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Christmas
24/12/2019
Christmas, an annual festival commemorating the birth of ‘Jesus Christ’ was celebrated with great joy. Students came dressed as Santa, Reindeer etc. Most of the students wore red outfits. They made Paper Christmas trees, Christmas bells and reindeer head gears. Christmas carols were sung and X’mas songs were played.
One of the teachers dressed as Santa and distributed gifts to the students. Project depicting birth of ‘Jesus Christ’ was displayed.
The story of the birth was narrated and power point presentations were shown. The entire school was filled with joyous festive atmosphere. Teachers and students wished ‘Merry Christmas’ and exchanged ‘New Year Wishes’ to each other.
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Paper Garland Making Competition for Grandparents
21/12/2019
The school had arranged ‘Paper Garland Making’ competition for Grandparents. We received extraordinary response for the same. Paternal and Maternal grandparents both had participated in the competition. Paper garlands were made with innovative ideas.
It was really a tough task for the Judge Mrs. Shilpa Sumedh Karalkar, ‘Masters in Fine Arts and Specialist in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and Craft’. Prizes were given to deserving candidates and gifts along with “Goody Bags” were distributed to all participants. Principal Madam appreciated the efforts taken by ‘Orion Grandparents’. Grandparents thanked the management of the school for giving them a platform to showcase their artistic skills. This event was a great success.
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INTERNATIONAL LEVEL EXAMS
Various International level Exams were conducted in the school like National Olympiad Exams, National Astronomy and Science Olympiad.
Children showed great enthusiasm and enrolled in these exams.
These exams help in examining the study levels of students and encourages them to achieve higher learning goals.
It guides schools to redefine the learning objectives and their teaching standards.
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Field Trip to Taraporewala Aquarium
13/12/2019
Senior KG students visited ‘India's oldest aquarium and one of the city's main attractions Taraporewala Aquarium.
This small aquarium has over 100 species of marine and fresh water fish and underwater creatures, including sea snakes, turtles, moray eels, sharks, lobsters, crabs, sea horses, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, jelly fish, octopus and recently added varieties of coral fish from the Lakshadweep islands.
Students observed fish kept in large glass tanks and in acrylic glass tunnels, which were lit with LED lights. The exotic fish from overseas has been introduced along with the 40 new varieties of freshwater fish.
These fish were housed in larger tanks than before with imported flexi glass for better visibility. Students also observed the remains or impression of sea plants and sea animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form. It also included bones, shells, and skeletons, stone imprints of sea animals and pearl shells (oysters). The show shown by the ‘Department of Fisheries’ was entertaining. It was a worthy experience for the students. -
Animal Safari Week
09/12/2019 to 13/12/2019
Birds and animals play an important role in human life.
During this week students shared information with different materials on the topic ‘Birds and Wild Animals’ to facilitate learning.
Teachers explained that the birds and animals are used for food, skin, teeth, fur, labour, and companionship by humans over countless generations. Eighty percent of Earth’s land animals and birds live in forests and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes. So we should stop deforestation and start caring for them.
Teachers set up a project and a Power point Presentation on Birds and Wild Animals was shown.
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Intra School Competitions
07/12/2019
Intra School Competitions were conducted between two schools ‘IES Orion’ and ‘IES Manik Vidya Mandir’.
Nursery: Fancy Dress–Any Character
Junior KG: Recitation – English Action Song
Senior KG: Elocution- My Favourite Season
This event was conducted in IES Manik Vidya Mandir’, Bandra. Both the schools enthusiastically participated in above mentioned Competitions. Ms. ‘Shamshad Syed’, Primary Coordinator from ‘MET Rishikul Vidyalay’ as a judge, selected five prizes from each section. The prizes were given to the deserving candidates from each section. The event was a great success.!! Heartiest Congratulations to all the Winners!!
Hruddhi Gawand First Prize Elocution Shivaali Nalawade First Prize Fancy Dress Kartik Kokane Third Prize Fancy Dress Samarth Shetty Fourth Prize Fancy Dress Mishka Patel Fifth Prize Fancy Dress Saanvi Mhatre Fourth Prize Recitation Isha Dongre Fifth Prize Recitation -
GRANDPARENTS DAY CELEBRATION
07/12/2019
IES ORION Primary Section hosted "Grandparents Day" on 7th December' 2019, Saturday.
Details of the competition are as follows:
Grade 1 & 2 - No Flame Cooking.
Grade 3 & 4 - Garland Making.
Grade 5 - Rangoli Competition.Both Maternal and Paternal Grandparents participated in the competition. Lot of enthusiasm and hardwork was seen among them. It gave them an opportunity to demonstrate their extraordinary talents and skills. Grand children were quite excited and motivated their Grandparents by wishing them “All the Best”. They were thrilled to see their Grandparents winning and taking away the prizes. Consolation prizes were awarded to all the participants to motivate them and acknowledge their participation.
The list of Prize winners is as follows :
Category Prizes Name of Grandparent Name of Grandchild No Flame Cooking First Prize Uma Zadkar Vihaan Rojekar Second Prize Smita Khamkar Heramb Khamkar Third Prize Kasturi Potnis Krishang Potnis Garland/Toran Making First Prize Kamini Katkar Shabda Katkar Second Prize Gita Charania Jalpesh Charania Third Prize Mary Talkar Meir Talkar Rangoli Competition First Prize Smita Mehta Kavya Mehta Second Prize Aparna Date Aditi Date -
COOKING COMPETITION
04/12/2019
“Chefs are leaders in their own little worlds”
To encourage our young chefs, we organized a cooking competition for students from Grade 6 to 9 on 4th Dec’ 2019. Young master chefs really amazed us with their novelties and innovative mouthwatering dishes.
Meet our little Master Chefs
Mission
To develop students with a "can-do attitude" and who can focus on improvement and raising achievement.
Vision
An institution with difference, building progressive thinkers and to create a safe, secured, valued environment directing to an ambitious, challenging and ongoing future.