Rivers of the World 2009

E very year, the Mayor of London hosts the Thames

Festival to celebrate the River Thames of which the
English are very proud. Schools from selected cities
of the world are invited to participate. What all these cities
have in common is a river: each has one flowing past it.
This year, Kolkata on the Hooghly was one of the cities
selected, and Garden High was one of the schools invited to
participate in the Rivers of the World Workshop 2009,
organized by the British Council as a part of the Thames
Festival Art Project.
A painting workshop, in which 20 pupils participated, was
conducted on the School premises from 3–5 June.
The Working River — the various ways in which a river
helps us to do our work and the various activities for which we
use a river — was the theme set. The pupils were to use water-
colours, and paint in the Indian miniature style: flat colours,
thin lines, and stark contrasts. Mr Pulak Ghosh and Mrs
Tandra Chandra from the British Council briefed them on
the unique features of Indian miniature painting and showed
them several examples.
The participants completed their task, working from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (3 p.m. on the last day) for 3 days. All the
paintings were then digitalized and compiled into a single
collage. The final print (see left) measured 10 ft by 4.5 ft.
A smaller copy of the final collage was exhibited, together
with similar panels prepared by other participating schools, at
the OXO Gallery in London on 8 September. The larger
panels were exhibited on the South Bank of the Thames
during the Festival. In December this year, this exhibition
will be brought to the Birla Industrial & Technological
Museum, Kolkata.
Garden High’s partner school in this project is The
London Nautical School. This interaction programme will
enable the pupils of Garden High to initiate and remain in
contact with their counterparts in the London school. The
exchange of ideas is expected to lead to a better understand-
ing of each other’s culture and way of life.
The pupils who participated in the workshop were:
8B: Priyama Mazumder, Ankur Rao
8C: Upamanyu Banerjee, Sayantan Basu, Sohini Mandal
8D: Indrani Biswas, Shwetha Sikdar, Sanhita Guha
9A: Rajnandini Das, Rebeka Mukherjee, Arunita Roy,
Anupam Sinha Roy
9B: Devapriya Joddar, Budhaditya Chowdhury, Rohan Deb
9C: Rajoshi Ghorai, Wasif-Ur Rahman, Reshmi Roy,
Sampurna Sardar, Asmita Mukhopadhyay
 Inter-School
Debate Competition
Date: 7 May
Organizer: Sri R. N. Singh
Memorial High School
Venue: Sri RNSM High School
Subject: India is too soft in dealing
with terrorists
Participants from GHS: Satyajit
Mallick 11A & Arnesh Bhattacharya
11A
Both spoke well. GHS was placed
first with Arnesh Bhattacharya
winning the Best Speaker award.

Rivers of the World Contact Seminar Albert Barrow

Essay Competition
T he Rivers of the World Contact
Seminar, a part of the
Connecting Classrooms programme,
school presented an A3-size display,
and its delegates spoke of the
priorities of the school, its
Date & Time: 17 June, 9.30 a.m.
Organizer: CISCE, New Delhi
was held in London from 7-13 expectations, and vision. Education School Venue: Library
September. Mrs Rajashri Biswas, systems of India, Hungary, and UK Participants from GHS: Amitrajit
Headmistress GHS, and Mrs Susan were also discussed. Sarkar 9A, Arunita Roy 9A, Nupur
Jachuck, Project Coordinator GHS, On the second day, 10 September, Chowdhury 9B, Aishi Bala 9C,
were part of the 13-member a discussion was held on joint Rajoshi Ghorai 9C, Priyanjana
delegation from India. The curricular projects by our delegates Pramanik 10A, Sukanya Dey 10A,
delegation arrived in London on and teachers of the partner Shinjan Mitra 10B and Sukanya
7 September. 12 delegates from institution – Ms Melanie Lucking Gupta 10B.
Hungary and 24 representatives from and Mr Lawrence Marsh of The Each pupil was given one hour to
the partner schools in the UK also London Nautical School.
prepare his/her essay on the topic
attended the Seminar. Mrs Biswas and Mrs Jachuck
chosen and two hours to write it.
