THE PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

ON THE OCCASION OF

THE 99th FOUNDER’S DAY (9th November 2019)

MODERN SCHOOL BARAKHAMBA ROAD, NEW PHONE: 23311618, 19, 20: FAX: 23316214 Email: [email protected] Website: www.modernschool.net INDEX

Report on Academics Class X 2 French Department 53 Report on Academics Class XII 3 The Mathematics Activity Hub 54 Report on Academics 4 Psychology Department 54 Academic Awards 6 The Trips/Tours Club 54 Special Achievers’ Awards 7 Youth Parliament 55 School Appointments 8 International Award for Young People () 56 Achievements in Sports 9 Kamla Bose Award’ For Learning Beyond Classrooms 56 Initiatives 12 Sardar Bhagwant Singh Award’ 56 Awards To The Principal 13 Intra School activities 56 Awards to the School 13 Co-Curricular & Inter School Activities 58 Academics & Examination 14 House Functions 59 Students’/Teachers’ International Exchange Programmes 17 Annual Prize Giving Day 59 Resource Development Programmes For Teachers 25 Graduation Day 59 Astronomy Club 28 Independence Day 59 Bits ‘N’ Bytes Club 29 Blood Donation Camp 60 Bizonomics Society 32 Centenary Flag off Day 60 Debating Society (English) 34 Games & Sports 60 Disaster Management Committee 35 Interactive Session in Sports 61 J’adore - The Fashion Technology Club 36 Annual Sports Day 61 Hindi Club- Aksharmanch 38 All India IPSC 61 The Interact Club 38 Summer Sports Camp 64 The ‘Kids For Tigers’ Club 40 Achievements In Sports 65 ‘Model United Nations’ Society 40 (Archery, Badminton, , Chess, , Equestrian, Nature Club 45 Football, Gymnastic, Karate, Shooting, Squash, Swimming, Kriti – The Painting Club 47 , Table Tennis, Yoga) Lenscraft- The Photography Club 48 Parent-Teacher Association (P.T.A.) 84 Science Club 50 Modern School Old Students’ Association (M.s.o.s.a) 84 Sculpture Department 53 Modernites’ Trust 84 The SPIC MACAY Society 53 Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, AVSM; Mrs Ketaki Sood, President, Board of prestigious honour, usually awarded to officers of the rank of Generals. And as Trustees, Modern Schools; Col Vijay Chadda, Chairman, Managing Committee, his mother believed, his stint in the army held in good stead during the Olympic Modern School Barakhamba Road; Members of the Board of Trustees, Final. Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. A second Generation Army officer, Col Rathore served in the Jaipur based It is a joy and a privilege to welcome you all to the 99th Founder’s Day, a 9 Grenadiers, which his father commanded, once. year of celebration and commemoration as I feel it is pertinent to pay tribute Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore first stepped in a shooting range in to the guiding light, Lala Raghubir Singh who, a hundred years ago, had the the mid-1990s and in 2004, he became India’s first ever individual silver medal foresight to dream of a school which successfully blended the best of both winner at the Olympic Games after finishing second in the men’s double trap at the worlds, the Indian and the modern. His father Rai Bahadur Sultan Singh the 2004 Olympic Athens Games. was an enlightened, public spirited and well-travelled individual, whose home Colonel’s recovery from a patella fracture and a prolapsed disc to the was always open for the National leaders of the time and as a result, Lala ji’s Olympic medal is well-known. journey to realise his dreams was galvanized by, not only his father, but also In 2004, he won the World Shooting Championship in Sydney. His by other great men like Gandhi ji, C.F. Andrews, Rabindra Nath Tagore and winning streak continued further and in the year 2006, he won Gold Medal so many more. The vision of the dream took roots in the at Daryaganj in Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne and another gold in the World and found wings at this present campus at Barakhamba Road, with support of Shooting Championship held at in the same year. many a profound man, notable among them being Sir Sobha Singh, who was Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has a long list of awards and instrumental in the design and the legendary architecture of red brick walls of recognition conferred upon him for delivering exceptional service to the nation this heritage building. Sir Sobha Singh, one of the founding members of the as an army man and as a sportsperson. school, was invited by Lala Ji to head the Board of Trustees, after the demise of his father Rai Bahadur Sultan Singh, which he did, for well over 40 years. This An Arjuna Awardee, Colonel Rajya Vardhan Singh Rathore is the recipient phenomenal institution is what it is due to the exemplary doyens it has had at of the highly prestigious Padma Shri and is also the proud recipient of the Rajiv its helm down the century, like Dr SK Sen, Major General Veerendra Singh and Gandhi Khel Ratna, which is the highest Sporting Honour of India. others who realized the dream of Lala ji and helped carry his vision forward. Colonel Rathore was chosen to be the flag bearer for India during the 2006 Tonight, is also the night to celebrate and raise toast to all the wonderful Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne, Australia and the 2008 Summer achievements of the school and our students in the year gone by. Olympics at Beijing in China. He has won over 25 international medals in Double Trap Championship held in different countries between 2002 and 2006. But before that, let me introduce you to the Chief Guest for this Founder’s Day. Although, an eminent and distinguished personality like our Chief Guest Sir, we are indeed honoured to have you amongst us this evening. On behalf hardly requires any introduction, I would like to do the honours. of the entire Modern School fraternity, we once again welcome you Sir! We would also like to extend a hearty welcome to his spouse, Ms Gayatri Rathore. Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore AVSM is a Member of the Parliament, Sir and Madam, it’s a pleasure to have you with us this evening. an Olympic medalist and the recipient of Padma Shri, Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award. Ladies and Gentlemen, Modern School Barakhamba Road grew in leaps

and bounds under the able mentorship of our ex-President Mr Ashok Pratap 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Born in to an army family, Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore graduated Singh and continues to steer to greater heights under the stewardship of Mrs from the National Defence Academy and later attended the Indian Military Ketaki Sood, President, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools. Her faith in us, Academy, where he was awarded with the Sword of Honour for being the Best along with the guidance of Col Vijay Chadda and other members of the Board All-round Gentleman Cadet. He was also the recipient of the Sikh Regiment of Trustees, motivates us to continue to strive harder and better ourselves, to Gold Medal, awarded to the best sportsman of the course. achieve greater heights in all spheres. Let me reiterate, that for us, at Modern, Colonel Rathore had an illustrious career in the army during which he the sky is not the limit. served in militancy infected Kashmir and also participated in the Kargil War. The honoured him with the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal at the young age of 34, the first time in the history of Indian Army, a Major was given this

1 REPORT ON ACADEMICS CLASS X

Ananya Taneja

100% SCORERS PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S

Ananya Taneja Eshita Jain Jagriti Natraj Gauri Aggarwal Ananya Taneja Amay Jolly (Hindi Course-B) (Hindi Course-B) (Mathematics) (Mathematics) (Science) (Social Science)

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STREAM WISE TOPPERS S7

Science Humanities

Abhinav Agarwal Abhinav Inesh Vij Shivom Gupta Nandini Aadya Kapur 97.8% Nehra 97.6% 97.2% Sharma 97% 97.6% 97%

Commerce PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S

Palak Anmol Aggarwal Bansal 97.2% 97%

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STUDENTS WITH A PERFECT SCORE OF 100 IN VARIOUS SUBJECTS

Political Science Psychology

Aadya Kapur Bhavya Kritika Kapoor Radha Sanskruti Simrita Dass Kamya Jain Anisha Gupta Bazaz Tiwari Kapoor

Economics PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S

Arjun Alung Ananya Diya Goel Karina Diva Anmol Palak Avantika Singh Anisha Kanodia Mehta Bansal Aggarwal Kapoor

4 Chemistry Bio-technology

Inesh Vij Abhinav Abhinav Nehra Kunal Saluja Tina Aneja Agarwal

Legal Studies

Aditya Shankar Saraj Singh Shivom Gupta Kaartikay Kopal Kritika Rajsi Ruhani Samaara Agarwal Madan Agarwal Singhania Kapoor Wadehra Whig

Painting Computer Science PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S

Nandini Riya Jindal Abhinav Dhruv Gurmeher Yash Rohilla Aditya Narayan Shreyas Sharma Agarwal Agarwal Khurana Singh Khandekar

5 aCADEMIC AWARDS

S1 S2 S3

Arshia Goel Surina Reyan Bangia Wadhwa

S4

Farhan Bakht Ahmed

S6 S6 S6 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S

Ananya Sharma Avik Chaudhery Disha Agrawal (Humanities) (Commerce) (Science)

6 SPECIAL ACHIEVERS’ AWARDS

RUDRA PRIZE M N KAPUR GOLD MEDAL

Abhinav Agarwal Shubh Sethi Shruti Bhardwaj

PRINCIPAL’S PRIZE PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S

Ananya Sharma Devina Aggarwal Harsh Beri Niharika Sarvesh Yuvraj Prakash Tandon Chaudhry

7 School AppointmentS

DETAILS OF HOUSE CAPTAIN/VICE CAPTAINS : 2019-20 SCHOOL MONITORS 2019-20 SCHOOL PREFECTS 2019-20

S. House Captain Vice-Captains NAME CLASS/SECTION NAME CLASS/SECTION No. Devina S7A Tej Parwani S7I 1 Akbar Mihika Saraf (S7G) Kareena Jain (S7G) Aggarwal Arjun S7C Akshay Raheja (S7H) Sarvesh S7C Khanchandani 2 Ashoka Madhur Pratap (S7D) Kanishtha Dharewa Tandon (S7E) Harsh Kumar S7I Ananya S7I Suvir Ghai (S7F) Raunak Rai S7G Sharma 3 Azad Apoorva Goel (S7G) Vaibhav Sharma (S7D) Maini Alena Jain (S7J) Niharika S7B Pratham Gupta S7J 4 Gandhi Naman Kumar (S7G) Kusha Kapoor (S7G) Prakash Devansh Gupta S7A Grisha Bagai (S7E) Harsh Beri S7G 5 Lajpat Siddharth Bahl (S7C) Sanat Sehgal (S7E) Disha Agrawal S7B Yuvraj S7J Diwan ShiIjral (S7B) Chaudhry Siddharth Garg S7G 6 Laxmibai Dhruv Sharma (S7A) Aditya Poddar (S7C) Mushan Chojer (S7C) SCHOOL PREFECTS Raag Suri S7H 7 Nehru Aryan Malik (S7E) Sagar Bhargava (S7C) 2019-20 Satyajit Lall S7J Shivam Bhatia (S7J) Vignesh S7G Suhasini Jain S7I 8 Patel Rijul Mahajan (S7F) Ishita Bhalla (S7G) Ranganathan Droann Arora (S7B) Radhika S7J Iyer 9 Pratap Karan Anand S7F Akhil Gulati (S7A) Shukla Tejas Chawla (S7H) Rohan S7H SCHOOL sports PREFECT 10 Ranjit Shivangi Menon Shiza Rehman (S7J) Chatterjee (S7A) Anya Walecha (S7I) 2019-20 Triloki Gautam S7D 11 Shastri Vinamra Gandhi Avi Arora (S7D) NAME CLASS/SECTION (S7A) Suvasita Jain (S7I) Ruhanijot Kaur S7D PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Bhasin Sanya Vats S7 I 12 Shivaji Ojasv Bansal (S7D) Kavya Goel (S7I) Aadya Sheel (S7G) Mahiya S7E Agrawal 13 Subhash Harris Dalal (S7A) Smayaan Marwah (S7J) Arnav Arora (S7F) Avik S7G 14 Tagore Disha Jain (S7H) Abhia Sharma (S7G) Chaudhery Aditya Verma (S7B) Sonakshi S7J 15 Tilak Shiv Gupta (S7C) Harinya Srinivasan S7 I Gupta Shivam Raheja (S7F) Ananya Arora S7J

8 ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORTS

LADY SOBHA SINGH TRUST AWARD RAKA MEMORIAL AWARD (FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN GAMES AND ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN IN SQUASH 2018-19 SPORTS - SQUASH)2018-19 TEJAS CHAWLA, S7 SANYA VATS, S7 (GOLD MEDAL IN SGFI NATIONALS, (INTERNATIONAL BRONZE MEDAL, IPSC POSITION HOLDER) IPSC GOLD MEDAL) ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSPERSON IN BASKETBALL 2018-19 (FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN GAMES APARNA SINGH, S7 AND SPORTS- SQUASH) 2018-19 GOLD MEDAL IN SGFI NATIONALS MEGHA BHATIA, S7 (INTERNATIONALS PARTICIPATION, ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN IN SWIMMING & CRICKET 2018-19 IPSC GOLD MEDAL) MONEESHA MARIA KAPOOR, S7 BRONZE MEDAL IN CBSE SWIMMING NATIONALS, (FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN GAMES AND GOLD MEDAL IN IPSC, NATIONAL PARTICIPATION IN CRICKET SPORTS-ARCHERY & SWIMMING) 2018-19 ADITYA VARMA, S7 ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSPERSON IN BASKETBALL 2018-19 (INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION IN ARCHERY, NATIONAL ANUSHA JINDGAR, S7 PARTICIPATION & IPSC GOLD MEDAL IN SWIMMING) SILVER MEDAL IN CBSE NATIONALS, IPSC POSITION HOLDER (FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS-EQUESTRIAN) 2018-19 ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSPERSON IN BASKETBALL 2018-19 ANGAD SINGH LEHAL, S7 AVANTI NAGRATH, S7

(INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION) SILVER MEDAL IN CBSE NATIONALS, 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S IPSC POSITION HOLDER (FOR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS-CRICKET) 2018-19 ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN IN BADMINTON 2018-19 DIVIJ MEHRA, S7J PUSHAAN LEO PAUL, S7 (SILVER MEDAL IN BCCI NATIONALS, SGFI NATIONAL BRONZE MEDAL IN CBSE NATIONALS, PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER) IPSC POSITION HOLDER

9 ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN IN BADMINTON 2018-19 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -TENNIS 2018-19 MANAN SHINGARI, S7 MIRA MANCHANDA, S7 BRONZE MEDAL IN CBSE NATIONALS, (IPSC (SGFI) NATIONAL PARTICIPATION) IPSC POSITION HOLDER FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -TENNIS 2018-19 ALL ROUND BEST SPORTSMAN IN SWIMMING 2018-19 ADITYA PRATAP SINGH, S7 RADHIKA SHUKLA, S7 (IPSC (SGFI) NATIONAL PARTICIPATION) BRONZE MEDAL IN CBSE NATIONALS, IPSC POSITION HOLDER FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -TENNIS 2018-19 ARYAN KAPOOR, S7 DEV RAJ PURI CRICKET TROPHY IPSC (SGFI) NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER (BEST CRICKETER OF THE YEAR) 2018-19 SHREY KAUSHIK, S7 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS- BADMINTON 2018-19 NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER GAURI GUPTA, S7 SGFI NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER SAURABH AGGARWAL FOOTBALL TROPHY (BEST FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR) 2018-19 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS- Badminton 2018-19 RABAB SINGH SETHI, S7 ABHISHEK SHARMA, S7 SGFI NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER CBSE NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER

RISHABJEET SINGH WASON HOCKEY TROPHY FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS- YOGA 2018-19 (PLAYER OF THE YEAR) 2018-19 SHIVANGI MENON, S7 MADHUR PRATAP, S7 BRONZE MEDAL IN OPEN NATIONALS, IPSC POSITION HOLDER State position holder, ipsc participation FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS- YOGA 2018-19 SUMER BUDHRAJA MEMORIAL AWARD KARAN ANAND, S7 (BEST BOY SWIMMER) 2018-19 IPSC (SGFI) NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S AVIRAJ M ANAND, S7 NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS- TENNIS 2018-19 MUKUND OJHA, S7 PRINCIPAL’S PRIZE IPSC (SGFI) NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS BASKETBALL 2018-19 HOLDERFOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS TABLE TENNIS 2018-19 YUVRAJ SINGH, S7 IPSC (SGFI) NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, AUM TANDON, S7 IPSC POSITION HOLDER IPSC (SGFI) NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER

10 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -GOLF 2018-19 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -BASKETBALL 2018-19 SAIVIKRAMA ANGRISH, S7 ARMAAN GUPTA, S7 OPEN NATIONAL PARTICIPATION IPSC POSITION HOLDER, STATE POSITION HOLDER

FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -GOLF 2018-19 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -BASKETBALL 2018-19 TANMAY RAKHEJA, S7 SHAURYA BANSAL, S7 OPEN NATIONAL PARTICIPATION IPSC POSITION HOLDER, STATE POSITION HOLDER

FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS - FOOTBALL 2018-19 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS - CHESS 2018-19 NIDAAN THAKRAN, S7 KRISHNAM SABOO, S7 IPSC POSITION HOLDER IPSC (SGFI) NATIONAL PARTICIPATION

FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS - FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS - CHESS 2018-19 SWIMMNIG & WATER POLO 2018-19 ARUSH JAIN, S7 APOORVA GOEL, S7 IPSC (SGFI) NATIONAL PARTICIPATION IPSC POSITION HOLDER, SWIMMING DELHI STATE POSITION HOLDER,WATER POLO FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS - FOOTBALL 2018-19 ARNAV ARORA, S7 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -CRICKET 2018-19 IPSC WINNER TANU CHAUHAN, S7 SGFI, NATIONAL POSITON HOLDER, IPSC POSITON HOLDER FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS - FOOTBALL 2018-19 SAGAR BHARGAVA, S7 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -CRICKET 2018-19 IPSC WINNER VISHESH KAPOOR, S7 SGFI NATIONAL PARTICIPATION, IPSC POSITION HOLDER FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -BASKETBALL 2018-19 RIJUL MAHAJAN, S7 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -CRICKET 2018-19 SILVER MEDAL IN CBSE NATIONALS, IPSC POSITION HOLDER ANKIT YADAV, S7 IPSC POSITION HOLDER

FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -BASKETBALL 2018-19 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S SRISHTI SIKKA, S7 FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -CRICKET 2018-19 IPSC POSITION HOLDER, STATE POSITION HOLDER SIDHANNT KALUCHA, S7 IPSC POSITION HOLDER

FOR EXCELLENCE IN GAMES AND SPORTS -BASKETBALL 2018-19 ARYAN MAYOR, S7 IPSC POSITION HOLDER, STATE POSITION HOLDER

11 1. INITIATIVES Classes for instructional strategy and blended learning (g) Smart Boards (h) ‘Apply it Now’ – Real World Application with Inter-Disciplinary Academics: Approach’ and feedback through Reflection Sheets (i) Special Revision Classes (j) ‘Super Brain Yoga’ and ‘Twin Heart Meditation’ for improved Learner Centric Approach focus (k) Progressive Minds’Workshops (l) Comprehensive Evaluation Besides providing holistic education, from the current academic session of English Language Skills and Appreciation of Literature (m) Mind our School has been focusing on the Learner Centric Approach and Mapping (n) Hub Activities through ‘Srjna’ Experiential Learning Tools, ensuring that not only the students actually comprehend, learn and enjoy Numbola, Project ‘Hopscotch’, What’s the Question etc. the lessons taught to them in their classes but also the entire faculty Apart from this, Academic Audit is conducted to assess the quality of ensures being a life-long learner. Our School has been meticulously assessment of the answer-scripts after a test/examination to ascertain following a few pedagogical practices (mostly designed by us) that aid inadequacies and overcome them and (b) Feedback about the teachers academic transactions in some way. Some of the prime practices are – (a) is obtained from the outgoing batch of students. Visit to Science Park set up in School (b) D.E.A.R. classes for perfecting languages and knowledge (c) B.A.L.A. for a photographic memory (d) Differentiated Learning Special Classes of S7 students for a thorough and intense preparation for Board Examination (e) Up-to-Speed Classes to help the newly admitted Being a Learner-Centric School, continuous efforts are made to create a Class S6 students to bring them at par with the other students (f) Flipped greater learning atmosphere in school, where both the teacher and the students. Endeavour is made to teach at a pace that suits learning needs of every student. Differentiated learning is being practised rather than delivering one-size-fits-all lessons to the entire class. Blended Learning

Greater emphasis is being laid to integrate technology with the traditional learning, as technology helps in making teaching, learning and research more meaningful and enjoyable. It keeps students motivated as well as engaged in what they are learning. Keeping abreast with the technological

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S advancements, the teachers, too focus on digital usage to explore new pedagogical innovations. STEM Education

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education is the need of the hour to create critical thinkers, problem-solvers and next generation innovators, hence STEM learning is brought into sharper focus.

12 Regular Inspection of the Notebooks - Thrice during an Academic 2. AWARD TO THE PRINCIPAL Year – In order to monitor the quality and quantity of the written work in the notebooks by the students and, to ensure that the work is being Dr Vijay Datta received the ‘Award of Leadership’ for being an exemplary regularly corrected by their respective subject teachers, an exercise Educational Leader, in the British Parliament, London, United Kingdom. has been initiated by the Principal, wherein the notebooks of all the The event was organized by the University College, London and the Award students of all the classes are inspected by the Headmistresses. This was given by Mr Virendra Sharma, Hon’ble Member of Parliament, House exercise is carried out thrice during the academic year at an interval, of Commons, London and a Member of the International Development which is most beneficial for the students. The English language Committee. notebooks are checked with a view to evaluate the English language Dr Vijay Datta received the ‘Instructional Leadership Excellence Award’ skills and appreciation of literature by the students. 2019-20 by the Confederation of Eductional Institutions of India in the ‘Shreshtha : C.E.I.I. National Educational Survey 2019-20. The Principal has commenced ‘Class-Observation’ from January 2019 where the Principal observes teaching-learning process in all 3. AWARDS TO THE SCHOOL the classes – from S1 to S7 across all subjects. The teachers are appreciative of the feedback as it helps them enhance their teaching Our School has been Ranked India’s No.1 Day-cum-Boarding School in skills, making their teaching more effective. the ‘Education World’ India School Rankings 2019-2020.

Progressive Minds’ Workshops are being conducted for the students Modern School Barakhamba Road received the Global Membership of the Round Square in record time during the ‘RSIC 2019’ hosted by the of Class S6 during the Class Teacher’s Period, in an endeavour to Emerald Heights International School, Indore from 2ndto 8th October improve the concentration level and academic grades of the students. 2019, and was presented with a Certificate and the Round Square Flag Modern School Barakhamba Road for the record sixth time is set to by Mr Rod Fraser, Chairman and Ms Rachel Westgarth, CEO of the host the 80th Session of the IPSC Principals’ Conclave held from 5th Round Square. to 7th January 2020 on the theme ‘Education Four Point Zero’. Being Our School was adjudged the Winner of the ‘Behtar India Campaign’ the host school, on this occasion, our school will also release the ‘IPSC (Season-Two). Our school has won this award for the second time in Schools’ Directory – 2019’. succession and bagged the Gold (National) Trophy together with the Upgradation of Infrastructural Facilities Regional Trophy from the Ministry of Environment, , for contributing towards Swachh Vatavaran by adopting Green Good 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S An Audio Recording Studio has been set up in our School. It caters Deeds. The Principal and the Teacher In-charge of Interact Club were to all the requirements of audio recordings for various functions of the felicitated by DHFL Pramerica Insurance Co. for the outstanding and school including the House Functions. exemplary work done by our school.

From 1st July 2019, our School has inducted 31 Air Conditioned DTC With full honours for outstanding professional contribution in our field buses. The School has undertaken this initiative to make the travelling of competence, the President and the Fellows of the Confedration of for studentsmore congenial during intense weather. Educational Institutions of India, awarded the testimonial of the Honorary C.E.I.I. Guild Member to our School.

