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European
sojourn
At
SBA, we believe in the holistic development of a
child. We try and introduce them to various aspects
of life. One of our endeavours is to make it possible
for them to appreciate and understand the cultures
of different nations.
One such expedition was to two beautiful European
destinations: Switzerland and Italy.
The
students visited Zurich and Luzerne, the lake
city, and the founding city of Swizerland.
The boys enjoyed the breathtaking beauty of snow
capped mountains and the ride by water-taxi on
the Venetian Lagoon. In Italy, it was the sermon
at the Vatican that held everyone spell bound!
This
tour to Europe was both educating and fun. The
students were accompanied by Mr.Felix Sanctis,
Mr. Lonappan, Mr. Sirohi and Mr. Mishra.
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Trip
to Janapada Loka
At
SBA, the overall development of the child is encouraged.
We visit places of educational importance to expose
the children to various cultural influences. Students
from grades V to VII visited Janapada Loka, a place
of heritage and folk culture of South India on 25
June 2008. Twenty students and three teachers had
an opportunity to visit the photo exhibition, museums
and the other places of interest.
The
students visited Lokamatha Mandira, a museum that
has a large collection of artefacts that represent
the
essence of Karnataka’s folk culture.
The students also learnt the art of pottery. They
were fortunate to watch master craftsmen at work.
The students learnt, and saw the process of making
earthern pots, right from the preparation of clay
to the firing of the pots in the kiln with great
enthusiasm.
It
was indeed a learning experience.
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Founder's
Day celebrations
Sarala
Birla Academy (SBA) celebrated its Founder’s
Day on 14 June, the birthday of SBA's Chairman,
Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla. It was also the academy’s
fourth birthday.
The
day began with a special assembly where Mr. Kumar
Mangalam Birla's achievements and SBA’s milestones
were highlighted. The day also marked the beginning
of the new student cabinet for the year 2008-09
and the leaders in the making took the oath on
this special day.
A
talent search program was organised by the staff
members and students. The program provided a platform
for new students to showcase their talents in
various fields. Performances included dances,
group songs, skits and mimes.
Sumptuous
food and a lavish spread of lip smacking delights
added flavour to the food festival. There was
a huge cake baked solely for the occasion!
The
2008 Founder’s Day celebration was truly
incredible.
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Impressions
2007
Sarala Birla Academy is hosting a two-day long cultural
fest: Impressions 2007 on 22 and 23 August 2007.
Click here
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Hindi
Hasya Kavi Sammelan
A Hasya Kavi Sammelan was organised under
the aegis of the Department of Hindi, Sarala Birla
Academy on 28 July 2007. It was an inter house event
and students from grades 7 to 11 participated. The
evening was filled with light humour and witnessed
many budding poets.
Diveyesh
Bhandari
of grade 10 was adjudged the best kavi of
the evening. In all, 12 participants recited poems
and earned praises from the audience. Click
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Pandit
Ajay Pohankar performs at SBA
The Sarala Birla Academy had the priviledge of having
the eminent classical singer of international repute,
Pandit Ajay Pohankar of the Kirana Gharana of Hindustani
music perform at the Academy on 12 February 2007.
Panditji, assisted by Sri. Raj Kumar Mudabi on tabla,
Dr. Rajeev on tanpura and our very own Sri K.K.
Mishra on the harmonium, conducted an exciting workshop.
He demonstrated different styles of singing and
interacted pro-actively with the students. The audience
was spellbound by the soulful rendition of his famous
song piya bavari, bhajans and thumris based on various
ragas like the bhairavi, mishra-khamaj etc.
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SBA Annual Day: 23 December 2006
The
Annual Day at Sarala Birla Academy is a big day
for students, staff and parents. The preparations
start almost a month before and everyone puts in
a lot of effort and tries to bring in the best.
The day's events started at 11 a.m with a special
assembly. Dr.Bruce Robinson, Principal, gave a brief
report on the happenings at the campus during the
academic year 2006-2007. Dr.Pragnya Ram, Member
of the Governing Council, addressed the gathering.
She spoke about the achievements of the school and
congratulated the students and staff for their contribution.
She also encouraged them to continue to work together
towards building an excellent educational institution.