The Rivers of the World 2009 visited The London Nautical School
exhibition (see page 1) was on 11 September. They went around
We warmly welcome the following
inaugurated on 8 September at the School and were taken on a river
members of staff to the Garden
6 p.m. at the OXO Gallery. The cruise along with 30 pupils and the
High family:
digitalized collages of the Governor of the School. Rakhis were
participating schools from India, distributed to the pupils, much to Aditi Chatterjee Preparatory
France, Hungary, and UK were their delight, and the group visited Tanusree Mitra Class 4
displayed and delegates met the Tower Bridge Exhibition.
Soumika Bardhan Commerce
representatives from their partner On 12 September, delegates were
schools. taken from St Katherine’s Dock on a Utsha Ray Commerce
On 9 September, the first day of river cruise on the Thames. Promot- Manasi Mukherjee EVE
the Contact Seminar, held in the ing the Thames as an arena for all, Jayashree
Prince Albert Room of the Park the Thames Pageant sees river-users Chakraborty History
of all kinds join a
programme-packed Sangita Chakrabarty EVE
river display, Parama Bose Computer
including working Valentine Morgan
tugs, steam tugs, Redden Music
private yachts,
fireboats, and Dipanwita Bose Mathematics
pleasure boats. Sutapa Datta Mathematics
On the last day, Chayanika Ghosh History
13 September, our
delegates visited Sumana Datta Bengali
the Thames Sanchita Dawn Bengali
Festival on the Sarita Sarkar Hindi
South Bank of the
Swatilekha
Thames before
Bhattacharya EVE
flying back to
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 Science Workshop
I n a laudable attempt to promote
interest in science among pupils,
and to improve the teaching of
science in general, a group of senior
school, college, and university
teachers, and scientists have set up
the Centre for Promotion of Science
Education with Dr J. Bhattacharya,
Senior Professor, Satyen Bose
National Centre for Basic Sciences,
as the President, and Dr P. Ray,
Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Calcutta University, as the Secretary.
The Centre is presently located at
GHS. The aim is to hold regular
interactive sessions with pupils, and
regular meetings and workshops for
all interested schoolteachers to
encourage them to teach not a
particular prescribed textbook but
the subject concerned through
simple, easily set-up, and inexpensive
experiments and demonstrations.
The first interactive session was
held with pupils of GHS on
27 October from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
It comprised:
(a) Demonstrations for Classes 8 &
9C:
Chemistry: preparation of oxygen
from KMnO4
Physics: reflection; total internal
reflection; variation of pressure with
depth
(b) Group discussion with Class 11A
on various problems related to
Mathematics and Science subjects.
Scholastic Book Fair
23-24 March & 15-23 September:
Like every year, Scholastic organized
book fairs exclusively for parents and
pupils of the School on the ground
floor of the Hexagon. Books on all
subjects, from science to literature,
popular fiction to classics, reference
to art, were on view. As usual the
fair attracted a lot of visitors and
buyers.
10 May: Promit Guha 5E, who
plays for the Rajasthan Royals
(U-10), won the Man of the Match
award in the final against Chennai
Super Kings played on the grounds
of the Mainland-Sambaran Cricket
Academy.
Promit had done the School proud
last year also by winning a trophy at
the National Maths Olympiad.
ICSE Examination 2008–09
Summary of the results of the first batch of pupils of this School
No. of pupils appeared 43
No. of pupils passed 43
No. of pupils securing above 90% 25 (58.13%)
No. of pupils securing 80% – 90% 14 (32.56%)
Highest (School) 98.6%
Lowest (School) 76.0%
Mathematics
Workshop
Date: 7 & 20 November
Time: 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Venue: Hexagon
Participants: Classes 9A & 9B
Conductor: Mr Gautam Biswas,
Department of Computer Science &
Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
Objective: Introduction to a set of
important mathematical problems
not usually dealt with in school Chess Club
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curricula related to: different egular chess training sessions
techniques of proof (equations); are being held with the
congruence; theory of numbers; assistance of the Dibyendu Barua
continued fractions; geometry; Chess Academy on Saturdays from
trigonometry; complex numbers; etc. 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
At present the School Chess Club
Post-Asset Workshop has 34 members.
Date: 11 November SORRY!
