Setu Shiksha Jyoti Kendra - ( Formal School)

Dear Reader,

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!!!

Hope you will enjoy reading this magazine. This quarter was very eventful and hectic too. Being festive season of Dushera, Diwali and Christmas, we celebrated all at Setu and had enjoyed with young children and hope our volunteers too had a great time being with us.

School Activities

Setu Diwali Mela: Like every year this year also we had a big gathering at Setu School for Diwali Mela on 18^th October. Senior students and teachers managed the show. We had volunteers from Met Life, Birla Soft and Dalmia Bharat Ltd. They all participated in Mela with full interest and tried to make it full enjoyable for our students. It’s a most awaited event for our students. They are involved in games and decoration which gives them sense of responsibility and they learn while doing it.  

Children day cum Annual day: Setu celebrated its Annual day cum children’s day on 15^th Nov. Function started by lightening of the lamp by our chief guest Ms. Kusum Bhatt, Mr. Arun Agarwal and Principal Indira Kaul along with young students of class nursery. With inspiring and confident anchoring done by Ritu and Sujata of class IX program started with vandana followed by dances and action songs from junior classes and skit and dances by elder ones. Students from all classes participated in this event. Everybody got a chance to show their talents.

After cultural program award ceremony started. Houses were given trophy on their performance basis. Through out the year each house was given marks and on that basis Quartz house took the rolling trophy followed by Emerald house and Sapphire and Topaz house.

Master Atul Excellence Award of the academic year 2013-14 was given to Neelam of class VIII, Neha of class VI and Kiran of class 1^st. Finally the teachers also performed for the student’s entertainment.  

Christmas celebration at Setu: We celebrated Christmas on 23^rd December 2014 at Setu. Fancy dress competition was organised for juniors while senior students performed on the topics given to them.  All participants did marvellous job. distributed sweets to all the students and everybody enjoyed the ocassion. 

Airtel Marathon: On 23^rd November Setu employees participated in Airtel marathon. They all participated with full enthusiasm. It was more like an outing for all of us.

Health Camps : With the help of Max India Foundation we were able to immunise our students with typhoid, Hepatitis B 1 and 2. Camps were organised on 11^th Nov, 2^nd December and 16th December. We are thankful to Max Foundation for helping our students.

Corporate Activities: Our students were invited by Dalmia Bharat on 1^st October on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti celebration at their Noida office. Our students had prepared a skit on Gandhi’s ideology and its scenario in present time. It was appreciated by all the employees. Such events give our students a platform to showcase their talents.

Students were invited at IBN 7 and Dell Noida for diwali celebration. Our students performed dances and enjoyed with their employees. Diwali gifts were given to our students.

Activities conducted by Corporate at Setu : Sports day was organised by Dell for school students. They had conducted three legged race, lemon race, and frog race for junior classes, musical chair and relay race for senior classes. Students were given prizes at the end of the event. All students participated with full interest and teachers were also equally participative

PVR conducted workshop for our students on Health and Hygiene on 3^rd and 4^th Nov for class 7^th and 8^th. They were taught through activities like collage making, poster making and paintings. Students expressed their views through these activities. 

Ladies from Sandesham visited Setu on 13^th Nov on the occasion of Children’s day. They had invited Amity students for the function. Amity students also performed a skit on healthy food habits. Our students were happy to interact them. Our students performed cultural program for them.  

Adventure Camp: On 16^th November our 10 students and one teacher went for adventure camp to Aligarh. The whole trip was sponsored by Mr. Arun Agarwal resident of sector 31, Noida. He took initiative in organising the event with the support of his friends and RWA of sector 31. They started at 8.30 in the morning by bus and came back by 6.00 in the evening. Activities included bullock cart ride, camel ride, wall climbing, rope climbing and many more. Children participated very enthusiastically and they also shared their feeling and said, “This is our best Sunday of our life. We will never forget this moment”. They didn’t want to come back.

Workshops: On 29^th November 2014 workshop on presentation Skills was conducted by our chief trustee Mr. Ravi Kaul, for school teachers. It was one day workshop in which they were given inputs on how to improve their presentation skills. A Maths workshop was organised by Smile Foundation on 18^th and 19^th Dec at Delhi.  Our senior maths teacher Ms. Nibedita Behra attended the workshop. She learnt how to use maths kit provided by them. Its Jodo gyan kit which is very simple to use for maths concepts. Now Nibedita madam will be taking it forward and train our school teachers.

Inter School participation:

Setu students participated in a drawing competion held at Noida stadium on 28^th November. Students won first and third prize in the competition.

School Volunteering: In this quarter Mayoor School visit was organised for five times.  On 7th Nov they came for Maths activity, on 11^th November they came for Eng activity, on 5^th December they came for social studies and 12^th and 18^th December they came for science activity.

On 14^th November 200 students from Ramagya School visited Setu School. They interacted with our students. It was one to one interaction. It was for the first time they came to our school. We also participated in their Christmas carnival.

On 20^th December our students went to Shri Ram Millennium School for Heritage Fair. Class VIII and IX students along with social science teacher Ms. Manisha Pandey went for this educational trip. They get an opportunity to see how fairs are organised along with knowledge they gained from there.

Mayoor School invited our 20 students for their Christmas carnival. Our two teachers accompanied them.  Our KG students performed a dance at the carnival which was appreciated by all the audience and they wanted to repeat the show. Students enjoyed the rides and food at Mayoor School.

Special thanks to Mayoor School for supporting us in getting furniture for our new building. Their students contributed for the cause through “Paint for Setu”. Students from class 1^st to 8^th participated in painting competition. They were judged 1^st, 2nd and 3^rd class wise and medals and certificates were given to them.