Paavan Aggarwal of Amity International School, Noida, won the third annual Spelling Bee competition sponsored by the US Embassy’s American Center in New Delhi.

The centre collaborated with Merriam-Webster, publisher of America’s best-selling English dictionary to find the best speller in North India.

Students from around 50 schools participated in this year’s Bee, which kicked off at St Columba’s School in New Delhi in November. The second round was held at Amity in Gurgaon while the third took place in Chandigarh in December.

The best spellers from each round met for the Final at the American Center where Paavan Aggarwal bagged the title of the spell bee. The runners up included Soumya Singh of G D Goenka World School, Gurgaon and Kiran Hans, a 9th standard student of Amity Internatioal School, Saket. They stood second and third respectively.

Anne Seshadri, director of the American Centre gave the reason for starting the competition in India. “We noticed that Indian-American’s were winning the US Spellbee. 8 of the 10 winners of US ‘Spellbee’ were Indian-American so we thought why not start it in India?”

The three finalists were presented with Dell Laptops while all the participants got a copy of the Webster dictionary.

By: Pooja Narula
Bhakti Vaidant Trust and Iskon Mandir organized a Shlok Recitation Competition on the occasion of Geeta Jayanti on Friday. The school students recited shloks of Bhagwat Gita beautifully and won the “running trophy” for their over all performance.

While Father Agnel came first, ASN Senior Secondary School of Mayur Vihar won the second prize, and Bharti Public School won the third prize.

Father Agnel School has been a champion for 3 consecutive years. Students of Father Agnel presented the naughty childhood memories of “Lord Krishna” beautifully. According to the Chairman of the trust, the students truly deserved the running trophy.

In the junior category, Marry Gold School won the 1^st prize, Father Anglo School won the second prize and ASN Senior School won the third prize.

460 students of 28 schools participated in the programme. Apart from the Shlok Recitation Competition, students also participated in article writing and Lord Krishna painting competition.

By: Pooja Narula

With winter approaching, the number of swine flu cases are increasing rapidly. School students of Noida have been hit hard by the H1N1 virus.

Cambridge school declared a 4 day holiday after a class XI student was found to be suffering from the deadly flu. The school also issued a notice that students suffering from cold, cough and high temperature should stay at home and get checked by a doctor.

The Vice Principal of the School was alerted by the sick student’s parents, of his condition after which the school authorities sent his friends for testing as well.

The school will reopen on Monday.

Students of other schools like Lotus Valley, Vishva Bharti, APJMT, and Summer Valley etc. have also fallen prey to the HINI virus.

DPS, Apeejay, Cambridge and Amity have entered the semifinals of the Girls Football Tournament beating various other schools of Noida and Greater Noida.

On the second day of the District Football Girls Tournament, Apeejay and Cambridge won the league matches. Apeejay won against Ryan International with a score of 3-0 in which students – Jaya, Deeksha and Asaf scored one goal each.

The second match was played between Father Agnel Noida and DPS Greater Noida, which ended in a draw.

Cambridge and KVS Noida played the third match in which Divya from Cambridge scored the 2 winning goals.

The teams for the semi finals were declared after the league matches got over.

The semifinals, which take place today, will start with DPS Noida and Apeejay followed by a second match between Cambridge and Amity School.

The Finals will take place this afternoon where the winner of the District Football Girls Tournament will be declared.

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Cambridge School Noida celebrated Science and Maths Day where students exhibited their  innovative projects and took part in many interesting competitions.

The competitions included book cover designing using geometrical shapes, maths puzzles games and many more!

A symposium was also held in which students of Classes XI and XII participated. Ashish Bera of class XII D won the first prize while his classmate Prabudh bagged the second prize. Aakun Garg recieved the third prize.

JBM Global School, Noida, launched a weeklong sports carnival at the newly built sports complex.

Kapil Dev, former captain of Indian Cricket team, inaugurated it. Vijender Singh, World Boxing Champion and Sushil Kumar, silver medalist at Olympic Games in wrestling and Dronacharya Awardee Mahapali Satpal, Additional Director (Sports) , Directorate of Education, Government NCT of Delhi graced the occassion as guests of honour.

A brief cultural programme was also arranged in honour of the guests.