanding Gender and their relationship
• CBSE Training, Managing Change
• Positive mindful mantras for fighting stress
• Communicating with Parents
• Teaching strategies /Methodology in Social Science
• Enhancing Life Skills Interpersonal Relationships
• NEP EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION
• Online workshop on Fostering Critical and Creative Literacy
• CBSE TRAINING ON MENTORING AND TEAM TEACHING
• LIFE SKILLS DEALNG WITH STRESS
• Understanding Blooms Taxonomy and its application in Social Science
• WORK SHOP ON MADHYMIK STAR PAR HINDI BHASHA ME AAKALAN
• CBSE workshop Enhancing Life Skills Critical Thinking
• Positive MINDFUL Mantras for fighting Stress
• Teaching Strategies / Methodologies in Social Science
• The Value to Reckon need of value education
• Understanding classroom management and its components

BSG Annual General Meeting

Organized By South Calcutta Association
Resource Person South Calcutta Association
Participants Ishita Valentina Gomes, Joy Chakraborty
Highlight The meeting was well conducted. The points in the agenda were discussed. Forthcoming events and trainings were mentioned.

e-competition to observe international day for biological diversity 2021

Organized By: TERI’s Green Boot Camp
Participants: Students of classes V – X
Highlight: Theme of the competition – ‘We are the solution’. Painting for Students from classes V to VII and PowerPoint Presentation for students from classes VIII to X.

Parents Orientation - Online

Participants: Meena Kak, Anjali Chopra, Anju Munshi, Class XI HRT’s & Soumyo Ghosh
Highlight: 125 parents of class 11 students attended the meeting along with Ma'am Meena Kak, Ma'am Anjali Chopra, Ma'am Anju Munshi and all four HRTs of class 11. Parents were apprised of NEP, Class 11 and 12 Board results of 2020, examination structure, ethos of school and rules and regulations.

Counselling Workshop

Organized By: Tata Institute of Social Science
Resource Person: Ms.Sukanya Ray
Participants: All Teachers & Office Staff
Highlight: Teachers shared the different feelings that they are currently going through and the resource person gave us suggestions to overcome negative feelings specially grief. Few exercises were also shown which would help us to contain ourselves and our emotions during these difficult times.

Parents Orientation - Online

Resource Person: Meena Kak, Jayati Goswami, Sohini Jain, Nabomita Duttagupta.
Participants: Aloka Sen Sharma, Suranjana Chakraborty, Asfia Rafique, S. Anandhi and Parents of students From class III and New Admission from classes IV & V
Highlight: Parents were apprised of NEP, Board results of 2020-21, examination structure, ethos of school, rules and regulations, code of conduct for online class, information about Happy Hour, Indradhanush, LSAMUN and awards received by the Academy in the last session.

Workshop on Effective Computer Teaching in Scratch

Organized By: Orange Education
Resource Person: Ms. Nidhi Gupta
Participants: Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: The spokesperson discussed about computer education in schools, traits of a good computer teacher and the impact of teaching programming from the lower level. She also demonstrated scratch programming features with some good examples.

Summer Camp

Participants: Students of classes III – V
Highlight: In the Summer Camp children could choose from a wide range of activities and learn something new. The wide range of engaging and innovative activities helped them gain new skills and in expanding the ones, they've already got.
The various activities provided were - Poetry Workshop, Fusion Camp, Magic of Maths, Rhythmaerobics, Doodle Zoodle, Coding, Food Basket and Craft.
The learning outcome of the Summer Camp –
> Helped students to build a unique interest.
> Students learned new skills.
> The Summer Camp reinforced confidence and independence.
> Students learned to be creative.

Breath and Mind in the times of COVID-19

Organized By: AIM, NITI Aayog and Learning Links Foundation
Participants: Teachers of LSA
Highlight: It was a very useful session to keep our mind and body in a relaxed state in the on- going pandemic situation.

Little Leap Public Speaking Olympiad

Organized By: Little Leap
Participants: 41 Students from classes 3 to 5
Highlight: Little Leap Public Speaking Olympiad helped the children to develop social and interpersonal skills and enhanced their English speaking, Public speaking, Creativity and Critical Thinking skills through fun, playful and engaging sessions. These sessions are guided by the trainers in preparing their speech using Magician’s tricks. These sessions helped the children to enhance their confidence to become good public speakers. The prizes for the good speakers are announced every fortnight under 3 different age groups.

Assistive Technology for Inclusion

Organized By: CBSE Coe Dehradun
Resource Person: Ms. Sanjaya Walia
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: How technology can be used in various types of inclusion like disability, first generation learner, slum children, creative children etc. Examples of different tech tools for hearing aids, hardware and software for better accessibility were also discussed.

Cultural Grip over Virtual trip AFS India and Hungary

Organized By: AFS India and Hungary
Participants: Jayati Goswami, Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: It was an interesting virtual exchange program to share the cultural aspects of the two countries. Learnt about different historical places, cuisine, sports, literature etc of Hungary.

Education Transformation Framework Webinar

Organized By: Juana Technologies
Resource Person: Juana Technologies
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: The event introduced technologies that will drive the change and also enable critical conversation needed for effective transformations.

Meeting for finalizing special activity

Resource Person: Sanzeeda Mirza, Coordinators of each department, Manmeet Kaur, Indrani Das, Rupa Mazumdar, Bijay Raj Shaw
Participants: Students of classes III – XII
Highlight: A meeting was organised for each department to finalize the activities, promotion of activities like handicraft was done to balance the number of participants in each activity.

Action Research

Venue: Diksha Custodian ORG
Organized By: NCERT
Resource Person: NCERT
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was a useful course and discussed action research in depth. With appropriate video lessons and different types of questions used in the quizzes, the course was well balanced and helped her to analyze and reflect on her learning.

ICT 2.0 workshop Teacher empowering

Organized By: Edulitehouse
Resource Person: Seema Gupta and Mr. Desai
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: Had a great session to understand the change of technology in near future. Through the session we have understood the implementation of NEP through the application of technology. We have learned to understand the methodology to convert the theoretical concept into practical application.

Decoding NEP: Making multidisciplinary approach a reality.

Organized By: Edudevs
Resource Person; Madam Devyani, Maheshwara Chaitanya
Participants: Hindi Teachers Department
Highlight: The session stressed on teaching in interdisciplinary manner, more of experiential activities and learning and no rote learning in classes. Interactive sessions should be conducted with students making multidisciplinary approach a reality. Students to find out critical thinking skills, critical question and answer along with problem solving questions.

Webinar on elucidating the assessment criteria

Organized By: CBSE, NPSE
Resource Person: Chairperson of CBSE
Participants: Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: Discussion on Assessment criteria of CBSE class X took place. It was an informative session where we have understood the various ways that we should consider as an assessment and how to prepare students for their assessment.

Adobe Creative Educator – Professional Development Workshop and Technology for Blended Learning

Organized By: CBSE, Niti Aayog, ATAL Innovation Mission in collaboration with Google
Resource Person: Adobe
Participants: Ishita Valentina Gomes
Highlight: It was a well conducted and well organized session. The resource persons were approachable and helped in solving doubts while using the Adobe Spark platform. It was comprehensive and well explained. The virtual training sessions on YouTube were very effective and helped us know more about the use of Google classroom and various other tools that come under educational technology. The resource person was knowledgeable and well versed in the use of technology in the classroom.

Adobe Professional Developmental Webinar on Digital Literacy and Creativity Skills

Organized By: Adobe Creative Educator
Resource Person: Adobe
Participants: Primary department Teachers
Highlight: The session that was conducted opened a plethora of opportunities to work on the digital platform. Teachers learnt aspects of Adobe Creative educator that was highly enriching and engaging.

Teacher's Orientation workshop

Organized By: Freadom (Smiles to Milestone)
Resource Person: Sukhanya and Suchita
Participants: Teachers of Primary, Pre Primary & Middle School Department
Highlight: Freadom is an upcoming reading application which can easily be downloaded on the mobile as well as on a desktop. There are more than 1000 books with many interactive activities for ages 3 to12. There are daily positive news updates too for children. The resource person also discussed a club 1 Br web Page for teachers to join which has a virtual staff room with interesting topics of discussion.

AI for India 1.0

Organized By: GUVI
Resource Person: AICTE & GUVI
Participants: Teachers of IT department and selected students from classes 10 to 12.
Highlight: A One Day Online workshop on Python Programming skills that aim to break the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD by upskilling 10 Lakh participants with Python Programming skills was conducted. This program is aligned with the broader vision to ‘make India lead among the Top 3 countries in Artificial Intelligence.

# Kindness Matters

Organized By: UNESCO MGIEP
Participants: Students of Classes IX – X
Highlight: A big opportunity for students and school, to be part of this global campaign. Students got a platform to express every possible way that they could, to go out and make a difference, through their act of kindness. 12 students from class 9 and 23 students from class 10 got this opportunity this month. This will be a continuous process.

Digital literacy and creativity for ATL incharges

Organized By: CBSE Niti Aayog and Adobe
Resource Person: Krithika Rao and Suraj shetkar
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: The implementation of various Adobe tools as a useful teaching tool was taught through a hands-on session.

My ON Reader

Venue: Delhi online
Organized By: My ON India
Resource Person: Mr. Devashish Gandhi
Participants: Jayati Goswami, Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Sohini Mitra Jain
Highlight: My ON Reader is a personalized Reading Solution for students and teachers. They provide unlimited high quality reading practice that fuels literacy growth. They are well equipped with unlimited access, curriculum support and deep data insights. It was understood that this could be a useful medium for smooth transmission of knowledge.

Adobe Creative Educator

Venue: Microsoft team
Organized By: Adobe creative Educator, Adobe India
Resource Person: Adobe India
Participants: Teachers of Middle School Department
Highlight: A short video highlighting features of the unique features of Adobe Creative Educator was displayed in order to teach the educators about the essentials of the application. Educators had a hands-on experience creating a designed post to apply their learnt skills.

Digital Literacy and Creative Skills webinar series

Organized By: AIM in partnership with Adobe
Resource Person: Adobe Experts
Participants: Teachers of IT Department
Highlight: The workshop primarily focused on using Adobe Spark, certification for Adobe Creative Educator and access to Adobe Education Exchange.

Diplomathon Global India Connect 2021 Orientation Program

Organized By: Education World & Diplomathon Global
Resource Person: Mr. Hriday Bhatia & the team
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: This was an Orientation session that provided the details of the event. They would orient all the students and the ones who register for the program would undergo four workshops before the event. The students would compete at the Regional level first in this Model UN which is with a difference, and the qualifiers would reach the Nationals.

Experiential Learning Introductory to learning experience

Organized By: COE Delhi East
Resource Person: Ms Neera Kohli
Participants: Aloka Sen Sharma
Highlight: It was a very interactive and effective session. It was opined that children learn from their experiences with natural occurrences and with concrete objects in the environment. Newspapers are very important sources of real life experiences hence should be used effectively in the process of teaching and learning.

The Teacher Tech Summit

Resource Person: Various speakers
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: More than 45,000 teachers across the globe registered for this Summit and it was screened live via Facebook and YouTube. This was a platform where some of the best practices were shared globally leading to digital learning revolutions in schools. An inspiring session that gave new ideas and resources to make the teaching learning process more effective in the online mode.

PAN India Principal’s Conclave

Organized By: Effatha Life Zone
Resource Person: Mr Wilson Joseph
Participants: Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The conclave discussed topics on Hybrid Blended learning, Technological and Psychological Challenges and solutions. World Cafe, PHYGITAL (Physical and digital) classes were some new entrants in the PAN India forum.

Bengal Can

Organized By: Bengal Clean Air Network
Resources used: Pen and paper
Participants: Students of classes IV, V & IX
Highlight: The Students got an opportunity to express their concern on pollution, through handwritten letters that were scanned and mailed. They were sent to the honourable Prime Minister Sir and Chief Minister Madam. Through this letter writing activity the students were taught to voice out their opinions in an agreeable manner.

Whole School Approach to Fitness

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE
Participants: Joy Chakraborty, Kuntak Gupta
Highlight: This energizing session was attended by the teachers of PE Department. New techniques relating to exercises at home and indoor activities in school were taught and explained.

