CALENDAR MAKING. The students of Class V participated with great zeal and enthusiasm in the Calendar Making group activity on 3 January. They were divided into groups where they used all their creativity to depict the various months along with the dates on paper. It was great fun to see them working on it. SPECIAL ASSEMBLY Students of V-C presented a Special Assembly on 7 January. The assembly focused on speaking in English, respecting our elders, viewing less T.V. and saving electricity. Special assembly was also conducted by the students of V-B on January to celebrate the harvest festival of Makar Sankranti. Children dressed up in traditional dresses depicted the unity and diversity of Indian Culture. FIELD TRIP TO WOCKHARDT Students of Class IV went for a field trip to Wockhardt Hospital on 5 and 6 January. MOVIE SHOW The students of Classes III VI were taken to see Nanha Jasoos on 3 January. It was a detective movie which gave the students an inspiration to bring out the little detectives hidden in them and also a few tips on how to solve their problems.
VISIT TO INDOOR STADIUM NATIONAL TT TOURNAMENT The students of class V and VI visited the Indoor Stadium for the National TT Tournament on January. REPUBLIC DAY ASSEMBLY A special assembly was conducted by class IV A on 8 January on the occasion of 60th Republic Day. CLASS PICNICS The students of Class IV went for a picnic to Ukai Dam on the 3 January whereas students of Class III went to Tithal Beach. 3
Pre primary Sports Fest Our pre primary section had a week long Sports Fest from 9-3 January with races and displays like yogasanas and different types of pyramids and cart wheels. The children were felicitated with certificates and prizes in the fields they excelled in. 4
FIRST ATHLETICS MEET 008-09 0 January became a momentous day in the annals of DPS Surat. There was an in-style Inter March Past and a booming Band Performance. The noteworthy events of the Meet for Classes III-VI were Inter 50, 80 & 00 Mts. Races, Marble and Spoon Race, Market Race, Hurdle Race, Frog Race, Banana Race, Chess, Long Jump, Table Tennis, Shot put, Discus Throw, and Basket Ball. Classes VII-XII had equally exciting events like 80, 00, 400, 800 and 500 Mts. Race, Relay, High Jump, and Darts. To top it all, was the awarding of the Championship Trophy. The Gryphons and the Unicorns were ecstatic, when the Championship Trophy was given jointly to the Gryphon & Unicorn s. The winning houses for Inter events were: EVENTS HOUSE CHESS GRYPHON TABLE TENNIS DRAGON BASKET BALL GRYPHON DARTS UNICORN ATHELETICS DRAGON 5
