FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK 2009-2010

Dear Parents,

Welcome to the session 2009-2010.

It has always been a pleasure addressing you through these pages. We welcome you to the session 2009-10. Since 25th August 1998 we have come a long way.

With the kind support of NCL and you all we have in all these years been able to implement the policies of CBSE & DPS Society like:

• adopting a student friendly approach with primary focus on preparing an individual for life and world of work along with value orientation. We strongly believe that it is always better to teach the know-how of ‘how to fish than providing a fish’.
• we have demonstrated constant innovation and improvement with the intent of de-stressing education and making it more holistic and joyful. We have believed in learning with understanding than learning by rote.
• we have the policy of retaining the books of tiny tots in the school for reducing their load of school bag.
• continuous and comprehensive evaluation is used to assess the effective, cognitive and psychomotor development of students on a five point grading scale with no pass/fail up to Class V.
• for secondary class’s school based internal assessment has been integrated with board examinations.
• teachers guide students towards HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills).
• extension of school’s working hours on Wednesdays and Fridays uptil 3:00 pm for providing both remedial and challenging measures to students has proved to be good help in achieving our targets.

Children of the school have set record in the Class X 2008 Board Examination by giving one of the best results in the country.

In National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) 19 students were selected in the first phase, 13 students in the second and third phase and 4 students could earn scholarship which itself is a record.

With the efforts of the staff members we had exposed the students of our school to more than 17 competitions like National Cyber Olympiad, Green Olympiad, DPS Science and Mathematics Talent Search Examination, MBD Talent Search Examination, National Level Science Talent Search Examination etc. Our Students have excelled and have been felicitated by Governors and Ministers.

Teachers are being exposed on regular basis to workshops of highest order which are conducted by DPS Society and CBSE on issues like Early Childhood Education, Life Skills, Adolescent Education, Sports, Languages, Strategic Leadership in 21st Century, Principal’s Visionary Leaders and the like.

Morning Assemblies are yet another effort of the school which needs to be highlighted through these pages. Each Morning Assembly presented by the class is in itself equivalent to major functions in which parents are also invited to witness. These assemblies and other function like farewells provide the students opportunity to develop their skills of team work.

During the last session the school had also taken the initiative to teach regional language like Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Bhojpuri, Gurmuki, Urdu & Telgu.

In the coming session we have decided to introduce Quiz competitions for the tiny tots in which parents will also participate.

We are thankful to the NCL management for providing us with 6 extra rooms and Audio Visual room. This added infrastructure would enable us to execute activities like Art, Music, Dance in a better manner. Children will also get good exposure to various power point presentations through Audio Visual room. We shall be in a position to establish Maths and S.St. Lab. In my personal opinion students of DPS Nigahi are having immense potential to sustain all hardships of life and are all marching ahead towards becoming best global citizens.

We need to guide our children towards discovering their hidden talents and not to shy way from putting across their potential. Here in we would like to share the beautiful words of Marianne Williamsons:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You’re playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Please make a habit of going through this Almanac on regular basis and try to remain in touch with the school as much as possible.

Ensure that incase of a planned leave it is duly sanctioned and in case of any emergency the absence is brought to the notice of the school in time.