Learning Crosses Seas

One of the many boons of today’s technologically advanced world is that it has turned the world into one close-knit global community; hence, it is imperative that today’s youth is groomed into being a global citizen by making the most out of this opportunity. In one of such MBIS’s earnest attempts, the students of Grade 8 were given a unique opportunity to interact with Japanese teachers. The introductory session was held on Friday, 7 May 2021 where the students of MBIS taught some words in our national language to these teachers and learnt some Japanese vocabulary from them. Isn’t it incredible how learning is no longer bound to only a certain perimeter?

“Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel.”

An Online Karaoke singing competition was held for students of Grades 3 to 8. Children enjoyed their hearts out and had a fulfilling experience. Winners of the Karaoke competition are as follows:

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.” – Robert Frost

On 22nd March 2021, our Grade 7 and 8 students, participated in Virtual Hindi Activity: “EKAL ABHIVYAKTI MANCH”.

Grade 7 recited the poems of famous poets and Grade 8 presented the verbal expressions autobiography of their valuable things such as books, pencil, toys and many more.

The Art of Public Speaking is an act of giving power to words – to influence, inspire and transform lives. This was done for the Hindi Elocution activity at Mainadevi Bajaj International School on Tuesday, 23rd March 2021. This gave the students a good opportunity to overcome their fear of stage fright. Although the competition was held online, the students had to prepare just like they would have in a normal school setting.

Competitions like these allow the student to connect with the audience and also understand the concepts of voice modulation. The practice is very essential before going on stage and the preparation must be a sincere effort.

Although the Grade 6 children recited poetry, the Grade 9 children were given an opportunity to talk on the topic ‘Parivartan’.

The Science quiz for the Primary Section was conducted on Friday, 26th February 2021. The winners of the Grades 2 and 3 quiz were Arnav Malu and Arsh Dalmia. The winners of the Grades 4 and 5 quiz were Kyra Nehete and Jai Gundecha.

Students of Pre Primary celebrated Valentine’s day on Friday, 12th February 2021. The day was celebrated by expressing their love for their parents with hand made activities.

One of the significant goals of an educational institution is to nurture young minds and groom them into becoming a conscious and vigilant citizen. To achieve this goal, MBIS organized an elocution competition on 29 January 2021 for the students of grades 8 and 9 which required them to research and present their views on topics ranging from sports and friendships to UN sustainable goals and media ethics. The intent was to encourage critical and analytical thinking alongside employing persuasive tools.

Winners English Elocution Competition

Grade 8

Grade 9

Role plays on the First War of Independence of 1857

It is important that our budding children are fostered with the right kind of soil and water. Keeping this in mind, students of Grade 7 were encouraged to perform role plays on the First War of Independence of 1857. The passion, love and zeal of the great warriors of India were recreated by the students.

As a part of their Creativity, Activity and Service component, IBDP students of MBIS collected donations of food for the Mumbai Roti Bank on the 27th and 28th of January. It was heartening to see that the response was quite enthusiastic despite the lockdown.

Students of pre-primary celebrated Republic Day from 23rd – 25th January 2021 virtually. They made tiger masks and Jr. KG. students made a tricolour rocket and were taken on a virtual trip to a farm. Sr. KG. students learnt about the national symbols of India. A video on Republic Day was shown to them and they were taken on a virtual trip to a chocolate factory.

MBIS is proud to announce that these students of Grade 4 – Prithvee Prashant, Anaaya Nayak, Devishri Gunaseelan and Pulkit Naik have won in the category- Best Applicability and Cost Effectiveness for the topic ‘Technology to serve health needs in a cost-efficient way and enhance outcomes ‘ in MISA SYNERGY 2020-21, a Science educational event for Cambridge schools. Our project ‘Bed on Go’ was an app-based model where one could locate a vacant bed in the hospital nearest to them.

Students of Pre-primary section celebrated Makar Sankranti on Wednesday, 13th January 2021, Students were dressed in their traditional attire. Nursery and Jr. KG. students made kites, Sr. KG. made a beautiful card by drawing warli figures and sticking 3D kites.

It is truly said that if there is magic on this planet then it is in water. On Friday 8th Jan 2021, students of Grade 2 did an activity on the water cycle and learned the importance of conserving this valuable resource.

On 22nd December 2020, Primary and secondary section celebrated National Mathematics Day. Grades 1-5 showed a video on Srinivasa Ramanujan and played Kahoot games with students. Grades 6&7 played Scavenger Hunt and Think math Activity.

“The most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.” At MBIS, the students of Grade 7 learn the recipe writing in the Hindi language. During their Christmas vacations, they experienced it by doing this on their own.

Little Chefs at work…Our cute little Nursery Learners were thrilled making and eating yummilicious bhel as they learnt about Chef and Baker in their Area of Inquiry-based on Community Helpers on Friday, 18th December 2020.

Nursery students enjoyed the narration of the story ” The Lion And The Mouse” on Tuesday, 15th December 2020 through puppets. They enjoyed various actions like sleeping, jumping, laughing, hugging and many more related to the story and made good effort to retell the story in their own words followed by an activity.

Bastille Day is the French National Day, which is celebrated on 14 July each year In France.

Bastille Day memorializes the unity of the French people and celebrations are held throughout France on this day.

The students of Grade 1 and 2 learnt about various famous monuments of France like the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Sacré Coeur, Arc de Triomphe etc.. They also recited the French nursery rhyme ‘Frère Jacques’ and ‘La Famille Doigt ‘In Grades 3, 4 and 5 the Teacher took the students on a virtual tour to Paris where they saw various monuments like the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Sacré Coeur etc.. The students of Grade 3 played an ‘I spy’ game based on fruits and vegetables and had a quiz on the facts about France while grade 4 and 5 students spoke about the specialities, rich culture, festivals and cuisine of France. They too explored interesting facts about France. All in all a fun-filled French week at MBIS.

The students of the Primary section have created beautiful dioramas as a part of their summer activity programme. They were given the option of reading any book and creating a diorama- a scene with three-dimensional figures, in miniature to depict any event from the story. The creation of dioramas pinpoint a moment of learning and show deeper levels of understanding in students.

During the first two weeks of July, the students of Jr KG did Pizza activity and Ice-cream Cone activity on numbers and number values.

They also did a Balloon activity on alphabets.

Our Sr KG students did Fun With Letters activity on Tuesday, 13th July 2021.

“The little things?

The little moments?

They aren’t little.”- John Kabat-Zinn

Empowering the Nursery students to share their favourites with their teacher.