Conserve my Planet Programme, SHARP NGO

Organized By: SHARP NGO
Resource Person: Schneider, Electric India, Ma’am Simrah
Participants: Students of Class VII
Highlight: Students enjoyed the Green Assembly and session one of onserve my Planet programme because it was an enriching session. The methodologies to live a sustainable life was shared, students were given green t shirts, green caps and power pledge cards. All took the oath to save power and be a responsible citizen. It was an interactive session to understand and focus on saving electricity and to be a green ambassador.

Cubs and Bulbul Tour

Venue: Mandarmoni, Hotel Sonar Bangla
Participants: 100 children from classes IV & V
Highlight: The camp contributed to the education of children through a value system based on the Cub/Bulbul promise and law to built a better world where people are self fulfilled as individuals and play constructive role in society. It helped in building confidence and self esteem among the students.They learnt important life-skills, team building, outdoor adventure, education and fun. It helped them to explore, to discover the world beyond classroom, and also helps in all round development.

CPR Training Session, Healthy Heart talk by Cardiologist Dr. Anjan Siotia

Organized By: B.M. Birla Heart Research Institute

Resource Person: B M Birla Hospital, Dr. Anjan Siotia

Participants: Teachers and students of Class IX

Highlight: Students had a training session conducted by specialists from B.M. Birla Heart Research Institute on handling patients suffering from cardiac attacks in emergency. They demonstrated how to give CPR techniques on a mannequin. Dr. Anjan Siotia, one of the leading cardiologists in the city, practicing in B.M. Birla Heart Research Institute interacted    with the students of class 9 and teachers regarding the causes and remedy of general heart diseases.

Ask Me Anything (AMA) – while teaching AI

Venue: YouTube Live
Organised by: Centat Team
Resource person: Mr. Pratik Rajurkar.
Participants: Sudakshina Datta, Niladri Motilal, Sanzeeda Mirza, Swati Mukherjee
Highlights: It was a 1 hour virtual session where we could ask any question related to Artificial Intelligence in the teaching profession. In the teaching learning process we come across certain contradictory questions which become difficult to answer. This session helped us to get answers to our queries. The importance of few topics and how to teach those topics were also discussed.

Chinmaya Indic Fest Revealing India to Curious Indians

Venue: International Management Institute

Organized By: Chinmaya Mission Kolkata and Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth

Resource Person: Dr B.Mahadevan, Dr Sampath Kumar, Dr Sampadananda Mishra

Participants: Teachers of our academy

Highlight: The sessions conducted aimed to promote and cultivate the appreciation of Indian Knowledge Systems and provided a journey of enlightenment and exploration of India's rich heritage. The illustrious talks focussed on Arthashastra and Chanakya's relevance in present day management and inclusion in modern day education as well as on the magnificence of the Sanskrit language and its literature.

Capacity building programme on Business Studies

Venue: Hariyana Vidya Mandir

Organized By: CBSE Centre for excellence, Bhubaneshwar

Resource Person: Dr. Ramesh Agarwal and Mr. Ravinder Singh

Participants: Abhishek Sarkar, Bijay Raj Shaw, Poulomi De

Highlight: The following were discussed - i) How to make the class interesting, ii) Revised guidelines of projects, iii) Topics to be deleted for BOARDS.

STEM on the Wheel at IIT Kharagpur

Venue: IIT Kharagpur

Participants: Students of Classes X – XII with their Mentor Mr. Dipankar Pal

Highlight :Rolling into the Future with 'STEM on Wheels' at IIT Kharagpur! What an amazing journey it was, exploring the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics on wheels. Thanks to IIT Kharagpur and our dedicated team for making this educational adventure possible. The IIT Kharagpur opened its gates for the school children on Saturday to kindle a spirit of scientific acumen and curiosity and explore the world of science, technology and other associated fields in this Institute of Excellence. The orientation programme was addressed by Prof. V K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur in the presence of Prof. Amit Patra, Deputy Director; Prof. Bhargab Maitra. “The initiative focuses on arousing the innovative approach, critical thinking, and problem-solving ability of students in accordance with the objective of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) along with other related fields needed in the current-day’s higher education.

STEM Future ready conclave

Venue: The HHI
Organized By: Tinkrwork Get Set Learn
Resource Person: Mr. Kartik Sharma
Participants: Dipankar Pal, Swati Mukherjee,Pabitra Kumar Baidya
Highlight: We have learned different ways to integrate with subject skills. Different real life examples were given to implement the chatbot and find out a solution. We have seen demonstration of their various curriculum module. This six hours workshop was a great experience.

Workshop on Think Outside the Box- A Creative Workshop using Canva

Venue: The Frank Anthony Public School
Organised by: Teachers Centre
Resource person: Ms. Aditi Jhunjhunwala
Participants: Soumitra Maji, Sweata Gomes,Bindya K. Gill
Highlights: The workshop focused on designing posters, logos and cards, all of which can be used to enhance teaching. It further emphasized on combining audio and video using canva to make lessons interactive. The possibilities of engaging students in the lesson using Canva was explored.

HCL TechBee

Organised by: HCL

Resource person: Mr. Manabindu Saha

Participants: Students of Class XII

Highlights: A new career avenue for the students was discussed. They can join HCL and at the same time pursue a course in IIM.

Mass Media Studies Class 12 Field Trip

Venue:Kolaghat

Participants: Students of Class XII

Highlight:  43 students accompanied by their subject teachers and other teaching staff went to Kolaghat Sonar Bangla to record 43 individual films to be sent to the Board.

Celebrating Teacher's Week

Venue:Rotary Sadan
Resource person:Institute Of Company Secretaries Of India
Organised by:Institute Of Company Secretaries Of India
Participants:Abhishek Sarkar ,Bijoy Raj Shaw ,Poulomi De
Highlight: Discussion on stress management, GST and scope of CS as a career. Teachers were updated about the enrollment process of CS and the various career options after successful completion of the course. Teachers were also guided on how to manage stress.

Empowering Inclusive Learning

Organized By:Rapl learnx
Resource Person:Dr. Daniel Fung and Dr. Chintan
Participants: Teachers of Middle School Department
Highlight:The webinar delved into pressing issue of teenage self- harm and the importance of inclusive learning, It was a good session to understand the teenage minds and their vulnerabilities. It dealt with the issue of teenage self harm and importance of inclusive learning. Explored effective strategies to prevent self-harm and nurture resilience among teenagers. Ways to handle students carefully, to deal them with emotion and care,to help them in difficult situations were discussed.

Edquest Project 2023-24

Resource Person: LSA Samaritans Volunteers of class IX and X
Participants:Students from Tomorrow's Foundation
Highlight: The students from Tomorrow's Foundation attended the sessions on IT and Sports which were taken by LSA Samaritans Volunteers of classes IX and X.

Teachers Training Boot Camp | Kolkata Centre,

Venue: The BSS School
Organized By: IPN Academy
Resource Person:Soumya Katuppa
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sanzeeda Mirza, Swati Mukherjee
Highlight: The resource person talked about diversity and inclusion in education through various examples. He talked about the difference between innovation and invention. There was an interactive session on how to include diversity in education.

Capacity Building Programme Artificial Intelligence for Class 10

Organized By CBSE and Intel
Resource Person CBSE and Intel
Participants Sudakshina Datta
Highlight Extensive training given on AI for class 10. Both theoretical concepts as well as Python practical concepts were explained very efficiently. The resource person shared links to various resources which can be used while teaching.

ART Integration Workshop

Venue: The Park Hotel
Organized By: Oxford University Press
Participants: Amritah Sen
Highlight: The workshop on Art Integration was taken by Anahita Lee, teacher and writer of children's art book series 'Little Artist' which we have used in our school for quite a few years. Her knowledge on the subject was profound and workshop was fun, intruiging and very resourceful.

Workshop Principle of Pedagogy and Planning for Teaching

Resource Person: Subhi Vijay Vargiya
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The workshop emphasized on Panchaadi the five stepped approach (Adhiti Introduction, Bodh Conceptual Understanding, Abhyas Practice, Prayog Application, Prasar Expansion) to pedagogy as a good way for teachers to formulate the lesson plan.

Workshop on Foundational Literacy

Resource Person Ms. Afshan Nahid
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The workshop dealt with Fundamental Literacy which refers to the skills and strategies involved in reading, speaking, writing and interpreting thoughts. It helped the teachers understand the importance of Fundamental Literacy

Workshop on Common Errors in Maths

Resource Person Shubhasree Das Gupta
Participants Teachers
Highlight The topic was Common Errors in Mathematics Error in computing addition and subtraction of like and unlike fractions .Discussed the steps to be taken to eradicate the problem. Same steps have been taken while pointing out the problem in comparison of decimals and other topics like subtraction, division and unitary method.

Workshop on Integration of Technology in Curriculum

Resource Person: S.Anandhi
Participants: Teachers of Primary Department
Highlight: The workshop was conducted on Integration of Technology in curriculum. It dealt with various ways of including technology in the curriculum planning that leads to effective teaching learning environment. It also highlighted the importance of achieving the learning objectives while using technology.

Conversations 2023

Venue: ITC Royal Bengal
Organized By: Admission Tree
Resource Person: Sri Gaur Gopal Das, Dr Kunal Sarkar & others
Participants: Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra
Highlight: It was a congregation of educators where the panel discussion was on 'To Challenge and To Change'. This was followed by an address by Sri Gaur Gopal Das, in which he spoke about how educators can make a difference in the lives of their students, thereby impacting the society. Some concern areas were addressed in a humorous way but the essence of the pertinent issues were raised.

Scientific Churning

Venue: 3, Jodhpur Park, Kolkata
Organized By: The Progressive Educational Techniques Society
Participants: DEBARATI BANERJEE, INDRANI DAS
Highlight: The workshop was interesting with different kind of learning methodology which can be used while teaching Science in the Middle School.

Vigilance Quiz

Venue Bengal Paddle Vessel
Organized By SMPK
Participants Students of Classes X & XI
Highlight Four students have participated in the quiz conducted by the Vigilance Department. They have enjoyed the quiz session and learnt a lot from the participation. They have received participation certificates. Names of participants are Arinjoy Mukherjee and Amol Dalmia from class X, Sourish Ghosh and Aneek Chakraborty from class XI.

Mindler School Leaders Symposium

Venue:lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By:LSA and Mindler
Resource Person:Mindler
Participants:School leaders of Kolkata
Highlight: Mindler School Leaders Symposium was organised by LSA and Mindler collaboratively which focused on enlightening the schools to Create an NEP Ready Career Guidance Ecosystem. 20+ school leaders and counselors participated in the event. The event helped shape the future of school career guidance ecosystem.

Educators Meet

Venue Caring Minds
Organized By:Caring Minds
Resource Person:Ms Minu Budhia
Participants:Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra
Highlight: The educators were invited to apprise them of the facilities offered by the institute and the silent work they are doing to improve the mental health. They also apprised us of the upcoming inter school event Love You Zindagi.

Cinema in classrooms-Filmit Orientation Programme

Organized By:INTACH Kolkata Chapter
Resource Person:INTACH (Mrs. Subha Das Mollick)
Participants:Students of Classes VI to VIII
Highlight: LSA hosted the INTACH FilmIT orientation programme for FilmIT Kolkata chapter participants. The students learnt the basics of filmmaking camera shot exercise and editing. FilmIT movies mainly focus on conservation of heritage.

Anti corruption Run up activities

Venue: School premise (8th floor Avr)
Organized By: Vigilance department , Kolkata Port
Resource Person: Ms Rashika Dubey
Participants: Students of Classes VIII to XII
Highlight: The Students participated under various activities like poster making and essay writing competition conducted by Kolkata Port. Students collected cash prize along with certificate after evaluation process. It was a great experience for them. In poster making activity, Bavrabi Dutta stood 1st, Navya Mohta came 2nd and Taraasha Sharma secured 3rd position and received cash prizes of 1000/-, 700/- and 500/- respectively. In the essay writing activity Shravya Agarwal stood 1st, Panavi Agarwal came 2nd and Rishika Kala secured 3rd position and received cash prizes of 1000/-, 700/- and 500/- respectively. 3 little children came from Flower 2 school and recited poems in the junior assembly.

