Message from
Principal
- Mr. Achuthan Madhav 
Promoting
excellence in school is a
long drawn process which
involves the coordination and
support of the student
community and their parents,
school staff and the
supportive management
committee.
I am convinced thus far
that we have attained
reasonable score in combining
above stake holders to
promote and chase excellence
at ISM.
This
involves the determination
and the goals of education
and strategies that should be
adopted to achieve the
desired effect in our
children and foster a
learning society with a life
long
habit for good
education.
Primarily
there are four pillars of
education which stand out for
excellence.
Learning
to know (emphasis on
knowledge acquisition), Learning
to do (emphasis on
working out applications), Learning
to live together (to
adopt beyond the school
level) and Learning
to be (to grow up as a
humanistic, helpful and
contributing individual in
later part of his/her life).
The
four pillars, foster overall
excellence in the person and
he/she would
be properly understood as
being well educated.
In a
small measure we try
to promote excellence of all
these levels of education at
ISM. Sometimes, we
are free to analyse them in
the light of school base cultural
activities, sports
activities, extensive
enrichment programmes, work
drills
and practices of finest
teaching methodologies
followed by remedial work and
extended evaluation of all
these virtues.
We need to work hard
to educate our children on
the above four
parameters and make our
children to be firm, patient
and passionate about
achieving success in
any field, with hard work,
dedication and
perseverance.
Day
in and day out, we pray to
Almighty to help
us deliver positively
on some
of the ideals outlined above.
Thus modern day
schooling at
ISM is both challenging and
tough, focusing on the
positive and realistic goals
as well as meeting
the expectations of the
parents and maintaining a
good discipline,
which gradually nurtures a
good student life conducive
to learning and
achieving
more than a good grade
in the examinations.
I
would like to inform our
parents that apart from
intensive academic sustained
programmes at ISM, the
children have great
enthusiasm in participating
at the
cluster
meets, inter-house athletic
competitions, drama
competitions, quiz
competitions,
Embassy
sponsored art
competitions, a wonderful
participation in International
Non-Violence day programme held
at the Indian Embassy.
These were
salient performance
achievements of the last few
days.
We
look forward to a
greater participation of our children
in the Olympiads, ACER
examinations in the coming
months.
I
take this opportunity
to wish all our parents and
well wishers a very happy
Christmas and a happy New
Year.
CBSE
Class X & XII Results
ISM
students brought excellent
results in class X and XII
CBSE board examination. 454 students of class X wrote the CBSE board examinations in
March2010.Reshma Kunjumon,
Taniya Grace Joshua, Neelam
Pramod Purohit, Veena Nair,
Tejeswi Raviraj Hegde, Aditya
Mohan, Shriya Sasank and
Murtaza Hussain put up a
spectacular performance in
the Board Examinations
sweeping A1
grade in all the five
subjects with a Cumulative
Grade Point Average of 10 out
of 10. 64 students in
English, 173 students in
Mathematics, 147 students in
Social Science,88 students in
Science , 42 students in
French and 16 students in
Hindi scored A1 grades.
In
class XII, 373
students wrote the CBSE board
examination.In Science
stream,
Gayathri Gopalakrishnan
received the top position rank holder of the school in the Science Stream with an
aggregate score of 96.8%
followed by Venkatakrishnan
Raghavan
and Suvanjan Mukherjee,
both sharing the second
position
with 96.2%
and
Vignesh Sridharan
in the third
position with 96%.In
Commerce stream, Aakanksha
Vasudeva
received the top position rank holder in the Commerce Stream with an aggregate of
96% followed by Reka
Anbazhagan in the
second
position with 95.8%
and Rachana
Bharatkumar Khetia
taking the
third
position
with 95.2%. In
Humanities stream, Niyati
Singh
secured the top
position rank with 93.8%
in aggregate in the
Humanities Stream.
The second
position has
been shared by Eshyat
Taskin and Shakti Nambiar
with 91%
and
Shruti Padmanabhan
occupying the third
position with 90.6%.
The following students scored perfect
100
in the subjects mentioned:
Suvanjan
Mukherjee And Darryl Kevin
Tauro
- Mathematics.
Suvanjan
Mukherjee And Krovi Venkat
Sai Anirud - Computer
Science (this being the
first 100 in the subject
scored by any student in
Oman
).
Niyati
Singh
-
Psychology
(First 100 in the subject by
any student in
Oman
).
