Mind Your Language

                        Mind Your Language

         Students of grades 6  have learnt  the correct pronunciation of words in British English during their English lab activity and how people from Spain, Italy,India and France speak English with different accents during Listening skills lessons in the  ICT lab. They did a  research  about the use of Hindi, French, Italian and Spanish words used in English. The children also made a dictionary with these words after their research about the Foreign  origin words. This learning activity culminated with a drama in the assembly. The Blair Peach Primary School children had a look at our dictionary and completed a word origin worksheet based on it. The same activity of identifying the etymology of the words were repeated for our in house children (Grade 8 & 9). The activity being a competition between  both the grades compelled them to give  their best. They faired well  with the team spirit pumping up their adrenaline, for a box of chocolates, Guess what? it was a tie! Both the grades scored 21 points. 

       Grade 7 and  8 were the audience for our Culmination drama of 'Mind your language' Students  enacted a play with characters from different countries speaking English using their own accents in the play. The skit was not only hilarious but it struck in a subtle way that language connects the world through its vanishing  boundaries.

Dictionary made by children.

 

Powerpoint presentation by children.

Mind Your Language skit.

 

Blair Peach Primary School January 2017 newsletter- An article about our school visit.

Mind Your Language performance during our school annual day- March 2017.

UN MOCK SESSION

The MOCK UN was held on February 13th for Grades 8 and 9.

Formal debate: How to solve the water crisis faced by some developing nations?

Discussion topics:

Are the nuclear tests and pollution caused by industrialised nations causing shifts in monsoons and global warming which are adversely affecting climate and rainfall in the affected countries?

Should the developed countries help in financing the water desalination plants and other sources of water supply in developing countries?

The participants were:

Chair- Secretary General: Amaan 

Moderator: Sai Srinitya 

Members of Dais:  Mira and Sanjana 

 All delegates spoke on the above topics relating topic to their own country.

Indian Delegate: Abhijit Chowdhury

Ethiopian Delegate:  Muthu Anand

Singaporean Delegate:  Swasthi R.Shankar

UAE Delegate:  Aruna

US Delegate:   Ashrita

Russian Delegate:  Aditya Ramlal

British Delegate: Hitesh 

French Delegate: Bhaibab Patra

Japanese Delegate: Pranav Srinivas

Rest of the class : Delegates from other nations.

Desalination

Clean, safe drinking water is scarce. Today, nearly 1 billion people in the developing world don't have access to it. Yet, we take it for granted, we waste it, and we even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles.

Water is the foundation of life. And still today, all around the world, far too many people spend their entire day searching for it.It’s hard for most of us to imagine that clean, safe water is not something that can be taken for granted. But, in the developing world, finding a reliable source of safe water is often time-consuming and expensive. This is known as economic scarcity. Water can be found...it simply requires more resources to do itIn other areas, the lack of water is a more profound problem. There simply isn't enough. That is known as physical scarcity.

The problem of water scarcity is a growing one. As more people put ever-increasing demands on limited supplies, the cost and effort to build or even maintain access to water will increase. And water's importance to political and social stability will only grow with the crisis.   To come over from the water crisis desalination is the best solution to solve the water scarcity.

Desalination is a process that removes minerals from saline water. More generally, desalination refers to the removal of salts and minerals from a target substance, as in soil desalination, which is an issue for agriculture. Saltwater is desalinated to produce water suitable for human consumption or irrigation.The different methods of desalination are Membrane desalination, Reverse osmosis, and Electro dialysis.

Our students have inculcated about the process of desalination to convert salt water as to potable water.The students have visited STP at our school and Desalination plant at Chennai.They thoroughly enjoyed the session and they had indeed experience about the process and they also understood the process to obtain fresh water from desalination and how sewage water is treated using STP.

Landforms/ God's own tourist attraction

Geography isn’t just an important subject that teaches children about the world around them but also enables them to appreciate Mother Nature' s graceful work at its best.

Gorgeous landforms have been created by forces of nature. People throng to these places to appreciate its formation and beauty.

This was the topic of research for our curious Grade 7 students. 

When studying Changing faces of the Earth in Geography, they explored different places in the world which had unique landforms  such as Sea caves of New Zealand, Sand dunes of Dubai, hot springs and the Himalayas. 

The students explored and researched extensively as to how these landforms were created and why these have become tourist attractions. 

They also made travel brochures showcasing the activities that can be done in these places because of their unique features such as hiking in the Himalayas or Camel rides.

They shared their findings with our partner school in Dubai through Skype and the outcome was indeed delightful as the children in that school were equally amazed about Nature's marvellous work. They shared the various landforms their country had. The session was very insightful and students enjoyed the experience.

Money Project

Money is an important concept that children should be taught. During the growing years, the knowledge children have about money is very limited.

Schools and parents wish to pass on more information regarding this but unfortunately do not find time to educate the children in an appropriate way. Eventually learning  about money happens through experience.

To inculcate the interest to learn more about money, our school celebrated the Entrepreneurs day where children sold home made food/ hosted a game and learnt hands on money transaction.

In this world of globalisation, traveling to several countries is inevitable. In order to educate our children about the currencies across the world, we conducted a Money museum event where children displayed currencies of different countries. The children compared their value and the material they were made.

Our grade 4 students were also taken to a Forex branch to understand the currency value. The children were enthralled to learn so much about money. Their interest was kindled and their boring Math class transformed into a journey of exploration and learning.

Mr. Siddharth Sivasailam, a numismatics expert  interacted with students of grades 4 to 8 and shared his knowledge about coins and money from different countries.

About School

We believe that learning can be inspired by almost anything and everything around children. Nature, people, colors, technology are all a part of this learning and we bring this holistic & refreshing approach into our classrooms.