The Three Tier Certificate program

Organized By: LearNX and Niti AAyog
Resource Person: LearnX
Participants: Sudakshina Datta, Ashis Mazumder,
Highlight: Teachers of our academy joined The Three Tier Certificate program on RAPL learning platform in the educators Masterclass series. Many teachers of our academy received the yellow belt. The green belt training will start after 15th August.

Dance is Healing

Venue: Modern High School for Girls
Organized By: Teachers' Centre
Resource Person: Ms. Mahoya Chakravorty
Participants: Manjaree Mukherjee, Sweata Loreto Gomes, Asfia Rafique
Highlight: The session was fascinating and engaging. Teachers learnt the integration of dance with Physics and Mathematics. The teachers were explained how dance can be de-stressing. Songs of Rabindranath Tagore were referred to.

Visit to Raj Bhawan (Governor's House)

Venue Raj Bhawan
Organized By: The Times of India NIE
Resource Person: The Times of India NIE
Participants: Students of Class XI
Highlight: Aditya Hans (XIA) and Rasita Singh (XID) are the NIE correspondents of the session 2023 24. As a part of their one year student training programme with NIE, they were taken to the Raj Bhawan for an educational tour.

The Telegraph Young Metro Orientation

Venue: Gyan Manch
Organized By: The Telegraph Young Metro
Resource Person: The Telegraph Young Metro
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Ayushi Singh (XIIB) and Arijit Ghosh (XIID) have been selected as the YM force members for the academic year 2023 24. They were oriented about their roles in this meeting. Past year's YM force members Riddhima Koley & Muskan Goel were also felicitated on this occasion.

Modern Classroom Techniques

Venue: La Martiniere for Girls
Organized By: Teachers' Centre
Resource Person: Ms. Rupkatha Sarkar
Participants: Asfia Rafique, Khadija Aamir Choonawala
Highlight: The session was highly engaging and relevant to the current education scenario.

Project - Edquest

Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy Social Service group LSA Samaritans
Participants: Avisha Gupta(XII D), Gaurav Poddar(XII A), Manvi Lohia(X B), Shlok Tahlani(X A), Suhani Bhagat (XI B), Urvi Murmuria(XII D), Vansh P Patel(XII D), Yuthika Sikaria(X B)
Highlight: LSA Samaritans volunteers of LSA are imparting their knowledge and skills to the marginalized students of few NGOs for the last five years under the Project Edquest. They teach four vocational subjects IT, Art & Craft, Sports and Spoken & Written English on every working Saturdays. 23 students from Tomorrow's Foundation came to take the training under the guidance of our school volunteers.

Workshop on CyRaksha

Venue: ISOEH ,Saltlake
Organized By: ISOEH
Resource Person: Mr Sandip Sengupta
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal, Swati Mukherjee, Divyansh Shah (XI A)
Highlight: The Cyber Security Workshop held on Saturday, 15th July 2023, proved to be an outstanding success. Everyone present there left with enhanced knowledge and a better understanding of the evolving cyber threat landscape. The event facilitated networking opportunities and fostered collaboration among professionals in the field. The workshop's practical approach and informative sessions made it a valuable learning experience for all attendees. It is hoped that such initiatives will continue to be organized to promote cyber security awareness and empower individuals and organizations to safeguard against digital threats.

Workshop on Ways of Organizing Content

Resource Person: Tikshna Chopra
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The ways of organizing lesson plans was discussed to make teaching learning process more effective. All three methods thematic approach, project based approach and story based approach were discussed with relevant examples. The advantages of each method was highlighted.
Examples of each method were given and how they can be adopted in class to make learning process more meaningful was discussed.

Workshop on Conversation with Toys

Resource Person: Jyoti Gondi
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The impact of toys on children was discussed in details. Advantages of toys and play-way method was explained. Choice of toys and the kinds of toys which can be used in class was demonstrated. 
The teacher made few toys in class with recycled materials and showed them as examples. Finally, clay dough was given to everyone to make toys out of it and teach a topic with the same.

Event: VANAMAHOTSAV WEEK

Participants: Students of class X
Highlight: We celebrated Vanmahotsav week to create awareness among students, to raise awareness among individuals regarding the importance of trees and inspire citizens to plant more of them.The main objective of Van Mahotsav is to promote the conservation and protection of forests and to create awareness about the importance of trees in maintaining ecological balance and ensuring environmental stability. Students were excited to plant trees as they planted banana saplings,
spinach, curry leaves. They learned the ways of soil tilling and soil rejuvenation too.

VANAMAHOTSAV WEEK

Participants: Students of classes IX & X
Highlight: We celebrated Vanmahotsav week to create awareness among students, to raise awareness among individuals regarding the importance of trees and inspire citizens to plant more of them.. The main objective of Van Mahotsav is to promote the conservation and protection of forests and to create awareness about the importance of trees in maintaining ecological balance and ensuring environmental stability. Students were excited to plant trees as they planted banana saplings, spinach, curry leaves. They learned the ways of soil tilling and soil rejuvenation too.

C20 999 Challenge for the Students

Organized By: CBSE
Participants: Students of Classes VI to VIII
Highlight: 44 students of various section of class 6 8 participated in this challenge program. Participants of
the challenge have reported experiencing more optimism in their life perspective, better energy
levels and an overall sense of well being. This 999 challenge influence the integration of holistic
healthcare approaches into the global health care system.

Mindler Career Guidance Program

Organized By: Mindler and School
Resource Person: Mindler Career coaches Mr. P. Dhanda, Mr. Abhishek Gulati
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta and students of classes IX to XII
Highlight: Workshop was held for classes 9 to 12. Orientation and guidance sessions were conducted

Workshop: Scanning Media

Venue: The Progressive Educational Techniques Society
Organized By: The Progressive Educational Techniques Society, The Teachers' Centre
Resource Person: Mrs. Subha Das Mollick
Participants: Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight: The workshop was on media, its various facets and influence in the modern world. The activities were aimed to share the responsibility of preparing students of all ages, for living in a world of powerful yet ethical images, words and sounds.

Artificial Intelligence in Lesson Plans

Venue: Sushila Birla Girls School
Organized By: Sushila Birla Girls School
Resource Person: Teachers ( faculty members of Sushila Birla Girls School)
Participants: Anindita Pal, Indrani Das, Poulomi Saha, Sunitha R Dey, Vrinda Mishra
Highlight: The session discussed how to explore the benefits of using AI application in our daily classes for all subjects in order to make the class more interactive and lively by approaching such tools with the students. It will help them to know, think and analyze the data and critically think and solve problems. New innovative tools on AI application were shared.

Team Kolkata We Care Meet

Venue: iLead Institute

Organized By: Team Kolkata We Care

Resource Person: Mr Pradip Chopra, Mr Imran Zaki & others

Participants: Ms. Meena Kak, Ms. Jaya Misra, Mr. Darshan Singh Gill

Highlight: The think tank group met to decide how the city can be made clean with the support of KMC, and how can Kolkata improve when schools join hands and support this cause. It was indeed a pleasure to see the exhibits displayed in iLead ampus, an example of how to promote upcycling in the society.

Junior Investiture Ceremony

Participants: Students of Classes IV and V
Highlight: The Investiture Ceremony of the Junior Student Council for the academic session 2023 2024 was held in the school premises on 3rd July 2023. The House Captains, Vice Captains and the Sports Captain were officially handed over their badges and appointment letters. The solemn occasion was presided over by the Director Ms Meena Kak.The Coordinator of the primary section, Ms Sohini Jain, administered the oath and the Principal Ms Jaya Misra delivered the vote of thanks.

Celebration of International Yoga Day

Participants: All students of our Academy

Highlight:All the students participated in the yogic kriyas and asanas that was shown by the PE department. It was an enriching session.

Youth for Unnati and Vikas with AI-Bootcamp

Date 06/06/2023 To 15/06/2023
Organized By MeiTY, NEGD
Resource Person Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Nation eGovernance Division
Participants Students of Classes IX & X
Highlight All students of classes IX and X took part in YUVAi innovative idea submission. 5 of their ideas were selected amongst top 200 innovative ideas across the nation and qualified for 2nd round. The students are Tanish Kedia, Avni Khodiar, Vaneesa Parikh, Priyansh Singhania,Devesh Patwari. They have been given deep drive AI training by Intel Certified AI coaches.

Global Competence Certificate programme

Date 17/04/2023 To 15/06/2023
Organized By AFS
Participants Subrato Chakraborty
Highlight It was an amazing experience. Discussion on different cultures and education for all was also discussed. Learning outcome: Education is very important for every citizen of the world even though they are from different cultures.

Industry Engagement and Technology Exposure

Date 01/06/2023 To 09/06/2023
Organized By CBSE and Microsoft
Resource Person CBSE and Microsoft
Participants Deeva Sharma, Shaurya Bothra, Yuvraaj Bhatter, Akhil Jatia
Highlight 4 students of classes XI & XII, were selected for this programme. Students learnt a lot about soft skills like problem solving skills, time management, and stress management skills. They have gained a deeper understanding of how different Microsoft solutions integrate and work together to meet various industry needs.

Workshop on Empowering Educators for holistic health

Organized By AIM ,NITI AAYOG & LearnX
Resource Person MR. Chandrakant Singh
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight The resource person welcomed us to the learnX community and explained 3 steps certification course process. They have introduced simple tools to prepare plan for class, how to measure effectiveness of teaching and manage disruptive behavior.

Zero Shadow Day

Venue Live Event
Participants Students of Classes I – X
Highlight Students were excited to see their own shadow and were enthusiastic to know the meaning of Zero Shadow Day. Students enthusiastically participated, uploaded their images and won digital certificates for correct responses. They came to the conclusion that residents of Kolkata had the opportunity to witness Zero Shadow Day, a fascinating celestial event, on 5th June, Monday at 11.34am. This extraordinary phenomenon occurs twice a year when the Sun is directly overhead, causing objects to lose their shadows for a brief moment.

Hungary HOMESTAY program

Venue- Budapest

Organised by- AFS
Resource persons- AFS Hungary
Participants - Aanya Surana and Prisha Patel class 11
Highlight- Aanya and Prisha Patel on an amazing journey to Hungary experience the cultural dimensions

Online Training on “Safety and Security in Digital Space”

Date                  05/06/2023 To 09/06/2023

Organized By     CIET, NCERT

Resource Person CIET, NCERT

Participants          Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sudakshina Datta

Highlight              It was a five- day training on how we can be safe in our digital space. Cyber ethics and laws were part of this training too. Various initiatives by the Government of India, citizen centric services have also been promoted in this training. The training was followed by an online quiz as well.

The Times of India NIE Internship

Venue: TOI Office Salt Lake
Organized By: TOI
Resource Person: TOI
Participants: Students of Classes XI & XII
Highlight: Aditya Hans of Class XI Science and Vaanya Agarwal of Class XII Science were selected for this prestigious 5 day programme. In these 5 days the students learnt the basic operations and functioning of a newspaper organization.

Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Workshop

Organized By: Tech Avant Garde Global Training partner of Microsoft
Resource Person: Mr. Prashant Kumar Jha
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: The 5 day online comprehensive workshop was based on training the educators on various tools on Microsoft like sway, flip, minecraft MakeCode which could be used by teachers for effective teaching and learning process. The software could be effectively used by students for increasing their technical and critical thinking skills.

Workshop on How to use ChatGPT in classroom curriculum

Venue: Online
Organized By: IPN Leadership Academy
Resource Person Ms. Jaya Ramchandani
Participants: NILADRI KUMAR MOTILAL, SANZEEDA SULTANA MIRZA

Highlight: The workshop gave an insight into the benefits of using the ChatGPT and also explained its limitation. The application can be effectively used to create MCQs, fomative assessment questions and even worksheets based on one’s queries. One has to be specific with learning objectives in order to get the desired results.

TinkrCode Workshop

Venue: ATL Lab
Organized By: Tinkrcode
Resource Person: Mr. Sashank Sanas
Participants: SWATI MUKHERJEE, PABITRA BAIDYA

Highlight: We have learnt few more coding in order to complete complex activity using light and movement simultaneously. We have learnt how to structure the program with the help of subroutine. We could cover various upcoming sessions using Tinkrcode.