EVENT: 50 METRE RACE (CLASS III) First (Gold) Vershil Patel III-H Unicorn First(Gold) Dhriti Wadiwala III-B Dragon Second (Silver) Kshitij Maheshwari III-E Dragon Second(Silver) Radhika Mohta III-E Dragon Third (Bronze) Jashh Chinaiwala III-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Yukta Kapadia III-H Phoenix CONGRATULATIONS! EVENT:50 METRE RACE (CLASS IV) First(Gold) Rohaan Variava IV-H Phoenix First(Gold) Rachita Awasthi IV-H Gryphon Second(Silver) Harshit Tripathi IV-F Dragon Second(Silver) Dhvani Patel IV-F Phoenix Third(Bronze) Sumit Sharma IV-A Unicorn Third(Bronze) Priyal Mehta IV-E Dragon EVENT:50 METRE RACE (CLASS V) First(Gold) Shresht Bhatia V-A Phoenix First(Gold) Megha Gupta V-F Phoenix Second(Silver) Shubham Khetan V-A Gryphon Second(Silver) Raina Jain V-C Unicorn Third(Bronze) Parth Shah V-B Dragon Third(Bronze) Sachita Nishal V-F Dragon EVENT: MARBLE AND SPOON RACE (CLASS III) Names Of Students First(Gold) Viren Jindal III-F Phoenix First(Gold) Chhavi Bansal III-D Dragon Second(Silver) Mudit Agrawal III-C Gryphon Second(Silver) Sanjana Ghael III-A Gryphon Third(Bronze) Tanish Jain III-E Phoenix Third(Bronze) Simran Kapoor III-F Phoenix 6
EVENT: MARKET RACE (CLASS IV) First(Gold) Yash Saboo IV-F Dragon First(Gold) Rupali Bajaj IV-A Gryphon Second(Silver) Josh Tak IV-H Gryphon Second(Silver) Rasi Vaidya IV-H Gryphon Third(Bronze) Divyank Gupta IV-E Unicorn Third(Bronze) Muskan Sekhani IV-D Unicorn EVENT: FROG RACE (CLASS V) First(Gold) Manav Patel V-E Gryphon First(Gold) Shreya Periwal V-D Dragon Second(Silver) Yash Mittal V-E Unicorn Second(Silver) Khushboo Wadhwani V-C Phoenix Third(Bronze) Nimit Kaneria V-C Gryphon Third(Bronze) Priyanshi Savalia V-B Gryphon EVENT: BANANA RACE (CLASS III) First(Gold) Karan Choksi III-H Dragon First(Gold) Khushboo Vij III-E Dragon Second(Silver) Ronit Singhal III-H Gryphon Second(Silver) Jigya Kapish III-D Gryphon Third(Bronze) Tanish Jain III-D Gryphon Third(Bronze) Mahima Patel III-F Phoenix EVENT: HURDLE RACE (CLASS IV) First(Gold) Aakash Thesiya IV-A Dragon First(Gold) Azba Nakhuda IV-B Phoenix Second(Silver) Raunak Goyal IV-H Dragon Second(Silver) Daksha Desale IV-B Dragon Third(Bronze) Parth Goplani IV-E Unicorn Third(Bronze) Palak Choksi IV-C Unicorn SACK RACE 7
EVENT: SACK RACE (CLASS V) First(Gold) Sameer Padalia V-C Phoenix First(Gold) Rishika Nagpal V-C Unicorn Second(Silver) Sagar Mewar V-B Phoenix Second(Silver) Mahima Gupta V-E Dragon Third(Bronze) Ansh Chauhan V-C Dragon Third(Bronze) Priyanshi Nanglia V-C Gryphon EVENT : LONG JUMP (CLASS VI) First(Gold) Arpit Bahety VI-D Unicorn First(Gold) Tanvi Mittal VI-C Gryphon Second(Silver) Parth Tibrewal VI-C Gryphon Second(Silver) Priyanka Dani VI-C Unicorn Third(Bronze) Vishal Singh VI-A Gryphon Third(Bronze) Pragya Shah VI-C Phoenix EVENT : LONG JUMP (CLASS VII) First(Gold) Shikhar Saxena VII-F Gryphon First(Gold) Shradha Katyal VII-A Dragon Second(Silver) Yash Nahata VII-C Gryphon Second(Silver) Palak Goenka VII-B Dragon Third(Bronze) Aditya Rangrej VII-D Unicorn Third(Bronze) Twinkle Bhagaria VII-B Gryphon EVENT : LONG JUMP (CLASS VIII) First(Gold) Kashish Lathidadia VIII-A Gryphon Aashana Narang VIII-A Phoenix First(Gold) Second(Silver) Keshav Gupta VIII-D Phoenix Aditi Dhawan VIII-F Dragon Third(Bronze) Rahul H Limbani VIII-B Dragon Second(Silver) Pratiksha Mehra VIII-E Dragon Siddharth Dani VIII-C Dragon Third(Bronze) Arshi Raj VIII-B Dragon EVENT : LONG JUMP (CLASS IX) First(Gold) Siddharth Shah IX-B Gryphon First(Gold) Heli Makwana IX-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Jitesh Sharma IX-D Dragon Second(Silver) Snigdha Baghel IX-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Shashank Dalmia IX-D Dragon Third(Bronze) Vaishvi Mistry IX-E Gryphon 8
