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30Jul

PRE-WRITING SKILL WORKSHOP
  
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PRE-WRITING SKILL WORKSHOP

Young children's hand skills are generally on the decline resulting in fine motor delays and poor handwriting skills especially in students with special needs. Today's children are no longer exposed to activities and toys that develop the musculature, hand structures and precise movements of the hands needed for school success.

As a result, children are coming into the classroom with delayed fine motor control. Yet, curriculum demands continue to increase, thus producing a widening gap between curriculum expectations and developmental readiness.

The three days Pre Skills Workshop that was conducted by Manovikas Institute for Higher Education (MIHE) from 29.July.2016 (Friday) to 31st. July.2016 (Sunday) has special status of Continuing Rehabilitation Education (CRE) of the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI). This Workshop provided the therapist, educator and parent with a thorough understanding of hand development and its role in the promotion of fine motor skills that lead to handwriting. 

The workshop aimed at preparing its attendees to identify foundational hand skills, recognize specific deficits in hand skill development. It also helped to recognize pre-writing skills and age appropriateness for each skill.

The workshop brought together a great panel of people to train its attendees. Dr. Deepti Ahuja, Occupational Therapist, Amity University, Dr. Archana Singh, Art Therapist, USA, Ms. Payal Banerjee, Movement Therapist, and finally Ms. Tanu Chandna, Special Educator, UDAI.It was a wonderful three day training, which left us feeling more empowered and confident to do our jobs in a better way. It was a 

very fruitful workshop.

    • PRE-WRITING SKILL WORKSHOP
    • PRE-WRITING SKILL WORKSHOP

    27Jul

    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan
    Visit to the Embassy of Japan

    Visit to the Embassy of Japan

    The Japanese language students of Classes VII- XII with their teachers, Mrs. Kanika Tiwari and Mrs. Vandana Jain, visited the Embassy of Japan on 27th July, 2016 to attend an event called “Hello Japan”.

    This event was organized to provide an interactive and hands on experience that will help the students not only to learn about the country but also appreciate the Japanese culture and life -style.

    The program included videos and power point presentations on Japan’s geography, history, culture, society and everyday life and activities to learn Japanese traditions. The students also experienced wearing Yukata (Japanese traditional dress), playing Japanese traditional games and Japanese calligraphy.

    The students were really excited and they really enjoyed all the sessions. It was a wonderful opportunity for our students to learn the traditions of Japan and we wish to be a part of such programs in future too.

      21Jul

      The 14th International Conference of French language teachers
        
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      Event:    The 14th International Conference of French language teachers.

      Place:   University of Liège,  Liège, Belgium, Europe.

      Dates: 14th – 21 July 2016

      Theme: “ FranÇais Langue Ardente “ French a passionate language.

      The 14th conference of  FIPF (International Federation of Teachers of French) was held in the city of Liege, Belgium from 14th July – 21 July. Starting from the French National Day to Belgium National Day. The dates were chosen on purpose to celebrate the friendship between the two countries. Belgium is also the center of EU (European Union) .

      The theme of this conference was “French a passionate language”. For the consecutive 8 days the city of Liege played the rhythm of francophone.

      In this conference more than 1500 teachers across the globe participated to attend 9 symposiums. Each symposium consisted of 4 interventions of 30 minutes. Parallel to these symposiums there were several workshop a la carte. The French facilitator of Arwachin International school had a chance to participate. 

      The opening ceremony was performed at the Forum of the University in the presence of various dignitaries including the Mayor of Liege, the French Ambassador of Belgium, the Administrator of OIF ( International Organization of the Francophone) the President of ABPF (Belgian Association of Teachers of French) and the President of FIPF Mr. Jen Pierre Cuq.

      Many interactive and useful sessions were arranged parallel dome of them were really very difficult to choose. Some of the very interesting and useful trainings and symposiums were:-

      ·       Teaching French through games.

      ·       Using authentic French films and reports etc to teach.

      ·       Intercultural aspects in day to day class.

      ·       Creating a video project ( a collaborative work)

      ·       Creative writing outside the manual.

      ·       Flipped classroom technology, its challenges.

      ·       Using French Radio (RFI) in the class.

      ·       Using 5 senses in a foreign language class.

      ·       Practicing phonetics through School shape software.

      ·       The new spellings of French language. (About 2500 spellings are changes recently )

      ·       Using online resources in foreign language class. What choices?

      ·       Steps/ Preplanning of using French films in the class.

       

      Apart from these trainings and symposiums there were several French films didactised on French language.

      The evenings were planned for cultural events like the celebration of French National Day on 14th July, City Tour on foot, one day visit to Bruges, Gent and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

      There were various competitions organized by various universities, organizations and publishers.

      The teacher of Arwachin international School had a chance to give interview for a French magazine “Nouvelles de Flandre” .

      The resources shared by the speakers were  very useful and can be applied for other languages as well.