Dramatics in Teaching

Resource Person: Cap. Dr. Dimisha Bharadwaj Singh
Participants: Manidipa Laihiri
Highlight: Dramatics in teaching is being incorporated in new methods of teaching and learning. Through dramatics we can draw the attention of students with various abilities and also make our lessons more interesting. It was inferred that deeper learning takes place through improvisation, mirroring, role-play, designing costumes, drawing or making props etc. It was indeed an informative and practical session.

Self-Assessment for free online training in collaboration with Google

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: CBSE and Google
Participants: IT Department Teachers
Highlight: The teachers of IT department were hugely benefitted from this training as it helped them to understand the different models of technology integration, ways to develop integrated technology lesson plans, the use of technology in the classroom in all curriculum areas and to teach higher order thinking skill thus raising the bar for the learner.

Systematic Data Analysis

Organized By: NABET, QCI
Resource Person: Ms Sheela Ragavan
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: The session highlighted various sources of data, study of trend analysis and how data interpretation can help the school in improvement, thereby ensuring continual improvement.

Online Museum Visit

Resource Person: Roopa Mohan
Participants: Aloka Sen Sharma, Mumu Mukherjee, Poulumi Saha, Sneha Singh
Highlight: A wonderful virtual experiential learning experience was conducted for primary school students. The stories behind each artefact belonging to different countries and civilisation, displayed was narrated by the docents of the museum. It was truly an enriching experience for the students.

merging Technologies—Cloud Computing AWS Cloud Practitioner essentials

Organized By CBSE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NASSCOM
Resource Person AWS
Participants Pushpa Dayani
Highlight This course is for individuals who seek an overall understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, independent of specific technical roles. She learnt about AWS Cloud concepts, AWS services, security, architecture, pricing, and support to build AWS Cloud knowledge. This course also helps to prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.

Creativity in classrooms

Organized By:ICSL
Resource Person:Prof. G. Balasubramanian, Mr. Giri, Mr. Atul Nischal
Participants:S. Anandhi
Highlight:In this highly informative webinar. It was discussed that school learning should be made fun and a lot of scope must be given to the students to allow them to think critically as well as creatively. Creativity has been a part of human existence since times immemorial especially in India. Teachers were acknowledged to be extra ordinarily creative.

Workshops organized by CBSE Centre of Excellence and attended by our Teachers throughout the Month of March

• Application of Life Skills in a day to day life
• Artificial Intelligence Integration across subjects
• Bloom's Taxonomy and It's Application in English
• Competency Based Education – Module 1,2,3 & 4
• Competency based Modules of Teaching
• Effective classroom management
• Enhancing Practical skills and project in Mathematics
• Experiential Learning Course
• Exploring Happiness
• Gamification in Learning
• Handling Misbehaviour during Online Classes
• Hindi Bhasha Ke Gadya Padya and Vyakaran Ka Sikshan
• ICT integration in teaching of Mathematics ICT integration in teaching of Mathematics
• Innovative Methods for Students to Teach Ethics and Integrity
• Integration of Art in English Teaching
• Integration of Arts in curriculum through Experiential learning
• Integration of Arts in Science
• Link Between Learning Outcomes and An Activity of Arts
• Local art and how they can be integrated to teach a concept
• Mental Health and wellness
• Myths about Stress
• NEP 2020: Shift to competency based teaching
• Online Training Session on Integration of Arts in Chemistry
• Recreational Mathematics
• Session on NEP Teachers Preparedness
• Strategies of Effective Curriculum Plan
• Teaching Strategies/Methodologies in English (Speaking)
• Teaching Strategies/Methodology in Social Science
• The values to reckon, need of value education
• Understanding Bloom's Taxonomy and its Application in English
• Webinar on Gamification of Learning
• Webinar on Innovations in Science Experiential Learning
• Webinar on Joyful Mathematics Joyful Assessment in Mathematics
• Workshop on Essential of a Lesson Plan in Accountancy
• Workshop on Experiential Learning
• Workshop on Literary Devices in teaching Poetry
• Workshop on Positive Discipline
• Workshop on Priority Management
• Workshop POSCO Act 2020

Online Holi celebration with the residents of Help Age India

Organized By: Help Age India
Resource Person: Indrani Sen
Participants: Students of Class PS II & Class VII
Highlight: Help Age India in association with Surf Excel organized a colourful event to connect with residents of Old Age Homes.

Delivering academic success for children with ADHD

Organized By: Eblity
Resource Person: Shivani Wadhwa
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Overview of challenges faced by children with ADHD and impact on academic performance due to ADHD were discussed.

Developing Critical & Creative Thinking Skills for the 21st century

Organized By: USIEF
Resource Person: Ms. Bishakha Sen, Ms. Diya Dutt & Ms. Shevanti Narayan
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: A new term was introduced during the session 'Question storming' as a way of problem solving instead of brain storming technique. Another technique to encourage students to think innovatively, is adopting a visible thinking routine .... I see ... I think ... I wonder.

Ficci ARise de mystifying Myths about Covid 19 special edition on safe return to schools

Organized By: FICCI ARISE
Resource Person: Dr. Vivek Nangia
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Highlight: The challenges faced due to covid 19 mainly stress of teachers, parents unprepared for distance and home schooling, interrupted learning and promoting hybrid

Asia Kakehashi Program

Venue: Japan
Organized By: AFS JAPAN
Resource Person: AFS INDIA
Participants: Ashlesha Bhagat(XI)
Highlight: Ashlesha Bhagat made us proud by being selected in the most prestigious Japan Exchange Program. She studied in NAKAMURA GAKUEN SENIOR GIRLS SCHOOL I in Fukuoka Japan. She received a certificate of appreciation from Japan and is fluent in Japanese now. She returned from Japan this month.

The Power of Social Sciences

Organized By: IIT, Delhi
Resource Person: Shri Harsh Chauhan, Dr Ashok Kumar Thakur, Shri Prashant Divekar, Shri Prakash Somayaji
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: This was a part of the Naya Bharat e Series, with a focus on Social Sciences. The importance of the subject was dealt with in the Isha Home School Approach, Jnana Prabodhini's approach.
The purpose to learn the subject is national integration and social harmony.

Bridging the Gap

Date: from 01/03/2021 to 12/03/2021

Venue: Online (Microsoft Teams/Zoom)
Resource Person: HRTs, Ms. Esha Kak and Activity Teachers
Participants: Students of classes III – V
Highlight: Students were engaged in a constructive ways through many activities after their assessments. The activities honed their artistic skills, kinesthetic, imaginative, creative, fine motor skills and life skills.

Bridging the Gap

Participants: Students of Pre School I to Class II
Highlight: The mornings from 8th March to 12th March were packed with fun filled activities such as culinary delights, karate, PE, music, dance and the world of colours where children made beautiful seasonal crafts. The response was overwhelming and children thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Convocation Ceremony

Participants: Students of Classes I – V
Highlight: The ceremony was conducted online for the students of classes 2 and 5 graduating to the next department . The students put a cultural programme for the graduates. A motivational video on the joy of sharing was also showcased.

My Kolkata in Kolkata 2.0

Venue: Kolkata Centre For Creativity
Organized By: KCC
Resource Person: Ms. Reena Dewan
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: Arjun Agarwal's photograph titled RECESS OF RESPITE will be showcased in the exhibition at Kolkata Centre for Creativity from March 12 to March 21, 2021.

Transacting Transition Managing Behaviour Problems in Adolescents - new challenges

Organized By: ICTRC
Resource Person: Dr. VS . Ravindran
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Highlight: The session focused on ways to manage behavioural problems of adolescents by being non judgmental and giving students a patient hearing.

Awareness workshop on Action Research

Organized By: NABET
Resource Person: Ms. Sheela Ragavan
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: Various examples were shared during the session which helped clear our doubts on the topic.

COE Trainings

       Workshops organized by Centre of Excellence, Bhubaneswar and attended by our Teachers throughout the Month : -

• Workshop? English 1X?X Integration of Arts in Teaching of English
• Dramatics in teaching
• Strategies of a Happy Classroom
• Weaving life skills into school curriculum
• Learning Outcomes
• Local Art Integration in any subject area
• Online workshop? NEP 2020 in Early Childhood Education
• Pathways to 21st Century Skills
• Gamification in Learning
• Assessment in Pre?Primary classes? issues and challenges
• Essentials of Lesson Plan in Social Science
• Literature in English Language
• Workshop on Pathways to Critical Thinking
• Inclusive Education
• Learning of Spellings made easy
• Teachers Training of Employability Skill Component of all Skill Course
• Virtual Classes ? The New Normal
• Assessment in Geography
• Experiential learning – Diksha portal

Influence Summit

Organized By: Future School leaders
Resource Person: Eminent speakers
Participants: Meena Kak, Anjali Chopra, Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The summit discussed National Education Policy(NEP), the issues facing our nation and how to develop possible strategies as educators.

Naya Bharat Series

Organized By: Unnat Bharat Abhiyan
Resource Person: Smt Sudha Murthy
Participants: Jayati Goswami
Highlight: The series featured Sushri Sudha Murty as the Chief Guest (TBC), and several other storytelling experts from schools and beyond. The speakers shared their experiences and discussions ranged from opening the mind of children to inculcating values.

Pariksha Pe Charcha

Organized By: Ministry of Education, Government of India
Participants: Teachers, Students and parents of Senior Department
Highlight: Our students , teachers and parents of classes 9-12 participated enthusiastically in the event. They expressed their views on the paradigm shift in the education system due to pandemic. Selected students will get an opportunity to interact with the honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Town Hall Meeting

Organized By: AFS India
Resource Person: Ms. Divya Arora, Director
Participants: Jayati Goswami
Highlight: During the meet, AFS India staff presented the Highlights of 2020, wherein they showcased some important events in each AFS department that were successfully implemented in 2020.

Stream Selection for students of class X

Organized by - Ms. Meena Kak

Participants - Students of class X

Highlight - Ms. Meena Kak conducted a counselling session with the students of class X apprising them on how to choose the right stream and subjects in class XI.

Asia Kakehashi Panel Interview

Organized By : AFS – Intercultural programme

Participants - Ms. Jayati Goswami and Pranav Choudhury (XII)

Highlight - Ms. Jayati Goswami was invited for the Asia Kakehashi project student's interview process. Asia Kakehashi Project is a study abroad scholarship program for Asian high?schoolers interested in building their global competence sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). 15 students from Pakistan were shortlisted for the Asia Kakehashi Project and the interviews were conducted online over the zoom platform.

Stream Selection

Organized By - Mindler

Resource Person - Ms. Shilpi Singh

Participants - Students of class X - Mindler Registered students

Highlight - The session explained the ways to build a strong profile which combined academics with  extra- curricular  activities, exchange programs, internships etc. Future prospects of some uncommon subjects like History, Nutrition, Biotechnology were discussed. Students were explained the need to choose a stream which they were passionate about and had an aptitude for.

Celebrating Matribhasha Diwas

From Date - 21/02/2021 To 23/02/2021

Organized By - CBSE

Participants - Students of the Pre primary department

Highlights - Teachers of the preprimary section designed various activities like poetry writing, character presentation, creative writing   etc. to celebrate Matribhasha Diwas. Several videos of the activities, were posted in the LSA face book page.      

Workshop on "Passion for Science and Skills for Teaching"

Organized By - JBNSTS

Resource Person - Prof. Maitreyi Bhattacharya

Participants - Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight - The session was informative and interesting.

Webinars on Junior Skills Championship in collaboration with NSDC

Organized By - CBSE and National Science Development Corporation (NSDC)

Resource Person - Representatives of NSDC

Participants - Mr. Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms. Sudakshina Datta

Highlight - Details of what was expected at each level of the competition was shared by the representatives of NSDC.

Celebrating Saraswati Puja

Organized By- LSA

Participants - Teachers (offline), all students (online mode)

Highlight - Saraswati Puja was held with usual fervour in the school premises attended by the staff members, following all Covid protocols. The Zoom link for Saraswati Puja Live was shared with all the students.

Naya Bharat - eSeries

Organized By - NAYA BHARAT

Resource Person - IIT Delhi

Participants - Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The panelists stressed on the importance of meeting the needs of Gifted students. They emphasized that apart from the cognitive needs their social emotional needs must also be satisfied.  

Reopening of schools

Organized By - Sharp NGO

Participants - Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The main points of discussion were challenges and guidelines for commuting to school during Covid times, SOPs for reopening of school & caring for mental health.