EVENT : LONG JUMP (CLASS XI) First(Gold) Pratik Patwari XI-A Unicorn First(Gold) Pranika Agarwal XI-A Phoenix Second(Silver) Archit Agarwal XI-A Dragon Second(Silver) Komal Mittal XI-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Sukrit Sharma XI-B Unicorn Third(Bronze) Snehalata Kalluri XI-B Unicorn EVENT : SHOTPUT(CLASS VI) First(Gold) Urmish Bhatt VI-E Unicorn First(Gold) Saumya Roy VI-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Mishal Jariwala VI-E Dragon Second(Silver) Nishu Jindal VI-B Gryphon Third(Bronze) Vaibhav Arora VI-D Dragon Third(Bronze) Tarni Mendiratta VI-D Phoenix EVENT : SHOTPUT(CLASS VII) First(Gold) Hormaz Pandol VII-D Unicorn First(Gold) Shradha Katyal VII-A Dragon Second(Silver) Yash Mistry VII-E Dragon Second(Silver) Shivangi Arora VII-A Gryphon Shubham Third(Bronze) Third(Bronze) Jhunjhunwala VII-A Gryphon Palak Goenka VII-B Dragon Priyank Koshiya VII-C Gryphon EVENT : SHOTPUT(CLASS VIII) First(Gold) Nikhil Lekhi VIII-F Dragon First(Gold) Shruti Agarwal VIII-C Dragon Second(Silver) Samrath Sanjay VIII-A Phoenix Second(Silver) Saloni Choksi VIII-B Unicorn Third(Bronze) Kamal Chibrani VIII-B Dragon Third(Bronze) Vaibhavi Wankawala VIII-F Unicorn EVENT : SHOTPUT(CLASS IX) First(Gold) Shashank Dalmia IX-D Dragon First(Gold) Rashmi Mohindra IX-E Unicorn Second(Silver) Zubin Mistry IX-E Dragon Second(Silver) Bhavi Dalal IX-E Unicorn Sudipti Shreya Third(Bronze) Third(Bronze) Akshay Narula IX-B Gryphon Srivastava IX-D Phoenix 9
EVENT : SHOTPUT(CLASS XI) First(Gold) Akash Goenka XI-A Unicorn First(Gold) Preeyal Shah XI-A Unicorn Second(Silver) Mohit Agarwal XI-A Phoenix Second(Silver) Akshita Agarwal XI-A Phoenix Third(Bronze) Shashank Pathak XI-B Gryphon Rajvi Shah XI-A Unicorn Third(Bronze) Juhi Kothari XI-A Unicorn EVENT : DISCUS THROW(CLASS VII) First(Gold) Hormaz Pandol VII-D Unicorn First(Gold) Shikha Patel VII-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Shreshtha Mohindra VII-F Gryphon Second(Silver) Twinkle Bhagaria VII-B Gryphon Third(Bronze) Darshit Gujarati VII-B Unicorn Third(Bronze) Shivangi Arora VII-A Gryphon EVENT : DISCUS THROW(CLASS VIII) First(Gold) Kamal Chibrani VIII-B Dragon First(Gold) Srishti Agarwal VIII-C Dragon Second(Silver) Yash Kokra VIII-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Shreya Kokra VIII-A Dragon Third(Bronze) Shubham Agarwal VIII-A Phoenix Third(Bronze) Shruhi Desai VIII-D Phoenix EVENT : DISCUS THROW(CLASS IX) First(Gold) Zubin Mistry IX-E Dragon First(Gold) Tejaswini Jha IX-D Phoenix Second(Silver) Jayit Ghosh IX-C Gryphon Second(Silver) Nishtha Dahiya IX-C Gryphon Third(Bronze) Aniket Gupta IX-D Unicorn Third(Bronze) Rashmi Mohindra IX-E Unicorn EVENT : DISCUS THROW(CLASS XI) First(Gold) Shreyans Jain XI-A Phoenix First(Gold) Preeyal Shah XI-A Unicorn Second(Silver) Vishal Kochar XI-A Unicorn Second(Silver) Snehalata Kalluri XI-B Unicorn Third(Bronze) Mohit Agarwal XI-A Phoenix Third(Bronze) Hema Premjani XI-A Unicorn 0