Time: 11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
In the last issue of the Newsletter,
Speaker: Mrs Anita Kamath
March 2009:
Participants: All Mathematics
 The name of Aparajita Sen 6A
Teachers of GHS
was inadvertently left out of the
Aim: (a) Analysis of the results of the
Quiz Section. Aparajita, along with
Asset test taken by the pupils of
Anamika, owns the very cute
Classes 3 to 10 on 5 August.
guinea pigs, Fudge and Fluffy.
(b) A discussion of the strengths and
 Sourish Ghosh 7D, and not
weaknesses of the pupils in general.
Sourish Banerjee 6C, won the
(c) To develop remedial methods for
Inter-House TT Championship.
making up deficiencies detected.
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Rabindra Jayanti Celebrations
8 May: Rabindra Jayanti was
observed on the School premises in
the evening.
The theme of this year’s
programme was ‘Amritasya Putra’,
based on Lord Buddha’s teachings of
love, non-violence, care and
selflessness, and its relevance in
today’s world full of hatred, jealousy,
selfishness and violence.
The songs chosen were: Hey
Nutan, Sakatare Oi Kadinche
Sakole, Hingshai Unmatta Prithwi,
Oi Asantole, Tai Tomar Ananda
Amar Por, Hobe Joy Hobe Joy, and
Akdin Jara Merechhilo Tare Giye.
The singers were accompanied by Mr
Anupam Halder on the synthesizer
Roller Skating & 1st Inter-School Championship
T he Zenith Roller Skating
Academy took the initiative to
hold an Inter-School Roller
Skating Championship for the first
time ever in Kolkata at the Sports
Authority of India, Salt Lake. It was
inaugurated on 22 March by the Chief
Guest, Mr S. Harmilapi, the Director
of SAI.
About 100 helmeted children from
over 28 reputed schools of the city
battled it out in the afternoon in an
effort to earn glory for their respective
institutions. Boys and girls from GHS
competed against their opponents
from Nopany, South Point, Birla High,
DPS (Megacity), DPS (Ruby Park),
La Martiniere, and many others.
The competitors were divided into
4 age groups: 5-7, 7-10, 10-13, and
above 13. The categories were:
(i) Speed Skating, and (ii) Artistic
and Diganta Mukherjee 9B on the
tabla.
The dances presented with some
of the songs were imaginative and
graceful. They had been
choreographed by Ms Trina Das
Gupta, Ms Aruna Sachdev and
Ms Sharmistha Bhaduri. Excerpts
from Rabindranath’s Pujarini,
Nagarlakshmi, Mullyaprapti, and
Chandalika were recited by Sayantan
Basu 8C, Rajoshi Ghorai 9C,
Binitranjan Maitra 11A and Dyuti
Saha 11A.
The programme had been
scripted by Ms Jayanti Roy and was
conducted by Ms Saswati Mitra,
Ms Arpita Mukhopadhyay Maity and
Dance Skating.
The Championship continued on
24 & 29 March, culminating in the
Finals & Prize Distribution Ceremony
on 30 March.
That day proved to be a busy one
for GHS, not only because many of its
participants had made it to the Finals,
but also because it won the largest
number of prizes.
Sayak Mukherjee 8B and Abhishek
Daga 6A secured the Gold and Silver
medals respectively in the Speed
Skating Event (Boys: 10-13 yrs), while
Shibangi Sen 5A won the Gold Medal
in the Artistic Dance Skating Event
(7-10 yrs).
The podium was GHS’ with Abrar
Saqib 5D, Abhishek Daga 6A and
Ishita Mukherjea 6D winning the
Gold, Silver, and Bronze respectively
in the Artistic Dance Skating Event
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9 May: Sushmit Sengupta 6A won
a gold medal in Kata, Colour Belt-
10 Years (Boys) in the 2nd Inter-
School Boys Karate-Do
Tournament, organized by the
North Eastern Gojukai Karate-Do
India at the Frank Anthony Public
School.
30 May: Shubharthi Talukdar of 8A
won a gold and a bronze in the
Inter-School Boys Karate-Do
Tournament 2009 held at the Frank
Anthony Public School. He also
took part in the 5th Shukokai
International Open Karate-Do
Championship at Srilanka, and
won a gold and two bronzes. India
won the tournament.
5-6 September: Jagadis Bose
National Science Talent Search,
Kolkata, organized a 2-day
interactive forum for pupils who
wish to pursue a career in
Medicine. Abhishek Ray, Kanouj
Adhikary, Bhaswar Faisal Khan,
Monica Chatterjee, Aditya Saha
and Ankita Dasgupta of Class 11A
attended this programme.
