Important Notices

THE MOTHER’S INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

SRI AUROBINDO MARG, NEW DELHI

NO ENTRY WITHOUT AUTHORISATION FROM THE

SCHOOL OFFICE RECEPTION THROUGH GATE NO. – 8

Only members of the faculty and students in school

uniform/students attending morning games will be allowed

to enter by showing their Identity cards.

By the order of the Management

THE MOTHER’S INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

SRI AUROBINDO MARG, NEW DELHI-16

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Our school office has been shifted to the southern side of the “Hall of Grace” and is

functional on all working days between 8.00 A.M. and 3.30 P.M.

Visitors should enter the school campus by the GATE No. 3 ONLY located on Sri

Aurobindo Marg and proceed to the reception area as marked on the western side of

the Hall noting that no entry would be allowed to the main school building without

authorization.

All – Especially parents/ guardians are sincerely requested to cooperate. Any one

wishing to seek appointment with Principal, Vice Principals, members of the faculty

etc., may kindly approach the office reception.

By the order of the Management

Our Representative's Note

Mr Vivek Bhushan, our representative in the Managing Committee has put up the following proposals for discussion at the forthcoming meeting. Please send in your comments either to this post or to him directly.

To the Chairman
Mothers International School
New Delhi-110016



Dear Sir

As a parents representative, after due consultation with other parents, the following is the submission for timely intervention by the board.

• The interaction between the parent’s teachers and the students needs to be relooked in the following areas
  
  • Studies
  • Extra curricular activities
  • Sports
  • Attitudes in life keeping our past inheritance of value based education in mind.

• Reformatting of inter-house spirit for nurturing leadership in both students and teachers
• A systematic change for reestablishing value based education as the present generation of M.I.S students need intervention both from teachers and parents.
• A system in place to reorient and reallocate teacher responsibility based on skills aptitude and inclination. This should be done by putting in place a systematic mechanism for building a team with one voice that thinks only for the good of our children.
  

Best regards
Vivek Bhushan

Notice from the Principal, about Buses.

Here is a copy of a letter from the Principal, The Mother’s International School. This concerns all parents whose children use the bus service.


Circular for parents regarding withdrawal of DTC Bus Services

Dear Parents,

It has been possible for the School to provide regular bus service for transportation of children to and from school in the past, for nearly a decade with the help of the services of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC). The present Contract with DTC expires on the 31st of March, 2010. The advance for the month of April, 2010 was sent along with the request for renewal of the contract on 10 th March, 2010. Regretfully, the payment was not accepted by the Corporation, and we were verbally informed that the Contract shall not be renewed for our School.

We also understand, unofficially, that the transport facility is being withdrawn by the DTC to our School and a few others, while for the rest of the Schools the facility shall be continued.

We are prompted to share our anxiety with the parents, regarding this development which would affect nearly fifteen hundred children of our school and cause untold misery to students and parents in the ensuing summer weeks. In the meantime we request you to kindly make alternate arrangements for the transportation of your child to and from school, for the new academic session, 1 st April, 2010 onwards.


While we are taking this serious matter up directly with the DTC as well as with other Authorities, we would like to keep you informed of the further developments. We hope that our joint efforts would bear fruit, and that the DTC shall agree to continue the Bus Service without interruption.

Hoping for your full support and cooperation in the matter.

With my best regards,

(signed) Principal
16 March 2010

One step forward

Last Saturday, a group of parents got together to discuss how to improve things (not that anything in particular is doing very poorly!) in the School. This included this year and last year's parents' representatives in addition to something like eight others. The Principal and other members of the Management were also there.

Of course its too early to give any specifics, but basically there was considerable discussion on various matters that pertain to the well being of our children. And much discussion on what we, as parents, can do. And on teachers and teaching. And on Sports.

There is a lot that can be done, of course. And here is a place to air your opinions. Please write in.

Facebook and other networking sites

As many of you would have learned, there is some concern about the use/abuse of Facebook and other social networking sites by our children.

What do parents feel about this? What do they know? And what about the children? Are they aware of how the social networking sites manipulate people and data?

Some discussion on this matter would be good.

Integral Learning

The concept of Integral Learning - something that MIS followed in earlier days- could still be relevant in today's context. There are experts on this mode of education in Auroville and they do this for a living.

Can we harness this resource to get back the lost glory at MIS? Follow the links below to learn more about it, and write back with your comments to this post!

• http://www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/Colleagues/files/links/IntegralLearning.pdf
• http://www.auroville.org/education/edu_centres/ilc.htm

A Sports Policy for MIS

Vikram Singh, a parent who is also in charge of Sports at the JNU writes in about a possible sports policy for MIS that came up in a discussion of the parents who participate in the morning sports activities at the School.

Health, Physical Education and Sports play important role in realizing the outcomes of physically, mentally, socially, emotionally and spiritually fit personality. The robust education has to be created and inculcated into the physical soil of the child, nurtured through interaction with the parents, teachers, peer group and the community. The father of modern Olympic Games Baron Pierre de Coubertin had said that “Physical Education is the integral part of the total education process”.

Hence it is imperative to conduct the sports training and fitness related programs in a systematic, scientific and pedagogical way. Eminent educationists have clearly marked the role of Health & physical education, arts, creativity, peace education and other allied subjects in the National Curriculum Framework-2005. We see that the Government of India has taken a small step towards decreasing the academic load by making class tenth board exams optional to make way for the co-curricular activities.

All the teacher training curriculums are going under modifications for the sake of joyful learning and development of the life-skills. Even the corporate sector is incorporating the yoga and fitness classes so as to improve the employee productivity and check increasing health related expenses of their employees.

Mothers International School is a place where we find one of the most organized and receptive human beings, whose habits and attitude can be changed, modified and improved and are at the appropriate age to do so because once the habits are formed they generally stay with the person for ever.

Thus MIS parents have thought of framing the sports policy that can be a guideline for the future programs so that the MIS students can become an asset to the society rather than a liability and they are able to become future leaders championing the cause of the great visionary Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It is strongly felt that there can be no better service than to produce the men and women of action and wisdom with the best quality of head and heart so that our children are better future citizens.

Accordingly, a sports policy for MIS is proposed as under:

1. To make the sports activities more systematic and satisfying for the students.
2. To improve upon the parents and all teachers participation in the sports and physical education programs
3. To carry out regular fitness camps for the MIS community.
4. To organize more and more extramural and intramural sports activities to build up confidence and leadership qualities amongst the students through exposure.
5. To contribute to the “INTEGRTED LEARNING” concept through wholesome experiences.
6. Create new and upgrade the existing sports infrastructure on campus.
7. To nurture talent for higher pursuits of excellence in sports and physical education.
8. To organize sports activities/competitions exclusively for the girls.
9. To organize sports activities/competitions for the otherwise able students.
10. To engage more and more talented coaches and parent volunteers for organizing sports in the morning (before school), during school hours and in the evening.
    
11. To encourage students to take up allied issues like NCC, NSS, SCOUT and GUIDES etc.

Please write in with your reactions, or call him at 9868614409