EVENT:80 METRE RACE (CLASS VI) First(Gold) Urmish Bhatt VI-E Unicorn First(Gold) Nirali Trivedi VI-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Sanskar Mehta VI-A Dragon Second(Silver) Simran Khurana VI-B Dragon Third(Bronze) Yashraj Parmar VI-D Dragon Third(Bronze) Anushka Dhabuwala VI-B Phoenix EVENT : 80 METRE RACE (CLASS VII) First(Gold) Tarun Kaboo VII-D Phoenix First(Gold) Anushka Jain VII-C Dragon Second(Silver) Mehul Vaghasiya VII-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Shikha Patel VII-E Gryphon Third(Bronze) Yash Nahata VII-C Gryphon Third(Bronze) Priyanka Bhatia VII-C Gryphon EVENT: 80 METRE RACE (CLASS VIII) First(Gold) Kuldeep Atodaria VIII-A Unicorn First(Gold) Himanshi Saboo VIII-E Dragon Second(Silver) Siddharth Dani VIII-C Dragon Second(Silver) Pratiksha Mehra VIII-E Dragon Third(Bronze) Rahul Limbani VIII-B Dragon Third(Bronze) Yashasvi Singh VIII-E Unicorn EVENT: 80 METRE RACE (CLASS IX) First(Gold) Arpit Kanodia IX-B Unicorn First(Gold) Sudipti Shreya Srivastava IX-D Phoenix Second(Silver) Baasava Hathiwala IX-E Dragon Second(Silver) Priyanshi Jain IX-C Gryphon Third(Bronze) Akshil Chauhan IX-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Tejaswini Jha IX-D Phoenix EVENT:80 METRE RACE (CLASS XI) First(Gold) Akshay Huria XI-B Gryphon First(Gold) Pranika Agarwal XI-A Phoenix Second(Silver) Archit Agarwal XI-A Dragon Second(Silver) Komal Mittal XI-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Pratik Patwari XI-A Unicorn Third(Bronze) Rajvi Shah XI-A Unicorn
EVENT : HIGH JUMP (CLASS VII) First(Gold) Prakhar Maheshwari VII-A Unicorn First(Gold) Nidhi Agarwal VII-A Dragon Second(Silver) Mehul Vaghasiya VII-E Gryphon Second(Silver) S. Swathi Lakshmi VII-F Unicorn Third(Bronze) Ayush Agarwal VII-D Unicorn Third(Bronze) Rutvi Mistry VII-E Phoenix EVENT : HIGH JUMP (CLASS VIII) First(Gold) Raunak Khandelwal VIII-A Unicorn First(Gold) Tania Punjabi VIII-B Phoenix Second(Silver) Sarthak Tibrewal VIII-D Phoenix Second(Silver) Saumya Goyal VIII-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Deepak Subash VIII-A Dragon Third(Bronze) Shikha Shah VIII-B Gryphon EVENT : HIGH JUMP (CLASS IX) First(Gold) Jaimin Vashi IX-D Gryphon First(Gold) Shreya Kabra IX-D Phoenix Second(Silver) Saras Bansal IX-C Unicorn Second(Silver) Diksha Kalra IX-C Unicorn Third(Bronze) Shreyash Singh IX-E Dragon Third(Bronze) Pooja Parikh IX-D Unicorn EVENT:00 METRE RACE (CLASS VI) First(Gold) Sanskar Mehta VI-A Dragon First(Gold) Simran Khurana VI-B Dragon Second(Silver) Urmish Bhatt VI-E Unicorn Second(Silver) Nirali Trivedi VI-E Gryphon Third(Bronze) Yashraj Parmar VI-D Dragon Third(Bronze) Anushka Dhabuwala VI-B Phoenix EVENT : 00 METRE RACE (CLASS VII) First(Gold) Shikhar Saxena VII-F Gryphon First(Gold) Anushka Jain VII-C Dragon Second(Silver) Parvrajsinh Vansia VII-F Dragon Second(Silver) Palak Goenka VII-B Dragon Third(Bronze) Chinmaya Acharya VII-F Phoenix Third(Bronze) Trishla Surana VII-B Phoenix