13 The Scoolstars felicitated Modern School, Barakhamba Road for the 7 students (presently in Class S7) were awarded theMerit Certificates by exceptional performance in co-curricular activities and sports and the the C.B.S.E. for their being within the ‘top 0.1%’ (subject wise)in the All School Leader - Dr Vijay Datta, Principal for his efforts in consistently India Secondary School Certificate Examination held in March 2018. 2 promoting the same. students were bestowed with the Certificate of Merit for Mathematics -Avik Chaudhery and Gautam Goel, 2 for Social Science - Devina Aggarwal Our School was recognized as one of the top fifty Schools in India and Arjjan Walia, 2 for Science - Aaryan Arora and Aman Maheshwari by the ‘Future 50 Schools Shaping Success’. The award was an and 1 for Foundation of IT - Smayaan Marwah. acknowledgement of collective hardwork and dedication of each one at our school and was a motivation to constantly strive for excellence. Varun Khurana (Batch of 2019) scored 98.96 percentile in JEE-MAIN in January 2019 in the first attempt, out of 9,29,128 registered candidates. Our School was chosen as the Winner in the sub-category ‘Sports Excellence’ by the Business World and Business World Education. Priyadarshini Sharma (S6) secured the Zonal Rank 17 and International Rank 26 in the International English Olympiad 2018-19 held on 4th Our School bagged the ‘Merit Trophy’ (2018-2019) for winning the 53rd October 2018, conducted across 30 countries. Youth Parliament Competition conducted by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India in January 2019. Dhruv Sharma (S6) won the Gold Medal in Math Wiz, an Individual Event, in the Mathematics Competition organized by City Montessori The AICRA STEM Awards aim to build a future of excellence in robotics. School, Lucknow during their 8th International Young Mathematicians’ Our School was awarded the ‘Best Academic Innovative Curriculum for Convention 2018 in December 2018. It was an event in which students Schools Award 2019’ by the All India Council of Robotics and Automation, from 63 National and International schools participated. during the STEM Learning Summit and Award Function on 16th April 2019. Through the National Defence Academy examination, Harry Dalal (S7 A) was selected to be a ‘Flying Officer’ in the Indian Air Force. 4. ACADEMICS & EXAMINATION Our teachersMr Gautam Sarkar, Ms Deepa Kapoor, Ms Hema Anand and A) Academics Ms Divya Sahdev took extra classes during winter vacation (2018) for students of Class S7, who had missed their regular classes due to their 20 students from the ‘Batch of 2018’ were awarded the Certificate of participation in the Sports competitions, to help them cover and revise Merit by the C.B.S.E. for being within the ‘top 0.1%’ (subject wise) in the old portion of the syllabus for Board Examination of 2019. PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S All India Senior School Certificate Examinations held in March 2018. 5 students were bestowed with Certificate of Merit for Business Studies The Academic session 2019-2020 commenced on 19th March 2019 for – Chetna Bhagat, Mansi Jain, Shreyan Puri, Vani Duggal and Vanshika the students of Classes S5 and S7, and on 1st April 2019 for the students Pant,3 for Mathematics - Shubhang Gopal, Pranay Jain and Rahul of Classes from S2 to S4. The students of Class S1 and Class S6 joined Marwah, 4 for Psychology -Peeya Bhatia, Ritika, Shriya Aggarwal and school on 3rd April 2019 and 8th April 2019 respectively. Namya Manglani, 2 for Chemistry - Aryaman Jain and Gunagya Singh Mamak, 2 for Legal Studies - Ayushi Kapoor and Tushti Kapoor, 2 for Special Classes for Class 12 students were held during summer vacation Political Science - Seerat Kaur Alag and Khushboo Dev,1 for Economics under the vision and guidance of the Principal, in consultation with the - Saumya Jain and 1 for Biotechnology - Sonia Arora. Headmistress, Senior School. These special classes were organized

14 from 13th to 24th May 2019 to ensure thorough and extensive preparation The Class 12 result (2018 - 2019) in the Examination held by CBSE has for the Board Examination 2020. The teachers who conducted these been excellent. classes were Ms Jaya Khurana, Ms Beeba Sobti,Ms Meera Malhotra, Ms Vandana Dhawan, Ms Cimeran Kher, Ms Deepa Kataria, Ms Richa Abhinav Agarwal topped the school and stood First in the Science Bhatia, Ms Puja Kapoor, Mr Gautam Sarkar, Ms Sapna Bhargava, Ms stream with 97.8% marks whereas Abhinav Nehra and Inesh Vij stood Harpreet Kaur, Mr , Ms Sonika Jain, Ms Anuradha Bahl, Ms Second in the Science stream with 97.6%. Palak Aggarwal topped in the Commerce stream with 97.2% marks and Anmol Bansal followed Hema Anand, Ms Pooja Bahl, Ms Divya Sahdev, Ms Urna Sharma and her with 97.0%. Shivom Gupta was the highest scorer in the Humanities Ms Garima Tomar. stream with 97.2% marks while Nandini Sharma and Aadya Kapur scored To bring the newly admitted Class S6 students at par with the other a close second with 97.0% marks. students, ‘Up-to-Speed’ Classes were held by some of our Senior School It is a matter of pride for the School that a Boarder, Shivom Gupta, has teachers from 24th to 28th June 2019. The teachers who conducted created history by securing the highest marks and becoming the topper these classes were – Ms Beeba Sobti, Mr Gautam Sarkar, Ms Harpreet of the Humanities stream in the Board Examination this year. Khattar, Ms Deepa Kapoor, Mr Manoj Kumar, Ms Pooja Bahl, Ms Garima, Ms Pooja Goel, Ms Urna Sharma and Ms Swati Chojer. 37 students obtained a perfect score of 100 marks in some subjects in Class 12 Examination. Aadya Kapur, Bhavya Gupta, Kritika Kapoor B) Examination and Radha Bazaz in Political Science; Arjun Alung, Ananya Kanodia, Diya Goel, Karina Diva Mehta, Anmol Bansal, Palak Aggarwal, Avantika The average percentage of Class 10 and Class 12 has gone up by two Singh and Anisha Kapoor in Economics; Sanskruti Tiwari, Simrita Dass, percent over the previous year in the Board Examination held in March/ Kamya Jain and Anisha Kapoor in Psychology; Inesh Vij and Abhinav April 2019 and the details are given below: Agarwal in Chemistry;Abhinav Nehra, Kunal Saluja, and Tina Aneja in 360 students of Class 10th appeared in the All India Secondary School Bio-technology; Nandini Sharma,Riya Jindal in Painting; Aditya Shankar Examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education held in March 2019. Agarwal, Saraj Singh Madan, Shivom Gupta, Kaartikay Agarwal,Kopal Singhania, Kritika Kapoor, Rajsi Ruhani Wadehra and Samaara Whig in Ananya Taneja topped the School in Class 10 Board Examination-2019 Legal Studies and Abhinav Agarwal, Dhruv Agarwal, Gurmeher Khurana, with 98.0% marks while Jagriti Natraj secured the 2nd Rank with 97.6% Yash Rohilla, Aditya Narayan Singh and Shreyas Khandekar in Computer marks and Diya Sabharwal secured the 3rd Rank with 97.4% marks. Science.

6 students obtained a perfect score of 100 marks in some of the subjects The results of our students of Classes 10 and 12, in the Board Examination 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S in Class 10 exams. Ananya Taneja and Eshita Jain obtained 100 marks in conducted by the CBSE in March and April 2019, were duly analyzed by Hindi Course-B, Jagriti Natraj and Gauri Aggarwal secured 100 marks in the Principal and were discussed with the teachers in detail during the Mathematics, Ananya Taneja scored 100 marks in Science as well while Staff Meeting held on 29th June 2019. He appreciated the hard work and Amay Jolly obtained this prestigious score in Social Science. advised teachers to make extra efforts and beat their own targets. The Principal suggested ways of effective classroom teaching and motivated 379 students appeared in The All India Senior School Certificate them to use innovative teaching techniques like the Flipped Classroom Examination of Central Board of Secondary Education held in March/ Teaching, Mind Maps and Smart Class. He also advised the staff to April 2019. judiciously use their time while being on duty for effective results.

15 Admissions of the students of ‘Batch of 2019’ Name of the Name of the University Country Student Our vision and ethos, of a holistic education with students excelling in a variety of fields, are strongly evident in the Batch of 2019. Students Gurtej Singh Puri Bowling Green State University, USA applied to a cross section of courses and brought pride to the alma Ohio mater by receiving acceptances from prestigious Universities in India Harsh Gupta University of California, Berkeley USA and abroad. Notable among them were Abhinav Agarwal who was Harry Dalal University of California, Berkeley USA accepted to almost 20 prominent colleges, some of them being the Hiya Gupta University of California, LA USA Harvard University,the Cambridge, the Stanford, the Duke, the Imperial Ishaan Thapar Binghamton University (SUNY) USA College, London, UC Berkeley and many more. Similarly, Manya Bansal Jahanvi Chabbra Warwick University UK got in to Stanford with 90% scholarship, Princeton, Dartmouth, Duke and so on. Given below are the names of the students who were selected to Kabir Talwar Warwick University UK the top universities of abroad and in India and finally took admission in Kashni Sial Skidmore College USA the university mentioned against their name. Manas Aggrawal Kelly School of Business, Indiana USA Bloomington Name of the Name of the University Country Manya Bansal Stanford University (Academic USA Student Scholarship 90% i.e. USD 60,000/- Abhinav Aggarwal Princeton University (Full Waiver) USA per annum) Abhigyan Singh University of British Columbia Canada Prakriti Dahiya University of Washington USA (Scholarship CAD 80,000/-) Pranav Bansal Imperial College, London UK Adit Jain University of Washington, Seattle USA Pradyuman Mehta Virginia Tech University USA Aadit Gupta Purdue University USA Prajna Chaudhary Ithica College USA Aadya Kapur Hong Kong University Hong Kong Raghavendra University of British Columbia Canada Ananya Kanodia Nanyang Technological University Singapore Gupta Arjun Harbhajanka Purdue University USA Riya Jindal California College of Arts USA Armaan Aggarwal University of California, Berkeley USA (Scholarship USD 15,000/- per

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S annum Avantika Singh University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Rishab Raheja Trinity College Dublin UK Devank Agarwal Carnegie Mellon University USA Rishab Maheshwari Kings College, London UK Dhruv Agarwal Hong Kong University Hong Kong Sanskar Aggrawal Kelly School of Business, Indiana USA Diya Goel Kelly School of Business, Indiana USA University Bloomington Shaurya Jain Trinity College Dublin UK Eshaan Minocha Purdue University USA Shreyas Khandekar University of Arizona USA Gautam Nagpal Drexel University USA

16 Name of the Name of the University Country Student Sheen Magazine University of Arts, London UK Siddhant Seth Trinity College Dublin UK Siddhart Khirwar University of Wisconsin, Madison USA Simrita Das LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore Singapore Tanya Goel Kings College, London UK Varun Bhalla Boston University USA Varun Khurana Delhi Technological University India Vishesh Aggarwal University of California, Berkeley USA Vridhi Jain University of California, Berkeley USA Vinayak Bansal Indian University, Bloomington USA Yash Rohilla University of British Columbia Canada Round Square Conferences attended by our students and teachers Yash Garg Thapar University, India in India

From the Batch of 2019, 4 students got admission into the Indian Institute Dates Names of the Details of the Details of the Students of Technology, 19 students joinedmedical colleges for M.B.B.S. course, Host Conferences and Teachers Attended around 100 students got admission in various colleges of the Delhi Institutions the Conference University and 6 students joined the Ashoka University. and Places 15–20 Vidya Devi Attended the Seven students – Raghav 5. STUDENTS’ INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE Oct. Jindal School, International Jindal Aarushi Bhargava PROGRAMMES/CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA 2018 Hisar Round Square and Parnika Bhardwaj ROUND SQUARE CONFERENCE Service Project (Class S3) Ansh Midha, Saurab Jain and 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Modern School Barakhamba Road received the Global Membership of Sameechi Parinishtha the Round Square in record time during the ‘RSIC 2019’ hosted by the Surya (Class S4) Emerald Heights International School, Indore from 2nd - 8th October 2019, and was presented with a Certificate and the Round Square Flag by Mr Rod Fraser, Chairman and Ms Rachel Westgarth, CEO of the Round Square.

17 Escort Teacher- Ms Kavita 4 – 8 The Doon Attended Six students – Alex Shelley Dec. School, the Regional Lohani, Pranavi Singhal, 2018 Dehradun Round Square Aryan Dawer, Ishaan Highlights: Conference Pershad,Siddhant Ahuja -Served to improve and Tatvagya Nahar infrastructure of Kanya (Class S4) Gurukul, Dobhi (a residential school for Escort Teacher-Ms Divya under-privileged Sharma girls) 22– 24 Rajmata Attended the Six students – Anmol -Helped them improve Dec. Krishna ‘Round Square Jain, Navya Pant, Maira spoken English and 2018 Kumari Girls’ South and Gulf Aggarwal, Janvi Gupta, taught dance Public School, Region Arya Prasad and Ishani 17–21 Daly College, Attended the Six students–Raghav Jodhpur, Conference’ Tandon (Class S3) Oct. Indore Round Square Swaroop, Aanya Mehra, Rajasthan on the theme Escort Teacher - 2018 Adventure Devika Tikku, ‘Testing Limits’ Ms Anjali Gupta Chhabra Camp on the Arjun Goyal, Ashmit Singh theme ‘A Desire and Soham Rai (Class S3) 1 – 3 All Saints’ ‘ARM RSIC Dr P.P.Vermani to Alter Your Feb. College, Principals’ Life’ Escort Teacher - Ms Aarti 2019 Nainital Conference Mehta 2019’ 29 Lawrence Round Square Five students – Highlight: Mar. School Service Project Vignesh Ranganathan Iyer -To undergo life changing -7 Apr. Lovedale, Akshit Gupta, Sonakshi Experiences through 2019 Ooty Gupta, Nandini Indoria motivational talks and and Paridhi Chadha of adventure sports like (Class S7) Zorbing, Rappelling, PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Flying Fox, Rock Escort Teacher– Ms Saira Climbing, Trekking and John Camping -Visit to Mandu including Rani Roopmati Pavillion, Highlights: As a part Neelkanth Mahadev of this Service Project, Temple, Baaz Bahadur the team of students Palace renovated L.P.School in Wayanad, Kerala

18 30 The Doon Round Square Six students–Saumya Highlights Mar. School, Service Project Panwar (Class S6) -Discussied the ways to -6 Apr. Dehradun ‘Project Dungri’ Shivangi Menon, Gaura implement the Discovery 2019 Gupta Tejas Chawla, Raag Framework for Round Suri and\ Sarvesh Tandon Square Schools within (Class S7) the existing curriculum in schools Escort Teacher - Various Lesson Plans, Mr Dhirendra Singh Subject Lessons, Innovative Course Material Highlights: were discussed with the -Students went to a aim of execution of these village in Garhwal District, ideas in classrooms with Uttarakhand and built and fence maximum advantage walls around village’s -Session revealed community centre ‘discoveries’ in all -Whitewashed several good work done in places of public different schools for conveniences implementation of the -Learnt the skill of making Framework. LED bulbs -Conducted a village-wide -Session emphasized survey about economic on promoting character condition education within class -Taught to children in a rooms by developing soft Primary school skills in students and their 6 – 7 British School, Round Square Dr Vijay Datta, Principal curriculum 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Apr. Discovery Dr P.P.Vermani, Teacher 18–21 Sunbeam Round Square Eight students – Mannat 2019 Framework Ms Shalini Dahiya, Teacher Apr. School, Conference Sobti, Shreya Gupta, Praxis Session/ Ms Himani Bakshi, Teacher 2019 Lahartara, on the theme Shanaya Bhasin Avvyaa Workshop Resource Person Ms Varanasi ‘Surrender The Gupta, Suhani Sharma Aimee Theodore, Head, Me for the We’ Viha Marwah, Nivaan Programme Development, Jain and Siddharth Veer Round Square Sawhney (Class S2)

19 Escort Teacher – -People in nearby slum Ms Payal Srivastava areas were informed about it Highlights: -Helped at the registration desk, doctor, office during -Kathak Performance by the Medical Camp Sh Vishal Krishna -Visited St Jude’s Cancer -Folk Dance of West Centre Bengal -Another Medical Camp -Visit to Kabir Math was organized in a school 27Apr.- The Scindia Participated in Eight students – Jaishnav -Speech by Dr Jitendra 2 May School Round Square Gandhi, Mehul Agrawal, Nagpal 2019 Gwalior Service Project Gaurangi Verma, Harsh 19–21 -The Doon I.P.S.C. Round Six students – Anusha Kumar, Kopal Mehta, Tanvi Jul. School, Square ‘Youth Jindgar, Arjun Jitani and Tarak Bhatia 2019 Dehradun, in Exploration Khanchandani and (Class S7) and of Leadership Vignesh Iyer (Class S7) Development Amam Jain, Yatin Airi and Escort Teacher – 2019’ Maria Javed (Class S6) Mr Sanatan Roy (Y.I.E.L.D.) 27–30 Genesis Round Square Seven students – Hiten Pilot Escort Teacher – Ms Pooja May Global School, Service Project Chadha Aryan Bahl and - Welham Programme Bahl 2019 on the theme Harris Dalal (Class S7) Boys’ School, ‘Health is Manushree Singhania, Dehradun INME Learning the Greatest Anantika Kohli, Danika Program Wealth’ Bashista and Arushri 12–14 The British Round Square Seven students – Ananya Vohra (Class S6) Sept. School, Conference on Jain, Mannya Narula, 2019 New Delhi ‘International- Krishav Joneja PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Teacher Escort – ism’ Ashish Bansal, Ehan Ms Puja Kapoor Danish, Ishika Jain, Shraddha Gupta Highlights: (Class S3) -Medical Camp was organized at Sector 16, Escort Teacher– Noida Ms Manpreet Kaur

20 Hightlights: -Students were exposed -Barraza sessions on to activities such as Run Music, Dance, Science, for Cancer with the blade Sustainable Development runner which ignited the etc. spirit of adventure. -Final day performance -Attended talks of Mr by the Students, of the Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel activities/ talents learnt in Laureate); Dr Shashi the Barraza Sessions, like Tharoor, Member of choir, dance performances, short films, Parliament; SOPHIA (the plays etc. first ever robot citizen); Ms Kiran Gandhi, Electronic 2 – 10 The Emerald Round Square Dr Vijay Datta, Principal, Music Artist Oct. Heights International attended the Conference 2019 International Conference as a Special Guest & Activist; Major D.P. School, – 2019 on Singh, First Blade Runner Indore the theme Five students – Mahiya of India And Mr Swami ‘Sarvodaya : Agrawal, Angad Singh Gopal, International Life the Lehal, Karan Anand, Coach World We Wish Riddhi Kuthiala and Alena to See’ Jain (Class S7) 7 – 12 The Daly Round Square Six students – Kavya Oct. College, Service Project Agarwal, Ritwik Mitra Escort Teachers 2019 Indore at Panna Tiger (Class S6) Gautam Goyal, Dr P.P.Vermani Reserve Radhika Garg, Highlights Rhea Mehta, and Shivam -Modern School received Raheja (Class S7) the Global Membership PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S of the Round Square Escort Teachers in record time and was Mr Ajay Rawat presented with a Certificate and the Round Highlights Square Flag by Mr Rod -Organized an Eye Camp Fraser, Chairman and Ms at local school and Rachel Westgarth, CEO of reconstructed the Round Square the government schools

21 -Attended an inspiring Round Square Conferences attended by our students and teachers speech by Dr Raghunath in other countries Chundawat, an eminent Dates Names of Details of the Names of our Students/ conservation biologist the Host Conferences Teachers Attended the about importance of Institutions Conference sustainability of wildlife and Places 13–16 The Doon Round Square Eight students–Garv 18-22 The Indian The Round Six students – Naman Kumar, Oct. School, Leadership Khurana Kamakshi Gupta Nov. High Square Pragya Tandon, Ronak Rai 2019 Dehradun Adventure (Class S4), Kabir Kalra, 2018 School, Conference Maini, Aadya Gupta, Aryan Programme Nandini Gupta, Mrigaanka Dubai on the theme Arora and Navya Babbar Chahar, Harshit Gupta ‘Impeccable (Class S6) and Priynshi Tayal (Class Impressions’ S3) Tejasvi Kar (Class S2) Escort Teacher - Ms Manju Escort Teacher – Vijra Ms Kanika Bathla Highlights: Highlights -Visit to EXPO 2020 - Adventure activities like -Visit to Hydraulic Farms in Abu – rock climbing, bridge Dhabi slithering, trekking to - Visit to Jebel Mountains sulphur caves 11–18 King’s Round Ten students – Shanya Jain, -Witnessed performance March Academy, Square Rahul Agarwal, Ojas Garg and by Sambhav Manch 2019 Madaba, ‘Model United Arya Lamba of Class S4) Parivar Jordan Nations Sridhar Chaurasia, Karina -Attended a speech and Conference’ Chawla, Aaryan Dhingra, Presentation on Daiwik Aggarwal Apoorva Goel Leadership and Yamin Kakroo (Class S6) PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 22–23 The Shri Round Square Six students – Ansh Oct. Ram School, Service Project Goel, Trimenjeev, Dhanya Escort Teacher – Ms Sonia 2019 Aravali, at Aravali Jain, Kashish Khurana, Kapoor Gurugram Nandana Joneja, Ananya Kadambiri Khanna (Class Highlights: S6) -Visited iconic tourist attractions of Jordan such as Escort Teacher – Petra, Jerash, Ms Deepa Kapoor the Dead Sea

22 30 Jun Lebone II, Attended Four students – Dhruv Tantia, on Leadership was a part of the Tata Day celebration.The delegates –7 Jul College of the Round Vatsal Singaland Harinya also visited Dr Radhakrishnan School, Defence Colony, New Delhi on 2019 the Royal Square Sreenivas (Class S7) Aathiya 19th December 2018.Tree Plantation was organized on the morning of Bafokeng, Leadership Bansal of Class S6 20th December 2018. A Cultural Exhibition was put up, reflections of the South Africa Festival Summit were presented and cultural performances were presented by Escort Teacher - Ms Poonam the delegates during the Valedictory Function. A digital Photo Album and Rajput the CDLS Brochure were released to mark the culmination of the 13th International Community Development and Leadership Summit 2018.On Highlights 22nd December 2018, the delegates visited the Taj Mahal, . -Day -1 : Theme ‘Understanding of Self’ Other International Programmes Attended by the Students/Teachers -Day–2: Theme ‘Service of our School Learning’ -Day-3 : Theme ‘Climate Dates Names of Details of the Names of our Students/ Change’ the Host Events/ Teachers Attended the -Day-4 : Theme ‘21st Century Institutions Programmes Event/Programme Leadership Mindset’ and Places and Details/Achievements -Visit to Pilanesburg National (if any) Park 18–22 The Indian Attended the Six students – -Visit to Apartheid Museum in Nov. High School, Round Square- Johannesburg 2018 Dubai Conference on Naman Kumar, Pragya the theme Tandon, Raunak Rai Maini, ‘Impeccable Aadya Gupta, Aryan Arora Impressions’ and Navya Babbar (Class International Programme Hosted by our School S6) The 13th International Community Development and Leadership Escort Teacher - Ms Manju Summit-2018 on the theme “Water’s Waterloo” was organized in School Vijra from 15th to 20th December 2018. We hosted schools from more than PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S twenty countries.The Inaugural Function was held on 15th December Highlights: 2018 followed by a Panel Discussion and the SBI Day-I. 16th December 2018 was the CDLS 2018 Presentation Day. The SBI Day-II was conducted -Visit to EXPO 2020 as the Community Service Day on 17th December 2018. The delegates were taken for a field visit to the Cheshire Home, Ozanam Home, Palna -Visit to Hydraulic Farms in and the Blind Relief Association. On 18th December 2018, the delegates Abu Dhabi witnessed a lecture-cum-demonstration of a classical dance recital by the renowned Kathak dancer, Ms Monisha Nayak. An interactive workshop - Visit to Jebel Mountains

23 3 – 12 JENESYS Attended the Two Students Kaartikay 11-18 King’s Round Square Ten students – Shanya Jain, Dec. 2018 Japan East Aggarwal and Armaan Mar. Academy, ‘Model United Rahul Agarwal, Ojas Garg 2018 Scholarship Asia Network Aggarwal (Class S7) 2019 Madaba, Nations Con- and Arya Lamba of Class S4 Programme of Exchange Jordan ference’ and Sridhar Chaurasia, Karina by Ministry for Students Escort Teacher - Ms Richa Chawla, Aaryan Dhingra, of Foreign and Youth on Bhatia Affairs, the theme ‘En- Daivik Aggarwal, Apoorva Japan held vironment and Goel and Yamin Kakroo of Highlights: at Japan Technology’ Class S6 -Visited cities viz. Tokyo, Fukuoka, Yukuhoma, Escort Teacher – Ms Sonia Hiroshima, Miyazaki Kapoor -Experienced inter-cultural 30 Lebone II, Attended the Four students – Dhruv differences and similarities Jun. College of Round Square Tantia, Vatsal Singal, –7 Jul. the Royal Leadership Harinya Sreenivas of Class -Understood various S7 and Aathiya Bansal of educational Systems 2019 Bafokeng, Festival South Africa Class S6 -Acquired knowledge about eco-friendly techniques Escort Teacher- Ms Poonam -Learnt about hydrogen fuel Rajput cells At Kyushu University -Enjoyed ride of the bullet Highlights train and spent week-end -Day -1 : Theme with Japanese families ‘Understanding of Self’ -Engaged in several -Day–2: Theme ‘Service traditional activities Learning’ including wearing -Day-3 : Theme ‘Climate

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Kimono, participating in Change’ tea- making ceremony, eating authentic food and -Day-4 : Theme ‘21st practising sports like Kendo Century Leadership Mindset’ -Visited illustrious old downtown in Tokyo -Visit to Pilanesburg -Visit to National Museum National Park of Emerging Science and -Visit to Apartheid Museum, Innovation Johannesburg

24 22-26 Nairong 5th Nairong Four students – Akhil Gulati, 21–28 Collegiate ‘Internation- Four students – Diya Jul. School, Internation- Ananya Arora and Tarak Sept. School, al Emerging Sabharwal, Vritti Tandon 2019 Bangkok, al Students’ Bhatia (Class S7) 2019 Richmond, Leaders’ Con- and Ayushman Jalan Thailand Conference Diya Khanna (S6) Virginia, USA ference-2019’ (Class S6) Samraj 2019 on the on the theme Chaudhary (Class S7) theme ‘Global Escort Teacher – Ms Sunila ‘The Global Crisis Needs Kalra Economy and Escort Teacher – Mr Gautam Extinguishing the Environ- Sarkar Endeavours’ Highlights ment’ -Ms Sunila Kalra presented Highlights a Paper on ‘Environmental -Visited the Brock Issues : Environmental Centre, Global Warming Signs Virginia Commonwealth and Initiatives by Modern University School’ -Witnessed Keynote -Visit to Pattaya Toey-Ngam Speeches of Suly Salazar Beach Layton, John Dau and -Nongnooch Garden Brendan Kennedy -Tiger Park, Pattaya -Visited Capitol, the White 1 – 7 Japanese ‘World Youth Four students – Disha Jain House, the Lincoln Memorial Aug. Ministry of Meeting’ on (Class S7) Navya Girdhar, 13 -26 Colegio ‘Cultural Ex- Eight students – Hiten 2019 Education the theme Shivang Soni and Sayan Oct. Carol Baur, change and Chadha, Aryan Bahl, and ‘A Sense of Bajaj (S6) 2019 Mexico Education Devansh Gupta, Paridhi Ritsumeikan Inclusiveness’ Escort Teacher - Ms Beeba Programme Chadha, Khyati Vermani, Junior and Sobti Kopal Mehta, Akshit Gupta Senior High and Erica Neerja Malhotra School, Highlights (Class S7) Kyoto, Japan -Our students were awarded the Platinum Prize for Escort Teacher – Mr Rais A. 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Excellence for Khan exception performance on the topic ‘Inclusiveness 6. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES through Communication FOR TEACHERS Technology in The 21st Century’ A) Teachers of almost all the subjects, besides the school’s -Visited the FukushimaI Inari counselors, librarians, doctor and the overseer, attended various Shrine workshops and seminars conducted by the C.B.S.E., N.C.E.R.T.,

