Annual show of the Saturday Activity Club

The annual show of the Saturday Activity Club was staged on March 17, 2018 in the School Auditorium. Around 200 students participated in various items ranging from Indian Vocal Music and Bharatanatyam to Western Dance, Roller Skating, Drama & Elocution – both English & Bengali and instrumentals. Their parents and members of staff saw them perform. Two rounds of Chess were played by the students learning Chess in the Activity Club. The games were played in the Staff Hall and the parents of the grand-masters in the making, were allowed to see them play.

Training Course

The teachers of Classes II & III attended a Teacher Training programme for the new software content ‘Extramarks’ to be used in the Smart Classes of the school, on March 15, 2018 from 9.30 am to 1.00 pm in Room 5C.

A refresher training course for all teachers of the Nursery Department has been arranged at the Teachers’ Centre, Loreto House, Kolkata on March 15, 16, 2018 and March 20, 22, 2018. The teachers attended the training course on March 15 & 16, 2018 from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm. They were provided with transport from school.

Workshop

An in-house workshop on Integrated Social Science was conducted by Sri Partha Pratim Roy at the School Auditorium on March 13, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Smt. Sipra Bhattacharya and Smt. Srabana Banerji, coordinated the workshop with the assistance of Smt. Sriparna Chatterjee, Smt. Anushil Banerjee and Smt. Moon Ray. 39 teachers from the departments of History, Geography, Economics, Political Science, Legal Studies and Sociology participated in the workshop.

68 language teachers from the departments of English, Bengali & Hindi participated in an in-house workshop held at the School Auditorium on March 15, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The workshop was conducted by the Principal, Smt. Rupa Sanyal Bhattacharjee and the Teacher Consultants, Smt. Simmi Talwar, Smt. Sulagna Bose, Smt. Madhumita Ghosh, Smt. Soumi Sengupta, Smt. Oindrila De and Sri Sandip Chattopadhyay.

Sri Partha Pratim Roy and Sri Shubhankar Mozumdar, conducted an in-house Physics workshop on March 16, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Physics Laboratory. 14 teachers of the Physics department attended the workshop.

OHSAS

Members of the Emergency Response Team and Matrons attended a First-Aid Training Programme by Indian Red Cross Society, West Bengal on March 16, 2018 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the School Auditorium.

First-Aid training workshop

A First-Aid training workshop by Indian Red Cross Society for the Emergency Response Team, Transport Staff and the matrons of South Point School, as well as, South Point High School was held on March 16, 2018 at the high school from 10.30 am to 4.00 pm. The trainer was Mr Ranjit Kr Mondal. All members and special invitees attended the training. A school bus was provided in the morning to take the staff members from South Point School to South Point High School.

Workshop

Workshops aimed at helping the teachers to guide and counsel children, as well as, their parents were held in the Library on March 14 & 15, 2018 from 12.30 pm to 2.30 pm. Teachers of Classes II & III attended the session on the first day while the teachers of Classes IV & V and the Arithmetic/Mathematics teachers attended the session on the second day. The resource persons were Ms Anju Chirminar and Ms Imon Neogi, the school counsellors and Ms Lily Khawas, the special educator of the school.