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176 YEARS

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from the Principal’s Desk...

Welcome to another exciting edition of the Tartan. It gives me immense joy


and pride to share with you the highlights and the remarkable achievements
of the school in the academic year 2022-23. We were on top on all fronts.
From the country topper at the ICSE Examination with an All India Rank
Core of the Tartan 1 to playing for Maharashtra state at the National level in U17 football
to being part of the Indian Debating Squad to representing India at the

T he English word ‘tartan’ finds its roots in French literature IYPT (International Youth Physicist Tournament) to having attended an
International Science Camp at the National University of Singapore. We
have been on a winning roll.
where the word ‘tiretain’ (which means woven cloth) refers
Through the numerous victories witnessed year after year, we have seen
to a beautiful and prestigious design. Originating in Gaelic
our students excel not only in academics, sports, literary events, science
culture, the tartan and design – consisting of stripes of and technology but also embrace design thinking in all their endeavors.
Their ability to approach challenges with empathy, collaboration and
various widths and colours that cross at right angles against an open mind is helping them to stand out in a sea of faces.
a solid background – was in the mid – nineteenth century As a school community, the school management, parents, teachers
associated with Scottish clans. Each clan had a different and and students together have navigated through unprecedented times
and fostered a culture of resilience and adaptability. I am proud of
traditional pattern that distinguished it from the others, and the progress we have made and how we have supported each other
to ensure that our students continue to receive quality education. We
was comprised of hues that were sacred to their ideals. Later have ensured that our classrooms are not just spaces for learning but safe havens for our students where
in 1782, tartan was adopted as the symbolic national dress they express themselves, explore their passions, and overcome challenges. We have instilled in them the
belief that they can accomplish anything they set their minds to.
of Scotland and is now viewed as a pattern of great historical
As we look towards the future, we understand that ‘The world is changing rapidly. The big will no longer
significance. Just like the tartan of yore, our school magazine beat the small, the fast will beat the slow.’ Hence we continue to adapt, upgrade and evolve. Evolving with
Tartan, holds in it glimpses of the manifold curricular, co – the changing times means embracing new pedagogical approaches, integrating technology effectively, and
encouraging critical thinking. It means fostering a culture of lifelong learning, where students and teachers
curricular and extra – curricular activities that fill our calendar alike are open to exploring new ideas, collaborating across disciplines, and challenging conventional
wisdom.
each year round. We are named so, as a tribute to each student
We look forward in excitement and eagerness to what challenges lie ahead, confident that we will see a
– whose culture, background, ideals, talents and creativity – way through…with trust in God, faith in ourselves and with Scottish perseverance.
blend harmoniously to create the éclatant BSS Tartan. ‘Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures don't matter.
Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be.' ~Sean Higgins

Ms. S George

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Psalm 23
The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green : he leadeth me
The Editorial Team...
the quiet waters by.
My soul he doth restore again: ‘Preserve, Persevere, Prevail’ are three words that encompass the spirit of human
and me to walk doth make determination, resilience, and survival. This year as we have braved through
and withstood an array of challenges, these three virtues remind us that we
within the paths of righteousness,
must never give up hope, nor should we abandon the preservation of our values
ev’n for his own name’s sake. and come what may be victorious in every circumstance.
Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale,
The Tartan this year is an evidence of the theme ‘Preserve, Persevere, Prevail’ as
yet will I fear none ill : it represents the innumerable events throughout the academic year bearing a
For thou art with me; and thy rod testament to the ‘never say never spirit’ at BSSM.
and staff me comfort still. Come, relive these fond memories with us as you flip through the pages of
My table thou hast furnished Tartan 2023.
in presence of my foes : - Ms O Lobo
My head thou dost with oil anoint, (Section Representative - Grades 7 & 8)
and my cup overflows.
Goodness and mercy all my life Teacher Representative Section
shall surely follow me : Ms Bipasha Kumar ISC
And in God’s house for evermore Ms Fatema Golwala ICSE
my dwelling-place shall be. Ms Olivia Lobo Grades 7 & 8
Ms Vanessa Fernandes Grades 5 & 6
Ms Liny Jacob Grades 3 & 4
Ms Ayesha Mascarenhas Grades 1 & 2
Ms Sejal Miranda KG Section
Mr Milind Mahamunkar, Ms Pranali Bhonsle Art
Mr Aaron Fernandes Physical Education
Ms Shimani Sarkar French
Ms Usha Dwivedi, Ms Ruby Mathur Hindi
Mr Bhausaheb Binnar Marathi

Editor: Ms Melita Fernandes

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From the Principal’s Desk............................................. 1 Appreciation Messages - Annual Concert.................. 75 Math Wizard............................................................ 125 ICSE Results Graphs................................................. 185
The Editorial Team........................................................ 3 Annual Concert [Seniors]........................................... 76 Inter-House Singing Competition.............................. 126 Grade 10 Special Prizes............................................ 188
Annual Report 2023..................................................... 6 Annual Concert [KG Section]...................................... 84 Musical [KG & Grades 1&2]..................................... 127 Grade 9 Prize Winners.............................................. 200
Office And Staff.......................................................... 19 Dramatics.................................................................. 86 MediCare................................................................. 128 ISC Results Graphs.................................................. 201
Teaching Staff............................................................ 20 Nritya......................................................................... 88 Summer Fiesta......................................................... 129 Grade 12 Special Prizes............................................ 204
Non-Teaching Staff..................................................... 22 Atlas Bootcamps [ICSE & ISC]................................... 90 Coup d'œil................................................................ 130 Grade 11 Prize Winners............................................ 205
Staff Retirement & Farewell....................................... 23 Perseverantia............................................................. 91 Grandparent’s Day................................................... 131 Grade 10 Class Photographs.................................... 206
Student Council [Senior & Junior]......................... 24,25 Scottish Spotlight....................................................... 98 Clubs........................................................................ 132 Grade 12 Class Photographs.................................... 209
Scottish in the News.................................................. 26 Orientations [ICSE & ISC]......................................... 100 Scottish Sports Teams............................................. 142 Pride of Scottish....................................................... 211
Perspective 360......................................................... 33 Open Day................................................................. 101 Swimming Gala........................................................ 161 Our Other Winners................................................... 221
Singapore International Science Camp....................... 36 Founder’s Day.......................................................... 102 Our Young Sports Achievers..................................... 162 School Song............................................................. 228
IYPT [International Youth Physicist Tournament]....... 37 Alumni Meet............................................................ 103 Special Mentions..................................................... 163 School Flag.............................................................. 229
SYPT [Scottish Young Physicist Tournament]............. 38 Student Exchange Programme................................. 105 Canvas..................................................................... 170 School Shield And Crest........................................... 229
Back In Business........................................................ 39 Teacher’s Day ......................................................... 109 Audrey Da’Silva Creative Essay Writing Winners..... 176
SMUN........................................................................ 40 Joy of Giving............................................................ 110
IYP [Indian Youth Parliament]..................................... 41 Republic Day............................................................ 111
Brainstorm................................................................. 42 Change of Guard ..................................................... 112
Vive la France - Long Live France............................... 43 Closing Assembly [10 & 12]..................................... 112
Vacation Bible School [VBS]...................................... 44 Special Assembly [Grades 3 to 6]............................ 113
Classroom Learning & Activities................................ 45 ICSE Valedictory Function........................................ 114
Field Trips................................................................... 59 ISC Valedictory Function.......................................... 116
Prize Day.................................................................... 63 Inter-House Debate Competition.............................. 118
Independence Day..................................................... 64 Inter-House Quiz Competition Winners .................... 119
Investiture Ceremony................................................. 65 English Elocution/Declamation Winners................... 120
Senior Sports Day...................................................... 66 Hindi Elocution Winners........................................... 121
Junior Sports Day...................................................... 70 Marathi Elocution Winners....................................... 123
University Fair............................................................ 74 Spelling Bee............................................................. 124

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Annual report 2023
Awards
Bombay Scottish School, Mahim
• Bombay Scottish School, Mahim won the Best School Award for outstanding performance in Parental Engagement
One Hundred Seventy Sixth Annual Report 2022-2023 and Community Outreach in the Mumbai Schools Survey 2022 conducted by Fress Press Journal.
• Bombay Scottish School, Mahim were the winners of the GetLitt Reading Olympiad, Summer 2022 Edition. 150+
Respected Chairman of the Bombay Scottish Orphanage Society, Mr V Runganadhan, Mr D S Parekh, Deputy Chairman of participating schools across Dubai, Vietnam and India
Bombay Scottish Orphanage Society, Trustees, Parents, Students and well-wishers, it gives me great pleasure to present
the 176th Annual Report for the academic year 2022-2023 of the Bombay Scottish School, Mahim. • The Times Education Icons 2022 Award was presented to Bombay Scottish School, Mahim, on 26th December 2022 in
Mumbai by Mr. Vijendra Singh at an event held at Hotel Vivanta by Taj.
Staff News • Changemakers in Education Award presented to Ms. Sunita George from Ashraya Foundation for Flipped Classroom
We welcomed the following new teachers: Ms Deepika Mehra, Ms Deepika Pingulkar, Ms Saakshi Tikku, Ms Nida Jaffer, Approach at Grand Hyatt Mumbai, Kalina, Santacruz on 25th February, 2023.
Ms Yogita Dhote, Mr Lucas Sumanam, Ms Aarti Parab, Ms Rashmi Singh, Ms Abigail Desena, Ms Dhanashree Pai, Ms Tarka
School Ranking
Indulkar, Ms Sharon Saldanha, Ms Shimani Sarkar, Mr Aditya Ramesh, Ms Jasmine D’Souza, Ms Leen D’Cunha, Mr Jaemmy
D’Cunha, Ms Reshma Teeggi, Ms Anaihita Irani, Mr Vernon D’Souza, Ms Valerie Kamble, Mr Vipul Jain and Ms Rosemary • In the ‘Times School Survey 2022’ published on 17th October 2022, Bombay Scottish School, Mahim ranked 1st in Zone
Joseph. A and 2nd in Mumbai.
• In the Vintage Legacy Co-ed Day Schools category in Education World India School Rankings 2022-2023, Bombay
Ms Dorothy Amanna and Ms Ashvini Mondkar superannuated from the services of the Institution.
Scottish School, Mahim is ranked 3rd in India and Maharashtra and in Mumbai.
Ms Dhanashree Pai, Ms Fatema Golwala, Ms Hiral Patrawala, Ms Andrea D’Lomen, Ms Richa Sanghvi, Ms Nipa Shah, Ms
New Ventures
Shilpa Barve, Ms Pushpa Sundararaman, Ms Shirin Khan, Ms Vailaneena Govindan, Ms Marilyn Moses and Ms Sanya
Fernandes left the Scottish family due to various reasons. Social Media Team
The school has a student led social media team that manages the official social media page of the school. The goal is to
Our Board ICSE and ISC Results: ensure that students comprehend the nuances of digital marketing as they create high-quality, engaging content that reso-
ICSE and ISC Results: 2023 nates with the target audience.

ICSE: Back In Business (Entrepreneurship Fest)


228 students appeared and were declared successful. Students from various schools participated in this inter school event organised by our grade 11 students. The impeccably
Shreya Upadhyay tops the country with 99.80% designed and detailed pitches of the contestants that consisted of ideas for revenue management, cost cutting, marketing,
Maharashtra State Toppers Rank 2 - Advik Viswanathan, Dhruv branding, sales and distribution; coupled with the intelligent and hard-hitting cross questioning of the judges regarding the
Chopra and Sahana Kamdar secure 99.60% business models, gave immense credibility and validation to this unique event.
Maharashtra State Toppers Rank 3 - Arushi Goel, Sharang Desai
and Tanisha Maheshwari secure 99.40% Student Exchange Programme
179 out of 228 students secured 90% and above (78.5%) As a part of our Global Partnership Initiative, Bombay Scottish School, Mahim, Mumbai and Rijnlands Lyceum Oegst-
geest, Netherlands came together and organised a student cultural exchange programme.
220 students out of 228 secured 80% and above (96.49%)

ISC: Student Led Initiatives


237 students appeared and were declared successful. Perseverantia:
66 Students out of 135 secured 90% and above (49%) On 8th July Bombay Scottish School, Mahim hosted its 1st ever Interschool Fest called Perseverantia 2022. 1500 partici-
119 Students out of 135 secured 80% and above (88%) pants from 19 schools participated in 11 events. The theme was climate on preserving the environment, preventing natural
133 Students out of 135 secured 70% and above (99%) disasters and yet prevailing as a conscious human in this world through various events held both on the school campus and
Varun Rajiv Gogoi, Commerce topper secured 97.75% culminating in the finale Mr & Ms Perseverantia at St. Andrews Auditorium, Bandra.
Azann Qureshi and Tia Nagpal, Science toppers secured 97%
Salonee Dey, Humanities topper, secured 96.25% Indian Youth Parliament held at National College, Bandra
On 18th August, 189 students across grades 8 -12 from BSS Mahim and BSS Powai, participated with great zeal and vigour,

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thereby making the IYP 2022 a reverberating success. The RBI’s move to allow the Indian Rupee for the settlement of inter- 09.06.22 Student Orientation
national trade and the Agnipath Scheme were the agendas for the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha respectively .
14.07.22 Bastille Day
Scottish Model United Nations Conference (SMUN) 2022 18.07.22 General Body Meeting
In the 175th year of Bombay Scottish School Mahim, we were proud to host the 10th edition of SMUN and that too in offline 13.08.22 Term 1 Parent Teacher Meeting
mode on 29th and 30th August 2022. After two years of online SMUN’s, this was indeed something the students were look-
15.08.22 Independence Day and Investiture Ceremony
ing forward to. 245 delegates from Mahim and Powai participated in the 5 dynamic committees: UNGA, UNHRC, UNSC,
JCC 1, DISEC and JCC 2. 18.08.22 Interaction of Principal
16.10.2022 Heritage Walk organised by the UNESCO CLUB
Brainstorm, 2022 - ‘Aspire to Inspire’
• Adolescent Education Programme
The “seventh edition” of this student led event was held online on 17th September 2022. The 5 inspiring speakers were; 07.10.22
• Interactive session on Judiciary
Aastha Shah, a digital content creator and an influencer, Anish Gawande, an LGBTQIA+ activist and Pink List India Rhodes
Scholar, Vedant Lamba, the founder of Mainstreet Marketplace. Aman Johri, the CEO of Aerospace and Defense firm based 27.11.22 Navy Day Activity Organised by Science Club
in Mumbai and Dhvani Bhanushali, an Indian pop singer who is the voice behind several soulful songs. 07.10.22 Session on Impact of Marine Pollution
16.11. 2022 Field Trip to Mahim Head Post Office
Community Work :
25.01.23 Junior Athletic Meet
An important aspect of growing up at Bombay Scottish School is to imbibe values in our students. To nurture a sense of
26.01.23 Republic Day Celebration
responsibility and community, our students and teachers reached out generously and selflessly to various hospitals, Home
for the Aged etc. As a part of our 175th year celebration, every month, the school students have been engaging in numerous 18.12.22 to 21.12.22 Educational Trip for Grades 6 to 12
acts of kindness. 1.02.23 & 2.02.23 Grandparents Day for KG

MONTH REACHING OUT 08.03.2023 Sr. KG Orientation

August 2022 The Interact Club visited St. Catherine of Siena School and Orphanage. They collected stationery 11.04.2023 KG Pyjama Party
and groceries for the underprivileged children. 13.04.2023 KG Mini Masterchef Party – Summer Fiesta
August 2022 Children and staff of grade 5 and 6 visited The Little Sisters of Poor Old Age Home and generously 18.04.2023 MediCare 2023
filled in the Donation boxes with groceries and toiletries required by the senior citizens at the
13.04.2023 Summer Carnival
old age home.
17.04.2023 -
December 2022 The teachers and students of the KG section decided to help the patients at Bai Jerbai Wadia Vacation Bible School
21.04.2023
Hospital, Nowrosjee Wadia Hospital and People’s Mobile Hospital by sending essentials for
their daily needs. A few staff members visited the home to personally handover the donation 06.04.2023 Goal Setting Session
packets.
10.04.2023 to
Recycling drive of textbooks and uniforms organised by Planet 4.0 Club
January 2023 This programme was organised to sensitise students of Grade 1 & 2 to the needs of the elderly 19.04.2023
at St. Anthony’s Home for the Aged.
Events
September 2022 Community Outreach Programme by Mann, a centre for individuals with special needs.
Singapore International Science Camp
The following events were conducted during the year 2022 - 2023: 11 students across Grades 10 to 12 attended a Science Camp at NUS in Singapore from 31st May 22 to 4th June 2022 along
with Mr Greg Hilbert. The students attended a surgical simulation session at the National University Hospital. The Highlights
14.11.2022 Scottish Spotlight (Intra School Fest)
included learning the use of “Fusion 360” by Autodesk for 3D printing purposes, discussions on different education systems
05.09.2022 Teachers Day during the World Student Cafe and they also visited Universal Studios.
27.08.2022 University Fair
IYPT [International Youth Physicist Tournament]
26.05.22 Virtual meeting with Parents
IYPT 2022 was held in Timisoara, Romania from 23rd July to 25th July 2022. 25 countries participated. Each country con-
08.06.22 &15.06.22 Parent Orientation sisted of a team of high school students. Laksh Sharma, a proud Scottishite from Grade 12B was selected for the tournament

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and represented India as the Team Captain. Mr. S. Pandey, the Physics teacher, from the ISC Section was the IOC [Interna- cipal and a solemn prayer service. Reverend Thomas Jacob, presiding presbyter of St. Stephen’s Church, Bandra, delivered
tional Organising Committee] representative and Juror from India at the tournament. the Founders’ Day message with an emphasis on the School motto ‘Perseverantia et Fide in Deo’. Dr. Lalit Kanodia, Founder
of Datamatics and alumnus, Batch 1956-57, in his address to the gathering, spoke about the impact that the School had
175th Annual Prize Day on him. The celebration continued with friendly football and basketball matches between the present students and the ex-
The event began on a solemn note at the Nehru Centre Auditorium on 25th August 2022. The Chief Guest, Mr Deepak students. They mingled with their batchmates, and revived old memories with their teachers.
S Parekh, Deputy Chairman, Bombay Scottish Orphanage Society applauded the prize winners of Grades 9 to 12 and shared
the importance of the three qualities – Trust, Faith and Gratitude with the students. The Annual Report was presented by the (3) Release of the Coffee Table Book and an exclusive meeting with Mr. Deepak Parekh
Principal Ms S George followed by the release of Tartan 2022 and felicitation of all prize winners thereafter. The release of the coffee table book on 2nd March, 2023, celebrating 175 years of the Scottish legacy, by the legend himself,
truly added more meaning and lustre to the book. Mr. Deepak Parekh, a policymaker, a mentor and guide and also the Trustee
Nritya of the Bombay Scottish Orphanage Society launched “The Scottishite” along with the editorial team of students and teach-
The most awaited Inter House Nritya Competition for students from Grades 7 and 8 was hosted at the Nehru Center Audi- ers. An unforgettable 2 hours of conversation followed, filled with wisdom and advice leaving the students in awe, wanting
torium on the 25th of August this year after the Annual Prize Day. Dance enthusiasts from each of our four houses put up for more. The icing on the cake was when Mr. Parekh himself gave the students a tour of the HDFC CEO’s office as well as
spectacular performances based around the theme, Fairytales with a twist. his own office, one filled with books, and a space where “The Scottishite” was added. An experience that only a few 17-year
olds can take back as a moment of joy and pride with lessons saying empower, aspire and dream big.
Staff Workshop
(4) Alumni Meet 2023
A Staff seminar on varied aspects of teaching and learning was conducted by teachers from all sections from 2nd June 2022
to 7th June 2022.. The seminar focused on diverse strategies through group activities like Enquiry Based Learning, Higher The Alumni Meet held on 3rd March, 2023 was the culmination of the 175th anniversary celebrations of Bombay Scottish
Order Questions and posing open ended and multiple choice questioning by Mr Stephen Burnage, an expert in impactful School. It was a proud moment for the School when the first ever coffee table book was virtually unveiled by our Deputy
classroom techniques. The workshop encouraged teachers to work collectively and construct quality plans and tools for the Chairman, Mr. Deepak Parekh. After a solemn and meaningful prayer service, the audience were entertained by the three
upcoming academic year. The School Counsellor, Ms Tikku conducted an interactive, fun filled session for the staff. bands of present students, a 175 strong choir and a kathak-bharatnatyam fusion performance. The event was graced by
the presence of Members of the Committee of Management: Mr. V. Runganadhan and Mr. Varghese Thomas besides Mr.
Student Council 2022-2023 Lalit Kanodia (Batch of 1957) Founder Chairman of Datamatics Group, Dr. Indu Shahani, Founder President of Atlas Skilltech
University, Ms. Neha Jagtiani – Principal, National College, Dr. Brinda Somaya, Founder and Principal Architect SNK Consul-
The school announced the first ever democratically elected student council on 1st August 2022. The newly formed Council
tants. For the first time ever, there was a memorabilia counter where alumni could purchase mugs, bottles, caps and other
took their oath on 15th August 2022.
goodies with the School insignia on them. The iconic banyan tree was lit up so that memories could be preserved under its
magnificent branches.
Annual Concert
The much-awaited Annual Christmas Concert (2022-23) of BSS - ‘Whose Lens is it Anyway’ was hosted at Shanmukhanan- Scottish Young Physicists Tournament
da Hall on 14th December, 2022. The theme of the concert was very contemporary and relevant. It raised a very pertinent The Scottish Young Physicists’ Tournament (SYPT), a competition among teams of secondary school students that tests
question – the Dangers of a Single Story, which invariably leads to wrong assumptions, conclusions and decisions. The their ability to solve complicated scientific problems, to present solutions to these problems in a convincing form and to
90-minute show was brilliant with songs, choral recitation, well-coordinated dance moves and amazing visuals. There were defend them in scientific discussions, called Physics Fights (PF) was held on 9th March, 2023.
two shows to accommodate all the students from Grade 1 to 12. Each show had 1500 pupils performing. The parents were
rooted to their seats totally mesmerised by the brilliance of the show. KG Annual Concert
The KG Annual Concert was held on 29th March, 2023. “The Enchanted Seeds’’ was a musical with a twist - an adaptation of
The 176th Founder’s Day Celebrations entailed the following 4 Events: the story: Jack and the Beanstalk narrated through song and play by our little kindergarteners. This story had many valuable
lessons to impart: from nurturing, caring and patience to never giving up.
(1) Perspective 360
Students from Grades 5 to 8 enthusiastically participated in ‘Perspective 360’, on 15th February, 2023. The students en- Conclusion
thusiastically collaborated and presented their perspective on varied topics through various forms like panel interviews and The 176th year of our School in its uniqueness embedded in itself various events and activities. This harnessed learning both
discussions, live surveys, street plays, choral recitation, quizzes, songs, dances as well as dramatic representations. 3000 inside and outside the classroom with a multidisciplinary approach in keeping with holistic education. We as a School are
parents and 2000 students visited the school campus to witness the event. The art exhibition, the photo booth, the Robotics now headed towards an in-depth and a richer literacy approach involving AI and Stem Education. I am confident that our
display area and the cafeteria were a big hit with both students and parents. school will continue to be a beacon of excellence in the years to come.

(2) Prayer Service & Alumni Interaction Workshops/Seminars/Meetings/Inspections attended by the Principal:
The 176th Founder’s day was celebrated on 17th February, 2023. It began with the hoisting of the School Flag by the Prin- On behalf of the Council, Principal Ms George inspected the Elite Public School, Bengaluru on 10th August for Permanent
Affiliation, Wisdom Wealth International School, Tamil Nadu on 13th September for Permanent Affiliation and Shree Sai
International School, Karnataka on 22th September for Provisional Affiliation.