In
the afternoon, parents had an opportunity to visit
the various exhibitions and admire the creative
output of their sons in various fields like art,
photography, sciences and social sciences.
Mr.
Sarnaik was the chief guest for the afternoon programme.
The events consisted of a colourful drill display
by grades 5, 6 and 7, march past by grades 8, 9
and 10 and a track and field events for students
and parents. The parents enthusiastically participated
in running, tug-of-war etc.
The day culminated in the cultural programme —
Seeds of Creativity. Seeds of Creativity was a blend
of the Indian and the western. Sabrang was an uplifting
show of India's culture through music and dance
from different
states
of the country. The school band Raves performed
for the first time at such a huge gathering. The
junior boys presented a foot-tapping western dance
Tequila Twist. The play Joseph was like icing on
the cake.
The
splendid music and dance performances by the students
were appreciated by one and all.
The hard work put in by the entire SBA family was
indeed very fruitful. Click
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SBA students to tour Malaysia and Singapore
Students from SBA will be participating in the
first overseas educational trip for the school
later this year. Approximately 60 boys accompanied
by faculty members will visit Malaysia and Singapore
for seven days. Some of the highlights of the
tour include:
| Malaysia |
Kuala
Lumpur City tour, National Science Centre,
Science planetarium, world's largest pewter
factory, batik factory, Batu caves, Genting
Highlands theme park and the Petronas towers. |
| Singapore |
City tour, Sentosa tour, Underwater World,
Merlion tower, musical performance, Jurong
bird park, night safari and shopping sessions. |
| Dates:
1 October to 8 October 2006 |
The
tour has been planned by Around the World Travel
and Tours, SBA's travel agency and the response
from SBA families has been very encouraging.
It is hoped that in the future, trips may be planned
to locations such as China, Egypt and Greece
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Macfair
International 2006
Macfair
International 2006 is an international event conducted
by City Montessori School, Lucknow. The competition
is a platform for students to showcase their talent.
Students from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Pakistan
and national schools of India participated in this
prestigious event. The event was very interactive
and students from Sarala Birla Academy were able
to mingle and make new friends. The names of the
students who took part in the event are as follows:
| Event |
Student |
| General
quiz |
Shreyankur
Tripathi
Apurva Gupta |
| Bite
your byte |
Vivek
Jain
Kapil Garg |
| Elocution |
Divyesh
Bhandari |
| Science
fiction writing |
Eshaan
Lazarus |
| Quinturdles |
Karan
Goenka |
| Cartooning |
Jay
Jetani |
| May
luck be yours |
Vivek
Jain |
| Maths
wizard |
Apurva
Gupta |
Jay
Jetani won the second prize for cartooning and
Karan Goenka won the third prize for quinturdles
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S.B.A.
wins first position in national group song competition
2006
The
Bharat Vikas Parishad, an internationally popular
NGO has been organising the national level group
song competition in various cities of the country
for the past forty five years.
This
year S.B.A participated at the Bangalore level
competition held at NMKRV College for Women on
19 August 2006. In 2004 and 2005, the school team
was placed third in this competition. This year
hard work and regular practice paid off and we
secured the first position.
The
uniqueness of this competition comes from the
fact that the organisers send the lyrics and the
school has to compose the music. Our song titled
"Utho jawan desh ki" was set
to music by Mr. K.K. Mishra. Eight members from
the school choir and three instrumentalists performed
in the competition with lots of enthusiasm. The
participants were Rishabh Mishra, Sai Nikhil,
Meet Shah, Vivek Jain, Ravin Garg, Anmol Jalan,
Vishal Srinivas and Vinay Sridhar. Shashank Gopal
on guitar, Mr. Rajkumar Mudabi (tabla teacher)
on tabla and Mr. K. K. Mishra on the harmonium
accompanied the vocalists.
The
team will now perform at the state level competition
on 15 October 2006 at Udupi.
Best
of luck school choir!
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Visit to Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath
The school had organised for 12 students from class
VI to X to visit the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath
on 12 August 2006. The boys had an opportunity to
view an exhibition of original paintings and sculptures
of renowned artists like Professor Nicholas Roerich
and his son Dr. Svetoslav Roerich. The students
also viewed works by old and contemporary artists
of Bengal and Karnataka. Our boys learnt a lot from
the detailed information shared by Ms. Anupama C,
the curator. The visit was a grand success and the
boys were very excited to see original artwork.