30 September: Satyajit Mallick,
Agnidhra Ghosh, Aditya Saha and
Bhaswar Faisal Khan of Class 11A
took part in the Limca Book of
Records Quiz 2009 held at the
Army Public School, Kolkata.
(10-13 yrs), and Ankita Mukherjea 7D
winning the Gold in the same category
(above 13 yrs).
GHS put up the best overall
performance, bagging 8 out of 31
prizes. Abhishek Daga won medals in
both categories, and Abrar Saqib was
adjudged the Best Skater of the Year.
The Artistic Dance Skating events
and the Prize Distribution Ceremony
 Scouts & Guides
23 & 24 May: There was an
overnight camp on the School
premises for members of the 2nd
Explorers’ Group.
Activities included tent-pitching,
pioneering, hand and whistle signals,
identifying the Ursa Major
constellation and the Pole Star,
learning some facts related to the
history of the Scouts & Guides
movement, a camp fire, skits, songs,
and games (even at night!).
24 May was an eventful day, for
the members had to do patrol-wise
cooking, the menu being rice, dal,
aloo bhate, and chicken.
Exhausting but enjoyable.
9-12 September: The Patterson
Memorial Inter-School TT
Championship 2009 was held at
the Kshudiram Anushilan Kendra,
Kolkata
Participants: Sourish Ghosh 8D,
Divas Raut 9B, Sayak Sarkar 9B,
Anupam Sinha Roy 9A
GHS made it to the quarter-finals,
and Sourish and Sayak drew the
attention of the judges.
12 & 16 October: Sourish Ghosh
8D secured the 2nd position in the
Sub-Junior Boys team event in the
West Bengal State and Inter-District
TT Championship 2009 organized
by the West Bengal TT Association.
 17 April-8 May: In order to learn
how to control traffic, pupils were
on patrol duty outside the School
premises. This activity will be
taken up again.
 20 April: Class 10B visited RKM
Sarada Mission, Siriti, with their
SUPW teacher. They handed over
the exercise books they had
collected from their schoolmates to
the Mission. There was an
Adventure Camp
21 May-1 June: Sayak Mukherjee 8B,
Aditya Vikram Hari 9A, Ujan
Bhattacharjee 9A and Antarleen Pal
10A went on an Adventure Camp to
Tons, Mussourie, organized by
INFINITE ME. The Camp offered a
variety of activities to choose from,
including White Water Rafting,
Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing,
A friendly kabaddi match between girls of Classes 9 & 10
Ongoing Activities
interactive session with some of the
pupils of the Mission.
 22 & 23 July: Pupils bought rakhis
made by the mentally challenged
children of Partner Hooghly.
 31 August & 1 September: The
film My Fair Lady was shown to
Classes 7 & 9.
 2 & 16 September: Classes 1 & 6
watched Mary Poppins.
 3 September: Classes 8 & 10 were
shown Von Ryan’s Express.
 4 September: Class 9C visited an
old people’s home run by Help Age
– Kalyan Ashram, 4 Paramhamsa
Deb Road, Kolkata 27. They sang,
recited, and presented a skit for the
inmates of the home. The pupils
also presented biscuits and a card to
them. A game of ‘passing-the-pillow’
was played and the residents sang
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and Treks. All the 4 pupils
unanimously described the
experience as ‘amazing’!
Sayak Mukherjee reports:
‘During the summer
holidays this year, we went
on a trip to Mori, close to
Mussourie, on the bank of
the River Tons. This 7-day
trip about which I was
apprehensive at first,
turned out to be one of the
most exciting I have ever been to ...
great entertainment ... serene
mountains all around in all their
splendour ... the thrill of rafting in
the foaming white waters of the River
Tons ... miscellaneous games ... it was
excitement, experience and entertain-
ment galore for all of us, and we
parted from our new friends with
heavy hearts and a mutual resolve to
get back at the next opportunity.’
and performed for the pupils.
 4 & 17 September: Classes 2 & 5
were shown Home Alone I.
 8 September: The film
Ratatouille was shown to Class 4.
 9 & 15 September: Preparatory &
Class 3 watched Stuart Little.