25 S.C.E.R.T., N.P.S.C., National Institute of Disaster Management, other Dr Vijay Datta, Principal, was invited as the Keynote Speaker for the schools and hospitals during the year. Our school also conducted Principals’ Seminar on ‘Professional Ethics for Educators’ conducted various in-house trainings for the teachers during the year. by Bhavan’s Leelavati Munshi College of Education on 8th March 2019, where he addressed the Principals and the teachers pursuing the B.Ed. Dr Vijay Datta, Principal, attended the ‘Educational Leadership and Course in that college. School Improvement Programme’ conducted by the UCL Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom from 7th to 12th January 2019. The Central Board of Secondary Education will celebrate its 90th Foundation Day in July 2019. In order to plan for the gala event and seek Dr Vijay Datta, Principal, and a few teachers of our School, attended ideas from the members of its Core Committee, the C.B.S.E. conducted an interactive workshop conducted by Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, Senior a preparation meeting on 12th March 2019 in their office. Dr Vijay Datta, Trustee, Board ofTrustees, Modern Schools on 15th February 2019 Principal, was invited to this international conference and he offered his at R.S.Junior Modern School, Humayun Road. The workshop aimed invaluable inputs during the brainstorming session. at finding creative solutions for teachers for day to day problems,by emphasizing on the importance of realizing the potential of every Dr Vijay Datta, Principal, attended a meeting chaired by the Chairperson, student and advocating it in the optimum manner. The concept of C.B.S.E. in the C.B.S.E. office on 16th September 2019, advising Flexibility and the idea of imparting education in a holistic manner were schools to conduct different activities to commemorate the 150th Birth also comprehensively discussed. An endeavour to create a favourable Anniversary of . environment for students with ‘special education needs’ was also highlighted. This workshop was also attended by the teachers of Modern Dr Vijay Datta, Principal, was nominated as the Member of the IPSC School Vasant Vihar and R.S.Junior Modern School, Humayun Road. Inspection Team by the IPSC Executive Committee, to conduct an inspection of the Sagar Public School, Alwar. Being a part of the Dr Vijay Datta, Principal, together with a Counsellor of our School, attended Inspection Team, he conducted the inspection of Sagar Public School a workshop on the launch of ‘Indian Social and Emotional Learning on 16th October 2019, for the grant of IPSC Membership to them. Framework (ISELF’) on 12th April 2019 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. The Resource Persons from National Council for Educational During the year, various in-house trainings and workshops were arranged Research and Training (NCERT), Prof Krishna Kumarfocused on ‘Social for the teachers of our School. The resource persons conducted and Emotional Learning’ while Prof Anjum Sibia talked about ‘Teacher interactive sessions and answered the queries raised. Student Relationship’. The COUNSELLING DEPARTMENT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Dr Vijay Datta, Principal, attended a meeting on 16th April 2019 at the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, regarding Board a) Career Counselling: Examination of the Classes 10 and 12. To trigger the thinking process and help the students of Class S5 make B) On the basis of the richness of knowledge & experience, informed subject and career choice, an orientation lecture was delivered Dr. Vijay Datta, Principal, and some of our teachers were invited by by Dr Amrita Dass, Educationist and Career Consultant, Founder other institutions, to be a part of their meetings/workshops/seminars/ Director of ICS International, on 24th January 2019. She emphasized the conferences and meaningfully contribute to pedagogical betterment in importance of choosing the right subjects, befitting their aptitude and their respective subject, for the benefit of others. interest. She spoke about the diverse carreer options available in all the

26 subjects and addressed the stereotypes and misconceptions attached 18 April 2019 -Bryn Mawr, USA Students of Classes to certain subject choices. -Macalester, USA S6 and S7and their Parents On 28th and 29th January 2019, an aptitude test was administered to -Oberlin Richmond College, all the students of Class S5. Based on the analysis of the aptitude test, USA the counsellors conducted a one-to-one counselling meeting with the -University of Toronto, Canada student and the parents to individually facilitate them to choose the right subjects and career choices

Twenty-eight students who could not come for the one-to-one counselling On 23rd April 2019, the Career Counselling Department organized an session were counselled via Skype from 25th to 28th February 2019. interaction of the India Head of College Board for the students of Classes S6 and S7. The Head was also accompanied by a few stellar students to The Career Counselling Department facilitated visits and interactions of share their success stories with our students. They shared tips on profile admission officers of various top ranked foreign universities across the building and how to ace it to the top universities of the world. globe in our School. Various presentations were shown to the students about the admission process of different universities followed by a ‘Q & ‘Design Day’ was marked on 25th April 2019 with interactive sessions A’ session. on ‘Career in Art, Design and Architecture’. Officials from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising along with the Sushant School of Art, Design and Architecture gave presentations that included information Dates Names of the Universities Attended by on conventional/non-conventional and emerging careers in the fields Visited like built heritage, urban planning, interior landscape architecture and urban design. 2 April 2019 -University of Sydney, Australia Students of Classes -City University of Hongkong, S6 and S7 27th April 2019 was dedicated to the Indian private universities. Hongkong Representative of 22 universities including Amity, Ansal, Ashoka, 11 April 2019 -University of Southern Florida, Students of Classes Apeejay Institute of Design, Bennett, B.M.Munjal, G.D.Goenka, IILM USA S6 and S7 Undergraduate Business School, Indian School of Hospitality, Institute of Management Technology, Jindal, K.R. Mangalam, Krea, Pearl Academy, -University of Illinois at Urbana NorthCap, Manav Rachna, Shiv Nadar, Universal Business School, Champaign (UIUC), USA 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S S.P.Jain, Indian School of Business and Finance, St George and Ramaiah -Penn State University, USA and University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, made presentations and -Rutgers University, USA briefed students about uniqueness of their universities. -Indiana University The Counsellors of ‘One Step Up’ conducted a structured 3-day Bloomington, USA classroom session from 2nd to 4th May 2019 for the students of Class -University of Minnesota Twin 10. The objective was to help students choose the subjects considering Cities, USA their aptitude and aspirations and make an informed choice.

27 On 22nd and 23rd August 2019, a Career Counselling Session was effects of over usage of smart phones, gaming and taking selfies. organized for the students of Class S5. The cousellors from ‘One Step Students researched and made good projects during summer vacation Up Eductation Services Pvt. Ltd.’ made a Power Point Presentation and these were discussed in details in class rooms to re-emphasize the and guided students about different professsions and the nature of ill effects of overusing the smart phones. jobs involved in them, specifically related to Science and Humanities Streams, as they had already guided students about the Commerce c) Special Orientation Programme - Our school organized a special Stream’s professions earlier. Students’ queries and doubts were also Orientation Programme for the parents of Class S1 students on 28th clarified. An Aptitude Test was also conducted with pen & paper and on March 2019. The Principal and Headmistress-Middle School addressed tablets. One-to-one couselling of the students, based on the result of the parents. A talk relating to ‘Cyber Security’ was delivered by Mr Pavan their Aptitude Test, was done in the presence of their parents. Duggal, Eminent Advocate specialized in Cyber Law & E-Commerce Law. Mr J.P. Sengh, Senior Advocate and Mediator and Dr Sanaya On 27th August 2019, the representatives of the University of Sydney, Nariman, Educationist, also addressed the parents of our students about Australia presented a talk on ‘Business Leadership’. Students of ‘Parenting’ and ‘Conflict Resolution’. Classes S6 and S7, who attended the session, were given University’s International Guide 2020. d) The school also conducted a Special Assembly on 3rd April 2019, to welcome the students of Class S1 in the Senior School. Representatives of the University of Case Western Brandies, Rochester, USA and the Singapore Management University, Singapore shared dais 7. CLUBS’/SOCIETIES’/DEPARTMENTS’ REPORT on 29th August 2019 and conducted a career counselling sessions for ASTRONOMY CLUB the students of Classes S6 and S7. They briefed students about their campus, courses offered and their application process. The 4th Session (2018-2019) of the Astronomy Club for Modules 1 and 2 was held on 17th November 2018. For Module 1, the topics b) Awareness Programmes: were ‘Directions in Day Time: Finding Cardinal Directions’ and ‘Project To promote inclusion, the Department of Special Education in association Paridhi: Measuring Earth’s Circumference’. The topic for Module 2 was with the Department of Home Science put up a food stall in school on ‘Time Sundial and Creating Sundials’. the Sports Day. The students with Special Education Need together with Astronomy Sessions were conducted on 22nd December 2018 for the mainstream students very enthusiastically participated to showcase the Module 1 student-members on ‘Sun: Our Daytime Star’ and ‘Solar their culinary skills learnt during the Home Science classes.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Observation: Safe Viewing Techniques’ and on ‘Jantar Mantar: An An awareness programme was conducted for the students of Class Ancient Observatory’ and ‘Modeling Jantar Mantar and Using Yantras’ S1 in April 2019. It aimed to develop compassion for differently abled. for the Module 2 student members. Various activities were conducted to give students hands-on experience The Club held a Session for the Astronomy Day Preparation for the and later they came up with ideas to help people with special needs. Module 1 and Module 2 student members on 31st January 2019. A Life Skills Summer Project on ‘Addiction – Smart Phones/Gaming/ On 9th February 2019, the student-members of Module-1 attended Selfie’ was assigned to the students of Classes S2 and S3. The topic an Astronomy Session on the topic ‘Rocket Science Level 1: Basics was chosen mainly to raise awareness in adolescents about the harmful of Rocketry Construction and Launching of Hydro Rockets’ and the

28 Module-2 members witnessed a session on ‘Tracking Astronomical Dates Names of Name of the Winner Name of Event & Objects Barn Door Tracker’. the Events/ Prize Organizers The Astronomy Club conducted an ‘Evening Sky Observation Session’ for its student-members of the Module-1 and Module-2 on 11th March 24 - 29 ‘Comfest -Sanchit Ashish Cubing 1st Prize 2019. Oct. 2018’ 2018 Seth Anand -Shashank Ramesh Quiz 1st Prize On 12th and 13th April 2019, the student-members of Module-1 and Ram Jaipuria Sharanya Gupta Module-2 from Class S5 were taken to the Astroport Space Research School, Facility Centre, Sariska for an overnight Astronomy session. Kanpur -Samraj Chaudhary Graphic Design- ing1st Prize On 2nd August 2019, the Astronomy Club conducted a session on -Shashank Ramesh Crossword 2nd ‘Comets and Asteroids’ for the student-members of Module-1. On the Sharanya Gupta Prize same day, two sessions were conducted for the Module-2 members on ‘Rocket Science Level 2’ and ‘Advanced Rocketry with Launching’. -Shashank Ramesh Audio Editing 2nd Prize ‘A Grid in the Sky : Celestial Coordinate System Creating a Sky Map’ - Shiv Gupta and ‘Understanding Spectroscopy and Star Spectroscopy’ were the Sarvesh Tandon Programming 2nd sessions that were conducted by the Club on 16th August 2019 for its Prize student-members of Module-1 and Module-2 respectively. - Keshav Gupta Painting 2nd Prize Session-III by the Astronomy Club was held on 30th August 2019 on - Smayaan Marwah ‘Astrophotography Level-1: An Introduction to DSLR Camera and 3D Modelling 3rd Working of the DSLR Camera’ for the student-members of Module-1. -Samraj Chaudhary Prize It wasfollowed with a session on ‘Tracking Astronomical Objects, Barn Image Editing 3rd Door Trackers and Construction of Barn Door Trackers’ for Module-2 Modern School, Prize students. Barakhamba Road 2nd Runner Up BITS ‘N’ BYTES CLUB 1 May ‘Cyber Buzz’ Team Comprising of 2019 organized -Rijul Ganju (S6) Quiz 2nd Prize Our students participated in the Inter-School Computer Symposiaor by Amity -Sanchit Suneja (S6) 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S ganized by the schoolsmentioned below and won accolades in the International events mentioned against their names: School, Team Comprising of Gurugram -Rohan Bhasin (S5) Game Development -Shourya Kumar (S5) 2nd Prize

29 21–22 ‘Incorgnito’ Team Comprising of 20 Jul. ‘Xino-2019’ Team Comprising of May organized by -Shiv Gupta (S7) Robotics 1st Prize 2019 organized -Harris Dalal (S7) Surprise Event 2nd 2019 Somerville -Smayaan Gupta (S7) (Ice Hockey) by the Delhi -Arjun Tuli (S6) Prize School, Public School, Team Comprising of NOIDA Robotic (War) 1st Rohini -Shiv Gupta (S7) Prize -Rijul Ganju (S6) 26 Jul. ‘Virus-2019’ -Shiv Gupta (S7) Robotics 1st Prize 2019 organized by Team Comprising of the Blue Bells -Sanchit Ashish (S7) Cubing 1st Prize Quiz 1st Prize -Rijul Ganju (S6) School, New -Sharanya Gupta (S6) Delhi Team Comprising of -Rijul Ganju (S6) Team Comprising of -Sanchit Suneja (S6) Quiz 1st Prize -Rijul Ganju (S6) Crossword 2nd Prize -Sharanya Gupta (S6) Modern School, Team Comprising of Barakhamba Road -Krishiv Joneja (S3) Overall Winner Animation 3rd Prize -Saksham 3 Aug. ‘Digilo- -Smayaan Marwah (S7) 3D Modelling 1st Tawakley(S3) 2019 gus-2019’ Prize 18– 20 ‘ICT Conclave Team Comprising of organized by -Diya Sabherwal (S6) Debate 1st Prize Jul. 3.0’ organized -Shiv Gupta (S7) ‘Dangal’ 1st Prize Rukmani 2019 by The Punjab -Rijul Ganju (S6) Devi Public Team Comprising of Junior Quiz Public School, School, -Aarav Bajaj (S3) 1st Prize Nabha Team Comprising of New Delhi -Aryan Arora (S3) -Vansh Gupta (S4) Obstacle Avoidance -Hridyaansh Jain (S3) 1st Prize Team Comprising of Senior Quiz Team Comprising of -Sanchit Suneja (S6) 2nd Prize -Shiv Gupta (S7) Dirt Race 2nd Prize -Sharanya Gupta (S6) -Rijul Ganju (S6)

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Team of Modern Cash Prize, Vouch- Team Comprising of School, Barakhamba ers and Goodies -Shiv Gupta (S7) Road worth Rs.17,000/- -Rijul Ganju (S6) ICT Quiz 2nd Prize

Team Comprising of -Shiv Gupta (S7) -Arnav Dayal (S5) My Innovation 3rd -Hridyaansh Jain (S3) Prize -Aadi Chawla (S2)

30 8 – 9 ‘Code War- Team Comprising of 29Aug. ‘Technika – Team Comprising of Aug. riors - 2019’ -Shreyansh Junior Quiz 2019 2019’ -Rijul Ganju ( (S6) Quiz 1st Prize 2019 organized by Krishna(S4) 2nd Prize organized by -Sanchit Suneja (S6) Delhi Public -Aryan Arora (S3) Cambridge School, School, In- Team Comprising of Vasant Kunj dirapuram -Paarth Aryan (S6) Surprise Event 3rd 21– 22 ‘Minet X – Team Comprising of -Rajasmin Sharma (S6) Prize Aug. 2019’ -Shreyansh Krishna (S4) Junior Quiz 1st 31 ‘Techno- -Rohan Bhasin (S5) Debate 1st Prize 2019 organized by Sanchit Juneja (S6) Prize Aug. Con-2019’ Mother’s 2019 organized Team Comprising of International Team Comprising of by Modern -Zara Javed (S1) Power Point School, -Ishaank Chopra (S6) Surprise 2nd Prize School, -Ragni Jain (S1) 1st Prize Aurobindo -Paarth Aryan (S6) Faridabad Marg Photography 3rd Team Comprising of -Aarushi Vohra (S6) Prize -Reyan Banga (S4) Quiz 3rd Prize 21- 24 ‘All India IPSC -Sarvesh Tandon (S7) Programming -Navya Pant (S4) Aug. IT Fest’ 1st Prize 2019 held at Team Comprising of Team Comprising of Hyderabad -Arjun Khanchandani -Krishiv Joneja (S4) AudioVisual Editing Public School, (S7) IT Quiz 1st Prize -Aadi Saxena (S3) 3rd Prize Begumpet -Rijul Ganju (S6) 10 Oct. ‘Alphabit- -Meghna Aggarwal Group Discussion 28 ‘Modem-2019’ Team Comprising of 2019 2019’ (S6) 2nd Prize Aug. organized -Rijul Ganju (S6) Quiz 1st Prize organized 2019 by Modern -Sanchit Suneja (S6) by Amity Team Comprising of School, International -Rijul Ganju (S6) Quiz 3rd Prize Vasant Vihar -Keshav Nath (S7) Mystery 1st Prize School, Saket -Sharanya Gupta (S6) 11 - 12 ‘Core-2019’ -Shiv Gupta (S7) Robotics 1st Prize

-Samraj Chaudhary (S7) Graphic Designing Oct. organized by 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 2nd Prize 2019 Delhi Public -Paarth Aryan (S6) Surprise 3rd Prize -Sidharth Bahl (S7) School, Surprise Event 2nd Dwarka Modern School, Prize Barakhamba Road Winner Workshops during Summer Vacation -The teachers of the Computer Department conducted workshops on ‘Programming’ (Python) ‘Web Designing’ and ‘Photo Editing using Photoshop and Illustrator’ for the students from Classes S1 to S6 from 14th to 31st May 2019 in

31 school. More than 35 students attended these workshops. They learnt 3D Modelling, Robotics, Quizzes, Crossword, Group Discussions, Fancy Programming in Python Language and made Moving Ball Game, using Dress, App Development, Video Editing, Story Writing, Software Display, all the concepts of basic programming. Students also learnt to make Game Designing, HTML Coding, Audio Editing, Hardware, Power Point websites by using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap Framework. Some students Presentation and Multimedia Presentation according to categories viz. made basic text webpage while others made complete websites. Photo Open, Senior, Junior and Sub-junior. The overall Winner Trophy was Editing and Collage Making was also taught to the students. bagged by the Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram whereas the Runner Up Trophy was won by the Delhi Public School, Noida. BITS ‘N’ BYTES CLUB On 31st August 2019, forty students from the Middle School escorted Bits ‘N’ Bytes, the Computer Club of our School, organized its Biennial by their teachers, attended a Robotics Training Session held at Amrita inter-school Tech Symposium ‘ACCESS 2019’ from 13th - 14th August Vidyalayam, Pushp Vihar, New Delhi and became a part of the largest 2019. The tagline ‘#include’ was meant to promote the participation of girls Robotics Training, setting a world record. Over 36,000 students from all in the technology circuit. The symposium was attended by approximately over India participated simultaneously and built an ‘Obstacle Avoider 1000 students from over 38 leading schools of Delhi and NCR. The Guests Robot’ using the kits provided b the Robotics team. Students enjoyed of Honour – Dr Vishal Talvar,Dean of Management, B.M.University and this hands-on learning, which enhanced their STEM knowledge. Mr Kapoor, a Modernite and an entrepreneur, inspired participants during the interaction with the students. The participants competed in all BIZONOMICS SOCIETY realms of technology – Programming, Digital Imaging, Web Designing, Commerce and Economics Society encourages young business minds to further embrace their entrepeneural skils and prepare to excel in future. Events like Business Plan encourage new start up minds to make their ideas better and give them the right direction. Mock Sessions prepare future investors for stock market by simulating stock market sessions.

The Society conducted its first ever Intra Business Conclave on 27th April 2019 in which 50 students of Class S6 participated, which aimed to test their skillsets and thinking process to be a successful entrepreneur. Students were divided into four teams consisting of CEOs, CMOs, CFOs and the General Counsel for an automobile enterprise. All of them PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S were allotted car companies that were either bankrupt or had declining sales and they were required to come up with cutting edge solutions to the problems to revamp the companies. The Crisis Management Event witnessed companies coming up with immediate solutions. In the event of corporate lawsuit, they were supposed to fight cases to protect their respective corporate interests. The Public Relations Event, which required companies to change public perception after ramifications of the crisis and the lawsuits have passed.

32 On 26th July 2019, toegether with teachers of the Economics Department, 30 Oct. ‘Commerce Team comprising of 27 students of Classes S6 and S7, studying the subject of Economics, 2018 Fest’ -Inan Jaggi ‘Shark Tank’Bizwiz attended the launch ceremony of the book titled ‘India’s Relations with Cambridge -Avik Chaudhery Skills 3rd Prize International Monetary Fund : 25 YEARS IN PERSPECTIVE 1991-2016, School, -Aaryan Agarwal authored by Shri V.Srinivasan. The Chief Guest, Shri Shaktikanta Das, NOIDA Team comprising of Governor, Reserve Bank of India and the India’s Alternate Governor, -Aditya Shiv Talwar International Monetary Fund, released the book, which says “India -Disha Jain ‘Sold Out’ Enact- has undergone a dramatic change in status in IMF from a debtor to a -Khagolim Negi ment 1st Prize creditor”. -Arnav Puri Students won the following accolades by participating in various Team comprising of competitions: -Anusha Bansal Group Discussion- -Pragya Tandon 2nd Prize Dates Names of the Name of the Winner Name of Event & Team comprising of Events/ Prize -Sanat Dayani Quiz 2nd Prize Organizers -Sanat Sehgal 5 Oct. ‘Econ-Forum Team comprising of 2 – 3 ‘Dalal Street’ Team comprising of 2018 2018’ Amity -Agastya Chawla Business Quiz 1st Nov. Business -Rahil Arora Biz Quiz 1st Prize International -Rahil Arora Prize 2018 Conclave -Sanat Dayani School, Saket La Martiniere 16 Oct. ‘24th -Anusha Bansal Debate ‘Best Speaker’ for Boys, Team comprising of -Pragya Tandon Strategic Startups 2018 Economite’ Team comprising of Modern Stock Market -Avik Chaudhery 1st Prize -Arnav Gupta -Rohan Chatterjee School, -Raghavendra Gupta Simulation Vasant Vihar Runner Up Team comprising of Team comprising of -Vedang Khera -Pragya Tandon CSR Campaigns 2nd -Ameesha Makhija Ad Acting Runner Up -Avik Chaudhery Prize

-Rahul Arora 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S -Aditya Shiv Talwar Team comprising of -Disha Jain -Sanat Dayani Board Room 16 Oct. ‘Enroute’ – Team comprising of -Pragya Tandon Crisis1st Prize 2018 Commerce -Arnav Gupta ‘Bulls and Bears’ Fest Somerville -Sanat Dayani Mock Stock Rahil Arora Best Crisis Manager School, 1st Prize Award Vasundhara Modern School, 2ndOutstanding Enclave Barakhamba Road DelegationAward

33 20 Jul. ‘BIZECO- Team Comprising of DEBATING SOCIETY (ENGLISH) 2019 2019’ -Avik Chaudhery (S7) Business Plan The Annual Gracious Living Foundation Debate was hosted on 26th organized by -Pragya Tandon (S7) 1st Prize April 2019. Students of eleven schools from Delhi and NCR presented Delhi Public their view on the motion – “In the Opinion of the House, Technology has School, Accelerated Family Divide and Blurred Traditional Parent-child Roles and Rohini Bond”. Aditya Tiwari of Delhi Public School, Noida won the 1st Prize 2 Aug. ‘Commerce Team Comprising of for the ‘Best Speaker’ and a cash award of Rs.5,000/-. Manas Pandit of 2019 Fest- 2019’ -Samraj Chaudhary Poster Making 1st Modern School, Barakhamba Road was the ‘2nd Best Speaker’ and won organized by (S7) Prize a Cash Prize of Rs.3,000/-. Abhiraj Singh of Delhi Public School, Noida Delhi Public and Meghal Jain from Air Force Bal Bharti School won the ‘3rd Best School, -Harris Dalal (S7) Speaker’ in a tie and a Cash Prize of Rs.2,000/- each. Ayushman Kher Vasant Kunj ‘Click It’ 2nd Prize of Vasant Valley School bagged a Cash Prize of Rs.2,000/- for the ‘Best -Gurveer Singh (S7) Interjector’. The team led by Delhi Public School, Noida won the Overall 10 ‘Enship 2019’ Team Comprising of Trophy for their well delivered debates. The occasion was graced by Aug. organized by -Rijul Ganju (S6) Business Quiz the Chief Guest, Ms Ketaki Sood, President, Board of Trustees Modern 2019 Delhi Public -Rahil Arora (S7) 1st Prize Schools, Mr.S.P.Rawal, President, Gracious Living Foundation and other School, distinguished guests. The judges for the event were – Dr Shalini Baxi, Dy R.K.Puram -Manas Pandit (S7) Group Discussion 3rd Prize 22 - 23 ‘Mudra 2019’ Team Comprising of Aug. organized by -Rahil Arora (S7) Analytical Quiz 2019 Indian School -Sanat Dayani (S7 ) 2nd Prize of Business -Avik Chaudhery (S7) and Finance -Pragya Tandon (S7) at Pathways -Yadur Seth (S6) School, Noida 11 Oct. ‘Enroute Team Comprising of

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 2019 2019’ -Arnav Mehra (S6) Commerce & -Shivarama Krishnan Economics Quiz 2nd Commerce (S6) Prize Fest orga- nized by Somerville School, Vasundhra Enclave

34 Dean Cultural Affairs, , Ms Mita Bose, former Associate 2 Oct. Inter-School Team comprising of 1st Best Speaker Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi and Capt (Retd) 2019 Debate -Raunak Rai Maini Cash Prize Rajesh Sethi, SC, Former Naval Aviator. organized by (S7) Rs.10,000/- Pestle Weed The School conducted the Annual Raghubir Singh English Debate for College, -Siddharth Garg (S7) 1st Consolation the Senior students and Pratap Singh English Debate for the Junior Dehradun Speaker students on 23rd August 2019. Modern School, Barakhamba Raod Winner Dates Name of the Name of Student/ Prize/Position Event School 11 Oct. ‘Behes’ Modern School, Winner 2019 Parliament Barakhamba Road 23Aug. Raghubir -Manas Pandit Runner Up Debate The team won seven 2019 Singh English Modern School, organzised by Team comprising of consecutive debates Debate (Just Barakhamba Road Heritage -Sayan Bajaj (S6) and received A Minute and School, -Ayushman Jalan medals, a trophy and Turncoat) Modern School Runner Up Trophy Vasant Kunj (S6) individual rankings. Barakhamba Road -Shivang Soni (S6) They will now 23Aug. Pratap Singh -Aarav Bajaj ‘Best Speaker For participate in mega 2019 English Modern School, the Motion’ Maha Behes in Debate Barakhamba Road December 2019 -Ananya Dhawan Modern School, ‘Best Interjector’ DISASTER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Barakhamba Road Safety Committee Meetings are conducted on monthly basis during The students of our school participated in Inter School debates/ which ‘Safety Walks’ are undertaken. During these walks, potential perils events during the year and won the prizes listed below: aremapped, a comprehensive checklist is drawn and are tackled at the earliest. Dates Names of the Name of the Winner Prize/Title Won Events/ As per the guidelines of the Directorate of Education, a Mock Fire Evacuation Drill was conducted in the school on 29th November 2018.