CBSE Heritage India Quiz 2021

From Date - 20/01/2021 To 10/02/2021

Organised By - CBSE

Participants - Students of classes 1-12

Highlight - Around 120 students from classes 1 -12 registered and participated in the quiz. Students had to go through the study material provided by the board and then attempt the quiz. It was a good learning session.

ICTRC Workshop on Mental Health

Date - 9th & 10th February 2021

Organized By - ICRTC

Resource Persons - Dr. Ravindran , Mr. Sanjay Padode

Participants - Teachers of Preprimary and primary, Middle & Senior School department

Highlight - It was a very informative session on ways to deal with discipline problems once schools reopen and what new skills had to be adopted by teachers. The session also emphasized on ways to identify mental health issues and how teachers could help the students to cope with them.

Effective E?Assessment Strategies in Education

Organized By - Super Teachers

Resource Person - Mr. Vasudevan Natarajan

Participants - Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza

Highlight - The workshop gave an insight into how assessments can be taken effectively using softwares like Quizzies, plicker cards and Edpuzzle.

Webinar on AI in school curriculum

Organized By - KIPS

Resource Person - Ms. Jatinder Kaur

Participants - IT Department Teachers

Highlight - The resource person elaborated on the newly introduced subject – Artificial Intelligence by CBSE. The books launched by KIPS were also showcased.

COE Trainings

Workshops organized by Centre of Excellence, Bhubaneswar and attended by our teachers throughout the Month : -

• Enhancing Practical skills and Project in Mathematics
• Thinking out of Box and being an active listener
• NEP?Teacher Preparedness
• Teaching Strategies/ Methodologies in English (Writing)
• Humor as a teaching technique
• NEP?2020 Empowering the teacher
• Workshop on Recreational Mathematics
• Workshop on Common errors committed in Science
• Workshop on Critical and Creative thinking in Mathematics
• Designing effective lesson plans (Hindi)
• Designing MCQs
• Pre Primary Teaching – Phonetics
• Using Art as a Teaching tool
• Pathways to Critical Thinking
• Teaching and Learning in 21st Century? Issues and Prospects
• Common Grammatical Errors in English and How to Correct it
• Integration of Art in Geography for class XI & XII
• Assessments in Mathematics
• Workshop on Kolb's Cycle of Experiential Learning
• Innovative ways of introducing lessons & poems (Hindi)
• SCIENCE?Innovative pedagogy in Science experiential learning
• How to be a good online Teacher

Olympiads

From Date - 05/12/2020 To 31/01/2021

Event - International General Knowledge Olympiad(IGKO), International English Olympiad(IEO), National Science Olympiad (NSO), International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO)

Organized By - Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF)

Participants - Students of classes II to XII

Highlight - 154 students registered for IGKO, 294 for IEO, 252 for NSO and 350 for IMO from classes II to XII. Results awaited.

Meaningful School Education - Mind Mingle Masterclass

From Date - 27/01/2021 To 31/01/2021

Resource Person - Sir S Gopalan

Participants - Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The workshop emphasized on moving towards an investigative and project-based learning approach for facilitating the development of critical thinking and reasoning skills in students.

Transforming Education via Indian Knowledge Systems for Schools

Organized By - IIT Delhi

Resource Person - Mr Anil Sahsrabudhe, Mr Michel Danino, Mrs Geeta Nair, Dr Arundhati Sundar

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight - An inspiring 4 hour session that covered the Indian Knowledge Systems in depth and made the audience extremely proud of  the rich cultural heritage. It was an eye opener to find that CBSE is offering Knowledge Traditions & Practices of India as an elective course for Classes XI & XII.

My Prized Possession

From Date - 15/01/2021 To 30/01/2021

Venue - Residence of Students

Participants - Students of Classes PS I & PS II

Highlight - Children used their imagination and designed paperweights using pebbles. They learnt the importance of making wealth out of waste.

Vocab?o?Pedia Quiz Competition

From Date - 13/01/2021 To 29/02/2021

Organized By - Jayshree Periwal Global School, Jaipur

Participants - Students of classes I & II

Highlight - Twelve students from classes I & II were selected to participate in this pan India quiz competition. Amogh Rathi of II Daisies qualified for the final rapid fire round.

Make Social Science Classes Most Interesting Using E? Learning

From Date - 27/01/2021 To 29/01/2021

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute

Resource Person - Ms Nithyapriya; Ms Philo Sumi

Participants - Ms. Aloka Sen Sharma

Highlight - It was interesting to learn about the different E Platforms that could be used for teaching. The Map Work learning through School Bhuvan was particularly interesting.

13th ED Leadership Round Table

Organized By - GETI (Global Education and Training Institute)- Learn

Resource Person - Innovation in quality management

Participants - Ms. Jayati Goswami, Ms. Meena Kak

Highlight - This virtual conference of solicitous and innovative conversations has created history and has redefined the efforts of GETI. In such a momentous year, when various socio?economic issues have fogged the way ahead for all, this summit  helped to become a guiding light for innovative, avant?garde, discerning and zealous educators.

Sustainability MasterClass

Organized By - AB InBev

Resource Person - Mr Ashwin Kak

Participants - Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami, Ms. Meena Kak

Highlight - Discussion on various facets of how Sustainability is gaining prominence amongst consumers and learning from the shared experiences of those who live it every day.

Abhilasha 2020 ? 21

Organized By - LSA

Participants - Students of Class VIII

Highlight - 28 schools from Poland, Georgia, Greece, Nepal, Bangladesh and our motherland met virtually with a common goal of Healing The World. Ms Sujata Sen, CEO of Future Hope was our Chief Guest. The off screen events Geo News, VIBGYOR, Ambrosia including Cadence were uploaded on the Abhilasha Blog and the quiz was conducted live via Kahoot. A unique endeavour where students shared and learned about the cultural heritage of their respective countries.

Blog Link - https://abhilasha2021.blogspot.com/

ICT Integration in Teaching of Geography

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms. Shalini Swarup

Participants - Ms. Mumu Mukherjee

Highlight - An effective workshop on use of ICT in Geography. Various Internet resources and links were provided.

Pariksha Pe Charcha

Organized By: CBSE and Government of India
Participants: Students from classes IX - XII ; Teachers and parents.
Highlight: 376 students, 32 teachers and 13 parents participated in the event by submitting write ups, poems, videos etc. Students of class XII Web Application stream prepared relevant video based on the theme “Exam stress during Covid 19”. They have enjoyed the process of editing/making videos which have been showcased in our school’s website. Teachers have voted for their videos to motivate them for such zealous initiatives and based on the voting the Top 5 videos were uploaded to the Facebook page of our school. All the participants had received certificates for completion of the activity.

International Informatics, Maths, GK and English Olympiad

From Date - 23/01/2021 To 25/01/2021

Organized By - Silverzone

Participants - Students of classes III ? XII

Highlight - 155 students from classes III – XII participated in the Informatics, English and GK Olympiads.  

Restore Old Bridges Vs Old Buildings

Organized By - Tales Talks Walks

Resource Persons -  Ms Neline Mondal & Ms Navpreet Arora

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight - This was a real eye opener as they gave an insight into the history of Bengal from a new perspective. The examples shared   during the presentation were from Kolkata and Bandel mainly, and the need to preserve old bridges.

Inter School Folk Song Competition

Organized By - Pariwar Milan

Participants - Prajakta Angelina Behera (V Asters)

Highlight - It was a wonderful experience and a well organised programme. There were 8 Schools in this competition and all of              them performed extremely well. We secured the 3rd position.

22nd Friday@5: Mathematicak Thinking is beyond Mathematics

Organized By - ICSL

Resource Person - Dr. Jonaki Ghosh, Mrs. Anita Sharma, Mrs. Meneka I Singh, Mrs. Priyadarshini Kelkar

Participants - Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight - Inculcation of Mathematical thinking through Conceptual Teaching was discussed.

Dance for Change

Organized By - AFS India

Resource Person - Ms. Virali Parekh

Participants - Aabha Pareek(VI?D)

Highlight - A famous Choreographer, Virali Parekh taught the participants the various nuances of fusion dancing.

Observance of Road Safety Month

From Date - 18/01/2021 To 17/02/2021

Organized By - CBSE – Circular 6

Participants - Students of LSA

Highlight - Road Safety month is being observed from 18^th January to 17^th February 2021 on the theme ‘Sadak Suraksha, Jeevan Raksha’. Students wrote poems, made videos of their artwork, prepared comic strips, wrote essays and slogans on road etiquettes and road safety. The best activities were uploaded in the google form link provided in the circular.

Mindler College Application & Course Selection

Organized By: Mindler
Participants: Class XI
Highlight: Creating and Drafting College Applications Indian and Overseas and for Selecting the right college and course

National Sahodaya Conference

Venue: Gwalior
Organized By: CBSE and Sahodaya Gwalior
Resource Person: Eminent Personalities
Participants: Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Jayati Goswami,
Highlight: An amalgamation of various ideas and thought processes of eminent personalities, giving an insight towards how to rediscover India @ 75

Understanding and Managing Adolescents

Organized By: Rainbow Foundation
Resource Person: Ms. Satya Pillai
Participants: Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms. Sumona DasGupta
Highlight: Understanding Adolescents and dealing with their issues and concerns in context with the pandemic situation.

Exam Preparatory Sahodaya

Organized By - Sahodaya

Resource Person - Ms. Priti Khandelwal

Participants - Ms. Mumu Mukherjee

Highlight - The webinar focused on common errors committed by students, tips on time management, certain good practices and the new question paper pattern.

Infotsav 2K21

From Date - 11/01/2021 To 15/01/2021

Organized By - Birla Bharati School

Participants - Students of Classes VI-XI

Highlight - Selected students participated in this IT fest and secured the 1st position in 4 events - PowerPoint presentation, Quiz, BOT designing and movie making competition. They secured the 2nd position in Tech fluidity based on coding.

Human Trafficking Webinar

Organized By: VIHAAN: A Project of Waste Management Society
Resource Person: Ms. Padmini Patla, Ms. Sumedha Pandit, Ms.Heenu Singh, Mr.Dhanesh Unnikrishnan
Participants: Middle School Students and teachers
Highlight: The video on human trafficking was an eye opener. It was an informative webinar with real-life stories, well-illustrated and innovative examples. The students were shown the bitter consequences of life where they had to be brave and defensive. The ways to get safe and be prepared for dreadful and harsh situations were specifically mentioned.

VIVARTAAN 2022

Organized By: Vijaybhoomi University
Resource Person: Dr. Attish Chattopadhyay, Prof. Kamolika Chakraborty, Ms. Smriti Bharti, Mr Sharman Joshi
Participants: Ms. J.Misra, Ms Poulomi Saha, Ms. Priyanka Das, Ms. Sarbani Saha Ghatak, Ms Puja Dubey
Highlight: The webinar was more about the success story in spite of not being a topper or maybe a backbencher in the beginning of climbing the staircase of their career. Education has different arenas and interests. It is actually more a student's interest and passion into a particular field or subject to outshine in his or her career. Interactive session with practical questions from different people of different backgrounds was an eye-opener. Education is all about holistic learning, about the choice, about how to grow up with one' s interest. We should balance our life in terms of our choices.

Celebration of Swami Vivekananda’s Birth Anniversary

Organized By : CBSE – Circular no 4

Participants : Students of LSA

Highlight : To celebrate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda as National Youth Day, special assemblies were held where students gave speeches, showed presentations on their beliefs on youth of India. All their efforts were posted on the LSA face book page and published in the e newsletter of January. 

Webinar Entrance Exam Selection & Interview Preparation

Organized By: Mindler
Resource Person: Mindler
Participants: Students of class XII
Highlight: Helping the students prepare well for Interviews, CV and Profile Building and Entrance Exam Selection/ Selection Process were discussed.

Google Certified Educator Level 1 Certification

From Date  - 29/12/2020 To 09/01/2021

Organized By - Super Teachers

Resource Person - Mr. Vasudevan

Participant - Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza

Highlight - A two week comprehensive Live Training programme for preparing educators for the Google Certified Educator Level?1 examination. We were apprised of various Google tools and their usage.

Bridging The Gap

Organized By - Trailblazers

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight - This webinar had a number of panellists from across the globe, and the focus was on the 'Gap Experience'. Various learning activities and projects that can be undertaken were shared.