 11 September: The film Babe was
shown to Nursery 2.
 14 September: Nursery 1 watched
Tom & Jerry.
 17 September: Class 11 watched
Life is Beautiful.
 29 October: Class 9B visited
RKM Sarada Mission, Siriti, with
two teachers. They handed over
exercise books, pencils, and erasers
collected by them to the pupils of
the mission.
 13 November: Preparatory
watched Baby’s Day Out.
T he Competition (Seniors) was
held on Tuesday, 15 September,
at 11.10 a.m. in the Bus Bay.
The teams:
Cedar: Satyajit Mallick 11A, Shinjan
Mitra 10B, Sachit Singha Roy 10B,
Tathagath Tiwary 10B (Reserve)
Chinar: Aditya Saha 11A, Shinjon
Pramanik 10B, Srubabati Sengupta
11A, Hrishikesh Barui 10B (Reserve)
Oak: Bhaswar Faisal Khan 11A,
Soham Bhattacharya 11A, Shourya
Bari 9A, Sutirtha Bhattacharyya 9C
(Reserve)
Palm: Agnidhra Ghosh 11A,
Amitrajit Sarkar 9A, Bodhisatya
Chatterjee 9C, Sukanya Dey 10A
(Reserve)
Inter-House Quiz Competition
The quiz: answer. (d) A Bull Mastiff called three stones among those displayed’
1. Live Round (Animals): (a) A Daisy. A member of the audience – some rings, a necklace and a bit of
Persian Cat called Ball (courtesy: Mrs identified the breed. An interesting rock. Chinar correctly identified a
Anuradha Bhattacharya); Question: snippet of information: The Bull garnet, a topaz and an emerald.
Identify the breed and give the Mastiff was bred and trained to catch The question rounds were
British name for it. (b) A Rottweiller poachers and was popularly known exciting and there were prizes for the
called Christie. The prize for as the Nightwatchman's Guard Dog. audience too. Mrs Trina Das Gupta
identifying the breed correctly went Special thanks are offered to Mrs modelled a dhakai for the audience,
to a pupil in the audience. An Sreyasi Kar and Mrs Anuradha and Revati Shivam Asthana 6C &
interesting snippet of information: Bhattacharya for making their Asmita Pal 6D, trained by Ms Aruna
The breed was used by farmers to beautiful pets available. Sachdev, danced a dandiya.
drive their cattle to market. On the Cedar came in a convincing first
way back, a farmer would tie his bag, 2 & 3. Music Rounds
followed by Oak. Palm was in third
now full of money, round his dog’s 4. Live Round: (a) Identifying a position and Chinar, fourth.
neck for a very obvious reason: no baku modelled by Mrs Pema Lucky Guest Quizmaster: Mr Kushal Biswas
one would dare to steal it! (c) Jennie, Bhutia, and a munda veshti Scorer: Mr Sudipta Gangopadhyay
the GSD, was led in by Mrs Sreyasi modelled by Chaithanya Gopalan Timekeeper: Mr Tirthankar Pal
Kar. Question: The name of the 6B. (b) The next item was a tasty Music & Sound: Mr Manisankar
GSD, which was Deutscher one: ‘Eat the sweet and name it!’ Chatterjee
Schäferhund, was changed at the end Satyajit Mallick (Cedar) identified it Animals & Music: Mrs Kavita Guha
of World War I. What was it correctly as labongo latika. (c) The Recording: Mr Debjit Bose
changed to and why? Oak had the last item was a trifle tricky: ‘Identify Coordinator: Mrs Rajika Roy

Bridge Coaching Classes T hough bridge proved to be by far the most

popular mindsport at the 1st World
Mindsport Games, held at Beijing from 3-18
October 2008, no effort has yet been made in
India to attract and train young aspirants and
players systematically. Calcutta Bridge Club
has volunteered to organize such training
sessions, free of any charge, for pupils of GHS
on a regular basis. An introductory session was
held for Classes 8, 9 & 11 in the Hexagon on
6 November from 11.15 a.m. to 12 noon, &
12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. Mr Prasad Ranjan
Roy, IAS, spoke to the pupils about the game –
its origin, development, and beneficial effects,
both mental and physical. Mr Arijit Guha,
Secretary of the West Bengal Bridge
Association, also addressed the audience.