Organizers 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 26 English Poet- Surina Wadhwa 1st Prize The fire alarm was raised and the building was evacuated by students April ry Recitation (Jr. Category) and teachers within 2.5 minutes and they assembled in the front lawns. 2019 Competition A detailed inspection of the School was conducted by the officials of the organized by Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) on 23rd and Bhartiya Vidya 24th April 2019. All the documents/records were provided to the team Bhavan’s of DCPCR as demanded by them and the Inspection was successfully Mehta Vidyalaya, ND completed.

35 On 25th April 2019, a Presentation was organized on ‘Earthquake’ and Act, tee Child Labour Act, the Juvenile Justice Act. The teachers and the ‘Fire Safety’. Mr Rajesh Shukla, Officer, Fire Station, Connaught Place, Administrative Staff attended the workshop to be aware of the laws and New Delhi was invited to deliver a talk. An Evacuation Drill was conducted help protect children from crime against them. for the students of Classes S1 to S3 during the Junior Assembly. FASHION TECHNOLOGY CLUB – ‘J’ADORE’ The Safety Committee arranged a workshop on ‘Laws Concerning Children’ by Ms Abiha Zaidi, a practising lawyer with special interest Student-members of the J’Adore Club participated in Inter-School in crimes against children, on 13th September 2019. The topics briefly competitions and won the following prizes : covered during the workshop were - Laws against Bullying, the POCSO PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S

36 Dates Names of Names of the Name of the Event/ 12 Oct. Inter-School Team comprising of the Events/ Students Prize 2019 Competition -Souravi Jung (S6) Photobooth 1st Prize Organizers organized -Wafa V.K. (S6) by Pearl Academy Team comprising of 12 Oct. ‘Creative Team comprising of Design -Ira Saluja (S6) Patchmoda 3rd Prize 2018 Pearl’ -Maanya Agarwal ‘Light Up Your Institute, Delhi -Manika Kaur (S6) organized by -Simrita Dass Space’ 3rd Prize -Nandini Suri (S6) Pearl -Muskaan Sahni Team comprising of Academy, Team comprising of New Delhi -Anushka Francis Innovative Calendar -Amritha Bharadwaj (S6) Design 3rd Prize -Moumeeta Rehaan ‘How Strong You Stand’ 2nd Prize -Neha Agarwal (S6) -Shivya Gupta -Arushi Katyal (S6) Team comprising of -Shivansh Kansal ‘Frame Your Mind’ Team comprising of Fashion Film Poster -Yash Bansal 3rd Prize -Adi Malik (S6) 3rd Prize -Kartik Uppal -Tulip Aggarwal (S6) Team comprising of -Shreepriya (S7) -Bhipasha Bhateja -Amisha Shukla ‘Create It’ 2nd Prize Team comprising of -Mishika Garg -Suvasita (S7) Rendevous 3rd Prize -Paavni (S7) -Anshika (S6) Photography Event Sanya Tawakley (S6) 3rd Prize

Team comprising of ‘Small Joys’ 3rd Four students from Classes S5 and S6 together with the Fashion

-Tejal Kaur Prize Technology teacher attended the ‘Design Festival’ organized by the 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S -Yatika Khandelwal Doon School, Dehradun from 12th to 14th November 2018 and learnt the -Shyamli Chugh traditional craft work of Kutch, Gujarat and West Bengal. They punched and parched leather in different shapes and made small products like key chains, bookmarks, belts, mobile phone covers etc. They were also introduced to the Dokhra Art of West Bengal which is an ancient method of making metal artefacts. Our students melted Bee-Wax and created craft pieces like bird, flowers, leaves, logo etc. which can be later cast in metal. Another session titled ‘Button Masala’ was taken by an

37 Apparel Designer, an NID alumnus. The students were taught to create Dates Name of the Event Names of the Prizes/Posi- ensembles using buttons and rubber band, without use of needles and Organizer School Winners tions or thread, and make garments which fit any body shape. Students 26 Hindi Poetry Recitation Ananya Dhawan 2nd Prize enjoyed making tops and jackets by only draping fabric over the April Competition organized (Junior body. 2019 by Bhartiya Vidya Category) Ten students of Fashion Technology of Class S6 attended an ‘Open Bhavan’s Mehta House Session’ organized by the National Insitute of Fashion Vidyalaya, New Delhi Technology on 21st December 2018. The students were apprised INTERACT CLUB of the courses and how the printing, knitting and work on leather are done in their laboratory. The Ministry of Environment, Government of India awarded our School for being the No.1 in the Northern Region in the ‘Behtar India Campaign Fashion Technology students of Class S7 were taken to the India - Year 2’ and No.1 and No.2 in the ‘Vatavaran’ and ‘Swasthya’ Categories International Centre, New Delhi on 4th April 2019. The students respectively. enjoyed an exhibition on ‘Kantha’ work and appreciated the excellence of the ‘Kantha’ embroidery work done by the women of As the Winner of the North Zone, the Interact Club of our school organized Bengal. the ‘Behtar India Go Green City Summit’ in school on 30th November 2018, which was attended by a number of renowned schools. Prominent Our Fashion Show ‘Allure 2019’was organized in School on 9th May personalities like Mr Atul Wasan, Mr Prakash Prasad, Mr Naresh Kumar, 2019. Ms Shivani Wazir Pasrich, former Miss India, was the Chief Mr Anshuman Verma and Mr Anshu Sharma were a part of the panel Guest of the show. discussion where they deliberated upon the various problems that India Our students studying Fashion Technology subject attended a faces in terms of cleanliness and sanitation and discussed the steps that Counselling Session conducted by the University of Arts, London students, as the future of the country, can take. on 3rd September 2019 at our School. As an initiative to serve the society, the Interact Club members along HINDI CLUB ‘AKSHARMANCH’ with the international delegates of the 13th CDLS, visited the Cheshire Home (Home for mentally and physically challenged), ‘Palna’ (Home for The Hindi Department of our School conducted an Inter-Section orphans and abandoned children), Ozanam Home (Home for the aged)

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Hindi Poetry Recitation Competition for the students of Class S1 on and The Blind School (Home and School for the visually impaired), on 3rd May 2019. Miraya Quatra of the Class S1-C won the 1st Position 17th December 2018, as a part of the 13th Community Development and while Shiva Puri of Class S1-B and Divij Wahi of Class S1-E won the Leadership Summit 2018. 2nd and the 3rd Position respectively. The Interact Club organized a session on ‘Crowdfunding’ for the Our student participated in an Inter-School event and won the students of Class S6 in school on 24th January 2019. Mr Ranganath following award : Thota, Founder and CEO of ‘Fuel a Dream’ – an online crowdfunding platform that is changing the lives of 2.2 billion people in India and Africa’, introduced the concept to our students and motivated them to

38 engage in fund-raising for various social and community service work to Medal while Aradhya Munjal (S5) and Manvi Jain (S4) won the Bronze help the needy. Medals. Out of the top winners of the event, our school is proud to have five students as the National Winners. Our School is the first school in the NCR region to join this initiative‘Fuel a Dream’ – an online crowdfunding platform’ . Ninety-nine students from A visit to ‘Palna’, an orphanage for the abandoned and destitute children, the Classes S4 and S6 volunteered for this campaign and raised a huge and Delhi Cheshire Home’, a home for the specially-abled people, was sum of Rs. 22 lakh in just 18 days, which will be donated to an NGO that organized on 7th May 2019 for the student-members of the Club to will arrange for free cataract surgeries to gift the boon of eyesight to 1200 sensitize them towards the under privileged section of the society. Forty underprivileged elderly people. students from the Classes S4 and S6, accompanied by the Teachers In- charge, visited these special homes. They interacted, danced and sang Launched in 2017, the ‘Behtar India Campaign’ is a social collaborative songs with the inhabitants and distributed packed juices, chips, biscuits initiative that rallies different sections of the society together to work for etc. The students returned home with hearts full of respect and concern Behtar Swasthya, Behtar Swachhta and Behtar Vatavaran. It supplements for the specially-abled people and gratitude for their lives. the government’s efforts to provide and promote preventive healthcare to the community. The DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance Co. organized this The District Interact Recognition and Award Function was held on 3rd July campaign covering more than 950 schools, 200 cities and over 11,000 2019 at the Sanskriti School, and the awards were given children. Behtar India Go Green Summit was organized in ten different away to the Interact Clubs of deserving schools of the District 3011. The cities viz. Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad Interact Club of our School was honoured with an ‘Appreciation Award’ etc, to initiate recycling. It was a Collaborative Social Responsibility for securing the 1st Position in our Zone. Campaign to make cities cleaner, greener and healthier. Through Behtar India Campaign over 807452 kilogram of waste was recycled that helped Over 140 students of Classes from S1 to S7 volunteered their services save 1.92 cr. litres of water, 13,667 trees, 7,235 barrels of oil, 35,373 for 20 hours spread over 10 days during May/June 2019 and worked in household’s one month’s electricity. A total of 70,000 dengue protection association with Sewa Bharti (NGO) and helped the urban slum dwellers kits were distributed to the underprivileged children. and resettlement colonies by introducing welfare and social programmes such as free medical assistance, free education and vocational training. Our students enthusiastically participated in the ‘Season-Two of the During academic sessions, our student-volunteers taught English, Hindi Behtar India Campaign’, and for the second consecutive year, Modern and Mathematics while during co-scholastic sessions, children were School, Barakhamba Road, was the winner. Our school bagged the Gold taught painting, dancing, singing and art and craft work. These children

(National) Trophy together with the Regional Trophy from the Ministry of were also introduced to the concept of recycle and reuse. Importance of 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Environment, Government of India, for contributing to Swachh Vatavaran hygiene and good environment practices were explained to them. by adopting Green Good Deeds. The Principal and the Teacher In- charge of Interact Club were felicitated by DHFL Pramerica Insurance With the help of ‘Fuel a Dream’ and Greensole, the student-members of Co. for the outstanding and exemplary work done by the Interact Club of our Interact Club organized a ‘Shoe Distribution Drive’ on 11th Jul 2019. our school. Actor, Ms Parineeti Chopra was the Campaign Ambassador They distributed 500 pairs of footwear to the students of two government for the Behtar Swasthya category of the campaign. Arjun Shroff (S6) schools in Indira Kalyan Vihar, Okhla, New Delhi, who attended school won the Gold Trophy whereas Ashman Sarin (S6) won the Silver Medal. barefoot everyday. The Club proposes to conduct similar drives in rural In the Behtar Vatavaran category, Mehul Agarwal (S6) won the Silver

39 areas of Uttar Pradesh as well. The student-members of the Club raised of India, to express love and wish them them prosperity & victory. The a sum of Rs.35 lakhs through ‘Fuel a Dream’, surpassing their target of hearts of our student-members were touched by the warmth and hospitality Rs.25 lakhs. by the Indian Army and they came back filled with the sense gratitude and motivation and memories for life. In July 2019, both, Prisha Goyal and Divyesh Shanker Taneja, the student-members of the Interact Club of our School were declared the The Members of the Interact Club attended the District Interact Leadership Zonal Interact Representatives of the District Interact Council for the year Assembly 2019 (DILA) organized by the Rotary District 3011 held at on 16th October 2019. The Interactors presented a 2019-2020 by the Rotary District 3011. poster which showcased all the different activities conducted by the Club. The Rotary District 3011 conducted a Seminar ‘Nucleus’ for the ‘Rotaract Prisha Goyal (S6) and Divyesh Taneja (S6) were sworn as the Zonal Interact Representatives (ZIRs) for the year 2019-2020. District 3011 Team’ on 6th July 2019 at Modern School Barakhamba Road and trained the elected Presidents, Secretaries and Members. KIDS FOR TIGERS CLUB The session witnessed a special discussion on ‘Rotasia 2020’, which is scheduled to be held in February 2020 in Delhi. The Presidents were To inculcate and reinforce the need for conservation of Tigers, thus trained to lead the Club, conduct joint projects between colleges and conserving the eco-system and consequently the mankind, the ‘Kids for Tigers’ Club of our School organized a programme on 21st August 2019. community and develop interest of sponsors in various projects. The The Chief Guest, Mr Bittu Sahgal - Editor, Sanctuary Asia magazine and Secretaries were encouraged to be abreast of various Rotaract activities, Founder, Sanctuary Nature Foundation, addressed the students and conducting Rotaract meetings, presenting their projects and tackling emphasized on the need for protecting tigers and highlighted the role organizational challenges. The Members were guided to carry on Rotary of students in this endeavour. The Principal also eloquently emphasized activities, providing support to different clubs within their District and on the need for nature preservation, climate change mitigation, wildlife maintaining cordial relations with members during ‘Rotasia 2020’. conservation and commented that man is the biggest culprit behind climate change. T To protect and preserve the green cover of our planet, the Interact Club of our School launched the ‘Each One Plant One’ Campaign and organized ‘MODEL UNITED NATIONS’ SOCIETY ‘Seed Orbs Distribution’ Drive during the Parent-Teacher Meeting Day MUN Society Training Programme - On 4th and 5th April 2019, MUN Society on 20th July 2019. The student-members distributed over 2,500 boxes, held a Group Discussion and Personal Interview for selection of eighty each containing few ‘Seed Orbs’ to the parents, teachers, staff and the students of Classes from S4 to S6. On 13th and 14th April 2019the Society students. Distribution counters were set up outside each academic held a Comprehensive Training Session for the recruits and thereafter block and volunteers also went from class to class to distribute the ‘Seed conducted a mock simulation of an MUN Conference on a challenging

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Orbs’. The campaign ensured that at least 6000 new trees will be planted agenda of ‘Refugee Crisis’. in the city. The initiative received enthusiastic support and the volunteer An Intra MUN Conference - 2019 was conducted for the student-members student-members distributed over 1,00,000 ‘Seed Orbs’ to people in of the Society from 21st to 23rd May 2019. Over 150 students of the Classes various parts of Delhi-NCR during this monsoon season. S4 and S5 participated in the event. Three committees were simulated. On 26th July 2019, three student-members – Sanat Sehgal (S7), Our students participated in the Model United Nations Conferences Lakshya Arora (S6) and Aarav Kapur (S6) went to the Rajputana Rifles (MUNs) organized by several schools/institutions within and outside Delhi. Regimental Centre of the Indian Army and handed over beautiful hand- Their performances have been bringing laurels to school and the recent made ‘Rakhis’ to the officers in the Regimental Centre to be further sent winnings are reported below: to our brave soldiers, who are safe-guarding the north-western borders

40 Dates Names of Names of the Students Result/Position 28–30 ‘Goenka -Satyajit Lall (Indian Best Delegate the Events/ with their Roles Oct. World MUN Cabinet) Organizers 2018 2018’ 10-12 ‘MRMUN -Nonit Nath (MARVEL Best Delegate organized -Aaryan Dhingra (Arab Best Delegate Oct. 2018’ Vs DC) by Goenka League) 2018 Organized World -Yanav Lall (UNSC) High Commendation School, -Srishti Sikka (OIC) Best Delegate by -Pradyumn Arora Sohna Road, Manav High Commendation (HUNGA) Gurugram -Pratyush Chatterjee Best Delegate Rachna (Harry Potter) International -Vikramaditya Singh High Commendation School, (UNHRC) -Ayushman Jalan High Commendation -Shanya Jain High Commendation (ECOSOC) (INTERPOL) -Shanya Jain (UNGA– High Commendation High Commendation -Pratyush Chatterjee SPECPOL) (UNCLOS) High Commendation -Meghna Aggarwal High Commendation -Neha Diwali (UNCSW) (UNHRC) 19-20 ‘IPSC MUN -Sayan Bajaj (ICJ) Best Delegate Oct. 2018’ -Amam Jain (Goa Best Delegate -Arya Lamba (Arab High Commendation 2018 organized Action Committee) League) by Genesis -Amulya Gupta (UNGA) High Commendation Global -Swadha Rawat (Arab Special Mention -Shivang Soni (UNSC) League) School High Commendation NOIDA -Meghna Aggarwal -Sridhar Chaurasia Special Mention PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S (UNHRC) High Commendation (UNSC) -Suddharth Garg -Adrish Srivastava Special Mention (House of Rothschild) High Commendation (UNGA – DISEC) -Suhani Jain (India Special Mention China Stakeholders’ ) Modern School, Best Delegation- Barakhamba Road Cash Award -Suchet Kumar (UNGA) Special Mention Rs.50,000/-

41 15-17 ‘Amity -Sayan Bajaj (HSC) Best Delegate -Daiwik Agarwal Runner Up Best Nov. International (UNGA-2) Delegate 2018 MUN 2018’ -Suhani Jain (BJP RSS High Commendation organized Meet) -Aaryan Dhingra Chair of the by Amity Economic and University, -Karina Chawla (AIPPM) High Commendation Financial Council NOIDA 26–27 ‘RISMUN- -Devina Aggarwal Best Delegate -Shivang Soni and April 2019’ (UNGA) Amam Jain (CCPCJ) Special Mention 2019 organized by Ryan -Harsh Beri (UNGA) Best Delegate -Meghna Aggarwal (EU) Special Mention International School, -Amam Jain (UNESC) Best Delegate -Navya Girdhar (GA) Special Mention Vasant Kunj, New Delhi -Shivang Soni (OIC) Best Delegate -Vikramaditya (BJP RSS Special Mention Meet) -Amulya Gupta High Commendation (VCDR-RM) Modern School, Best Delegation Barakhamba Road Award -Sayan Bajaj (UNSC) High Commendation 1 – 3 MUN -Arya Lamba (UBCEB) Special Mention Feb. Conference -Navya Girdhar High Commendation 2019 St.Stephen’s -Srishti Sikka (UNDP) Special Mention (UNHRC) College, University of -Adrish Srivastava Special Mention Delhi (UNSC) 11–18 Round -Karina Chawla Runner Up Best March Square (UNHRC) Delegate Modern School Best Delegation 2019 ‘Model Barakhamba Road PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S United -Rahul Agarwal (UNGA- Runner Up Best 3 – 5 ‘GDGI MUN- -Shivang Soni (GBC) Best Delegate Nations 1) Delegate May 2019’ Cash Award Conference’ 2019 organized by Rs.5,000/- held at -Sridhar Chaurasia Runner Up Best G.D. Goenka -Sayan Bajaj and Best Delegate King’s (UNSC) Delegate School, Amam Jain (UNSC) Cash Award Academy, Vasant Kunj, Rs.5,000/- Madaba, -Shanya Jain (Crisis Runner Up Best New Delhi -Meghna Aggarwal Best Delegate Jordan Team) Delegate (UNHRC) Cash Award Rs.5,000/-

42 -Suhani Jain (SME) High Commendation

-Navya Girdhar (UNGA) High Commendation

-Karina Chawla (IAEA) High Commendation -Rohan Bhasin (S5) High Commendation (WTO) -Pradyumn Arora High Commendation High Commendation (AIPPM) -Yatin Airi (S6) (WTO) High Commendation -Arya Lamba (S5) -Ananya Dewan Special Mention (UNGC) (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki) Special Mention -Shanya Jain (UNGA) Special Mention -Arav Singhal (S4) (Open Forum) -Satyajit Lall (IWC) Special Mention Special Mention -Mahitra Saraf (S4) -Arya Lamba and Special Mention (Harry Potter) Shaurya Bansal(UNSC) Special Mention -Ishani Tandon (S4) -Sridhar Chaurasia (EU) Special Mention (Harry Potter) Special Mention

Modern School -Ashmit Singh (S4) Barakhamba Road Best Delegation (WTO) Special Mention 24–25 ‘GDG MUN- -Pradyuman Arora (Lok Best Delegate -Yajat Kumar (S6) May 2019’ Sabha) (WTO) Special Mention 2019 organized by G.D. Goenka -Amrita Singh (Lok Verbal Mention -Yanav Lall (S5) (UNSC) School, Sabha) ‘Best Delegation

Modern School, 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Gurugram Award’ Barakhamba Road, 25–27 ‘KRMUN- -Amrita Singh (S5) Best Delegate July 2019’ (Open Forum) New Delhi 2019 organized -Kashish Sindhwani High Commendation by K.R. (S4) (UNGA) Mangalam World -Shanya Jain (S5) High Commendation School, G.K. (UNGA) II, N D

43 23-25 ‘CMUN - -Karina Chawla (S7) Outstanding Aug. 2019’ by Delegate 23-25 ‘GGSMUN- -Nonit Nath (S6) (Indian Best Delegate 2019 Cathedral -Shivang Soni (S6) Aug. 2019’ War Cabinet) and John Outstanding 2019 organized Canon High -Harsh Beri (S7) Delegate by Genesis -Swadha Rawat (S5) Best Delegate School, Global (Paris Climate Meet) Mumbai -Siddharth Garg (S7) Special Mention School, Noida Team comprising of -Sayan Bajaj (S6) Special Mention -Ashmit Singh (S4) High Commendation -Kashish Sindhwani -Yanav Lall (S5) Special Mention (S4) (Startup Incubation Chamber) -Amam Jain (S6) Special Mention

-Chinmay Mehta(S5) High Commendation -Ananya Dewarn (S7) Verbal Mention (Lok Sabha) Verbal Mention

‘ModMUN-2019’– From 4th to 6th October 2019, our School organized its Eighth Edition of the Modern School Model United Nations Conference. -Rahul Aggarwal (S5) Special Mention The ModMUN-2019 witnessed participation of over 700 students and (UNSC) teachers (including students of our own school) from schools across India. Ambassador Deepa Wadhwa, Former Indian Ambassador to Japan, -Mandheer Singh Special Mention was the Chief Guest. The Conference simulated eleven Committees (S6) (Belt and Road viz. The General Assembly – Plenary Session (Double Delegation), The Initiative) United Nations Security Council, The United Nations Economic and -Anya Seth (S6) Most Promising Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, The United Nations Human Cartoonist Rights Council, The Special Committee on Peacekeeping Opreation. PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Modern School, Nuclear Negotiation Committee, All India Political Parties Meet (1992), Barakhamba Road, ‘Best Delegation Alliance of Small Island States (Double Delegation), National Security New Delhi Award’ Council of India, White House Situation Room (2001) and Press Corps. The conference encompassed a whirlwind of debate, discussion & discourse and compelled the delegates to contemplate pressing issues, come up with ideas & their own perceptions about various agendas, while keeping in mind the human side of debating, which culminated in resolutions furnished with solutions. The conference indubitably led

44 to each delegate in attendance, leaving better informed than he/she under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. had arrived. The Closing Ceremony was graced by Ms Rakhee Mayuri, The participants walked and cycled from the to the Indira Under Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs who gave away the awards Gandhi National Centre for Arts, chanting slogans and holding placards to the winners. about clean and healthy food. The event was a part of the 150th Birth Anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi, which aimed to raise NATURE CLUB awareness about eating healthy and nutritious food. The Nature Club conducted a Special Assembly on 2nd November On 26th December 2018, thirty six students of Classes from S1 to S4 2018, to re-emphasize the importance of celebrating Green Diwali by attended the ‘Champions of Change Awards’ held at Vigyan Bhawan, saying ‘No’ to crackers to ensure clean and healthy environment which New Delhi. Many dignitaries were present and Mr Venkaiah Naidu, Vice- PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S is in danger due to spike in pollution in the city. They were shown an President of India, was the Chief Guest. He talked to students about informative and motivating power point presentation and were inspired Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and the benefits of GST. The student took a to plant at least one tree to save the environment. The students and pledge to carry on the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. teachers pledged to use only eco-friendly crackers to have safe Diwali. On 30th January 2019, five students participated in the ‘Garden Festival’ Three students from Class S4, Akshara Thakur, Anirudh Jain and organized by the Cambridge School, Srinivaspuri, New Delhi. Farhan Krish Dewan, represented the Nature Club of our school at the ‘Eat Ahmed (S4), Arnav Dayal (S4) and Harshita Chojer (S4) represented the Right India Movement – Walkathon and Cyclothon’ organized on 15th cirle of life in the form of Garden Display. They also developed an app December 2018 by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for future ready garden which could be watered remotely with the help

45 of a smart phone and bagged the 1st Prize. Shreyansh Krishna (S3) GLOBAL STUDENT SOLAR ASSEMBLY 2019 - Eighty five students and Ananya (S2) received the 3rd Prize in the quiz competition. Modern ofClasses from S1 to S6 participated in Student Solar Ambassador School Barakhamba Road won the Overall Trophy. Workshop organised by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in association with IIT Bombay on Wednesday, 2nd October 2019. The Nature Club of our School celebrated the Earth Day on 22nd April 2019. day-long event was scheduled at Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex, Mr Matt Perry, a global citizen from United Kingdom and a volunteer Delhi where more than 10,000 students from Delhi NCR participated working towards conservation of environment, addressed the students to make the Guinness World Record of ‘The most people assembling of Class S3. Vertical gardens, set up on the outer walls of the Tennis solar powered lamps simultaneously’ and ‘The largest Environmental Courts, the Platinum Jubilee Block and the Sir Shankar Lal Hall, were Sustainability Lesson’. The Chief Guests - Shri Prakash Javadekar, inaugurated by Mr Matt Perry,and the Principal, as a part of the Earth Day celebration. Thereafter, a Tree Plantation activity was also carried out on Hon’ble Union Minister, Environment, Forest & Climate Change and the same day. Information & Broadcasting and Shri Raj Kumar Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State (IC) Power, New & Renewable Energy and Skill Development Yet again, an initiative was taken by the student-members of the Nature and Entrepreneurship addressed the students at the Global Student Club during summer vacation. In order to save water, eco-friendly Solar Assembly and encouraged them to switch to renewable sources aerators have been fixed in the taps of the wash-basins in all the wash of energy. A book ‘Energy Swaraj-My Experiments with Solar Truth’ by rooms of the Main Building, Sir Sobha Singh Block, Platinum Jubilee Dr Chetan Solanki, the Solar Man of India, Professor at IIT Bombay, was Block and Sir Shankar Lal Hall. These tap nozzles minimize wastage and released at the event. The students were given their individual solar lamp optimize use as the water comes out with pressure in the form of shower kits and were guided through a proper process to assemble it. streams. Achievements of our students while participating in various On 12th July 2019, Amam Jain and Shivang Soni, student members of our competitions: Nature Club visited Modern School Vasant Vihar, showed a presentation to the students and teachers and apprised them about the benefits of Dates Names of the Event/ Names of the Students Prize/ fixing eco-friendly aerators for optimizing water usage and minimizing Organizers Position its wastage. Our students gifted forty aerators to Modern School, Vasant 22 Apr. Poster Making Farhan B. Ahmed Sr. Category Vihar. 2019 Competition 1st Prize The NINEISMINE Campaign organised the ‘Haq Ki Shor’ workshops organized by Indian Vanya Goel under PRATYeK Foundation. Ananya Dhawan (S3) and Shruti Singh (S3) Environmental Jr. Category PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Society at Vishwa 3rd Prize along with a teacher attended the series of workshop at the Yusuf Sadan, Yuvak Kendra, Sacred Heart Cathedral Church, Delhi. Theseworkshops were held Chanakyapuri on2nd May 2019, 11th July 2019 and 6th August 2019 and the students discussed issues like ‘Climate Change’, Concept of Responsible 27 ‘Antheia 2019’ Farhan B.Ahmed Biotoons Consumption and Production and ‘Zero Hunger’ respectively. The Aug. Biology Fest 1st Prize students will further take these workshops in November where they will 2019 organised by Cambridge School, interact with delegates from different countries and discuss about global Indirapuram issues.