Together for Education: Nurturing Explorers

Organized By - Notebook

Resource Persons - Mr P. Burrett, Ms S. Ahmed, Ms A. Razdan, Dr T. Mulchandani

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight - This webinar focused on the need for research-based projects in the school system that enable pupils and make them            future ready.

Interactive session with class IX students and teachers

Organized By - LSA Teachers

Participants - Teachers of Class IX & X

Highlight - A fruitful interaction with subject teachers and students, where they addressed concerns and difficulties faced by them in online classes.

Workshop on Experiential Learning

From Date - 05/01/2021 and 06/01/2021

Resource Person - Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Participants - Teachers of primary & middle school department

Highlight - Meeting was held with primary and middle school teachers where experiential learning was explained. It was emphasized that all learning should be project based, integrated with art, PE and ICT.

Vedic Math Learning System

Organized By - VMLS

Resource Person - Mr. Hardik Parikh and Ms. Paridhi Parikh

Participants - Students of classes VI & VII

Highlight - 22 students participated in the National Level Monthly Vedic Math Quiz. It helped to impart the knowledge of Vedic Maths and the techniques of solving mathematical calculations swiftly.

CBSE First Aid Training

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Doctors, Psychologist
Participants: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Informative session on Physical and Psychological First Aid

Pedagogy in Environmental Science

From Date - 01/09/2020 To 01/01/2021

Organized By - SWAYAM

Resource Person - Professor Kavita Sharma

Participants - Teachers of the Primary Section

Highlight - The teachers learnt innovative ways of teaching EVS.

Awareness Programme on Future PRIME: An e?Learning Platform on emerging technologies and professional skills

Organized By       Ministry of Electronics, NASSCOM and CBSE

Resource Person  NASSCOM representative

Participants          Teachers of IT Department 

Highlight - The platform uses technology where one can seamlessly access content, assessments, virtual labs and get certified on industry-defined skills.

Mathematics Workshop

Organized By - Jodo Gyan

Participants - Mathematics teachers of the Primary department

Highlight -  It was an enriching workshop which highlighted on the basic concepts of Fractions and Geometry. The workshop                   emphasized on the use of stories to generate interest among students.

Webinar on Exams

Organized by - Mindler

Resource Person - Mr. Dhanda

Participants - Students of classes X and XII

Highlight - Sessions were taken on how the students must face the present challenges and prepare for the forthcoming examinations and get rid of uncertainties they may have about board, Entrance and University exams

Special Assembly - Christmas Programme

Participants - Students of classes III – V

Highlight - A virtual Christmas celebration programme was organised for the students featuring a skit and dance   performances by the students. Teachers as well as the students sang Christmas songs and celebrated the true essence of Christmas, that is, the joy of sharing with others.

Pre - School Teaching

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - Delhi East?CBSE Online Session

Resource Person - Ms Anurodh Chitra

Participants - Ms Ranjini Chakravarty

Highlight - Educating the stakeholders in the present scenario and learning through the play?way method was emphasized on.

Webinar on security of question papers

Resource Person - Ms Meena Kak

Participants - Teachers of secondary department

Highlight - Teachers of the secondary department were cautioned on the security of exam question papers in the digital world where students seemed to be knowing more than teachers. They were apprised of strategies to keep their question papers secure in the following ways

-Question papers should be shared from the email id not known to others especially students. All were advised to create a new id to send papers to the exam department or HODs
-To give a strong password for the question paper that can't be traced easily by anyone
-Exam paper should not be kept in any shareable device.
-Question papers should not be in any sent folder of the mail but to be copied in a pen drive and kept safely
-Question papers sent for checking should be deleted from the sent folder of email id at the earliest

Special Assembly to celebrate FIT India week

Resource Person - PE Department along with IT department

Participants - Students of Primary and Middle school

Highlight - A special assembly was conducted for the Primary Section and the Middle School students to celebrate FIT INDIA campaign. All the students participated in the warming up exercises, stretching exercises and yoga in the junior school. A Sports quiz in kahoot was organised for the middle school students which all the students took part and enjoyed attempting the quiz on a virtual platform.

CBSE Expression Series

Organized By - CBSE

Participants - Students of Classes I – XII  

Highlight - Students participated in the CBSE EXPRESSION SERIES. They wrote articles, poems and also made paintings celebrating the unification with their paired state/UT, Ladakh. The best entries were uploaded on the CBSE website.

REGALIA 2020 – Interschool fest

Organized By - Asian International School

Participants - Students of classes III - VIII

Highlight - Students participated in various events like recitation, mono acting and painting. Tanay Gondi of 1B secured the third position in the recitation competition.

Post Card Diaries

Organized By - ThinkArtsGhoreBaire Museum

Participants - Students of Classes VI – IX

Highlight- In collaboration with the new GhoreBaire Museum Think Arts conducted workshops for students to make them more conscious about our Art heritage.

Spell Bee

Participants  - Students of Classes I – VIII

Highlight - 45 students qualified for second round of Spell Bee.

26th National Confluence of Sahodaya

Organized By - Bangalore Sahodaya Schools

Participants - Ms Meena Kak, Ms Anjali Chopra, Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The conference was a confluence of eminent personalities, CBSE officials and Educationists. Ms Anita Karwal, Secretary, School Education & Literary Ministry of Education, stressed on the need for schools to plan and prepare for NEP’20. Shri Manoj Ahuja, Chairman CBSE expounded the various aspects of NEP’20. The Hon’ble Minister of Education, Shri Ramesh Pokriyal released CBSE Manuals on Inclusive Education, Joyful Learning and Physical Education (IX & XII). There were various other sessions on Self Affirmation by (BK) Sister Shivani & webinars on Experiential learning & Art Integration.

Zoom In Zoom Out Using Sozi and Inkscape

Organized By - Bannari Amaan Institute of Technology

Resource Person - Mr Sajjan Philip

Participants - Ms Afshan Nahid

Highlight - The workshop dealt with creating presentation using Softwares, like Inkscape. These can be used for subjects like Science and Mathematics.

Making A Bird House

Resource Person - Mr. Darshan Singh Gill

Participants - Mr Chandrashekhar Das, Mr Raghunath Guchhayat, Mr Ravi Nayak with other Grade 4 staff.

Highlight - A competition was organised for the support staff to make bird houses with the discarded materials. They made beautiful bird houses with the waste materials which have been hung in different corners of our school ground.

Enhancing life skills ? coping with stress

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Mrs. Michelle Ganeshani

Participants - Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty

Highlight - The session focused on different relaxation techniques & exercises to develop life skills and cope with stress.

ATL Marathon 20

Organized By - ATL

Resource Person - Mr. Dipankar Pal

Participants - Students of classes VIII - XI

Highlight - It was a live event which helps students to move towards an Atma Nirbhar Bharat. It allows one to vote for the problems one are more passionate about.

Dealing with Misbehaviour in Class

Organized By - COE, Delhi West

Resource Person - Ms Neeta Rastogi

Participants - Mr Joy Chakraborty, Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty

Highlight - The resource person explained how to deal with students with inappropriate behavior in school, and be effective problem solvers.

Disaster Preparedness and Safety Course

From Date - 14/12/2020 To 19/12/2020

Organized By - Jadavpur University, Centre for Disaster Preparedness and Management, 24th Ashoka Group BS&G

Participants - Ms Anuradha Gupta

Highlight - The online multi?disciplinary course provided an understanding of natural hazards and disasters, knowledge of disaster mitigation, preparedness and response and recovery.

Happy Classroom: Happy Teachers creating Happy Spaces

Organized By - COE, Delhi West

Resource Person - Ms Vibha Khosla

Participants - Mr Joy Chakraborty

Highlight - The resource person discussed some techniques through which teachers can make themselves happy and stress free.

Survey of reducing weight of school bag

Organized By - LSA

Participants - Students of classes Montessori-VIII

Highlight - A survey was conducted for the parents of Montessori to Class VIII to take their suggestions on reducing the weight of the school bag and their opinion on digitization of text books.

Integrating the Arts for Inquiry Based Learning

Organized By - Oxford University Press

Resource Person - Ms Mansa Pande

Participants - Ms Anuradha Gupta

Highlight - The session emphasized on the ways in which inquiry-based learning leads to learning by doing through exploration. The learning of art is more than just drawing skills and includes appreciating art and understanding it and sharpening the eye of an artist in each child.

BP Global Stem

Organized By - AFS

Resource Person - AFS Kolkata

Participants - Shrishti Maheshwari (XII?A)

Highlight - Shrishti Maheshwari's parents presented a beautiful zoom presentation about their home, and celebrations in their house. This was showcased to the BP Global US participants.

The National All Round Championship by Kidex

From Date - 07/12/2020 To 28/02/2021

Organized By - Kid.ex.com an initiative of ATL

Resource Person - Mr. Dipankar Pal

Participants - 140 students from PSI-XII of LSA

Highlight - 10 students from each class was chosen to registered in various activities conducted grade wise. They would be going through different activities and the uploading their activity by 28^th February, 2021

Interdisciplinary Talent Search

Organized By - JKLU Genius Academy

Resource Person - Niti Ayog’s Atal Innovation and JKLU

Participants - Students of classes IX - XII

Highlight - It is India’s first interdisciplinary Talent Development Initiative which encourages students to innovate in Technology Design and Business. Students will have the to know about their own aptitude and the theme this year is Innovation for the new Normal which includes working, learning, Entertainment, Home, Business Health in the new normal. Selected ideas will receive a prize of Rs. 5 lakhs.

Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan

Organized By - VYM Core Committee

Participants - Students of classes 3-12

Highlight - The objective of the organisation is to create interest amongst students and educate school children about India’s contributions from tradition to modern, to the world of science and technology. Students registered to participate in Guinness World Records Attempt activity.

Online Geography using Google Earth and ISRO Bhuvan

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Resource Person - ISRO

Participants - Ms. Jaya Misra, Ms. Poulomi Saha, Ms. Mumu Mukherjee

Highlight - Learned the ways of mapping through various techniques. Chloropleth, Zoning, Shading and Drainage Systems were effectively shown.

Virtual 25th Founder’s Day Programme

Organized By - LSA

Highlight - Founder’s Day is traditionally one of the most important day in the school calendar, a day when all teachers, students and staff come together to commemorate the birth anniversary of Lala Lakshmipat Singhania, the founder of our esteemed  institution. An atmosphere of celebration took over as always, only this time, it was on a virtual platform instead of the stage of Kala Mandir. Being the 25th year of our school, all the students and staff were set to make this year's commemoration one to remember.

Beginning with a heart-warming song by students of the middle school section, the event proceeded with the ceremonial lighting of the lamp. The inspiring words of our very own director, Ma’am Meena Kak and the presentation of the annual report by Principal, Ms. Anjali Chopra followed. We were also graced with the presence of honourable Chairman of the Lakshmipat Singhania Education Foundation, Shri Bharat Hariji Singhania and the President of the Executive Committee of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Shrimati Shardaji Singhania. Our chief guest for the occasion was Dr. Nakul Parashar, Director, Vigyan Prasar. In his address, he motivated and inspired the students to think critically and innovate. Shri Bharat Hariji Singhania inspired the students to introspect and gear up for the upcoming challenges in the new world following the pandemic. His words were a motivation for the students to stay strong and give in their best. Even amidst these tough times, students put up a spectacular one-of-a-kind skit blended with recitations, dance performances and symphonies performed by students each making the best of technology. Overall, it was the sheer passion of all that helped us overcome all obstacles and make this event a grand success. ??

LSA MUN 2020

From Date - 04/12/2020 To 05/12/2020

Organized By - LSA

Participants - Students of 32 renowned schools of Kolkata

Highlight - LSAMUN 2020 was the sixth instalment. LSAMUN is a high school conference that has attracted delegates from across the city and the country. Over a period of two days, students assume the role of delegates representing various countries and debate on diverse topics of global importance. Apart from gaining confidence to articulate on global issues, students also familiarize themselves with the nuances of world politics. This year the students discussed on a wider paradigm of subjects like the situations of the middle east, status of minority in Asia, Electoral violence and political instability in Africa, formulating the roadmap post the covid pandemic in Europe, covering the situation in USA respectively.