Exhibition matches are expected to be held
on 12 December on the School premises.

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 ‘Chhelebela: Rediscovering
Tagore’, a festival of drama by
school children, was organized by
Happenings on 25 July at EZCC
Auditorium, Salt Lake. Buddhism
in the Works of Tagore was the
theme chosen by GHS. A
selection of excerpts from Pujarini,
Shyama, and Chandalika, entitled
‘Amritasya Putra’, was presented.
The item was partly operatic with
Binitranjan Maitra and Bhaswar
Faisal Khan of Class 11A singing
their lines. GHS’ effort was highly
appreciated by the judges and was
selected for another performance
on 10 August at Gyan Manch.
Shibangi Sen 5A
Inter-House Card-Making
and Wallpaper
Competition (Junior)
Sayanti Ghosh 4F
Date: 3 July
The Winners:
Class 3: 1st – Soundarjyo Sen 3B
(Cedar); 2nd – Tathagata Gupta 3E
(Oak); 3rd – Bristi Ray Kalandy
(Chinar) & Sinjini Singha 3D (Palm)
Class 4: 1st – Sayanti Ghosh 4F
(Oak); 2nd – Durbadal Banerjee 4F
(Cedar); 3rd – Basudha Pal 4C
(Palm) & Debanjana Chowdhury 4B
(Chinar)
Class 5: 1st – Shibangi Sen 5A
(Oak); 2nd – Ayush Mitra 5A (Palm);
3rd – Dharitri Chaudhuri 5F (Oak)
& Srijita Banerjee 5E (Palm)
At the Raj Bhavan, the Governor, Mr Gopalkrishna Gandhi presented
the Mamraj Agarwal Rashtriya Puraskar to Parishmita Basu
for her brilliant results in ICSE 2008-09.
C hildren’s Day was celebrated for Nursery 1 & 2 on 13 & 14 November.
A magic show by Mr Partha Pratim Sardar was held in the Annexe.
Mr Sardar also entertained his audience with a talking doll.
Class 1 watched Fun in Fancy Dress presented by Class 2. This was
followed by a sit-and-draw competition: I Can Draw.
All the children from Nursery 1 to Class 5 were presented with boxes filled
with candies. Pupils of Classes 6 to 11 were each given a set of 5 pens.
Parent-Teacher Staff Kite Flying
Meetings Competition
23 March: Nursery to Class 2 23 September:
24 March: Classes 3 to 9 16 participants
22 Sept: Nursery to Class 2, Class 11
took part in
23 Sept: Classes 3 to 10
These meetings gave both parents the Staff Kite
and teachers an opportunity to get to Flying
know each other better, and to Competition:
discuss the progress of the pupils. Mr Partha
The parents were quite delighted to Sarathi Ghosh,
get to know firsthand those who Mr Anupam
were in charge of their children away Halder,
from home and of whom they had Mr Valentine Morgan Redden,
heard so much from their ‘bundles Mr Jeeban Bose, Mr Sajal Bera,
of joy’. The teachers told them all Mr Manisankar Chatterjee,
about the achievements of the
Mr Himangshu Das, Mr Rabindra-
pupils, and also discussed ways of
nath Sardar, Mr B.B. Mandal,
solving the problems some of the
young ones might be facing. The Mr Bijoy Roygupta, Mr Tarak Nath
parents not only listened, but also Das, Mr Dinonath Sarkar, Mr Kochi
gave valuable inputs. Sekh, Mr Jishu Ghorai, Mr Bimal
Report Cards were handed out, Sardar & Mr Ashoke Sardar.