       

       

       

      RESOURCES/ IDEAS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS

       

      1.     Games which can be applied to any language:

      a)     The game of emotions with mime. (4 versions)

      b)     Reading a text including theatre skills.

      c)     Body gym with learning language.

      d)     Singing tongue twisters with orchestra

       2.     Using Radio in a language class.

      3.     Creating your own emission of Radio.

      4.     Creating video project with children.

      5.     Creative writing outside the school book.

      6.     Inversed classroom with radio.

      7.     Giving assignments/ projects through e books.

      8.     Using 5 senses in a language class.

      9.     Virtual Post card writing.

      10.  Few ideas for written expressions.

      11.  Visualizing spellings to memorize through drawing.

      12.  Internet links which can be applied for any language:

      a)  justbooksreadaloud.com

      b)     tagul.com (for making word clouds etc. )

      c)     tellagami.com( for I pads in the class)

      d)     puzzle-maker.com

      e)     polleverywhere.com (for creating polls, report etc. )

      f)      romansjeunesse.com ( for youth literature and it exists in English also)

      g)     islcollectif.com ( for worksheets and forums etc. )

      h)      teach.classdojo.com ( platform created by an international school to monitor flipped classroom teaching)


           By:

           Mrs Deepti Walia

        • The 14th International Conference of French language teachers
        • The 14th International Conference of French language teachers

        16Jul

        ZONAL CLASSICAL DANCE COMPETITION
          
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        ZONAL CLASSICAL DANCE COMPETITION
        ZONAL CLASSICAL DANCE COMPETITION
        ZONAL CLASSICAL DANCE COMPETITION
        ZONAL CLASSICAL DANCE COMPETITION
        ZONAL CLASSICAL DANCE COMPETITION

        The Zonal Classical Dance Competition was held on 16–07-2016 at Govt.Girls Senior Secondary School (Sunder Nagri).Many reputed schools participated in this competition in which there were two categories – Junior Girls Solo Classical Dance and Senior Girls Solo Classical Dance.It is a matter of proud that Rohini Raji of VIII-D secured the First Position in the Junior Category and Aathira Ajay of XI-B secured the Third Position in the Senior Category.Both the girls performed beautifully in this competition and they were appreciated by the judges.

          09Jul

          JALSTA (9th July 2016)
            
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          JALSTA (9th July 2016)
          JALSTA (9th July 2016)
          JALSTA (9th July 2016)
          JALSTA (9th July 2016)
          JALSTA (9th July 2016)
          JALSTA (9th July 2016)
          JALSTA (9th July 2016)

          Seminar on “JALSTA’S initiative in bridging the gap between Indian Schools and Japanese universities by promoting Japanese language in Indian schools”

           

          Two teachers of Arwachin International School, Ms. Kanika Tiwari and Ms. Vandana Jain, attended a seminar on 9th July 2016, at Japan Foundation, organized by JALSTA (Japanese Language School Teachers Association).

          All the Japanese language teachers from Delhi NCR and some eminent personalities from the Embassy of Japan, Tokyo University New Delhi office, Japan Foundation, Delhi University, JICA and  Japan Science and Technology Agency graced the occasion with their benign presence.

          The seminar was divided into two sessions. In the first session the JALSTA members spoke about the survey conducted by them about the study of Japanese language in the schools of Delhi NCR. It was followed by a presentation by Ms. Kanika Tiwari on “Amazing initiatives taken by JALSTA members for promoting Japanese language in their schools”.

          The second session was dedicated to a talk about learning opportunities for Indian students in Japan for higher studies. The session ended with a very optimistic speech by MR. Tanaka, Director, Japan foundation. He spoke about the future plans for sustaining Japanese language in Indian schools and how JF will support future endeavors of JALSTA.

          It was a very constructive seminar for our teachers as they themselves are the active members of JALSTA and they promise to work hard to promote Japanese in Arwachin and try their best to motivate students to consider Japan for higher studies.

            09Jul

            Spell Well Competition(Primary) 2016-17
              
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            Spell Well Competition(Primary) 2016-17
            Spell Well Competition(Primary) 2016-17
            Spell Well Competition(Primary) 2016-17
            Spell Well Competition(Primary) 2016-17
            Spell Well Competition(Primary) 2016-17
            Spell Well Competition(Primary) 2016-17
            Spell Well Competition(Primary) 2016-17

            Spell Well Competition(Primary) 2016-17

            The Spell Well Competition of Primary wing of Arwachin International School was held on 9th July, 2016 in the school auditorium. Students of classes 1 to 5 of the houses- Tilak, Tagore, Shastri and Bose; participated in the competition. The competition consisted of four rounds. In the first round, participants were asked to spell the given words correctly. In the next round, participants were asked to identify the pictures shown to them and spell it correctly. The third round was the ‘Rapid Fire’ round. In this round, they spelt the words asked continuously to them. Last was the ‘Audience Round’. Audience of the respective houses participated in this round with lot of zeal, to make its house win the competition.

            In the end, Tagore House won the competition, followed by Tilak House on the second position. Bose House grabbed the third position and Shastri House bagged the fourth position. All the participants put their complete hard work and played the competition will lot of energy.


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