Virtual State Level Astronomy Camp

From Date - 04/12/2020 To 06/12/2020

Organized By - Bharat Scouts & Guides, West Bengal

Participants - Students of Class IV

Highlight - The camp focused on activity?oriented learning. Participants enjoyed the star gazing activity & were exposed to various facts about outer space.

Preparation of forth coming Board exams

From Date - 03/12/2020 and 14/12/2020                            

Organized By - LSA

Resource Person - Ms. Meena Kak

Participants - Students of class X and XII

Highlight - Sessions were taken with the students of classes X & XII on how they must face the present challenges and prepare for the forthcoming examinations.

Cambridge School’s Conference - Senior Leadership

Organized By - Cambridge Assessment International Education

Resource Person - Ms Anna Smith, Mr Lee Davis, Ms Helen Morgan, Ms Ainee Shehzad

Participants - Ms  Jaya Misra

Highlight - The webinar focused on various techniques to improve the teaching ? learning and Assessments. Learnt about new collaborative tools like Padlet.com and Collaborative Blackboard.

Pedagogy of Languages

From Date  - 01/12/2020 To 15/12/2020

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Nishtha

Participants - Teachers of the Primary Section

Highlight - The course aimed to familiarise teachers with the approach of integrated skills and competencies for literacy and language   learning, engaging children in context based and continuous assessment.

Pedagogy of Science and Social Science

From Date - 01/12/2020 To 15/12/2020                              

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Nishtha

Participants - Teachers of the Primary Section

Highlight - In this course, the focus was to facilitate more feasible and efficient teaching learning of science and Social science through activities and experiential learning.

Reduction in syllabus and everything you need to know about it

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - Times of India

Resource Person - Mr Anurag Tripathi, Mr. Mahesh Bala Krishnan, Ms.Meeta Sengupta, Ms.Tanisha Johi

Participants - Teachers of IT department

Highlight  - The logic behind removal of some portions of the syllabus and how to go about   the syllabus for the upcoming board examinations were discussed.

Naya Bharat - eSeries

Venue                          Online via Webex

Organized By               Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan (Ministy of Education, Govt. Of India) & IIT Delhi

Resource Person         Shri Sadguru, Dr Dhir Jhingaran, Ms Anuradha Joshi

Participants                 All the teachers of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

Highlight                      All our teachers attended this inaugural ceremony to get enriched and enlightened by the words of wisdom from Shri Sadguru. The panelists shared their best practices with a focus on 'Importance of Early Education in the Mother Tongue'.

B W Top Education Leadership - Summit

Organized By - Business World

Resource Person - Mrs Meena Kak, Mr Vinesh Menon, Mr Sanjay Hooda, Ms Rupa Chakravarty, Dr Vidukesh Vimal

Highlight - There was a panel discussion on 'Reclaiming Lost Learning due to COVID 19, the road ahead.' All the panelists shared their views on how these challenging times will bring about changes in the days ahead and the training that parents and teachers would require to deal with this generation.

If I made a Film

Venue                          Zoom

Organized By               Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata

Resource Person         Think Arts

Participants                 Students of class XI D

Highlight                      They learnt the importance of being sensitive & how to deal with transgenders.

Friday@5Building Teacher - Students Relationships

Venue                          Zoom

Organized By               International Council for School Leadership

Resource Person         Mr Atul Nischal, Dr. Sangeeta Arora

Participants                Ms Jaya Misra, Ms Poulomi Saha

Highlight                   Learned various ways of engaging students in class and to make the class more interactive and interesting.

Workshop on Empowering your team

From Date - 09/10/2020 & 24/10/2020

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Mr. Anirodh Chitra

Participants - Teachers of Primary section

Highlight - The resource person explained the importance of having a strong team and leading the team to success by spreading positive vibes.

Mindfulness of a Leader

From Date                   21/11/2020     To       22/11/2020                      

Venue                          IIM KHOZIKODE

Organized By               IIM KHOZIKODE

Resource Person         Dr. Debashish Chatterjee

Participants                 Ms Anjali Chopra, Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight                      A well known educationist and an author of many books Dr. Debashish Chatterjee took an enlightening session for School leaders on mindfulness of a leader.

International Education Week

From Date                   16/11/2020 To 20/11/2020

Organized By               GEIST International Foundation

Resource Person         Resource persons from USA, Ukraine, Vietnam, Tanzania, Brazil, Nepal, Bangladesh, India

Participants                 Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight                      Educators from across the globe discussed on topics like Women Leadership, Education for Global Citizenship,     Voice of the Voiceless, Global Learning Connections, Moving towards International Education.

Transform Early Mathematics Learning Using Technology

Venue                        Webinar

Organized By              CBSE Bharath Sahodaya and matific joint webinar

Resource Person         Raz Kupferman

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight                      The vision of Matific platform is to inculcate critical thinking, provide every child with a mathematical experience, develop a sense of capability, curiosity and playfulness.

Asia Kakehashi Pre Departure Orientation

Venue                          Delfi Online

Organized By               AFS India

Resource Person         Ms. Divya Arora

Participants                 Ashlesha Bhagat (XI_A)

Highlight - Ashlesha Bhagat has been selected for the AFS Japan Kakehashi Programme whereby she has received a 3 months scholarship from the Government of Japan. An orientation session was held by AFS for all the participants before their departure to Japan.

Training on Positive Mindful Mantras for fighting stress

Organized By               COE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person         Dr. Sangeet Sharma

Participants                 Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta

Highlight            Taught us to be positive in life. Practicing mindful meditation will help being positive in life amidst the stress.

Stress Management Technique

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Dr. Pramod Kumar

Participants                 Ms  Amritah Sen

Highlight                      The resource person discussed the various Reasons of stress and how to handle it. He gave examples from     classic texts, Sanskrit verses and Urdu poetry.

Art Integration by Nishtha

From Date                   01/11/2020 To 15/11/2020

Venue                          Diksha Portal

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Nishtha

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight   - The integration of art was taught in details. The instructor discussed on the importance of holistic development of students.

Integrating Gender in the Teaching Learning Process

From Date                   01/11/2020 To 15/11/2020

Venue                          DIKSHA Portal

Organized By               NCERT

Resource Person         Nishtha

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight       The course focused on a new outlook in teaching learning pedagogy through exclusion of stereotypical approaches and gender biasness.

Integration of ICT in Teaching Learning and Assessment

From Date                   01/11/2020 To 15/11/2020

Venue                          Diksha Portal

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Nishtha

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight                      The course modules comprised of many interesting videos and inter- active quizzes to make teaching learning more engaging and interactive for the students.

Children’s day celebration

Participants                 Teachers of Primary and Pre-primary department

Highlight                     Children enjoyed watching the video compiled by the teachers in celebration of children’s day.

Creating a culture of Mathematics Learning

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               COE  Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         Ms Tulika Samal

Participants                 Ms Ranjini Chakravarty

Highlight                      The session discussed concrete ways to encourage, motivate and excite students to learn Maths and ways           to develop curiosity and creativity and integrate it with other subjects.

Nurturing Creativity

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Mrs. Vipin Sharma

Participants                 Ms Amritah Sen

Highlight                      She emphasized on Teachers keeping an open mind and a positive mindset to welcome new ideas, appreciate out of the box approaches to encourage children to take their own decisions and speak their minds, which eventually enhances creativity.

Art Appreciation for Children: Challenges & Solutions

Organized By               Thinkarts

Resource Person         Prof Soumik Nandy Majumdar

Participants                 Ms Amritah Sen

Highlight - It was an intense session discussing the possibilities, needs and difficulties faced in applying Art appreciation at different levels in schools. He focused on the heritage of one’s own visual art culture as well as the world view.

Art Competition for Bulbuls

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               South Calcutta Local Association

Resource Person         The Bharat Scouts and Guides, Kolkata District Association

Highlight                    Our students participated in the art competition and received Certificates of Appreciation.

Workshop on how to Organise Virtual Pack and Troop Meetings

Organized By               Kolkata District Association,Bharat Scouts & Guides, West Bengal

Resource Person          Mr Smriti Sourabh Ray, Mr Kaushik Chatterjee, Mr Bhuvan Babu and Mr Sandipan Chowdhury

Participants                 Teachers in charge of Cubs & Bulbuls

Highlight - Fundamentals of good planning for virtual ‘pack’ and ‘troop’ meetings were discussed in details.

Mental Health Awareness

Organized By               AFS India

Resource Person         Ms Priti Modi

Participants                 Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Ms Sumona Dasgupta

Highlight   Discussed the importance of mental health specially in this pandemic, acknowledging that mental health issue is as important as any other illness.

YES Abroad 2nd Virtual Meet

Organized By               AFS India

Resource Person         AFS

Participants                 Mahey Jain (VIIA)

Highlight                      USA meets India. Mahey Jain and her family met their host from USA Isabelle Richard over a 45 minutes zoom call to interact with her personally and celebrate the festival of lights.

AFS East Principals Meet

Organized By               AFS India

Resource Person         Ms. Divya Arora, National Director

Participants                 Ms Anjali Chopra, Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight -  Ms Meena Kak , President of AFS Kolkata chapter  is also HEAD of the East Zone AFS. Ms Kak welcomed the    dignitaries and the school principals of 9 schools of the East zone. The meeting was then taken forward with members of AFS India and the National Director. All activities of past and future were discussed and the meeting concluded with a SWOT analysis done by Ms Kak.

Critical and Creative Thinking Fostering Critical Literacy

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         COE Delhi East

Participants                 Ms Arwah Hussain Deesawala, Ms Khadija Aamir Choonawala

Highlight                      The resource person stressed on the inclusion of Experiential earning, co-curricular and art activities for critical and creative thinking needed for the overall development of each student.

Cultural grip over virtual trip 2020 between India and Sri Lanka

Organized By               AFS

Resource Person         AFS

Participants                 Ms Nabamita Dutta Gupta

Highlight                      Virtual trip of Sri Lanka focusing on their art forms, places to visit, food, and cultural heritage.

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

From Date                   01/10/2020 To 31/10/2020          

Organized By               Students and Teachers of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

Participants                 Students of Class III – XII

Highlight                      Academy celebrated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020 with the theme “Do Your Part.           #BeCyberSmart.” Events like awareness workshop by the industry experts, game based learning _ Safe online Surfing from FBI website, awareness poster, awareness drive, skits were organised for students, teachers, staffs and parents.

Health and Well Being in schools

From Date                   16/10/2020 To 31/10/2020        

Venue                          Diksha Portal

Organized By               NCERT

Participants                 Teachers of Primary Section

Highlight                     A comprehensive course which elaborated on emotional, mental and physical well-being, and the needs of special children in an inclusive classroom set up.

New Education Policy Important points

Organized By   COE Nioda

Resource Person         Ms Swapna Nair

Participants     Ms Manidipa Lahiri

Highlight   Explained the important points of New Education Policy.

Stress Management

Organized By               COE Bhuwaneshwar

Resource Person         Dr. Sangeet Sharma

Participants        Ms  Nabamita Dutta Gupta

Highlight - The session was on how to distinguish between the different sources of stress and ways to manage stress through hobbies, yoga and meditation.

Curriculum and inclusive classrooms

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Diksha

Participants - Teachers of Pre-Primary Section

Highlight -  A very impactful course on the curriculum of a classroom. The NEP policies related to the curriculum were also discussed.

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangthan Developing Personal Social Qualities

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         Diksha

Participants                 Ms Teresa Gomes

Highlight                      The Course focused on developing interpersonal relations.

CBSE Workshop on Stress and Burnout

Organized By               COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         Mr. Arvind Shrivastava

Participants                 Ms Swati Banerjee

Highlight - Various causes of stress for school teachers and students and the ways to overcome the stress were discussed.

Enhancing Life Skill Creative Thinking

Organized By               COE Noida

Resource Person         Ms. J. Ramachandran

Participants -  Ms Manidipa Lahiri

Highlight - Activity oriented webinar which focused on life skills and the need for teachers to be creative and innovative.

Webinar on Cooperative Learning

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               COE Bhubhenshwar

Resource Person         Ms Seema Chaudhury

Participants                 Ms Priti Kedia, Ms Ranjini Chakravarty

Highlight                      The session taught every aspect of Cooperative Learning.