EVENT : 00 METRE RACE (CLASS VIII) First(Gold) Nikhil Lekhi VIII-F Dragon First(Gold) Rashi Gupta VIII-E Phoenix Second(Silver) Sarthak Tibrewal VIII-D Phoenix Second(Silver) Zeenia Engineer VIII-D Dragon Third(Bronze) Siddharth Dani VIII-C Dragon Third(Bronze) Aashana Narang VIII-A Phoenix EVENT : 00 METRE RACE (CLASS IX) First(Gold) Jaimin Vashi IX-D Gryphon First(Gold) Snigdha Baghel IX-B Phoenix Second(Silver) Akshil Chauhan IX-B Phoenix Second(Silver) Vaishvi Mistry IX-E Gryphon Third(Bronze) Pratyush Agarwala IX-E Unicorn Third(Bronze) Diksha Kalra IX-C Unicorn EVENT : 00 METRE RACE (CLASS XI) First(Gold) Akash Goenka XI-A Unicorn First(Gold) Rajvi Shah XI-A Unicorn Second(Silver) Akshay Huria XI-B Gryphon Second(Silver) Komal Mittal XI-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Mayurdhvajsinh Raol XI-A Unicorn Third(Bronze) Vidhi Mehra XI-A Dragon EVENT : 400 METRE RACE (CLASS VII) First(Gold) Shikhar Saxena VII-F Gryphon First(Gold) Shradha Katyal VII-A Dragon Second(Silver) Tarun Kaboo VII-D Phoenix Second(Silver) Muskan Rekhi VII-C Unicorn Third(Bronze) Chinmaya Acharya VII-F Phoenix Third(Bronze) Jiniya Agarwal VII-E Phoenix EVENT : 400 METRE RACE (CLASS VIII) First(Gold) Vishesh Mittal VIII-F Phoenix First(Gold) Rashi Gupta VIII-E Phoenix Second(Silver) Mihir Gujjar VIII-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Zeenia Engineer VIII-D Dragon Third(Bronze) Keshav Tauri VIII-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Pooja Desai VIII-A Phoenix 3
EVENT : 400 METRE RACE (CLASS IX) First(Gold) Shreyash Singh IX-E Dragon First(Gold) Shreya Agarwal IX-E Dragon Second(Silver) Baasava Hathiwala IX-E Dragon Second(Silver) Kritika Mohata IX-E Gryphon Third(Bronze) Siddharth Shah IX-B Gryphon Third(Bronze) Pooja Parikh IX-D Unicorn EVENT : 400 METRE RACE (CLASS XI) First(Gold) Chintan Sanghavi XI-A Gryphon First(Gold) Ayushi Agarwal XI-A Phoenix Second(Silver) Vipin Singhal XI-B Gryphon Second(Silver) Urvi Bahety XI-B Unicorn Third(Bronze) Pratik Patwari XI-A Unicorn Third(Bronze) Disha Agarwal XI-A Dragon EVENT : 800 METRE RACE (CLASS VII) First(Gold) Harsh Shyamsukha VII-C Dragon First(Gold) Simran Jain VII-F Dragon Second(Silver) Parth Agrawal VII-A Phoenix Second(Silver) Trishla Surana VII-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Shashwat Kapoor VII-E Phoenix Third(Bronze) Rutvi Mistry VII-E Phoenix EVENT : 800 METRE RACE (CLASS VIII) First(Gold) Kuldeep Atodaria VIII-A Unicorn First(Gold) Jhanvi Shah VIII-A Gryphon Second(Silver) Vansh Mendiratta VIII-E Dragon Second(Silver) Tania Punjabi VIII-B Phoenix Third(Bronze) Shubham Agarwal VIII-A Phoenix Third(Bronze) Arshia Saraf VIII-F Phoenix EVENT : 800 METRE RACE (CLASS IX) First(Gold) Meeth Chokhawala IX-A Phoenix First(Gold) Heli Makwana IX-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Jaimin Vashi IX-D Gryphon Second(Silver) Diksha Kalra IX-C Unicorn Third(Bronze) Shreyansh Singh IX-E Dragon Third(Bronze) Snigdha Baghel IX-B Phoenix 4