Other
toppers are:
English - Shakti Nambiar (97)
Physics
-Ashish C.Rao, Patibanda
Sneha, Saurabh Bhaskar Shaw ,
Shreena Rajesh Malaviya,
Gayathri Gopalakrishnan
(97)
Chemistry -
Ashish C V Rao (99)
Biology - Mohammed
Fahad Khan, Saurabh Bhaskar
Shaw (98)
Engineering
Drawing - Shah Taha(99)
Accountancy
- Reka
Anbazhagan (99)
Business Studies - Saatvik
Rajendra Sharma(97)
Economics
-
Saatvik Rajendra
Sharma (98)
Entrepreneurship - Viral Nitin
Chad
(99)
Informatics
Practices - Akash Jayesh
Raval(91)
Sociology -
Eshayat Taskin(96)
Political Science- Niyati Singh(95)
Academics
First
formative test is conducted
for classes IX and X from 8th
to 15th May 2010.
Answer sheets were given on
19th May 2010.
Holiday
assignment is given in all
subjects for all classes.
Worksheets and enrichment
worksheets are given in all
subjects as per schedule.
Contests
Digital Symposium
:
Nishikadha
Kelkar of class 10 J secured
first position in Digital
symposium who was trained by
Ms. Soumia H and Mr.
Kelkar.110 students out of
240 who wrote the class 12
examination got A grade in
Mathematics. ( 45.84%).
English
Declamation Contest
- 20th May, 2010.
Results:
Class IX: Best Speaker - Francis Jais James (IX L),
1st
Runner Up -,Fatima Nishat
(IX H), 2nd Runner
Up - Aditya Vishwanath (IX
C).
Class
X: Best Speaker - Sandra
Johnson (X I), 1st
Runner Up - Vishnu
Mohan (X G), 2nd
Runner Up – Deepika
Ramnath (X B).
Students
were informed about a movie
and ad making competition
organized by Tagore
International school
New Delhi
. Topics were given and they
were asked to send their
entries by e-mail on or
before 15th July
2010 to the email id hod.comp.ism@gmail.com.
For the details click
here
CBSE-i
Five
teachers from senior section
attended a training and
workshop programme in CBSE-I
(CBSE – International)
curriculum in Indian High
School Dubai from 24th
to 26th of May
2010. The participants were
Mr. Nagesh Kelkar(AVP-Senior
section), Mr. Radhakrishnan
S.(HoD, Biology), Mrs.Smitha
James(Mathematics), Mr.
Aklary Sajindran(French) and
Mr. Daniel (English).
Extra
Curricular
-
German
Student Exchange –
3rd May
to 9th May,
2010.12 students and one
teacher Mr. Aklary
Sajindran visited
Gymnasium im Stift
Neuzelle, Germany.Mr. Deep
Wilson
organized the programme.
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Club
activities are planned on
alternate Thursdays.
-
A
seminar was conducted by
Dr. Seema Bhandari on
‘the ill-effects of
tobacco smoking and misuse
of alcoholism’ as a part
of the Health club
activity.
-
A
‘No to tobacco’
campaign was organized by
the Health club by display
of charts and posters.
-
Mr.
Gangadhara Naik will
coordinate the ISM team
for CBSE Heritage Quiz
2010.
-
Mr.
Biju Varghese organized
Inter-class Quiz for
Class-X on 23rd
May, 2010. Class X-I were
declared the winners.
-
Members
of school council were
taken for an exhibition
conducted by the ROP on
Safety at Seeb
International Exhibition
Centre.
- The
School Counselling
department conducted
leadership training for
the members of School
council for performing
their duties in a better
way.
- Department
of Computer Science
organized a two day
orientation programme
in the changed
syllabus of the subject
‘Informatics
Practices’
for the teachers of
department of computer
science, senior section
and computer teachers from
various Indian schools in
Oman on the 8th
and 9th of May
2010.
Mr. Mukesh Kumar,
who is a member of the
CBSE Expert Committee for
IT Curriculum was the
resource person.
SPORTS
1.
Indian
School Muscat under 16
Badminton Boys won the
championship at the Sports
Festival 2010 hosted by The
Indian High School,
Dubai
, UAE.
2.
Indian
School Muscat under 16
Badminton Girls won the
championship at the Sports
Festival 2010 hosted by The
Indian High School,
Dubai
, UAE
3.
Indian
School Muscat under 16 Table
Tennis Girls won the
championship at the Sports
Festival 2010 hosted by The
Indian High School,
Dubai
, UAE
4.
Indian
School Muscat under 14 Boys
Basketball team won against
Sultan
School
in a friendly match hosted by
The Sultan’s School.
5.
Indian
School Muscat under 14 Boys
Basketball team won against
The American International
School of Muscat in a
friendly match hosted by
TAISM.
6.
Inter
House Tournaments were
successfully completed in the
following categories,
a.