Online Training Session on Teaching of Literature in Language Classroom Poetry

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               CBSE COE Patna

Resource Person         Shri. Vahinipati Anand Kumar

Participants                 Ms Sohini Mitra Jain

Highlight                      The workshop focused on the importance and the nuances of teaching poetry at different levels.

Teaching mathematics using technology

Venue                          Google Meet

Organized By               CoE Noida

Resource Person         Mr V.K. Mishra (Principal DPS, Bareilly UP)

Participants                 Mr Soumitra Maji

Highlight - Different tools of teaching, technological & pedagogical content, were discussed.

Workshop on Teaching Strategies/ Methodologies in Science

Organized By               CBSE

Resource Person         CBSE

Participants                 Ms Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight                      The workshop was based on Teaching Science using the concept of Bionics.

MANODARPAN an online Art Exhibition

From Date                   18/10/2020 To 27/10/2020

Event                           MANODARPAN an online Art Exhibition

Organized By               Art Department of LSA

Participants                 Students of Classes X – XII

Highlight           An online art exhibition was organized where the artworks of our students were featured on the school facebook page.

CBSE Webinar Strategies for A Happy classroom

Venue                         Online

Organized By               COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person         Ms. Laxmibati Das

Participants                 Ms Shubhasree Das Gupta

Highlight  - The session discussed how teachers can maintain a perfect balance between fun and work in order to enhance the happiness quotient.

Health and Physical Education

Organized By  - CBSE

Resource Person  - Mr Vahinipati Anand Kr.

Participants - Mr Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty, Mr Joy Chakraborty

Highlight  - Discussion on the development and care of the body, calisthenic exercises, hygiene, and athletic games.

Training on foundation of learning

Venue                          Google meet

Organized By               CBSE (COE Patna)

Resource Person         Ms Subhoshree Sarkar

Participants                 Ms Teresa Gomes

Highlight                      The principles of NEP in relation to school education were discussed.

The Creative Building Blocks of Problem Solving

Venue  - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE COE Noida

Participants - Ms Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight  An effective session which elaborated on problem solving and ways to encourage our learners to think out of the box and innovate.

GITA class

From Date - 17/10/2020 To 24/10/2020

Venue - Pune Online

Organized By - SUSAMSKAR Foundation

Resource Person - ISKCON

Participants - Teachers

Highlight - Lessons on basics of the Bhagwat Gita will be conducted every Saturday.

AFS Global Conference

From Date - 22/10/2020 To 23/10/2020

Venue - Paris Online

Organized By - AFS India

Resource Person - AFS EuropeE

Participants - Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Anjali Chopra, Ms. Jayati Goswami

Highlight - The main highlights were critical thinking, empathy, focus on education, Importance of Intercultural competence, learning       of life skills and importance of virtual exchanges.

Storytelling as Pedagogy

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - CBSE Training Portal

Resource Person - Ms. Vasanthi Thiagarajan

Participants - Ms Asfia Rafique

Highlight - Storytelling as an important pedagogical tool to strengthen concepts, examine perspectives etc. was explained.

Super Teacher's Fast Track Course

From Date - 17/10/2020 To 21/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - Super Teachers Edureforms

Resource Persons - Mr Sai Ram Paleti, Ms Shwetha, Mr. Vasudevan Natrajan

Participants - Teachers of all sections

Highlight - This was a 15 hour course on Online Teaching Tools and Resources which covered topics like Assessments with Quizzes, remote proctoring, Augmented Reality Vs Virtual Reality in Education, Student engagement platforms and various resources available on the Web planet.

Webinar On NEP 2020‑School Education Curriculum and pedagogy

Venue - Online

Organized By - LSA

Resource Person - Mrs. Meena Kak

Participants - All Teachers

Highlight - NEP 2020 was discussed step by step in a simple way. Important points were discussed. Necessary contents which are required for making pedagogy were also discussed.

NIRANTAR AFS Quiz

From Date -19/10/2020 To 20/10/2020

Venue - Kolkata, Online

Organized By - AFS Kolkata

Participants - Pranav Choudhury (XII‑B), Shrishti Maheshwari(XII‑A)

Highlight - AFS INDIA asked our school to host the EAST ZONE AFS QUIZ. We prepared a quiz on UNO and SDGs and the quiz was conducted by the Head boy (AFS KAKEHASHI ALUMNI) and Head Girl (AFS Host Family).

Experiential Learning ‑ NEED OF THE HOUR

Venue - Online

Organized By - COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Dr. Sankar Prasad Dutta

Participants - Teachers

Highlight - Aim of Experiential learning was shared. The difference between experiential learning and hands on activities was beautifully explained.

Workshop on Classroom Management

From Date - 05/10/2020 & 19/10/2020

Venue - Virtual Platform ‑ Zoom

Organized By - CoE ‑ Delhi East

Resource Persons - Ms. Priyanka Bhatkoti, Mr Madan Sawhney

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The workshop was quite interactive and importance of classroom management were discussed.

Assessment in Science

Venue - Online

Organized By - CoE, Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Mr Subhamay Banerjee

Participants - Ms S. Anandhi

Highlight - The purpose of taking different kind of assessments to monitor the progress of students was discussed.

Bhashik kaushal avam unka sikshan

Venue  - Online

Organized By - COE Delhi

Resource Person - Dr. Nirmal Popli

Participant - Ms Anurag Sultania

Highlight - The session explained the importance of using the correct language form in the correct place and in the correct way.

Decoding Portfolio and Subject Enrichment activities

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - CoE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person - Ms. Apala Chakraborty

Participants - Ms S. Anandhi

Highlight - The resource person had a detailed discussion on portfolio, and also on subject enrichment activities such as Surveys and case studies, Field Trips etc.

Pathways to Global Classrooms

From Date - 12/10/2020 To 17/10/2020

Venue - INDORE Online

Organized By - AFS India

Resource Person - Mrs Sarita Badhwar

Participants - Teachers

Highlight - It was an interactive workshop spanning three days which gave our educators information about AFS. It explored the            meaning of culture along with the different metaphors used to define culture.

FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: Exploring Art of Chittaprasad

Venue - Online

Organized By - Victoria Memorial & Dag with Think arts

Participants - Students of classes VI – IX

Highlight - Students enjoyed the workshop and were impressed to experience Chittaprasad's Art.

Classroom management - dealing with misbehaviour in class.

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE‑COE‑Pune

Resource Person - Mr Sasmita Mohanty

Participants - Mr. Bijay Raj Shaw

Highlight - The positive approach that should be adopted by the teacher was explained.

Pre - School Teaching

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - COE Bhubaneswar

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The training session was interactive and included various aspects of preschool teaching.

Application of Life Skills in our daily life

Venue - Online Session

Organized By - COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Ms Lizarani Das

Participants - Ms. Anindita Pal, Mr. Arnab Bhattacharya

Highlight - It was an interactive session and it highlighted the various life skills needed to be applied in our daily lives.

IRiS (Psychology Fest)

From Date  - 16/10/2020 To 17/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - Psychology students of XI – XII  

Participants - Students of various schools

Highlight - Eleven schools participated in this virtual fest.

Innovative pedagogy in Science ‑ Experiential Learning

Venue - Webinar

Organized By - CoE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person - Ms Apala Chakraborty

Participants - Teachers of Science of the middle section

Highlight - The resource person had a detailed discussion how to encourage students to practice collaborative and cooperative learning.

Enhancing Practical skills and Projects In Science

Venue - Online

Organized By - COE Allahabad

Resource Person - Mr. Gautam Mishra

Participants - Teachers of Science of the middle & senior section

Highlight - Ways to conduct practicals and Projects and the learning outcomes were explained.

Raamcharitmanas Sturi Gayan Competition

 From Date  - 03/10/2020 To 14/10/2020

 Venue - Zoom meeting

 Organized By - Pariwar Milan

 Resource Person - Mrs Durga Vyas

 Participants - Manvi Bajaj – 6C

Highlight - Manavi Bajaj of 6C secured the second position in this competition amongst 8 participants from various schools. It helped students to connect with their roots and know more about Hindu religion and Ramayan.

Madhyamik shtar par Hindi Bhasha main aaklan

Venue - Online Session

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Dr.Madan Singh Rawat

Participants - Ms Radhika Shaw

Highlight - It helped in the enhancement of Hindi speaking and learning process.

CBSE FMM Training Subject code 405

From Date - 10/10/2020 To 13/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE & NSE Academy

Resource Person - NSE Academy

Participants - Mr  Bijay Raj Shaw

Highlight - Great lecture on FFM and Investments. Could understand a lot about trading of shares. The application used by them was easy to operate.

Priority Management

Venue - Online Session

Organized By - CoE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person - Ms Seema Choudhury

Participants - Ms Aloka Sen Sharma, Ms Sweta Chakraborty

Highlight  - The session emphasised on setting of long and short term goals.

Happy Classroom: Happy Teachers creating Happy Spaces

From Date - 10/10/2020 and 12/10/2020

Venue - Online Google Meet

Organized By - COE. Pune

Resource Persons - Dr. Majula Nair , Principal, PR Pote Patil International School

Participants - Ms. Mitali Mukhopadhyay, Ms. Amrita Himatsingka

Highlight - The webinar focussed on the influence of teachers who are happy, content and satisfied and talked about the fact that children learn better if the classrooms where theya re learning is a happy one!

Application of life skills in day to day life

Venue -  Virtual

Organized By - COE Noida

Resource Person - Ms.Lisa Roy

Participants - Pimary Teachers

Highlight - Emphasis was given on four pillars of learning that is learning to know, live together, to do and to be.

CBSE Workshop on Mindfulness

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms Monika Mohan

Participants - Ms Afshan Nahid

Highlight - Resource person explained the importance of keeping oneself stress free and managing life peacefully.

Learn2Code ‑ coding certificate programme

Venue - Online

Organized By - LSA and Learn2Code

Resource Person - Learn2Code

Participants - Students of Class XI

Highlight - Students of XI Web Application have been introduced to this 15 days (at their own pace) certificate course in coding.

AFS Panel Discussion on GCC

Venue - Jammu Online

Organized By - AFS

Resource Person - AFS India

Participants - Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight - Ms Jayati Goswami was invited as a panelist for a panel discussion on Global Competence Certificate.

CBSE Workshop on NEP 2020: Empowering Teachers

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE CoE Patna

Resource Person - Ms. Shanti Singh

Participants - Ms. Sudeshna Chowdhury

Highlight - A comprehensive overview of the newly formulated National Education Policy was given along with its transformative aims.

Innovative Pedagogy in English

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Mr Ravi Sharma

Participants - Ms Runa Ghosh

Highlight - It was an interesting session where strategies to promote experiential learning were discussed.

How to conduct Assessments online?

Venue - Online

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Resource Person - Ms Sinduja M.E.

Participants - Teachers

Highlight - This workshop was extremely helpful as it made us aware of the additional features of Google Form.

Capacity Building Programme on Career Guidance and school

From Date - 03/10/2020 & 09/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE. Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Ms. Binapani Das

Participants - Teachers of Senior section

Highlight - Career guidance session was informative. 

Workshop on Coding

From Date  - 05/10/2020 To 09/10/2020

Venue - Online on Teams

Resource Person - Ms Purabi Banerjee

Participants - Students of Classes VI – XII

Highlight - A total of 280 students attended the workshop on coding.

INFINITY 2029/ WHAT'S YOUR IDEA?

From Date - 05/10/2020 To 09/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - Infinity Tech Education

Participants - Students of class VIII – XI

Highlight - 8 team entries and 2 individual entries of business ideas based on the themes given were sent by students. They learned how to pitch the business ideas by dividing into the three basic categories of Problem, Motivation and Solution.

Managing Virtual Classes

Venue - Online ‑ Google Meet

Organized By - COE ‑ Delhi East

Resource Person - Ms. Archana Narain

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The session was made interesting and interactive by emphasising the need for effective teaching & learning in classrooms.

The Art and Craft of Mathematics-- Fun with Maths

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE COE Delhi East

Resource Person - Ms. Ishita Mukherjee

Participants - Ms. Shilpi Sett

Highlight - She taught how to integrate Mathematics with art and make it interesting for the children.

Enhancing Life Skill‑ Self Awareness

Venue - Online Session

Organized By - COE ‑ Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Ms. Sapna Bhalla

Participants - Ms. Aloka Sen Sharma

Highlight - The training emphasised on self-concept through self-assessment activities like meditation, discipline, listening to music or enjoying hobbies etc.