Student Exchange India Germany Programme

Venue: Aalen, Germany
Organized By: LSA and KSA
Participants: DARSHAN SINGH GILL, SOHINI MITRA JAIN, 8 students from classes IX to XI
Highlight: Our academy took part in the Student Exchange India Germany Programme. A group of 8 students from classes IX to XI, escorted by Mr. Darshan Singh Gill and Ms. Sohini Mitra Jain, took off for a 2 week programme to Germany from 12th May 2023 to 27th May 2023. The team of students and teachers stayed in Aalen, Germany with their respective host families. The first part of the exchange programme was indeed a memorable one.

Ek Sham Hindi teachro ke naam

Venue Badmash cafe
Organized By Sanmarg Hindi Newspaper Organisation
Resource Person Sanmarg Hindi Newspaper
Participants Lilawati Mishra, Radhika Shaw, Jyotshna Jyoshi
Highlight Had a great evening. All the Hindi teachers got collaborated and enjoyed themselves. They discussed about the importance of Hindi language in today's era. It was a refreshing moment from the mundane life.

COLLABORATIVE ART PROJECT DECLARED

Venue: ONLINE
Organized By: Malavika Mandal Andrews
Participants: PRISHA BAJAJ(X B), TANVI JAIN(X B)
Highlight: Two students from class X participated in this online digital image making collaborative project where they had to team up with other school students and share their digital images made on specific themes.

Excursion Trip to Darjeeling and Kalinpong, from 12th May to 17th May

Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Participants: Students of classes IX and X

Highlight: 102 students from classes IX and X were a part of the trip. They had a good time. The stay and sight visits at Kalimpong was magnificent. The visits to Lava monastery and Deolo Park was enjoyed by all. The students got an opportunity to shop at the Hong Kong Market in Siliguri too.

Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English (0475): Focus on setting good coursework tasks

Venue: Zoom
Organized By Cambridge Assessment International Education
Resource Person Anne Architetto
Participants SUDESHNA CHOWDHURY

Highlight The workshop dealt with ways of strengthening the teacher's understanding of coursework tasks and explored approaches to improve the effectiveness of it. It was a lively and engaging session incorporating quite a few hands on activities.

Farewell of Ruth Annherrlinger

Event: Farewell of Ruth Annherrlinger
Organized By: Nutrition and Dietetics students of our Academy
Resource Person: Ms. Deepa Das
Participants: Nutrition and Dietetics students of our Academy
Highlight: The students of Nutrition and Dietetics arranged a farewell for Ruth Annherrlinger, an international exchange student. Students prepared muffins themselves and arranged other snacks items for her. She was given a box of Indian spices as a memento.

Digital Financial Security Quiz

Venue: Computer Lab
Organized By: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Participants: All teachers of our Academy

Highlight: During India’s presidency of G20, The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (is running a campaign titled ‘Stay Safe Online’ aimed at creating awareness among citizens to stay safe in an online world on the widespread use of social media platforms and rapid adoption of digital payments. Teachers of our academy from different levels has participated in this quiz session and received certificate after successfully completion of the quiz event. The event sensitizes all teachers about online risk & safety measures and promoting cyber hygiene thereby reinforcing the cyber safety of citizens.

Youth for Unnati and Vikas with AI

Venue: Online
Organized By: National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, in collaboration with Intel India
Resource Person: National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology with Intel India
Participants: Students of Classes IX and X
Highlight: It is a national level programme in which classes 9 and 10 took part as a lesson extension of the skill based subject AI. Students registered themselves and within a month they will be submitting their ideas through video making on AI solutions at various domains. Each student received a certificate of appreciation after submitting their project.

PARENT ORIENTATION FOR CLASS XI

Venue:              GROUND FLOOR ASSEMBLY HALL
Organized By:    Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person:Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Participants:       Parents of Class XI
Highlight:           LSA organised a Parent Orientation Programme for the parents of Class XI, with the objective of familiarizing parents with the rules and regulations of the school, the curriculum, the marking scheme and the various opportunities offered by the school. The meet was addressed by the Director, Ma’am Meena Kak, the Principal, Ma’am Jaya Misra and the Senior Secondary Coordinator. Parents were elated to know of the various accolades achieved by the students and staff across the world.

Workshop on Good Touch and Bad Touch

Venue: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person: Teresa Gomes
Participants: The support staff of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Highlight: It was an interactive session. The support staff interacted well. The support staffs also shared their experiences about the topic.

Showcase during National Technology Day

From: 09/05/2023 To 15/05/2023
Venue: New Delhi
Organized By: Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog
Resource Person: NITI Aayog
Participants: Vishwesh Kumar, Neerav Nagori and Gaurav Poddar
Highlight: 3 of our students Vishwesh Kumar, Neerav Nagori and Gaurav Poddar, along with their Mentor teacher Mr. Dipankar Pal, received the opportunity to showcase their prototype model "Jeevanam" which gives a futuristic solution in the domain of Medicine.

Workshop on Seizures

Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person: Malkit Roy
Participants: Teachers of LSA
Highlight: All teachers were trained about how to give medical treatment to anyone who is having seizures. The teachers were made aware about the symptoms of seizures and how to provide first aid to students.

Workshop on updated features of ERP Software-Campuscare

Organized By: LSA
Resource Person: Mr. Shrinath Verma
Participants: All Teachers of LSA
Highlight: A training was provided to all the teachers about the class diary assignment, sending internal messages over Campus Care ERP software which would be beneficial for both teachers and parents.

AIoT integration in Science and Social Science

Venue: ATL
Resource Person: Mr. Dipankar Pal, Ms. Nandini Chanda, Ms. Debarpita Koley, Mr Niladri Motilal
Participants: All IT Teachers, Social Science and Science teachers of Middle and Senior School
Highlight: An AIoT training was organised for Middle School and Secondary teachers teaching Science and Social Science on 6th May 2023.The teachers were updated on Design Thinking that involved ideation, innovation and prototyping. An idea of algorithmic thinking, data gathering and pattern recognition was also discussed. A prototype of a model was shared with the participants. Teachers also prepared a draft lesson plan on the subjects based on their year plan.

Ways to be an effective facilitator

Venue: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person: Runa Ghosh
Participants: Teachers of primary department
Highlight: The workshop focused on the difference between a teacher and a facilitator, the aim of a facilitator and the ways to be a facilitator. It was an interactive session where the teachers shared their best practices with each other

Integration of the Environment with the Curriculum

Venue: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Acadmey
Resource Person: Manmeet kaur
Participants: Teachers of Primary Department
Highlight The session highlighted the benefits of integration of curriculum across subjects. The need to integrate the environmental issues and concerns with the curriculum was emphasized in order to motivate the students to work towards the betterment of our planet.

Introduction of Hindi through Mother Tongue

Venue: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY
Organized By: LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY
Resource Person: Rama Poddar
Participants: Teachers teaching Preprimary section of LSA
Highlight: Importance and benefits of teaching Hindi through mother tongue was discussed along with the role of teacher as well as of the school. It was an interactive and informative session.

Creating Positive Classroom Environment and Organizing the Environment

Venue: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Organized By: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person: NCF Foundational Stage
Participants: Afshan Nahid, Arwah Hussain Deesawala, Bindiya Kaur Gill, Ishita Valentina Gomes, Khadija Aamir Choonawala, Priya Mozumdar, Rekha Dayani, Tikshna Chopra
Highlight: The role of the teacher is very important in guiding children in their behaviour and in forming strong positive relationships. Teachers, therefore, have to be thoughtful and responsive towards the needs of children.

Principals' Conclave 2023

Venue: The Park
Organized By: Times of India
Resource Person: Dr Suman Mukherjee, Professor Suranjan Das & others
Participants: JAYA MISRA

Highlight: There were 3 panel discussions on the following topics Experiential & Competency based Learning ; Physical & Mental Wellbeing among students ; Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Education. The guest speakers presented their views on these topics and gave the audience food for thought.

Cambridge east India Schools Community Meeting

Venue: The Heritage School Kolkata

Organised by: Cambridge Assessment International Education

Resource persons: The session was conducted by the officials from the Cambridge south Asian team, Mr Satyajit Sarkar (Senior Manager), Mr Mahesh Srivastava (Regional Director South-Asia), Akash Raut (Academic Advisor), Mr Lalit Prasad (Head Professional Development), Ms Shamim Chowdhury ( Regional Manager recognition and policy). SAI International School, Bhubaneshwar, The Heritage School, Kolkata, South City International School, Kolkata, and Level Field School, Siuri

Participants : Ms Debarati Banerjee , Ms Piu Mahapatra

Highlight: The aim of the event was to create a unique platform for progressive schools to come together to share success stories and updates, highlight best practices, exchange pedagogical approaches in teaching and learning space, training, and professional opportunities.

TTIS Tiger Hunt Orientation

Venue: Buwalka Hall
Organized By: The Telegraph
Resource Person: The Telegraph In Schools
Participants: Students of Classes X & XII
Highlight: Pratyusha Gupta (Class 12) and Maanvi Lohia (Class 10) have been selected from the school to cover activities and events as reporters on behalf of the school.

Climate Conference 2023

Venue: Offbeat CCU
Organized By: Techno India Group
Resource Person: Techno India Group
Participants: XII D
Highlight: Vanshika Kothari and Pratyusha Gupta represented LSA on the topic Traffic Congestion.

Webinar on 'How to be a Lawyer?'

Organized By: The Telegraph Online Edugraph
Resource Person: Ms. Vaneeta Patnaik
Participants: Sneha Singh and the students of Legal Studies.
Highlight: Precise and useful information was provided on skills required to pursue legal profession and opportunities available to students of law.

Study In UK

Organized By: SIUK and LSA
Resource Person: Abir Mukherjee & Aishwarya Jaiswal
Participants: Students of Classes XI – XII
Highligh:t It was an interesting event where students were told about the benefits of studying in the UK.

Paper Bag Making

Participants: Students of classes III-V
Highlight: Children made paper bags using newspapers. They watched the video and made the paper bag. They then decorated the bags with different decorative items like stickers, sequins, flowers, ribbons etc.
Lastly, they used a satin ribbon or a jute string to make the handle of the bag. They even exchanged the bags with their friends.

Workshop on Depression Symptoms and Remedies

Organized By: Dayanand Sagar University
Resource Person: Dr. Kaul
Participants: Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Symptoms and remedies of depression which is a serious mental health condition affecting students and signs to watch out for in students were discussed. Strategies were discussed which would help students suffering from depression.

Radio Mirchi Tour

Venue: Radio Mirchi Station
Organized By: Times NIE
Resource Person: Radio Mirchi
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Two students Anushka Ghosh and Aditya Goswami were part of this tour. They learnt individual expression and communication techniques from RJ Agni.

Tinkerwork

Venue: Tinkering Lab at School
Resource Person: Dipjyoti Das
Participants: Pabitra Kumar Baidya, Swati Mukherjee
Highlight: We have learned different theoretical concept of sensors and hardware components of robots. We were oriented about the different classes and how to use supporting content during the session.
We have constructed the robot and program accordingly.

Workshop on Experiential Learning

Venue: Hariyana Vidya Mandir, Kolkata
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Dr Ramesh Agarwal And Dr Akhilesh kumar
Participants: Sneha Singh
Highlight: Extremely interactive and hands on training. Learnt how to integrate experiential activities in various Subjects and also how to integrate various subjects while teaching.

CBP CBSE Workshop on Happy Classrooms

Venue: Asian International School, Howrah
Organized By: Asian International School
Resource Person: Dr S.P.Gupta,Ms Debi Saha Seal
Participants: Tikshna Chopra
Highlight: The resource person kept the participants engaged by sharing real life examples. An interesting
session that helped in learning classroom situation and acting accordingly to make the pupils happy.
Knowledge of self and environmental factors affecting happiness, challenges faced in classroom and
how to overcome those were discussed.

Capacity Building Workshop (CLASS XII)

Venue : Hariyana Vidya Mandir
Organized By : CBSE
Resource Person : Ms Anjana Dey & Ms Indrani Bhattacharyya
Participants : Srabanti Deb
Highlight : It was an interactive session coupled with activities.