Basketball
Senior Boys
b.
Basketball
Senior Girls
c.
Volleyball
Senior Boys
d.
Volleyball
Senior Girls
e.
Football
Senior Boys
f.
Football
Senior Girls
g.
Table
Tennis Junior Boys
h.
Table
Tennis Junior Girls
i.
Badminton
Junior Boys
j.
Badminton
Junior Girls
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ISM
FELICITATES SHRI S. K.
VIRMANI (Managing Director,
B. E. C.) AND HONOURS
ACADEMIC AWARDEES 2010
Annual
Academic Awards function for
the year 2010, was held on
Thursday 6th May 10. Mr.
Suresh K. Virmani, recipient
of the prestigious Pravasi
Bharatiya Samman Award, was
the Chief Guest at the
function. The function was
also graced by the presence
of the illustrious members of
the Board of Directors of
Indian Schools in the
Sultanate, the School
Managing Committee, proud
parents of the awardees,
teachers, students and
others. Every year, ISM
recognizes and honours the
conscientiousness and
perseverance of those
students from the Middle and
Senior sections, who have
transcended the others in
academics. Mr.Suresh. K.
Virmani was felicitated by
Mr. S. Subramanian,
President, School Managing
Committee, and Mr. Achutan
Madhav, Principal, ISM for
his achievement of becoming
the recipient of the
prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya
Samman Award. 307 students
from Middle Section were
honoured during the function.
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First
Formative Assessment for the
year 2010-11 was conducted
from 8th May
through 16th May
2010.
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Extended
Learning Programme(ELP)
As
part of CCE (Continuous
Comprehensive Evaluation
System), the ELP was
inaugurated on 19th May 2010
by the Chief Guest Mr. A.M.
Vasudevan, Deputy
Chairperson, Building
Projects, SMC. A
Digital Symposium on
‘NanoTechnology’ by Mehek
Bariana, Hafsa Mattoo and
Ahana Jacob of Std VIII A and
a presentation on Oil
Pollution by Mr. Sasikumar,
Science Teacherwere done as
part of the programme. Mr.
Vasudevan presented Trophies
and certificates for the
winners of various
competitions. 24 students
received mementoes for
achieving perfect attendance
for the last three
consecutive years.
Creative champs @
ISM
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The
English Department of the
Middle Section, conducted a
fun-filled competition on
29th April 2010 on the school
premises to test the height
of creativity amongst its
students. The competition saw
an overwhelming response from
the students of 5-8 grades.
532 students took part in the
competition and displayed
their different levels of
imagination on a variety of
topics.
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The
department of Hindi conducted
Hindi Recitation Competition
for the students of Class VII
on 29th April
2010.
STUDENT LEADERSHIP
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Investiture ceremony
for the newly elected Junior
Prefects was held on 9th
May 2010. Mr. Ajeet
Walavalkar, GM Corporate, BEC
was the Chief Guest. 55 boys
and 53 girls were formally
invested as Prefects on that
day. The Asst.
Vice-Principal, Mr. Zacharias
Jacob, welcome the
distinguished gathering. The
Principal, Mr, Achuthan
Madhav, administered the oath
of office to the office
bearers. Wherein young
leaders pledged to take on
their responsibilities and
discharge their duties
diligently. The
Vice-Principal, Mr. S I
Shareef, blessed the prefects
with a prayer
“A
school is a transforming
place where character is
formed, strength of mind
increased, the intellect of
mind expanded. Let us enable
our children to get as much
love and joy in whatever they
do and succeed in the school.
YES! The Primary
Section of ISM always makes
learning a joyful experience
for the children. They are
exposed to very many
competitions which makes it
very challenging resulting in
holistic learning.
The Competitions for the month
of May.
‘Poetry
is not mere words but
expressions of the heart put
across in an artistic way
that appeases and appeals
every soul’ Children when
exposed to poetry at a very
young age, helps in
transforming them into fine
human beings with all the
virtues for a good living
- The
English recitation
competition for Std III
was held on
19 May 2010
The
judges of the competition
were mesmerized by the way
the children participated
with such great enthusiasm.
The children exhibited a
great level of competency.
The results were:-
First
Position -----Std III K
Second
Position---Std III O
Third
position-----Std III F
- The
Hindi recitation
competition for Std IV was
held on
12th May
. The budding poets of Std
IV recited beautiful poems
with such expression and
voice modulation that
created a great love and
passion for this beautiful
language.
The
results were
–First
position ------ Std IV L
Second
Position---Std IV K
Third
position-----Std IVG
WE
WISH ALL THE CHILDREN A VERY
HAPPY AND RESTFUL
SUMMER
VACATION!
