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Volume-9 Issue-3 (2019-2020) www.queenmira.com 1 2 YAGNA | March 2020 GLOBAL CONNECT CHOPPY WATERS INDIA’S TOP COURT OF BREXIT THREATEN STRIKES DOWN BAN DANISH FISHING ON CRYPTOCURRENCY TRADING BILLIONAIRE MIKE FIRST TIME A FEMALE DUO BLOOMBERG QUITS THE DUBLIN-BASED YVONNE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL RACE, FARRELL AND SHELLEY ENDORSES BIDEN MCNAMARA WHO WERE AWARDED THE PRITZKER PRIZE HAS SCOOPED ARCHITECTURE’S MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD. NOSTRADAMUS TIMES APRIL • Material Distribution Editor In Chief • School Reopening S.HARITHA • Orientation • Aadukalam Sub Editors MAY KALPANA KARTHICK • Summer Vacation AYSHA SIDDIKA FEROZE • Summer Splash JUNE Student Editors • Freshers’ Feedback PRAJITH SELVARAJ SHERBOURN ISSAC.S • Path Session ANUSHA THENU SUBRAMANIAN CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR-ACADEMICS ........................................... 8 Q’S PARLIAMENT .................................................................. 9 COUNSELLOR’S INSTINCT ................................................ 10 HARAPPAN SCRIPTS ............................................................. 11 CONNOISSEUR’S EXHORTATION .................................... 12 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ................................................. 14 QUASAR KIDS ...................................................................... 15 SIXTH SENSE .......................................................................... 16 PATH THE NAVIGATOR ......................................................... 17 CAREER CHOICES .............................................................. 18 GAITIES & CELEBRITIES ................................................ 20 FRESH THOUGHTS ......................................................... 22 AMAZING FACTS ................................................................ 23 TRAVELOGUE ....................................................................... 24 TRAIL BLAZER ........................................................................ 25 LEARNER’S COLUMN .......................................................... 26 CONNEXIONS ......................................................................... 29 AGARAM .................................................................................... 30 JUNIOR JOURNALIST ........................................................ 32 SPORTS ...................................................................................... 34 Q’S ACHIEVEMENTS ......................................................... 35 THE EDITOR Dear Readers, I meet you with yet another article, the penultimate for the year 2019. As we draw towards a close of the Academic Year 2019, we wish to enrich you on a theme from a series. An old American Indian proverb: We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children Go Green is a statement / slogan that connotes all environmentally friendly behaviours /sustainable measures adopted to live sustainably with less waste / reduced footprint/damage to the environment. Reading the above two preceding paragraphs, its simple to comprehend that we are living on leased property, which is our responsibility to handover to our progeny to whom it rightfully belongs. This is a never-ending virtuous cycle. As part of this, we also need to teach and help them imbibe all measures of sustaining our environment and Earth. All our articles in this edition will list or highlight all such measures which we can adopt or implement from our individual perspective to help and support “Go Green” At this juncture, we thank the people who were behind yet another successful edition of yagna. We thank our subeditors, student editors, column in charges for extending their help in bringing this edition. We thank our Designing Partner - Odd Dimension Advertising and our Print Partner - Vinagaya Screens for their unstinting support. Lets meet again with our 11th edition Volume 11 issue 1 of yagna in the month of September 2020 Haritha.S Editor in Chief 6 YAGNA | March 2020 STUDENT EDITORS We the student editors would like to share few 3. Save Water: You can make a huge measures to make our planet GREEN and difference even by saving each and every CLEAN. drop that drips from a leaking tap, as we are already facing alarming water scarcity “Be the green team and not the mean team!” situation. Going Green is no longer a thing of the past it is 4. Save Energy: Ensure the switches of the the way of life in the present. Going Green means appliances you use are switched off after embracing a way of life that helps to preserve the you use them, for instance tube lights, environment by reducing, reusing and recycling fans and what not… items. 