Celebrating ATL Community Day

Organized By: NITI Aayog and LSA-ATL
Resource Person: Mr. Dipankar Pal
Participants: 18 middle school Students of LSA and 26 students of Future Hope Foundation (an NGO) Highlight ATL Community Day celebration is an important event that promotes the spirit of innovation,creativity and entrepreneurship among students in India and encourages them to develop skills that
are critical for the 21st-century workforce. It provides a platform for young innovators to connect with each other, share their ideas, learn from experts and gain exposure to the world of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Youth for Unnati and Vikas with AI

Organized By: National eGovernence Division, Intel, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Resource Person: Intel, NeGD, MeITy
Participants: Niladri Kumar Motilal, Sudakshina Datta
Highlight: It was a teacher orientation aimed to foster a deeper understanding of AI and to enable school students from class 8 to 12 across the nation with AI skills to become human centric designers and users of AI. Students will be given similar orientation programme in due course of time. Later students will be encouraged to submit their ideas through a 120 seconds video explaining a proposed AI enabled solution for any one of the eight core themes.

Parent Orientation Programme

Participants: Parents
Highlight: An orientation programme was organized and conducted on 11th of April 2023 for parents of classes VI-VIII to familiarise the parents with the examination structure, rules and regulations, teaching methodologies and co-scholastic activities of the middle school. Director, Principal and Coordinator addressed the parents and enlightened them about the holistic development that the curriculum offers and implementation of innovative teaching strategies.

Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony

Highlight: Academy organised its Annual Awards Ceremony after 2 years to reward students for their achievements in various scholastic and co-scholastic fields for the academic year 2022-23. Prize winners as well as their parents were invited to the ceremony, so that they could witness this proud moment of their child’s life. The Chief Guest for the ceremony was Ms. Gitanjali Ghosh, a social worker and Director of the Anando Trust which is an NGO for underprivileged children. Prizes were given for General Proficiency from classes I-XI as well as trailblazers like Best Behaved students, Star Class Award,
Prashasti Award for National and International recognition in co-scholastic activities, Samman and Sadachar awards for excellence in academics as well as discipline, Helpage India Award as well as Awards for 100% attendance for 7 years or over. Children were given certificates, trophies as well as books.

Workshop

Resource Person: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta, Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Students of Class VII
Highlight: Students were given exposure to self awareness and mindfulness and building positive self esteem and self confidence. Activities were done on awareness on mindfulness and ways to practise mindfulness.

IT Workshop

Organized By: IT Dept of LSA
Resource Person: Teachers of IT Department
Participants: Students of Classes IV to VIII
Highlight: We have conducted IT workshops for classes 4 to 8. Students did selective activities from Stay Safe Online project of Government of India and Be Internet Awesome project of Google and CBSE.
Students of different classes gained knowledge on how to be safe while being online. They have done various activities like SSO pledge, SSO Quiz , Being a good search engine and Identification of real or fake. We are able to complete "Be Internet Awesome" Activity launched by CBSE through this IT workshop.

Workshop

Resource Person: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta, Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Students of VIII
Highlight: Students were given understanding of Resilience through fun filled activities. What is Resilience, understand the differences between Growth and Fixed mindset, ways to be Resilient (Activity) were explained to them.

Workshops and activities conducted in week 1

Participants Students of Classes III to V
Highlight The new session (2023 24) began with some activities and workshops conducted for the students of classes 3 to 5. These were held in week 1 from 3.4.23 to 5.4.23. The activities and workshops included yoga session, physical education and dance, archery, IT sessions, workshop on etiquette, life skill, art, music and on dental hygiene.

Workshop

Resource Person: Ms. Sumona Dasgupta, Ms. Nabamita Dutta Gupta
Participants: Students of class VI
Highlight: Students were made aware about the transitions to the new class. They learnt about gratitude, being thankful for the small things around them and finding ways to be happy.

Workshop on Essential Etiquettes

Resource Person Sunitha R Dey, Nandini Chanda
Participants Students of Classes VI to VIII
Highlight All the students of Middle School were subject to a workshop on Essential Etiquettes. They sat house wise during the workshop and derived their own essential etiquettes that they thought was important to follow. They then enacted out situations to display the right code of conduct in various situations given to them. All the students participated whole heartedly. It was wonderful to see some quiet students taking up active roles during the role play.

Sewing for Survival

Participants: Students of Class VI

Highlight :Students were very excited to use the needle and thread for the 1st time. They learnt how to thread a needle, stitch a button, secure the thread and hemming.

Doctor's Workshop on Puberty and Nutrition

Resource Person Dr. Rituparna and Dr.Vikram Chaturvedi
Participants Students of classes VI to VIII
Highlight It was an interactive workshop on changes during puberty and how to handle them and the importance of health and nutrition.

Workshop on Oral Hygiene

Resource Person: Dr. Shreya Bose (Endodontist)
Participants: Students of Classes III to V
Highlight: Dr. Shreya Bose highlighted the importance of maintaining oral hygiene for children through an interactive session and video presentations. The children enjoyed the session thoroughly and understood the relevant points explained to them.

AI at schools

Organized By IPN Leadership Academy
Participants Swati Mukherjee
Highlight Enjoyed learning in the workshop session and was able to learn different AI tools with the help of hands on activity.

The following major points were covered:
-Connecting AI to core teaching, Coexistence of Human & Artificial intelligence, Possible Integration of AI in schools
-Understanding the potential threats
-Coping with changing times

AIoT Integration Teacher Training

Venue: Hotel Monotel, Salt Lake
Organized By: CBSE, NITI Aayog, intel
Resource Person: Facilitator from intel, Special Guest –DrBiswajit Saha, Director, Skills Education, CBSE. AIoT Integration in Curriculum handbook
Participants: Debarpita Koley, Dipankar Pal, Nandini Chanda, Niladri Kumar Motilal
Highlight: 13 Schools from across the country participated. This is a Train the Trainer Model where Master Trainers are being created to impart training to the school teachers on pragmatic and rational integration of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things to teaching learning process in school.

Webinar to create awareness on National Curriculum Framework – Foundational Stage

Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Mr. Ranjan Arora
Participants: Mitali Mukhopadhyay
Highlight: The webinar enlightened us about the features of the National Curriculum Framework – Foundational Stage. Holistic development based on 5 domains - Physical & Motor, Socio – Emotional- Ethical, Cognitive, Language & Literacy and Aesthetic & Cultural It stressed on play to be the centre of child’s learning. Play includes story telling, toy based learning, Music & Rhymes, Art & Craft, Games, Field trips and Nature walks.
Thematic and integrated learning pedagogy to include planning, building positive relationship, learning through play, four block approach for literacy and Mathematics, creating positive classroom culture. Four Block Approach for Literacy - Oral, Word Recognition, Reading and Writing; Four Block Approach for Numeracy - Oral Math Talks, Skill Teaching, Skill Practice, Math Game. Method of Assessment to include Checklist, Event Sampling, Portfolios, Work Samples, and Worksheets. Early identification of children who are at risk is needed. Variety of Teaching Learning Materials to be developed.

Cubs/Bulbuls Camp

Venue: Taki Sonar Bangla
Participants: Students of classes IV and V
Highlight: A total number of 151 students joined the camp along with 11 teachers and 3 support staff. The students were overjoyed and enthusiastically participated in the various camp activities. Their stay at the resort was comfortable and they enjoyed the delectable cuisine. The various activities included group presentation, shadow dance, scorpion tail, chariot race, night trail etc. These activities helped to inculcate many skills among students like critical thinking skills, emotional and social skills, leadership skills, problem solving skills and developed s elf- awareness, empathy and decision-making abilities among them. It was a great learning experience for the students as they got the opportunity to bond with their teachers and peers, learn wonderful things in a stress-free environment and boost their self-confidence.

International Cyberfair Competition

From Date 15/11/2022 To 23/03/2023
Event: International Cyberfair Competition
Organized By: Globalschoolnet
Participants: Class XI Mass Media Students and Web Application students
Highlight: CyberFair is an award-winning authentic project-based learning program. Class XI students of Mass Media Studies and Web Application conducted research and published their findings using digital media by making a website. This year we chose the category Community Groups and Special Populations. The overall theme was Be Kind and Unite. The Title of our project is Caring Cosmopolitan Learners and our website address is https://lsacyberfair22.wixsite.com/my-site-2

Visit to the Science City

Venue: Science City
Participants: Students of Classes VIII & IX
Highlight: It was a fun filled and enriching day where students witnessed an informative 3D show, travelled through the geological timeline of life on earth and experienced motion simulator. The models displayed in the gallery helped the students understand the principles of Science.

Scouts and Guides Camp at Dooars

Venue: Dooars
Resource Person: Scouts and Guides Teachers
Participants: Students of Classes VI and VII
Highlight: A four day Scouts and Guides Camp for the session 2022 23 was organized by school at Prime Murti in Dooars. 192 students of classes VI and VII participated in the camp. It was a great learning experience and an enjoyable session for the students through various kinds of activities. 14 teachers accompanied the students.

National Coding Challenge

Organized By: Juanatech and CBSE
Resource Person: Juanatech and CBSE
Participants: Avaneesh Bajaj(VIII D), Bhavya Agarwal(VIII D), Devesh Patwari(VIII B), Saurjesh Chatterjee(VIII B), Shreeyash Kejriwal(VIII D), Swapnil Ghosh(VIII B), Tanish Singhania(VIII B)
Highlight: 2 teams of class 8 took part in this event. It was an opportunity for them to showcase their 21st century skills to solve some of the real life issues with technology. They made code based games using makeCode to cater to these real life issues. Result awaited.

Workshop on Continuous Professional Development

Organized By: Super Teachers
Resource Person: Mr. Vasudevan
Participants: Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight: The workshop emphasized on the need of completion of 50 hours of professional development workshops conducted by both external sources and inhouse sources by every teacher as per NEP 2020 and notification from the CBSE. Super Teacher’s organization can help in arranging workshops for schools for the above purpose.

English in Multilingual Classroom

Organized By: British Council
Resource Person: British Council
Participants: Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight: Various approaches of incorporating English as a second language were illustrated through numerous exercises.

Convocation Ceremony 2022-23

Participants: Students of Classes II & V
Highlight: The Convocation is an annual programme held in the school premises, which serves as a formal send-off for the students of class 2 and 5 as they move to the Primary and Middle School sections respectively. The performances by the students of Classes I, III and IV were well appreciated.

Grandparent’s Day

Participants: Students of Montessori
Highlight: Thursday, morning saw grandparents' of the youngest members of our academy go down memory lane playing games, tapping their feet and voicing their feelings in the school premises.

Workshop on Making AI projects that helps the society.

Organized By CBP Intel AI4Youth
Resource Person Mr. Sarthalk Narnor
Participants Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight The workshop focused on the AI projects which becomes unproductive due to lack of practicability. One needs to be focused on the usage area and the practical aspect of the projects in real life. Then only the project will have better implementation. The resource person explained a few successful and unsuccessful projects with reasons.

Visit to BITM

Venue: BITM
Participants: Students of Montessori
Highlight: Children were very excited and well mannered. They had a great time in the children’s gallery, television and digital gallery.

Workshop – Soulful Schools

Organized By: Future School Leaders
Resource Person: Dr. Kiran Bedi and others
Participants: Jaya Misra
Highlight: It was an enriching experience to hear the stalwarts who are aiming to humanising schools and make the world a better place.

Capacity Building Workshop on 'GENDER SENSITIVITY'

Venue: Saini International School, Howrah
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Dr. Dhananjay Pan and Ms. Jharna Das
Participants: Debarpita Koley
Highlight: Concept, gender and gender sensitivity was introduced Related terms (like Gender Role, Gender Gap, Gender Equity, Gender Equality etc.) were discussed with examples. Handouts were provided to the trainees. Discussion with a few activities was conducted. Implementing Gender Equality through subject teaching was demonstrated

India Early Education Dialogue 2022 Play based learning.

Organized By IPN Leadership Academy
Resource Person Ms. Harsha G. Ramaiya
Participants Clara Karmakar, Moneera Sadique
Highlight It was indeed an enriching workshop which showcased the numerous ways to involve play based method of teaching as a vital part of curriculum in order to impart fun learning.

Master Trainer Workshop on Be Internet Awesome

Organized By: CBSE and Google Mahatattva team
Resource Person: Dr. Amit Bajaj
Participants: Sudakshina Datta
Highlight: It was an elaborative and interactive session on how we can make our teachers and students more Internet Smart and ourselves become a certified master trainer as well. A guideline to train teachers and students were given along with content resources.