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23.01.23 105th AISM Meeting held at J.B. Petit High Agenda:
School for Girls, Mumbai • Review of the ASISC Annual Conference held at
Date Details Highlights
Trivandrum
13.06.22 Association of ICSE Schools in Maharashtra Matters discussed: • Report on AISM Cell Meetings for ICSE & ISC
(AISM) sections
• Volunteers for Regional Literary Events 2022
• Volunteers for Regional Sports and Games 2022 • To discuss the inclusion of Marathi Subject up to
Std. X
22.06.22 Visit to Ryewood International School, Lonavla Guest Speakers Dr (Ms) Coomie Vehvania, Prof.
• Income & Expenditure Accounts of CISCE Games
organised by Association of ICSE Schools in Emeritus, Christ University, Pune and Mr Brijesh Karia
23.06.22 & Sports.
Maharashtra (AISM) from Singhania Quest addressed the Principals.
• Launch of AISM Website
06.09.22 Meeting with Principals under Convener-Zone Principal conducted a meeting with the Principals of
22.04.2023 Association of Heads of Anglo-Indian Schools Agenda: Finalisation of Programme details with regards
B for ISC Examinations Zone B to share guidelines for the conduct of the ISC
in India (Maharashtra Branch) to 102nd Annual Conference to be held in Maharashtra
Grade 12 Examinations.
24.04.2023 Association of I.C.S.E. Schools in Maharashtra Agenda:
03.10.22 Association of ICSE Schools in Maharashtra Agenda:
(AISM) • Introduction of new member schools
(AISM)`
• Conduct of ICSE and ISC Cell meetings
• Discussion on Accounts for the CISCE Games
• Update on CISCE Sports & Games Annual 2022-2023
Conference 2022
• CISCE Sports & Games schedule for the year
09.11.22 to 65th ASISC Annual Conference at Topics discussed: 2023-2024
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
11.11.22 • Academic Challenges in Schools Today • Cell Meetings and Workshops to be conducted
• Emotional & Mental Health of students and staff from June 2023
Health & Hygiene in Schools • Relocation of Member School – Atul Vidyalaya in
• Administrative Challenges in Schools. North West Region
04.01.23 Association of Heads of Anglo-Indian Schools Agenda: • ASISC National Conference 2023
in India Conference of Heads of Schools at
• Discussion on challenges and choices with the Student Enrichment Programmes
Bangalore
introduction of NEP.
Students at Scottish participated in various informative webinars and interactive workshops throughout the year on various
• Changes in the ISC and ICSE curriculum to suit topics:
NEP requirements.
17.01.23 ISC Convener Zone B Meeting for AY 2022- Conducted by the School Principal for the 18 ISC school Date Workshop Highlights
2023 (Virtual) principal’s, Supervising Examiners and Inspectors
29.03.22 Visit to Whistling Woods International Mr Chinchlikar, Vice-President welcomed the students to the
of Zone B. The participants were oriented by Mrs.
by students of Grade 10 campus and intimated them on various career options that
George on the finer details related to the conduct of
are open to graduates of Whistling Woods International. A
ISC Examination 2023
variety of workshops were organised on Filmmaking, Acting,
18.01.23 Meeting with the Convener of ICSE Examination Procedures and Protocols to be followed Animation, Gaming, Fashion, Visual Communication Design,
Examinations 2023 held at Shishuvan School, during ICSE March 2023 Journalism.
Mumbai
30.03.22 Digital Safety Workshop for students of The students were given a talk on digital disinhibition and how
Grade 10 it leads to cyberbullying. Mr Sayantan Sen of Digital Safety
India conducted the session and helped the students to come
up with ways to protect themselves.

31.03.22 Breaking the Writer’s Block for Ms Gajra Kottary, a prominent script writer for film and
students of Grade 10 television conducted this workshop where participants were
given tips on creative writing. They were also given a writing
exercise which Ms Kottary patiently gave valuable feedback
on.

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02.04.22 & Career Counselling Workshops for Ms Mayura Mohta, our in house Education and Career 20.06.22 Boston University Summer Journalism Academy’s summer programme.
students of Grades 9 to12 Counsellor spent valuable time speaking to parents about the 04.07.22
09.04.22 18.07.22
career options available to their wards.

24.06.22 to Atlas SkillTech University Bootcamp Section wise Boot Camps were held at Atlas SkillTech 01.07.22 Essay Writing Workshop followed by Q&A session conducted by University of Southern California for
for students of Grades 7 to 12 University, India’s first new-age urban multidisciplinary students of the ISC Section
01.07.22 university. The Boot camp ensured hands-on involvement of 28.07.22 Webinar of Profile Building Essentials by The Next Genius Foundation for students of Grades 9 to 12.
our students in various futuristic career based sessions led by
05.08.22 The University of British Columbia Virtual session for students of Grades 11 and 12.
industry leaders.
05.08.22 College Comparison Matrix 2022-2023 for students of Grade 12 organised by The Next Genius
30.07.22 Lecture for creating awareness about This lecture was organised by the Nehru Science Centre along Foundation which will help the students to identify and learn in depth about the Next Genius Partner
Nuclear Power and related issues for with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). Colleges.
students of Grade 9
Guest speaker was Mr A K Jain, Former Chief Engineer, 06.08.22 Virtual session on Liberal Education for students of Grades 11 and 12 conducted by Ashoka University
Corporate Communication, HQs, NPCIL.
18.08.22 Interactive face to face UCAS workshop conducted by The Universities of Edinburgh, Warwick and
Manchester for the students of the ISC Section on ‘How to Write the Perfect Statement of Purpose’.
The following Universities conducted webinars for students of Grades 9 to 12 to help students with details of the
admission process, eligibility criteria, scholarships awarded, and career placement opportunities. 02.11.22 Grades 9 to 12
The Ahmedabad Colloquium
Date University/Workshop Details • The Neuroscience & Psychology of Magic by Professor Rama Ratnam
30.03.22 U S Education – An overview by Deepali Shah-Asst Director, International Student Recruitment at • Psychology As Career: Discussion and Possibilities by Professor Shilpa Pandit & Professor Nithin
Foothill+De Anza Colleges, Silicon Valley, California and Mr Pranav Pradhan-Director, International George.
Admissions at University of San Francisco, California 11.11.22 Grades 11 and 12
31.03.22 Study in USA IDP’s US Undergraduate Virtual Fair Speaker: Prof. Debayan Gupta, Asst. Professor, Computer Science, Ashoka University.
Webinar on Rapid Prototyping and Experimentation aimed at providing a unique platform for high
01.04.22 Open House by Ahmedabad University for students of Grades 9 t0 11
school students across India to collaborate, innovate and design new technologies and products that
12.04.22 Interactive session by officials of Universities of Manchester, Edinburgh and Warwick will have lasting societal impact.
13.04.22 Information Session on Singapore International Science Camp (SISC) an advance Science Program to 20.03.2023 Grade 12 - ISMI ISDI Boot Camp
be conducted in Singapore from 31st May to 4th June 2022 Atlas SkillTech University
The students of ISC spent a very fruitful day at Atlas SkillTech University. They attended presentations
14.04.22 Webinar on shared opportunities in Central New York. Universities participating Colgate University,
on ‘Charging Points for Electric Cars’ by Prof. Abhinav Madan, on ‘Drone Surveillance’ by Prof. Aditya
12.05.22 Hamilton College, Skidmore College, Syracuse University and Union College
Gupte and on ‘Futuristic Garment Steamer’ by Ms. Pearl and Shane.
19.04.22 Virtual admission events from six top-ranked liberal arts colleges: Amherst, Bowdoin, Carleton,
03.05.22 Pomona, Swarthmore and Williams
Cell Meetings
30.04.22 BBA program in Management and Entrepreneurship organised by ATLAS SkillTech University. Resource
Organised by theAssociation of ICSE Schools in Maharashtra (AISM). The topics discussed were the 2023 and 2024 Board
Person Dr (Ms) Indu Shahani
Examination Syllabus and Scope, the 2023 Specimen Paper and chapter wise important points for Board Examination 2023
04.06.22 Indian School of Business and Finance (ISBF) iAspire – immersive summer workshop on careers in
05.06.22 Economics, Management and Finance. Date Subject Host School/ Attended by
11.06.22 Resource Person
12.06.22
10.10.22 Hindi ICSE Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai - Dr. Sarita Mr. R.K. Singh
12.06.22 to Young Technology Scholars Program by Plaksha University where students learn the fundamentals of Tiwari
26.02.23 electronics, programming by building small circuits and writing small codes. 14.10.22 Commerce ISC Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial School - Ms. Ritu Shere Ms. Anjani Telang
19.06.22 to
03.07.22 14.10.22 English Literature ISC Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai - Ms. Namrata Ms. Pallavi Pawar
Dutta Bera
14.10.22 Economics ICSE Lilavatibai Podar School - Ms. Seema Ms. Meenu Kothari

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15.10.22 Economics ISC Lilavatibai Podar School - Ms. Geettha P. Ms. Betty Kuruvilla Online Teacher Training Programmes at the ICSE & ISC levels :
Online Teacher Training Programmes at the ICSE & ISC levels conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate
15.10.22 Commercial Diamond Jubilee School - Mr. Ajay Ms. Nazneen Zariwala
Examinations :
Applications ICSE
15.10.22 Mathematics ISC Cathedral and John Connon - Mr. S. Tamhankar Ms. Alsona Gomes Date Subject Resource Person Teachers attended
15.10.22 Computer RBK School, Mira Road - Ms. Ujwala Verma Ms. Neelima Dikshit
Applications ICSE 30.03.22 Computer Science at the ISC level Mr. J. V. Nagendra Rao. Ms Tina Abraham

15.10.22 Physics ICSE Pawar Public School - Mr. Santosh Nimkar Mr. Mandar Lonkar 31.03.22 Hindi at the ICSE level Ms.Sadhana Shukla Mr Ravindra Kumar Singh
17.10.22 English Language ICSE Thakur Public School - Ms. Deepa Chandran Ms. Minima Karkera Dr.Reema Mehrotra Mr Maheshkumar Vishwakarma
Ms Usha Dwivedi
18.10.22 English Language ISC Jasudben M L School - Ms. Geeta Sanil Ms. Bipasha Kumar
Technical Bhaktivedanta Mission School Mr. Vipul Jain 01.04.22 Computer Applications at the ICSE Ms. Cherukupalli Syamala Ms Tina Abraham
18.10.22 Drawing level Dr.Reema Mehrotra Ms Neelima Dikshit
Applications ICSE 07.04.22 Economics at the ICSE level Ms. Seema Chawathe Ms Nazneen Zariwala
19.10.22 Psychology ISC Bombay Scottish School, Mahim - Ms. Hiral Shroff 32 teachers from 12.08.22
various schools.
08.04.22 Commerce at the ISC level Ms Rani Bhatia Ms Anjani Telang
20.10.22 Geography ICSE Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School - Ms. Reshma Ms. Kanchan
Gomendes Choudhary 09.04.22 Commercial Applications at the ICSE Ms. Mamillapalle Mr Vasim Mansuri
29.08.22 level Padmavathi Ms Nazneen Zariwala
01.11.22 Biology ICSE Activity High School - Mrs. Sushila Choudhary Ms. Deepika Pingulkar
03.11.22 Sociology ISC St. Gregorios High School - Ms. Sharmila Vaz Ms. Rebecca Francis 11.04.22 Psychology at the ISC level Ms Sanober Bharucha Ms Hiral Shroff
30.08.22 Ms Afshan Peerzada
08.11.22 Art ICSE Jamnabai Narsee School - Ms. Geetan Bhardwaj Mr. Milind
Mahamunkar 12.04.22 Sociology at the ISC level Ms Amrita Mitra Ms Rebecca Francis
10.11.22 Mathematics Gokuldham High School and Jr College - Ms Rashmi Ms. Docila D’Cunha
13.04.22 Political Science at the ISC level Prof. A K Verma Ms Kanchan Choudhary
ICSE Dubey
19.04.22 History at the ISC level Ms Shaheen Khan Mr Malcolm Ovichegan
Staff Empowerment Initiatives: 25.07.22 Sociology at the ISC level Ms Amrita Mitra Ms Rebecca Francis
Date Topic Conducted by Attended by Highlights
27.07.22 Economics at the ISC level Mr Vinod Rana Ms Betty Kuruvilla
05.08.22 Advertising Atlas SkillTech Ms Beverlee The workshop took the participants Ms Meenu Kothari
Standards Council University DeSylva and through the foundation, aims and ob-
of India’s (ASCI)self jectives, processes and effectiveness 29.07.22 Computer Applications at the ICSE Ms Cherukupalli Syamala Ms Neelima Dikshit
regulatory role in the Ms Bipasha of ASCI in the advertising industry. level
field of advertising Kumar
The participants learned to identify 05.08.22 Literature in English at the ISC level Mrs. Shuchismita Raha Ms Pallavi Pawar
how ads can be a violation of ethical Ms Melita Fernandes
codes and how defaulters do comply Ms Bipasha Kumar
with ASCI’s suggestions.
08.08.22 Hindi at the ICSE level Ms Shubra Sharma Ms Usha Dwivedi
19.10.22 Workshop on Dr. Lauren Ms. S. Pavamani, The workshop was based on Educating
Hormones and Houghton, Asst. Vice Principal Adolescents on the Science of 17.08.22 Literature in English at the ICSE level Ms Swarna Joshua Ms S Nivedhitha
Menstrual Health Prof. in Dept of Menstruation Ms Beverlee DeSylva
Epidemiology, Ms Bipasha Kumar
Columbia
University’s
Mailman School of
Public Health

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18.08.22 Physics at the ICSE level Mr S Nimkar Ms Bhindu Ramesh
Mr Mandar Lonkar
office and Staff
Mr Kiran Kaka
Mr Greg Hilbert

22.08.22 History at the ICSE level Ms Rashmi Ramesh Ms Fatema Golwala


Mr Neil Pinto

24.08.22 Mathematics at the ISC level Mr M V A Chandrashekar Ms Ashima Nanda


Ms Alsona Gomes
Mr Chris Thomas

26.08.22 English Language at the ISC level Mrs. Sangeeta Basu Ms Pallavi Pawar
Ms Melita Fernandes
Ms Bipasha Kumar

07.09.22 Biology at the ISC level Dr Subhash Chandra Ms Judylaine Mathias


Tripathy

09.09.22 Mathematics at the ICSE level Ms Tapati Roy Ms Docila D’Cunha


Ms Bhindu Ramesh
Mr Mandar Lonkar
Mr Kiran Kaka

12.09.22 Chemistry at the ISC level Dr Farooq Ahmad Ms Fleur Cardoz Seated (L-R): Mr S V Albal (Treasurer & Administrator, BSOS), Ms S George (Principal) Ms S Pavamani (Vice Principal)
Standing 1st Row (L-R): Ms G Tambekar (Librarian), Ms A Nair, Ms S Shaikh, Ms S Potnis, Ms M Rath (Finance & Accounts
14.09.22 Commerce at the ISC level Ms Rani Bhatia Ms Anjani Telang Manager), Ms R Mahale
21.09.22 French at the ICSE level Ms Amina Yasmeen Ms Persis Mody Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Mr R Gopinath (IT Manager) Ms P Sundararaman (Librarian), Ms A Irani (Sec to Principal), Mr G Budha.
Ms Shimani Sarkar

23.09.22 History at the ISC level Ms Shaheen Khan Mr Malcolm Ovichegan

27.09.22 Biology at the ICSE level Ms Maitreeyee Ms Shaleeta Bakhtawar Addition to the Scottish Premises
Bhattacharya Ms Anne Jacob
Ms Deepika Pingulkar

07.09.22 Biology at the ISC level Dr Subhash Chandra Ms Judylaine Mathias


Tripathy ilt on
The Prefab Structure bu
a huge
the School field came as
09.09.22 Mathematics at the ICSE level Ms Tapati Roy Ms Docila D’Cunha
Ms Bhindu Ramesh
23 for all
Mr Mandar Lonkar blessing in January 20
could be
Mr Kiran Kaka
School activities that
length
12.09.22 Chemistry at the ISC level Dr Farooq Ahmad Ms Fleur Cardoz conducted freely and at
present.
14.09.22 Commerce at the ISC level Ms Rani Bhatia Ms Anjani Telang given the renovation at
21.09.22 French at the ICSE level Ms Amina Yasmeen Ms Persis Mody
Ms Shimani Sarkar

23.09.22 History at the ISC level Ms Shaheen Khan Mr Malcolm Ovichegan

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teaching Staff teaching Staff

Principal: Ms S George, Vice Principal: Ms S Pavamani


76 Ms. Tina Abraham 104 Ms. Rashmi Surya Kumar 132 Ms. Dhanashree Pai
Academic Co-ordinators: Ms M Thakker (KG), Ms R Kirubaharan (Grades 1 & 2), Ms A Parchure (Grades 3 & 4),
Ms P Mody (Grades 5 & 6), Ms F Haeems (Grades 7 & 8), Ms S Lulla (ICSE), Mr M Ovichegan (ISC) 77 Ms. Nipa Shah 105 Ms. Richa Sanghvi 133 Ms. Tarka Indulkar
78 Ms. Melita Fernandes 106 Ms. Rebecca Francis 134 Ms. Sharon Saldanha
1 Ms. Rachel Kirubaharan 26 Ms. Bhindu Ramesh 51 Ms. Smera Khathuria 79 Ms. Aparna Ubale 107 Ms. Josephine D'Souza 135 Ms. Shimani B Sarkar
2 Ms. Lana MaGee 27 Ms. Usha Dwivedi 52 Mr. Nester Dabre 80 Mr. Mehul Londhe 108 Mr. Shashikant Pandey 136 Mr. Aditya Ramesh
3 Ms. Ashvini Mondkar 28 Ms. Srividya Chandrashekhar 53 Ms. Fatema Golwala 81 Ms. Ashima Nanda 109 Ms. Miti Patodia 137 Ms. Jasmine Royston D'Souza
4 Ms. Meeta Thakker 29 Ms. Saachi Dewani 54 Ms. Sejal Miranda 82 Mr. Vasim M Mansuri 110 Ms. Seema Singh 138 Ms. Leen D'Cunha
5 Ms. Sutapa Das 30 Mr. Ulric Sequeira 55 Ms. Shweta Pradhan 83 Ms. Meenu Kothari 111 Ms. Roopal Dhawan 139 Mr. Jaemmy D'Cunha
6 Ms. Judylaine Mathias 31 Mr. Jeetendra Raut 56 Ms. Neola Mathew 84 Ms. Merlin Mary Dominic 112 Ms. Bipasha Kumar
7 Ms. Sonali Hatalkar 32 Mr. Kiran Kaka 57 Ms. Florence Haeems 85 Mr. Mandar Lonkar 113 Ms. Neha Kanade Contractual Staff
8 Ms. Ruby Mathur 33 Ms. Archana Sharma 58 Ms. Ayesha Mascarenhas 86 Ms. Arpita Chakraborty 114 Ms. Heena Barudgar 1 Ms. Purvi Shah
9 Ms. Paramjit Sethi 34 Ms. Liny Jacob 59 Ms. Anne Jacob 87 Ms. Hiral Shroff 115 Mr. Neil Pinto
2 Ms. Mayura Mohta
10 Ms. Neelima Dikshit 35 Ms. Mahima Daniels 60 Ms. Christabel Veigas 88 Ms. Fleur Cardoz 116 Ms. Natasha Rodrigues
3 Ms. Hiral Patrawala
11 Ms. Varsha Abrar 36 Ms. Anupama Parchure 61 Ms. Prunelle Coutinho 89 Ms. Sanaa Khandwani 117 Ms. Mansi Dave
12 Ms. Shefali Lulla 37 Ms. Bhavani Nadar 62 Dr (Ms.) Nitu Tated 90 Ms. Afshan Peerzada 118 Mr. Greg Hilbert 4 Ms. Sharmin Rangoonwala
13 Ms. Minima Karkera 38 Ms. Shaleeta Bakhtawar 63 Ms. Jamira Fernandes 91 Ms. Vailaneena Govindan 119 Ms. Olivia Lobo 5 Ms. Andrea D’Lomen
14 Ms. Snehalata Almeida 39 Ms. Persis Mody 64 Ms. Stephanie Cardozo 92 Ms. Ranjana Singh 120 Ms. Alsona Gomes 6 Ms. Althia Banjes
15 Ms. Simmi Singh 40 Ms. Radhika Mukherjee 65 Ms. Betty Kuruvilla 93 Mr. Aaron Fernandes 121 Ms. Vanessa Fernandes
7 Ms. Valerie Kamble
16 Mr. Cabrino Fernandes 41 Ms. Nisha D'Mello 66 Ms. Naama Modi 94 Ms. S Nivedhitha 122 Mr. Chris Thomas
17 Ms. Kavita Ambani 42 Ms. Beverlee-Ann DeSylva 67 Ms. Bindu Rajakrishnan 95 Mr. Malcolm Ovichegan 123 Ms. Deepika Mehra
8 Mr. Vipul Jain
18 Mr. Bhausaheb Binnar 43 Ms. Amutha Bharathi 68 Ms. Shalini Singhal 96 Ms. Pranali Bhosle 124 Ms. Deepika Pingulkar 9 Ms. Smita Bhowmik
19 Ms. Pallavi Pawar 44 Ms. Nazneen Zariwala 69 Ms. Kanchan Choudhary 97 Ms. Sana Khan 125 Ms. Saakshi Tikku 10 Ms. Divya Vora
20 Ms. Anuradha Uppal 45 Ms. Elena Fernandes 70 Ms. Kanchan Mishra 98 Mr. Amar D Kanade 126 Ms. Nida Jaffer
21 Ms. Amruta Pandey 46 Ms. Amuthavalli Murugan 71 Mr. Maheshkumar Vishwakarma 99 Ms. Sheetal Sawant 127 Ms. Yogita Dhote
Substitutes
22 Mr. Ravindra Kumar Singh 47 Ms. Fiona Francis 72 Ms. Brinal D'Cunha 100 Ms. Deepa Shinde 128 Mr. Lucas Sumanam
23 Ms. Anjani Telang 48 Ms. Pranjali Nawar 73 Ms. Meenaz Bihari 101 Ms. Rikita Miranda 129 Ms. Aarti Parab 1 Ms. Payushi Ghosh
24 Ms. Manpreet Hill 49 Ms. Docila D'Cunha 74 Mr. Milind Mahamunkar 102 Ms. Priya Damle 130 Ms. Rashmi Singh 2 Ms. Rosemary Shaji Joseph
25 Ms. Bessie Dias 50 Ms. Sunita Billava 75 Ms. Firuza Adi Dastoor 103 Ms. Shweta Desai 131 Ms. Abigail Desena 3 Mr. Vernon D’Souza

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Non-Teaching Staff Staff Retirement & Farewell