46 28 ‘6th India Water Team comprising of 15 Bhagwan Mahavir -Farhan B.Ahmed 2nd Prize Sep. Week Quiz’ Quiz -Madhav (S2) April Jayanti On-the- Spot 2019 organized by the -Khushi Agarwal (S3) Open Quiz 2019 Painting Competition -Keshav Gupta Consolation Ministry of Jal Shakti, -Aryan Arora (S3) Winner organized by Government of India -Raghav Swaroop (S4) Vardhman Shiksha -Eshita Jain Consolation -Farhan B. Ahmed (S5) Mandir Senior -Siddhant Ahuja (S5) Secondary School, Daryaganj PAINTING CLUB– ‘KRITI’ Jul. Poster Making -Vanya Goel (S4) 1st Prize The students of the Club won prizes in various art and painting 2019 Competition on competitions that are listed below: ‘Reduce, Reuse & -Saumya Aggarwal(S6) 2nd Prize Recycle’ organized Dates Names of the Event/ Names of the Students Prize/ by Vardhamaan Organizers Position Shiksha Mandir Jul. National Art Vrinda Singhal (S5) 3rd Prize 2019 Competition by Art 29 Oct. Organ Donation -Eshita Jain 1st Prize Info. India 2018 Poster Making Competition held at -Farhan B.Ahmed 2nd Prize 25 Jul. ‘Malhaar-2019’ Shree Priya Bindal(S7) Film Poster 2019 organized by Art 1st Prize The Indian School, J.B.Tito Marg Aug. Piccaso Art Contest, Vrinda Singhal (S5) Creative 9 Jan. ‘Bachchon ki Prisha Jindal 1st Prize 2019 International Art Brilliance 2019 Rangshala’ Competition Award National Level Paining Contest Aug. Art Olympiad -Avantika Bahadur(S7) 1st Prize organized by Namo 2019 -Eshita Jain (S6) 2nd Prize Gange Foundation -Kamakshi (S4) 3rd Prize Sep. National Zoological Kareena Jain 2nd Prize 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 2019 Art Competition 3 Feb. Annual Art Olympiad -Avantika Bahadur Winner 7 – 9 ‘Meraki – 2019’ All Farhan B.Ahmed (S5) Imaginative 2019 2018-19 conducted Sep. India IPSC Art Fest Competition by J.J. School of -Eshita Jain Winner 2019 organized by the 1st Prize Arts, Mumbai Daly College, Indore -Kamakshi Gupta Winner

47 30 Kshitij Art -Anya Seth (S6) Gold Medal Achievements of our students in the quiz contests conducted by various Sep. Competition -Farhan B.Ahmed(S5) Gold Medal schools/institutions are reported below: 2019 -Mitali Goel (S4) Gold Medal Dates Names of the Name of the Winner Name of Event Oct. Logo Making Avantika Bahadur(S7) 2nd Prize Quiz Contests/ & Prize 2019 Competition Organizers organized by Delhi Public School 4Nov. ‘5th St. Stephen’s Team Comprising of 7th Position 2018 Annual Quizzing -Rahul Pandey Anya Seth (S6) attended an Early College Programme conducted by Championship Shreyansh Krishna the School of Arts, Chicago, USA at the Dhirubhai Ambani International 2018’ St. Stephen’s School, Mumbai from 17th to 28th June 2019. On 29th June 2019, she College, Delhi Modern School, 2nd Best School showcased her work at an Art Gallery – ‘Project 88’ in Colaba, Mumbai. University Barakhamba Road Team Award PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB - ‘LENSCRAFT’ 22 ‘Know for Sure’ Team Comprising of The following awards were won by our students in Inter-School Nov. Quiz Competition -Shreyansh Krishna Winner Photography Competitions: 2018 St Thomas School -Navya Pant

Dates Names of the Name of the Winner Name of Event 30 ‘Encrypt 2018’ Team Comprising of Winner with Quiz Contests/ & Prize Nov. Delhi Public -Kaartikay Agarwal Cash Award of Organizers 2018 School, Noida -Arjun Khanchandani Rs.15,000/- 17 ‘Digex- 2019’ Sanya Tawakley (S6) Surprise Event -Rijul Ganju Aug. organized by 1st Prize 2019 Delhi Public 27 9th Delhi-NCR Disha Agrawal Biology Quiz – School, Jan. Regional 1st Prize R.K.Puram 2019 Brain Bee Quiz (represented 20 ‘Paridarshika- -Sanya Tawakley (S6) Topic ‘Travel’ – held at Medanta– Delhi-NCR at Aug. 2019’ organized Best Photogra- The Medicity, the Indian Na-

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 2019 by Delhi pher Gurugram tional Brain Public School, -Madhav Goel (S6) Topic ‘Macro’ – Bee Quiz held in Vasundhara Best Photogra- May 2019) pher QUIZ CLUB ‘PHOENIX’ 14 ‘The Hindu Young Team comprising of Feb. World Quiz’ held Rahul Pandey General Quiz The Quiz Club ‘Phoenix’regularly conducts workshops to train the 2019 at Bal Bharti Public Shreyansh Krishna 3rd Prize students to participate in quiz competitions. School, NewDelhi

48 Team Comprising of 2nd Prize 6 April ‘Chakra View - Team Comprising of -Harris Dalal 2019 2019’ Quizzing -Arjun Khanchandani ‘Trivial Pursuit’ -Sharanya Gupta Festival organized -Rijul Ganju General Quiz -Shreyansh Krishna by Ashoka -Rahul Pandey 2nd Prize University, Sonepat Team Comprising of General Quiz Team Comprising of -Arjun Khanchandani Winner -Sharanya Gupta ‘Trivial Pursuit’ -Rijul Ganju -Sanchit Suneja General Quiz -Rahul Pandey -Shreyansh Krishna 3rd Prize Modern School, Winner Team Comprising of Barakhamba Road -Samraj Chaudhary ‘Trivial Pursuit’ 2 Aug. ‘Curo Quiz-2019’ Team comprising of -Harris Dalal General Quiz 2019 organized by -Pradyuman Arora General Quiz -Rahil Arora 4th Prize Sagar Public (S5) 2nd Prize School, Bhopal -Shreyansh Krishna 30 ‘Quest-2019’ Team Comprising of (S4) April organized by Air -Rijul Ganju Quizbate Winner -Ashwin Verma (S3) 2019 Force School, -Rahul Pandey 2 Aug. ‘Infinitus Reus- Team comprising of Subroto Park, -Shivang Soni 2019 2019’ organized -Arjun General Quiz NewDelhi -Pradyumn Arora by Delhi Public Khanchandani(S7) (Sr.) 1st Prize School, R.K.Puram -Rijul Ganju (S6) 25–26 ‘12th Indian Disha Agrawal Winner -Rahul Pandey (S5) May National Brain (Represented 2019 Bee – 2019’ held India in the In- Team comprising of at Shri S.S.Shasun ternational Brain -Shruti Singh (S3) General Quiz Jain College for Bee – 2019 held -Ananya Dhawan (Jr.) 2nd Prize Women, Chennai in Daegu, South (S3) PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Korea inSept. -Aryan Pratap Singh 2019 (S2) 8 Aug. ‘Inquisitive - 2019’ Team comprising of 11–12 ‘Quizzat-2019’ Quiz Team Comprising of 2019 Annual Inter- -Arjun General Quiz July Fest organized by -Rahil Arora Winner School PACE Quiz Khanchandani(S7) 2nd Prize 2019 Amity International -Rijul Ganju organized by The -Rijul Ganju (S6) with Trophy and School, Saket, -Sanchit Suneja Hindustan Times at Laptops New Delhi Talkatora Stadium

49 15–16 ‘Qriosity-2019’ Team comprising of 15 Oct. HDFC Quiz Team comprising of Aug. organized by -Rijul Ganju (S6) Flames Quiz 1st 2019 organized by -Rahul Pandey (S5) General Quiz 1st 2019 New Era Public -Sanchit Suneja (S6) Prize HDFC School, -Pradyumn Arora Prize School, Mayapuri -Shreyansh Krishna Gurugram (S5) (S4) -Shreyansh Krishna (S4) Team comprising of -Navyansh Pant (S4) -Paarth Aryan (S6) India Quiz 2nd 18 Oct. ‘INTACH Quiz - Team comprising of General Quiz– -Rahul Pandey (S5) Prize 2019 2019’organized by -Rahul Pandey (S5) Delhi–1stPrize -Shreyansh Krishna INTACH -Shreyansh Krishna NCR–3rd Prize (S4) (S4) Team comprising of SCIENCE CLUB -Sanchit Suneja (S6) Science Biz -Sharanya Gupta Tech Quiz – On 30th November 2018, seventeen students of the Middle and Secondary (S6) 3rd Prize School were awarded the medals and certificates for their outstanding -Rijul Ganju (S6) 23 ‘Quizebate-2019’ Team comprising of Aug. organized by -Sharanya Gupta General Quiz 2019 Modern School, (S6) 3rd Prize Vasant Vihar -Rahul Pandey (S5) -Shreyansh Krishna (S4) 31Aug. ‘Columban Team comprising of 2019 Open Quiz- -Arjun General Quiz 2019’organized by Khanchandani(S7) 3rd Prize St. Columba’s -Rijul Ganju (S6) PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S School, Ashok Place, New Delhi -Rahul Pandey (S5) -Shreyansh Krishna (S4) 6 Oct. Inter-School Quiz Team comprising of General Quiz 1st 2019 Competition -Rijul Ganju (S6) Prize (won by a organized by -Rahul Pandey (S5) staggering Scindia School, margin of 110 Gwalior points)

50 performance in the ‘Periodic Learning Outcome Track’ – PLOT Test - 2 for Ceremony. The project also got a special mention by the Chief Guest, Science conducted by the Teacher Coordinators - ‘SRJNA’ of our school. making Modern School proud again for the second consecutive year. The first position holders were Saurya Malhotra (S1), Aarav Bajaj (S2), Aryaan Mehra, Shiv Gupta and Samraj Chaudhary together made Amol Gupta (S3), Ishaan Bansal (S4), Arohi Aggarwal (S4), Geetanshu a presentation on ‘Solar Power Water Purification System’ which (S4) and Kabir Wahi (S5). The second position holders wereSaransh converts the dirty water into clean mineral water using several layers (S1), Kiah Tandon (S2), Angad Wadhwa (S3), Mahitra Saraf (S3), Tanvi of filtration. Gupta (S3), Ansh Midha (S4), Kuhu Sood (S5), Jagriti (S5), Maria Javed (S5) and Aryan Singh Lather (S5). The Chemistry Department of our school organized its annual exhibition on 9th February 2019 in the Chemistry Laboratory and Chemistry Department of our school held ‘SPUNK’, its yearly Science Biology Laboratory of the Middle School. The students from Classes Quiz Competition, for the students of Class S3. The competition took S1 to S6 participated and showcased various exhibits such as (i) place in four rounds and ended in December 2018. The Preliminary Isopropyl alcohol and sharpie pens to create tie and dye patterns (ii) Round was held in classrooms using Smart Assessment System (S.A.S.) To understand the acidic and basic nature of various commonly used through MCQs. The second was the Visual Round which was conducted material through natural indicators like red cabbage and beetroot in the Computer Lab and the students were asked questions based (iii) Crystallization of alum, sugar and borax powder (iv) To generate on visual clues and natural phenomenon. The third was the Rapid Fire electricity from crop stubble (v) Silver egg illusion experiment (vi) Round which was held in Chemistry Lab which helped in screening the A milk purification model to re-use milk collected from temples (vii) top rankers. The final was the Interactive Round where the top rankers Golden rain experiment using Lead nitrate and Potassium iodide (viii) interacted with the Head of the Chemistry Department. After the grueling Innovation of smart stick for visually impaired (ix) Making of cosmetic rounds, Vikram Goyal (S3 E) secured the 1st rank while Ira Agrawal (S3 products - lipstick, moisturizer, shampoo, kajal through natural F) and Dev Shukla (S3 E) secured the 2nd and the 3rd ranks respectively. materials (x) Electroplating Iron with Copper to get oxidation-reduction reactions (xi) Re-using old plastic to make a vacuum cleaner (xii) A On 1st February 2019, the students from Classes S1 to S5 appeared cleaning robot was design to sense smoke and spray water, thereby in the ‘Periodic Learning Outcome Track’ PLOT Test – 3 for Science reducing air pollution. The highlight of the event was the Fun Corner conducted by the Teacher Coordinators – ‘SRJNA’ of our school. which presented engrossing games like word search and sorting of Three students of our school from the Class S6, Samraj Chaudhary, cards. Fun learning, through comic strips, made by the students of Shiv Gupta and Aryaan Mehra, participated in the N.D.M.C. Annual Class S1 and S2, was the attraction for all. It was an opportunity for Science Fair held at N.P. Co-ed. Senior Secondary School, Lodhi Road, the budding scientists to express their creativity. PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S New Delhi from 29th January 2019 to 1st February 2019 on the theme An Inter-School Science Symposium was organized by our School ‘Scientific Solutions for Challenges in Life’, in which over 500 students on 4th May 2019. Students of nine schools from Delhi participated from 50 N.D.M.C. schools exhibited 200 models. Samraj Chaudhary and in plethora of events. Dr Ashwani Pareek, Professor, School of Life Shiv Gupta jointly worked on the ‘Project Drishti – The Smart Stick for the Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, was the Chief Guest while Dr Visually Impaired’ consisting of ultrasonic sensors and arduino circuit, Kapil Juneja was the Guest of Honour. The result of various events is reflecting light from the obstacle, calculating the distance and converting as follows: it into sound. It was the most discussed project amongst the teachers and students present there and received recognition at the Valedictory

51 Subject, Name of the Name of the School Prize Won Overall trophy was bagged by the Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram. The Event and its Topic students shared their unique ideas such as using alternative methods of energy, pollution control method and innovative models like recycling Chemistry plant and much more. The teachers from the Science Department -Springdales School, -Poster Making – ‘Virtues of Dhaula Kuan Winner conducted experiments using simple equipment to explain principle of Science’ -Modern School, working of DC generator, harmful effects of smoking, radioactive decay, Barakhamba Road Runner Up siphon effect, Franklin Bell, dependence on resistance on the length of conductor. -Model Making – - Modern School, Winner In April 2019, Aryaan Mehra (S6) was felicitated by the Times of India for ‘Challenges in Life and Barakhamba Road making an eco-friendly, affordable, sustainable and easy to make water their Scientific Solutions’ -Springdales School, Runner Up purifier called ‘Aqua Renew’. The water purifier is a simple two-litre water Dhaula Kuan bottle, which has a piece of muslin cloth, water purifier candle and a Physics filter paper attached to it. Aqua Renew eliminates harmful impurities and -Convent of Jesus and makes the water fit for consumption. It can improve the quality of tap -Be the Change Mary Winner water and provides safe alkaline drinking water which boosts immunity. -St Thomas’ Girls’ Sr. Sec. It also enhances the water quality by adding minerals. Due to its simple School Runner Up composition, the purifier is low cost and can be easily purchased by people with moderate income. -Surprise Event -Modern School, Vasant Winner Vihar Achievements of our students in Inter-School Science competitions are -Convent of Jesus and Runner Up as under: Mary Biology Dates Names of the Name of the Winner Name of Event Events/Organizers & Prize -Miniature Indoor Theme Winner 24 Nov ‘The Think Summit’ Team comprising of Garden/Plant Display -Modern School, Barakhamba Road 2018 organized by -Siddhant Ahuja ‘Cognaissance’ Delhi Public -Farhan B.Ahmed Event - 2nd PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S -St Thomas’ Girls’ Sr. Sec. Runner Up School, R.K. Prize School Puram, New Delhi Team comprising of -Quiz -Maira Gupta ‘Out of Box’ -Raghav Jindal Event – 2nd -Delhi Public School, Winner Prize R.K.Puram Modern School, Barakhamba Road Runner-Up -Springdales School, Runner Up Dhaula Kuan

52 13 July ‘Sapere Aude’ Team comprising of on 30th April 2019. Padma Shri Ileana Citaresti, an Odissi and Chhau 2019 Science Festival -Farhan B.Ahmed (S5) Chem Canvan Dancer, was invited for the event and staged an enthralling performance. organized by -Salil Jain (S5) – 2nd Prize In order to keep the enriching and ancient arts of our country alive for Delhi Public Team comprising of future generations, the SPIC MACAY Society of our school arranged two School, R.K.Puram -Aditya Harjani (S6) workshops for our students of Classes from S1 to S6 from 22nd to 26th -Reet Kaur Sahni (S6) April 2019. -Raaghavi Tandon Ad Act Actini- (S6) um – 3rd Prize i) A five-day Kathak Dance Workshop was taken by the prominent Kathak 26 Jul. ‘Innovention-2019’ Team comprising of Dancer, Padma Bhushan Smt , She delivered lectures and demonstration to explain the nuances of Kathak Dance. 2019 Inter-School -Farhan Bakht Ahmed ‘Scientific Graf- Science Fest fiti : Deface (S5) ii) A five-day Workshop on the Madhubani and Mithila Painting was organized by the Spectrum’ conducted by the famous artist, Ms Jyoti Karan. Ahlcon Public -Vanshika Sharma 1st Prize (S5) School, MayurVihar FRENCH DEPARTMENT 2 Aug. ‘Dhananjay Mohan Team comprising of 2019 Science -Aryaan Mehra (S7) Project Presen- The students participated in various French language competitions and Symposium’ -Akhil Gulati (S&) tation 1st Prize won prizes mentioned below: organized by Amity Team comprising of E-Paper Pre- International Dates Names of the Names of the Name of the -Shiv Gupta (S7) sentation 3rd Events/ Organizers Students Event/Prize School, Noida -Akshat Gautam (S7) Prize 30 INTACH Annual Team comprising of Self-composed Modern School, Winner Jan. Utsav at INTACH, Vaanya Jain Song Group Barakhamba Road 2019 Lodhi Road Aarav Bajaj Singing - Best SCULPTURE DEPARTMENT Shatakshi Srivastava Lyrics Nirantara Nafisa Our students, Rohan Gupta (S6), Arjan Singh (S6), Arvan Puri (S5), Adil Musa Akhtar (S5) and Sanay Khanna (S2), participated in an Art Exhibition Aditya Singh

‘Sowing the Seeds of Tranquility’ dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, in Vanshika Choubey 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S commemoration of his 150th Birth Anniversary, put up from 1stto 4th 7 Feb. Concours Romain 1st Rank in October 2019 at the Korean Culture Centre, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi, 2019 Rolland A1 Eakasv Bhutani India and UAE by Empowerment, an NGO. Our students displayed the wood sculpted (International (100% marks) artifacts made by them. French Prize - Free trip Examination) to France SPIC MACAY conducted by SPIC MACAY Society of our School celebrated the World Dance Day Alliance Francaise De Rouen, France

53 8 Feb. ‘FILMIT Festival Team comprising of Dates Names of the Quiz Name of the Winner Name of Event 2019 2018-19’organized Vaanya Jain Film Making - Contests/ & Prize by INTACH at India Aarav Bajaj Best Back- Organizers International Centre Arsh Jain ground Music 27 Jul. ‘Mosaic– Patterns Karina Chawla (S7) ‘The Devil’s MATHEMATICS ACTIVITY HUB 2019 of Life- 2019’ Advocate’, Psych- Socio Fest Turncoat De- organized by bate 1st Prize Dates Names of Names of the Name of the Event/ Delhi Public the Events/ Students with their Prize School, R.K.Puram Organizers Roles 2 – 4 City Individual Event TRIPS/TOURS Dec. Montessori -Dhruv Sharma Math Wiz (Sr.) – Gold Dates Place of Visit Details of Students/Teachers 2018 School, -Anishka Math Wiz (Sr.) – Bronze 10- 15 Port Blair Seventy one students of Class S3 Gomti -Aditya Mathur Math Wiz (Jr.) – Bronze March Nagar, -Harsh Chaturvedi Math Wiz (Jr.) – Bronze 2019 Escort Teachers –Ms Simarpan Kaur, Ms Anuradha Bhatia, Ms Anjali Gupta Lucknow Team Event Chhabra, Mr Lajpat Gupta, Mr Vinod Senior Team - Dhruv Kumar and Mr Devender Singh (a Class Sharma, Mathemania–2nd IV Employee) Anishka, Muskan Runner Up 14 - 17 Mumbai Thirty six students of Class S2 March Chojer Escort Teachers- Ms Manju Vijra, Ms 2019 Divya Sharma, Ms Parul Sharma and Junior Team – Aditya Ms Kanika Bathla Mathur, Harsh Mathemania–2nd 22 - 27 Port Blair Fifty nine students of Class S3 Chaturvedi, Farhan March Runner Up Escort Teachers - Ms Manju Vijra, Ms Bakht Ahmed 2019 Lekha Menon, Ms Nirmala Chandru, PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Modern School, Modus Opera – 2nd Ms Deepika Masiwal and Ms Kanchan Gambhir Barakhamba Road Prize 24 - 27 Jaipur and Sariska Fifty five students of Class S2 PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT March 2019 Escort Teachers - Ms Anuradha Bhatia, Achievement of our students in the Inter-School Psychology Fest: Ms Mansi Kumar, Ms Dale Sharma, Ms Megha Darira and Ms.Priyanka Saini

54 24 - 27 Pondicherry Forty six students of Class S1 3 – 6 Udaipur, Rajasthan Forty eight Students of Class S2. March Oct. 2019 Escort Teachers - Ms Kavita Shelley, 2019 Escort Teachers - Ms Kavita Shelly, Ms Shivpriya Mathur, Mr Keith Gomes Ms Megha Darira Ms Srishti Jain, and Mr Neeraj Dubey Ms Khushboo Mittal 10 - 14 Pune, Panchgani, Fifty seven students of Class S4 March Mahabaleshwar, YOUTH PARLIAMENT 2019 Imagica and Escort Teachers - Ms Shefali Tongaria, Mumbai Ms Jaspreet Kaur, Mr Tahir Hussain, Our school was selected by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, in Mr Dhirendra and Mr Sansbir Daggar association with the Directorate of Education, Govt. of NCT of Delhi and the New Delhi Municipal Council, to conduct the 53rd Youth Parliament 13 - 17 Jodhpur and One hundred and twenty four students Competition (2018-19). The event was successfully organized by Ms Jaya March Jaisalmer of Class S6 2019 Khurana and the event management team on 9th January 2019 in our Escort Teachers- Ms Meera Malhotra, school and saw participation of 50 students of Class S6. The event was Ms Sunila Kalra, Ms Puja Kapoor, graced by Mr Bratin Sengupta, Ex-Member of Parliament, Mr Purshottam Ms Baisakhi Samajdar, Ms Sonal Bedi, Kumar, a senior official from the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Dr Ms Divya Sahdev, Mr Rajesh Kumar, Leena Vyas, SPE Zone-26, Directorate of Education. Eight students were Mr Naveen Chopra, Mr Rais Ahmed, commended for their brilliant performance by the jury. Mr Rajesh Arya and Mr Ajay Rawat 13 - 16 Mussoorie and Sixty Onestudents of Class S1 May Dhanolti 2019 Escort Teachers – Ms Manju Vijra, Ms Himani Bakshi, Ms Kanchan Gambhir, Ms Dale Sharma, Ms Megha Darira, Ms Kanika Bathla 13 - 16 Nainital and Fifty seven students of Class S2 May Mukteshwar

2019 Escort Teachers – Ms Indu Sridhar, Ms 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Aarti Mehta Ms Archana Shukla, Ms Anuradha Maini, Ms Parul Sharma 2 – 5 Bhopal Saanchi Forty three Students of Class S1. Oct. Stupa 2019 Escort Teachers – Ms Anuradha Bhatia, Ms Parul Sharma, Ms Kanchan Gambhir Ms Kanika Bathla