EVENT : 800 METRE RACE (CLASS XI) First(Gold) Akash Goenka XI-A Unicorn First(Gold) Pranika Agarwal XI-A Phoenix Second(Silver) Shreyans Jain XI-A Phoenix Second(Silver) Rajvi Shah XI-A Unicorn Third(Bronze) Shashank Pathak XI-B Gryphon Third(Bronze) Urvi Bahety XI-B Unicorn EVENT : 500 METRE RACE (CLASS VII) First(Gold) Mitan Borana VII-E Unicorn Second(Silver) Mohit Agrawal VII-F Dragon Third(Bronze) Prakhar Maheshwari VII-A Unicorn EVENT : 500 METRE RACE (CLASS VIII) Names of Students First(Gold) Dipen Ariwala VIII-A Gryphon First(Gold) Jhanvi Shah VIII-A Gryphon Second(Silver) Himanshu Dohan VIII-B Dragon Second(Silver) Arshia Saraf VIII-F Phoenix Third(Bronze) Vansh Mendiratta VIII-E Dragon Third(Bronze) Aditi Dhawan VIII-F Drogon EVENT : 500 METRE RACE (CLASS IX) Names of Students First(Gold) Rohan Ariwala IX-A Dragon First(Gold) Heli Makwana IX-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Rajat Goenka IX-C Gryphon Second(Silver) Aarushi Budhraja IX-A Gryphon Third(Bronze) Saras Bansal IX-C Unicorn Third(Bronze) Diksha Adukia IX-C Dragon EVENT : 500 METRE RACE (CLASS XI) First(Gold) Shreyans Jain XI-A Phoenix Second(Silver) Vipin Singhal XI-B Gryphon Third(Bronze) Shashank Pathak XI-B Gryphon 5
First(Gold) Second(Silver) Third(Bronze) EVENT : 4 X 00 METRE RELAY RACE (CLASS VII) Jay Shah VII-B Shreya Vaid VII-C Aditya Rangrej VII-D Trishla Surana VII-B Unicorn First(Gold) Monil Shah VII-F Supriya Gupta VII-C Ayush Agarwal VII-D Jiniya Agarwal VII-E Mehul Vaghasiya VII-E Shikha Patel VII-E Shikhar Saxena VII-F Priyanka Bhatia VII-C Gryphon Second(Silver) Samarth Mistry VII-F Shivangi Arora VII-A Yash Nahata VII-C Vrinda Rungta VII-C Vasu Govani VII-E Vidushi Methwani VII-D Samarth Shah VII-E Devanshi Joshi VII-B Dragon Third(Bronze) Harsh Shyamsukha VII-C Shainy Raj VII-D Parvrajsinh Vansia VII-F Bhavi Patel VII-D Phoenix Gryphon Unicorn First(Gold) Second(Silver) Third(Bronze) EVENT : 4 X 00 METRE RELAY RACE (CLASS VIII) Siddharth Dani VIII-C Zeenia Engineer VIII-D Nikhil Lekhi VIII-F Aditi A Dhavan VIII-F Dragon First(Gold) Rahul Limbani VIII-B Himanshi Saboo VIII-E Akshay Jha VIII-E Pratiksha Mehra VIII-E Vishesh Rajani VIII-B Utsavi Wankawala VIII-F Kashish Lathidadia VIII-A Rashi Gupta VIII-E Gryphon Second(Silver) Mihir Gujjar VIII-E Sweta Khetan VIII-A Dhruv Boghra VIII-A Tania Punjabi VIII-B Kuldeep Atodaria VIII-A Aakriti Agrawal VIII-E Kush Seth VIII-B Anushree Agarwal VIII-A Unicorn Third(Bronze) Ieshan Devra VIII-C Yashasvi Singh VIII-E Raunak Khandelwal VIII-A Annwesha Panda VIII-B Dragon Phoenix Unicorn First(Gold) Second(Silver) Third(Bronze) EVENT : 4 X 00 METRE RELAY RACE (CLASS IX) Akshil Chauhan IX-B Sudipti Shreya S Srivastava IX-D Ishan Desai IX-A Phoenix First(Gold) Tejaswini Jha IX-D Hitanshu Desai IX-D Shreya Kabra IX-D Meeth Chokhawala IX-A Snigdha Baghel IX-B Arpit Kanodia IX-B Madhu Bansal IX-A Pratyush Agarwala IX-E Vaishvi Mistry IX-E Unicorn Second(Silver) Saras S Bansal IX-C Heli Makwana IX-E Pulkit Jain IX-C Kritika Mohata IX-E Harsh Payal IX-C Shachi Sahni IX-D Jaimin Vashi IX-D Nikita Gulwani IX-D Gryphon Third(Bronze) Harsh Goenka IX-C Archie Moradia IX-A Siddharth Shah IX-B Diksha Kalra IX-C Phoenix Gryphon Unicorn 6