Webinar on Hindi Bhasha ke Navachari Shikshan

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms Ekta Bajpayee

Participants - Ms. Puja Dubey

Highlight - How art and experiential learning may be incorporated in Hindi teaching was conveyed clearly.

COE – Training – Teaching Strategies and Methodologies

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE COE - Panchkula

Resource Person - Dr. Neeru Arora

Participants - Ms. Sunitha R. Dey

Highlight - The resource person suggested some easy strategies to enhance speaking skills among the students.

CBSE Workshop in Accountancy

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - Centre of Excellence, Delhi East

Resource Person - Mr Jagat Narayan Mehra

Participants - Ms. Swati Banerjee

Highlight  - Detailed discussion was held on changes implemented in project and practical examination in Accountancy in Classes XI and XII.

How to create an effective presentation using MS PowerPoint for online teaching with audio and video editing tools

Venue - Online

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Resource Person - Ms. Sannyasi Chakravarthy

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The importance of making online classes more engaging and effective for the students using MS PowerPoint was explained.

Pre - School Teaching

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE COE Delhi East

Participants - Ms. Shilpi Seth

Highlight - The workshop focused on the basics of preschool teaching (virtually) which will be very helpful during this pandemic as         it will help us to manage the online classes well. The presentation was well conducted and was very informative.

Understanding Bloom's Taxonomy and Its Application in English

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms. Meenakshi Duarah, Headmistress, Delhi Public School, ONGC

Participants - Ms. Sohini Mitra Jain

Highlight - The workshop focussed on various questions and activities that can be designed by language teachers to help the students to remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create from the acquired knowledge.

Webinar on Ethics-- Role of teachers and elders

Venue - Online ‑ Google meet

Organized By - CBSE, COE Delhi (West)

Resource Person - Mrs. Alka Kapoor‑Principal Modern Public School

Participants - IT Teachers

Highlight - The role of a teacher or any elder in developing ethics among children was discussed through various case studies.                

Effective utilisation of Google Classroom

Venue -  Online session on Zoom

Organized By - Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Resource Persons - Mr Sajjan P.Philip, Ms. Sannasi Chatterjee

Participants - Teachers of Middle & Senior sections

Highlight - How to use Google classroom for taking classes effectively, assigning homework, classwork, how to give rights to the users to edit the assigned work and send it easily.

Workshop on Dealing with misbehaviour in Classrooms

Venue - Online session

Organized By - COE ‑ Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person - Ms. Jhinuk Dutta Ray

Participants - Primary Teachers

Highlight - The session was interesting as different teaching procedures based on Harry Wong's principles were explained.

CBSE Workshop on Essential of Lesson Plan (English)

Venue - Google Meet

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Mr. Vivek Tiwari

Participant - Ms Sudeshna Chowdhury

Highlight - The meaning of lesson plan along with its need, importance and components were discussed.

Enhancing Life Skills: Critical Thinking

Venue - Google Meet: Online

Organized By - COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person - Mr. Sushil Kumar Sinha

Participants - Ms. Kulbir Kaur, Ms. Poulomi Saha

Highlight  - How students should enhance their life skills, interpret, interfere, explain,solve  problems, self-regulate the situation and cope up with was explained.

Nurturing Creativty

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE COE(Patna)

Resource Person - Mrs Vipin Sharma

Participants - IT Teachers

Highlight - In this session the presenter discussed project based teaching, where students can use creativity to understand the subject.

Super School Leadership Program

Venue - Online

Resource Person - Mr. Bhanuprasad

Participants - Mrs. Meena Kak, Mrs. Anjali Chopra, Mrs. Jayati Goswami,

Highlight - It was a micro‑workshop for school leaders for sustainable Hybrid schooling.

Teaching strategies and methodologies in English

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Ms Swapna Nair

Participants - Ms. Runa Ghosh

Highlight - The workshop focused on the various strategies that can be used in the classroom to enhance listening skills.

CTiS 2020 ‑ Conference on Computational Thinking in Schools Confirmation

From Date -  02/10/2020 To 03/10/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CSpathsala

Resource Person - Prof Jeannette M Wing, Prof Sridhar Iyer

Participants - IT Teachers

Highlight  - The conference featured presentations of selected abstracts with sessions on implementation of computational thinking, fun activities and innovative examples used by teachers in classrooms.

Workshop on Stress Management Techniques

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE

Resource Person - Dr. Rakesh Sachdeva

Participants - Primary and Pre primary teachers

Highlight - Definition and meaning of stress and the copying mechanisms were discussed.

Host Family Meet

Venue - USA Online

Organized By - AFS USA

Resource Person - Volunteers

Participants - Mahey Jain & her family

Highlight - Mahey Jain and her family presented a beautiful presentation about their family, school and Kolkata to orient Isabelle Richard. She is our host student for this year's US ABROAD.

NSLV ‑Y AFS PROGRAM

From Date - 03/10/2020 To 06/10/2020

Venue - USA(Online)

Organized By - AFS India

Resource Person - AFS Volunteers

Participants - Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight - In order to showcase Indian Cuisine, our AFS Volunteer Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya recorded a video on Bengali fish curry and explained the preparation and the ingredients. This video will be showcased at the NSLV‑Y Program of AFS, USA

Menstrual Hygiene Training Programme for Girls

Venue - Microsoft Teams

Organized By - UNICHARM

Resource Person - Ms. Roshni Bhowmick & Vidya Ma’am

Participants - Students of Class VI ‑ VII

Highlight - The sessions provided health education for adolescent girls and enlightened them with necessary safety measures to be        followed.

NSHM Y Frames 3.0

Venue - Facebook Streamyard

Organized By - NSHM

Resource Person - Bichitra Pathshala

Participants - Students of Class XI

Highlight -  The Academy's film 'ILISH FINISH' was premiered at the festival. Director Harshvardhan Jalan had joined in a chat with  moderator Mr. SV Raman.

Cyber safe with Saket Modi

Venue - Online via Zoom

Resource Person - Mr Saket Modi, Co-founder & CEO of Lucideus

Participants - Students of class VIII to XI & Parents

Highlight - This session was conducted as a part of the National Cyber Security Awareness month. This was an endeavour to keep our students and parents cyber safe.

Duties for School Children: Strive for excellence

Venue - Online: YouTube channel

Organized By - Atal Innovation Mission

Resource Person - Mr.R.Ramana, Mr.Niraj Kumar Gayagi, Ms Dola Banerjee

Participants - Ms. Poulomi Saha, Students of middle and senior sections

Highlight - Discussion on Citizen's duties for school children, how one can promote good wealth and healthcare facilities and sanitation to remote areas, sense of responsibility, to empathize with everybody.                             .

Gandhi Jayanti

Venue - Online

Participants - Students of classes Preschool - XII

Highlight - The 150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma was celebrated by the students from Pre Primary to the Senior Secondary section with great enthusiasm.

Workshop on Emotional Intelligence

Venue : Online

Organized By : COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person : Mr. Arvind Shrivastava

Participants : Ms. Priti Kedia

Highlight : The importance of Emotional Intelligence in our lives as compared to Intelligent Quotient was explained.

Clothes Donation Drive

Participants : Students of Classes PS II to V

Highlight : The Academy organised a clothes donation drive for Hope Foundation – home for the underprivileged.

Understanding the need of Adolescent Education

Venue : Google Meet

Organized By : CBSE ‑ COE Delhi East

Resource Person : Ms. Bhavika Gidwani

Participants : Ms. Sourina Bose

Highlight : Fabulous insights on how to deal with both the male and the female students in the classroom

Learning & Practicing Gratitude ‑ The Purpose of Life

Venue : Online

Organized By : Aditya Birla Education Academy Masterclass

Resource Person : Dr Vasudha Neel Mani

Participants : Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight : This interactive webinar talked about the Curriculum of Gratitude and the 21 day journey of self realization. Expressing gratitude brings in positivity and empathy which is so important in today's world.

Poetry Workshop

From Date : 02/09/2020 To 01/10/2020

Venue : Online

Organized By :  Little Bright Sparks

Resource Person : Ms. Esha Kak

Participants : Students of Class V

Highlight : A poetry workshop was held for the students of class V. They would meet every alternate week in lots ranging from 16 to 25 students per session. They were taught various kinds of poems like Haiku, Hyperbole, Simile, to name a few.

Training on Amrita Olab

From Date  : 29/08/2020 To 30/09/2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : CBSE

Participants : Teachers

Highlight : Received training on how to use online labs in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Math and English

Soulful School Masterclass

From Date : 01/09/2020 To 30/09/2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : Future school leaders

Resource Person : Different school leaders

Participants : Ms Meena Kak, Ms Anjali Chopra, Ms Jayati Goswami

Highlight : Different types of schools were showcased and the school leaders shared their best practices.

Art Education and Art Integration ‑ the Art1st Approach

Venue : Online

Organized By : Art First (Art1st)

Resource Person : Ms Ritu Khoda, Dr Sangeeta Gole, Ms Rivika sadarangani & Ms Penny Hay (Bath University, UK)

Participants : Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight : This workshop focused on how a pedagogical shift is required towards Art Education.

Assessment in Mathematics

Venue : Virtual

Organized By : COE Pune

Resource Person : Dr Shitala Prabhu

Participants : Mr. Subrato Chakraborty

Highlight : Discussion about different assessment patterns

eRaksha Competition

From Date - 20/08/2020 To 30/09/2020

Venue - Online

Organized By - CBSE, NCERT, Cyber Peace foundation

Resource Person - NCERT, Cyber Peace foudation

Participants - Students of classes V – XII

Highlight - It was a competition focusing on digital citizenship and online safety. The first round of the events like artcade,          wordmaster, screenmaster etc were organsied within the school for all the students of Classes 5 to 10 and selected students from classes 11 and 12 participated. Selected posters, articles, blogs, videos have been uploaded to the designated website.

Celebrate 80 years of IVLP

Venue : Online

Organized By : US Department of State & GEIST

Resource Persons : Panelists from Nepal, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Greece and Guatemala

Participants : Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight : The International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) completed 80 years and as a part of this the panelists from different countries shared their stories and their projects undertaken. This was an enriching and a motivating session.

Storytelling as Pedagogy

From Date : 28/09/2020 & 01/10/2020

Venue : Online

Organized By : COE Panchkula

Resource Persons : Dr. Raj Sangwaan, Ms. Ranjana Bhardwaj

Participants : Teachers of Primary section

 Highlight : The workshop focused on the importance of storytelling and the skills associated with it.

Panel Discussion ‑ COVID 19 ‑ Entrepreneur Challenge or Opportunity

Venue : Webinar via Google Meet

Organized By : Loreto College Alumni Association

Resource Person : Ms Anjum Katyal (Moderator) and other panelists

Participants : Ms. Jaya Misra

Highlight : Renowned panelists explained how they are helping poor and needy during this pandemic.

Pathways to Critical Thinking

Venue : Webinar via Google Meet

Organized By : CBSE

Resource Person : Ms. Anuja Sharma

Participants : Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight : Why Critical Thinking is important for developing a concept and how it can be incorporated were discussed in the session.

Poetry Workshop

From Date 02/09/2020 To 25/09/2020

Venue  Online

Organized By        Ms. Esha Kak

Resource Person Ms. Esha Kak

Participants -    Students of class IV

Highlight -  A poetry workshop was held for the students of class 4. The session was highly interactive and enriching. Students thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. They learned about different forms of poetry such as Acrostic, Haikus, Limericks and the different poetic devices such as personification and hyperbole. Students also wrote poems by themselves.

Workshop on AR by school of Innovation from facebook

From Date            23/09/2020 To 25/09/2020

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person Pupil first

Participants          Niladri K Motilal, Sudakshina Datta, Sanzeeda Mirza

Highlight               It was a comprehensive workshop where we had to complete a self paced learning course and learn about the need of Augmented reality and the scope of this technology in the education industry.

ISRO Cyberspace competitions

Venue                   Online

Organized By        ISRO (ICC‑200)

Participants          Students of Classes I- V

Highlight               8 students secured ranks within 500 in this national event.  

CBSE assessment scheme Decoding board/PT papers

Venue           Online

Organized By        COE Ajmer

Resource Person    Ms Anita Dutta

Participants          Mr Subrato Chakraborty

Highlight               Discussion on the exam pattern. Different types of projects of different levels were discussed. Portfolio should consist of c/w, h/w and self-assessment.