Visit to painting and sculpture studios
SBA's budding artists were honoured to visit the
work place of various painters and sculptors.
The boys had an opportunity to look at the amazing
creations and interact with the professors at
work. The professors were kind enough to share
a couple of techniques with the boys.
We
look forward to provide our budding artists more
such opportunities to gain experience so they
can learn through observation.
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Educational
tour 2006
In the first week of August, our boys will be
going on an educational tour. Grades V and VI
will be travelling to the historical city of Hyderabad.
Grade VII will be visiting Chennai and Pondicherry.
Grade VIII will be going to Mysore and Coorg.
Grade IX is visiting God's own country, Kanyakumari
and Trivandrum and our Grade X boys will enjoy
the sun and sand at Goa.
The boys are very excited. We hope that this will
be a learning experience for them and they will
have an enjoyable stay. We will post the photographs
of these tours once the students return.
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Inter-house dance competition
On
15 July 2006, the music department organised an
inter-house dance competition. Though the time given
for practice was short, all the houses practiced
very hard for the competition. The theme of dance
was Fusion. All the teams were aptly dressed and
danced very gracefully.
Vishal Somaiya, Abir Das, Shashank Gopal, Abhayjot
Chawla, Vinay Sridhar, Mohit Bhatiya, Ankit Daswani,
Raghav Fatehpuria, Jay Jethani, Shaurya Agarwal,
Shrey Sancheti and Akarsh Jalan of Bhaskar House
danced their way to victory. Martand, Vivasvan and
Aditya Houses secured second, third and fourth positions
respectively. All the participants were trained
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Inter-house
basketball
The defending champions, Bhaskar House, lift the
trophy again.
The school witnessed this year's most evenly-matched
basketball finals 10 July 2006. The struggle for
the cup was between Martand and Bhaskar houses.
Both the teams gave their best shot, playing with
all their might. Finally, Bhaskar house emerged
victorious. Vinay Sridhar, Vishal Somaiya, Harsh
Chauhan, Arjun Kannan, and Ankit Daswani represented
the winning team. Aditya and Vivasvan houses secured
the third and fourth position respectively.
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SBA inter-house competitions
On
1 July 2006, the Hindi department organised an inter-
house Hindi declamation competition. The topics
for the declamation were varied and interesting.
Some of the topics were — importance of books
(pustakon ka mahatva), woman is not helpless
(nari nahi bechari), importance of newspapers
(samachar patron ka mahatva) etc.
Aman Gour of Grade IX was adjudged the best speaker
followed by Raghav Fatehpuria and Madhav Goyal in
the second and third position respectively. The
Bhaskar house team consisting of Kshitij Agarwal,
Raghav Fatehpuria, Chaitanya Agarwal and Vatsal
Todi was adjudged as the best team. |
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Sporting extravaganza
The
students and staff of SBA were treated to a sporting
extravaganza when they got an opportunity to watch
the 2006 Fifa World Cup Final live on the big screen.
A huge screen was set up in the assembly hall and
the students and staff gathered to watch the big
match. Everyone was excited. Though it was past
midnight when the match got over there was no dearth
of enthusiasm among our students. They thoroughly
enjoyed every moment of the match. There were two
teams among the spectators, one religiously supporting
the hot favorites France and the other small group
of pasta (Italy) supporters.
Everyone at SBA enjoyed the match, no matter who
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Founder's
Day
We celebrated our Chairman, Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla's
birthday on 14 June 2006 as Founder's Day with a
special assembly to mark the day. Dr. Robinson addressed
the gathering and spoke about the values and principles
of the Birla institutions. Students spoke about
Mr. Birla's life and achievements. The school orchestra
performed on the occasion and the English choir
presented a beautiful and appropriate hymn, "Make
me a blessing to someone today." The community
felt truly proud to have such a renowned world leader
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Quiz
A series of competitions for the academic year 2006-07
began with the junior quiz competition on 17 June
2006. The participants were very enthusiastic, and
the competition tough. The quiz comprised of different
sections like knowing India, current affairs, infotainment,
and buzzer round. Martand house emerged as the winners
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Switching channels
Switching channels was an inter-house competition
held on 23 June 2006. It was a fun filled activity
with all the teams showing their best acting skills.