EVENT : 4 X 00 METRE RELAY RACE (CLASS XI) First(Gold) Second(Silver) Third(Bronze) & Shreyans Jain XI-A Mohit Agarwal XI-A Pranika Agarwal XI-A Komal Mittal XI-B Vipin Singhal XI-B Akshay Huria XI-B Niyanta Patel XI-B Anushree Mundra XI-A Pratik Patwari XI-A Akash Goenka XI-A Rajvi Shah XI-A Urvi Bahety XI-B Phoenix Gryphon Unicorn ND INTER SCHOOL DISTRICT TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIP 009 This championship was held on January 4 and 5 January at Rustampura Community Hall, Surat. Anushka Jain (VII-C) secured gold medal in black belt and a gold medal in heavy girls group. Bhavya Patel (VII-D) got a gold medal in welter boys and a bronze medal in black belt group. Bhavi Patel (VII-D) got a bronze medal in middle girls group. Trishla Surana (VII-B) got a silver medal in heavy girls group. Mitan Borana (VII-E) got a silver medal in middle boys group. Tanmay Malhotra (IV-D) got a silver medal in welter boys group. Urjita Vinchurkar (IV-B) got a gold medal in welter girls and a silver medal in yellow to blue girls group. 54 TH NATIONAL SCHOOL GAMES 008-09 The 54 th National School Games were held at Chandigarh from 8 to 3 January. Smit Choksi (IX-B) bagged silver medal in Table-Tennis in under 7 years boys individual championship while Abhijeet Choksi (IX-B) won bronze medal in team championship for the same age group. In the Skating Championship Aastha Rathod (V-A) got two bronze medals in the Rink race III & IV respectively. SURAT DISTRICT OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 008 The Surat District Open Chess Championship was held on 5 & 6 January. Meet Agrawal (VI-C) secured second position in under 5 years category. PRESENTATION WITH CHARTS As part of Multiple Intelligence Learning the students of Classes IX A and VIII F made presentations based on a variety of social, literary and commerce topics using charts between to 0 January. 7
DPSS MUN The Delhi Public School Surat Model United Nations Session commenced on January 6, 009. The Secretary General (Ms. Prarthna Lalbhai of XII A) declared the session open. The students of class XI A gave an enthralling dance performance. The students were divided into two committees: General Assembly and United Nations Environment Programme. While the GA concentrated on the topic Terrorism, UNEP was all about Environmental Issues. The students of class VIII and IX were the delegates who represented their countries. The Executive Board consisting of Chair, Rapporteur, and Director was very supportive and encouraged the delegates to interact. Class XI took out a newsletter, MUN GAZETTE every day. The session unfolded in three phases namely Moderated and Unmoderated Caucuses and