Month: October 2018

This year too, South Point School was a part of Daan Utsav, a week long festival of giving, which begins on Gandhi Jayanti and ends on October 8 every year. The children of Class I donated old toys in good condition to under privileged children, while those of Class II made a gift box containing small items and gave it to someone less fortunate than them. The pupils of Class III (Morning) were asked to donate stationery items and those of Class III (Afternoon) were asked to donate Bengali/English story books as gifts for children in care of non-profit organizations. Students of Classes IV & V were each asked to bring a new outfit for under privileged children. The response was overwhelming. On October 4, 2018 children of Classes III, IV & V brought the gifts beautifully wrapped in yellow, green, blue, red, pink and silver.

On October 6, 2018, 52 large bags full of these gifts, were sent off to an NGO, Goonj, in a school bus. Twenty children of Class V, the Head Girl, Head Boy and some Captains and Prefects came to school, helped in the packing and happily sent off the gifts. Some gifts were kept aside for the children of Antyodoy Anath Ashram, Calcutta Social Project, New Age, Sandipan, the free evening school run by South Point Foundation and the KMCP School at Hazra Road, adopted by South Point.

The third inter-house competition in the form of a quiz was held on October 3, 2018 in the school auditorium. Mr Ranjan Datta, an eminent quizzard, was the Quiz Master. The results are as follows:–

Twin brothers, Romit Kundu of Class III F (Morning) and Somrit Kundu of Class III B (Morning) had participated in Roller Skating Championship 2018, organised by Inter Sports ‘N’ Fun Speed on September 23, 2018 at Baguihati. Romit bagged the Second Prize, while Somrit bagged the Third. Both received trophies.

International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) was conducted by Macmillan Publishers India Ltd., along with Educational Assessment, Australia, a division of University of New South Wales, Australia. This year a total number of about five hundred students from Classes III to V had registered for Science, Digital Technologies, English and Mathematics. The assessments for Science and Digital Technologies were held on September 28, 2018, while those for English and Mathematics were held on September 29, 2018.

Rishik Mukherjee of Class IV G (Morning), Hridan Manna of Class IV D (Afternoon) and Sagnik Saha of Class V D (Afternoon) participated in the 11 Sports Inter School Table Tennis State Championships conducted at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra from September 18 to 20, 2018. They won the Third position in the Sub-Junior Boys Team event and each received a bronze medal along with a certificate. This event was jointly organised by 11 Sports & West Bengal Table Tennis Association under the auspices of Table Tennis Federation of India.

On September 20, 2018 Delhi Public School, Ruby Park, hosted ‘Abhivyakti’, an Inter-School Festival for the students of Pre-Primary classes (Nursery to Class I). Little Pointers of Nursery II, Transition and Class I participated in events like ‘Rhyme and Rhythm’ (Group Recitation), Expressions (Story Enactment) and ‘Word Cookies’ (Word Making). Reyansh Manna of Class I D (Afternoon) and Saptorshi Sen of Class I E (Afternoon) bagged the Third Prize for ‘Word Cookies’, the word making competition. They received certificates and medals.

On the same day another group of Pointers, all from Class V, participated in Vibgyor, the Inter-School Festival organised by M. P. Birla H. S. School. They took part in Mind Over Splatter (Quiz), Shout Green (Slogan Writing), Alpona (Craft) and Voices in Unison (Western Music). South Point School was declared the Second Runner Up in the Festival. Debojit Pal of Class V C (Afternoon) and Shauryaditya Mukherjee of Class V A (Afternoon) formed the Quiz Team. The team won the contest. The singers – Sumedha Debnath of Class V E (Afternoon), Ayush Chattopadhyay of Class V G (Afternoon), Mahashweta Bhattacharyya of Class V E (Afternoon), Anwesha Halder of Class V E (Afternoon), Agnidipta Dey of Class V D (Afternoon), Shalini Bhattacharya of Class V H (Afternoon), Shrestha Bhattacharya of Class V G (Afternoon) and Aishiki Ghosh of Class V G (Afternoon) lifted the First Prize for Western Music. The winners got individual trophies and certificates.

A special assembly to celebrate Hindi Diwas was put up by Class IV on September 20, 2018.

Pupils of Classes XI & XII participated in “Milap-2018”, an Inter-school Fest, organized by the SPICMACAY Club of Delhi Public School (Howrah) on Saturday, September 29, 2018. South Point High School participated in various events and secured the following positions:-

Sur Taal (Group Performance) : First Position
Raag Rang (Vocal solo) : Second Position
Street Theatre : Third Position
Jhankar (Instrumental) : Third Position

Assessment of Listening Skill (ASL) was held on Thursday, September 27 and Friday, September 28, 2018 for Class XI.