5. Carry Cloth Bags: This surprisingly is The aim of going green is to: already being followed on a large scale • Reduce pollution therefore, if this practice is continued, • Reduce resource consumptions and eliminate then it will contribute extensively to the wastes “Go Green Movement’. • Conserve natural resources Please do embrace these simple yet effective • Maintain the natural ecological balance measures in your daily life, if you want to Some very basic ways to support the concept of contribute for the betterment of this planet and Going Green: make this a better place to live for the future generations! 1. Potting Plants: This is an initiative everyone must take. Even our school has As the saying goes, implemented this initiative, by giving “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, potted plants to the participants of the we borrow it from our children” BFIT Mini Marathon. So, let us join our hands together to make the 2. Don’t Waste Food: Lets reduce waste planet a finer place to live in! and use only what is required and hence be optimal Prajith Selvaraj Sherbourn Issac.S Anusha Thenu Subramanian Grade 11, QMIS Grade 11, QMIS www.queenmira.com 7 MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR ACADEMICS and the front office have taken utmost care along with the academic team to improve the aspect of home-school communication. We welcome your cooperation in the same aspect in the years to come. vâujh¡ fh¡F« m¿Édh®¡ »šiy mâu tUtnjh® nehŒ. (FwŸ v©: 429) As rightly said by Thiruvalluvar, the one who is equipped to face the future, need not have to face any adversities. Having this futuristic need in mind, Dear Readers, QMIS strives to expand the horizon of learning to children in different verticals. Following the M¡f« mj®ÉdhŒ¢ bršY« mirÉyh successful launch of Einstein+ which was aimed C¡f Kilah DiH. (FwŸ 594) at enhancing the Intelligence quotient with due Success will find its way to the man of unfailing importance to the social quotient, QMIS is now efforts. It is not saturation or contentment focussing on strengthening the physical fitness that takes you to a progressive growth. It is the for a successful survival. With the advent of the willingness to learn and grow with untiring efforts new academic year QMIS is launching the BFIT that decides the success. The definition goes well program the comprehensive fitness solution for to an individual and to an institution. Willingness children from K-12. Children of QMIS will be to learn can happen only when we reflect on our experiencing a 40min – 1hour of fitness program thoughts and actions. QMIS is such a team which everyday. constantly reflects on its practices, celebrates the As the education world explores strategies to equip areas of successes and works intensely on the areas students with the skills and knowledge they’ll of improvement. need to be successful innovators in a 21st century Parents’ feedback is one of the key tool in getting workforce, there has been a growing emphasis our reflections. Valuing this, QMIS takes 2 surveys on STEAM — the educational discipline that every year (beginning and at the end of the year). engages students around the subjects of Science, I thank every one of you for your valuable inputs Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math. rendered by taking up these surveys every year. STEAM aims to spark an interest and lifelong love of the arts and sciences in children from an early age. Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math are similar disciplines in that they all involve creative processes and none uses just one method for inquiry and investigation. From the upcoming academic year Grades 3 to 6, will have the integration of STEAM as a pilot process and gradually to the other graders in the following year. With the impact of newer pedagogy and new program, shall catch you up in Yagna Volume 11. With warm wishes This year ratings show the growing confidence and the progress QMIS has shown over these 10 years heeding to your suggestions in the interest Sujatha Guptan of the majority. Our Parent relations manager 8 YAGNA | March 2020 Q’S PARLIAMENT SESSION ON IGCA front of our eyes, is more about how everyday life decisions affect the environment and lives by Dr. Sarvesh Naidu, of others thereby discovering, understanding Executive Director - Pathways Schools, and respecting different cultures. Later duing New Delhi. the session Dr. Sarvesh Naidu also shared his “Your own self-realization is greatest service life experiences which helped him discover his you can render the world” true self and made him what he is today. It was This session was an eye opener for all those who very inspiring and motivating. The students were are aware of Global Citizenship. This session assigned to research about Desmond Tutu, South happened on 17 th February 2020, at our school’s African human rights activist. Terry Fox is not western musical studio, in the presence of School only a Canadian athlete but also
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