Sports!

Its time to take stock of how things have been at the MIS over the past few years- as many of you have commented during the last year (at least thats how long this blog has been around) there is much room for discussion.

Hence this post, at the special request of our Representative, Vivek Bhushan. This note is just to start things off, but among the various points you may like to comment on, here are some:

Are you happy about the level of sports at MIS?

Facilities- are they adequate? Some more games? which ones?

How much of a balance is needed between sports and studies? In which classes?

Do give your feedback- this is most important- and let's try to emphasise the positive aspects of all sides of the system, namely the efforts of the teachers, parents, and most importantly, the students!

An Unusual Festival

कबाड़ से जुगाड़ : RECYCLING WORKSHOP

Kabaad se Jugaad is presented by Red Earth as part of The Monsoon Festival 4 in Association with British Council, Swechha & Lakshya

IN ONE-LINE: Learn to make beautiful things from waste.

DATES AND TIMINGS

Friday 4 September 2009
First Session: For Schools; 9 am to 12 Noon
Second Session: For General Festival Audiences; 4 pm to 7 pm

VENUE: British Council; 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001

ENTRY DETAILS: Free workshop. Register in advance.
Maximum number of participants: 50 per session
Maximum 10 participants from each school.
Event happening in outdoor area.
Participants should carry the following: hat; water, fruits / snacks.

Open to all ages.

Please also bring old newspapers and chips packets.
For registration contact
Lopamudra Sanyal / swechhaindia@gmail.com / 9958147041
Himanshu Verma / himanshu@redearthindia.com / 41764054

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

We produce increasing amounts of waste each year, using natural resources at a faster rate than ever and putting strain on the environment's capacity to deal with waste. Given the immediacy of the global environmental crisis, it becomes very important for each of us to think of relevant ways in which we can ease the pressures on resources and the planet.

One tangible way for each of us to go-green is to RECYCLE some of the waste we generate, in order to create new, beautiful and useable things. Lakshya, a Faridabad based organization that makes bags, belts from jute and waste cloth, and jewellery from waste plastic, help us understand ways in which each of us can recycle items that we normally send to the dustbin.

The Lakshya team teaches the audience to make durable paper bags from old newspapers, wallets and cell-phone purses from plastic wrappers, earrings from used plastic wrappers and other items from everyday waste.

Change of Guard

After the election on 22 August, we have a new Parent's Representative on the Management Committee. Vivek Bhushan is our new rep. for the year 2009-2010.

Brimming with ideas- as many of you already know, he organizes the sports every morning at the School, and has recently started the adults Yoga session. He has already had a meeting with the parents reps. from earlier years to take stock of long-standing issues and to reaffirm the values of the School. Which, you might like to recall, is what drew us to put our children in this School in the first place...

This blog will continue for the foreseeable future, and one can only hope that as the year passes more of you will participate by sending your comments, adding to posts, and so on.

Yoga for all

A parent has written in to draw attention to two facts. One, that there are a number of parent volunteers who take the time to coach MIS children who come for sports in the morning. It is largely due to these efforts that we have a diverse range of different sports that children can participate in, and get coached in.

A welcome offshoot of this is that parents who come to drop their children have the opportunity to take a yoga class themselves! This will go a long way in making the chore of dropping the kids off at school a bit sweeter. And healthier.

What's on the the MIS website

Since it can be difficult to find:

• The School Medical Team has addressed the students and advised them about precautionary steps to be taken against H1N1 infection.
  
• The school functioned smoothly today (11th August).
  
• No further case of H1N1 reported.
  
• Students should refrain from attending school only if they are genuinely ill.
  
• We expect the school to function in full strength from tomorrow, 12th August 2009.

10th August Notice

Just repeating what is on the School website:

• Attendance for students on Tuesday, 11th August 2009 and Wednesday, 12th August 2009 is not compulsory.
  
• While there is no need to panic, students suffering from cold, cough or fever should abstain from coming to school till they fully recover. Parents please take special care!
  
• Tests scheduled for 12th August, 2009 have been postponed till further notice.
  
• Students wishing to wear a clinical mask are allowed to do so.
  
• The fumigation of the primary section has already been executed.

The comment in red is mine.

H1N1

As many of you would have learned by now, one student of MIS Class 5 D has tested positive for the H1N1 virus. As a consequence, all students of 5D are advised to stay at home on Monday 10th August 2009.

Some pertinent facts. The student in question did not travel out of Delhi in the recent past, and neither, apparently, did anyone in the family. The student uses the MIS 16 bus to come to school. The fever was detected on August 5, namely Raksha Bandhan and the student has not come to school after that.

The School has taken all precautions as advised by the Delhi Health directorate. The rooms where the student is likely to have gone have all been fumigated. Every child in the class as well as many in the bus have been called up personally and given instructions on what precautions to take. Again, this is on the advice of the Directorate.

As a precautionary measure, classes for the Primary and Pre-Primary sections of the school will be suspended on Monday, August 10, 2009. Any further advisory will be posted on this site as well as on the website of the School, namely http://www.themis.in


Please call 011-23921401 if you have any doubts about H1N1: This is the number of the Outbreak Monitoring Cell.

For effectively monitoring and protecting our students, it is very important that you also stay alert. Parents are strongly advised not to send children to school in case of any uncertainty: in case your child is not fully well- please do not send them to school.