MAY
GOD BLESS YOU!
Kindergarten
SuperVisor - Mrs. Prema
George
There
were 3 assemblies in the
month.
I
Love my School-Story
Dramatization- The children
of KG I A presented an
endearing story dramatization
on the adage I
Love my school. The
Principal, Mr. Achutan Madhav,
Mrs. AchutanMadhav, and the
KG Supervisor Mrs.Prema
George presided over the show
on 11th May 2010.
Rhymes
were recited, songs were sung
and stories were
demonstrated. With peppy
beats for the audience to
enjoy and sing along, the
vibrant performers dazzled
the stage with colourful
attire and props.
Learning
to live outside the confined
walls of the house that the
child has experienced for the
past 3 years, living with
limited exposure. To move on
to a wider range of different
stages of growth is a
phenomenal change for them.
At school, they are let to
explore vistas which are new
and novel to them and help
them in overcoming difficult
milestones. Forgotten is the
song that holidays are jolly
days and now the lines are
that school days are fun
days.
K
G I A demonstrated to the
audience how enjoyable the
experience of a school day
is.
Clever
Rabbit-Story Dramatization-
KG II-L staged
the story
dramatization of the clever
rabbit on 30th
May. Our Adminstration
manager Col.Mani presided
over the show. The cast
brought life to the jungle.
With smart paced movements
and pulse scintillating
music, the show was a
concoction of fun whimsy and
heart warming wit.
Under
the guidance of our KG
Supervisor Mrs.Prema George
and the class teacher of KG
II-L, the children put up an
endearing performance.
Summer
Vacation Assembly- As the
summer vacation
starts with an
adventurous mode, KG II- I
presented Summer
Vacation Assembly on
18th May 2010.
Vice Principal of the Middle
Section Mr.S.I.Sherif
presided over the show. Under
the guidance of the KG
Supervisor, Mrs.Prema George
and the class teacher, the
children of
KG II- I initiated
ideas to make the summer
holidays exciting and
enjoyable.
The
dazzling array of costumes
and props were added
ingredient to let out the
smells of summer waft down to
the audience.
In
his speech, Mr.Sheriff wished
the staff and children Happy
Holidays, leaving the
gathering resume their
countdown for their wonderful
vacation.
The
term end party on 30th
may was a fun filled day, to
gear up the children for
their summer vacation.
WORKSHOP
FOR STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS
A
motivational skill building
workshop for the 24 members
of The Student Council
Members was conducted on 20th
May 2010. The Principal and
the Vice Principal addressed
the Council Members.
Mr.Preshob began the session
with an activity “A Box
Full of Me” wherein the
participants were given an
opportunity to do a self
analyses and expressing.,
followed by narration of a
motivational story, team
building activity and a
discussion on strategies to
deal with the road blocks on
collaborative work.
Mr.Alexander Geeverghese HOD
of Commerce and Humanities of
senior school who is the in
charge of student council
coordinated the workshop.
Mrs.Bubly Vinoy Student
counsellor was present at the
occasion.
MUSCAT
SCHOOL COUNSELLORS MEET AT
AMIDEAST
Mr.Preshob
and Dr.Benny Varghese
attended Muscat School
Counselor’s meet ON 10TH
May 2010 at AMIDEAST office
at Qurum to discuss the
strategies that counselors in
Muscat
schools need to adopt for
better delivery of services.
AMIDEAST Country Director
Sarah M Jackson hosted the
meeting. Counselor of
American
British
Academy
,
Muscat
is the coordinator of the
group.
HEALTH TALK
Series
of Health and Hygiene talks
were organized for girl
students of class V, VI, and
VII on 24th, 25th
and 26th of April
2010. Dr.Asha Renchit,
Dr.Priya Vasudevan and
Mrs.Bubli Vinoy spoke to the
students and imparted tips on
healthy living.
SCHOLARSHIPS
GUTECH
Mr.Preshob
Visited GUTECH
on 23rd May 2010
on an invitation and held
discussion to facilitate
scholarships for ISM students
who wish to pursue their
undergraduate studies at
GUTECH. Any student
interested in availing
scholarships for studies at
GUTECH may contact Mrs.Fatima
El Madkouri, assistant Head
Registration and Students
affairs at phone number 00968
24493349 for further details.
S
P
JAIN
CENTER
OF MANAGEMENT
Mr.Preshob
had a discussion with
Mr.Nityanand, Academic
Counselor of S P Jain Centre
for Management located at
Singapore
, and
Sydney
and few scholarships are
available for international
BBA offered by the institute.
Any one interested in may
write to k.anand@spjain.org
for further details.
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