Capacity Building Programme on Health and Wellness

Venue: Abhinav Bharati High school
Organized By: CBSE
Resource Person: Dr. Sankar Prasad Dutta and Mrs. Vijay Lakshmi Kumar
Participants: Siddhartha Sankar Chakraborty
Highlight: The information provided during the workshop was useful and can be implemented in classroom teaching. The examples given from classroom situations helped us understand the situation better and make the workshop appealing for the attendees.

Universal Design for learning

Venue: Manovikas Kendra
Organized By: Manovikas Kendra
Resource Person: Dr. Richard Ross, Dr. Narayan
Participants: Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight: Teaching method for all, multisensory, social and emotional learning was discussed

A Trip to the Zoo (Educational Excursion)

Venue: Alipore Zoo
Participants: Students of Pre School I to Class II
Highlight: The children were elated on seeing the animals at the zoo and were curious to find more about their habitat and food habit.

Cyberfair - Bulletin Board

Organized By: Cyberfair students team
Participants: Students of Classes III – V
Highlight: Students from classes 3 to 5 (one from each section) made a bulletin board for Cyberfair Bulletin Board competition on the theme "Be Kind & Unite". They had taken up the topic: Love for all kinds of animals.

Formal Farewell (Class XII)

Saying adieu to the outgoing students of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy is always done in a formal way every year, through a unique diya ceremony. The ceremony signifies the act of formally unleashing the chains of protection with which we had bound our students. Director, Ms. Meena Kak said that the beauty of this ceremony marks the beginning of a new life that awaits our outgoing students. Our blessings will always be there with you all as they fly away towards their dream destinations. Some of the teachers, parents and students also were given opportunities to share their emotions for the outgoing batch of the Academy.

Embracing Multi Lingual Aspects in Classrooms

Organized By: CBSE COE Bhopal, CBSE COE Bangalore
Resource Person: Dr. Ambika Prasad Gaur, Mr. Suryavathy
Participants: Priti Kedia
Highlight: The resource person spoke in great detail regarding the benefits of learning multiple languages and how it can help in the overall development of a child.

Traffic Rule Awareness Week Posters

Organized By: Kolkata Police
Resource Person: Darshan S. Gill
Participants: Students of Classes VII - IX
Highlight: Students of our academy made posters for Kolkata Police on Traffic Rule Awareness week. Out of these, 12 posters were selected and sent to the Kolkata Police which they displayed in their exhibition to celebrate the event.

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Organized By: CIET
Resource Person: Dr. R. C. Sharma, Dr. Biju K, Dr. A. R. Ramesh, Dr. P. Ashkarali
Participants: Udita Chakraborty
Highlight: Need and scope of LMS, introduction to the LMS- MOODLE, resource used for course enrichment, activities, how to take assessment were discussed. It is an advanced version of Google Classroom and other online questionnaire platforms like Kahoot, Quizzes that use different features for making online teaching effective and interactive.

Saraswati Puja Celebration

Participants: All Teachers and Students of Classes III – XII
Highlight: Saraswati Puja was celebrated with great pomp like every year followed by Bhog distribution. All staff members along with students offered flowers and asked for blessings from the deity. Flag was also hoisted inside the school premises. Poster making activity was also conducted for classes III – VIII as an extension of International Cyberfair Project.

Webinar on forthcoming Exam Update (Cambridge)

Event                      Webinar on forthcoming Exam Update

Organized By           Cambridge Assessment International Education

Participants              Sudakshina Datta

Highlight                  Detailed discussion about forthcoming IGCSE and other exam were done followed by a question answer session.

Workshop on Team Building

Resource Person: Ms. Afshan Nahid
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The workshop was conducted on Team Building which is one the most important skills among the 21st Century Life Skills. The teachers were engaged in different team building activities which they can utilize in their classes.

Workshop on Cambridge: Approaches to Curriculum

Event                        Workshop on Cambridge: Approaches to Curriculum

Resource Person        Ms. Ronita Biswas

Participants               Teachers of Primary and Middle School Department

Highlight                   It was an interactive session on the best practices for outcome based learning in the Lower Secondary Cambridge   curriculum. The content was engaging.

Workshop on Team Building

Resource Person: Ms. Afshan Nahid
Participants: Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight: The workshop was conducted on Team Building which is one the most important skills among the 21st Century Life Skills.The teachers were engaged in different team building activities which they can utilize in their classes.

Tana Bana

Resource Person: Individual artisans
Participants: The students, teachers and the parents of LSA
Highlight: It was an initiative by the school to support local purpose driven textile business and give them the recognition that they deserve.

Batch 63 - CBSE Peer educator Life Skills Training Program

Organized By: Team CBSE and Expression India
Resource Person: CBSE and Expression India
Participants: Manvi Lohia(IX B), Priyank Rai(IX D), Sambhaavya Upadhyay(IX C), Vanessa Parikh(IX A) 

Highlight: The Peer Educator Life Skills Training Program is designed and conducted by CBSE in collaboration with Expression India to empower students as Life Skills and well-being ambassadors who as peer leaders, will promote mental health awareness among the school students.

Intramural Sports Meet 2022

Venue Gitanjali Stadium
Participants All Students from Montessori to Class XI
Highlight LSA celebrated its 25th Annual Sports meet this year. Ms. Dola Banerjee was the chief guest and Air Marshal Arup Raha was the guest of Honour. The drill was based on 75 years of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav showcasing various sports of India.

Orientation Programme on IPS for districts of West Bengal

Venue Haryana Vidya Mandir
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE representatives
Participants Jaya Misra, Niladri Kumar Motilal
Highlight The resource persons demonstrated how to fill the details in integrated payment system. They discussed about common errors and also took feedback about the problems faced during entry.

Capacity Building Program on NEP2020

Venue Asian International School
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mr. Sushil Kumar Sinha, Dr. R.K. Agarwal
Participants Anindita Pal
Highlight Discussion through activities and role play on - Early childhood care and education; Fundamental literacy and numeracy; Curtailing drop- out rates and ensuring universal access to education at all levels; Curriculum and pedagogy in schools and Equitable and inclusive education.

Workshop - Teamwork

Resource Person Subhi Vijay Vargiya
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight Teachers shared their experiences of working in a team. They divided themselves into groups and chose a word that starts with each letter of the word TEAMWORK which describes what makes a successful team.

Training on Animation as Digital Resource for Teaching and Learning

Organized By CIET NCERT
Resource Person CIET NCERT
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight It was an extensive training for 4 days on various animation tools which can be used as digital resource for teaching.Various animation types, 2D, 3D and stop motion animation explained in details. Thorough demonstration of free open source applications like Pixton, Krita, Wick Editor were done by different resource person from various institutes.

Edu Carnival 2022 : Reimagining & Rebuilding K 12 Education

Venue IIT Delhi
Organized By Edu Excellence
Resource Person Prof Harish Chaudhry, Mr Manish Sisodia, Mr Shiv Khera & others
Participants Jaya Misra
Highlight It was an enriching experience where 400+ delegates from different corners of India assembled to address common concerns, seeking solutions for the K 12 learners. A number of sessions left the attendees with thought provoking questions and gave a new dimension to the teaching learning process.

Workshop on Animation as digital resource for teaching and learning

Organized By: CIET
Resource Person: Dr. Rejaul Karim Barbhuiya, Mr. S. Simon Peter Paul, Ms. Pratima Singh, Mr. Santosh Kumar Bisin, Mr. M. Thangaraja
Participants: Udita Chakraborty
Highlight: Use of animation in the teaching- learning process was discussed. Use of different tools like Stop Motion , Comic Strip, Pixton, Krita and Wick Editor for creating animation and thereby learn to make their own story and even comics was demonstrated.

industrial incubation at the AIC-Atal Incubation Center under the Nalanda Institute of Technology (Bhubaneswar)

Three teams from Lakshmipat Singhania Academy (Sambhav, Park-at and Cancer Care) are going through the process of industrial incubation at the AIC-Atal Incubation Center under the Nalanda Institute of Technology (Bhubaneswar) to create MVP-Market Viable product. They are among the ATL Marathon's top 350 teams from thousands of pan-India teams.
ATL Marathon is the flagship program by ATAL Tinkering Lab across 10,000 schools.
Wishing them the very best !

Visit to Alipore Jail Museum

Venue: Alipore Jail Museum
Participants: Students of classes VI to IX
Highlight: The students took part in an educational trip to the Alipore Jail Museum. It was a walk through the history of pre independent India as the correctional home has been a silent witness to the brutalities inflicted upon the freedom fighters. It was a deep learning experience for the students. Students understood, how and where our freedom fighters were imprisoned, their contribution in freedom, important facts about them and their sacrifices.

Japanese Calligraphy workshop

Resource Person: Sensei Nigamaha
Participants: Students of classes VIII, IX & XI
Highlight: Sensei Nigamaha conducted a wonderful workshop of doing authentic Japanese Calligraphy for 30 students of class VIII to XI. They were introduced to a special kind of paper, brush and ink and learnt to write two words in Japanese. It was a very rewarding workshop. Aarav Bharany, the Head Boy, specially attended the workshop to interact with her in Japanese and convey her words to our students in English

Earth Reel Finals

Organized By: Earth Day Network
Resource Person: Earth Day Network
Participants: Anikait Chakraborty, Riddhima Koley, Shivangi Dey and Megha Dasgupta
Highlight: 4 students of class 12 D (Anikait Chakraborty, Riddhima Koley, Shivangi Dey and Megha Dasgupta) had prepared a film titled 'Phataphati Fashion'. After qualifying the prelims, the team presented its film and research to the jury. The films speaks about sustainable fashion and how we must be more responsible in safeguarding the environment. 

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Emerging Trends in Computer Science Education for K 12

Organized By Super Teachers
Resource Person Mr. Vasudevan Natarajan
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight The session emphasized on the importance of Computer Science education post NEP 2020. It is not considered as an additional subject but should be considered as one of the mainstream subject. The organization has come up with a comprehensive study material for Computer Science for classes 1 to 8 at the present moment.

Webinar on Lower Secondary English (Cambridge)

Organized By Collins Publication
Resource Person Abhinandan Bhattacharya
Participants Kulbir Kaur, Shreerupa Banerjee, Sudakshina Datta, Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight The webinar was on understanding of LS English First Language curriculum framework. It also gave an insight into how should the teacher cater to the subject when teaching the Lower secondary English for the first time. 

Webinar on Cambridge Checkpoint Entries for June 2023

Organized By Cambridge Assessment International Education
Resource Person Sara Kottam, Sonia Muser
Participants Sudakshina Datta
Highlight The webinar presented an orientation about June 2023 checkpoint of Cambridge International Assessment. It was mostly like a QandA session for schools gave November Checkpoint and is preparing for June checkpoint.

CBSE Science Exhibition

Venue Hariyana Vidya Mandia
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person CBSE
Participants Students of Classes IX X
Highlight It was a good experience by the students. Lot of amazing exhibits were there. It’s a very good platform for students to learn. Our teams were named as Oushadh and Nerro. Oushadh team made a protottype of an oxygen concentrator by mixing ancient and modern techniques where as team Nerro made a pocket water filter which can remove pathogens and produce filtered water.

Christmas Craft to celebrate Christmas

Participants: Students from Montessori to Class PS II
Highlight: Children learnt different ways of art work to make apt christmas crafts for the season. They learnt to share materials and not to waste the same.

Class XII Batch trip to Taki

Venue: Sonar Bangla Hotel at Taki
Participants: Students of Class XII
Highlight: Students enjoyed the trip with a lot of fun. Food and accommodation was good. Lot of activities such as volleyball, cricket and football were organized.

Embracing Multilingualism in Classrooms

Organized By COE Dehradun
Resource Person Prashant Kumar
Participants Runa Ghosh
Highlight The session discussed the requisites of multilingualism in classrooms and its advantages and disadvantages. It stressed on the need to make multilingualism a resource in the classroom.

NEP 2020 Progressive Leader

Organized By KIDEX
Participants Ashis Majumder
Highlight Received certificate for active contribution towards implementation of section 4.35 of National Education Policy 2020.

