1 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 VOLUME VI ISSUE 3 January 2018 - April 2018 2 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 INDEX 1. Principal’s Message 3 2. Zydus on the Go 4 3. Campus Hullabaloo 16 Interhouse 4. 27 Competitions 5. Playgroup in Action 33 6. Students’ Corner 37 3 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Dear Readers, Greetings! Once again, I take this privilege to address you all through our E-Magazine ‘ ZEN’. M y heartiest congratulations to all the students for their performance in the past session. I am sure each one of you must have learnt skills to be better human beings. As you embark on a new journey in the session 2018-19, I pray that you continue to persevere and push your boundaries to scale new heights. We strongly believe in healthy home school partnership in bringing up a balanced human being. We began the academic year with our Parent O rientation programs for classes Sr.Kg to X and XII. These successful sessions with parents, where we had fruitful interactions and sharing, helped us in deciding certain changes needed to facilitate our children actualize their potentials. Children, I hope you will utilize the summer holidays for a perfect break from school but not from learning. This time should be best utilized by reading books, t aking up a sport or a creative hobby. Socialize with friends and family in real time rather than virtually. I am sure you will make the best of this month and a half and come back rejuvenated for another successful innings in school. My best wishes to all the students awaiting the Board results. “There will be obstacles, there will be doubts, there will be mistakes, But with Hard Work, there are no limits.” G od bless you!!! Alka Murthy Principal 4 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 SPORTS Kritee Shah is a talented chess player. She has always secured a position for herself in the arenas of chess. In the Jit o Games she bagged the first position. The Jito Games for Chess was held at the Rajpath Club on 5/2/18. She also won accolades at the ASIAN YOUTH Chess Championship. Shito Ryu Karate Champs Hosvan Ginwala bagged a Gold medal in 14th All Gujarat State Level Shito Ryu Karate Championship 2018 held on 11th February 2018. Pris ha Joshi has won the Silver medal in the Shito Ryu Karate championship which was held on 11th February 2018. Prisha always had an interest in martial arts. With practice and perseverance she has progressed remarkably in this field. 5 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 Yas hvi Chauhan (Class V) is a budding star in the field of Dance & Figure Roller skating. Following are her achievements- 6 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 Ni shk Davawala has won silver medals in swimming in the Jito games. The details are as follows- Free Style-50 M, Backstroke- 50 M, Breast Stroke-50 M & Butterfly Stroke- 50 M. Nishk is going for national at NSCI (N ational Sports Club of India) in Mumbai in May. He er Sheth is also a champion who has come out successful in the swimming competition. She has also won accolades for herself. She has received Bronze medal in the following- Backstroke- 50 M, Breast Stroke-50 M, Butterfly Stroke-50 M & Free Style-50 M OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS SCIENCE SKIT COMPETITION AT VASCSE (Vikram Sarabhai Ccommunity Centre for Space Edu cation) The show was held on 22-23 January 2018.Painting and Quiz competitions were also held. Students from Zydus School For Excellence were active participants in it. The participants for the science skit competition were Shreya Mittal (IX), Kavvya Chedda (IX), Kashish Goplani (IX), Divyansh Sharma (IX), Pranjal Doshi (VIII) & Darshan Talati (VI). In the Painting competition at VASCSE, Subhojit Roychowdhary of class 7B got the first Prize. His topic was Vacation in Space. Keya Kakkad and Dhwanit Madrasi both won the second prize. 