Ms Dorothy Amanna retired from Bombay Scottish School,


Mahim after 29 years of fruitful service from 1993 to 2022 as
BSS PERMANENT STAFF 14 Vasanti Pravin Kannan Janitor
Secretary to various Principals, namely; Mr Mark David, Rev. Wishing Ms A Mondkar A Happy Retirement
Sr. No. Name of employee DESIGNATION 15 Vanita Vijay Jadhav Janitor
Arun Thomas, Dr D P N Prasad, Mrs Melanie Chandrashekar, Term of Service : 1993 - 2023
1 Aruna Gunaji Gole Library Assistant 16 Kavita Shivaji Malusure Janitor
Mrs Molly Paul and to Mrs Sunita George, the current (30 years of teaching brought to fruition)
2 Stanley Chelladurai Nadar Lab Assistant 17 Jyotika Narendra Parmar Janitor
Principal. Wishing Ms Amanna a very Happy Retirement!
3 Kavita Vinod Waghela Support Staff 18 Shobha Ramesh Hudgikar Janitor
4 Ravindra Vinayak Raut Support Staff 19 Swati Niitn Kanthe Janitor
5 Sunita Mansukh Solanki Support Staff 20 Sarita Kashiram Tambe Janitor
6 Samadhan samuel Sanaki Support Staff 21 Nitin Vijay Devdhare Janitor
7 Maria john Noronha Support Staff 22 Rajesh Vijay Jetithor Janitor
8 Neeru Fernandes Support Staff 23 Shashikant Bhaskar Afandkar Janitor
24 Avinash Rama Pawar Janitor
KRYSTAL INTEGRATED SERVICES PVT LTD SUPPORT STAFF
25 Avinash Gautam Jadhav Janitor
Sr.
26 Ganesh Ghaininath Shinde Janitor
No. Name of Employee designation
27 Suvarna Ravindra More Janitor
1 Sugam Suresh Chache Site In Charge
28 Mangesh Anant Karanjkar Janitor
2 Akshay Dilip Nalawade Tec. Supervisor
29 Saadiya Saba Nooruddin Saifi Janitor
3 Dikshita Mangesh Madankar Supervisor
30 Dnyanita Rajesh Yelkar Janitor
4 Shraddha Sunil Raorane Lab Assistant
31 Shital Sachin Mangawde Janitor
5 Umesh Venkateshwar Avadootha Lab Assistant
32 Suraj Manohar Gaikwad Janitor
6 Shyam Narayan More Office Boy
33 Ajay Pandurang Arve Janitor
7 Vinod Manohar Rahate Office Boy
34 Sahil Dinesh Telker Janitor
8 Lalita Sachin Gupta Office Attendant
35 Sushila Keshav Sadafule Janitor
9 Goraksha Mugaji Kamble Car Driver
36 Pravina Chandrashekhar Deshmukh Janitor
10 Vinod Pandurang Chechare Bus Driver
37 Yellamma Murugan Padyachi Janitor
11 Rajeshree Krishna Kamble Janitor
38 Deepti Deepak Pawar Janitor
12 Sunita Sandeep Mate Janitor
39 Suman Hansraj Singadiya Janitor Bidding adieu to some of our Scottish Staff!
13 Neelam D. Sandesaria Janitor

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senior Student Council Junior Student Council

Head Boy Tarun Patil 12B Kennedy House


Head Girl Aanya Wala 12A House Captain Azann Qureshi 12B
Assistant Head Boy Veer Prasad 12B House Vice Captain Aditya Alva 11B
Assistant Head Girl Auroni Gupta 12A Sports Captain Ishtiyaq Noorani 11B
Sports Vice Captain Armaan Jetha 10F
Student Ambassadors Laksh Sharma 12B
Srishti Rakhecha 12A
Victoria House Macpherson House Captain Neev Shah 6E Kennedy House Captain Arnav Jain 6B
Macpherson House House Captain Tia Nagpal 12B Catherine House Captain Ellora Shirali 6C Victoria House Captain Freya Maru 6F
House Captain Jash Bhansali 12C House Vice Captain Palak Chandaliya 11C
Sports Captain Shriya Arvind 11A Macgregor House Captain Josh Thomas 6B Haddow House Captain Lakshh Masand 6C
House Vice Captain Vedant Somwanshi 10F
Sports Captain Dhwanit Gogri 11C Sports Vice Captain Dia Agarwal 10F Elizabeth House Captain Aashna Gupta 6B Anne House Captain Maira Gupta 6A
Sports Vice Captain Pratham Hari 10D
Haddow House
Catherine House
House Captain Yashodhara Ray 12A House Captain Aarav Gupta 12C
House Vice Captain Malishka Vemu 11B House Vice Captain Yuvraj Wadhwani 11B

s t I n G o d
Tru
Sports Captain Kieara Sabhlok 11A Sports Captain Khush Gathani 11C
Sports Vice Captain Aara Desai 10D
Sports Vice Captain Adidev Ray 10D

and
Macgregor House
House Captain Angad Kanwar 12B Anne House
House Vice Captain Hrishikesh Kini 11B
Sports Captain Diyan Savla 11B
House Captain Aashna Thomas 12B

h e R i g h t
Do T
Sports Vice Captain Arjun Kanodia 10D House Vice Captain Sharanya Sudarshan 10F
Sports Captain Lavanya Gupta 11B
Elizabeth House
Sports Vice Captain Nivritee Singhi 10D
House Captain Sameera Cunha 12B
House Vice Captain Noheeni Bhulescarr 11B
Sports Captain Sia Verma 11B Band Major 1 Bhagya Popat 11C
Sports Vice Captain Ayana Zantye 10F Band Major 2 Kimaya Vasvani 10A

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Scottish In the News Mid-Day: Monday 15 May, 2023, Page 7

Hindustan Times: Monday 15 May


es Icons felicitation)
Changemakers In Education Award TOI DEC 26,2022 pg 1 (Tim
by Ashraya Foundation

, 2023, Page 6

Mid-Day: Monday 15 May, 2023, Page 1 & 6


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Times School (TOI supplement)
Oct 17,2022 page 1

The Times of India: Monday 15 May, 2023, Page 3


ge 2
I) Oct 17, 2022 pa
Times School (TO

Hindustan Times: Monda


y 15 May, 2023, Page 6

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U-10 Boys Football team - 14th January 23 TOI

The Indian Express: Monday 15 May, 2023, Page 6

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Hindustan Times: Monday 15 May, 2023, Page 1
PERSPECTIVE 360 Topics
Approximately 2000 students participated, with an audience of 3000 parents. Students portrayed their skills
through panel interviews/discussions, live surveys, nukkad nataks, choral recitation, quizzes, songs, dances as
well as dramatic representations.
The following topics were presented:
ed
5A - The Great Equalizer - Equality, Equity And Justice. 5B - Literate Uneducat

5D - We Encroac h, They Approa


ch
5C - Language: A Medium Of Communication Or A Barrier

Attitude?
5E - Attire Decides
5F - Competition In Healthcare- The Good, Bad And Ugly

6A - Freedom Of Sp
eech- Entitlement Or Responsibility?

6C - Sur vival Of The Fittest( Bull


ying)
6B - Perceive Through The Eye-Expectations Vs Reality

To Envy
6E - Congratulations Is The Civility

6D - Dissolving All Borders (A World With Or Without Borders)

y
On Th e Econom 6F - Walk A Mile In Another Ma
n’s Moccasins
Im p a c t Of War
7A - The

7C - G20 Summit - 2023


7B - Nature’s Scars On The World’s Economy

7D - Behaviour Of Indian
Market Consumers (On Canva)
7E - Impact Of Foreign Education On India’s Economy

World
On India’s Economy 8A - Controversial Laws Of The
7F - Nuclear Energy & Its Impact

8B - Mass Media & Inform


8C - Carbon Footprint ation Literacy

l Literacy teracy os Theory


8D - Financia 8E - Political Li fl y Effect - Cha
9E - The Butter

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Perspective
360opinion
ur
# V o i c e yo

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Singapore International Science Camp

11 students along with Mr Greg Hilbert, atten


ded a
Science Camp at NUS in Singapore. The stud

IYPT
ents
attended a surgical simulation session IYPT 2022 (International Youth
at the
National University Hospital. They were also Physicist Tournament), the
taught
the use of “Fusion 360” by Autodesk, a softw
are annual Physics World Cup for
for 3D printing purposes and the difference betw
een high school students was held in
automation and coexistence of robots with hum
ans. Timisoara, Romania. 25 countries
The students visited Universal Studios.
had participated. It was a proud
moment for Bombay Scottish
School, Mahim to have Laksh
Sharma, a student from Grade
12B, who was selected for the
tournament and represented
India as the Team Captain. Mr.
S. Pandey, the Physics teacher,
from the ISC Section was the
IOC [International Organising
Committee] representative
and Juror from India at the
tournament.

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Back In Business
11 schools across the city attended the second edition of
the Entrepreneurship Fest, 'Back In Business'. Impeccably
designed and detailed pitches, marketing, branding, sales
and distribution coupled with the intelligent and hard
hitting cross questioning of the judges truly made for an
engaging sight. The esteemed panel of judges comprised
Mr Manish Choksi - Vice President, Asian Paints Mr. Shrinath
Bolloju having a sheer eye for business spanning across 30
years and now as an Independent Strategic Advisor and
Ms. Sneha Hiranandani, Chief Information Officer, Cipla.

SYPT
The Scottish Young Physicists’ Tournament,
was the first inter-house Physics Competition
that allowed students to solve complicated
scientific problems to present solutions in a
convincing manner and to defend them in
scientific discussions through Physics Fights.
The panel of judges included Mr. Leo Chacko,
Teacher at Lilavatibai Podar School, Mrs Arpita
Agarkar, Teacher at Jasudben M. L. School and
Mr. Sagar Tamhankar, Teacher at Cathedral
and John Connon School. The event ended with
Yellow house winning the competition.

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IYP
189 students across grades
8 -12 from BSS Mahim and
BSS Powai, participated
with great zeal and vigour,
thereby making the IYP 2022
a reverberating success. The
RBI’s move to allow the Indian
Rupee for the settlement of
international trade and the
Agnipath Scheme were the
agendas for the Lok Sabha
and Rajya Sabha respectively.
The 10th edition of SMUN Mahim was held on the School campus after
2 years. 245 delegates participated in five dynamic committees.
The Joint Crisis Cabinet navigated chaos and sought a new world
order. The United Nations Human Rights Council discussed the
statelessness and rehabilitation of Rohingya refugees post-pandemic.
The United Nations Security Council debated the Russia-Ukraine
crisis. The United Nations General Assembly evaluated measures
against terrorism and war crimes, spotlighting the assassination of
the Head of Al Qaeda while the Disarmament and International
Security Committee discussed the South China Sea conflict.

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Vive la France - long live france!

Having garnered over 450


registrations from schools and La fête
nationale chez
colleges all over Mumbai, the 7th
edition of Brainstorm saw 5 awe-
inspiring speakers namely; Aastha BSSM
Shah, a digital content creator
and an influencer Anish Gawande,
an LGBTQIA+ activist and Pink
List India Rhodes Scholar, Vedant
Lamba, the founder of Mainstreet
Marketplace, Aman Johri, the
CEO of Aerospace and Defense
firm based in Mumbai, and Dhvani
Bhanushali, an Indian pop singer
who is the voice behind several
soulful songs.

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#ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM
"In The Mosaic of Multi-Disciplines,
Students Become Well-Rounded Learners and Thinkers."

‘Make Me a Channel
of your Peace’
During the weeklong VBS sessions,
children learnt how to be a light to their
family, friends and community through
memory verses, action and worship songs
and a skit enactment.
Around the World
Our little students had a 'travel
experience' right from the airport
procedures to visiting countries like
China, Italy and Egypt and enjoying
their cuisine!!

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#ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM #ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM

Learning
with
Clay

When Imagination
Meets Evidence,
Creating A World
Of Possibilities

Hopscotch with No. 6 and Shapes Sense Stations

Learning Colours

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#ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM #ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM

What's the Time?


Experiential Learning

Valentine Craft
Learning Becomes an immersive
Education
adventure through activity-based

Stop
Vegetable Market
Drop
Roll

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#ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM #ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM

At the Post
Office Rakhi Making

Diwali

Experiential Learning
Celebrating
Community
Helpers Festivals

Christmas

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#ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM #ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM

"fun Worksheets With Math Activities"

Igniting Minds
through Active Exploration &
Practical Learning

Fraction Art

Let's measure

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#ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM #ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM

Unleashing the
“Expanding Horizons Through
Power of Speech!
The Lens Of Holistic Education
With Social Studies”

tivities,
Group Ac More!
ts &
Workshee

reduce - reuse
- recycle

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Blue Dot Research Project #ClassroomLearning#Activities#BSSM

The 'Blue Dot Research Project' was Worksheet Activity on Emotions & How I feel when ...
based on information analysed on
the culture, society, food habits etc. of
Wellbeing Activities
various countries across the globe as a
part of learning Social Studies which
further translated into the script for our
Annual Concert.

Pyjama Party
Singing Class with the Singing Master, Mr. Cabrino

Monsoon Carnival

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Mentoring Young Field Trips
Adolescents by Grades 1 & 2 at KidZania
An Awarness Workshop
t Obstetrician
Dr. S. Goyal - Consultan
the Lilavati
And Gynaecologist at
Centre
Hospital And Research

”Fostering A Harmonious
Balance Between Academic
Excellence, Emotional
Well-Being, and Social
Awareness."

Grades 3 & 4 took a trip to KiZania and


Esselworld Bird Park

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Grade 5 enjoyed their time at Nehru Planetarium and Grades 7 & 8 went for an excursion to Sunny’s World and
Juice Adventures Della Adventure Resort

Grade 6 went to Lonavala and also visited the


Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu
Grade 9 set off to
Sangrahalaya
the Panchgani and
Wada Camps

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Grade 10's trip to Silvassa Prize Day

Our compere- Ms S Pavamani Alaiha Vanjara giving the Mr Deepak Parekh, Deputy Chairman Ms S George reading the
welcome speech BSOS giving the keynote address Annual School Report
Grade 11 camped at Panchgani

The School Choir singing harmoniously during moments of prayer

The Choral Recitation Underway!

Mr Deepak Parekh, Deputy Chairman


BSOS and Ms S George, Principal BSS ICSE Batch 2022 Topper, Sanmay Shah ISC Batch 2022 Topper, Anshul Mitra
Mahim unveiling Tartan 2022.

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Independence Day Investiture Ceremony

The FIRST EVER DEMOCRATIC STUDENT COUNCIL of the students, for the students and by the students of BSSM was installed
in 2022. The elected student leaders represented both the Senior Section and the Junior Section of the School respectively.

"United by Liberty,
together we thrive" Head Boy - Tarun Patil (12B) Head Girl - Aanya Wala (12A) Asst. Head Boy - Veer Prasad (12B)

Asst. Head Girl - Auroni Gupta (12A) Student Ambassador - Student Ambassador -
Laksh Sharma (12B) Srishti Rakhecha (12A)

Student Council 2022

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The March-past Winners:
The Red House

senior sports Day

The Chief Guest being


honoured with a floral
tribute by Freya Maru

Commodore Dhingra,
encouraged the
students about the
significance of physical
Commodore Dhingra being escorted to the
fitness and that all they
Saluting Base by School Ambassadors and Vice The Chief Guest taking the salute need is A Pat,
Principal, Ms S Pavamani from the marching sqauds A Clap and A Cheer

The Head Boy, Tarun Patil


delivering the Welcome Address The Principal,
Ms S George saluting
the School Flag

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Our Comperes
The Sports Meet declared closed with
with the handover of the their seamless
School flag and witty
banter!

The Vote of Thanks


promptly delivered by
Auroni Gupta Assistant
Head Girl & Veer
Prasad Assistant Head
Boy

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2
es1&
ctio
n grad
KG
Se junior sports Day junior sports Day

The Welcome Speech by The Vote of Thanks by Our little entertainers stirring the crowd
Zoey Kanuga 2C Kashvi Malhotra 1C
with their rhythmic movements

The Principal, Ms S George's Ranbir Sharma, Sr Kg A giving Vyom Amula, Jr KG F giving the
motivational speech to the audience- the Welcome Speech Vote of Thanks
'I am a FINISHER!'

The KG Section
enthusiastically throwing
their hands up in the air!

Our tiny tots racing away!!

Various Races in action!

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es 3&4 es 3&4
grad junior sports Day grad junior sports Day

Lakshita Sethi 4A giving the Vihaan Anand 4C taking the Oath


welcome speech Nizh Kapadia 4F leading the
squads!!

ison,
s m a r c h ing in un
Squad fervour!
ur House Scottish
All the fo li n e a n d
discip

The Vote of
Thanks by
Devansh Malla
4E

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university fair
Bombay Scottish School, Mahim had organised
a University Fair for students and parents of
Grades 9 to 12.
22 private Indian Universities and 10 International
Universities participated in this fair. Students and
parents visited the university desks for individual
information and counselling sessions with the
university officers.

Appreciation
Messages
-Annual Concert

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Annual
)Seniors(
Concert

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I s I t A n y w a y ?
Whose Len s

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Annual
(KG Section)
Concert

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Dramatics
The theme for the Inter-house
Dramatics Competition was
“Whydunit” i.e. the motive
behind the crime.

• Winning Team: Yellow House [enactment-


‘Liberation’]
• Green House, [enactment - ‘But I Loved Her’]
• Blue House, [enactment - ‘411’]
• Red House, [enactment - ‘Love, Bride and
Cyanide’]

The Panel of Judges:


1. Ms. Shweta Venkat Mathew, award winning
Indian film Editor.
2. Ms. Shivani Vakil Savant, a drama teacher, baker
and a theater practitioner in various capacities.
3. Mr. Kedar Parulekar, a veteran of various
Performing Arts.

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Kennedy / Victoria (Green): Peter Pan and
Captain Hook

Nritya
Fairy tale with a Twist
MacPherson / Catherine (Red):
Little Red Riding Hood
Winning House - MacGregor /Elizabeth (Blue) :
Cinderella

Haddow / Anne (Yellow): Snow White


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Atlas Bootcamps Perseverantia
A footfall of 800+ participants from across 19 Schools in the city
#Preserve#Prevent#Prevail

ATLAS SkillTech University held various


workshops for our students of the ISC & Inventio
isting
ICSE sections on their campus. Revolutionising Ex
The Innovations

FIRST
EVER
Inter-
school
Event

Executitos
tivis
The Ac m
Podiu

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Fabula Sociale
The Film-making Competition
Young Minds Fighting
for the Future
Events were
held with
grandeur on...

the School Campus as


well as St. Andrew's
Auditorium

Negotium
A Glimpse into the Corporate World

Admeta
Fiery and Intense Debates

Panache
The Fashionistas’ Skirmish

Ornare
The Art Studio

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Mr & Ms
Perseverantia

Gratia
Dance Away!

Ballroom Chaos -
Band

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Carmen
Slam Poetry Writing
Behind The
Scenes

Flashmob

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scottish spotlight
#Children’sDay#ScottishSpotlight#BSSM

#VariedTalents#UniqueTalents#ABeautifulDayWellSpent#BSSM

# LiteraryArts#PerformingArts#FineArts#TechnicalArts#BSSM#HereWeGo

#EventsHeld
#SpeakOut
#Pixel Art
#Splash
#Adlibs
#StealingTheShow#SpotlightOrTheLimelight? #Amplified

#LightsCameraAction #ComicAsylum#MadAdWorld#Anamorphosis#AndMore

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Orientations (ICSE & ISC)
Open Day

The ICSE Orientation provided students and parents the necessary information on understanding the detailed choice of the
stream and subjects offered.
The ISC Orientation helped the new batch of students to get acquainted with Academics and School decorum.

'Open Day' displayed an array of the skills and talents


of our young Scottishites
along with Parent-Teacher interactions.

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Founder's Day Alumni Meet
The 176th Founder’s Day began with the hoisting of the School flag.
Reverend Thomas Jacob delivered the Founders’ Day message with an
emphasis on the School motto ‘Perseverantia et Fide in Deo’. The Chief
Guest, Dr. Lalit Kanodia, Founder of Datamatics and alumnus, Batch
1956-57, in his address to the gathering, spoke about the impact that
Bombay Scottish had on him. Nostalgia filled the air, as friendly football
and basketball matches were played between the present students and
the ex-students.

The Alumni Meet 2023 was


attended by the oldest to the latest
alumni of the School, members of
the Committee of Management, Mr
Lalit Kanodia (Batch of 1957), Dr
Indu Shahani, Founder President
of Atlas Skilltech University, Ms
Neha Jagtiani - Principal, National
College, Dr Brinda Somaya,
Founder and Principal Architect SNK
consultants. Mr. Aaditya Thackeray
also graced the occasion.

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sTUDENT Exchange programme
When Rijnlands Lyceum Oegstgeest,
Netherlands MET Bombay Scottish
School, Mahim...

The highlight included the unveiling


of the first ever Coffee Table Book,
‘The Scottishite’, by our Deputy
Chairman, Mr. Deepak Parekh.
There were also performances by
our 175 member majestic School
choir and a kathak-bharatnatyam
dance fusion.

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...It brought together different cultures and traditions while building a global
perspective between India and the Netherlands.

Some highlights of the visi


t:
A heritage walk of Mumba
i
city, a visit to the NGO,
Abhyudaya. Global Vipasa
na,
Sanjay Gandhi National
Park etc. and activities an
d
workshops on Tie and Dye
and
Indian textiles

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When Bombay Scottish School,
Mahim MET
Rijnlands Lyceum Oegstgeest,
Netherlands...

...We built bridges,


forging friendships while creating
global citizens

Teacher's Day
at
Monteria
Resort

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Joy of Giving Republic Day
To commemorate the culmination of the 175th year celebration of our School,
once a Month through the year...

The 74th
Republic Day
at BSSM
- Speeches by students in
Hindi, Marathi and English
- Patriotic songs rendered
by the School choir
- An intriguing ‘Mumbaikar
Street Play’ by students of
Grades 9 and 11.
- The National Anthem
displayed in sign
language and its message
highlighted by our student
Kathak dancers.
...the teachers and students
reached out to orphanages, homes
for the aged, hospitals, etc. by
providing essentials and also
spending time with adults and
children in the Joy of Giving.

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Change of Guard Special Assembly (grades 3 to 6)

Closing
Assembly
(grades 10 & 12)
The mass assembly marking the closure of the academic year

Fond School
Memories
shared by the
"We keep this love in a ICSE & ISC
photograph" - [Song: Photograph Batches of
by Ed Sheeran.] Cover by Cherise 2023 for the
Gomes 12A accompanied by last time!!!
keyboardist, Azann Qureshi 12B]

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Valedictory Function
ICSE

Both the ICSE and ISC Valedictory Functions were celebrated with
pomp and splendor. The functions entailed the ‘lighting of the
lamp’, a solemn rendition of hymns by the respective teaching staff,
valedictory speeches, karaoke sessions, dinner and the extravagant
‘BSS and ISC Lad and Lass’ event.

ICSE Valedictorians: Tanmay Gupta 10E & Shreya Upadhyay 10B

BSS Lad and Lass: Arjun Kanodia 10D & Anika Joseph 10A

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Valedictory Function
ISC

ISC Valedictorians: Fariya Hasan 12A, Arivan Agarwal 12B & Varun Gogoi 12C
ISC Lad and Lass: Calvin Kumar 12A & Ishita Somwanshi 12B

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Inter-House Debate Competition Inter-house Quiz Competition Winners

Aditya Bajaj (12B)

Zane Dsouza (1E), Shaswat Lath (2D), Devanshi Jain (3C) and Advay Puglia (4A) &
Vice Principal Ms. S. Pavamani
The Winning Team: Yellow House, Tarun Patil 12B, Judge - Mr. Akshay Pai, Alumni & Advocate, Mumbai High Court, Principal,
Ms S. George, Judge - Ms. Bipasha Gupta, The Cathedral and John Connon School, Anika Joseph 10A, Soumya Desai 11C &
Judge - Mr. Neil Dutta - Senior Advocate, Wadia Ghandy & Co.