Founder's Day 2022

Venue: Kala Mandir
Participants: All Students and Staff of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Highlight: Lakshmipat Singhania Academy celebrated its 27th Founder's Day with immense enthusiasm. Upholding the ideals of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, students presented a dance drama Onward and Upward tracing the contours of India's momentous milestones across 75 years. It brought in a confluence of the five elements, Agni, Vayu, Prithvi, Jal, Vyom, and relived how India charted its course from a battered economy to one of the largest democracies of the world across the symbolic elements.

Raise awareness of human trafficking in cyberspace

Organized By Central Academy for Police Training, Bhopal under Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. Of India
Resource Person Sutapa Sanyal, former Director General of Police
Participants Students of Classes X & XII
Highlight It was an awareness programme against Human trafficking in cyberspace (with reference to child trafficking) for students of classs X and XII. Former Director General of police Ms. Sutapa Sanyal discussed about the reason of such trafficking, Economic ad social causes underlying the trafficking. 
The program also highlighted on how does cyber trafficking actually happen and how children are more vulnerable in getting into it. How do the trafficked people behave and how we can prevent it was also discussed.

Visit to Antara Gram Hospital for mentally Ill.

Venue Antara Gram
Resource Person Dr Biyoy Jacob
Participants Students of Class XII
Highlight It was a day trip, the journey was very comfortable. Students got an opportunity to interact very closely with the patients of Antara. A cultural program was organised by them as well as our students also performed. Students visited all the different wards. The Psychology students were sensitized about mental illness. It was a life time experience for all Psychology students.

Workshop on Bharhut Gallery

Venue: Indian Museum
Organized By: Indian Museum
Resource Person: Mistuni Mukherjee
Participants: Chandril Mukherjee(XII D), Muskan Goel(XII D), Riddhima Koley(XII D), Yamini Agarwal(XII D)
Highlight: The workshop was conducted taking the artefacts as sources of writing history, teaching
Buddhist philosophy and exposing students to Gandhara and Mathura school of art.

IBM Virtual Under 18 Internships

Organized By IBM
Participants Srikar Ayalasomayajula, Saurjesh Chatterjee, Amol Dalmia, Aneek Chakrabarti, Neev Attalani
Highlight They enjoyed the internship as they faced a glimpse of the corporate and its challenges. It taught them innovative thinking based on real life problem solving and there were sessions conducted by people from IBM. They were broken into groups and each group was guided by an IBM mentor who
helped them put together projects to solve real world issues. Their teams created a project to solve the rising air pollution in cities like Delhi and a Portable Smart Water Purification Technology.

Experiential Learning

Venue Jyotirmoy Public School
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person COE , Bhubaneswar
Participants Mousumi Mukherjee, Rupa Mazumdar
Highlight The workshop was on experiential learning based on a number of activities which could be done with different subjects catering to different types of learners.

Book donation drive

Resource Person Nirdhan Development & Microfinance
Participants All Students of our Academy
Highlight Students Pre primary to Senior sec. participated in Book donation drive. To serve the underprivileged section of the society by providing them with resources LSA organized book donation drive hand in hand with Nirdhan Development and Microfinance. School received an over whelming response from the students of Pre primary to Senior section. A huge number of books were being donated to the NGO who is trying their level best to make the people of local community 'functionally literate'.

Career Fair

Resource Person Mindler
Participants Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight 25 Universities: FLAME, KREA, ASHOKA, MARQUETTE etc National and International participated in the career fair organised by our school in collaboration with Mindler for classes IX to XII.

Mindler Career Counselling

Resource Person Mindler Coaches
Participants Nabamita Dutta Gupta, Sumona Dasgupta
Highlight Class X students, 1 1 session was conducted about their aptitude and interests. students got guidance on stream selection. workshops for classes 9 to 12 were also conducted.

West Bengal School Debating Championship

Venue Akash institute, Deshapriya Park
Organized By Calcutta Debating Circle
Resource Person Calcutta Debating Circle
Participants Students of Class IX & XI
Highlight Mahey Jain (9D) and Vanshika Kothari (11D) represented the school. The topic was The house is desirable of Brain drain. Mahey spoke against while Vanshika was for the house.

Workshop on Demistifying AI

Organized By CBSE and Intel
Resource Person Ms Sapna Bist
Participants Sudakshina Datta
Highlight Importance of AI as subject had been discussed. Discussion about promotion sessions and bootcamp done to promote the topic amongst students.

Times School Quiz

Venue Hyatt Regency Kolkata
Organized By Times of India Quiz
Participants Students of Class X B
Highlight Vanalika Rathi, Manya Chopra and Ayush Anchalia from class 10 got selected from preliminary round. They were invited to attend the Times School Quiz 2022 Grand finale .They have enjoyed the quiz session. They received participation certificates at the end of session.

Mid Day Meal

Venue Jankalyan Vidya Peeth
Participants Students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight Students learnt to prepare nutritional mid day meal for students of Jankalyan Vidyapeeth, Behala.They organised the collection of food ,cutting vegetables cooking the items in school premises packaging and distributing to the students

Joyful Mathematics

Venue Indus Valley World School, Kolkata
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Pankaj Kumar Jha and Bibhash Saha
Participants Soumitra Maji
Highlight Teachers learned common errors of maths, tricky sums, GeoGebra also did many activities.

English Language Teaching

Venue: The Park Hotel
Organized By: Oxford University Press
Resource Person: Dr. Sabina Pillai
Participants: Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight: The workshop threw light on the different teaching strategies that are expected to be incorporated during classroom teaching. A teacher is a scaffolding agent who reinforces the topics learnt.
The workshop successfully connected pedagogy with the future roll out of NEP 2020.

The Times of India School Quiz

Organized By: Times Of India
Resource Person: Times Of India
Participants: Students of Classes VII – XII
Highlight: The preliminary round was conducted in school for students of classes VII to XII. Only 3 students will be selected from here for the final round. The quiz covered aspects from all walks of life allowing to understand the student's range of general knowledge.

Event: Studying Sources: Teaching History with a Difference

Venue: Indian Museum
Organized By: Teachers' Centre
Resource Person: Dr. Amita Prasad
Participants: Kanak Shankar Mukherji, Mistuni Mukherjee, Sneha Singh
Highlight: Research and Activity oriented workshop conducted in Bharut gallery and the coins section. It integrates and interprets sources in teaching history.

District Level Kala Utsav 2022 23

Venue: Shiksha Bhawan
Organized By: RMSA KOLKATA
Resource Person: Sanjay Bhattacharya
Participants: Avni Khodiar (IX C)
Highlight: A tough competition where each and every participant was well trained and talented. Each participant had to answer questions from judges after performance.

Embracing Multilingualism in Classrooms

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Gurmeet Kaur
Participants Udita Chakraborty
Highlight Use of mother tongue at the elementary level, transition between languages and mixing words and expressions from different languages in the same spoken or written utterance was discussed.Speaking a second or third language will boost confidence and increase self esteem. Being multilingual or bilingual often helps children learn at school because it helps them with problem solving, multitasking, creativity and flexible thinking

Tinkering Day

Organized By NITI Aayog and Atal Innovation Mission
Resource Person Mr. Dipankar Pal
Participants Students of Classes VI upwards
Highlight Students from schools across India have joined together to perform a mega tinkering activity on Atal Tinkering Day. They have enjoyed making a motorized mini fan.

Children's day celebration

Participants All students of Montessori to Class XII
Highlight Children's day programme was celebrated with great pomp and enthusiasm. Students enjoyed their teachers performing skits, dance to the tune of their favourite programme and fashion walk with traditional attires. They also enjoyed the class party.

Capacity building Accountancy workshop

Venue Abhinav Bharti High School
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ravindra Singh, Subhasish Mazumdar
Participants Abhishek Sarkar, Bijay Raj Shaw, Sanjeeb Banerjee
Highlight Teachers are given handouts related to the subject and were apprised about the recent changes in the accountancy. Teachers discussed common errors and gave suggestions how it can be solved.

Webinar on Cambridge Assessment International Education Exam Officer

Organized By Cambridge International Exam Officer Team
Resource Person James Sanerds, Amy Cook
Participants Sudakshina Datta
Highlight It was an orientation session for the newly appointed exam officers under Cambridge Assessment International Education. The pathway to get all the guidelines and resources has been explained during the webinar.

Behavioural Problems in Children and in the Classroom

Resource Person Teresa Gomes
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The topic was very interesting and informative. Teachers found it relatable and so actively participated in the discussions and shared their problems.

Teacher Training on Be Internet Awesome Programme

Resource Person BIA Programme conducted by Ms. Ishita Valentina Gomes
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The workshop helped the teachers to identify the different types of spams online and verify sources of news. The teachers were made aware of the impact of their digital footprint and how they can
monitor it.

Changing Face of Education in conjunction with NEP

Venue Hariyana Vidya Mandir
Organized By CBSE Sahodaya School Complex
Resource Person Dr. G. Balasubramanian & Dr. G. Thangadurai
Participants Jaya Misra, Jayati Goswami
Highlight The workshop gave an insight on dealing with the current scenario in schools post pandemic in light of the NEP. It was an enriching session.

Soil Conservation

Participants Piu Mahapatra
Highlight Active learning Selected students of class 8 and 9 decorated the bulletin boards of school to promote soil conservation. Resource room Topic Tree of life. Students learned while creating the boards about the importance of soil preservation and the bigger message that what holds us together (trees) are raised from soil.

Orientation and Q&A session on DTI

Organized By Ministry of Education Innovation Cell
Resource Person Dr Pooja Rawat
Participants Niladri Kumar Motilal
Highlight The session aimed to introduce ‘Design Thinking and Innovation’ skill module to 6th class students in academic year 2022-23 to provide students with the tools and exposure to be able to address problems using the design thinking process. It focused more on hands-on knowledge, learning by doing and acting upon challenges discovered within the community and surroundings.

Humanizing Education

Organized By LuminatEd, Learners International School, Greater Noida
Resource Person Ms Manisha Trivedi
Participants Amritah Sen, Mumu Mukherjee
Highlight The program was about bringing the student out of classroom and work in the society in a meaningful way. The participating teachers and the students shared their experiences. It was encouraging to know about an alternative way of teaching/learning that has a direct way to take part in the society. The engagement models at three levels was discussed along with the inward journey through community service.

BP 6th Annual Lecture

Venue Nehru Children's Museum
Organized By Bichitra Pathshala
Resource Person Dr. Ananda Lal
Participants Sourina Bose, Kanak Shankar Mukherji
Highlight The topic of the lecture was The teacher as theatre. Professor Dr. Lal drew several parallels between teaching, act of teaching and theatre elements. The session focused on how as teachers we spend time within classroom and planning for lessons is almost like time spent for preparing a self scripted and self directed solo theatre performance day after day.

Story telling in the classroom

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Chitrakala Ramachandran
Participants Kulbir Kaur
Highlight The workshop was on using stories to make the classroom teaching learning more interesting. It also emphasized on how storytelling enhances visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners in different ways.
Story telling can be integrated in all the subjects and not only just languages.

Child Psychology Understanding development strategies

Organized By COE Prayagraj
Resource Person Dr.Andalib Zahera
Participants Shubhasree Das Gupta
Highlight The session discussed that development mostly involved changes, both growth and decline, as observed in old ages. Freud described human mind by two models: they are topographic model and psychic triad model. Topographic model contains human triad that is conscious mind, preconscious mind and subconscious mind and psychic triad model consists of id, ego and super ego.

Importance of Gratitude

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Chand Trehan
Participants Kulbir Kaur
Highlight The topic was Importance of Gratitude in today's world. The resource person focussed on how we educationists need to introspect on the importance of gratitude and how to pass this virtue on to the upcoming generation. Later she also discussed about the significance of the same in the long
run.

21st Centry Skills

Organized By CBSE COE Bhopal
Resource Person Lizarani Das
Participants Priti Kedia
Highlight It was an interesting workshop with focus on developing 21st century skills for the learners.

Workshop on financial literacy

Venue School premises 8th floor assembly hall
Participants Students of Class IX
Highlight Students participated in question - answer session of the workshop to clarify their doubts in personal finance.

Effective Communication

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Sarada C
Participants Kulbir Kaur
Highlight The workshop was on effective communication and the 4 communication skills. Different types of communication were discussed namely, non verbal, verbal, formal and informal. Apart from this various barriers in effective communication and how to overcome them were discussed.

