26-11-2020
Story Telling is an old but powerful method of enhancing a child's ability to understand and learn concepts faster. To renew and promote the art of Storytelling among students and enhance their communication skills, one such session was organized for Grade Nursery and Prep students. The objective was to encourage young minds to use their imaginative horses and develop the best of their creative skills. Students narrated interesting stories like The Value of Zero, Selfish Sid, The Golden touch, 5 Friends, and The Elephant's Nose, and adorned their acts with impressive props, making the performance more captivating. The competition consisted of five rounds, namely Spell Them Right, Identify The Image, Jumbled Words, Word Hunt, and Guess the Word provided them with a plethora of opportunities and challenges to showcase their knowledge in core areas of language learning through Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. The variety and level of difficulty of questions steered the students to prove their proficiency and caliber.

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22-11-2020
Number is a series of symbols that has a particular meaning in them. Just like everything in the world, numbers have a number name. Number name is the method of representing a number in words. Learning the names with spellings help the children to spell the numbers correctly. Keeping this in mind, an activity was organized virtually for students of Grade Prep wherein they had to match the numeral with its number name. The young Presidians learned number names in a fun-filled manner and participated in the activity enthusiastically.

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22-11-2020
Earth's atmosphere is composed of air. Air is a mixture of gases like nitrogen, oxygen with traces of water vapor, carbon dioxide, argon, and various other components. The students of Grade 4 are learning about various characteristics of air such as it has weight, occupies space, can be compressed, has the ability to move things, rises up when heated, and settles down upon cooling. The young and dynamic Presidians did captivating experiments to explore the properties of air. The hands-on activities helped the students to grasp the concept better. Students confounded their learning by quoting extended ideas to keep the fun going.

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21-11-2020
Creative writing is an art, it helps one express oneself better and has manifold benefits for a learner of the language. Grade 5 students learned about personal account or autobiography writing of animate and inanimate objects. Initially, they read the life story of characters like a frog, a bag, and a pencil. The exposure helped them understand the outline of an autobiography with essential components like physical appearance, background, important events, and hopes of the character from its future. Students further applied this knowledge and created personal accounts of various characters like a mobile phone, an umbrella, a peacock, a butterfly, a television, and a flower. Students etched beautiful storylines around their chosen characters and created engaging writing pieces of personal accounts. The exercise enhanced students' creative thoughts, encouraging them to employ their imaginations, suggest alternatives, and broaden their thought processes and problem-solving abilities.

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17-11-2020

12-11-2020
Lights illuminate every corner of India during Diwali, and the scent of incense sticks hang in the air, mingling with the sounds of laughter, joy, togetherness, and hope. This year, Presidians united on a virtual platform to defeat the darkness of disease and spread the light of joy and hope on the occasion of Diwali. The school dignitaries graced the virtual assembly. Students highlighted the festival's importance through speeches, poems, and slogans on pollution-free and green Diwali. In their festive mood, they didn’t forget that we must not encourage bursting crackers as they emit a lot of smoke, causing air pollution and employing child labour. The celebratory spirits were pumped as they presented a colourful and vibrant array of cultural performances. Dances and songs representing the spread of light and cheer followed, filling the mystical atmosphere with rhythm and symphony. Lakshmi Puja and Aarti were performed by families of Presidians online, spreading the message of having a socially distant and safe Diwali.

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26-09-2020

26-09-2020
उद्देश्य -  मौसमों की जानकारी, मौसम के अनुसार प्रयोग होने वाले भोजन, कपडे, त्यौहार, शारीरिक  विकास, मानसिक विकास और  शब्दकोष में वृद्धि l कक्षा एक में विशेष क्रियाक्लाप का आयोजन किया गया, जिसके अंतर्गत  बच्चों को अलग - अलग मौसमों की जानकारी प्राप्त हुई । बच्चों ने अपना - अपना मनपसंद मौसम चुना व उस मौसम से सम्बंधित जानकार को कक्षा में बोला जानकारी में बच्चों ने मौसम के अनुसार मनपसंद भोजन, कपडे व रहन सहन पर सतर्कता से बोला, अधिकतर बच्चों ने गर्मी में मिलने वाली चीज़ो को अपना मनपसंद बताया जिसमे कुल्फी, आइसक्रीम, जूस, आम, तरबूज़ आदि शामिल थे। कुछ बच्चों ने बरसात के मौसम को मनपसंद बताते हुए कक्षामें पकौड़े दिखाए और भिन्न -भिन्न सब्ज़ियों के बारे में भी बताया बच्चो ने कागज़ की नाव, छाता भी दिखाया । कुछ बच्चों ने सर्दी के मौसम को अच्छा बताया और मनपसंद गर्म कपड़े दिखाए । बच्चों ने  रोमांचक ढंग इस विषय को समझा ।  यह शैक्षिक क्रियाक्लाप बच्चो के शारीरिक विकास और मानसिक विकास और सामाजिक विकास में सहायक रहा। सभी ने उसका आनंद लिया ।

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18-09-2020

18-09-2020
At Presidium, we aim at providing an experiential learning approach to our students. Keeping up with the same philosophy and pedagogy, students of Grade Prep, under the TBL theme Wonders of Water, were sensitized towards the topic. This activity engaged the interest & curiosity of our young Presidians. Students learned various uses of water, storage options available, etc. through the play-way method, which provided rich experiences. Further, activities like pouring water from one container to another, holding the containers' capacity, i.e., which container can hold more / less water, were also done. Our budding learners were engrossed in estimating the containers' capacity and were made aware that a jug always holds more water than glass, a spoon or a bowl, and so on. 

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