Speaker List. The session winded up with the Resolution making by GA and UNEP. The students enjoyed the novel experience of being a part of UNITED NATION DPSS and foreseeing themselves as dynamic delegates of Model United Nations. EXCURSION FOR CLASS VII Students of Class VII went for a field trip to Ahmedabad in the month of January. The trip started with a visit to the Science city where the students went on the Mission to Mars spaceship and saw a 3D movie about underwater creatures. The first day of the trip ended on a musical note with spectacular display of the musical fountains. Day two was marked by a visit to the Nalsarovar wetland where the students saw migratory birds and also had the joy of boating. They also went to Lothal, the site of Indus valley civilization and then visited the Indroda Nature Park in Gandhinagar. On the last day the students visited the Thor Bird Sanctuary and the Adalaj step well. 8
INTRA CLASS HINDI CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION To develop the writing skills of our students an Intra Class Hindi creative writing competition was held on 7 January for Class VII-IX. The results are : Anusha R. Shrivastava Veer R. Singhania VII A Darshan J. Lineswala 3 Hardik K. Shah Twinkle R. Bhagaria VII B Siddhant D. Singh 3 Sanchaita S. Mitra Harsh P. Shyamsukha VII C Ronak R. Chopra 3 Harshit A. Gupta Ridhima S. Seth VII D Junaid I. Badat 3 Yash H. Patel Kunal S. Jain VII E Ruhzad H. Gandhi 3 Kirtishree R. Somani Aayushi P. Jain VII F Mohit S. Agarwal 3 Aditya R. Jhunjhunwala Dipen M. Ariwala VIII A Kuldeep Sinh P. Atodaria 3 Medha Kulshreshtha Avani C. Sanghvi VIII B Pooja S. Jain 3 Shiwani V. Mittal Shailee S. Dixit VIII C Maunik H. Desai 3 Shrey M. Agrawal Pratham D. Ghael VIII D Mayank N. Jain 3 Nishant J. Jain Darsh C. Bakshi VIII E Siddhant R. Loya 3 Kaushal Pruka Diksha D. Agrawal VIII F Sayyam O. Khurana 3 9
Sunanda B. Narwani Archie G. Moradia IX A Aarushi A. Budhraja 3 Snigdha Baghel Himakshi C. Nandwani IX B Saurabh B. Mandhani 3 Dipesh N. Patwari Avik Wadhwani IX C Abhinav Choudhary 3 Prakhar Thapliyal Shashank V. Dalmia IX D Pooja P. Parikh 3 Bhavi V. Dalal Akash S. Yadav IX E Saibi Luthra 3 REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATIONS The 60 th Republic Day in 009 was a very eventful day. The programme started by welcoming our Honourable Chief Guest Mr. Pradeep Kumar and Mrs. Kumar. It was followed by flag hoisting by Ms. Shikha Biswas, the first teacher of our school. The students of class IV gave a spectacular dance performance on the song Vande Mataram. The highlight of the day was the Inter Debate Competition for Classes VII-IX. The results for the competition are: CATEGORY 3 (VII -VIII) Diksha D. Agrawal VIII-F I Dragon Shrey M. Agarwal VIII-D II Gryphon Kaushal Piruka VIII-F III Gryphon CATEGORY - 4 (IX - XI) Ishan A. Desai IX-A I Phoenix Aditi R. Trivedi IX-A II Dragon Sejal N. Chandak XI-A III Dragon 0
Our Student Editors for this issue are : AKSHAT SHAH, AMAN TRIPATHI & MUMUKSHU SHAH of Class VI