CRAFT WORKSHOP 22

Venue LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY
Organized By LAKSHMIPAT SINGHANIA ACADEMY
Resource Person VARIOUS CRAFT ARTIST
Participants IX A, IX B, IX C, IX D

Highlight The students were exposed to art integrated education and experiential learning through a 10 hour workshop held over five days.
Students specialising in pattachitra paintings had managed to create beautiful tribal art paintings depicting man’s relationship with nature. They had even interacted with the artisan teaching them and learnt about her roots.

The most dedicated crowd was found at the corner of the room where carpentry was being taught. Students were working with their chisels and mallets, eager to create the perfect boat, doll or box. A variety of skills such as wood cutting, shaping and carving were learnt.

Shell art progressed at a gradual rate from making simple to complicated items. However, by the end of five days, students seemed to have mastered the art. They started by making jewellery such as hairpins out of shells. This progressed to making animals such as deer and lovebirds. By the fifth day, they had made statues of gods such as Ganesh and Krishna.

Another unique craft was making dolls out of cloth and cotton. Students learnt important life skills such as how to cut and sew cloth via this activity. This activity required a lot of intricate work and patience. However, as a result students got to take back lifelike bewitching dolls to adorn their homes.

Another group of students were taught to make earrings, necklaces and bracelets using reed, colourful beads and date palm leaves. Jewellery making can be very subjective. Each student depicted their creativity by adding their own little touches to the jewellery they made.

At the end of the five day workshop, students were proud of their creations and had embraced their country’s traditional crafts. Students underwent a full circle right from starting to making finished products and also buying crafts item in the kaarigar haat.

A Visit to HelpAge India

Venue Kalyan Ashram
Participants Aarshia Das and Ikshita Agarwal (V Bluebells)
Highlight On the occasion of Deepawali, a visit to HelpAge India (Kalyan Ashram, Chetla) was made by the students of class V accompanied by two teachers Ms. Aloka Sensharma and Ms. Kulbir Kaur. They distributed sarees and diyas among the 10 inmates of the old age home. Students amused them with a dance performance and by singing a song. It was a good experience for the students as well as the inmates of the old age home.

Bagless Days

Participants: Students of Classes III to V
Highlight: In accordance with NEP 2020, our academy conducted Bagless Days for the students. During these 2
weeks, students had Open Book Projects, participated in various interesting activities and had
educational excursions. Some of the activities conducted were as follows: Non - gas cooking, a
fruitful session by the peer educators, Zumba, Mandala Art, Diya designing, Story Telling (with
puppets), Math Workshop, English Vocabulary sessions, Jewellery designing, Aerobics, Indian Folk
dance, Music workshop on the importance of music in films, Foley music, Beat boxing etc, Karate,
Awareness on Bullying, Indian folk Music, Lantern making, demonstration of Reverse Osmosis, Save
Soil Activity and Activity based on Veergatha (SSC). Apart from the above a workshop was conducted
by Young Indians which focused on Cyber Safety, Road Safety and Positive Affirmations. Teachers
also had a Circle Time to instill discipline, etiquette, confidence building, managing emotions and
accepting failure. Overall, it was an enriching experience for all the students of classes IV to VIII.

Salient features of NEP

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Shitala Prabhu
Participants Shubhasree Das Gupta
Highlight The resource person discussed about the policies which we are practising. It was also discussed that expectations from the schools under NEP is to enable teachers to design practical and application based activities which will enhance critical, creative thinking skills and other skills among the students.

KAARIGAR HAAT 22

Resource Person Craft Artists and few NGOs
Participants Students of Classes III to XII
Highlight Students of classes 3 to 12 visited the Kaarigar Haat at the scheduled time and bought craft items from the craft artists. Students were exposed to various traditional crafts of India and they became supporters of the same by purchasing products made by them.

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Happy Teachers creating Happy Spaces

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Namita Agarwal
Participants Udita Chakraborty
Highlight The session was about how to create happiness through achievements and success, how the growth mindset, learning from our mistakes, stickers, smileys help to enhance happiness. It also talked about the importance of positive self-thought like I am enough, I can control my happiness etc.
Stress was put on how to maintain Home-School and Work-Life Balance through - Meditation, Spirituality, hobby etc. and discussed the pathways to happiness through Empathy, Gratitude, Optimism etc.

All India Arithmetic Genius Contest 2022 (Round 1)

Organized By SIP Academy
Resource Person SIP Academy
Participants Students of Classes I to V
Highlight The competition was a good way for students to gauge their problem solving skills as they had to complete the sums on mental ability within the stipulated time.

All India Arithmetic Genius Contest 2022 Round 1

Organized By:        SIP Acad

Resource Person :   SIP Academy

Participants    :        Students of Classes I to V

Highlight       :         The competition was a good way for students to gauge their problem solving skills as they had to complete the sums on mental ability within the stipulated time.

Workshop on Introducing Physical Computing and Project Based Learning

Organized By CBSE and Arm School Program
Resource Person Arm School Program
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight The details of involvement of Physical Computing in classroom teaching was discussed.

Role of theatre and drama in classroom

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Ritu Bajpayee
Participants Shubhasree Das Gupta
Highlight How riddles and puzzles in Mathematics will help the students to enhance their logical skills were discussed.

Excel with K W L

Organized By Arizona State University
Resource Person Dilafruz Vosieva
Participants Sudeshna Chowdhury
Highlight It was an informative session on K W L charts, extension activities and how to engage students with the same.

Addressing Socio emotional needs of students

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Sandeep Kumar
Participants S. Anandhi
Highlight The resource person discussed in detail about the five keys of socio emotional learning skills – Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills and Responsible Decision Making.

Trip to BITM

Venue BITM
Participants Students of Classes IV
Highlight A trip to BITM was planned for the students of class 4 on Tuesday, 18th October 2022. A total number of 128 students enthusiastically joined the excursion. The students enjoyed the 3D show, science show, coal mine and science gallery. The trip was informative and exciting and helped to augment the curiosity and knowledge of the students.

CBSE Workshop Promoting Mental Health

Venue Online
Organized By COE Bubaneshwar
Resource Person JHINUK DUTTARAY
Participants AFSHAN NAHID, ARWAH HUSSAIN DEESAWALA, KHADIJA AAMIR CHOONAWALA, PRIYA
MOZUMDAR, REKHA DAYANI, TIKSHNA CHOPRA
Highlight This session was designed to build participants’ awareness about common mental health conditions. The session explored the signs of common mental illnesses, their types, how they might present in a school setting and provided tips to starting a mental health conversation.

Educational Trip to Science City

Venue Science City
Organized By Lakshmipat Singhania Academy
Resource Person
Participants V ASTERS, V BLUEBELLS, V CARNATIONS, V DAISIES

Highlight: Students of class 5 enjoyed all the shows- Dark Ride, Evolution of Life on Earth, Panorama of Human Evolution and Mirror Magic Exhibition in Space . They could relate them with SSC and EVS topics learnt. The Mirror Magic Exhibition was most interesting. Students interacted very well with the presenter of the show. Overall it was a good learning experience for them.

LEADERSHIP LEADING FROM THE FRONT

Venue WEBEX
Organized By COE BHUBENSHWAR
Resource Person ANIL KUMAR PATNAIK
Participants RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY

Highlight Leading from the Front session taught elements of being a successful leader. As a leadership style, leading from the front means playing an active and visible role in the everyday life.

Practicing Blended Learning

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE COE Delhi East
Resource Person Vandana Banga
Participants PRITI KEDIA

Highlight The workshop was very interesting as the resource person discussed about the various online platforms that can be used to make teaching and learning more meaningful and enjoyable.

Practicing Blended Learning

Organized By CBSE COE Delhi East
Resource Person Vandana Banga
Participants Priti Kedia
Highlight The workshop was very interesting as the resource person discussed about the various online platforms that can be used to make teaching and learning more meaningful and enjoyable.

Leadership - Leading from the Frontg

Organized By COE Bhubaneswar
Resource Person Anil Kumar Patnaik
Participants Ranjini Chakravarty
Highlight Leading from the Front session taught elements of being a successful leader. As a leadership style, leading from the front means playing an active and visible role in the everyday life.

Abhilakshya and Bullionaire 2022

Venue LSA
Organized By LSA
Participants Students of classes 6 to 12
Highlight The halls of LSA echoed with loud cheers on 14th and 15th October as the school organised interschool fest Abhilakshya and Bullionaire 22 for classes 6 12. 11 schools participated in the 2 days event. LSA was declared as the champions followed by first runners up -DPS Megacity and 2nd Runners up - Army Public School Barrackpore.

CYBER SECURITY AND ETHICS

Venue WEBEX
Organized By CBSC
Resource Person CEO NOIDA
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA
Highlight Cyber ethics is a branch of computer technology behaviour that defines the best practices that must be adopted by a user when one uses the computer system. In simple words, cyber ethics refers to the basic ethics and etiquette that must be followed while using the computer system.

Strengthening Reading Competency

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Patna
Participants UDITA CHAKRABORTY

Highlight What is reading, importance of reading, benefits of reading, components of effective reading, what is involved in reading, its purpose, and vocabulary enhancement was discussed. Reading helps in comprehension. The resource person also talked about problems faced while reading.

Career Guidance

Organized By BML Munjal University
Resource Person Mr Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Prof Vikas
Participants Students of Classes XI – XII
Highlight The students were in awe of the speaker and they got an insight into the courses offered by this University which is an initiative of the Hero group. It was an enriching session where the students had an interactive session with the Professor.

Workshop by Ashoka University

Organized By Ashoka University
Participants Students of Class XII
Highlight Different career options in Ashoka University were discussed.

Working with Learning Disabilities

Organized By COE Chandigarh
Resource Person Mr. Ajay Khosla
Participants Ms. Teresa Gomes

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Jyotsna Grover
Participants S. ANANDHI

Highlight The workshop was very informative as the resource person shared his knowledge and experience regarding working with children with learning disabilities and shared ways to support and educate them.

Storytelling in Classroom

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Richa Ghosh
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Date 15/10/2022
Organized By COE Tiruvananthapuram
Resource Person Vasanthi Thiagarajan
Participants AFSHAN NAHID, ARWAH HUSSAIN DEESAWALA, KHADIJA AAMIR CHOONAWALA, PRIYA MOZUMDAR, REKHA DAYANI, TIKSHNA CHOPRA, RUNA GHOSH

Highlight The session was highly informative and engaging. The webinar highlighted that storytelling is an effective way of teaching as it allows students to understand the complex subject matter, creates an opportunity for deeper learning and develops communication. Ways to make storytelling effective in a classroom were discussed. Gibb's Reflective Cycle Model was discussed as well.

ART INTEGRATION ACROSS CURRICULUM

Venue ONLINE
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mrs. Manjula A
Participants SURANJANA CHAKRABORTY

Highlight The workshop helped to understand the following:
> 3 major forms of art
> Ways to integrate art into curriculum
> Music, dance and sports as tools for art integration

Adopting Inclusive Practices in Classroom

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Dr. Sujatha Girish
Participants S. ANANDHI

Highlight The session dealt with human differences, the definition of inclusive classroom, planning of a differentiated classroom etc. It also discussed about the different types of adaptations.

Constructivism

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms Stella Pauline Punitha
Participants S. ANANDHI

Highlight The session was very informative. Discussed about different stages, theories, concepts and principles of constructivism in detail.

Thinking Classroom Towards a Brighter Tomorrow

Venue Online
Organized By TDEACT
Resource Person Thanga Durai
Participants KULBIR KAUR

Highlight The workshop was on Thinking Classroom Towards a Brighter Tomorrow. It laid stress on the Critical Thinking and experiential learning listed down by NEP.

Setting Outcomes in Teaching Learning

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Chennai
Participants UDITA CHAKRABORTY

Highlight Essence of Learning Outcomes, Need for Learning Outcomes, Difference between Learning Objectives and Learning Outcomes, Result of Framing Learning Outcomes , Expectation parameter achieved or not were discussed. . It was helpful for the teachers.

21st Century Skills

Venue webex
Organized By COE NOIDA
Resource Person Vandana Banga
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, JILL SHAH, JYOTI GONDI, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, RAMA PODDAR, RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA
Highlight The workshop laid emphasis on how to prepare the students to be more flexible and adaptable in the constant changing workforce and be able to take on positions of leadership.