and parents seemed quite pleased The winners:
with their children’s performance. 1st – Mr Manisankar Chatterjee
Comments like, ‘Do you write 2nd – Mr Anupam Halder
anything bad in the Report Cards?’ 3rd – Mr Sajal Bera
were also heard. Referee: Mr Jayanta Dasgupta
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 Investiture
Ceremony
House Captains & Vice-Captains,
House Mistresses
6 May: Names of the Captains, Vice-
Captains and House Mistresses for the
four houses for the Academic Year
2009-10 were announced:
Cedar: Rudra Pratap Chakrabarty
10A (C), Aishi Bala 9C (VC)
Chinar: Shinjon Pramanik 10B (C),
Aditya Vikram Hari 9A (VC)
Oak: Sanhati Das 10A (C), Reshmi
Roy 9C (VC)
Palm: Rohini Banerjee 10B (C),
Anupam Sinha Roy 9A (VC)
House Mistresses:
Cedar: Ms Jayanti Roy, Ms Trina Das
Gupta
Chinar: Ms Tanima Roychowdhury,
Ms Nabanita Ghosh
Oak: Ms Anita Dasgupta, Ms Susan
Jachuck
Palm: Ms Sukanya Bhattacharya,
Ms Ronjini Srimany
After taking their oaths, the
Captains and Vice-Captains had their
badges of office pinned on by their
respective House Mistresses.
The Pro-Rector, Mrs Kavita Guha,
reminded them of their responsibi-
lities and the qualities that they must
exhibit to carry them out. They were
T he first Inter-House Music
Competition was held in the
Hexagon on 7 September.
There were eight categories in
which each House competed:
Rabindrasangeet (Solo & Group),
Folk (Solo & Group), Popular (Solo
& Group), and Composer in
Demand (Solo & Group).
Mr Anupam Halder accompanied
most of the performers on the
keyboards. Quite a few pupils chose to
sing on pre-recorded tracks.
Priyanjana Pramanik 10A (Palm)
enthralled the audience with a
rendering of Memory from Cats.
Binitranjan Maitra, Bhaswar Faisal
Khan and Kanouj Adhikary, all of
11A, took Oak to a convincing win
with their rendering of Dariai Ailo
Editor: Kavita Guha  Reporters: Anamika Sen 11B, Shinjon Mitra 10B, Amitrajit Sarkar 9A
Design & Layout: Kaushik Ghosh, Subhabrata Nandi  Design Advisors: Prabir Sen, Krishnendu Chaki
assured of all assistance, if and as
required.
School Prefects
Junior
3 July: The following received their
badges from the Principal and were
sworn in:
Cedar: Saptarshi Ghosh 6C,
Rajonya De 6F, Megha Chakrabarti
7C, Abhishek Banerjee 7D, Aindrila
Pal 8A, Sagnik Sarkar 8A
Chinar: Sharmila Ganguly 6E,
Brishti Mondal 6C, Tridha Ghosal
7A, Ruchira Singh 7C, Oishit Mitra
8A, Nayanika Ghosh 8B
Oak: Kopai Chakraborty 6A,
Rajdeep Bhattacharya 6C, Sohini
Inter-House Music
Competition
Toofan (Folk), Let It Be (Popular) and
Scarborough Fair (Composer in
Demand).
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Samaddar 7A, Rhiddhit Paul 7E,
Sayantan Basu 8C, Abhishek Das 8C
Palm: Riddhima Pal 6B, Sambuddha
Ray 6E, Henna Bobo Palta 7B, Titir
De 7E, Ayushi Jhunjhunwala 8B,
Piuli Paul 8D
Senior
6 July: The following received their
badges from the Principal and were
sworn in:
Cedar: Dibyojyoti Chowdhury 11A,
Soham Bhattacharya 11A
Chinar: Anamika Sen 11B,
Abhishek Roy 11A
Oak: Bhaswar Faisal Khan 11A,
Samudra Das Gupta 11B
Palm: Dyuti Saha 11A, Parishmita
Basu 11A
Chinar came in second, Palm
third, and Cedar had to be content
with the fourth position.
While the judges totalled the
marks, the School Band entertained
the audience with three lively
numbers including Bande by Indian
Ocean. The Band comprised Satyajit
Mallick 11A (lead guitar), Soham
Bhattacharya 11A (bass guitar),
Binitranjan Maitra 11A (drums),
Diganta Das 11A (keyboards), Abhijit
Chakraborty 11A & Bhaswar Faisal
Khan 11A (vocals).
Judges: Mr Jayanta Dasgupta, Mrs
Ratna Bose and Mrs Kavita Guha.
The competition was organized by
Mr Anupam Halder. He was assisted
by the House Mistresses and other
teachers.