Advik Viswanathan
(10B) Karan Philip (9B)
Advay Sen (10B)

Aanya Wala 12A Runner-up Speaker

Atharva Bapna (8E), Ruhaan Rajadhyaksha (6B), Sanjeev Acharya (7D), Vidit Shukla (5F), the team &
Arhaan Lulla 12A Best Speaker Vice Principal Ms. S. Pavamani

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english elocution/declamation - winners Hindi elocution winners

Ms. M. Fernandes, Coord - Ms P. Mody, Principal


Kneeling (L-R): Aasiya Muni 3A, Siddharth Dhowan 3C and Ms S George, Kairav Gupta 6E, Heaya Varma 6C,
Sara Kulkarni 3E. Standing 1st row (L-R): Simran Sanghavi 4F, Anvesha Khare 6F, Shanaiya Bharucha 6C & Ms. P. Pawar
Aadya Bhojani 4F and Yashasvi Vartak 4B. Standing 2nd row
(L-R): Judge - Ms B DeSylva and Ms M Karkera & the team

L-R: Winners Kiara Nishant Savla (3A), Reya Prashant Vala (4E), Ekveera Samant (4A,) Kaveesh Mitra (4C), Devansh
Gandhekar (3D), Siddharth Dhowan (3C), Judges: Ms.U. Dwivedi & Ms.R. Mathur, Vice Principal S. Pavamani,
Declamation Winners: Sitting [L-R] - Judge, Mr. Joseph Coord - Ms. A. Pachure & the team
Rose, Christ Church School, Principal, Ms S. George & Judge
Ms. M. Fernandes, Coordinator - Ms P. Mody, Principal Ms. Sharon Lobo, J. B. Vachha Girls School. Winners Standing
Ms S George, Vritika Shah 5F, Siddharth Nair 5D, Arnav [L-R] - Naysa Shah [11A], Jason Augustine [11C],
Anukumar 5A, Ms. P. Pawar Inaaya Kulkarni [9D] and Eesha Khare [11b]

Kaisha Kapoor (5E) Anishka Dhowan (5A) Anaya Dubey (5C) Anaiya Rathie (5D)

L-R - Jordan Pinto 7C, Zahra Habib 7D, Anaiya Rathi 7D, Pranav Karthik 8A, Prarthna Sarkar 8E and Aahana Khot 8E
Coord: Ms F. Haeems, Judges - Ms B DeSylva and Ms M Karkera & the team Anvesha Khare (6F) Kairav Gupta(6E) Alisha Tulshan (6D) Reyansh Deshpande (6E) Neev Shah (6E)

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Hindi elocution winners Marathi elocution winners

L-R - Winners: Amaira L-R - Winners: Malhar


Masand (7E), Akshita Tiwari Nikalje (5C), Aryadit
(7C) & Anaiya Rathi (7D), Deshmukh (5A), Devika
Vice Principal Pinge (5D), Kaisha
Ms S Pavamani, Coord- Ms. Kapoor (5E) the team
F. Haeems and the team. Vice Principal Ms. S.
Judges - Dr Indrakumar Pavamani &
Vishwakarma Mr Jitendra Coord. Ms Mody
Sharma Judges - Ms Madhavi
Mutatkar & Ms Medha
Rajdhyaksha & the team

L-R - Winners: L-R - Winners: Ruhaan


Maahir Shah (8B), Rajadhyaksha (5E), Shrutika
Pranav Karthik (8A), Shirke (6E), Reyansh
Shreeya Nawar (8D), Deshpande (6E) the team &
Vice Principal Ms S Pavamani Vice Principal Ms. S. Pavamani
and the team. the team and Coord. Ms Mody
Judges - Ms Madhavi
Judges - Dr Indrakumar
Mutatkar & Ms Medha
Vishwakarma , Mr Jitendra
Rajdhyaksha
Sharma

L-R - Winners: Aditya Arora


9B, Khyatee Singh (9D),
Muskan Goenka (10D)
Natasha Varkey (10A)
Paraj Garg (9E), Darshil
Kochar (9D)
Judges - Mr. Kailash
Udamale and Dr.
Ravindranath Tiwari, Vice
Principal Ms S Pavamani, L-R - Winners: Avishka Bhor (7B), Kalika Redkar (7C), L-R - Winners: Sawara Inamdar (8C), Abha Jambhekar (8A),
Coord- Ms S Lulla and the Rhea Dcosta (7C), Atharva Sawant (7A) & Principal, Aahana Khot (8E) & Principal, Ms S George
team. Ms. S. George Judges - Ms Madhavi Mutatkar & Ms Medha Rajdhyaksha
Judges - Ms Madhavi Mutatkar & Ms Medha Rajdhyaksha

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Vivaan Goyal (1D) Tejaradittya Karmakar (2D)

Devanshi Jain (3C) & Zayn Arab (4B)

Ved M Balakrishnan (1D) & Prashasti Ojha (2B)

Aryan Jaiswal (4A) & Vedanth Dhamangaonkar (3E) Darsh Taranekar (5E)

Ahana Shah (8D) & Avika Vishwanathan (7C)

Spell it right,
win the fight!
Dev Vaswani (6C) & Nandini Muthukrishnan (5E)

Kairav Gupta (6E) Atharva Kumar (7E) & Vidit Jain (8B)

The possibilities with


Math are Infinite!

Dhruv Shirali (10B) & Karan Philip (9B)


French Spelling Bee Winners: Niharika Pai (7B), Cullen Sheldon (5B) &
Anhad Singh Anand (6A) Aditya Alva (11B)
Aditya Arora (9B)

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Inter-House Singing Competition Musical
The YELLOW HOUSE was the overall winner across Grades 3 to 8

Harmonising Hearts
and Creating Magic during
Grades 3 and 4: Singing the hymn: ‘Every Tiny Star’ and the song: ‘Country Roads’ the Spectacular school
Musical!

Grades 5 and 6: Vocalising the hymn: ‘O Give Thanks To the Lord’ and the song: ‘Counting Stars’.

Grades 7 and 8: Harmonising the Hymn: ‘I'm All In’ and the song: ‘California Dreamin’.

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Cpr Technique
MediCare Summer Fiesta
Students are at the forefront of a lot of
the programmes that are held on campus.
MediCare 2023 was one such educational
and informative talk conducted by Dr
Bhagyashree Pardeshi which dealt with
common medical emergencies we could
face in our daily lives and how students
can deal with them, when adults are not
around. The session stated the nature of the
emergencies and how to react to them.

s
Fun Activitie
er
During Summ

TACKLING EMERGENCIES

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Coup d'œil Grandparent's Day

Airborne Aerial Fitness Art Calligraphy

Swirl Music

Capoeira: (L-R) Body Preparation for Acrobatics, Games to Encourage Teamwork Chess
and Strength Drills

Dance and Theatre by GetLitt Irobokids


SNDA

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CLUBS The Quiz Club consisted of 116
members from Grades 3 to 12. It
To keep surfing this world wide web smoothly, a troop of aimed to inculcate General Knowledge
around 45 students from Grades 7 to 12, along with teachers as a habit and a tool in reasoning and
met twice a month on Thursdays. As social media is most verification of world events. The Senior
prone to suffer an attack of hacking, leading to loss of private Brain Club members participated in quiz
information that could be harmful to one’s interpersonal competitions such as Aviation Day Quiz,
relationships as well as social relations, the club prioritised in Smartacus Quiz and AISM Quiz.
understanding and focusing on the two fold steps- Prevention ~Club Advisors - Ms. S. Das,
and Complaint. Ms. N. Modi, Ms A. Chakraborty,
Ms. V. Fernandes, Ms S. Sawant,
Ms A. Sharma, Ms A. Gomes &
Mr. C Thomas

L S A F E T Y 4 Y O U T H
DIGITA
(DS4Y)

This nascent year was a successful


one for the Debate Club. Anika
Joseph and Dania Khan participated
in the ISDS Debate Competition. Both
made it to the National Training Camp
after clearing three rounds of a tough
selection process. Dania has been
selected for Team India. Anoushka
Digital crimes are not just bound to hacking Katoch [11A] and Anandita Kakaria
[11B] participated in the Hiranandani
which can be addressed by using strong
Hospital’s World AIDS Day debate.
passwords and authentication. The club At the IIT-B Literary Fest, Sharanya
hence focused on the crime that can also Sudarshan [10F] won Best Interjector
take the form of someone known, who’s and Naysa Shah [11A] won the
exploiting your trusted information. Consolation Prize.
~Club Advisors - Ms B. DeSylva,
~Club Advisor: Mr A Kanade Ms D. Pingulkar, Ms R. Francis

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In its mission to reach out to the less fortunate, the Interact
Club of 60 members this year donated stationery to the
This year United Ways Mumbai economically backward students and visited the orphanage
conducted online sessions on Marine to interact with students. There was an outreach Programme
Pollution to create awareness and organised with an NGO, Mann. A fundraising drive has been
involve young adults in environmental set in motion for building toilets at a local school in Alibaug for
girl students.
issues for the Nature Club. An
~Club Advisors: Ms. N. Mathew, Ms. Bhindu Ramesh &
enriching workshop on butterflies was
Ms. R. Mathur
conducted by Ms B. Nadar, students
could see the various stages of a
butterfly’s life cycle. A Nature trail
was conducted at during their Mahim
Nature Park with Prof. Solomon from
Wilson College. He shared his immense
knowledge with the students and made
it very enriching.
~Club Advisor - Ms. M. Karkera

The Science Club


comprising 75 members
conducted various activities
throughout the year, namely;
live displays using a heavily
modified Lego RC and
Stunt-tank. Favourite topics
of students were taken up
through demonstrations or
discussions with their peers.
The highlights included
2 teams of students who
attended the 9th edition of
Inquest and a tour of the
Naval Base at Colaba
~Club Advisors: Ms. S.
Bakhtawar & Mr. G. Hilbert

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An integral part of the School, the
70 member School Band this year
met twice a week and proved their
extraordinary talent on Founders Day,
the Junior and Senior Sports Day,
Republic Day, and Independence Day.
The instruments that the members are
trained in playing are the Side Drum,
The MUN Club consisting approximately 100 members provided students Bass, Drum, Flute and Bugle.
a platform to hone their skills of geo political research, diplomacy, and
public speaking this year. Senior Club members trained the younger ones ~Club Advisor - Mr. Nester Dabre
to participate in various MUNs. In addition, Mock MUNs were conducted
either physically in the school campus or in the online mode.
~Club Advisors - Ms. A. Telang, Ms. R. Francis

ops,
The Girl Guide Company, Bulbul Tro
The Boy Scouts & Cubs
2 to 9, inter-
Having 280 members across Grades
these clubs this
esting activities were conducted by
rol com petitions like
year by way of games and pat
ns, simple drill,
phonetic codes, team games, formatio
n, law, prom-
basic knots, clock making, six formatio
es and reading.
ise, prayer song, flag song, team gam
amentals of the
The students were also taught the fund The School Choir consisted of
the prayer song
movement like the law, the promise, members from Grades 1 to 8. The Annual
and the flag song. Concert and the 176th Founders’ Day
n, Ms P saw a Majestic choir of 176 singers
~Club Advisors - Ms. M. Hill, Ms. S. Kha
R Suryakumar that enthralled the audience with their
Damle, Mr N. Dabre, Mr R. Mistry & Mr
foot-tapping medley of songs. Their
perfect harmonies and their vibrant
singing of the classics had the Alumni
grooving and dancing to the music.
~Club Advisors: C. Fernandes, Mr. U.
Sequeira & Mr. L. Sumanam

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The Spectrum Club consisting of 73
members promoted students from Grades 7
With approximately 120
to 12 to learn basic photography techniques.
members across Grades 6
This year the Club was tirelessly and actively
to 9, the UNESCO Club
involved in clicking snapshots of various school
organised a South Mumbai
events and activities.
Heritage Walk to well-
known landmarks in South ~Club Advisor - Mr. M. Mahamunkar
Mumbai. The highlight
included 290 students who
visited Puducherry. The
main attractions were visits
to Matrimandir, the French
War Memorial, Managua
Vinayagar Temple, Statue of
Dupleix and the Pondicherry
Museum. Jayden Pretto (8C)

~Club Advisor - Ms. A. Jacob Aanishka Thacker (10D)

Prerna Lakhwani (9A)

Rohan Agarwal (12C)


Zidaan Mulchandan (10E)

The Planet 4.0 Club


comprising 86 members
collected 984 kgs of paper
during 7 waste paper
collection drives, 156 kgs
of used uniforms during
their clothes drive and 350
certificates were distributed
for the electronic waste
collection drive throughout
the year.
~Club Advisors: Ms. F. Francis
& Ms. R. Mukherjee
Nishkarsh Kabra (8C) Clicked by Calvin Kumar (12A) Shanaya Saklatwalla (9A)

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The Adventure & Fitness Club comprising
64 participants were engaged in activities
Literary Club
like Hunger Games inspired Agility Training
emphasizing Physical Fitness. The highlights
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hing very
other across time. And I feel I have somet
we can speak to each
‘Adventure Expert, Mr Zahid Qureshi’, to take serious and urgent to say
should say it as urgently
to you, my non-existen
as if I were stand ing in
t reader, and I feel I
the room with you. That
but maybe not
short. That fate is cruel
a dive into the world of adventure. life—whatever else it is—is
random. That Nature (mean
ing Death) always wins
l to it. That mayb e even if
but that doesn’t mean
we’re not always so
we have to bow and grove lves anywa y: wade straight
task to immerse ourse
glad to be here, it’s our hearts open.
~Club Advisors: Mr. A Fernandes & through it, right throu
And in the midst of our
gh the
dying
cesspo
, as we
ol, while keeping eyes and
rise from the organic and sink back
privile ge to love what
a glory and a
organic, it is
Ms. A Desena ignominiously into the
Death doesn’t touch. For
if disaster and oblivion
time—so too has love.
have followed this
Insofar as it is immortal
painting down through immu table part in that immortality
. It
bright ,
(and it is) I have a small, to the history of
g. And I add my own love
exists; and it keeps on existin d out for them, and
beautiful things, and looke
people who have loved they were lost, and tried
and sought them when
pulled them from the fire, along literally from
them while passing them
to preserve them and save the wreck of time to the next
brilliantly from
hand to hand, singing out
of lovers , and the next.
generation

Lakshmi Nair (11A) - Tanisha Shetye (11C ) -


(Abou Ben Adhem) (The Goldfinc h)

Avishka Bhor (7B) -


(The Road Not Taken)

A small tribe of around


30 students from grades 7
to 12, the Literary Club
consists of readers,writers
and souls with a love
for literature. The club
met twice a month on
Saturdays throughout the
The Wallpaper Club academic year. Over the
conducted various year the members discussed
activities for Grades 1 favourite books, authors,
to 12 this year which genres, and art. They tried
included 415 participants. their hand at persuasive
Art and craft articles and creative writing. The
like Diwali Lanterns, the pièce de résistance this
Christmas Ornaments, year was -’Blackout Poetry’.
Picasso Portrait, Silhouette
~Club Advisors
Painting, Lippan Art etc
Ms. P. Pawar, Ms L D'Cunha
were used to decorate the
walls of the School. Niharika Pai (7B) -
(The Road Not Taken)
~Club Advisors
Ms S Dewani, Ms P Bhosle
& Ms Y Dhote Sneha Narayan (11A) -
(The Goldfinch)

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Football Boys U14 A Team - DSO Subroto 3rd Place


The National Level Football Team Selected to Represent Maharashtra for the CISCE Nationals
Lower Row Sitting (L - R): Krishang Alva, Arin Mathew, Raghav Kanodia, Ayden Dsouza, Sanskaar, Nalawde, Hriday Haria, Yash
Lower Row Sitting (L - R): Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. A Fernandes Kapadia, Krishay Shreeram. Middle Row Sitting (L - R): Mr. A. Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S. Pavamani (Vice
(P.E. Teacher). Middle Row Standing (L - R): Sera Mathias, Yash Kapadia, Yash Puggal, Craig Daniel, Jash Bhansali, Raghav Kanodia, Principal), Mr. J. Raut (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Mihir Paranjpe, Dhruhan Desai, Ali Balwa, Yuvraaj Deshmukh, Siddarth Bharath,
Camrynn Fernandes. Last Row Standing (L - R): Aadiv Das, Arnav Srivastava, Arhaan Bhat, Diyan Savla. Yashvir Shah, Vinayak Singh, Samarth Mhatre.

Football Boys U14 A Team - CISCE 3Rd Place


Football Girls U14 A Team - DSO Winners & 3rd place at MSSA
Lower Row Sitting (L - R): Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. A Fernandes
Lower Row Sitting (L - R): Camrynn Fernandes, Aditi Manchandani, Aashi Ramchandani, Shairra Khanna, Tannvi Singhi, Trisha Krishnan, (P.E. Teacher). Middle Row Standing (L - R): Krishang Alva, Vivaan Thakkar, Arin Mathew, Raghav Kanodia, Sanskaar, Nalawde, Ayden
Nevaeh Colaco. Middle Row Sitting (L - R): Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Dsouza, Hriday Haria, Yash Kapadia, Krishay Shreeram. Standing (L - R): Mihir Paranjpe, Dhruhan Desai, Ali Balwa, Yuvraaj Deshmukh,
Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher) Standing (L - R): Aviah Bhalerao, Priyanshi Kedia, Ria Rathi, Samriddhi Naik, Mahi Virdi, Divina Shah, Sarah Siddarth Bharath, Yashvir Shah, Vinayak Singh, Sanat Shetty, Samarth Mhatre.
Gupta, Nandini Gurav, Kashish Bawa-Enand.

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Football Boys U14 - DSO 3rd Place Throwball Girls U17 - DSO 3rd Place
Lower Row Sitting (L - R): Krishang Alva, Vivaan Thakkar, Arin Mathew, Raghav Kanodia, Ayden Dsouza, Sanskaar, Nalawde, Hriday Lower Row Sitting (L - R): Mr. Jeetendra Raut (P.E. Teacher), Mrs. Snehalata Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Mrs. Sunita George (Principal),
Haria, Yash Kapadia, Krishay Shreeram. Middle Row Sitting (L - R): Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani Mrs. Sheeba Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. Aaron Fernandes (P.E. Teacher). Middle Row Standing (L - R): Vedika Wadhwa, Ridah
(Vice Principal), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Mihir Paranjpe, Dhruhan Desai, Ali Balwa, Yuvraaj Deshmukh, Siddarth Fatima, Pearl Singpurwalla, Srishti Malhotra, Khushnoor Panday, Zia Shah. Last Row Standing (L - R): Sharanya Sorap, Naisha Patil.
Bharath, Yashvir Shah, Vinayak Singh, Sanat Shetty, Samarth Mhatre.

Football Boys U19 - CISCE Zonals - Winners & CISCE Regional - Runners Up Throwball Boys U19 - DSO 3rd Place
Lower Row Sitting (L - R): Mr. A. Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S. Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. J. Raut (P.E. Sitting (L - R): Mr. A. Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S. Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. J. Raut (P.E. Teacher).
Teacher). Middle Row Standing (L - R): Ssahyan Shah, Krish Ramanujam, Aniket Jain, Angad Kanwar, Kritaansh Khera, Nihal Dhavale, Standing (L - R): Adit Wad, Auvi Mukherjee, Arnav Pawaskar, Yash Mehta, Veer Prasad, Ahan Wad, Saahil Mhatre.
Akshat Jain, Rushaad Engineer, Yash Mehta. Last Row Standing (L - R): Alok Vernekar, Craig Daniel, Nathan Mathias, Jash Bhansali,
Aadi Kundnani, Yash Puggal, Arnav Pawaskar, Azann Qureshi, Neeraj Shende.

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Football Boys U17 - DSO 2nd Place Basketball Girls U19 - Cisce - Runners Up
Sitting (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. Sitting (L - R): Mr. A. Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S. Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. J. Raut (P.E. Teacher).
S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher), Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher). 1st Row Standing: Bhagya Popat, Arnav Kashikar, Middle Row Standing (L - R): Rishona Banerjea, Naisha Sanjanwalla, Aarya Yamsanwar, Nivritee Singhi, Aashna Thomas, Vivana
Ishaan Singh, Diyan Savla, Vedant Somwanshi, Dhvanit Dole, Jared Collins, Cayden Dias, Dhwanit Gogri. 2nd Row Standing: Arjun Parmar. Last Row Standing (L - R): Kritika Dhanda, Diva Mistry, Saloni Nayak, Sharanya Sorap, Zooni Fernandes.
Jhaveri, Aadiv Das, Jehan Pardiwala, Arhaan Bhat, Deeptansh Khandelwal, Adam Araujo, Arjun Kanodia. Last Row Standing: Khush
Gathani, Parth Goyal.

Football Boys U17 - CISCE Pre-Subroto Zonal - 1st Place, Cisce Pre-Subroto Regional - 1st Place & CISCE Pre-Subroto Football Girls U17 - Subroto 3rd Place & DSO 2nd Place
Nationals - Runners Up Sitting (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal),
Sitting (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher) Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher). Middle Row Standing (L - R): Sera Mathias, Hiya
Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher), Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher). Middle Row Standing (L - R): Arnav Kashikar, Jain, Aashvi Mehta, Arzeen Mozayan, Shriya Arvind, Noheeni Bhulescarr, Dia Agarwal. Last Row Standing (L - R): Navya Vasnad, Zia
Ishaan Singh, Diyan Savla, Arnav Srivastava, Dhvanit Dole, Jared Collins, Cayden Dias, Dhwanit Gogri. Last Row Standing (L - R): Khush Shah, Shannon Mendonca, Srishti Singh, Khyaatee Singh, Riyansha Koradia, Malishka Vemu, Kieara Sabhlok.
Gathani, Arjun Jhaveri, Aadiv Das, Jehan Pardiwala, Arhaan Bhat, Deeptansh Khandelwal, Adam Araujo, Parth Goyal.

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National Level Basketball Heros Represented the State of Maharashtra Throwball Boys U14 - DSO 2nd Place
Sitting (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Sitting (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E.Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms.
Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Veda Sriranjan, Raphael Kullu, Aashna Thomas, Mr. N Dabre S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher). Middle Row Standing (L - R): Aditya Pritam, Sharan
(P.E. Teacher). Dhanu, Kathit Wilankar, Kartikeya Kathe, Rehan Zoeb Kanorwalla. Last Row Standing (L - R): Ethan De Souza, Raphael Kullu, Reuben
Thomas, Taann Shenoy-Aranha, Aniket Krishna.

Throwball Boys U17 - DSO 3rd Place Basketball Girls U14 - DSO District 1st & DSO Zonal 2nd Place
Sitting (L - R): Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Sitting (L - R): Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher).
Pavamani (Vice Principal), Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher). Middle Row Standing (L - R): Arkin Chaini, Nicholas Middle Row Standing (L - R): Nandini Gurav, Aashna Kohli, Aanya Muni, Bhrithi Khanna, Ria Jain, Ruth Pereira. Last Row Standing
Ryan, Nevaan Khajanchi, Parhaan Khanna, Shiven Mehta, Nehvahn Khanna, Kahaan Phophalia, Jehan Mulchandani. Last Row Standing (L - R): Shanaya Amin, Aisha Khan, Priyanshi Kedia, Yashvika Mahangade, Veda Sriranjan, Aabha Jambhekar.
(L - R): Mikhail Tamboly, Joel Thomas, Parth Goyal, Nirmit Shah.

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Basketball Boys U14 - DSO District 2nd Place & CISCE 3rd Place Football Boys U12 - Anglos Zonal & Regional Runners up
Sitting (L - R): Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher). Middle Sitting (L - R): Mr N. Dabre (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher).
Row Standing (L - R): Vivaan Balvally, Uditaditya Mahajan, Veer Carvalho, Kush Mulchandani, Vihaan Sen, Adityaraj Raut, Mr. Aaron Middle Row Standing (L - R): Aryeh James, Armaan Agarwal, Vivaan Patel, Idhant Pai, Josh Thomas. Last Row Standing (L - R): Ethan
Fernandes (P.E. Teacher). Last Row Standing (L - R): Aayush Rajak, Vivaan Chakrabarti, Atharva Bapna, Raphael Kullu, Shiv Kamath, Deniz, Ayaan Narkar, Daksh Garg, Shaurya Mahangade, Reyansh Deshpande, Tejas Vadakoot, Jayvir Khanna.
Aarav Shetty.