55 INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (INDIA) on 29th November 2018 to celebrate the World Children’s Day (ii) A ‘Handwriting Improvement Workshop’ by Akshay Pandit was arranged IAYP (earlier known as Duke of Edinburgh Award) is a non-competitive on 7th December 2018 for 20 students of Class S1 (iii) A ‘Just-A-Minute’ self-development award programme which leads to self-reliance, (JAM) Session was held on topics ‘My School’, ‘Punctuality’, ‘Patriotism’ perseverance, responsibility for self and service to community. It has four on 24th January 2019 (iv) Another ‘Just-A-Minute’ Session was held on mandatory sections – service, adventure, skill and physical recreation 7th February 2019 for the students of Class S3 on the topics ‘Holiday for three levels of awards – Bronze, Silver and Gold. Stuti Khanna (S7), Destination’, ‘Adventure’ etc. (v) D.E.A.R. Activity for the students of Grisha Bajaj (S7) and Piya Wadhwa (S7) have completed their first level Class S2 and S3 on 11th April 2019 (vi) A Science Quiz Activity for the and have been awareded the ‘Bronze’ level. students of Class S2 on 18th April 2019 (vii) Teachers’ Day Celebrations THE ‘KAMLA BOSE AWARD’ FOR LEARNING BEYOND by Middle Block students (viii) Talks and IT Presentations on ‘One Virtue CLASSROOMS of Life’ on the topics e.g. Puntuality, Hardwork, Strength, Will Power & Courage, Nationalism, Gratitude, Patience and the 5 Corner Stone by The winners of the ‘Kamla Bose Award for Outstanding Research’ students of Class S3. for the year 2019 are Angad Singh Lehal and Aditya Vermafor their The Monitors and Prefects of the Class S7 were conferred with ‘Badges’ projects“Prospects and Challenges of GST in Stimulating Growth in during the Investiture Ceremony held in school on 30th October 2018. India” and “In Vitro Fertilisation”respectively. The ‘Kamla Bose High They took an oath to uphold the ethos and motto of the school and to Commendation Award’ was received by Aryaan Mehra for his project lead from the front with commitment, confidence and competence. The –‘Aqua Renew – A Swachh Initiative’.The projects were evaluated on the Monitors who were decorated with this badge were - Abhinav Agarwal, basis of topic, content, procedure and presentation. Raghavendra Gupta, Kartikay Agarwal, Sifat Sahni, Shruti Bhardwaj and THE ‘SARDAR BHAGWANT SINGH AWARD’ FOR Shubh Sethi. The Prefects who received the badge were – Pradyuman EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH Raj Mehta, Prakriti Dahiya, Manav Gupta, Yash Bansal, Ritvik Vasudeva, Arahana Yadav, Manya Bansal, Arnav Gupta, Tanya Goel, Devaank This year 31 projects were presented by the students of S6 for the Sardar Aggarwal, Kunal Saluja, Saiyam Hota, Suchet Kumar, Aditya Singh Bhagwant Singh Project. The First Prize for the Sardar Bhagwant Singh Rathore, Ameesha Mukhija, Armaan Aggarwal, Aditya Varun Sarkar, Award’ for Exellence in Research was won by Khushi Malik of S6 G Aadya Kapur, Anmol Bansal, Varun Khurana, Shashank Ramesh, Sanyam and Sahira Singh of S6 Ifor their project titled ‘Psychology of Music’. Gupta, Rishab Dua, Varun Singh Bhalla, Avantika Singh, Gayatri Sehgal, The Second Position was bagged by the project ‘Partition- Changing Hiya Gupta, Agastya Chawla, Tina Aneja, Rushali Jain and Archita Kaur PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Homelands’ made by the team of Raghu Raj Dewan of S6 I, Arjan Seble Dhodi. and Yatin Airi of of S6 G and the Third Position went to Raihaan Bose of S6 A for the project ‘Transformation of House Forms in Delhi’. An Inter-House Music Competition was organized in school on 2nd November 2018. Students of Classes from S1 to S4, and some of the 8. INTRA SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Clubs and Societies of the school put up their stalls to raise funds Middle School holds various activities during their assembly periods. for charity. In the Group Performance, Tilak House won the 1st Prize The activities held during last one year are (i) A workshop titled ‘Go Blue’ while Laxmibai House and Akbar House won the 2nd and the 3rd Prize was conducted by Meravilia EQ Academy in association with UNICEF respectively. In the Solo Performance category, Yuvraj Chaudhary of Pratap House won the 1st prize whereas Jivaansh of Nehru House and

56 Sureena Wadhwa of Subhash House won the 2nd Prize and the 3rd and culminated with distribution of Prasad. Prize respectively. The students, who have been taking music lessons from Furtados School Annual Medical Check-up of the students of Classes from S1 to S5 was of Music during their SUPW classes, presented their Annual Musical conducted in school from 12th November 2018 to 13th December 2018. Concert, based on the theme ‘Mix Tape’ on 9th February 2019. A grand stage was set up with a professional sound system and the students Forty-five students were awarded the ‘Badges’ of the House Captains performed some popular English numbers and a few instrumental tunes. and the Vice-Captains during the Investiture Ceremony in a Special The performance mesmerized the audience. The Principal expressed his Assembly held on 20th November 2018. delight on seeing their enthusiasm and inspired them to do better.

The Middle School celebrated the festival of Chrismas with joviality and A ‘Logo Designing and Selection Event’, for the upcoming Centenary grandeur on 24th December 2018. Celebration of Modern School, took place on 14th February 2019 in The School bid farewell to the students of the Class of S7 (Batch of 2019) School. The event witnessed a plethora of creative logos designed by on 19th January 2019. the students of all the branches of Modern School. The event was graced Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, Ms Anuradha Singh, Ms Mira Pradeep Singh, On 25th January 2019,an interactive session on ‘Super Brain Yoga’ was Ms Ambika Pant and other senior members of the Board of Trustees, held for the students of Class S6 by Ms Navina Punj and her team. this Modern Schools. technique themselves and incorporated it into their work, was a real eye opener. The Boarding House bid adieu to the ‘boarders’ of the Class S7 (Batch of 2019) on 22nd February 2019. The evening featured cultural performance On 30th January 2019, an interactive session on ‘Super Brain Yoga’ was by the boarders.Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, Senior Trustee of the Board conducted and an animated video on ‘Twin Heart Meditation’ was shown of Trustees of Modern Schools andMs Ambika Pant, Secretary, Board to the students of the Class S6. It was the culmination of a year-long of Trustees, Modern Schools graced the occasion and blessed the meditation programme conducted by Ms Navina Punj and her team. The students. The Principal too addressed the students and wished them students were encouraged to do Super Brain Yoga followed by the Twin good luck for their future endeavours. Heart Meditation. The countdown to the Centenary Celebrations of our legendary Modern School celebrated the 80th birthday of the legendary Kathak institution, Modern School, commenced on 30th March 2019 by formally Maestro, Pt Birju Maharaj, on 4th and 5th February 2019. Lighting of the unveiling the Logo of the Centenary by Ms Ketaki Sood, President Board Ceremonial Lamp by the Principal and Pt Birju Maharaj flagged off the of Trustees, Modern Schools. ‘The Sau Saal, Sau Salaam’ Centenary 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Celebration Fiesta to celebrate the life, times, genre and ouvre of the Celebrations shall see a year long celebration showcasing the legacy of virtuoso. the Modern School. The logo juxtaposes the iconic evolution of Modern School since it inception in 1920 to its historic hundred, emblematic of On 8th February 2019, the Festival of Vasant Panchami was celebrated its milestones and striving towards excellence. by worshipping the Goddess Saraswati – the deity of knowledge. The Principal commenced the proceeding with the lighting of the holy lamp. The Annual Book Week was organized from 22nd to 27th April 2019 in The Middle School students recited shlokas and presented a dance the M.N. Kapur Hall. The event was inaugurated by Dr Bharat Agrawal, recital on Saraswati Vandana. The Pooja was performed with full fervour He encouraged the students to be avid readers to get ideas and learn

57 innovative ways to achieve their goals. A plethora of activities were of Classes from S1 to S3, and most of the Clubs & Societies of the organized during the week. Mr Ajit Narayan, a professional cartoonist, schoolput up their stalls to raise funds for charity. An Inter-House Music took a cartooning workshop for Class S1 students. Two sessions were Competition was also held on this occasion. In the Group Performance, taken by a renowned author, Dr Devika Rangachari, for the students of Ranjit House won the 1st Prize while Nehru House and Subhash House Class S2, as a part of ‘A Date with an Author’. Ms Era Sehgal, who has won the 2nd and the 3rd Prize respectively. In the Solo Performance vast experience in the field of education, conducted a workshop for the category, Raag Suri of Tilak House won the 1st prize whereas Divyesh students of Class S3. Mr Keith Gomes, then a teacher of English of our Taneja of Gandhi House and Abeer Chopra of Ashoka House won the School, took a story writing workshop for the students of Class S3. 2nd Prize and the 3rd Prize respectively.

Our School celebrated the World Dance Day on 29th April 2019. Ms Some of our teachers retired during the year - Ms Jyotsna Srivastava, Ketaki Sood, President, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools, was the Mathematics Teacher in March 2019; Ms Sangeet Narula, Senior Librarian Chief Guest on this occasion. Ms Ambika Pant, Secretary Board of in August 2019; Ms Prabha Bhagat, Headmistress Middle School and Trustees, Modern Schools and Ms Manju Rajput, Headmistress, R.S. Ms Alka Luthra, Hindi Teacher in September 2019 and Ms Nalini Idnani Junior Modern School Humayun Road, also graced the event with in October 2019. All these teachers were given a warm farewell on their their benign presence. Mr.Bharat Sharma, Director, Bhoomika Creative retirement. The Principal extended greetings and presented them silver Dance Centre, was the Guest of Honour and his troupe presented a salver. mesmerizing performance choreographed by him. Annual Medical Check-up of students of the Classes from S1 to S5 will The teachers from the Creative Wing organized a summer workshop for commence in school from 11th November 2019 and is expected to our students from 14th to 31st May 2019. Over 40 students of Middle conclude by 11th December 2019. School participated in the workshops held by various departments such as Animation, Electronics and Robotics, Fashion Technology, Paper 9. CO-CURRICULAR & INTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Technology and Calligraphy. An exhibition was put up on31st May 2019, On 31st January 2019, eleven students of Class S4 attended the in which the work done/products made by the students during these ‘Holocaust Remembrance Day Programme’ organized by the United workshops were exhibited. Nations India Office, in collaboration with Embassies of eighteen The School celebrated the Teachers’ Day on 5th September 2019. The countries, at Alliance Francaise De Delhi. The representatives of the teachers, who would retire during the academic year, were presented countries - Israel, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands and Austria answered the queries of the students during the Interactive Session.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S a token of remembrance.The Principal addressed the teachers and motivated them to do their best and keep the flag of Modern School A few students of the Classes S5 and S7 of our School participated in flying high. The foot tapping Scottish Dance by the junior students, a Science Exhibition organized by Kerala School, New Delhi on 11th musical rendition by Ms Shalini Dahiya and Ms Neha Jindal, a talk by Ms March 2019. Our students won three prizes for rightly answering the Deepika Prashar, news reading by Mr Sanatan Roy were the highlights maximum questions. of the celebrations. A lucky dip was held for the teachers and the lucky ones received prizes. Manya Bansal (Batch of 2019) won the Silver Medal in the ‘International Philosophy Olympiad’ conducted by International Federation of A Diwali Fete was organized in school on 25th October 2019. Students Philosophical Societies, in association with UNESCO, in May 2019 in

58 Italy. VSM** (Retd.), Managing Director, Army Welfare Education Society, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and blessed our students with Forty students of Class S1 visited the National Police Memorial on 10th his words of wisdom. The Principal addressed the august gathering, October 2019. The students were shown a short movie that enlightened blessed the outgoing batch of students for their new journey in life and them about the work and sacrifices of the police force to safeguard led the ’Candle Lighting Ceremony’. Mr.Vineet Sahai Sarin, President, public. M.S.O.S.A. addressed the students and urged the students to remain Raag Suri (S7), Mishika Garg (S7), Yuvraj Singh Chaudhary (S7) and connected and be actively involved with the various socio-cultural Devina Aggarwal (S7) participated in the 7th edition of the ‘The Young activities organized by the M.S.O.S.A. Leaders Conclave’ on the theme ‘Design Thinking’ organized by Modern 13. INDEPENDENCE DAY School, Vasant Vihar. Thoughs and ideas were exchanged on topics like Exponential Technology and Ethics, Artifial Intelligence, Ideation and Our school celebrated the 73rdIndependence Day of the nation on 9th Creative Thinking etc. The students were encouraged to think of out of August 2019. Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa, PVSM AVSM box, innovative and creative ideas. Students were also taken for a field YSM VM ADC, Chairman,Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of the trip to DLF Promenade Mall, Vasant Kunj. Air Staff, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest.The Chief Guest was 10. HOUSE FUNCTIONS

Seven Houses - Tagore, Patel, Gandhi, Laxmibai, Ashoka, Lajpat and Akbar held their biennial function during the period from November 2018 to May 2019. The Pratap, Azad and Nehru House will hold their biennial function in December 2019. 11. ANNUAL PRIZE GIVING DAY

The Annual Prize Giving Ceremony was organized on 1st November 2018 in school. The Chief Guest, Dr Madan Mohan Oberoi, I.P.S., Special Commissioner of Police, Special Cell (Terror, Cyber and Organized Crime) awarded the meritorious students and appreciated their work

during his visit to the ‘My Space’ Exhibition and the Technology Block 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Exhibition. 12. GRADUATION DAY

Graduation Ceremony for the students of Class S7 (Batch of 2019) was held on 17th January 2019. The ceremony was attended by the parents and grandparents in large numbers. An Orchestra Signature Tune by our students and the valedictory speeches by the students of the outgoing batch were the highlights of the event. Maj Gen Anil Khosla, AVSM, SM,

59 escorted in a cavalcadeled by our star horse-riders and was welcomed with a Band Display by our students. The Chief Guest hoisted the National Flag. Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoaappreciated the Woodcut Graphics Exhibition, dedicated to Indian patriotic sentiment, put up by the students and witnessed the Bagpipers’ March. A welcome address by the Principal, the Roopak titled ‘‘Youngistaan Chhuegaa Aasmaan’ with musical support by the School Choir,the Chief Guest’s Address and the thoughts shared by Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, Senior Trustee, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools, were the highlights of the celebrations. Ms Ambika Pant, Secretary, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools and Col Vijay Chadda, Chairman, Managing Committee,Modern School, Barakhamba Road, graced the occasion with their benign presence. 14. BLOOD DONATION CAMP

The Interact Club of our School, in association with Rotary Club of Delhi ‘Rendezvous’ and the Rotary Blood Bank, organized the 38th Annual Blood Donation Camp on 19th October 2019. Mr Mishra, Additional Secretary to the Government of India and the Development by Mr Ved Vyas, former Hindi teacher and the first Principal of Modern Commissioner for the Ministry of MSME, graced the occasion as SchoolVasant Vihar, and set to music by , a distinguished the Chief Guest and inaugurated the camp. The camp successfully Modernite. collected 101 units of blood. ‘Rangoli Making’ competition and a ‘Poster Making’ Competition were conducted as a part of the event. The flower The procession of students, tracing the March of the students in 1920 arrangements by the students enhanced the ambience of the Camp. from 24, Daryaganj to Barakhamba Road, was led by the eminent guests to the Sir Shankar Lal Hall.The cultural programme celebrated the spirit 15. CENTENARY FLAG OFF DAY of Modern School, reliving the proud moments of the school i.e. visit by Modern School, established in 1920 by Lala Raghubir Singh, flagged- Mahatama Gandhi and Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. off its Centenary Celebration on 21stOctober 2019.The event witnessed

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 16. GAMES and SPORTS distinguished guests in attendance. The Principal welcomed Ms Ketaki Sood, President, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools, as the Chief Guest The importance of Games and Sports can never be undermined. As the and Col Vijay Chadda, Chairman, Managing Committee, Modern School adage goes, the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playfields of Eton Barakhamba Road as the Guest of Honour.The celebration commenced and Harrow; this sums up in a nutshell that sports as a discipline is not with hoisting of the Centenary Flag of Modern School at the Front Lawns. only required to hone the physical and mental skills but also gives an The horse riders of the school cantered along and presented a standing impetus to the all-round personality of an individual, which reflects on salute, signifying the school’s commitment to take greater strides in times the glory of a nation. Modern School, in this connection, has ensured a to come. The students sang the school song “Balvaan Bano”, written steadfast programme in all disciplines of sports with the time-factor never

60 being a deterrent. Under the stewardship of ace coaches, the students the Chief Guest. The event witnessed a March Past by the students of have carved a niche’ for themselves at the Zonal, CBSE, National and Classes S4 and S6 representing the fifteen Houses of the school.Students International arenas in the recent times. of Classes S1, S2 and S3 displayed the drills of Yoga, Zumba and Taekwondo respectively. The Inter-House Athletics Meet was also a part INTERACTIVE SESSION IN SPORTS of the Sports Day. While the Nehru House won the Inter-House Athletics On 22nd November 2018, an Interactive Session with Mr Bishan Singh Championship, Pratap House and Gandhi House were declared the 1st Bedi, former Captain of the Indian Cricket Team, was held in the school and the 2nd Runner Up respectively. The ‘Best Athlete Award’ in the Sub- for the boys’ and girls’ cricket teams. The veteran cricketer addressed Junior Boys’ and Girls’ category was given to KaranveerSingh (Ashoka our budding cricketers, gave them valuable tips about the game of House) and Riana Singh (Tagore House). Dev Shukla (Nehru House) cricket and answered their questions. The session was truly enriching. and Prisha Jindal (Nehru House) bagged the ‘Best Athlete Award’ in the Junior Boys’ and Girls’ category. The ‘Best Athlete Award’ in the Senior ANNUAL SPORTS DAY Boys’ and Girl’s category was awarded to Sahil Khan (Ashoka House) and Shweta Sehrawat (Pratap House). Laxmibai House won the trophy The Annual Sports Day of Modern School, Barakhamba Road was for the Best Marching Contingent, Shivaji House and Tilak House were celebrated on 8th December 2018. Olympian Padma Shri Vijender declared the 1st and the 2nd Runner Up respectively in the March Past Singh, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. Seven International and the Consolation Prize was bagged by the Nehru House. Players, thirty-five National Position Holders and hundred and one National Participants, who brought laurels to the school during the year, ALL INDIA IPSC CRICKET NATIONAL CAMP FOR BOYS’ were honoured with Special School Colours, Medals and Certificates by U-14

Being the Winner at the IPSC Cricket (Boys U-14) Tournament this year, our school conducted the IPSC Cricket National Camp for Boys’ U-14 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S

61 from 19th to 24th December 2018 in the school premises, for 64th SGFI School Dehradun, Motilal Nehru School of Sports Rai, The Doon School National School Games Boys’ U-14 Cricket Tournamnent, 2018-19, Dehradun, The Punjab Public School Nabha and Delhi Public School held in Indore from 26th to 31st December 2018. Sahil Wilson, Aryan R.K.Puram New Delhi. Dabas, Rajveer Suri and Akshay Tanwar of our school represented the team along with the players from other schools viz. Motilal Nehru ALL INDIA IPSC BADMINTON NATIONAL CAMP FOR School of Sports Rai, Yadavindra Public School Patiala, The Hyderabad BOYS’& GIRLS’ U-14 Public School Begumpet, The Hyderabad Public School Ramanthapur, Being the Winner at the IPSC Badminton Championships for Boys’ U-14 The Scindia School Gwalior, Daly College Indore, Pine Grove School and Girls’ U-14 this year, our school conducted the IPSC Badminton Dharampur and The B.K.Birla Centre for Education Pune. National Camp for Boys’ U-14 and Girls’ U-14 from 24th to 28th ALL INDIA IPSC CRICKET NATIONAL CAMP FOR BOYS’ December 2018 in the school premises, for the 64th SGFI National U-19 School Games Boys’ U-14 and Girls’ U-14 Badminton Championship, 2018-19, held in Aurangabad, Maharashtra from 29th December 2018 Being the Winner at the IPSC Cricket (Boys U-19) Tournament this to 2nd January 2019. Shourya Tiwari of Modern School, Barakhamba year,our school conducted the IPSC Cricket National Camp for Boys’ Road represented the Boys’ U-14 team with players from other schools U-19 from 12th to 18th December 2018 in the school premises, for the viz. Yadavindra Public School Patiala, Daly College Indore and Lawrence 64th SGFI National School Games Boys’ U-19 Cricket Tournament, 2018- School Lovedale. The participating schools in Girls’ U-14 were Delhi 19, held in Jammu from 19th to 25th December 2018. Ronak Singh, Public School R.K.Puram New Delhi, Delhi Public School Mathura Road Revaant Rakyan, Aryan Chaudhary, Archit Bakshi and Tanme Sahny of New Delhi, Daly College Indore and Mayo College Girls’ School Ajmer. Modern School, Barakhamba Road represented the team along with the players from other schools viz. Motilal Nehru School of Sports Rai, ALL INDIA IPSC BADMINTON NATIONAL CAMP FOR The Punjab Public School Nabha, Delhi Public School R.K.Puram New BOYS’& GIRLS’ U-19 Delhi, Delhi Public School Mathura Road New Delhi, Daly School Indore, Being the Winner at the IPSC Badminton Championships for Boys’ U-19 Yadavindra Public School Patiala and The Emerald Heights International and Girls’ U-19 this year, our school conducted the IPSC Badminton School Indore. National Camp for Boys’ U-19 and Girls’ U-19 from 24th to 28th December ALL INDIA IPSC BASKETBALL NATIONAL CAMP FOR 2018 in the school premises, for the 64th SGFI National School Games BOYS’ U-19 Boys’ U-19 and Girls’ U-19 Badminton Championship, 2018-19, which was held in Aurangabad, Maharashtra from 29th December 2018 to 2nd PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Being the Winner at the IPSC Basketball (Boys U-19) Championship January 2019. Pushaan Leopaul, Manan Shingari and Naman Bhargava this year, our school conducted the IPSC Basketball National Camp of Modern School, Barakhamba Road represented the Boys’ U-19 team for Boys’ U-19 from 28th December 2018 to 2nd January 2019 in the with players from Daly College Indore. The participating schools in Girls’ school premises, for the 64th SGFI National School Games Boys’ U-19 U-19 were the Delhi Public School R.K.Puram New Delhi, Mayo College Basketball Championship, 2018-19, held in New Delhi from 3rd to 9th Girls’ School Ajmer and MGD Girls’ School Jaipur. January 2019. Rakshit Bhuchar, Aryan Mobin, Sanskar Nagpal and Dhananjay Arora of Modern School, Barakhamba Road represented the team along with the players from other schools viz. Welham Boys’

62 ALL INDIA IPSC CRICKET NATIONAL CAMP FOR GIRLS’ Individual Games U-19 Game Date Name of the House/Player and Positions Won Being the Winner at the IPSC Cricket (Girls U-19) Tournament this Squash 2nd to Boys’ U-19 – Mridul Arora - Akbar House – year,our school conducted the IPSC Cricket National Camp for 5th April Winner Girls U-19 from 8th to 11th January 2019 in the school premises, 2019 for the 64th SGFI National School Games Girls’ U-19 Cricket - Avi Soni - Laxmibai House – Runner Up Tournamnent, 2018-19, held in Narayanpur, West Godavari, Girls’ U-19 – Sanya Vats – Gandhi House – Andhra Pradesh from 12th to 16th January 2019. Moneesha Winner Kapoor, Nayonika Dahiya, Shambhavi Srivastava and Ishika Arora - Parinishtha Surya - Tagore House - Runner Up of Modern School, Barakhamba Road represented the team with Tennis 2nd to Boys’ U-19 – Avik Choudhary – Lajpat House – players from other schools viz. Delhi Public SchoolMathura Road 5th April Winner New Delhi, Mayo College Girls’ School Ajmer, MGD Girls’ School 2019 Jaipur, L.K.Singhania Education Centre Gotan and Scindia Kanya - Kritanu Jangra –Laxmibai House - Runner Up Vidyalaya Gwalior. Table 2nd to Boys’ U-19 – Ansh Kapoor – Shastri House – Tennis 5th April Winner ‘UNDER-13 DELHI GIRLS’ SCHOOL LEAGUE’ 2019 - Aum Tandon – Patel House – Runner Up FOOTBALL MATCHES BY DELHI DYNAMOS, IN PARTNERSHIP WITHCEQUIN AND FOOTBALL DELHI Girls’ U-19 – Mahira Arora – Tilak House - Winner Anika Bahri - Pratap House – Runner Up Our school is the Venue Partner of the ‘Under-13 Delhi Girls’ School League’ and thereby some of the matches are taking place Team Games in our School. It gives an immense learning opportunity to our players to witness and participate in the tournament. As a gesture Game Date Names of the Houses and Positions Won of gratitude, our school will be gifted Football Goal Posts and the Football 8th to 12th Boys’ U-19 – Ashok House – Winner footballs used in the tournament will be left behind in our school April 2019 itself. Moreover, our school’s contribution is well advertised on - Azad House – Runner Up their hoardings at the site of the matches.

