FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK 2005-2006

Dear Parents,

I take this opportunity of thanking each one of you for your support and thank the mighty Lord for having made it possible.

Welcome to the session 2005-06

This is going to be the eight session for the school. Though we may say that we are still in our establishing phase our students have not only been taking part in various outside competitions but also proving their mettle and thereby making us proud achievers.

In the last session our students took part in 09 Inter School Sports Competition (5 CBSE, 2 Open, IDPS and I MP). We lifted the Champion’s trophy in the Boy’s Athletic Meet of CBSE Cluster X which was held at Indore. 80 Students of the school took part in various Inter School Cultural Competitions. Our School girls, who took part in the International Women’s Dance Competition held at Faridabad, got the third position among 84 presentations. In the Mock United Nation Conference which was organized in New Delhi by DPS R.K. Puram under the agies of DPS Society our team representing Qatar got the best country profile award among 100 such presentations. Our of 50 students who have qualified form the Sidhi district in the State level competition conducted by MBD group, 24 are from our school. The list of achievers is a pretty long one. These are only a few outstanding results which we are able to mention here.

In the coming years we are sure this winning trend will keep rising.

I would like to share with you part of the New Year wishes from Mr. Narendra Kumar, the chairman, DPS society to the teacher of Delhi Public Schools. He wrote, “They (students) will not follow our authoritarian checklists of Dos and Don’ts, that we trust on them under the guise of age old wisdom. We can only provide values as strong foundation for their belief system and personal identity………… . Only those behavioral parameters that are set in mutual agreement will be accepted and respected but any opinion or suggestion that is one sided will be looked upon as a yoke of force, fear, authority and will be thrown aside putting the students in ‘rebel mode’ instantly.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams!

Can we adults be the comer stones for such bonding, in evolving-sincere, courageous individuals? Can you as teachers once again focus on fulfilling the promise we make to parents and children each year through school almanacs- of ensuring Individuals Attention to all under our care? Subject specific lessons are to be taught, tests are to be designed and performance has to be graded; however is it not possible to weave complex academic elements with colours of games, sports, art and culture into the vibrant fabric of child’s Simple life with overall desing remaining intact i.e. of eternal human values?”

With the full support of the parents we are among the selected few schools across the country to have implemented the series of strategies and programs that the CBSE, had evolved to reduce stress at the primary and middle level by adopting the ‘No Exam’ for classes until VII and ‘Grading Scheme’. There has been much concern among some parents, however, that the new rules would leave their children unprepared to handle the students and teachers to shift their focus from learning by heart under pressure to learning with understanding in a tension free environment. The outcome of this system will surely be fruitful in the coming years.

Khalil Gibran in his famous book. The Prophet writes about the children that:-

Your children are not your children.
There the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dream.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you
with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrows that files, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Let’s join hands and work towards the noble task of preparing the children entrusted to us to become the best all-rounder and valuable global citizens. Make a habit of going through this Almanac n regular basis and try to remain in touch with the school as much as possible. Ensure that in case of a planned leave it is duly sanctioned and in case of an emergency the absence is brought to the notice of the school in time.