7 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 Divit Kakariya of class 1 A (2017-18) secured the 3rd rank across Ahmedabad in the Logical Reasoning Exam conducted in our school premises during month of December 2017. Faber Castell National level Art Contest-2017-18 All children from Std 1st to Std 7th participated in Faber Castell competition 2017-18. 1) Namya Chheda of Class – 2 C in Group A won National Prize -Faber Castell All India Calendar Art Contest 2017-18 and won Trophy, American Tourister bag, colour kit & Word scrabble game. 2) Ishanvi Bharadwaj of Class – 3 A in Group B won National Prize – Faber Castell All India Calendar Art Contest 2017-18 and won Trophy, American tourister bag, colour kit & Kindle. Namya & Ishanvi's paintings are published in yearly calendar of Faber Castell 2017-18. Camel Art Contest -2017-18 All children from Jr. to Std 8th participated in the Camel Art contest. 1) Aanya Thacker- Std 6- A got 2nd prize in Group D Zonal Level. 2) Mahek Kothari- Std 7-A got 3rd prize in Group E Zonal Level. 3) Aashka Shah – Std 1- C got Appreciation prize in Group B Zonal Level. They received certificates and trophies. 8 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 Aryan Tewari of class IX participated in the "Open National Championship of Mars Source" online program by International Math Bee Google CODE-IN. He successfully completed 4 The competition was held on 28th tasks and won a T-shirt and January 2018 at Dayanand Sagar a certificate . College of engineering at Bangalore. Ms Mihika Chokhadia a brilliant scholar of Zydus School,Vejalpur has won the national Championship of MaRRs international MATH BEE . She won the first prize, ranking first in the competition and was awarded a cash prize of five thousand rupees. NSEJS Certificates Shayan Patel, Class 4 and Sivan Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education and K, Class 8 have been declared as the Research (HBCSE) in association with the Indian Sparkie Champ (National level) for Assoc iation of Physics Teachers (IAPT) organises sparkling performance in the National Science Exam in Junior Science Mindspark (15th January - 21st (NSEJS) for school students of class VIII & IX. 44 January 2017). stude nts (academic session 2017-18) appeared for National Science Exam in Junior Science (NSEJS) during November 2017. IAPT gives certif icates to top 10% of students from each centre. 4 students from our school were awarded certificates. Their names are as follows : 1. Jay Parikh 2. Ayaan Shaikh 3. Aryan Tiwari 4. Dhairya Shah 9 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 SCHOOL NATIONAL LEVEL ACHIEVERS HUMMING BIRD SPELL BEE - 2017-2018 GOLD MEDAL 1 RAGHAV DALAL GRADE 1 2 NAVIN NAIR GRADE 2 3 AADYAA KEKRE GRADE 3 4 MEGHAV LADANI GRADE 3 5 PRIYANSHI SHAH GRADE 4 6 JUI BHATT GRADE 4 7 AGASTYA RAGHVAN GRADE 5 8 MIHIKA CHOKHADIA GRADE 6 9 JISHNU SEN GRADE 7 SILVER MEDAL 1 PEARL MASHRUWALA GRADE 1 2 ISHANVI BHARADWAJ GRADE 3 3 RIDHAAN PATEL GRADE 3 BRONZE MEDAL 1 DIVIT KAKARIYA GRADE 1 2 JESAL AVATTHI GRADE 3 3 DEVAAN MEHTA GRADE 3 HANDWRITING OLYMPIAD Meg hav Ladani of class III participated in the Zonal Level Handwriting Olympiad and was selected to represent Gujarat- at State Level at Indore. He won the State Champ Trophy, certificate and gifts. YOUNG AUTHOR AWARDS-2017 10 ZEN Volume VI Issue 3 As a part of the YOUNG AUTHOR AWARDS-2017, conducted by The School Post, our school sent in a whopping 62 entries for competition in the two different categories- i.e. Classes IV to VII- the Junior Category and classes VIII to XII- the Senior Category. The School won the ‘Runners Up Trophy’ for its commendable participation as well as pe rformance. Fourteen of our students made it to the List of Honor in this event. They are: 1. Chelsy Ghiya (V) 8. R iddhi Bobda (VIII) 2. Vrisha Mehta (V) 9. Shashvat Sheth (IX) 3. Shlok Raghwani (V) 10. Kavisha Parikh (X) 4. Mihika Chokhadia (VI) 11. Shachi Vaghela (X) 5. Sanidhya Shah (VII) 12. Sana Lokhandwala (X) 6. Yami Gandhi (VII) 13. Shruti Sinha (XI) 7. Anshul Banker (VIII) 14. Achintya Baghela (XI) We have published some of these stories in the “Students’ Corner” section of the magazine.