Football Boys U12 - MSSA Winners Football Girls U12 - MSSA Runners Up
Sitting (L - R): Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher). Sitting (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher).
Middle Row Standing (L - R): Avneesh Patil, Neel Velandy, Aryeh James, Armaan Agarwal, Vivaan Patel, Idhant Pai, Josh Thomas, Middle Row Standing (L - R): Nizh Kapadia, Thea Tamboly, Aarya Joshi, Hanika Chandna, Zoe Pinto, Vihana Kapoor, Riaana Kulkarni.
Shaurya Mahangade. Last Row Standing (L - R): Ethan Deniz, Ayaan Narkar, Daksh Garg, Xerxes Mehershahi, Reyansh Deshpande, Last Row Standing (L - R): Nikunja Sonthalia, Noopor Sonthalia, Navya Patil, Sarah Irani, Sanaya Arsiwalla, Shezanne Sequeira, Mia
Tejas Vadakoot. Laporte.

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Football Girls U12 - Anglos Zonals Runners Up Pickleball National Level Winners
Sitting (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher). Sitting (L - R): Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. A
Middle Row Standing (L - R): Nizh Kapadia, Thea Tamboly, Aarya Joshi, Hanika Chandna, Zoe Pinto, Vihana Kapoor. Last Row Standing Fernandes (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Anush Popli, Nishhay Nichani, Arav Trilokekar.
(L - R): Nikunja Sonthalia, Noopor Sonthalia, Sarah Irani, Shezanne Sequeira, Navya Patil.

Football Boys U10 - MSSA Winners U17 CISCE National Level Chess Champions
Sitting (L - R): Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher). Sitting (L - R): Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal),
Middle Row Standing (L - R): Chaitanya Mehta, Agastya Popat, Rayhaan Albuquerque, Eshaan Baishya, Malhaar Patil, Azim Hakeem, Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Paraj Garg, Sara Mody.
Ahaan Dhillon Last Row Standing (L - R): Caleb Almeida, Zack Alvares, Vihaan Anand, Rehaan Bagul, Ethan Taites.

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Rifle and Pistol Shooting


Sitting (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Mr. Jeetendra Raut (P.E. Teacher), Ms. Snehalata Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George
(Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L-R): Aaditya Gupta,
Gymnastics Inter-School Winners
Pratham Hari, Paraj Garg, Arnav Akhaury.
Sitting (L - R): Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal). Standing (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Sasha
Shanbhag, Shanaya Lingam, Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher).

LAWN TENNIS: Inter-School Winners at DSO, CISCE & MSSA


Sitting (L - R): Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms.
S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Varad Mainkar, Khushnoor Panday, Chess DSO Winners
Shaurya Kumar, Veer Prasad, Nilay Dhawale. Sitting (L - R): Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal),
Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Paraj Garg, Vrittika Daga, Rajvi Nandu, Keya Talaulikar, Sara Mody.

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Badminton DSO Winners Inter-School Swimming Winners


Sitting (L - R): Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. Sitting (L - R): Ms. Abigail Desena (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal),
A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher) Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Veda Sriranjan, Namita Nimkar, Riya Vinherkar, Pratham Hari, Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher), Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Prithvi Jagnani, Shivraj Shah,
Mikhail Tamboly, Advik Viswanathan. Myra Mehta, Soumya Desai, Atharva Mhapralkar, Armaan Jetha.

Table-Tennis DSO Winners


U9 Boys Basketball MSSA Runner’s Up
Sitting (L - R): Ms. A Desena (P.E. Teacher), Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S Almeida (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S
Sitting (L - R): Yohan John, Mivahn Shah, Aayansh Anand, Aarush Shanbhag, Husain Kachwalla, Krishay Bhodia, Abir Java.
Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher). Standing (L - R): Shaan Kanuga, Anmol Kampani,
Standing (L - R): Aarav Ganguly, Siddharth Dhowan, Akshay Shenoy, Mr. Girish Gurav (Coach), Mr. Nizar Koya (Coach), Vivaan Gupta,
Vivaan Grover.
Ojas Hadkar, Nivaan Gala.

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U9 Girls Basketball MSSA Runner’s Up


DSO Athletics District Level Winner Sitting (L - R): Yana Khajanchi, Aarnavi Trivedi, Vanshika Jain, Jaanya Shah, Meher Hinduja, Tanishqa Wagle. Standing (L - R): Devanshi
Sitting (L - R): Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal). Jain, Donna Carvalho, Binaisha Garg, Mr. Girish Gurav (Coach), Mr. Nizar Koya (Coach), Nivita Gala, Lyra Dsouza, Hanika Chandna. Not
Standing (L - R): Cayden Dias, Mr. N Dabre (P.E. Teacher). In Photograph: Tara Madhusudan, Rutika Patil.

U17 Girls Basketball Team: Winners at the DSO District, DSO Zonals & State Level
Kneeling (L - R): Lyla Prasad, Mishka Shetty, Palak Chandaliya, Aastha Shahane. Sitting (L - R): Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Ms.
Meghna Joshi (Activity In-Charge), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. Girish Gurav (Coach), Mr. J Raut (P.E.
Swimming DSO & CISCE Winner MSSA Athletics Winners
Teacher). Standing (L - R): Anvi Deshwal, Saanvi Deshwal, Shrutika Shirke, Diti Shetty, Sia Varma, Dia Shetty.
Sitting (L - R): Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani Sitting (L - R): Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani
(Vice Principal). Standing: Ivan George. (Vice Principal). Standing (L - R): Ryley Lobo, Reann Lobo.

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SWIMMING GALA

Basketball U17 Girls Basketball Team Winners - CISCE Zonal Winners


Sitting (L - R): Mr. A Fernandes (P.E. Teacher), Mr. J Raut (P.E. Teacher), Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr.
Girish Gurav (Coach), Ms. Meghna Joshi (Activity Incharge) Standing (L - R): Lyla Prasad, Mishka Shetty, Dia Shetty, Sia Varma, Palak
Chandaliya, Aastha Shahane. Not In Photograph: Vidhi Gada, Sanjana Kallaith, Saanika Kallaith.

Gymnastics Winners
Standing Front Row (L - R): Aananya Tawade, Ariana Sampat, Vyana Sanghavi, Raesha Wadekar, Kiara Savla, Shrimayi Sawant.
Standing Last Row (L - R): Ms. S George (Principal), Ms. S Pavamani (Vice Principal).

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Raghav Kanodia (8C) Tiana Parasrampuria (11B)
• Ranked no.2 in India &
Special Mentions
FC BAYERN no.3 in Asia
1. Trustees of Bombay Scottish School, Principal Sunita
MAHARASHTRA CUP • Selected to represent George, Members of the Faculty, Students of this great
India at the World Speech by Dr. Lalit S. Kanodia,
In a first if it’s kind, the School, Ladies & Gentlemen.
Junior Championships Ph. D. (MIT, USA) on
Maharashtra government 2. First of all, I would like to congratulate the school for
in Australia Founder's Day
in collaboration with having rendered 175 years of yeoman service to the city,
• Selected to represent
FC Bayern München, state and country.
India at the Asian
organised the biggest
Junior Championships 3. It is an honour to be invited to address all of you on the 175th about 27% of children in India complete their High School
ever U14 tournament
in China anniversary of this institution. It is like a home coming. I today while about 20% of Indians are still illiterate.
all over the state. There were almost 5000 schools and 1 • Asian Junior Team am indebted to Bombay Scottish and am firmly convinced 7. I would like to point out that 3 schools in UK, namely Eton,
lakh children who participated in this tournament. Raghav, Championship 2023, that I owe my career to the wonderful education I received Harrow and Westminster have produced as many as 33 of
was selected in the final 20. On 14th March, the selected Bronze Medal here. I joined the school in Standard 1 and graduated after the first 56 Prime Ministers of UK who had studied there.
squad was felicitated and honoured by Mr Girish Mahajan, • Asian Junior Individual Championship 2022, Bronze Standard 11 in 1956. I would also like to assure you that (20 out of 56 at Eton, 7 out of 56 at Harrow and 6 out of
Minister for sports and youth development at MCA club. Medal these were the happiest years of my life. 56 at Westminster). Prince William and Prince Harry also
• Indian Junior open 2023, Bronze Medal studied at Eton. In fact our First Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru
4. When I was admitted Mr. Adam Mackay, a Scotsman,
• Western India Slam 2022, 1st place was the Principal of the school and I still remember most also studied at Harrow.
Yuvraj Wadhwani (11B)
• Eastern India Slam 2022, 1st place of my teachers’ names including Mr. Badvey, Principal
• Is an Asian Junior 8. A school called Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, USA
Gold & Silver • National Junior Squash Championship 2022, 3rd place after Mr. Mackay, Mr. Gamaliel, Mr. Pandit, Mr. Nachane, has a similar stature and has made a similar contribution
Medalist and a 4-time • Chandigarh Junior Open 2022, 1st Place Mr. Rodrigues and Mrs. D’Silva. I do not remember so to the USA.
Junior National title • ISTA Chennai Junior Open 2022, 2nd Place many names of my Faculty either at Elphinstone College,
winner representing • Asian Junior Individual Trials 2022, 1st Place IIT or MIT. This illustrates the impact that the school had 9. I must also tell you that the size of an institution is not
India at various on me. When I was in school, there was only 1 section very important. It is the quality of education imparted
• Bengal Open Kolkata, 2021, 2nd Place
squash tournaments. of each class and the play field was adjoining the beach, that matters. For instance, Eton has only 1,400 students.
• Represented India opposite the school, which made it a wonderful setting. The Phillips Academy has about 1,100 students. MIT
in July 2022 in the The student population then was below 400. which is consistently rated as one of the top Universities
Veer Prasad (12B) in the world has only 10,000 students and has produced
German Junior Open 5. The wonderful education I received in this school has been
Inter-Collegiate Tennis 97 Nobel Laureates, 3 of whom taught me. In contrast,
in the BU17 category and closed in the 4th position. Achievements: responsible for my career. My entire generation including Mumbai University has over 6 lakh students.
• Represented India in December 2022 in the US Junior • 6th Annual John my first cousins were educated in this great institution.
Open in the BU17 category and closed in the 5th McEnroe Tennis Since then, one Kanodia or another has been attending this 10. Since its establishment in February 1847, I know that this
position. This tournament attracted players from across Academy College school. I must tell you that 7 of my generation consequently school has produced several highly qualified professionals
42 countries. Recruiting Combine, graduated from IIT Bombay, 3 from MIT, USA and 3 who have contributed to our country, in a wide range of
• At the age of 16 years Yuvraj represented India in the held in New York (June, received a Ph.D. As you know it is extremely difficult to activities. They include Businessmen, Bankers, Lawyers,
World Junior Open Squash Championships in August 2022): Singles Winner get admitted to either IIT or MIT, both being rated amongst Professors, Doctors, Film Producers and Actors. I would
2022 in the BU19 category. • Men’s Summer Circuit the best institutes in the world. This speaks volumes about urge the school to research and compile a list of their
• After having qualified in a selection trial, he was at Hobart and Williams the quality of education at Bombay Scottish. My family is Alumni, particularly the well-known. Besides goodwill, it
the youngest male player to represent India in this Smith College, held in New York (June, 2022): Singles deeply indebted to the school. will increase pride in the school and further motivate your
tournament. Runner-Up students as they will stand out as examples.
6. All of us are very proud of IITs and IIMs that we have
• Yuvraj has won 27 tournaments at a national level or • Men’s Summer Circuit at Whittier College, held in Los created and which have greatly contributed to India’s 11. I firmly believe that in high school, width of the education
above till date. Angeles (July, 2022): Singles Winner economic development. I would however like you to know is more important than the depth of education. Bombay
• This year he has again qualified to represent India at that good schools are just as important as IITs and IIMs. Scottish certainly provides the width that is needed for
AISM Boys U-19 Achievements:
the World Junior Championships to be held in Australia I firmly believe that the quality of education and the well- future success. This width can be in the form of elocution,
in July 2023. • Zonals: Singles Winner
being of a nation, including the income of its citizens, sports or cultural activities. While I was a student I
• Regionals: Singles Winner remember participating in debates. I also engaged in
are strongly co-related. Therefore, Bombay Scottish has
OUR YOUNG SPORTS ACHIEVERS • Nationals: Team Event Runner-Up
Selected to represent the ICSE team at the SGFI lawn
rendered yeoman service to India. Good education leads athletics and played football in the field opposite the
to the development of a nation. All developed nations school, almost every evening.
Olympics, Here we Come!! tennis nationals held in May, 2023. have an excellent education system. Unfortunately, only

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12. Age is not a barrier to your ambition. You can be an achiever the potential to become famous in the field you choose to Student Achievements
even at a very young age. For instance Mr. William Pitt pursue. Pursue what you enjoy. Pursue what you dream.
became PM of UK at the age of 24 and was its PM for 19
18. Let me give an example of one of my classmates at IIT,
years.
Bombay, who was not a good student but enjoyed creating Dania Khan (9A) participated as a panelist in the Muskaan
13. I would also urge each one of you to be ambitious and music. He became famous after going to the USA and Literature Festival, 2023 at India International Center,
dream. Most successful people have been dreamers. They pursued what was earlier his hobby. New Delhi. Her efforts to provide books to children who
may have not been brilliant in their academics. Therefore, don’t have access to reading by setting up a ‘Community
19. When I was a student at Bombay Scottish, we were not
even if you are an average student, please dream. Library’ and ‘Asha Book Club’ were lauded by Dr Munjpara
encouraged to do rote learn. That made a huge difference.
14. Let me give you some examples. Thomas Alva Edison All great institutions too have a similar approach. They Mahendrabhai Kalubhai, Honourable Minister of State for
rated as perhaps the most prolific inventor of all times, teach you how to learn. At MIT several of my examinations Women and Child Development; Department: Government
and a person who invented the electric bulb, gramophone were take home exams, which we cannot even imagine in of India.
and motion camera was a very poor student and in fact India today.
his teacher wrote to his mother that it would be better if
20. I have no doubt that Bombay Scottish will continue to be
he was educated at home. When he died, he had 1,093
one of our premier schools. It must aspire to be better
Patents in his name !
15. Similarly, Albert Einstein, perhaps the greatest scientist
than the best and will continue to impart well rounded
education to all its students, who in turn will contribute to
One Story at a Time is ‘If the Walls Could Talk’
this world has seen for several centuries had difficulty in whatever field they choose and to the future of this city, Published by Scholastic
talking. He was a poor student and was expelled by his this state and this country. ~Anahita Gupta - 9A
teacher.
21. I must pay my respects to Principal George and all the
16. I would also like to give Steve Jobs as an example, who I Faculty of this school. I must tell you a true story to reflect Honestly, I don’t know why I’m here.
believe succeeded because he could dream and bring his the importance of teachers. Our President, Shankar Dayal
dreams to fruition. Jobs studied calligraphy in college. He Sharma visited Oman where the Sheikh contravening all I do get that as a grandchild it is my duty to attend
hated the on and off buttons. He also hated the mechanical conventions came to the airport to receive him and then, my grandparent’s funeral, but things in my family are
keyboard. Based on a dream he created innumerable personally drove the car in which Mr. Sharma was seated, different. My parents and I have always been…somewhat
machines / gadgets that have made Apple one of the most overcoming all the objections of his staff. When asked distant from the rest of our family. I haven’t met my own
valuable Companies in the world today. These include why, he told them that Mr. Sharma was his teacher when cousins and I’ve had, maybe, three conversations with my
i-Mac, i-Pod, i-Pad and the i-Phone. The i-Phone particularly he was a student in India. This illustrates the respect that grandfather. That’s how well I know my family. It wasn’t a
has changed the way all of us live today. is due to teachers at all time. small misunderstanding that led to this, it was something
17. This only shows that academic brilliance may not 22. I repeat that I am most grateful to this school for my career far, far more. If only I knew what.
necessarily lead to success. A well rounded education and for your inviting me to speak to you today. May God
“Hey, sweetie…Natalie!” My mom waves her hands in front
and the ability to dream is a great determinator of success. bless all of you. Finally please DREAM.
of my face until I finally come out of my daze, bewildered.
So I would urge each of you to dream. All of you have
“Yeah, yeah, sorry. Just, umm, bored.”

My mom looked at me sympathetically and sat down on the from the word tenebrous, meaning darkness in the dead but
couch beside me, “I didn’t realise how…strange this must beautiful language Latin.
be for you. You’ve barely spoken to anyone here but you just
can’t be on your phone, it would be disrespectful. It’ll just be Thirdly, our ancestral mansion. On an island off the east
The Siddhanth Beri another hour.” coast, three floors lined with velvet carpets with priceless
Rolling Trophy for paintings and artifacts casually on display. Currently, my
Inter-house Boys My mother left the guest room and went back to the living social life isn’t spectacular, to say the least. Wearing crystal
Football Tournament room where the guests were. I looked around the corner to earrings from, say, the seventeenth century to school was
dedicated in honour check whether she was gone before I walked to the strangely my plan to fix that. I browsed through the first floor, although
of our late alumnus unnerving winding staircase. a few things caught my eye, there was nothing that left me
Siddhanth Beri, awestruck. And no, I wouldn’t call this stealing. Nobody
Batch 2017. My family is not the average American family. For generations
we have been extremely rich. And I mean, filthy rich. I mean, would notice a missing crystal in my family. But for the
posh private schools, chauffeur, personal chef, rich. Second, record, I’m nothing like them. I’m not selfish and prejudiced
our family surname itself - Tenebrore. Tenebrore is derived like them, or at least I think so.

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Disheartened, I headed to the second floor. I walked down wall. “It might not seem like it, but this is the right thing to do. I looked at my father, and he smiled back. “To righting
the corridor and felt strangely drawn towards the last room. This house was built with what others had lost, and we can’t history’s wrongs.” He said. I opened the lighter and threw it
I turned the door handle and pushed open the door. That very No matter what they took, we still had something. We had
keep ignoring that.” into the house through a window.
moment I knew that this wasn’t just any ordinary room that ourselves, until they took that away. One of your ancestors
I had stumbled upon. was proficient in the magical arts and…she trapped us… “ You don’t understand! We’ll not just lose this house, we’ll It’s funny how fast a building that has stood for so long
our souls, in this hall. And we have been here ever since. lose everything! Everything!” burns. The walls collapsed into themselves and a grand
The beautiful marble floor was left bare instead of being Time doesn’t exist for us. We have suffered a fate far worse structure had been reduced to ash. But when the people
covered with a carpet. This room somehow felt…grander. than death. Everyone’s expressions were a mixture of shock, fear, and who had suffered appeared, it was all worth it.
My footsteps echoed loudly as I shut the door behind me. anger, but in my father’s eyes, there was pride, and hope.
After admiring the hall’s grandeur I decided to leave when I “What can I do? I want to help you.” He escorted all our relatives out the door. To new beginnings…
heard a low deep voice speak the words I smell their filthy I came to my grandfather’s funeral with the intention of
blood stealing something. And nothing about my family excuses
“Who are you? Where are you?” My heart began to beat that. I have always known my family members weren’t Teacher Achievements
rapidly as I looked around searching for the person speaking- ‘good’ people. But I’m starting to question if I am.
but there was nobody. The voices were coming from..the There is so much you can do, but not much you would. Your
walls. ancestors built this hall to bind our souls to its walls. Break
I don’t think she knows. Said another voice these walls, and we will be free. But it would take away
everything…everything you have.
“I don’t know what? ”
They say there are moments in your life that define you. This
That doesn’t matter, she’s still one of them and they took had better be one of them. I like to believe that my family
everything from us and I are different, that wealth doesn’t matter to me. But it’s
a lie. Their prejudice, their greed, selfishness. It’s in me too.
“What are you talking about? Tell me!” I scream as I run to Until now I didn’t believe I could do anything about it. Now, I
the wall which just spoke. There’s no way that ‘they’ could know that was a lie too.
refer to anything other than my family. What are they hiding?
Your family is a part of who you are, but it is never everything.
I started to feel the wall vibrate and soon…soon I started to Not unless you let it be.
hear it.
I tiptoed down the stairs, and went into the kitchen.
The voices sing the same words over and over - If the walls
could talk Am I really doing this?

I put my ear against the wall A voice in my head asked. It doubted my goodness, but it
was time I replaced that doubt with something stronger : डॉक्टर नीतू भूषण तातेड बॉम्बे स्कॉटिश स्कूल माहिम में हिंदी की अध्यापिका है । उनके द्वारा लिखित कहानी संग्रह लोकल
The Tenebrores were a gifted lot, scientists, revolutionary faith
thinkers, but greed corrupted their minds. Their lust for ट्रे न व अन्य कहानियाँ पुस्तक का मुंबई विश्वविद्यालय प्रांगण में शोधावरी रिसर्च के अंतर्गत लोकार्पण करते हुए अभिनेता
power, wealth, was why they were cursed. While the rest Hell yes I am. राजेंद्र गुप्ता, डॉ रतन कुमार पांडय
े ,आमदार कपिल पाटिल,डॉ माधुरी जोशी और डॉ हूबनाथ पांडय े । अध्यापन के साथ -साथ
of the island prospered, they’d suffer. But, they found the 2021 में इन्होंने अपनी पी.एच.डी की उपाधि प्राप्त की तथा 2022 में इनकी दो पुस्तकें प्रकाशित हुई। इन्हें अपनी प्रकाशित
loophole. If the rest of the island’s people suffered, perished, I opened a wooden cabinet below the stove and thanked my
stars that this house was old fashioned enough to have a gas पुस्तकों के लिए विभिन्न संस्थाओं द्वारा सम्मानित भी किया जा चुका हैं।
their wealth would only grow. They made us rot. They stole,
ruined our crops. they left us with nothing. cylinder. I opened it by twisting the valve, then I just tipped
it over and let the liquid flow.
“How can I hear your voices from the walls?”
The house was built of wood and it would take minutes for
Because…they were never satisfied. The only way to have the entire house to be reduced to a pile of ash. I searched
everything, was to take everything from us. Haven’t you through the cabinets in search of a lighter, thankfully, I found
wondered why there is almost nobody else on this island? one. The last step of this plan was to ensure that it didn’t kill
anyone, so I walked into the living room.
Said a soft voice. Another clearer voice spoke from another