Enhancing Life Skill ‑ Self Awareness

Venue                   Online

Organized By        COE Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person  Ms Neera Kohli

Participants          Ms Bindiya Kaur Gill

Highlight               The workshop focussed on self awareness which is the basis of all life skills. The need for daily introspection of our feelings, thoughts and actions was emphasized.

Experiential Learning

Venue           Online

Organized By    COE Pune

Resource Person Ms Apurva Pande

Participants          Mr Subrato Chakraborty

Highlight               What is experiential learning and how to introduce it in class room teaching was explained.

Learn2Code

From Date            16/09/2020 To 19/09/2020

Venue                   Online ‑ Microsoft Teams

Organized By        Eupheus Learning

Participants            Students of Classes I – V

Highlight               Students were taught coding through games.

Story telling session

From Date       02/09/2020 To 16/09/2020

Venue                   Zoom class

Organized By        Scholastic India

Resource Person Ms.Chitralekha Bhasker

Participants          Students of Classes I & II

Highlight               The session was very interesting and interactive. Children enjoyed the story narrated to them and were very enthusiastic  to answer the questions. It also helped to enhance their vocabulary and critical thinking skills and they are now looking      forward to many such interactive sessions.

Mrs YGP Memorial Quiz

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Knowledge Tribe Greycaps and TCSion

Resource Person    PSBB Group Of Schools, Chennai

Participants          Srikar Ayala Soumayjula (VIII‑A)

Highlight               Srikar stood 3^rd in the National Quiz. He was the only participant from Kolkata to qualify for the finals and competed with 2400 students across the country.

Dramatics in Teaching

Venue                 Google Meet

Organized By       COE Pune

Participants          Ms Ishita Valentina Gomes

Highlight               It was an inspirational session which highlighted the importance of using dramatics in teaching and how it benefits student learning.

Magic of Gratitude

Venue                   Online

Organized By        COE Bhubaneswar

Resource Person Ms Isha Ipshita Satpathy

Participants         Ms Priti Kedia

Highlight               The workshop highlighted the fact that by practising gratitude we can bring positivity and happiness into our everyday life.

Online Education: Solutions and Possibilities

Venue                   Online Session

Organized By        Socrates Foundation for Enhanced Learning

Resource Person  Ms Charu Mathur

Participants          Ms Ganga Sinha, Ms Puja Dubey, Ms Uma Jaiswal

Highlight               Various tips on online teaching were provided. We learnt how to take the online classes more effectively.

Online Hindi Webinar

Venue                   Youtube

Organized By        New Saraswati House

Resource Person    Dr. Kshama Sharma

Participants          Ms Puja Dubey

Highlight               ‘Hindi Linga’ was simplified very well. Learned to identify ‘Linga’ through ‘Vachan’ in Hindi.

Pidilite Craft Activities

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Pidilite Company

Resource Person   Mr Partha S Saha

Participants          Students of Classes III – V

Highlight               Students learnt to make various craft items.

INter School Public Speaking Competition

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Edu Excellence

Participants            5 Students of Class VIII

Highlight               Rasita Singh of Class VIII A secured the 2^nd position. She had to give an impromptu speech on the given topic  'MY AIM IN LIFE'. 350 schools from across the country participated in this event.

Happiness at work place

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences

Resource Person Professor Sanjeev P Sahni, Tithi Bhatnagar

Participants          Teachers

Highlight -  The speaker reinforced positive thinking, so that it spreads around and makes the students too feel the same.

Discussion on Digital Divide

Venue                   Online using Microsoft Teams

Organized By        IT Club‑ Lakshmipat Singhania Academy

Resource Person - Ms. Medha De, Business Consultant‑ Content Marketing at TCS

Participants          IT Teachers

Highlight               Ms. Medha De discussed on few ways how students can bridge the technological gap between them and society.

Resurgence' 20

From Date            10/09/2020 To 11/09/2020              

Venue                   Online Platform

Organized By       Bishop Cotton Boy’s School, Bangalore

Participants          Students of Classes XI – XII

Highlight               30 students participated in this commerce fest. They secured the 2nd position in the event 'Triangle of Trade'.

Practice Session on Google Form

Venue                   Online

Resource Person        IT Teachers

Participants          Teachers

Highlight               A workshop on the use of Google form was conducted for the teachers by the IT department.

Education Summit ‑ Thinking Beyond the Classroom

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Lenovo and CNBC TV18

Resource Person Amitav Kant, CEO NitiAyog and Anil Shahasrabiudhe CEO AICTE

Participants          IT Teachers

Highlight               An informative and interactive session on future of learning with emerging technology. Keynote addresses by eminent speakers from IT industry on Smarter India project of the government were very insightful.

Orientation Programme for IT teachers

Venue                   Online facebook

Organized By        SSNASSCOM

Participants           IT teachers

Highlight     The programme focussed on the Employability Skills of Information Technology

From Art O Part: A Peep into digital fabrication

Venue                   Online

Organized By        B.I.T.M. Kolkata

Participants          Ms Amritah Sen

Highlight               An illustrated lecture was given by Dr. Guruprasad Rao, Director and Mentor of Imaginarium India Pvt. Ltd

Integration of Art in Science (AIL)

Venue                   Online

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person Ms. Jhinuk Dutta Roy

Participants          Ms Sharmita Bhattacharya

Highlight               It was an informative session. The workshop enlightened us on ways to integrate Art with Scence and emphasized its importance.

Role of Teachers in Transforming Society: Insights and Policy Implication

Venue                   Online (google Meet)

Organized By        O.P. Jindal Global University

Resource Person Prof. Dr. Tanushree Sharma

Participants          Teachers

Highlight  Techniques of managing online classes and the role of a teacher in this new normal were discussed in detail. Following were discussed :

• Role of teacher as a change agent
• Self awareness skills
• Social awareness skills
• Relationship skills
• Responsible decision making skills
• 6 Steps to mindfully deal with difficult emotions

Webinar on Teacher’s Day

Venue                   Online

Organized By        Millennium Mams

Resource Person Mr Anand Kumar

Participants          Ms Jaya Misra

Highlight               It was indeed a pleasure to hear the real hero behind Super 30, Mr Anand Kumar and his motivational strategies. There were more than 500 participants on the Zoom Webinar, and all were in awe of his simplicity.

EFFECT PLUS

From Date      31/08/2020 To 03/09/2020

Venue           Indore Online

Organized By        AFS India

Resource Person  Mrs Sarita Bhadwar

Participants          Students of Class IX

Highlight       Effect + workshop for students focused on developing the global 21st century skills and how to be a change maker in the society.

Workshop on Happy Classroom ‑Happy teachers creating happy spaces

Venue                   Google Meet

Organized By        CBSE

Resource Person Mr. Ganesh R. Tarate

Participants          Ms Sweta Chakraborty

Highlight               It was a useful session. A number of tools were provided for teachers that will help them to make their classes more joyful and interesting.

Host Family Orientation

Venue                   Rajkot online

Organized By        AFS India

Resource Person Mr. Ajay Mehta

Participants          Ananya Karnany(X‑C), Mahey Jain(VII‑A)

Highlight               Mr. Ajay Mehta, a senior mentor of AFS India was introduced to the parents of Ananya Karnany and Mahey Jain who have been selected for 2020‑2021 hosting cycle. Mr Mehta explained to them the whole hosting process in details and also clarified all their doubts.  Virtual hosting will start very soon.

Workshop on challenges in online teaching and strategies to overcome them

Venue                   Online Through Zoom

Organized By        Dr Aswini Sharma

Resource Person Dr Vijaya Sundar M

Participants          Mr Ashis Majumder, Mr Sanjay Bhattacharya

Highlight               Importance of online teaching and how to overcome these challenges was discussed. Tools and techniques that help in teaching in the virtual mode was explained in details.

Enhancing blended and online training capability though Hands on training

Venue  - Online

Organized By  -  NABET

Resource Person  - Sr Advisor QCI, Dr Patanjali Misra, QCI ICT Team, Dr Jai Singh, Dr Gaurav Singh

Participants - Mr Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza, Ms Sudakshina Datta, Ms Swati Mukherjee

Highlight  - It provided an understanding of different type of govt. digital initiatives relevant for online education, OERs (Open Educational Resources), Creative Commons (CC) and its different modalities of license etc. Acquired skills to develop educational videos through freely available digital tools; acquired skills for creating Learning Management System (LMS) through freely available GOOGLE SITE & GOOGLE CLASSROOM ICT. Packages and acquired skills for using Google Jam board, Google Docs & Google Forms.

CBSE WORKSHOPS

Below mentioned are the various workshops organized by Centre of Excellence, CBSE, which were attended by our teachers in August 2020:

• Kolb's cycle of experiential learning
• Application of Life Skills in Day to Day Life
• Experiential Learning in Pedagogy
• Innovative methods for Students to teach Ethics and Integrity
• Engaging with Empathy
• Storytelling as Pedagogy
• CBSE‑WWF‑India Wild Wisdom Digital Quiz
• Workshop on Universal Design for Learning ‑ Planning Multilevel Instruction
• Integrating of arts in curriculum through experiential learning
• ICT in Teaching English
• Accountancy‑ Teaching Strategies
• Classroom Management and its Components
• English IX‑X – Literature in Classroom Teaching
• ICT integration in Science
• Global Best practice Using Technology & Digitisation to enhance student outcomes
• Sustainable Green School
• Teaching Methodologies in Business Studies
• Geography‑ Teaching Strategies/Methodologies in Geography
• Content Management in Class ‑ Time Management
• Experiential Learning – Introduction to Experiential Learning
• Awareness Programme on Physical Activity Trainer
• Methodologies in Science
• Gamification of Learning
• Online session on teaching strategies for English for reading
• Awareness program on physical activity trainer
• Social Science: Assessment in Social Science class IX and X
• Mathematics‑ Common errors committed in Mathematics
• Teaching Strategy and Methodology in Writing
• Bloom’s Taxonomy and Questioning techniques in assessment
• Designing Pre Primary Curriculum
• Workshop on Introduction to Cybersecurity and safety
• Workshop on Leading Transformation in schools
• Mathematics in Primary Classes
• Strategies for Happy Classroom
• Building Blocks of Logical Thinking
• Outcome Based Learning
• Teaching Vocabulary
• Workshop on Bloom's Taxonomy and its Application in English
• Understanding Bullying
• Out of the Box
• Synthesis of life skill education
• Workshop on NEP
• Project/ Practical Work in Business Studies
• Mask Quest IX‑XII
• Integration of Arts in Mathematics
• Managing Virtual Classes
• Pathways to Critical Thinking
• Integration of Arts in English
• Developing Communication Skills that make Teachers more effective
• CBSE workshop on Assessment in Accountancy
• Enhancing Practical skills and projects
• Enhancing Practical Skills/ Projects and Map Work in Geography.
• Introduction to Arts and how the Arts are Powerful engagement tools
• The issues related to cyber ethics
• Happy Teachers create Happy Spaces
• Dramatics in Teaching
• Mass Media & Value
• Roles and Responsibilities of a Counsellor
• Common Errors committed in Mathematics
• Integration of Arts in English
• CBSE Workshop on Stress Management ‑ sources and its response

Rashtriya Kavi Sangam Dinkar Kavya Path

From Date                   31/08/2020 To 20/09/2020

Venue                   Online session

Organized By        Rashtriya Kavi Sangam West Bengal

Resource Person Dr. Girdhar Rai

Participants          Students of Classes VI-X

Highlight               5000 contestants from all over West Bengal participated and Neerav Nagori qualified for the semi finals. Students had an enriching experience.

NEP 2020 & Higher Education ‑ Impact & Opportunities & NEP 2020 : Hits & Misses for School Education

From Date  - 29/08/2020To 30/08/2020

Venue  - Online

Organized By - Mindler & Education World

Participants  - Ms  Jaya Misra

Highlight  - The panel consisted of industry experts who discussed the plans laid out in the policy and some challenges associated with them. It gave us an insight and identified the areas that are praiseworthy at the same time, some parts in the policy cannot be overlooked. The discussion focused on topics like ‑ the impact on the student preparedness, the systemic changes, the attitudinal shift it will bring in the students as well as educators.