 A selective list of books in the library
[ Total acquisitions from 01 October 2008 to 31 March 2009: English 1531
English (Reference Section)
1. Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary
2. Cambridge Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary
3. Eyewitness Guides (64v)
4. The Usborne Science
Encyclopedia
5. Oxford Illustrated Science
Encyclopedia
6. Science Experiments, Great
Science Projects
7. 300 Science and History Projects
8. Makers of Science (5v)
9. Great Books of the Western
World (54v)
10. Mysteries of Mind, Space and
Time (26v)
11. The Interpreter’s Bible
12. The Interpreter’s Dictionary of
the Bible (4v + Supplement)
13. A Modern English Grammar on
Historical Principles: Otto
Jespersen (7v)
14. Voyage through the Universe
(10v)
15. Nature Encyclopedia
16. The Oxford Companion to the
Body
17. Great Museums of the World
(15v)
18. The Oxford Companion to Sports
and Games
19. World Cricketers: a Biographical
Dictionary
Reporters: Anamika Sen XIB, Shinjon Mitra XB, Amitrajit Sarkar IXA
Editor: Kavita Guha  Design, Layout: Kaushik Ghosh, Subhabrata Nandi  Design Advisors: Prabir Sen, Krishnendu Chaki
 Bengali 75  Hindi 41 ]
20. The Oxford Encyclopedia of
American Literature
21. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
(7v)
22. Shakespeare Survey (26v)
23. Narrative and Dramatic Sources
of Shakespeare (8v)
24. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
(2v)
25. Oxford Reader’s Companion to
Dickens
26. The Story of Civilization: Will
and Ariel Durant (11v)
27. Lands and Peoples (6v)
28. Glimpses of World History:
Nehru
29. The Illustrated History of the
World: Roberts (11v)
30. World Geographical Encyclopedia
(5v)
31. Who’s Who of Indian Writers (2v)
32. Encyclopedia of the
Enlightenment (4v)
33. Annals and Antiquities of
Rajas’than: Todd (2v)
34. The Gold of Tutankhamen
35. The Houghton Shahnameh (2v)
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T wenty artistically talented students from Garden High, selected for an Indian miniature style
painting workshop conducted by artists Pulak Ghosh and Tandra Chanda, produced artwork
inspired by our river Hooghly. The various paintings compiled by the artists were exhibited at the OXO
Gallery in London on 8 September. Panels of the art were also exhibited on the South Bank in London
as part of the Mayor's Thames Festival 2009. In December this year, this exhibition will be brought to
the Birla Industrial and Technological museum, Kolkata.
Garden High partnered with The London Nautical School. Located on the south bank of the river
Thames, this school was founded in 1915 after the Titanic disaster. It is a school for boys of ages 11 to
16 and has a co-educational sixth form. There are about 670 pupils on roll and the school provides a
wide range of sporting and nautical opportunities ‘to educate and prepare pupils to meet the needs of
society either at sea or in any other occupation where responsibility, attention to duty and regard for
others are valued equally with academic and practical skills.’

Mrs Rajashri Biswas Reports:

O
London.
n invitation to participate in a contact seminar in London in September, Ms Susan Jachuck and
Ms Rajashri Biswas representing Garden High School, Kolkata, visited The Nautical School of

We were warmly received and taken around the school. The principal Mr Hyder Dastagir expressed
his delight in being partnered with a school in India and promised to visit us on his next trip to India.
The teachers were taken on a river cruise accompanied by students who were to participate in the joint
curriculum projects. They were thrilled to get rakhis given to each of them as a symbol of Friendship.
Overall the experience was enriching and we look to forging a lasting partnership, and look to working
on various joint curriculum projects.
By these projects we would introduce a healthy and desirable international dimension to our
curriculum. It is undoubtedly important that our young students, by comparison, assess and evaluate
their value system, appreciate the similarities between people everywhere and learn to value diversity. It
will help students from across the world to learn from and understand each other, appreciate their
various cultures and comprehend the true meaning of global citizenship.
This learning from and sharing with each other will be mutually enriching. Students will recognize
their place in this changing world and respect the rights of others in it. They will learn their role and
responsibilities as active participants in a global society. By participating in such a cross cultural
network, various issues of identity, diversity and value systems will be explored. Thus students will
enhance their communication skills and sensitivity to mores other than their own. Perspectives will
widen, insights deepen and horizons expand to include the wider world to make responses unfettered by
local borders, concepts and learning.