Girls’ U-19 – Ranjit House – Winner 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S INTER-HOUSE MATCHES – In April 2019, the Inter-House Matches were conducted in the Individual Games as well as Team - Tilak House - Runner Up Games and the details are mentioned below: Hockey 15th to Boys’ U-19 – Ashoka House – Winner 19th April 2019 - Akbar House – Runner Up

63 Basketball 22nd April Boys’ U-19 – Pratap House – Winner Modern School, Barakhamba Road clinched the title for the fifth to consecutive year and lifted the coveted IPSC Trophy. Motilal Nehru 2nd May - Gandhi House – Runner Up School of Sports Rai secured the 1st Runner-Up title while the Delhi 2019 Public School Mathura Road and The Emerald Heights International Girls’ U-19– Nehru House – Winner School Indore won the 2nd and the 3rd Runner-Up positions. Prizes were also distributed to the players for their individual performance. - Tilak House – Runner Up Mohit of Motilal Nehru School of Sports, Rai received award for the ‘Best Batsman of the Tournament’ for scoring 207 runs and taking 10 ALL INDIA IPSC CRICKET BOYS’ (U-19) CHAMPIONSHIP wickets while the award for the ‘Best Bowler of the Tournament’ was 2019 bagged by Utkarsh Jain of Delhi Public School Mathura Road for taking 14 wickets in the tournament. The ‘Best Fielder of the Tournament’ was Our school hosted the All India IPSC Cricket Boys’ U-19 Championship Ritwik Joshi of Modern School, Barakhamba Road and the ‘Top Scorer 2019 from 12th to 17th May 2019. On 13th May 2019, the championship of the Tournament’ was Kivnoor of Rajkumar College, Raipur who scored was inaugurated by Mr Pramod Sharma, Director, Genesis Global 308 runs in the tournament. The ‘Man of the Series’ award was taken by School Noida and the Guests of Honour were Mr Ajay Singh, Principal Sahil Wilson of Modern School Barakhamba Road for scoring 131 runs National Curriculum, Genesis Global School Noida, Mr Anil Chaudhary, and taking 16 wickets in the tournament. Senior Umpire BCCI and Mr Prahlad Singh Yadav, S.H.O. Police Station Barakhamba Road. The championship was played on league-cum- Ms Ambika Pant, Secretary, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools was the knockout basis. This time, the gold-plated coin was introduced to Chief Guest at thePrize Distribution Function on 17th May 2019 and gave conduct tosses before the matches. Caps for the highest scorers and away prizes to the winning teams, individual winners, coaches, umpires wicket takers were also introduced. and the ground men. The Principal’s Dinner was hosted on 15th May 2019, which was attended SUMMER SPORTS CAMP by the teams, their Coaches/Managers, the Principals of some of the participating schools from Delhi, and a few dignitaries. Ms Ketaki Sood, A Summer Sports Camp was held for the students from14th to 31st President, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools was the Chief Guest of May 2019 in the disciplines of Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket, the evening. Football, Gymnastic, Hockey, Horse Riding, Lawn Tennis, Squash, Swimming, Table Tennis and . 300 students attended the Teams of fifteen IPSC member schools initially participated in the

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S camp. The training focused on physical fitness, basic sports skills and Championship and the eight teams that qualified for the knock-out round the technicalities of the chosen game. The Horse Riding and Swimming were the Delhi Public School Mathura Road, Genesis Global School started with all other games but continued until 15th June 2019. Noida, Modern School Barakhamba Road, Motilal Nehru School of Sports Rai, Raj Kumar College Raipur, The Assam Valley School Assam, ‘44TH LALA RAGHUBIR SINGH HOT WEATHER CRICKET The Emerald Heights International School Indore and Welham Boys’ TOURNAMENT School Dehradun. The 44th Lala Raghubir Singh Hot Weather Cricket Tournament was conducted in School from 19th May 2019 to 1st June 2019, in which 12

64 prestigious teams of the city competed. The matches were played on ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORTS league-cum-knockout basis for forty overs from each side. This time, the gold-plated coin was introduced to conduct tosses before the matches. The achievements of various sports persons in their respective sports The live telecast of the final match was aired on Door Darshan’s Sports are as follows: Channel. ARCHERY Air India Team lifted the Winner’s Trophy together with a cash prize of Rs.2,50,000/-. The Runner-Up Trophy was bagged by Collage Group Date/ Name of the Category/Position Secured/ Sports Management with a cash prize of Rs.1,50,000/-. Teams of Players Month Tournament/ Names of the Players Championship/ Academy and Rannstar Cricket Academy were given Rs.50,000/- each Camp for reaching the semi-finals. 22 – 28 Archery Mini Boys’ U-14 – Aryaman Varma – 1 Mr Shahbaz Khan of Collage Group Sports Management was declared Oct. 2018 National Silver the ‘Man of the Tournament’ and was awarded cash prize of Rs.21,000/-. Championship Girls’ U-14 – Arshiya Chaudhary – Mr Robin Bisht of the Collage Group Sports Management and Mr Nitin Siddharth College, 1 Gold, Yadav of Air Force Team, both were awarded a return air ticket for a to Vijaywada, Andhra 1 Silver, any destination in India forbeing the ‘Best Batsman of the Tournament’ Pradesh 1 Bronze and the ‘Best Bowler of the Tournament’ respectively. Divij Mehra of the 12 – 17 SGFI Indoor Field Boys’ U-19 – Aditya Varma -2 Gold Modernites’ Club was adjudged the ‘Most Promising Youngest Player’ Nov.2018 Archery National Boys’ U-14 – Aryaman Varma – 1 and was awarded a Cricket Kit. The ‘Man of the Final Match’ was given Championship, Silver to Mr Ekansh Dobal of Air India Team who received a gift hamper. held at Saraswati, Vidyapeeth School, Girls’ U-17 – Arshiya Choudhary – Mr.Ashok Pratap Singh, a Senior Trustee of the Board of Trustees of Modern Shivpuri, MP 2 Silver Schools, inaugurated the Tournament on 19th May 2019. The Closing 21 – 24 39th Delhi Boys’ U-17 – Aditya Varma – 3 Ceremony followed by the Prize Distribution Function on 1st June 2019 Nov.2018 State Archery Gold, 1 Silver was graced by Col Vijay Chadda, Chairman, Managing Committee of Championship held the School, the Principal Dr Vijay Datta, Mr Rajan Manchanda, Secretary at Yamuna Sports Boys’ U-14- Aryaman Varma – 1 of the D.D.C.A., Mr.Balbir Sharma, Dr V.K.Baweja and Mr Ajay Sharma. Complex, Delhi Gold, 1 Silver and1 Bronze SPORTS SCHOLARSHIP- On 11th April 2019, Yashwani Suhag and 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Krish Gupta-4 Gold, 1 Silver Aditya Kumar received the Sports Scholarships of Rs.2,17,500/- and Rs.1,42,500/- respectively in the Girls’ U-17 and Boys’ U-14 Category 3 – 9 SGFI Archery Girls’ U-19–Arshiya Chaudhary – from the Delhi Government for their excellent performance in the game Jan.2019 National (Delhi) Overall – Gold of swimming. Championship held Running Round – Gold at Delh

65 5 – 8 SGFI Archery Boys’ U-19 – Aditya Varma – 1 Pushaan Leo Paul - Bronze Jan.2019 National Silver Individual Championship Championship held at Yamuna Sports Pushaan Leo Paul - Bronze Complex, New Mixed Doubles Delhi Manan Shingari - Bronze 16 – 20 Khelo India School Boys’ U-19 – Aditya Verma – Girls’ U-14 Jan.2019 Games 2019 Represented held at Chhatrapati Team Championship Sports Complex, Girls’ U-17 – Arshiya Chaudhary – Stuti Agarwal - Gold Pune Represented Aprajita Kalra - Gold 7 – 9 Junior National Girls’ U-21 - Feb. Archery Team Event - Arshiya Chaudhary – Kiah Tandon - Gold 2019 Championship Gold Individual Championship organized by Stuti Agarwal - Silver Archery Association Individual Event - Arshiya of India at Bhopal Chaudhary - Silver Mixed Doubles 17 – 25 Youth World Girls’ U-17 – Arshiya Chaudhary Kiah Tandon - Silver Aug.2019 Championship held – Represented India in the Youth 29 Dec. – SGFI Badminton Girls’ U-14 – Stuti Agrawal, Kiah at Madrid, Spain World Championship 3 Jan. National (Delhi) Tandon – 2019 Championship held Represented the Team BADMINTON at Aurangabad 29 Dec. – SGFI Badminton Boys’ U-19 – Naman Bhargava, Date/ Name of the Category/Position Secured/ 3 Jan. National (IPSC) Manan Shingari, Pushaan Leo Paul Month Tournament/ Names of the Players 2019 Championship held – Represented the Team Championship/ at Aurangabad Camp Boys U-14 – Shourya Tiwari – Represented the Team

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 20 – 25 CBSE National Boys’ U-19 18 – 22 Delhi State Boys U-19 - Manan Shingari - Nov.2018 Badminton Team Championship Championship held Jan.2019 Badminton Bronze Manan Shingari - Bronze at Urmi School, Championship held Pushaan Leopaul – Bronze Vadodara Naman Bhargava - Bronze at I.G.Stadium Delhi Girls’ U-19 - Kavya Gandhi – Gold Ananya Goel - Bronze Girls’ U-14 - Stuti Agrawal – Gold

66 26 – 27 Rotary Club Boys’ U-19 – Pushaan Leopaul – 22 – 24 U.P.District Girls’ U-17 – Batul Talib – Doubles Apr. 2019 District Inter- Singles – Gold Jun. 2019 Badminton - Gold School Badminton -Manan Shingari - Doubles - Silver Champion- ship Boys’ U-15 - Ryan Ranjan – Championship held held at NOIDA Doubles – Silver at AIIMS, New Delhi -Bharat Gulati - Doubles - Silver Stadium Girls’ U-19 - Shaurya Tiwari - Girls’ U-13 – Aprajita Kalra – Singles - Gold Doubles - Bronze 23 – 28 Delhi State Girls’ U-15 - Stuti Aggarwal - - Yashwani Singh – Doubles – Gold Jun. 2019 Badminton Singles – Silver - Sabrina Paul - Doubles – Gold Tournament held - Kiah Tandon – Doubles – Silver - Batul Talib - Singles – Bronze at GRInternational School, Delhi - Apoorva Chaudhery – Doubles - - Kiah Tandon - Doubles – Bronze Silver - Aprajita Kalra - Doubles - Bronze - Himani Sardar - Singles - Silver 14 – 22 4th Pradeep Boys’ U-19-Manan Shingari–Mixed 10 – 12 All India IPSC Girls’ U-14 – Team Championship May 2019 Virendra Singh Doubles-Gold Jul. 2019 Badminton Girls’ - Gold Memorial Open - Naman Bhargav–Doubles - Silver (U-14, U-17 & U-19) Individual Event – Kiah Tandon – Delhi State Ranking Championship2019 -Pushaan Leo Paul–Singles Gold Badminton held at Genesis -Bronze Tournament Global School, Apoorva Chaudhary – Silver organized by the Girls’ U-19 – Ananya Goel - Singles Noida Girls’ U-17 – Team Championship M.S.O.S.A. held at – Gold – Gold Modern School, Boys’ U-15 – Kush Vata – Doubles Individual Event – Himani Sardar – Barakhamba Road – Gold Silver - Madhav Goel – Most Promising Stuti Agarwal - Bronze Player Award Batul Talib - Bronze Girls’ U-15 – Kiah Tandon – Girls’ U-19 – Team Championship Doubles – Silver 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S – Bronze - Apoorva Chaudhery – Doubles - 22 – 26 ‘Zonal Badminton Boys’ U-19 – Gold Silver Aug. Championship’ held Boys’ U-17 – Gold - Stuti Aggarwal - Doubles – 2019 at Modern School, Boys’ U-14 – Gold Bronze Barakhamba Road Girls’ U-19 – Gold Around 1500 students participated in this tournament in U-13, U-15, Girls’ U-17 – Gold U-17 and U-19 categories. Girls’ U-14 – Gold

67 9 – 12 Delhi State Open Boys’ U-19–Pushaan Leo Paul– BASKETBALL Sept. 2019 Badminton Singles – Bronze Date/ Name of the Tournament/ Category/Position Championship held Boys’ U-17– Vasu Himatramka– at Dwarka Month Championship/Camp Secured/Names of the Singles - Bronze Players Boys’ U-15 – Kush Vats - Singles - 3 – 16 CBSE Cluster XX Basketball Boys’ U-19 – 2nd Runner Up Silver Oct. Boys’ & Girls’Tournament Girls’ U-15 – Himani Sardar – 2018 held at St. Giri Sr. Sec. Girls’ U-19 - Winner Singles – Gold - Doubles – Silver School, Rohini, Delhi Stuti Agarwal – Doubles – Gold 20 – 26 Hansraj Prabhakar Memorial Boys’ U-19 – Winner Apoorva Chowdhary – Singles - Oct. Inter School Basketball Bronze 2018 Tournament held at Oxford Boys’ U-14 – 2nd Runner Up School, Vikaspuri, New Delhi 3 – 9 CBSE Badminton Boys’ U-17 – Silver 31 Oct. All India Win Mumby Boys’ U-19 - Winner Oct. 2019 Central Zone Boys’ U-14 - Gold Cluster held at – Basketball Tournament Bosco School, Girls’ U-14 – Gold 3 Nov. held at Woodstock School, Paschim Vihar 2018 Musoorie, Dehradun 20 – 23 All India IPSC Boys’ U-19 – Team Championship 1 – 15 Inter - Zonal Basketball Girls’ U-19 – Winner Oct. 2019 Badminton - Gold Nov. Championship held at Championship held Individual Event – Pushaan Leo 2018 Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi Boys’ U-19 - 2nd Runner Up at B.K.Birla Centre Paul – Gold 8 – 18 Basketball Federation of Boys’ U-14 – Aryaveer for Education, Nov. India (BFI) Open Boys’ Khanna, Yash Gupta, Manan Shingari - Silver Pune, Maharashtra 2018 Nationals held at Kangra, Meer Anand - Represented Boys’ U-17 - Team Championship Himachal Pradesh - Gold 20Nov.- Ramjas Basketball Boys’ U-19 – Runner Up Individual Event – Vaasu 5 Dec. Tournament held at Ramjas Nitish Beniwal– ‘Best Player Himatramka – Gold

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 2018 School, R.K. Puram, N Delhi of The Tournament’ Kush Vats - Silver 26 – 29 4th Bro. John S.H. Memorial Boys’ U-14 –Runner Up Boys’ U-14- Team Championship Nov. Invitational Basketball Yash Gupta – ‘Most Valuable - Gold 2018 Tournament held at Montfort Player of the Tournament’ Individual Event – Madhav Goel – School, Ashok Vihar, Delhi Gold, Rayan Ranjan - Gold Modern School Barakhamba Road won the Overall Championship

68 7 – 12 1st Pt. Pirthi Chand Memorial Boys’ U-19 - Winner 6 – 11 NBA Basketball Skill Boys’ U-14 – Winner Dec. Basketball Tournament held Apr. Challenge Programme/ 2018 at Oxford Public School, 2019 Tournament held at Modern Boys’ U-12 – Winner Nehru Nagar, Delhi School, Barakhamba Road 9 – 16 CBSE Basketball Girls’ Girls’ U-19 – Silver (Over 1300 boys and girls Dec. National Championship held Pratika Rawal, Riya Sapra, participated in this NBA 2018 at John Milton Public School, Riya Gupta, Kashni Sial, Skill Challenge Programme, Agra, U.P. Anusha Jindgar, Avanti which was conducted by Nagrath, Rijul Mahajan, the ex-NBA players and Manisha, Aparna Singh, international coaches) Jagriti Natraj 26 – 28 NBA Basketball National Boys’ U-14 – Harshit Rajput 14 – 20 SGFI Basketball Girls’ Girls’ U-17 – Gold Apr. Championship held at Jay – Silver Dec. National Championship held Aparna Singh, Jagriti Natraj 2019 Pee School Greater Noida - Aryaveer Khanna – Silver 2018 at Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi Girls’ U-14 – Pooja - 3 – 9 SGFI Basketball Boys’ U-19 – Rakshit Represented Jan. Boys’ National (IPSC) Bhuchar, Sanskar Nagpal, 2019 Championship held at Dhananjay Arora, Aryan 1 – 3 Zonal Basketball Boys Boys’ U-19 – Winner Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi Mobin – Represented the Aug. Championship held at Boys’ U-17 – Winner Team 2019 Modern School, Barakhamba Road Boys’ U-14 – Winner 3 – 9 SGFI Basketball Boys’ Boys’ U-19 – Gold Jan. and Girls’ National (Delhi) Nitish Beniwal, Ankit – 12 – 15 All India IPSC Basketball Boys’ U-14 – Winner 2019 Championship held at Represented the Team Aug. Boys’ Championship held at Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi 2019 Vikas Vidyalaya Boys’ Karan Veer Singh – ‘Best Girls’ U-19 – Gold School, Shooter Award’ Pratika Rawal – Represented 9 – 13 All India IPSC Basketball Boys’ U-19 – Winner the Team Sept. Championship held at

5 – 12 Senior Basketball Girls’ U-19 – Manisha – 2019 Mayo College, Ajmer 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Jan. Girls’ National (Delhi) Represented the Team 6 – 9 CBSE Cluster XX Basketball Girls’ U-19 – Winner 2019 Championship held at Oct. Tournament held at Mann Aparna Singh – ‘Most Bhavnagar, Gujarat 2019 Public School, Delhi Valuable Player’ 18 Feb. Delhi Police Basketball Boys’ U-14 – Winner 2019 Tournament organized at Modern School, Modernites’ Men’s Team – Barakhamba Road Runner Up

69 11 – 15 Hansraj Prabhakar Memorial Boys’ U-19 – Winner 20 – 22 All India IPSC Chess Boys’ U-19 - 2ndRunner Up Oct. Basketball Tournament held Jul. Championship held at Delhi Boys’ U-17 - Winner 2019 at Oxford School, Vikaspuri K.Lathianglima–‘Best Player 2019 Public School, ‘Mathura Individual Events - Arush of the Tournament’ Road Jain - Silver Boys’ U-14 – Winner Satvik Kalra - Bronze Yash Gupta - ‘Best Player of Boys’ U-14 - Runner Up the Tournament’ Individual Event – Riyan Aggarwal - Gold CHESS 23 – 25 Golden City Open Chess Boys’ U-11 – Vinayak Jain – Date/ Name of the Tournament/ Category/Position Aug. Championship held at 4th Position Month Championship/Camp Secured/Names of the 2019 , Punjab Players 28 – 29 Inter-School Chess Boys’ U-12 – Vinayak Jain – 27 Sep- 1st Battle on the Board U-12 category – Riyan Aug. Championship for ‘Amity 1st Position 2 Oct. Open FIDE Rated Chess Aggarwal – 9th Position 2019 Chess Cup’ held at Amity 2018 Tournament School, Mayur Vihar 18 – 20 IPSC Chess Boys’ Boys’ U-19 –Team Event - CRICKET Oct. Championship held at Delhi 2nd Runner Up 2018 Public School, Mathura Boys’ U-17 – Team Event – Date/ Name of the Tournament/ Category/Position Road, New Delhi Runner up Month Championship/Camp Secured/Names of the Individual Event - Daksh Jain Players – Gold 9 – 15 All India IPSC Cricket Boys’ Boys’ U-14 – Winner Satvik Kalra - Bronze Oct. Tournament held at Rajvir Suri – ‘Best Bowler’ Boys’ U-14 2018 Hyderabad Public School, Individual Event – Riyan Begumpet, Hyderabad Aryan Dabas – ‘Best Aggarwal - Bronze Batsmant’

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 31 Oct. 5th Sameen Singh Boys’ U-15 – Riyan Aggarwal 14 – 22 BCCI Cricket Girls’ National Girls’ U-19 – Rhea Sapra and – International FIDE Rating – Bronze and Cash Prize – Oct. Tournament held at Cuttack Shweta Sehrawat 4 Nov. Chess Tournament held at Rs.3,000/- 2018 were selected for the DDCA 2018 Amritsar, Punjab Girls’ 12 – 14 SGFI Chess National (Delhi) Boys’ U-17– Daksh Jain– U-19 Team and Represented Jan. Championship held at Represented the Team in the BCCI Nationals 2019 Naryanpuram, Andhra Pradesh

70 18 – 25 BCCI Cricket Boys’ Boys U-17 – Divij Mehra – 25 – 31 SGFI Cricket Boys’ National Boys’ U-14 – Sahil Wilson, Oct. Tournament for ‘Vijay Represented from the Dec. Tournament held at Indore Aryan Dabas, Akshay 2018 Merchant Trophy’ DDCA U-17 Team 2018 Tanwar, Ranbir Suri 27 Oct. Amity Cup Invitational Boys’ U-19 – Winner – Represented from the – Cricket Tournament held at IPSC Team 17 Nov. Amity School, NOIDA Gantavya Motwani – ‘Man of Boys’ U-14 - Dev Shukla – 2018 the Tournament’ Represented the CBSE Team 29 Oct. All India IPSC Cricket Boys’ Boys’ U-19 – Winner 2 – 10 SGFI Cricket Boys’ National Boys’ U-17 – Ritwik Joshi, – Tournament held at Daly Jan. Tournament held at Yasir Aftab, 4 Nov. College, Indore Anmol Sharma – ‘Man of the 2019 Jamnagar, Gujrat Daksh Dhangar – 2018 Tournament’ Represented the IPSC Team 9 – 23 BCCI Cricket Boys’ Boys’ U-16 – Dev Batra – Nov. Tournament for ‘Vijay Represented from the Vishesh Kapoor – 2018 Merchant Trophy’ Meghalaya Cricket Represented the Delhi Team Association 11 – 16 SGFI Cricket Girls’ (Delhi) Girls’ U-19 – Runner Up 17 – 23 International Cricket Boys’ U-17– Siddhant Jan. National Tournament held Pratika Rawal, Rhea Sapra, Dec. Tournament held at Kalucha - ‘Man of Series’ 2019 at Naryanpuram, Andhra Pradesh Tanu Chauhan, Shweta 2018 Colombo, Sri Lanka Shrey Kaushik - ‘Best Sehrawal- Played from the Bowler’ Delhi Team Aryan Dabas - ‘Best 11 – 16 SGFI Cricket Girls’ (IPSC) Girls’ U-19–Moneesha Jan. National Tournament held at Kapoor, Noyonika Dahiya Batsman’ 2019 Naryanpuram, Andhra Shambhavi Srivastava, Ishika 1 – 20 Zone-26 Inter Zonal Cricket Boys’ U-14 – 2nd Runner Up Pradesh Arora- Represented the IPSC Dec. Tournament held at Vikas Team 2018 Puri, New Delhi 7 – 28 BCCI Cricket Girls’ National Girls’ U-19 – Rhea Sapra, PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 20 – 25 SGFI Cricket Boys’ National Boys’ U-19 – Ronak Feb. (one day) Tournament held Shweta Sehrawat – Dec. Tournament held at Jammu Singh, Tanme Sahny, 2019 at Assam Represented the DDCA 2018 Aryan Chaudhary, Archit Team Bakshi, Revant Rakyan – 12 – 25 North Zone Cricket Boys’ U-14 – Yash Dabas Represented from the IPSC Feb. Tournament organized by (Vice Captain), Team 2019 BCCI at Jammu for the Sahil Wilson – Represented Dhruv Pandove Trophy the DDCA Team

71 14 – 28 4th P.C. Batta Memorial Boys’ U-19 - Winner Apr. Inter-School T-20 Cricket 20 – 24 All India IPSC Cricket Boys’ Boys’ U-17 – Winner 2019 Tournament held at Kasiga -Sahil Wilson – ‘Man of the Oct. U-17 Tournament held at School, Dehradun Tournament’ 2019 Rajkumar College, Rajkot Gantavya S.Motwani– ‘Player of the Tournament’ -Vishesh Kapoor - ‘Best Bowler’ Yasir Aftab - ‘Best Batsman’ 12– 17 All India IPSC Cricket Boys Boys’ U-19 – Winner May (U-19) Championship 2019 held at Modern School, -Sahil Wilson - ‘Man of the 24 – 24 All India IPSC Cricket Boys’ Boys’ U-14 – Joint Winner Barakhamba Road Series’ Oct. U-14 Tournament held at 24 Jun. Zonal Cricket Academy Boys’ U-19 – Divij Mehra and 2019 Vikas Vidyalaya Ranchi – 18 Camp (Boys U-19) organized Parth Bali - Jul. by National Cricket Selected for this National 2019 Academy, BCCI at Mohali Camp 19 Aug. ‘Inter Zonal Tournament of Boys’ U-16 – Parth Bali and EQUESTRIAN -4 Sept. North Zone’conducted by Divij Mehra – 2019 BCCI at The National Cricket Represented DDCA Academy, Bangalore 1 – 30 National Camp held at the Boys’ U-16 – Divij Mehra – Date/ Name of the Tournament/ Category/Position Sept. National Cricket Academy, Represented Month Championship/Camp Secured/Names of the 2019 Bangalore Players 9 – 11 All India IPSC Cricket Girls’ Girls’ U-19 – Winner Oct. U-19 Tournament held at 2019 Mayo College Girls’ School, Tanu Chauhan – ‘Player of 8 – 9 61 Cavalry Horse Show Boys’ U-21 - Angad Singh Ajmer the Tournament’

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Oct. organized by Asian Lehal – Aakansha Thakur – Best 2018 Equestrian Federation at Dressage – Represented Batswoman Jaipur

72 24 Nov. National Delhi Horse Show Boys – Angad Singh Lehal 9 Jan. World Dressage Challenge Boys’ U-18 – Angad Singh - organized by Army Polo and 2019 organized by the Lehal – 4th 3 Dec. Riding Centre, New Delhi –Open Dressage – Confined International Federation of 2018 - Individual - Gold Equestrian at Army Polo and Riding Club, Delhi -Open Dressage–Confined - 20 – 30 International Dressage Boys’ U-10 – Kunal Vadehra– Individual - Bronze Apr. Development League held at -Dressage Trot Test – Zonal 2019 O.R.E.A. Farms in – Gold -Junior Dressage – Team – Jannapur - International - Gold Gold Girls’ U-10–18 - Nirantara -Junior Jumping - Team – Musa – Gold -Dressage Canter Test – Children Group II - Anmol Zonal - Gold Lehal - International – Gold -Dressage - Individual – Bronze FOOTBALL

-Dressage - Team – Silver Date/ Name of the Tournament/ Category/Position Month Championship/Camp Secured/Names of the -Dressage - Confined – Players Individual - Bronze 27 Oct. S.P. Kundu Football Boys’ U-19 – Winner – Tournament held at Vinay -Hacks - Confined – 3 Nov. Nagar Bengali School, Individual – Silver 2018 Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi

3 Nov. British School Football Boys’ U-14 – Winner 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S -Ball & Bucket – Confined- 2018 Tournament held at British Individual – Silver School Chanakyapuri, New Delhi -Ball & Bucket – Confined- 9 – 20 SGFI Football Boys’ National Boys’ U-19 – Ghazi Shah, Individual –Bronze Nov. Tournament held at Sachin Jha, Shravan Bhat, 2018 Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan Rabab Sethi – Represented -Lime & Spoon – Confined- from the IPSC Team Individual – Gold