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स्कूटर Elegante
किस्सा बहुत छोटा है पर किसी की कही बात इतनी बड़ी कि
आज तक मेरे जेहन में बसी हुई है । यह 1989-90 की बात On 4th of February, 2023 the city of Mumbai
है ।मैं कक्षा सातवीं या आठवीं में शायद पढ़ती थी। उस समय
bore witness to a first of its kind dazzling
छोटे गाँवों में लड़कियों को बहुत ज्यादा स्वतंत्रता नहीं दी जाती
थी लेकिन मेरे घर परिवार का माहौल कुछ जद ु ा था।मैं पिताजी personality pageant exclusively for educators
की सबसे छोटी और बहुत ही लाडली बेटी थी। लोग कहते थे
known as ‘Elegante - Glitz and Glam’
उन्होंने मुझे बिगड़ैल बना दिया। पर किसी की न सुन उन्होंने
हमेशा मेरी हर इच्छा को पूरा किया ।उस समय हमारे घर में organized by Thakur Ramnarayan Public
बजाज का स्कूटर था। मेरे सिर पर साइकिल सीखने के बाद School, Dahisar (East). The event boasted of
यह भूत सवार था कि मुझे स्कूटर तो आना ही चाहिए ।इसी
बीच मेरे घर पर कोई मेहमान आता तो उनके आने के बाद over a hundred and thirty seven educators
जब वह बैठते तो मैं दे खती कि वे लूणा, टी.वी.एस स्कूटी की from all over Maharashtra. The participants
चाबी कहाँ रखते हैं? बस मेरी नजर उस चाबी पर रहती और
जैसी ही वे बातों में व्यस्त होते उनकी चाबी लेकर उनकी स्कूटी had to clear three exhilarating talent hunt
लेकर दौड़ पड़ती। rounds to reach the finale.
उस समय बहुत ही अपनेपन से लोग रहते थे तो किसी ने
मुझे कभी डाँटकर यह नहीं कहा, "हमारी स्कूटी क्यूँ लेकर गई?" Ms. Merlin Dominic from Bombay Scottish
उनके पैरों पर बड़ा सा प्लास्टर चढ़ा हुआ था और दर्द उनके
आज यदि कोई बच्चा ऐसा करें तो माता-पिता के साथ-साथ चेहरे पर साफ नजर आ रहा था । School, Mahim was chosen as the all rounder
मेहमानों को भी बहुत बुरा लगता है । मैं तो इसी तरह स्कूटी winner bagging the title of Ms. Elegante 2023
जब मैं उनके घर गई तो उनके छोटे भाई-बहन मुझे खा
चलाना सीखी। जब थोड़ा बहुत सीख गई तो मैं हमारे घर पर जो
जाने वाली नजरों से दे ख रहे थ। followed by Ms. Alsona Gomes of Bombay
गियर वाला स्कूटर था, उसे लेकर एक दिन बिना माँ को बताए
चल पड़ी। जब मैं स्कूटर लेकर गली से बाहर निकली और कुछ हिम्मत करके मैंने," कहा दीदी मुझे माफ कर दो।मुझसे Scottish School, Mahim who was chosen as
आगे बढ़ी तो दे खा कि 7-8 लड़कियों का झंड ु हाथ पकड़कर गलती हो गई। अब मैं कभी स्कूटर नहीं चलाऊँगी।" the Runner up respectively. A whopping cash
पूरी सड़क को रोककर चल रहा है ।सीखने की प्रक्रिया थी इसके
लिए हॉर्न पर हाथ गया ही नहीं,"अरे हटो हटो,हटो।" चिल्लाते मेरी आशा के बिल्कुल विपरीत उन्होंने कहा," कोई बात prize of Rs. 11,000/- along with a sash, a
हुए धड़ाम से गिर पड़ी। मैं एक लड़की के पैर पर स्कूटर सहित नहीं। मेरा पैर बहुत जल्द ही ठीक हो जाएगा। लेकिन यदि डर
कर स्कूटर चलाना बंद कर दिया तो तुम जीवन में कभी नहीं crown and a huge hamper was awarded to
गिरी थी। वह लड़की मारे दर्द के चीखने लगी । सब उसे उठा
रहे थे।मैं बहुत डर गई और वहाँ से स्कूटर लेकर जैसे तैसे घर सीख पाओगी । the winners.
भाग गई ।घर आकर रोते-रोते माँ को सारा किस्सा बताया।
मेरा मँह
ु खुला का खुला ही रह गया।
माँ ने मुझे पूछा," तुमने उसे घर पहुँचने में मदद की ?"
उन्होंने अपनी बात ज़ारी रखी,"जाओ! जाकर स्कूटर चलाने
मैंने कहा,"नहीं।वे तो सब बड़ी थी और मुझे मार दे ती तो? की पूरी प्रैक्टिस मैदान में करो । हाँ! इस बार ध्यान रखना
मैं डर गई थी इसलिए भाग आई।" कि हॉर्न बजाओ जिससे तम ु ना तो खद ु गिरो और ना कोई
तुम्हारे स्कूटर के आगे आकर घायल हो ।मेरी शुभकामनाएं
माँ ने मुझे कहा,"खाना खाने के पश्चात तुम उसके घर तुम्हारे साथ है ।"
जाकर उससे माफी माँग कर आओगी।"
उस दिन से लेकर आज तक मेरे मन में संगीता दीदी
मैंने कहा,"नहीं !मझ
ु े बहुत डर लग रहा है । उनके घर में के लिए बहुत सम्मान हैं। इंसानियत को लेकर एक अलग ही Reva Shetty (10C)
गई तो मुझे सब डाँट लगाएँगे या मारें गे।" जज्बे ने जन्म लिया। आज लगभग उस घटना को 33 वर्ष हो
गए होंगे लेकिन अब भी मैं इस घटना को कभी भूल नहीं पाती
माँ ने कहा," मैं कुछ नहीं जानती। गलती तुमने की है तो
हूँ । दिल से उनको धन्यवाद दे ती हूँ कि उनकी दी हुई सीख
जाकर माफी माँगनी ही होगी ।"
के कारण सड़कों पर मैं फर्राटे दार स्कूटर चला सकती हूँ। आज
उस दिन तो डर के मारे मैं जा ही नहीं पाई। मैं भी यही मानती हूँ कि जीवन के प्रति सकारात्मक रवैया
अपनाकर लोगों के दिलों तक पहुँचा जा सकता है । Tehina Yabesh (12A)
अगले दिन मैं डरते-डरते उनके घर गई ।वे उम्र में लगभग
मुझसे 7 से 8 वर्ष बड़ी होगी। उनका नाम संगीता था मैंने दे खा डॉ नीतू भूषण तातेड

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CANVAS

Cathy Leivang -2D Joshua Shetty -2E Brisha Tagade -2F

Misty Jain - 1B Sandrea Amalraj - 1C

Advita Shyam - 1A
Om Sukhatankar -3A Myra Siddiqui -3B Anaya Gavand -3C

Deveshi Swadha - 1D

Aadya Srivastava -3D Neaha Powath -3E Kaveer Jain -3F

Reya Kavi - 1E
Advika Tandel -1F Avyaan Harshit Shah - 2A

Prisha Kothari -4A


Shraavi Borkar -4C

Gargi Aggarwal - 2B
Sarthak Vora - 2C
Arna Sawant -4B

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Ellora Shirali -6C
Chahat Chandan -4D Svastika Kumar -4E Vihaan Shetty -4F Rajvi Desai -6A Ada Upadhye -6B

Adelle Nazareth -5A Sarah Irani -5B


Kavya Nanavati -5C Aanya Thomas -6D Keeyana Shah -6E

Ayaan Narkar -6F

Aarini Nowal -7A Rizelle Churchill -7B

Kristi Choudhary -5E

Rhea D’costa -7C

Aadrika Bhandari -5D Yograj Taware -5F

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Samruddhi Mullerpatan -10A

Erica Luis -7E


Nicole Lee -9D Aishvarya Thakur -10C

Soumya Desai -7D

Mahi P. -7F

Shyesta Avadhoot -11A

Alicia Varghese -11A


Saisha Sikka -8A

Riti Rawat -10C


Kashish Bawa-Enand -8B

Diva Mistry -8C

Keya Desai -12C


Alina Santosh -8D
Aahana Khot -8E

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AUDREY DA'SILVA CREATIVE ten thousand times the speed of light. That way us humans
could explore the entire multiverse! (endless galaxies
If I Had a Magic Wand
~Krisha Gehi (4B)
ESSAY WRITING COMPETITION and universes) I would then make everyone on Earth love
animals, so that I could make a rule that in every house there 3rd Position
should be atleast one animal. After that, I would create a Did you know that my little brother stays
whole new pool in my backyard, a park on my terrace and very far away? Well, sometimes I miss him
add a trampoline in too.I would call all my friends over and so much that I wish I had a magic wand to
The Happiest Day of My Life is happy because whenever I am sad or depressed they
have a huge party in my house. Then I would make days bring him to my house. His name is Kabir. If
are always there to cheer me up. They are the whole world
~Maya Rasquinha (3C) endless, no nights at all so I would never have to sleep. Last I had a magic wand I would create a puppet
to me. I also feel very happy when my family is delighted
1st Position but not the least, I would rid the world of all cheaters and show set and make a story for him. He
because they always encourage me to do the good things.
The happiest day of my life was when I first thieves. After all, there is no elevator to success, you have to would be laughing with delight and I would
Sometimes when I am confused they always tell me whether
won a football match. And it was a great take the stairs. And I’d be waking up from a dream. join him in his laughter. Then we both would go to sleep,
that is the right or the wrong thing to do. I always knew they
feeling. All my life there was a little voice in safely cuddled in each other’s arms. If I had a magic wand
would be there to guide me. And I just feel very happy talking vvv
my head taunting me and saying that I was I think I would use it to conjure up a million dollars so that I
about it. All these things are the reason why the happiest
bad because I had never won anything. But could take my mother for a very expensive movie to a PVR
day of my life is when my family is happy. If I Had a Magic Wand
I ruled it out and kept going. And now, finally theatre. It is her birthday today. The last thing I would use
I have done it ! I was so happy that day that vvv ~Kaveesh Mitra (4C) a magic wand for is to get rid of the world of illness. Then I
I forgot to do my homework ! Silly me. Now when I think 1st Position would give it to somebody else so they could use the magic
about it, I laugh because I was only five years old then. But The Happiest Day of My Life Last Sunday was a very hot day. The
wand too.
still, it remains the happiest day of my life. ~Zaisha Ajmera (3F) scorching sun and the sweltering heat was vvv
3rd Position making me very uncomfortable. I decided
vvv
Well, the happiest day of my life was when to go to the garden opposite my building. My Amazingly Impossible Daydream
After invigorating my body and unwinding
The Happiest Day of My Life I went to Imagica with my parents. When
my mind I started running around in the ~Tara Nambiar (5B)
I woke up I got the biggest surprise of my 1st Position
~Myra Bhurat (3A) life. It was breakfast in bed ! garden. While I was playing dark, fleecy
2nd Position clouds covered the sky, lightning flashed and dazzled the sky. When I was eight, I discovered my new,
What would your happiest day be ? My After 20 minutes or more I was done with The thunder rumbled. I was heading back home. At the gate awesome obsession. I started reading
happiest day was my sixth birthday. I used my breakfast. I quickly put on a ravishing of the garden I found a magic wand. It started pouring cats books about fantasy and adventure. I was
to think that others’ birthdays were better new dress and my favorite hairbands. Soon we were in the and dogs. I picked up the wand and ran as fast as lightning. hooked by the brave, kind heroes, the witty
than mine. Yet my mother would say that car making our way to Imagica. I was standing with my With a hope in my heart and a dream in my eye I entered the jokes and the obnoxious villains. I loved the
for me that the grass was always greener mouth open and my eyes wide in shock. I nearly blew my elevator. I was soaked to the bone. After I had a bath I started amazing abilities of every superpowered
on the other side of the fence and that top for the rides. eating corn smeared with butter. While I was eating some protagonist, and his strive to defeat the evil
changed on my sixth birthday. It was a corn fell on the magic wand. I was petrified. The wand said,“ villain. I started dreaming about having superpowers too, and
Once I was done with the rides,we went to a nearby cafe My aka I will grant you three wishes”. I asked for happiness saving the world with my friends and family. If I had powers,
surprise party! I woke up in the morning and found my room for dinner. When we got there I was dog tired and went
decorated. After a yummy breakfast we went to Kidzania, as I wanted everyone to be happy. Happiness in the sense I would try to look for another person with superpowers, so
slouching down on the back seat. By the time we reached of well being, joy and contentment. My second wish was we could see what they could do, together.
which was filled with friends, gifts, surprise and more good home I already slept. This is the happiest day ever imaginable.
food! After lots of fun and games we decided to go home. health. Everyone must be healthy. Health is wealth. My last
I was on top of the world and ecstatic that day. wish was that there must be peace and harmony amongst If my powers included flying and telekinesis, I would use
When we reached home I fell into my bed at once because them to have fun, help people and play pranks on them. I
as we all know it had been the most tiring and wonderful day vvv all the countries of the world. The Ukraine and Russia war
left a deep impact in my heart. The wand told that he would would tell my parents and friends, and I would use my
of my life. powers to amuse and tease them. I wish that I could be
If I Had a Magic Wand fulfill all the three wishes. After the wand vanished. I decided
vvv that I will make people happy with small things the Lord has like the protagonists of the Nevermoor, Harry Potter, Percy
~Isha Nadkarni (4B) bestowed upon us. I will exercise daily and eat healthy. I will Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series, and lead an exciting
The Happiest Day of My Life 1st Position give my time to political organizations around the world. We life like theirs. If I had superpowers, I’d be really happy
must be the epitome of courage, unlimited compassion and and use them for good causes. Unfortunately, I know that
~Vandita Sahadeo (3D) I have always wondered what it would
sacrifice. We must make the world a better place to live in.It having superhuman abilities isn’t possible, and might not be
3rd Position be like to be able to do magic. If I had a
is also a day to remember. The magic wand has given me as fun as it sounds. Still, I will keep dreaming about having
magic wand, I would give all the planets
The happiest day of my life is when my ideas and a lesson. We must make the world a better place. superpowers… And the funny, “heroic” things I would do
existing in every galaxy, every universe air,
whole family is happy because if they are with them.
oxygen and water to survive. I would also
happy, for me the whole Earth is happy. create a spaceship on Earth that could go vvv
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A Dream That Can Only Be A Dream the news. The headlines read that a gigantic monster was A Hard Learnt Lesson my project. That’s when it hit me -- my friends were gone
attacking the world. A thought came into my mind. It was a and I was alone in the gallery. Initially I panicked, but then I
~Ruhaan Moria (5E) really good idea. I practised things which I thought I would ~Kairav Gupta (6E) looked at the tour map and ran to the next exhibit. Thankfully
1st Position never do. With my superpowers, I flew to the place where 1st Position my friends were here and were worried for me. I was very
Let’s be honest now, everyone would want the monster was. He was very tall and fat. You might think that finding a lost ball would relieved that I was back with my tour group and would not
superpowers, and I am not different. I be fairly easy. But think again, you have to be left behind.
would love the ability to disappear, teleport The battle was outrageous, but I had to save the world. search under the car, on the roof and maybe
and time travel. There was a lot of destruction. I made myself bigger in size even in the parking lot. Every little nook and This experience was very scary but I learned something new
to gain resistance against the attacks. The monster turned every little corner is a pain to search.This about Akbar’s kingdom. ’I promised myself I would never do
First, with the ability to disappear, I could himself smaller to hide from me. With my powers, I tracked misery fell on me once unluckily. it again.’
get away with anything wrong I did like him down. I picked him up in my hand and crushed him with
breaking the glass of another person’s house, breaking the force. So, with my superpowers, I could finally save the In my compound long ago, we were playing vvv
vase of the scariest aunt in the neighbourhood and more world. an intense match of cricket. It was the last over and I was
naughty things. batting. Suddenly, a fast ball chipped the edge of my bat and The Hero of Lake Superior
vvv landed in an unexpected place. It landed in an unexpected ~Omarr Thomas (7C)
Now with teleportation it will save my time while travelling place. It landed right above the arthritis - ridden watchman’s 1st Position
from India to my favourite country….. Canada! The fifteen Never Cheat shed. Everyone forced me to get the ball just because I had
hours flight that costs more than my whole life could be It was a lovely morning at one of the most
~Aarav Surana (6B) hit it. The plastic shed was twelve feet high and required the
completed in less than a millisecond at the cost of ₹ 0. beautiful lakes in the world- Lake Superior.
1st Position person to jump over the moss infested wall, and to climb a
That’s pretty much all I want to do with teleportation with Suddenly a raucous noise cut through the
rusty gate to reach it. I got ready and took a huge run up. I
some other naughty things. Like in the middle of class My mother came to wake me up at 6 o’clock silence as a gleaming white speedboat
ran at top speed and scaled the slimy wall. Then I climbed
teleporting to my house, eating some chocolate and coming in the morning. I screamed as though I was traversed the still waters of the lake. Seated
over the rusty gates managing to get myself some cuts. At
back. Lastly my favourite, Time travel! Its not for naughty but having a nightmare. My mother said,” Don’t gracefully, on the boat was Ms Sharma,
the top I leaped towards the shed and landed safely. I picked
some wholesome reasons. Like going back to my childhood, scream! You will wake the whole house. I owner of the most gorgeous diamond
up the ball and was about to leave when I heard a bang and
the time I revisited my grandparent’s house and, don’t think woke you early so that you can prepare necklace in the world.
nothing more. I woke up to find myself in the hospital. The
I will not use it for some mischief like when I am getting for the unit test today.” I completely forgot about the test
nurse broke the news to me. I had three broken ribs, a broken She gazed in awe at the serene view all around her.
scolded, go back in time and fix that thing. because I was watching movies late at night. I did not need
wrist and a twisted leg. I learnt my lesson that I should leave Unfortunately for her, at that moment a downpour began.
to prepare because I was an expert in cheating. So I lied,
Everyone wants powers but you know what they say “Some a lost ball where it is. I promised myself I would never do it These rain cycles were hard to predict and this one was
“Mother, don’t worry. I have the test in the bag.” “Okay, again.
dreams can only be dreams”. particularly nasty. The thundering wind raged all around her.
but if you don’t get good marks you are going to receive a
The suitcase in which Ms Sharma’s necklace was contained
vvv thrashing,” and with that she stormed off. vvv
actually blew overboard! She was in complete shock!
Without a thought, she jumped into the brutally cold waves
If I had Superpowers, I Would… At 12 o’clock, I sat in the school bus and left for the school. The Adventure at the Museum to try and recover her beloved necklace. She did not think for
My friend, who was very nervous about the test asked, “Are
~Stavya Ojha (5D) ~Ruhaan Rajadhyaksha (6B) a second, that she could not!
you sure about the test?” I nodded. We reached school and 3rd Position
3rd Position the teacher had already handed out the test papers. I said Luckily for her, there were lifeguards dotted around the
Superheroes are things from stories and next to a nerdy kid from whom copying was easy. But, this It was the day of our field trip and we were shores of the lake! Seeing her in distress, a lifeguard rushed
fantasy movies. Superheroes are described going to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in to help her. He fought through the bitterly cold waves and
time, he covered his test in every way possible. I started my
to wear many types of suites, capes and Vastu Sangrahalaya to research for our saved her and the necklace. To this day he is regarded as a
test and when half the test was done, I purposefully fell on
boots. Superheroes are also described school project. All of us were very excited hero all over the world!
my partner but I lied to the teacher that I tripped. to be learning so many new things and
to have some sort of mysterious powers.
These powers are called ‘Superpowers’. To my surprise, the principal called out my name on the seeing new exhibits. vvv
speaker. She told me to come to her office and, to my Before long, we were at the museum and
One night, I dreamt of saving the world from a dangerous A Parrot Named Carrot
uttermost horror, my parents were waiting. The principal were going around looking for information in the various
monster with my superpowers. Everybody cheered for
showed them the recording where I tripped on my partner. exhibits. We were in the miniature painting gallery when I ~Rosalyn Philip (7A)
me. It was a really good dream. The next morning, when I
My parents were embarrassed as I got a two week saw a fantastic rendition of a scene in Akbar’s court when 2nd Position
woke up, I felt something strange. I did not know what that
strange feeling was, but it was very weird. I brushed, took a suspension from school. ‘From that day I promised myself I I heard faint voices emanating from the painting. That’s Let me tell you about my parrot. Her name
shower and got ready for breakfast. I picked up a spoon only would never do it again.’ when I noticed that the picture was moving! The courtiers is Carrot. Her feathers are lovely, shade of
to realize that it was flying! I switched on the TV to check were all in their seats when Akbar came. He went over the green, and her beak is deep red. She’s very
vvv kingdom’s administration which helped me learn about the proud and thinks highly of herself. She’s a
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Carrot loves eating guava with chilli powder and Nutri choice Suddenly he yelled that there was something at the bottom of They walked towards the snow-white door of their house. leaking any information about the murder.
biscuits. She often steals my share of cracker every day. She the lake. He leaned so far out of the boat, that he immediately Maxine’s mother rotated her right wrist and the door flew
always wants to come with us when we go to Pawana Lake fell into the water. My grandfather had to rescue him and we open. It was that moment, when Maxine realised that her Ms. Silvers was now safe and the killer was captured and
for picnics. She has made friends with many birds, which is went back home, but he told us that he would ask a few mother wasn’t just some ordinary lady. Her mother was a was sentenced to 10 years of punishment, all thanks to the
why we gets to see many beautiful birds in our picnic. Carrot people to check the bottom of the lake. Who knows they witch. quick- witted detective.
loves to sit on my shoulder whenever I cycle and teases the might just find some treasure! vvv
street mongrels by mewing like a kitten. vvv
vvv
Another thing you should know is that she is very The Mysterious Murder The Camping Trip
mischievous. One time she imitated my parents’ alarm at 5 A Sunday Afternoon, A Surprising Secret ~Gargee Vaidya (8B) ~Jaanki Unnikrishnan (8D)
o’clock in the morning and woke them up. They were very ~Nia Bansal (8C) 2nd Position 3rd Position
annoyed. Whenever we take her in a taxi, she confuses the 1st Position It was the dead of the night, a storm was raging outside,
driver by giving him the wrong directions. Detective John was a sturdy, tall man with a well-built
It was a balmy Sunday afternoon in New Orleans. Sparrows body and a wise experienced mind. This skilful detective the surface of the lake was erupting with
One day I came from school and heard my sister throwing nested in the trees. The lush green grass was recently handed a case of the murder waves and leaves were being blown right
a tantrum. Someone had stolen the pink suitcase from her swayed in the harsh wind. The lake was a of one of them most powerful, potent and off the trees. A man walked up to the
doll set. All of us were frantically searching for the suitcase glittering turquoise colour. Maxine was out influential businessman in the country. shore of the lake, wrapped tightly in his
because she started wailing loudly. I passed Carrot’s cage on chores, on her brand new cycle. Little His murder, as expected, happened in the coat with a large, floppy hat on his head. A
and saw her wheeling the suitcase around. We all laughed. did she know, she was about to go on a most peculiar manner and there was only few moments later, something fell into the
paranormal adventure. one witness of this fatal occurrence, Ms. lake with a loud splash, the noise drowned
Carrot did many more mischievous things. She was a Silvers, who was a young lady in her mid- out by the howling of the wind. Drew and
favourite pet and we enjoyed. Maxine’s first errand was to pick up her 20s. Nancy slept peacefully in their tent, not hearing a thing. Little
mother from the old train station. When she got there, the did they know they were about to receive the shock of their
vvv station was closed, even though it was just three o’clock. She, however, seemed too frightened to tell the tale she lives.
Maxine was overcome with worry, when the gates burst witnessed. Mr. John pondered over the matter for a couple
The Lake of Treasure open and a harsh, cold breeze shoved her inside. There her of days before taking a firm decision to give Ms. Silvers a Nancy woke up with the sun. She never thought she was
~Samaira Pethe (7B) mother was, sitting on a rickety, chocolate-brown bench. short break from all interrogations. Well- guarded with strong a morning person but with the birds chirping and light
3rd Position Maxine greeted her and placed her suitcase in the basket bodyguards, she was sent on a mini-vacation to Springsfall pouring in through the thin fabric of the tent, it was harder
of her cycle. Forthwith, a flash of green light and smoke Lake which one of the cleanest and most visited lake in the to fall asleep again than to simply get up. She and her sister
I dragged my suitcase to the doorstep Drew had arrived at the lake the day before and intended to
of my grandparents’ house and rang the appeared before Maxine’s eyes and she coughed at the country. Ms. Silvers was sun-bathing on the soft sand as the
amount of smoke. When the air cleared, all Maxine saw was sun reflected beautifully upon her. She was enjoying one of camp there for the weekend. They had desperately needed
doorbell. For the summer holidays, my a break from their parents - and with parents who named
younger brother and I were visiting my a parrot flying at top speed. Her mother was nowhere to be the most blissful vacations of her life amidst such chaos.
found. Maxine clambered on her cycle and rushed after the their children Nancy and Drew, it was understandable - and
grandparents. The door swung open and Mr. John was informed about her movements from time to left the second their parents agreed to it. Lake Peters was a
my brother rushed past me and hugged my parrot, guessing that her mother had somehow, mystically
transformed herself. The parrot was flying hither and thither, time. It had barely been five minutes since the guards had popular camping site, however, at this time of year with the
grandparents. He immediately asked my grandfather when informed Mr. John about Ms. Silvers and returned than they storms and heavy rain, it was completely deserted. Nancy
we would be visiting the lake. My grandparent’s village had over buildings and under bridges, when a dark violet portal
opened up, and the little bird swooped inside. Maxine panted came upon the most unexpected sight. Ms. Silvers was was happy to have a peaceful weekend with her sister,
been rumored to be the home of pirate treasure and my nowhere to be found and, on the sand, scattered here and isolated from everybody else. She woke Drew and they went
pirate-loving brother loved hearing about it. when she reached the perplexing portal. Without a second’s
thought, she parked her cycle and jumped inside. The hole there, lay her pearl necklace, geared cycle, her mini suitcase about their day, talking and laughing together as they ate
My grandfather laughed and said we would go there that closed behind her. Maxine was sliding down narrow tubes and her picnic basket. No sooner had the guards informed breakfast.
afternoon.I smiled as my brother began running round and tunnels inside the portal. She let out spine-chilling shrieks Mr. John about the incident than a loud shriek was heard
from the lake. Mr. John arrived almost immediately and Later that afternoon, the sun had come up and both the
the house pretending he was a pirate. This was going to that could be heard from miles away. When she reached the sisters started to feel unbearably hot. They decided to go for
be an interesting trip! We rode our cycles to the lake and end of the slide, Maxine felt giddy. There she was, chasing came upon the sight of Ms. Silvers helplessly drowning in
the lake. a quick swim in the lake, which was still cool from the storm
reached there even before our grandparents. My brother a parrot who she guessed was secretly her mother. She the night before. They were trying to see who would go
was so excited he could barely sit still. My grandfather wished this was all a bad dream, when she felt a tap on The lifeguards were sent to rescue Ms. Silvers at once deeper into the lake when Drew, who was a good swimmer,
helped us onto a small boat and told us about the treasure, her shoulder. Maxine jumped, but all her worry disappeared as they retrieved a shivering, frightened Ms. Silvers from reached the bottom of the lake. She suddenly screamed and
as we sailed around the lake. He told us that the treasure when she saw her mother standing behind her. Her mother the lake. Mr. John immediately gripped the wrist of the then began to writhe, unable to breathe. Nancy immediately
contained a solid gold necklace studded with diamonds and snapped her fingers, and within a moment, she and Maxine bodyguard right next to him and arrested him. After the swam towards her and pulled her above the surface of the
pearls. It also contained all sorts of precious jewels.There were sitting in a small black taxi, going back home. Maxine occurrence of the whole incident, Ms. Silvers was informed water. After a few minutes of hysterical crying and gasping,
was a saying about the treasure ‘Where the parrot lies, the stared at her mother the entire ride, eagerly hoping that she that the murder, who was the house cook, had dressed up as Drew finally answered Nancy’s question of what caused
treasure will be found’. After hearing this, my brother began would explain the whole conundrum. The taxi parked outside a bodyguard in order to kill Ms. Silvers and prevent her from her to scream. “Woman…dead…scary…”. Nancy didn’t
looking around here and there hoping to see a parrot. Number 13, Hedge Street.