Aditya house stood first followed by Vivasvan, Bhaskar
and Martand house. |
Investiture ceremony
On 24 June, alongwith celebrating our achievers,
we had an investiture ceremony of the School Cabinet.
This was a surprise to everyone. SBA has formally
created the School Cabinet consisting of student
representatives. The School Cabinet comprises of
the school captain, prefect and sports captain,
along with a captain and a prefect for each of the
four houses. These members of the cabinet took a
pledge to uphold the values and principles of the
school. The cabinet members for the academic year
2006-2007 are:
| School
captain |
Animesh
Jain |
| Prefect |
Harshit
Verma |
| Sports
captian |
Vinay
Sridhar |
| Aditya
House |
| Captain |
Harsh
Kedia |
| Prefect |
Punit
Soni |
| Bhaskar
House |
| Captain |
Abir
Das |
| Prefect |
Vishal
Somaiya |
| Martand
House |
| Captian |
Abhishek
Agarwal |
| Prefect |
Prateek
Misra |
| Vivasvan
House |
| Captain |
Som
Budhabhatti |
| Prefect |
Eshaan
Lazarus |
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Inter-school
competitions
Frank Anthony memorial debate
Two
of our students, Eshaan Lazarus and Karan Goenka
participated in the Frank Anthony memorial debate.
The debate was held at St.Thomas Public School in
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Horlicks Wiz team 2006
SBA students participated in the Horlicks Wiz Kid
programme held on 29 and 30 June. The competitions
were in two categories — senior and junior.
Amartya Ghosh of Grade VII won the calligraphy competition
followed by Harshvardhan Kariwala in the second
position. Sakshik Makhija of Grade VIII secured
the first position in painting competition. Our
crossword team consisting of Sushant Shekhar, Chaitanaya
Agarwal and Mehaul Nagapurkar of Grade VIII held
the second position. Abir Das of Grade X secured
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Vistas 2006
Innisfree House School in collaboration with Rotary
Club organised a series of competitions called Vistas.
Rishabh Mishra of Grade VII won the first prize
in senior elocution. Anindo Ghosh of Grade V secured
the second position in junior elocution. Our team
of quizzers consisting of Venkat Rao, Anurag Singhi
and Krish Shah of Grade V held the second position.
Our
students are getting a good exposure by participating
in various interschool competitions and they have
managed to make their presence felt in all these
events.
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Chairman visits Sarala Birla Academy
Our
Chairman, Mr Kumar Mangalam Birla is actively involved
in the governance of the school and visits Bangalore
regularly to interact with the students and faculty.
On a recent visit, he talked with the students about
food, extra-curricular activities and the academic
programs. The students enjoy meeting with Mr. Birla
and there is a high level of excitement and enthusiasm
whenever he is on campus. Mr. Birla is very fond
of the peaceful and serene location of the campus
and demonstrates a genuine interest in the welfare
and academic progress of the students. During one
of his visits, he read through the academic reports
of each student and compared results over the past
year.
The
senior management team, staff and students of
Sarala Birla Academy feel very privileged to be
part of an organisation where the Chairman takes
such a demonstrative role in the governance of
the school and all members of the SBA family look
forward to his visits with great anticipation.
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New scholars welcomed in to the SBA fold
On 30 May 2006, more than 100 new enthusiastic
students along with their anxious parents were
given an official welcome at SBA. As of 12 June,
SBA has added 113 new student members to its family.
We expect another 10 to 12 new boys, taking our
numbers of new students up to 125 by July 2006.
The
new members of the family took some time to acclimatise
themselves. Our returning boys extended a helping
hand and guided them in settling in. The returning
boys also organised an informal welcome programme
for their new friends on 3 June. The students
entertained them by performing hilarious skits
and singing melodious songs.
On
the 10 June, the boys had an opportunity to rediscover
their school campus as they participated in a
treasure hunt. The winning teams have the privilege
of dining with Mrs. Sinha and Dr. Bruce Robinson.
The
academic program is now fully operational and
our students are focused on their studies. This
is a very special year for SBA as our Grade X
boys will sit for the board exams.
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