Child Psychology Understanding Developmental Stages

Venue Online
Organized By COE Delhi West
Resource Person Gurjeet Kaur
Participants TERESA GOMES
Highlight The resource person discussed in great detail the various development stages that occurs in a child’s life.

Content and Time Management

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Mosam Sinha
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Highlight The session was informative. The session highlighted the importance of time management. Time management helps us spend time doing things we like and helps in professional growth. The session talked about how one should avoid distractions and set aside time for oneself.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Venue Webex
Organized By CBSE COE CHENNAI
Resource Person Mrs. Padmini Sriraman
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, JILL SHAH, JYOTI GONDI, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, RAMA PODDAR, RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA

Organized By COE CHANDIGARH
Resource Person NAVNEET KAUR
Participants RUNA GHOSH

Organized By CBSE CoE Pune
Resource Person Martha Veronica Pinto
Participants TERESA GOMES

Highlight The session discussed Slant Strategy in Communication Sit up, Lean in, Acknowledge the speaker, Nod, Track the speaker.
An effective strategy which can be implemented in class.

Bloom's Taxonomy and Its Application

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Jyotsna Grover
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Highlight The session was highly informative. The different cognitive domains of Bloom's Taxonomy were explained with examples. The educational objectives of Bloom's Taxonomy and how to include it in the Lesson Plan were discussed as well.

DIGITAL LEARNING AND MANAGEMENT

Venue ONLINE SESSION
Organized By COE BHOPAL
Resource Person DR RAJESH CHANDEL
Participants JILL SHAH, JYOTI GONDI, RAMA PODDAR, RANJINI CHAKRAVARTY, S. ANANDHI

Resource Person Mr. Chandan Singh
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Highlight It was a very well designed workshop where the term digital learning was explained. Its components, importance and use in teaching- learning method were discussed giving a clear picture about digital learning.

Date 07/10/2022
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Karpagam C Arasappan
Participants S. Anandhi
Highlight The session was informative. The webinar highlighted the fact that digital learning is essential as it increases access to education and knowledge. Names of digital tools were also shared.

IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL HYGIENE AND NUTRITION

Venue Webex
Organized By COE Thiruvananthapuram
Resource Person Rekha Pachauri
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA

Highlight The workshop was very enriching and it spread the awareness regarding the importance of maintaining a balanced diet and an oral hygiene which were explained with a lot of examples. Emphasis was given on Nutrition and its appropriate consumption for a healthy living. The resource person was a confident speaker.

VALUE EDUCATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

Event VALUE EDUCATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
Venue ONLINE
Organized By COE NOIDA
Resource Person MADAN SAWHNEY
Participants RUNA GHOSH

Highlight The session dealt with the need of value education, its aims and different levels. It stressed on how value education empowers the students to develop skills that are needed in the contemporary world.

CBSE WORKSHOP LIFE SKILLS

Venue ONLINE WEBEX
Organized By CBSE CHENNAI
Resource Person MRS DEETI SHARMA
Participants CLARA KARMAKAR, JYOTI GONDI, KAVERI SINGH, MONEERA SADIQUE, RAMA PODDAR, SUBHI VIJAY VARGIYA
Highlight The resource person was a confident speaker and could deliver the lesson through an interactive session which was wonderful.

DEVELOPING RESILIENCE IN STUDENTS

Venue ONLINE
Organized By COE CHANDIGARH
Resource Person Anupama Sharma
Participants RUNA GHOSH

Highlight The session helped to understand the concept of resilience and acquire knowledge about the tools to help address resiliency issues among students.

Importance of Gratitude

Venue Online
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Yogesh Gambhir
Participants ASFIA RAFIQUE

Highlight The session was highly engaging and informative. The session helped in understanding the importance of gratitude and the unexpected power it holds. Different ways to cultivate gratitude and its benefits were discussed as well.

Item Writing Multiple Choice Questions

Venue Webinar
Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Noida
Participants UDITA CHAKRABORTY

Highlight Types of multiple choice questions and benefits of multiple choice questions were discussed. Options like all the above or none of the above should be avoided. Words with explicit meaning should be given so that there is no confusion and options given should be short and simple.

Exposure to coding

Organized By Microsoft
Resource Person Mrs Niti Dwivedi
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight We learned different units of coding to be taught for classes 7. We have understood the strategies to use coding by creating fun games. We have learned the coding using MakeCode software. We enjoyed the session and learned a lot from the workshop.

Capacity Building Session for class X AI Curriculum

Organized By CBSE in association with Intel
Resource Person Mr. Sarthak Kumar, Ms.Ruchi Prasad
Participants Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight The resource people gave an insight to the class 10 AI Curriculum with adequate examples and samples for teaching the students effectively.

Cambridge CEM Wellbeing: Promote Positive Student Wellbeing

Organized By Cambridge Assessment International Education
Resource Person Mr. Mark Frazer and Ms. Lavaniya Ganesan
Participants Ms. Piu Mahapatra, Ms.Sarbani Saha, Ms. Sudakshina Datta, Ms. Sudeshna Chowdhury and Mr. Bijay Raj Shaw
Highlight An informative session on well being of students along with its importance, assessment, checks and reports and improvisation

Experiential Learning in Practice

Organized By CBSE CoE Pune
Resource Person Ms. Shahila Chandrashekar
Participants Ms. Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight The session explained how the class can be made interesting if examples of real life can be used while teaching. Integration with other subjects is also necessary for experiential learning. The resource person provided examples subject wise.

Happy Teachers Create Happy Classrooms

Organized By COE DELHI EAST
Resource Person Mr.Madan Sawhney
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The workshop was interesting. It helped us realize how to make others happy and what is happiness altogether. Characteristics of a happy teacher was explained and how to integrate happiness in a classroom was discussed in detail. Different domains of happiness and how it leads to a happy classroom were well explained.

Art Integration Across Curriculum

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Delhi West
Participants Ms. Udita Chakraborty
Highlight The session stressed on the fact that Art Integration is a framework of experiential learning providing equitable learning environment for all learners through their own access points.
Students’engagement in art activities with the 5 W 's (what, why, who, where, and when) was discussed. It involves students in learning that is actively built, experiential, evolving, collaborative, problem-solving and reflective.

A Global Conclave On Emerging Trends in Computer Science Education

Organized By Super Teachers
Resource Person Dr. Sitanshu Mishra, Ms.Sonia Wadhwa,Ms. Vasudevan Natarajan
Participants Mr. Niladri Kumar Motilal, Ms.Sanzeeda Sultana Mirza
Highlight All the resource persons recognised the huge task that was undertaken and the paradigm shift in the roles of IT teachers in all schools during the pandemic situation and in the post pandemic era. There were expert talks of self up-skilling opportunities of CS teachers.

Art Gallery Visit

Venue: Kolkata Centre for Creativity
Participants: Students of Classes X & XII
Highlight: The students of class X and the Commercial art students of class XII went to experience artist Probir Gupta's show "Room Full of Mirrors" at Kolkata Centre for Creativity. They took a tour through the exhibition, interacted with the artist and made drawings of the piece that attracted them the most.

Representative Meet

Participants Aarav Bharany, Shagun F
Highlight The representative Meet for Abhilakshya and Bullionaire 2022 was conducted on an online mode.
Representative teachers of other schools joined and clarified their doubts. The queries were efficiently handled by the Head Boy and the Head Girl.

SPICMACAY Programme

Organized By SPICMACAY Kolkata
Resource Person Dr. Preeti Patel
Participants Students of Classes IX – XI
Highlight The students were witness to the cultural heritage of India in the form of Manipuri dance.
Wonderful session of classical dance rekindled the SPICMACAY culture in our school.

Does Sound matter?

Venue: Programmes and Logistics Centre, Jodhpur Park, Kolkata’s Teacher
Organized By: Programmes & Logistics Centre
Resource Person: Ms Arpita Chatterjee
Participants: Ms. Manidipa Lahiri, Ms. Sharmita Bhattacharya
Highlight: Sound is a very effective medium of communication. It also helps in self defense. Sound is applied in various medical instruments. It is used as a therapy because sound has a lot of impact in psychology and behaviour. We all need to experience and get exposed to silence to introspect, improve concentration, de stress ourselves. It was suggested that schools can play soothing music when the students come to school and during dispersal time.

Teacher's Day Celebration

Participants Students of class XII
Highlight The council and Committee members celebrated Teacher's Day with a theme Back to 90's. The event had dances, song and fashion show. The event took all the teachers back to their own childhood days.

Mass Media Studies - Board Practical Field Trip

Venue Taki, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal
Resource Person Ms.Sourina Bose
Participants Students of Class XII
Highlight 28 students of class 12 having Mass Media Studies as a Vocational subject went to Taki for a overnight field trip. They explored the flora and fauna of the place and captured every nuances of it.
River Ichhamati which separates India from Bangladesh was the centre of attraction. All 28 students carried their pre-approved scripts and shot individual films for the board practical.

Cyber Security and Ethics

Organized By CBSE
Resource Person Ms. Geetanjali Hota
Participants Ms.Asfia Rafique, Ms.Suranjana Chakrabarti
Highlight The session was highly informative as it guided the teachers about cyber security. The different rules to follow to help keep oneself safe in the cyberspace were explained along with relevant videos.
Solutions for viruses, adware and spyware were discussed as well.

Education for Peace

Event Education for Peace
Organized By COE - Dehradun
Resource Person Dr. Prakash Choudhary
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The role of a teacher as an educator for students was very well explained. Also, the basic source of peace- inner, social and natural was explained in detail. It helped us teachers to learn to promote peace through education among our students.

The Red Data Book of LSA

Resource Person Book_ The Great Race - Art materials and online reliable sources for individual research
Participants Ms.Piu Mahapatra
Highlight An integration between Science and visual art. Students of class VIII were asked to create a Red Data Book where each one of them will collect data on any animal/plant from the conservation list and visually represent it in the Red Data Book using their prior learning of 'Data Visualization'. The style of Art form introduced is 'Wagrahi’, artist-Jagdish Chitara.

Donation Drive

As per the requirement of HOPE KOLKATA FOUNDATION , dry grocery items like Rice, Dal, Oil, Atta, Maida, Biscuits, Muri, Dalia, Sattu, other dry snacks etc were collected by students and teachers over a span of 15 days and were distributed to the organization
We have these kind of drives many times in a year.

IT workshop

Resource Person All IT teachers
Participants Teachers of IT Department
Highlight IT Department conducted IT workshop for teachers of several departments like English, Mathematics, Science and Social Science.The topic was machine learning. All teachers have completed the activities and they have discussed how they can implement the same in their teaching learning process.

Anger free schools

Organized By Mr.Anurodh Chitra
Resource Person COE-Chandigarh
Participants Teachers of Pre Primary Department
Highlight The importance of how to control oneself and their anger was explained in detail. Anger is not an entity but absence of something in a person was learnt.

YES Program

Organized By AFS USA
Resource Person KL- YES
Participants Dayna Yoo, Ruth Ann Herrlinger
Highlight Dayna Yoo and Ruth Ann Herrlinger arrived from California and Denver respectively to engulf themselves in the Cultural Heritage of India. They will be residing with Prisha Bajaj and Mahey Jain.

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.

Life skill

Organized By CBSE

Participants Ms.Udita Chakraborty
Highlight The resource person talked about the ten core life skill strategies and techniques as: problem solving, critical thinking, effective communication skills, decision making, creative thinking, inter-personal relationship skills, self awareness building skills, empathy and coping with stress and emotions.

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.

Content and Time Management

Event Content and Time Management
Organized By CBSE
Participants Ms.Udita Chakraborty
Highlight The key points discussed were to work out our goals, prioritise the important tasks break tasks down into manageable steps, recognise and reward our achievements and to value our time.

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 is in Cleveland, USA to study in Chardon High school under the prestigious scholarship of Kenedy Lugar YES program

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Mask Movement Workout

Organized By Drama and Miming Special activity
Resource Person Mr. Debkumar Pal
Participants Students of classes IX & X
Highlight Special Activity students of Drama and Miming of classes 9 10 performed an activity in the drama classes on Mask Movement. Through the mask, the individual had the potential to challenge the understanding of who they are, through their body now being separated from the visual identifier.

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.