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fully understand her but decided to take her to the lifeguard less days to countdown to the weekend. But do we really tackle situations both online and offline. The balanced hybrid be well thought-out before it is undertaken. The priority here
sitting nearby. They went to him and Drew explained that enjoy the weekends anymore? It’s filled with stress, anxiety learning facilitates an integrated approach. Virtual aspects is education. Although the students bemoan their homework
she had seen a dead woman at the bottom of the lake. Both and teenagers scratching their pens on the paper, shaking like slides, excel can be touched upon which is immensely and long week, we all accept the fact that school is a
sisters and the lifeguard were terrified but they went to the their legs so fast they could power up a motorbike and trying useful for long term perspective ideology. requisite for the rudimentary development of a human being,
lake and the lifeguard brought out the dead body. Her face to fight off voices telling them that they aren’t good enough. not just in an educational sense, but in a moral manner as
was slightly disfigured but the moment the lifeguard saw So if a four day school week prevents them from using a For us pupils, I think we must ensure proper and timely well. A four-day week will cut off six to ten crucial hours
her, his face paled and he seemed to be in shock. He got up rope and a fan, I’m all for it. From the education and teacher’s arrangement of our gadgets. I think we should develop a of education and learning, which could not only hamper the
and left immediately. Nancy and Drew were determined to point of view, there’d be quantitatively more work to cover focussed approach and use this in an advantageous way. capability of teachers to complete their syllabus, but also
solve the mystery of how he knew her. They saw that she in less time. Twelve hours a day, four days a week, i.e., forty We must mentally prepare ourselves to deal with situations prove to be a barrier to the development of the students. This
was wearing a necklace with a locket on it. They opened the eight hours of work if we weigh against twenty four hours both virtual and in real life. To maintain omnipresent welfare, said syllabus will be reduced, and while many students will
locket and saw a picture of the woman along with a man for three days a week, i.e., seventy hours sounds pretty we must have a collaborative outlook. One thing I have learnt rejoice at this in ecstatic jubilation, it will not be ideal from a
they recognised as one of the other lifeguards. They cycled good and negating the time we sleep, shower or bathe in from virtual school is the art of putting aside our convenient holistic point of view.
over to the main office for the lifeguards and found that the we hold up forty eight hours against forty eight hours which requirements, merging with different people and working
man whose picture was in the locket was sitting there. count as good odds. in a productive manner for the desired result. We must be A four-day week would also inevitably infer to more
willing to come out of our comfort zones and help each other. homework, and even school hours could be extended
For years after, both sisters did not speak of the trip to Many countries in the world have already moved forward to make up for the lost time. While this may sound fine
anyone, but secretly wished they had been braver and done with this idea and are excited to see what the future holds. I am also of the opinion that developing complacency and
compassion has also mathematically, it would be severely detrimental, as
something more than get into a taxi and go home as fast All i say is before we dive into something hastily, count if any students’ attention spans are strictly in line with the Law
as they could. They both felt guilty about what they had of the repercussions would be catastrophic and hold us back become the requisite of the hour because there are multiple of Diminishing Returns. One could argue that it will help
done but were too scared to talk about it. They learnt that a few more years. pupils who might find it difficult to adjust to this system and students to develop extra-curricular activities and the like,
however brave you think you might be, life will always throw I think we must help and guide each other. The teachers are
you something you’re not prepared for. vvv and even improve their mental health, but would the added
also doing a fantastic job handling this mix and it helps us to homework really give us that respite? As a student studying
The Integrated Approach learn a lot from each other.
vvv in the tenth standard, the workload is huge, and a four-day
~Tanisha Maheshwari 10A I think all we need to know before trying this system is that week just provides more hours for the menace of tuitions
School-ish or Foolish? 2nd Position it is going to be an that burdens us.
~Pearl Singpurwalla 10F The advance of the Coronavirus pandemic
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exhilarating, fun filled and beatific experience as we embark ‘Do not fix what is not broken.’ The five-day system has
has changed the functioning of the world on our journey to learn new ideas which will assist us in worked for decades, and changing it may seem to be a good
Ever since childhood we have been itself. We have been introduced to ideas and developing pragmatic skills to remember for a lifetime. So innovation at first glance, but a pragmatic approach says
conditioned to dislike the five weekdays knowledge that we probably would have fasten your seatbelts for this ride! otherwise. Although I would love to have more free time,
and love the weekend. A ‘five days working, never explored if it wasn’t for the pandemic.
two days holiday’ is the concept most of us It has made people more cognizant about vvv I do not see how this provides it, and a good education is
grew up with. But, as it is, the world has to their surroundings. Perhaps, we could say essential to lead a good life. This only abates the vast hoard
progress. People find one way or another to the pandemic and the threat of the virus Four-Day Week: Fad or Facade? of knowledge that we have access to. The Four-Day Week
prove that we are moving forward. has not been as exasperating as we imagined because we idea needs to hit the brakes, and the sooner, the better.
~Dhruv Chopra 10C
have got an interesting insight into a different segment of 3rd Position
A four day school week is a new and innovative idea gaining vvv
the world-The Virtual one. The education system had been
popularity among students and teachers across the globe. In turned upside down during the pandemic. Children were As the ever-changing world progresses
my opinion, I feel like everyone’s going to jump into this idea on its path to the unknown destination, Drooping Shoulders
struggling to concentrate online as it is not that much
thinking they would get an extra day of rest and not worry of a cake to continually fixate our eyes on the screen for every day brings with it a new idea and ~Vedant Somwanshi 10F
about the repercussions until it’s in execution. Would that four hours. Children missed out on work due to dwindling a novel innovation. Whether it emerges 3rd Position
extra day of rest be worth working twelve hours a day, four attention. They had a lackadaisical spirit instilled in them. in the field of science or technology, or
Drooping Shoulders, dark circles from the
days a week consecutively? The five day school week was However, when school reopened with the concept of four anything ranging from meteorology to
long hours and almost nothing to show for
also just an idea that stuck around for a long time, but people day offline-one day online, I think it has been one of the most education, is something which envisage
it, the honourable name of the teaching
started tiring themselves out calling for an extra day. We, bountiful experiences ever. Though I believe there are certain cannot unequivocally asseverate. Recently,
profession has been besmirched by such
as humans, seem to have an unhealthy over-dependency priorities we must attend to before jumping into this concept. the idea of a four-day school week is gaining momentum
grievances of its disciples. In this day
on the weekends. The so-called ‘only time you’re allowed I am of keen opinion that it is of paramount importance to and being propounded by students and teachers across the
and age teachers have been subject to
to enjoy’ and not feel guilty. The extra day of rest, I believe divide and distribute the subjects and content to learn, in Globe. But what could it mean for all parties involved?
unimaginable duress, Boundaries between
is necessary but not at the cost of working overtime on all an apt manner. The events that could never be conducted The current five-day week that is followed almost worldwide professional and personal lives blurring, the constant mental
the other days. From the point of view of students a four day offline must be conducted online and vice versa. This idea is seeing the setting sun. But such a radical move needs to fatigure and the circumstantial beck and call of their duty
school week sounds like a great idea - giving the students of learning is very beneficial as students develop skills to towards society take a noticeable toll.

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This debate has always been a game of balance. Does the
extra day off compensate for the longer hours? I beg to differ.
destroy it. This painting is none other than our environment.
Climate Change, a phenomenon of the recent past, dates back
ICSE RESULTS GRAPHS
The 4-day week has taken Europe by storm with legislators
making provisions for this ‘4-day week.’ to centuries before. However, it is the human species that has
now made Climate Change an alarming issue. God’s beloved
However, the teaching profession has undergone painting fades away as the Earth’s temperature increases
circumstances which distinguish it from other more every 0.2*C every decade, a number that might seem small
distinguished professions like a sore thumb. Must we force but is quite big with respect to the future. Although Climate
Western Ideals upon our teachers? Upon those who educate Change refers to an abnormal change in climatic conditions
and revolutionalize our future generations? Upon those who in an area, I regard it as a Change in mindset and lifestyle.
instill holistic ideals and moral values which have seemingly Isn’t it our irresponsible lifestyle worsening this dangerous
gone missing in today’s world? and life-threatening change in climate after all? The real
change in climate was the transformation of man’s mindset
This idea may seem lucrative much like Midas’s deceiving after the Industrial Revolution, as he began to focus more on
touch. Years of the educationary ecosystem have forged a himself than God’s beautiful painting.
system, a questionable system but a system regardless.
The 5:2 work-holiday ratio has propelled our country to Various statistics released by the IPCC, UNDP, UNFCCC and
heights and will continue to do so without counterproductive multiple other organisations only reveal the true situation
interventions in an already flawed ecosystem. Hence, I of environmental migrations and climate change. If you’re
appeal to each and every reader to sympathise with our sitting in Cuffe Parade and reading this, you must know that
educationists alike and work towards the betterment of your home will most likely be underwater by 2030 according
our educational institutions. Truly, ‘not all superheros wear to recent research. Be it the uninvited floods during summer
capes.’ or the rapid melting of the Himalayan glaciers, every inch
of this planet faces environmental issues. Neither does any
vvv governing body nor any average human cares enough to fix
this problem on a large scale. This attitude has amounted to
Cycling through Climate Change yet another issue, environmental migration.
~Tarun Patil 12B
ISC Winner Conventionally, environmental migration can be defined as
the migration of a species or population due to environmental
Having plugged in a pair of earphones, I’m hazards they face/faced in their native areas. However, I also
off to the only green patch of Mumbai- interpret it as a migration of poor environmental standards
Sanjay Gandhi National Park. The banana- to every part of this planet. Air Quality Indices look worse
driven sugar rush and the energetic K-Pop for New Delhi every month but the city-dwellers still settle
songs aid the process of cycling. I’m on the for less and do not make constructive change. When
same white (almost brown) rusty non-geared cycle as I treat they refuse to make change themselves but still wish for
myself with the fresh and fragrant smell of the trees native a better environment, they migrate. Millions of people
to Aarey Colony. migrate every year due to disastrous earthquakes or rise in
I eventually take a break to sit under a tree. As time passes surface temperatures while the rest of the world sits quietly,
by, I realise that the painting that sits in front of me sits with watching God’s mesmerising painting wash away in today’s
a limited life-span. God created this marvellous painting with selfish society.
an intention to give back to society but all we humans do is vvv

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GRADE 10 SPECIAL PRIZES ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
● The Marilette Coelho Braganza Memorial Prize
for the highest in English in Std10 with an
• The Lazarus Gamaliel Memorial Gold Medal ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane with an aggregate of 100% aggregate of 99%
for being the topper in both schools Bombay Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane
Scottish , Mahim and Bombay Scottish, Powai with an aggregate of 100% with an aggregate of 100% Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
with 99.80% ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% with an aggregate of 100%
• The Principal’s Commendation Gold Medal for with an aggregate of 100% or above with 99.60% ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
being the Topper in Bombay Scottish School , ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● All India Rank 2 with an aggregate of 100%
Mahim with 99.80% or above with 99.60% DHRUV CHOPRA ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
• The Deshpande Prize for the Best Result with ● All India Rank 2 or above with 99.40%
99.80% ● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an ● All India Rank 3
● ALL ROUND EXCELLENCE FOR GRADE 10
aggregate of 100%
● The Marilette Coelho Braganza Memorial Prize 2022-2023 SHARANG DESAI
for the highest in English in Std10 with an ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane
ADVIK VISWANATHAN
aggregate of 99% Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an
with an aggregate of 100%
● The Lt Col Jog Prize for the highest in Hindi aggregate of 100%
• The Laxman Popley Memorial Silver Medal ● Prize for the highest in Economics with an
with an aggregate of 99%
for being the Runner Up at Bombay Scottish ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane
aggregate of 100%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
School, Mahim with 99.60%
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics ● The R K Sharma Memorial Prize for the highest
● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an with an aggregate of 100%
with an aggregate of 100% in Commercial Applications -with an aggregate
aggregate of 100% ● Prize for the highest in Science with an
of 99%
● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an aggregate of 100%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
aggregate of 100%
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
or above with 99.40%
● Prize for the highest in Science with an aggregate with an aggregate of 100%
with an aggregate of 100%
of 100% ● All India Rank 3
● Prize for the highest in Science with an ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications TANISHA MAHESHWARI
aggregate of 100% or above with 99.20%
with an aggregate of 100% ● The Marilette Coelho Braganza Memorial Prize
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications AAYATI VISARIA
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% for the highest in English in Std10 with an
with an aggregate of 100% ● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an
or above with 99.80% aggregate of 99%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% aggregate of 100%
● All India Rank 1 ● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an
or above with 99.60% ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane
SHREYA UPADHYAY aggregate of 100% Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
● All India Rank 2
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane with an aggregate of 100%
SAHANA KAMDAR
● The Laxman Popley Memorial Silver Medal Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics ● Prize for the highest in Economics with an
for being the Runner Up at Bombay Scottish ● The Laxman Popley Memorial Silver Medal with an aggregate of 100% aggregate of 100%
School, Mahim with 99.60% for being the Runner Up at Bombay Scottish ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
School, Mahim with 99.60% with an aggregate of 100%
● The Marilette Coelho Braganza Memorial Prize or above with 99.20%
for the highest in English in Std10 with an ● The Marilette Coelho Braganza Memorial Prize ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% AARAV BARDHAN
aggregate of 99% for the highest in English in Std10 with an or above with 99.40%
aggregate of 99%
● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an ● All India Rank 3
● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an ● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an
aggregate of 100% ARUSHI GOEL
aggregate of 100% aggregate of 100%

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● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Prize for the highest in Technical Drawing ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● The Lt Col Jog Prize for the highest in Hindi
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics Applications with an aggregate of 100% or above with 99% with an aggregate of 99%
with an aggregate of 100% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ADITYA SENGUPTA ● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications or above with 99% aggregate of 100%
with an aggregate of 100% ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
TANMAY GUPTA ● The R K Sharma Memorial Prize for the highest
an aggregate of 100%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% in Commercial Applications -with an aggregate
or above with 99.20% ● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% of 99%
aggregate of 100% or above with 99%
LAVANYA SINGLA ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane VEDANT SOMWANSHI or above with 98.60%
● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane RITIKA KALANTRI
aggregate of 100% with an aggregate of 100%
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
● Prize for the highest in Economics with an ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
with an aggregate of 100% ● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an
aggregate of 100% an aggregate of 100%
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications aggregate of 100%
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
with an aggregate of 100% ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
with an aggregate of 100% or above with 99%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% with an aggregate of 100%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% AADIV DAS
or above with 98.80% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
or above with 99.20%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ARINDAM MUKHERJEE or above with 98.40%
VIDHI GADA Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics KRISHHEY THACKER MAHISA MITHANI
with an aggregate of 100%
● The Lt Col Jog Prize for the highest in Hindi ● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an
with an aggregate of 99% ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
aggregate of 100% ● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an
with an aggregate of 100%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications aggregate of 100%
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
with an aggregate of 100% ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
with an aggregate of 100% or above with 99%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% an aggregate of 100%
● Prize for the highest in Social Studies with an VARUN SHAH
or above with 98.80% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
aggregate of 100% ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane or above with 98.40%
ARYA SHENOY
● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics PRATHAM HARI
an aggregate of 100% with an aggregate of 100% ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
● Prize for the highest in Technical Drawing ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
or above with 99% with an aggregate of 100%
Applications with an aggregate of 100% with an aggregate of 100%
RIDAH FATIMA ● Prize for the highest in Technical Drawing
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
Applications with an aggregate of 100%
or above with 99% or above with 98.40%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● The Lt Col Jog Prize for the highest in Hindi HAYDN CORREA VENKAT THOTA
or above with 98.80%
with an aggregate of 99%
● The Marilette Coelho Braganza Memorial Prize ARNAV SRIVASTAVA ANWIKETH REDDY
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane for the highest in English in Std10 with an
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics aggregate of 99% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● The Marilette Coelho Braganza Memorial Prize
with an aggregate of 100% or above with 98.80%
● The Lt Col Jog Prize for the highest in Hindi for the highest in English in Std10 with an
● Prize for the highest in Science with an aggregate with an aggregate of 99% ANUSHA SHARMA aggregate of 99%
of 100%

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● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Prize for the highest in Technical Drawing ● Prize for the highest in Environmental Science ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics Applications with an aggregate of 100% with an aggregate of 99% with an aggregate of 100%
with an aggregate of 100% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% or above with 98.20% or above with 97.80% or above with 97.40%
or above with 98.40% SHRIYA DESHPANDE SHANNON MENDONCA TANISH DHAVALE
PARTH GOYAL
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● Prize for the highest in French with an aggregate with an aggregate of 100% or above with 97.80% ● Prize for the highest in Economics with an
of 98% aggregate of 100%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Prize for the Best Band Member
● The Taishi Saha Memorial Trophy for the or above with 98.20% ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
JANHAVI PATIL
highest in Art an aggregate of 100%
● Spell Bee Grade 10
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% DHRUV SHIRALI
or above with 97.80% or above with 97.40%
or above with 98.20%
ARAV TRILOKEKAR JEHAN MULCHANDANI
SAMRUDDHI MULLERPATAN
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
with an aggregate of 100%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics with an aggregate of 100%
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics or above with 98%
with an aggregate of 100%
with an aggregate of 100% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
ADVAY SANGHI
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% or above with 97.40%
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane or above with 97.60%
with an aggregate of 100% HARSHA PAREEK
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics PAYOLA KALE
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
with an aggregate of 100%
or above with 98.20% ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
VIVAAN MISRA an aggregate of 100%
an aggregate of 100% with an aggregate of 100%
ADITI GINDE ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% or above with 97.40%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane or above with 97.80% or above with 97.60%
PREKSHA VISHWANATH
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics ARNAV KALE SAACHI KHANDEPARKAR
with an aggregate of 100%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications
● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with with an aggregate of 100%
an aggregate of 100%
with an aggregate of 100% an aggregate of 100%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% or above with 97.20%
or above with 98.20%
or above with 97.80% or above with 97.60%
VIHAN KRISHNA
NIVRITEE SINGHI
ARJUN KANODIA SALONI DESOUZA
PEARL SINGPURWALLA ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
KHUSHI GOENKA
● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with an aggregate of 100%
ADVAIT SHUKLA
an aggregate of 100%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane
or above with 97.20%
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics or above with 97.80% Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
LAVANYA BHATTACHARYA
with an aggregate of 100% with an aggregate of 100%
KIMAYA VASWANI

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● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
or above with 97.20% or above with 96.80% an aggregate of 100% or above with 96%
ANIKA JOSEPH CHAHAT CHANDNA ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% RUHAAN IYER
ASHLESHA GOPAL or above with 96.40% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane
PARTH MEHRA NIRMIT SHAH or above with 96%
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
with an aggregate of 100% AYAAN RAJKOTWALLA
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
or above with 97% an aggregate of 100% or above with 96.40% an aggregate of 100%
AARNA SALI ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% MARK DAYAL ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
AARAV DESAI or above with 96.80% ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications or above with 95.80%
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications AARA DESAI with an aggregate of 100% SAMARA PRETTO
with an aggregate of 100% ALIA QURESHI ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% TRINAV SIRCAR or above with 96.20% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
or above with 97% ● Prize for the highest in Technical Drawing VEDIKA MENON or above with 95.80%
Applications with an aggregate of 100%
MOIRA KALLIVALAPPIL DEV CHHEDA
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
AARAV MALANI ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% RISHA RAHUL SALUNKHE
or above with 96.80%
● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with or above with 96.20%
ZAAIRA MULCHANDANI
an aggregate of 100% INAYA SURVE ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% JOSHUA JERRY Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
or above with 97% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% with an aggregate of 100%
or above with 96.80%
ANSH SHAH ● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
JAI BHAMBHANI or above
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
or above with 97% AAYUSHI SHIRODKAR with an aggregate of 100% with 95.60%
NISHITA AGARWAL ● Prize for the highest in Technical Drawing ANIRUDDH PARULEKAR
AANIYA JAFFER ● Prize for the highest in Economics with an Applications with an aggregate of 100% NATASHA VARKEY
aggregate of 100% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% or above with 96%
● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics or abovewith 96.60% ANANYA SHAH an aggregate of 100%
with an aggregate of 100% ANDRE FERNANDES
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
● Prize for the highest in Technical Drawing ● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications or above with 95.60%
Applications with an aggregate of 100% ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with with an aggregate of 100% JOEL THOMAS
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% an aggregate of 100% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
or above with 96.80% ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% or above with 96%
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95%
ROHIT FERREIRA or above with 96.60% AAROHI GHASTE or above with 95.60%
NUPOOR BHOBE
YASH PODDAR
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications ASHNA DESAI ● Prize for the highest in Technical Drawing REVA SHETTY
with an aggregate of 100% SHARANYA SUDARSHAN Applications with an aggregate of 100% ADIDEV RAY