73 14 - 17 Inter Zonal Football Boys’ U-19 – 2nd Runner Up 22 – 27 Inter-school Football Boys’ U-19 – Winner Nov. Tournament held at Thyagraj Aug. Championship for ‘Jauhar 2018 Stadium, New Delhi 2019 Cup’ held at Mother’s Aman Sahni – ‘Top Scorers’ 25 – 30 SGFI Football Boys’ National Boys’ U-14 – Piyush Kumar, International School, Sri Nov. Tournament held at Korajhar, Syed Raiyyan, Krish Jain, Aurobindo Mar Ashu – ‘Top Scorers’ 2018 Assam Vasu Gupta – Represented 2 – 7 All India IPSC Football Boys’ U-19 – Winner from the IPSC Team Sept. Championship held at 5 – 9 SGFI Football Girls’ National Girls’ U-19 – Masvita Prashar, 2019 Mayo College, Ajmer Ashu – ‘Top Scorer of the Dec. Tournament held at Ambala, Tanvi Sikka, Shriya Jain, Diya Championship’ 2018 Haryana Brodiya, Kavya Sabharwal, Modern School Barakhamba Road conducted the ‘C.B.S.E. Cluster XX Ameera Kharbanda – Football Tournament – 2019’ for Boys U-19 and U-17 categories from Represented from the IPSC 26th September 2019 to 1st October 2019. The matches were played Team at the Football fields of Modern School Barakhamba Road, Delhi Publc 22 – 26 2nd Inter-School Futsal Girls’ U-15 - Runner Up School Mathura Road, Delhi Public School R.K.Puram and The Mother’s Apr. Tournament held at Rosary International School, Sri Aurobindo Marg. The tournament witnessed 2019 School, Kingsway Camp, teams of 102 schools in the Boys U-19 category and 75 schools in Boys New Delhi U-17 category. Olympian Mr Ashok Dhayanchand, Arjuna Awardee, 27 Apr. 7th Pathways Football Boys’ U-17 – Winner graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. The Principal motivated the – Tournament held at participants for a stellar performance. 1 May Pathways School, Aravali - Suryansh Yadav – ‘Top 2019 Scorer’ GYMNASTIC

- Piush Kumar - ‘Man of the Date/ Name of the Tournament/ Category/Position Tournament’ Month Championship/Camp Secured/Names of the Players - Abhyudaya Rawat – 14 – 24 SGFI Gymnastic Girls’ Girls’ U-19 – Aishani Katyal –

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S ‘Promising Player’ Dec. National Championship held Represented the Delhi Team 18 – 23 ‘Mayo Football Tournament’ Boys’ U-19 – 2nd Runner Up 2018 at Agartala, Tripura Aug. held at Mayo College, Ajmer 18 – 24 Inter-Zonal Artistic Girls’ U-14 –Team Event - 2019 Oct. Gymnastics Tournament Bronze 2019 held at SBV, Subhash Nagar, New Delhi

74 18 – 24 Inter-Zonal Rhythmic Girls’ U-14 - 29 – 30 Maharaja Ranjit Singh Shooting Event Air Rifle Oct. Gymnastics Tournament Individual Event – Kairavi Jun. Shooting Tournament (in Boys’ U-12 – Suryaveer 2019 held at SBV, Moti Nagar, New Yaduvanshi - Gold 2019 association with Delhi State Singh – 4th Position Delhi Association) held at KARATE Sports Complex, New Delhi

Date/ Name of the Tournament/ Category/Position 9 – 11 2nd Purantva Open Shooting Shooting Event Air Rifle Month Championship/Camp Secured/Names of the Aug. Championship held at the Boys’ U-12 – Suryaveer Players 2019 Siri Fort Sports Complex, Singh – 4th Position 5 – 6 19th Delhi State Karate Girls’ U-16 - Meera Prakash New Delhi Feb. Championship held at Gupta – Represented the 2019 Chhatrasal Stadium, New Delhi Team 19 – 20 Delhi State Inter School Shooting Event Air Rifle Delhi Aug. Shooting Championship Boys’ U-12 – Suryaveer 20 – 21 15th Kotak Cup Karate Girls’ U-17 – Meera Prakash 2019 held at Siri Fort Sports Singh – 4th Position April Championship held at Gupta Complex, New Delhi 2019 Talkatora Indoor Stadium, –Kumite (fight) - Silver New Delhi 21 - 25 Delhi State Shooting Shooting Event Air Rifle 27 – 28 9th South Asian Karate Girls’ U-14 – Meera Prakash Aug. Championship held at Karni Boys’ U-12 – Suryaveer April Championship held at Gupta 2019 Singh Shooting Range, New Singh – 3rd Position 2019 Talkatora Indoor Stadium –Kumite (fight) - Bronze Delhi

SHOOTING 13 – 16 CBSE Cluster Shooting Shooting Event Air Rifle Sept. Championship held at Boys’ U-12 – Suryaveer Date/ Name of the Tournament/ Category/Position 2019 Dwarka Singh – Represented Month Championship/Camp Secured/Names of the Players

13 – 20 Pre-National Shooting Shooting Event Air Rifle 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 1 – 3 XXXIV Delhi State Shooting Men - Harshvardhan Mangla Sept. Championship held at Boys’ U-12 – Suryaveer Sep. Championship – 3 Bronze 2019 Ahmedabad Singh – Represented 2018 Jr. Men – Harshvardhan Mangla – 1 Gold 5 Oct. 3rd India Revenue Open Shooting Event Air Rifle 2019 Shooting Championship held at Karni Singh Shooting Boys’ U-12 – Suryaveer Range, New Delhi Singh - Bronze

75 SQUASH 16 – 18 15th Modernites’ Invitational Girls U-19 – Team Event - Nov. Squash Championship 2018 Runner Up Date/ Name of the Tournament/ Category/Position 2018 for ‘Mohini Virendra Singh Individual Event – Sanya Month Championship/Camp Secured/Names of the Trophy’ Players Vats – Winner 23 – 27 SGFI Squash Boys’ National Boys’ U-19 Megha Bhatia – Runner-Up Sep. Championship held at 2018 Team Event - 2nd Runner Up Sanya Vats – ‘Most Valuable Player’ Individual Event – Tejas Girls’ U-17 – Team Event– Chawla – Gold Runner-Up 28 Oct. SGFI Squash Junior National Girls U-19 – Individual Event – Megha – Championship held at Jaipur Bhatia – Winner 3 Nov. Individual Event - Sanya Vats 2018 - Gold Megha Bhatia – ‘Most Valuable Player’ Girls’ U-14 – Team Event - Runner Up Individual Event – Parinistha Surya – Runner Up Avi Soni - ‘Most Valuable Player’ 24 – 29 North India Senior and Women Category – Sanya Nov. Junior Open Squash Vats – Silver 2018 Championship held at Delhi PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 17 – 23 ASF Indian Junior Open Girls’ U-19 Dec. Squash Championship held 2018 at Mumbai Individual Event - Sanya Vats – Gold 16 – 20 Asian Junior Team Girls’ U-19 Jan. Championshipheld at 2019 Pattaya, Thailand Team Event - Sanya Vats (Captain) – Bronze

76 6 – 8 Delhi School Squash Boys’ U-17 Sept. Championship held at Siri Individual Event – Shaurya 26 – 30 24th Asian Junior Squash Girls’ U-19 - Sanya Vats – 2019 Fort Sports Complex Bawa – Gold Jun. Championship held at Bronze New Delhi 2019 Macau Boys’ U-15 - Megha Bhatia-Represented Individual Event – Shaurya Bawa – Gold

Girls’ U-17 Individual Event – Vasudha Surange – Silver 9 – 13 All India IPSC Squash Boys’ Boys’ U-19 – Winner Jul. Championship held at RIMC Individual Event - Tejas 2019 Dehradun Chawla – Gold Girls’ U-15 Individual Event – Vasudha Boys’ U-17 - Surange – Gold Individual Event – Shaurya 12 – 14 All India IPSC Squash Girls’ U-19 – Sanya Vats – Bawa – Silver Sept. Championship held at Gold 2019 Rajmata Krishna Kumari Megha Bhatia – Silver Boys’ U-14 – Runner Up Girls School, Jodhpur Individual Event – Ranvir 16 – 22 Junior National Squash Girls’ U-19 – Sanya Vats – Singh– Gold Oct. Championship held at Gold 2019 Chennai Sanya Vats has been selected to represent country in the upcoming South Asian Games in December 2019 at Nepal 30 Jul. WSF World Junior Individual Girls’ U-19 - Sanya Vats – 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S – Championship held at Bukit Participation Boys’ U-15 – Shourya Bawa 4 Aug. Jalil National Centre, Kuala - Megha Bhatia -Participation – Silver 2019 Lumpur

77 SWIMMING Daiwik Dubey - 1 Gold Aditya Kumar - 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Date/ Name of the Category/Position Secured/ Bronze Month Tournament/ Names of the Players Vasuman Jain - 1 Gold, 1 Bronze Championship/ Camp Aryaman Verma –1 Gold, 1 Bronze Girls’ U-19 –Moneesha Kapoor–3 Gold, 2 Bronze Radhika Shukla - 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 27 – 29 YMCA Inter-School Modern School, Barakhamba 1 Bronze Aug. Boys’ and Girls’ Road – Apoorva Goel - 2 Bronze 2018 Aquatic Championship Runner-Up Trophy - In U-19, U-17, Shreya Gupta- 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Yaashvi Sharma - 1 Bronze held at YMCA Club, U-14, U-12 Moneesha Kapoor – Best Swimmer New Delhi Won 64 Medals(20 Gold, 20 Silver, Trophy 24 Bronze) Girls’ U-17 – Yashwani Suhag – 5 Gold Boys’ U-19 – Saushtav Roy – 1 Chavi Jain - 2 Gold, 1 Silver Silver, 2 Bronze Manya Khandelwal – 2 Gold Nilesh Jain - 2 Bronze Palak Rastogi - 2 Gold, 1 Silver Yashwani Suhag – Best Swimmer Kabir Talwar - 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Trophy Aviraj Anand - 1 Silver Girls’ U-14 – Aadya Gupta - 2 Aditya Verma - 2 Silver, 1 Bronze Silver, 1 Bronze Vidisha Jain - 2 Silver, 1 Bronze Boys’ U-17 – Shivam Seth - 1 Silver Manya Narula - 2 Silver, 1 Bronze Arya Lamba - 1 Silver Reva Bahadur - 2 Silver Boys’ U-14 – Tejasv Arora - 1 Gold, 14 – 17 IPSC Boys’ & Girls’ Modern School, Barakhamba PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Oct. Swimming Road – 2018 Championship held Won 66 Medals(22 Gold, 21 Silver, at Raj Kumar College, 23 Bronze) Raipur Overall Girls – Runner-Up Overall Boys – 2nd Runner Up Boys’ U-19 – Saushtav Roy – 1 Gold, 4 Silver

78 20 – 22 CBSE Zonal Boys’ U-14 – Daiwik Dubey – 2 Oct. Swimming Gold, 1 Silver 3 Bronze Aditya Verma – 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 2018 Championship held at Tejasv Arora - 2 Gold, 1 Bronze Govt. Co.Ed.Sr. Sec. 1 Bronze School, Mangolpuri, Aditya Kumar – 1 Gold, 1 Silver. Aviraj Anand - 5 Silver New Delhi 3 Bronze Kabir Talwar - 2 Silver Aryaman Varma – 1 Gold, 1 Bronze Boys’ U-17 – Aryan Lamba – 1 Girls’ U-19 –Moneesha Kapoor –2 Silver, 1 Bronze Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze Boys’ U-14 – Daiwik Dubey – 5 14 – 18 SGFI Swimming Girls’ U-17– Yashwani Suhag – 1 Gold, 5 Silver Nov. National Gold, 1 Bronze Tejasv Arora – 3 Gold, 1 Silver 2018 Championsip held at 2 Bronze the Talkatora Boys’ U-19 – Aviraj Anand, Aditya Aditya Kumar - 2 Gold, 2 Silver Stadium, New Delhi Verma – Vasuman Jain - 1 Gold, 1 Silver Participation from the Delhi Team Daiwik Dubey – ‘Best Swimmer’ Boys’ U-17 – Aryan Lamba – Girls’ U-19 –Moneesha Kapoor–4 Participation from the Delhi Team Gold, 2 Bronze Radhika Sh ukla -1 Silver, 5 Bronze Boys’ U-14 – Daiwik Dubey, Aditya Sarah Nagpal - 2 Bronze Kumar, Tejasv Arora – Participation Prakriti Dahiya - 2 Bronze from the Delhi Team Moneesha Kapoor – ‘Best Girls’ U-19 – Radhika Shukla, Swimmer’ Moneesha Kapoor Girls’ U-17 – Yashwani Suhag -5 - Participation from the Delhi Team

Gold, 2 Bronze 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Manya Khandelwal – 2 Bronze Girls’ U-17 – Shivika Sirohi – Chhavi Jain - 2 Bronze Participation from the Delhi Team Palak Rastogi – 2 Bronze Diving Event Yashwani Suhag – ‘Best Swimmer’ Girls’ U-17 – Shivika Sirohi – Participation from the Delhi Team

79 9 – 14 Khelo India Youth Girls’ U-17 – Yashwani Suhag – Jan. Games 2019 held at Represented 2019 Chhatrapati Sports 30 All India IPSC Boys’ U-19 – Runner Up Complex, Pune Sept. Swimming -5 Oct. Championship held at Aditya Verma - 2 Silver, 2 Bronze 24 – 30 46th Junior National Boys’ U-16 – Tejasv Arora, 2019 Raj Kumar College, Jun. Aquatic Championship Daiwik Dubey, Aditya Kumar – Raipur Aditya Kumar - 4 Gold, 1 Silver, 3 2019 held at Rajkot Represented Bronze ‘Best Swimmer of the Meet’ Girls U-16 – Radha Shukla – Represented Aviraj Anand - 2 Bronze 6 – 10 Delhi State Swimming Swimming Aug. Championship held Boys’ U-17 – Tejasv Arora - 1 Gold, Shivam Seth - 2 Bronze 2019 at Shyama Prasad 4 Silver, 1 Bronze Mukherjee Swimming Aditya Kumar - 2 Silver, 1 Bronze Complex, New Delhi Daiwik Dubey - 1 Silver Boys’ U-17 – Runner-Up Girls’ U-19 - Radhika Shukla - 3 Tejasv Arora – 3 Gold, 2 Silver Bronze Chhavi Jain - 1 Bronze Arya Lamba - 1 Silver Yashwani Suhag-4 Silver, 3 Bronze Girls’ U-19 – Runner-Up Yashwani Suhag – 5 Gold, 1 Silver, Waterpolo 1 Bronze ‘Best Swimmer of the Boys’ U-19 – Bronze Meet’ Diving Moneesha Kapoor – 2 Silver, 3 Girls’ U-17 - Shivika Sirohi - Gold Bronze 28 – 30 CBSE Swimming Boys’ U-17 – Tejasv Arora - 1 Radhika Shukla – 2 Silver, 2 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Sept. Zonal Championship Bronze Bronze 2019 held at Senior Chhavi Jain - 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Secondary School, Boys’ U-14 – Aditya Kumar - 2 Mangolpuri, New Delhi Gold, 1 Silver Modern School, Barakhamba Road–2nd Runner Up Girls’ U-17 – Yashwani Suhag – 2 Gold, 1 Silver

80 TENNIS 3 -8 64th SGFI Tennis Boys’ U-19 – Aditya Pratap Singh, Feb. (IPSC) Boys’ and Arjun Dahiya – Represented the 2019 Girls’ National IPSC Team Date/ Name of the Category/Position Secured/ Championship held at Month Tournament/ Names of the Players Mumbai Boys’ U-14 – Pratham Garg, Championship/Camp Rishiraj Dewan – Represented the IPSC Team

17 – 21 CBSE National Tennis Girls’ U-17 – 2nd Runner Up Girls’ U-19 – Meera Manchanda, Nov. Tournament held at Ilina Jha, Isha Singh, Sameechi 2018 Billabong School, Chaudhary NOIDA – Represented the IPSC Team

Girls’ U-14 – Rudrakshi Sahni – 7 – 11 SGFI Tennis Boys’ Boys’ U-17 – Aryan Kapoor, Bronze Dec. and Girls’ National Mukund Ojha – Riya Sachdeva – Represented the 2018 Tournament held at Represented from the IPSC Team DelhiTeam Bhubaneshwar, Orissa in the Nationals Mahi Khanna – Represented the CBSE Team Girls’ U-17 -Aarti Jha, Ananya 15 – 18 Tennis Championship Boys’ U-12 – Ojas Mehlawat – Manchanda - Apr. Series held at Silver Represented from the IPSC Team 2019 Chamunda Academy, in the Nationals Karnal 6 – 10 Tennis Championship Girls’ U-16 - Riya Sachdeva – Silver May held at Delhi Lawn 10 – 11 Zone-26 Tennis Boys’ U-19 - Winner 2019 Tennis Association Dec. Tournament held Stadium, Delhi

Boys’ U-17 - Winner 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 2018 at Modern School, 20 – 26 Tennis Super Series Girls’ U-14 – Riya Sachdeva – Boys’ U-14 - Runner-Up Barakhamba Road, May held at Karnal Doubles – Silver New Delhi Girls’ U-19 - Runner-Up 2019 Girls’ U-17 - Winner Girls U-14 - Winner

81 27 – 31 M.S.L.T.A. Yonex- Girls’ U-12 – Riya Sachdeva – TABLE TENNIS May Sunrise Ramesh Doubles – Gold Date/ Name of the Category/Position Secured/ 2019 Desai National Tennis - Singles - Silver Tournament held at Month Tournament/ Names of the Players Mumbai Championship/Camp 24 – 30 International Tennis Girls’ U-12 – Riya Sachdeva – 22 – 25 Delhi Sikh Games Boys’ U-17 – Mannit Singh – Gold June Federation Asia Cup Singles – Gold Dec. held at the Thyagraj and Cash Award 2019 held at Dhaka 2018 Stadium, New Delhi 2 – 6 SGFI Table Tennis Boys’ U-17 – Mannit Singh – Silver 20 – 24 Inter-School Tennis Boys’ U-19 – Team Championship Jan. Boys’ National (Delhi) and Cash Award Aug. Championship held at – Bronze 2019 Championship held at 2019 Siri Fort DDA Complex, Vadodara New Delhi Girls U-14 – Team Championship – Silver 13 – 21 6th Asian School Table Boys’ U-18 – Mannit Singh – Aug. Tennis Championship Bronze 5 – 9 All India IPSC Girls’ Girls’ U-19 – Silver 2019 held at Vadodara Oct. Tennis Tournament Girls’ U-17 – Bronze 2019 held at Daly College, 3 – 7 CBSE Central Zone Boys’ U-17 – Mannit Singh – Indore Girls’ U-14 – Gold Oct. Table Tennis Bronze 2019 Tournament held at 11 – 15 CBSE Central Zone Boys’ U-19 – Bronze Mount Carmel Oct. Tennis Tournament Girls’ U-19 – Silver School, Dwarka 2019 held at M.M.Public Girls’ U-17 – Gold School, Pitampura 13 – 16 Delhi State Table Youth/Boys’ U-19 – Mannit Singh – Oct. Tennis Champion- Bronze 21 – 23 Zone-26 Tennis Boys’ U-19 – Gold 2019 ship held at Hansraj Oct. Championship held Model School, Punjabi Boys’ U-17 – Mannit Singh – 2019 at Modern School, Boys’ U-17 – Gold Bagh, New Delhi Bronze Barakhamba Road Boys’ U-14 – Bronze 21 – 23 All India IPSC Table Boys’ U-19 – Team Event – Bronze

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S Girls’ U-19 – Silver Oct. Tennis Championship 2019 held at B.K.Birla Boys’ U-17 – Team Event– Bronze Girls’ U-19 – Gold Centre for Education, Individual Event – Mannit Singh – Pune, Maharashtra Girls’ U-19 – Gold Gold Boys’ U-14–Individual Event – Vivaan Mittal – Silver

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Date/ Name of the Category/Position Secured/ Month Tournament/ Names of the Players Championship/Camp 15 – 16 Zone-26 Yoga Boys’ Boys’ U-19 – Karan Anand -1 Silver Oct. and Girls’ Competition Girls’ U-19 – Shivangi Menon – 1 2018 held at Govt. KSV, Gold, 1 Silver Pandara Road, New Delh Girls’ U-17 – Soumya – 2 Gold Varnika Gakhar - 1 Gold Maira Chandra - 1 Gold Boys’ U-14 – Devansh Sawhney – 1 Silver Girls’ U-14 – Nandini Rastogi - 1 Gold Harshita Gautam - 1 Gold, 1 Silver 23 – 25 All India IPSC Yoga Girls’ U-17 Oct. Boys’ and Girls’ 2018 Championship held Individual Event–Rhythmic Yoga– at Scindia School, Soumya–Gold Gwalior 28 Jan. 64th SGFI Girls’ U-17 – Saumya – – Yoga National Represented the IPSC Team 2 Feb. Championship held at PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S 2019 Aurangabad 13 – 14 International Yoga Girls’ U-21 – Soumya Singh – June Sports Championship Bronze 2019 held at Maharaha Agrasen Institute of Technology, Rohini, Delhi

83 8 – 12 All India IPSC Yoga Girls’ U-19 – Shivangi Menon Singh Wason Trophy’ was held in school in November 2018. Sept. Championship held (Rhythmic Yoga) - Gold 15th Modernites’ Invitational Squash Championship 2018 for the ‘Mohini 2019 at Mody School, Virendra Singh Trophy’ was also held in school from 16th to 18th Lakshmangarh, Girls’ U-17 – Soumya (Rhythmic November 2018 Rajasthan Yoga) - Gold M.S.O.S.A. held its Annual Sports Day on 9th December 2018. Various games were played between the teams of the students of Modern School, Girls’ U-14 – Kairavi Yaduvanshi - Barakhamba Road and the Modernites. Our students were Winners in (Rhythmic Yoga) - Silver Athletics (Boys and Girls), Badminton (Boys and Girls) and Basketball (Girls).

17. PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION (P.T.A.) 19. MODERNITES’ TRUST As part of the D.E.A.R. Project, parents donated used text books as well In March 2019, three meritorious students, Kritika, Radhika Mandal and as other books of their wards to the ‘Book Bank’ of the PTA in March Sanjana Mandal were selected for admission to Class S1with 100% 2019. The books dropped by the students of the Senior classes were scholarship for their entire schooling by the Modernites’ Trust. The picked up for use by the students of the Junior classes. Remaining books selection was made on the basis of their performance in the test and were donated to the NGOs working for the under privileged children. personal interview. On the basis of excellence in sports, Himani Sardar was admitted to Class S3 while Suryansh Yadav was admitted to Class To recognize students of the present Classes S2 to S5 for their brilliant S4 with scholarships of 100% and 50% respectively. Kabir Khan, an performance in academics and sports during the academic year 2018- existing student, presently in Class S3, was given the Modernites’ Trust 2019, the PTA Academic and Sports Awards Function was held on 25th scholarship on compassionate grounds. July 2019. On 20th July 2019, an introduction & briefing session was held for the To honour the academic achievers and sports stars (2018-2019) of Trustees of the Modernites’ Trust, Sponsors, Teachers and Scholars with the present Classes S6 and S7 and the passed-out Class S7, the PTA their Parents. It was followed by a Special PTM where the sponsors were Academic & Sports Awards Function was held on 26th July 2019. Col Vijay apprised about the performance of the respective scholars whom they Chadda, Chairman Managing Committee Modern School Barakhamba are sponsoring. To celebrate the achievements of the scholars during the Road, was the Chief Guest on the occasion and gave away awards to academic year gone by, an Award Function was also organized. Scholars PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S the deserving students. were honoured with cash awards for their performance in academics as well as their fabulous achievements in sports. Meritorious scholars The Annual General Meeting of the P.T.A. took place on 28th September of Class S3 were given laptops. To encourage the scholars and their 2019. parents, the function was graced by Ms Ketaki Sood, President Board of Trustees, Modern Schools; Mr Ashok Pratap Singh, Senior Trustee, 18. MODERN SCHOOL OLD STUDENTS’ Board of Trustees, Modern Schools; Ms Ambika Pant, Secretary, Board of ASSOCIATION (M.S.O.S.A) Trustees, Modern Schools; Mr Sunder Hemrajani, Chairman, Modernites’ Trust who spoke of the various schemes implemented by Trust for the 15th Modernites’ Invitational Hockey Tournament 2018 for the Rishabjeet welfare of the scholars; Mr Vidur Puri, Secretary, Modernites’ Trust;

84 Hon’ble Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Senior Trustee of the Modernites’ Administrative staff and the Karamcharis. Before I conclude, I would like Trust, in addition to the sponsors of the scholars.Mr Sunder Hemrajani, to place on record our gratitude to Mrs Ketaki Sood, President, Board of Chairman, Modernites’ Trust spoke of the various schemes implemented Trustees, Modern Schools for her counsel and support, Mr Ashok Pratap by Trust for the welfare of the scholars. Singh, Senior Trustee, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools, Col Vijay Chadda, Chairman, Managing Committee, Ms Ambika Pant, Secretary, Before I conclude, I wish to state that in keeping with Lalaji’s vision, Board of Trustees for their continued patronage.Our grateful thanks are we continue to endeavour to keep the school banner flying high and due to the Trustees and the Members of the Managing Committee for maintain impeccable standards. We have not only produced academic their guidance and inspiration. toppers but also have sportspersons of National and International levels amongst the students on our rolls. This has been made possible by the Edited and compiled by dedicated and untiring efforts of our Headmistresses Ms Jaya Khurana, Ms Lata Kishnani Ms Malini Khatri, Ms Prabha Bhagat (who served until September 2019), Ms Meera Malhotra, Ms Manpreet Kaur, Co-Curricular Head and Photographs: her team, HOD Sports Mr Rajesh Kumar and his team, the Head Of Ms Shalini Dahiya Departments, the Housemasters and all the teachers. They all deserve our appreciation. I thank Mr Nawal Singh for his artistic support for all activities/functions of the school. Our thanks are also due to the PRINCIPAL’S REPORT 2019-20 REPORT PRINCIPAL’S

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