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● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% KHUSHNOOR PANDAY 7. Principal’s Trophy for ‘The Interhouse
● Prize for the highest in Technical Drawing or above with 95% NAVYA VASNAD Dramatics Competition’ goes to:
Applications with an aggregate of 100% TANYA DESHMUKH AYANA ZANTYE Runner up House :GREEN HOUSE
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% JARED COLLINS ARKIN CHAINI
or above with 95.40% MIKHAIL TAMBOLY SUHAN JOGATAR
8. Trophy for the Interhouse ‘On The Spot Script
ANVI KHANDELWAL ● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% PARTH KHETWANI
Writing Competition’ instituted by former
or above with 95% VAYDANT VADEHRA
Senior Academic Coordinator Ms Monica Bose:
● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with PRARTHNA CHOPRA ROHAIL VENKAT
HIYA JAIN Winning House : YELLOW HOUSE
an aggregate of 100% SAMAIRA GUPTA
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% Runner up House : RED HOUSE
PRANITT POPLEY
or above with 95.40% 1. The Aakarsh A Singh Memorial Trophy for
RHEANNA KOTHARI
General Knowledge in the Interhouse Quiz
VEDIKA WADHWA 9. The Sam Bhalekar Memorial Trophy instituted
EBRAHIM HABIB Competition:Trophy
by the Alumni for winning House of the
Winning House : RED HOUSE
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% Interhouse Dance Competition ‘Nritya’ :
● The Deshpande Prize and the M A Nachane Runner up House : YELLOW HOUSE
or above with 95.40% BLUE HOUSE
Memorial Prize for the highest in Mathematics
JENICA JAIN with an aggregate of 100%
2. Trophy for the Interhouse Debate Competition:
JHANVI MEHTA ANSHUL GOENKA
Runner up House : GREEN HOUSE 10. The Bombay Scottish Alumni Trophy for the
AAISHI SARAWGI Runner Up House of the Interhouse Dance
● Prize for the highest in Computer Applications Competition ‘Nritya’:
with an aggregate of 100% SPECIAL PRIZES AND TROPHIES 3. Trophy for the Interhouse Debate Competition:
YELLOW HOUSE
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ● The Taishi Saha Memorial Trophy for the Winning House : YELLOW HOUSE
or above with 95.20% highest in Art
ANUSH POPLI RITI RAWAT 4. The Audrey DaSilva Memorial Trophy 11. The Neerja Bhanot Memorial Trophy for the
AISHVARYA THAKUR awarded for the ‘On the Spot Essay Writing Overall Championship for the year 2018 - 2019:
Competition in English’ presented by the PTA : YELLOW HOUSE
● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
an aggregate of 100% ● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with RED HOUSE
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% an aggregate of 100%
12. The George Mathai Memorial Trophy for
or above with 95.20% PRIYANKA JOSEPH 5. The Kalpesh D’Souza Memorial Trophy for
the Runner Up House for the Over-all
AANISHKA THACKER AASHVI MEHTA Academic Excellence : (Trophy)
Championship for the year 2018-2019:
ZARAH SALINS GREEN HOUSE
GREEN HOUSE
● Special Prize for securing an aggregate of 95% ARJUN JHAVERI
or above with 95.20% JEHAN PARDIWALA 6. The Mark David Memorial Trophy for ‘The
AYDEN SANTHOSH JOHNSON THERATTIL Interhouse Dramatics Competition:
AARNA PAGDIWALA MIKHAIL VAKIL
Winning House : YELLOW HOUSE
MUSKAAN GOENKA
DHEER MEHTA
● Prize for the highest in Physical Education with
DIA AGARWAL
an aggregate of 100%

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Special Prize for good performance at the ICSE Examination, 2023 with an aggregate of 95% Nishita Agarwal 97.00 Ruhaan Iyer 96.00
and above is awarded to:
Aarna Sali 97.00 Ayaan Rajkotwalla 96.00
Candidate Name Percentage Parth Goyal 98.40 Moira Kallivalappil 97.00 Dev Rahul Chheda 95.80
Shreya Upadhyay 99.80 Pratham Hari 98.40 Aarav Desai 97.00 Risha Salunkhe 95.80
Sahana Kamdar 99.60 Samruddhi Mullerpatan 98.20 Aarav Malani 97.00 Samara Pretto 95.80
Advik Viswanathan 99.60 Vivaan Misra 98.20 Aaniya Jaffer 97.00 Natasha Varkey 95.60
Dhruv Chopra 99.60 Aditi Ginde 98.20 Ansh Shah 97.00 Yash Poddar 95.60
Tanisha Maheshwari 99.40 Nivritee Singhi 98.20 Chahat Chandna 96.80 Reva Shetty 95.60
Arushi Goel 99.40 Shriya Deshpande 98.20 Ashlesha Gopal 96.80 Adidev Ray 95.60
Sharang Desai 99.40 Pearl Singpurwalla 98.20 Parth Mehra 96.80 Joel Thomas 95.60
Aarav Bardhan 99.20 Advait Shukla 98.20 Aayushi Shirodkar 96.80 Aniruddh Parulekar 95.60
Lavanya Singla 99.20 Dhruv Shirali 98.20 Jai Bhambhani 96.80 Jenica Jain 95.40
Aayati Visaria 99.20 Advay Sanghi 98.00 Aara Desai 96.80 Anvi Khandelwal 95.40
Vidhi Gada 99.20 Kimaya Vaswani 97.80 Alia Qureshi 96.80 Jhanvi Mehta 95.40
Aditya Sengupta 99.00 Janhavi Patil 97.80 Zaaira Mulchandani 96.80 Vedika Wadhwa 95.40
Varun Shah 99.00 Shannon Mendonca 97.80 Rohit Ferreira 96.80 Anush Popli 95.20
Aadiv Das 99.00 Arav Trilokekar 97.80 Trinav Sircar 96.80 Aanishka Thacker 95.20
Ridah Fatima 99.00 Arjun Kanodia 97.80 Andre Fernandes 96.60 Ayden Santhosh 95.20
Haydn Correa 99.00 Arnav Kale 97.80 Nupoor Bhobe 96.60 Aarna Pagdiwala 95.20
Tanmay Gupta 99.00 Payola Kale 97.60 Ashna Desai 96.60 Prarthna Chopra 95.00
Vedant Somwanshi 99.00 Saachi Khandeparkar 97.60 Sharanya Sudarshan 96.60 Samaira Gupta 95.00
Anusha Sharma 98.80 Saloni Desouza 97.60 Mark Dayal 96.40 Pranitt Popley 95.00
Arindam Mukherjee 98.80 Khushi Goenka 97.60 Nirmit Shah 96.40 Rheanna Kothari 95.00
Krishhey Thacker 98.80 Harsha Pareek 97.40 Inaya Surve 96.20 Tanya Deshmukh 95.00
Arya Shenoy 98.80 Tanish Dhavale 97.40 Vedika Menon 96.20 Jared Collins 95.00
Arnav Srivastava 98.80 Preksha Vishwanath 97.40 Joshua Jerry 96.20 Mikhail Tamboly 95.00
Ritika Kalantri 98.60 Jehan Mulchandani 97.40 Aarohi Ghaste 96.00 Ebrahim Habib 95.00
Mahisa Mithani 98.40 Anika Joseph 97.20 Ananya Shah 96.00
Venkat Thota 98.40 Vihan Krishna 97.20
Anwiketh Reddy 98.40 Lavanya Bhattacharya 97.20

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GRADE 9 PRIZE WINNERS ISC RESULTS GRAPHS
Prize for being placed among the top 10 rankers across Grade 9
Sr. No Name of the Student Grade/Div Marks Percentage PHYSICS

1 Karan Philip 9B 1922/2000 96.10 %


2 Nia Haydn D’souza Ganapathy 9C 1522/1600 95.13 %
3 Aditya Arora 9B 1892/2000 94.60 %
4 Krishiv Bhatia 9B 1885/2000 94.25 %
4 Paraj Garg 9E 1856/2000 92.80 %
6 Anahita Gupta 9A 1855/2000 92.75 %
7 Naisha Chhabria 9E 1854/2000 92.70 %

8 Rahil Singh 9B 1843/2000 92.15 %


9 Soumil Rathi 9A 1840/2000 92 %
10 Varun Nadkarni 9B 1834/2000 91.70 %

Subject Toppers in Grade 9


ENGLISH
Subject Name Of Student Grade/Div Marks
English Paraj Garg 9E 374/400
Hindi Karan Philip 9B 187/200
French Vida Asbe 9C 182/200
Social Studies Karan Philip 9B 395/400
Mathematics Karan Philip 9B 199/200
Krishiv Bhatia 9B 199/200
Manya Singh 9B 199/200
Science Karan Philip 9B 584/600
Economics Nia Haydn D’souza Ganapathy 9C 197/200
Environmental Science Sana Khajanchi 9C 171/200
Technical Drawing Apps Soumil Rathi 9D 199/200
Physical Education Naisha Chhabria 9E 197/200 MATHEMATICS
Computer Applications Karan Philip 9B 199/200
Commercial Applications Dania Khan 9A 189/200
Art Nicole Lee 9D 174/200

Special Prizes
• The George Jacob Memorial Scholarship for • The Sudha Purandare Memorial Prize for the
Academic Excellence in Grade 9 with an aggregate highest in English in Grade 9 - PARAJ GARG
of 96.01 % - KARAN PHILIP • The Adam Mackay Memorial Prize for the highest
• The Moses Jacob Memorial Prize for the highest in in General Knowledge in Std 9 - AARAV MORE
Mathematics in Grade 9 -KARAN PHILIP, • Prize for All Round Excellence in Grade 9 -
KRISHIV BHATIA, MANYA SINGH PARAJ GARG
• The George Daniel Memorial Scholarship for the • The N D Pandit Memorial Prize for the first place
highest in Chemistry in Grade 9 - KARAN PHILIP in Hindi Elocution in the Senior Group (Grades 9
and 10) - KHYAATEE SINGH

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ISC RESULTS GRAPHS ISC RESULTS GRAPHS

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GRADE 12 SPECIAL PRIZES Andhyarujina, Ex-Solicitor General India,
awarded for the Best Debater: ARHAAN LULLA
Salonee Dey
Alok Vernekar
96.25
96
23. Prize for All Round Excellence Grade 12 : Kaavya Bhandari 96
SHAH
1. Principal’s Commendation Gold Medal for the AANYA WALA Harshavardhan Nangre 96
highest scorer at the ISC Examination, 2023 12. Highest in Economics at the ISC Examination,
24. Special Prize for good performance at the ISC Tehina Yabesh 96
with 97.75% : VARUN GOGOI 2023 with 98 % : AMAN AGARWAL
Examination 2023 awarded to students with Joshua Pretto 96
2. Chairman’s Commendation Gold Medal for 13. Highest in Commerce at the ISC Examination, 95% and above Rhea Chavan 95.5
the highest scorer at the ISC Examination, 2023 2023 with 99% : VARUN GOGOI
Name Percentage Sameera Cunha 95.5
(Science) with 97% : AZANN QURESHI & TIA 14. Highest in Accounts at the ISC Examination,
Varun Gogoi 97.75 Ananya Dubey 95.5
NAGPAL 2023 with 95 % : AMAN AGARWAL Katyayani Mishra 95.5
Azann Qureshi 97
3. Chairman’s Commendation Gold Medal for 15. Highest in Sociology at the ISC Examination, Arushi Singh 95.25
the highest scorer at the ISC Examination, 2023 Tia Nagpal 97
2023 with 100 % : SALONEE DEY Etikaa Umarkar 95.25
(Humanities) with 96.25% : SALONEE DEY Priyansh Shah 96.75
16. Highest in GMD at the ISC Examination, 2023 Dev Aswani 95
4. Chairman’s Commendation Gold Medal for Arivan Agarwal 96.75
with 100 % : Auvi Mukherjee 95
the highest scorer at the ISC Examination, 2023 Naina Singh 96.5
1. TARUN PATIL Bianca Dsouza 95
(Commerce) with 97.75% : VARUN GOGOI Aman Agarwal 96.25
2. AZANN QURESHI Pratham Mehra 95
5. Smt. Parvati Chandrashekhar Memorial Prize
3. ARYAN VERMA
for highest in English at the ISC Examination,
2023 with 98 % : TIA NAGPAL
4. SAMEERA CUNHA
GRADE 11 PRIZE WINNERS
5. PALLAVI TULPULE
6. Highest in Mathematics at the ISC Examination,
6. SHREYAAN DESAI 11 - A Political Science Anoushka Katoch
2023 with 100 % : 1. PRIYANSH SHAH
17. Highest in Political Science at the ISC General 1st : Anoushka Katoch [88.75 %] History Vaidehi Choudhury
2. VARUN GOGOI Proficiency EVS Anoushka Katoch
Examination, 2023 with 98 % : 2nd : Joanne John [86 %]
7. Highest in Physics at the ISC Examination, 2023 Psychology Anandita Kakaria
1. YASHODHARA RAY 3rd : Piyali Dhar [84.25 %]
with 98% : ALOK VERNEKAR Physical Education Aaryan Bhatt
2. ARHAAN LULLA
Physics Akshat Jain
8. Highest in Chemistry at the ISC Examination, 3. SRISHTI RAKHECHAA 11 - B
Adhish Kancharla
2023 with 97% : General 1st : Akshat Jain [92.67 %]
18. Highest in Art at the ISC Examination, 2023 Chemistry Lavanya Gupta
1. AZANN QURESHI Proficiency
with 100 % : KEYA DESAI 2nd : Adhish Kancharla [92.25 %] Biology Lyla Prasad
2. RHEA CHAVAN 3rd : Lavanya Gupta [92.17 %] Mathematics Akshat Jain
19. Highest in History at the ISC Examination, 2023
3. ARIVAN AGARWAL Computer Science Naysa Shah
with 94 % : KATYAYANI MISHRA
11 - C Geometrical and Nehvahn Khanna
9. Highest in Biology at the ISC Examination, 2023 20. Highest in EVS at the ISC Examination, 2023 Mechanical Drawing
with 97% : ARUSHI SINGH with 95% : SALONEE DEY General 1st : Ananya Gaunekar [91.75 %]
Proficiency Commerce Ananya Muzumdar
10. Highest in Psychology at the ISC Examination, 2nd : Ananya Muzumdar [90.25 %]
21. Highest in P.Ed at the ISC Examination, 2023 Accounts Ananya Gaunekar
2023 with 100% : 3rd : Arushi Vyapak [88.33 %] Economics Ananya Gaunekar
with 100% :
1. BIANCA DSOUZA Art Shyesta Avadhoot
2. JOSHUA PRETTO 1. AANYA WALA Subject Toppers Alicia Varghese
2. HARSHAVARDHAN NANGRE English Lavanya Gupta Prize for All-Round Hrishikesh Kini
11. Highest in Computer Science at the ISC
Sociology Apurva Singh Excellence in Grade
Examination, 2023 with 99% : PRIYANSH 22. The Andhyarujina Trophy instituted by Mr. 11

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GRADE 10 CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS GRADE 10 CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS
10 A 10 C

Seated L-R: Ms. D. Pingulkar, Ms. F. Francis, Ms. F.Golwala, Ms. S. Bakhtawar, Ms.M. Karkera, Ms. S. Lulla (Coordinator), Ms. S. George (Principal), Ms. Seated L-R: Ms. S. Das, Ms.A. Nanda, Ms. F. Francis, Ms. S. Lulla, Ms.S. George (Principal), Ms.S. Pavamani (Principal), Ms. M. Karkera (Class
S.Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. K. Kaka (Class Teacher), Ms. S.Sarkar, Ms. P. Ghosh, Ms. N. Zariwala, Ms. B DeSylva, Ms. H. Shroff Teacher) Mr. M. Lonkar, Ms.N. Zariwala, Ms. P. Pawar
Standing 1st Row (L-R): Mr. J. Raut, Kimaya Vaswani, Namasvi Desai, Aanya Patel, Aarna Sali, Liza Alex, Natasha Varkey, Deeshaa Samuel, Standing 1st Row (L-R): Ms. A. Jacob, Aaishi Sarawagi, Samara Venkat, Jenica Jain, Sana Ansari, Manasvi Patankar, Sharvari Patankar, Joline
Samruddhi Mullerpatan, Charu Salve, Saloni Nayak, Renee Doshi, Leann Fernandes, Anika Joseph, Ms. T. Abraham, Mr. S. Pandey. Balraj, Risha Salunkhe, Riti Rawat, Aishvarya Thakur, Aaradhana Sundaresan, Anushkaa Awatramani, Ms. T. Abraham
Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Aashi Jariwala, Nishita Agrawal, Maya Hannant, Ava Contractor, Inaya Surve, Poojal Batra, Khushi Jain, Tanisha Maheshwari, Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Reva Shetty,Aditi Ginde,Sharang Desai,Jai Bhambhani, Pranitt Popley,Tanish Dhavale, Aarav Malani,Shannon Mendonca,
Ritika Kalantri, Taira Daver, Vishwaa, Dagli, Mr. M. Vishwakarma. Vidhi Gada, Aayushi Shirodkar, Arushi Goel, Isha Waingankar.
Standing 3rd Row (L-R): Anshul Goenka, Nikhil Jacob, Rheyan Shah, Yash Poddar, Aarav Bardhan, Arush Deolekar, Ethan Pereira, Sumedh Desai, Standing 3rd Row (L-R): Mr. N. Pinto, Baibhav Chakraborty, Advay Sanghi, Arav Trilokekar, Kushal Singh, Anwiketh Reddy, Arya Shenoy-Aranha, Dhruv
Saksham Jain, Shezaan Dastoor. Chopra, Neil Sam, Mr. M. Vishwakarma
Standing 4th Row (L-R): Yohann Fortes, Abheek Choudhari, Arnav Gupta, Mark Dayal, Kanv Pruthi, Darsh Mody, Andre Fernandes, Zal Sidhwa.

10 B 10 D

Seated L-R: Ms. F. Golwala, Ms. B.Ramesh, Ms. S.Nivedhitha, Ms. S.Lulla (Coordinator), Ms.S.George (Principal), Ms. S.Pavamani (Vice Principal), Seated L-R: Mr. R. K. Singh, Ms. B. Ramesh, Ms. A. Sharma, Ms. S.Lulla (Coordinator), Ms.S.George (Principal), Ms. S.Pavamani (Vice Principal), Ms.
Ms. U. Dwivedi (Class Teacher), Ms. K.Choudhari, Ms. J.Mathias, Ms. N.Dikshit, Ms. D.D’cunha S. Das (Class Teacher), Ms.M. Karkera, Ms. M. Fernandes, Ms A. Jacob, Mr. G. Hilbert.
Standing 1st Row (L-R): Ms.S.Bakhtawar, Sahana Kamdar, Prarthna Chopra, Vedika Menon, Shreya Upadhyay, Aayati Visaria, Arzeen Mozayan, Standing 1st Row (L-R): Mr.N.Pinto, Tvisha Kishore, Nupoor Bhobe, Alia F Qureshi, Aanishka Thacker, Aara Desai, Aaniya Jaffer, Nivritee Singhi,Priyanka
Ashlesha Gopal, Saachi Khandeparkar,,Mahisa Mithani, Janhavi Patil, Chahat Chandna, Aarohi Ghaste Joseph, Aashvi Mehta, Zarah Salins, Johannah Jackson, Saisha Merani, Samara Pretto.
Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Harsha Pareek, Samaira Gupta, Anusha Sharma, Lavanya Singla, Payola Kale, Moira Kallivalppil, Aarav Maker, Dhruv Shirali, Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Sai Chavan, Mikhail Vakil, Harsh Bathija, Jerrard Paul, Rheanna Kothari, Saloni Jain, Muskan Goenka, Antara Ramakrishnan,
Advay Sen, Aditya Sengupta Aahana Gupta, Saloni Desouza.
Standing 3rd Row (L-R): Advik Viswanathan, Krishhey Thacker, Dev Chheda, Arindam Mukherjee, Vivaan Misra, Hrehaan Kalra, Vihan Krishna, Varun Standing 3rd Row (L-R): Soham Nimbalker, Sprahish Shukla, Arjun Kanodia, Parth Goyal, Glen Gladin, Aadiv Das, Adidev Ray, Jehan Pardiwala, Joshua
Shah, Aarav Desai Jerry, Pratham Hari.
Standing 4th Row (L-R): Gaurav Gite, Anush Popli, Garv Malhotra, Parth Mehra, Somendra Chatterjee, Snehal Nereddumalli, Venkat Thota Standing 4th Row (L-R): Arjun Jhaveri, Deeptansh Khandelwal, Nirmit Shah, Johnson Therattil, Ritvik Krishnan.

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GRADE 10 CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS GRADE 12 CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS
10 E 12 A

Seated L-R: Ms. S. Nivedhitha, Ms. D.D’Cunha, Ms. A. Sharma, Ms. S. Lulla (Coordinator), Ms.S.George (Principal), Ms. S.Pavamani (Vice Principal), Seated L-R: Ms. P. Ghosh, Ms. R. Francis, Ms B. Kuruvilla, Ms. A. Nanda, Principal - Ms S. George, Vice Principal - Ms S. Pavamani, ISC Coordinator -
Ms. S. Bakhtawar (Class Teacher), U.Dwivedi, Mr. K. Kaka, Ms B DeSylva Mr M. Ovichegan, Ms M. Fernandes (Class Teacher), Ms. J. Mathias, Ms. K. Choudhary, Ms. F. Cardoz.
Standing 1st Row (L-R): Mr. N. Pinto, Ananya Kolte, Resha Agshikar, Lavanya Bhattacharya, Zara Baksi, Ridah Fatima, Jhanvi Mehta, Srishti Singh, Dia Standing 1st Row (L-R): Katyayani Mishra, Anandita Gore, Sia Salve, Vandana Nicholas, Fariya Hasan, Etikaa Umarkar, Rhea Raghavan, Ananya
Chaudhry, Anvi Khandelwal, Shriya Deshpande, Ms. F. Cardoz Mishra, Sara Vora, Zarah Martin, Cherise Gomes, Ms. M. Kothari, Ms. H. Shroff.
Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Dheer Mehta, Rohit Ferreira, Vhea Banker, Shraddha Bhat, Anouk D’Mello, Khushi Goenka, Zaaira Mulchandani, Ananya Shah, Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Ms. A. Gomes, Katheryn Matthews, Ananya Sharma, Krittikka Agarwal, Rhea Chavan, Anishka Daga, Ishaani Damle, Kaavya
Tanya Deshmukh, Ashita Sane, Mr. J. Raut Bhandari, Aditi Venugopal, Srishti Rakhecha, Auroni Gupta,Shanaya Shaikh
Standing 3rd Row (L-R): Arhaan Lulla, Kiera Lasrado, Ananya Dubey, Bianca Dsouza, Gayatri Joshi, Kaavya Bansal, Salonee Dey, Yashodhara Ray,
Standing 3rd Row (L-R): Ebrahim Habib, Shivraj Shah, Ayaan Rajkotwala, Jaiv Trehan, Aden Santhosh, Ruhaan Iyer, Tanmay Gupta, Arnav Srivastava,
Aanya Wala, Saniya Yadav, Divina Chheda, Aaron Mathew, Mr. G. Hilbert.
Dhruv Sardana, Nicholas Ryan, Johan Pinto
Standing 4th Row (L-R): Mr. J. Raut, Varun Kanodia, Nathan D’Souza, Joshua Pretto, Harshavardhan Nangre, Rushaad Engineer, Neel Kadambi, Samuel
Standing 4th Row (L-R): Aaron D’Silva, Trinav Sircar, Zidaan Mulchandani, Siddharth Basuray, Haydn Correa, Jeffery David, Nikhil Dhuri, Chaitanya Alle Noakes, Ronak Ramanathan, Siddharth Thadani, Calvin Kumar, Ethan Bradford, Ms T. Abraham
Also a part of this class: Stephine Bochu and Tehina Yabesh
10 F 12 B

Seated L-R: Ms. P. Ghosh, Ms. F. Francis, Ms. S. Nivedhitha, Ms. S. Lulla (Coordinator), Ms.S. George (Principal), Ms. S. Pavamani (Vice Principal), Mr. Seated L-R: Ms. H. Shroff, Ms. H. Gomes, Ms A. Nanda, Ms B. Kuruvilla, Principal - Ms. S. George, Vice Principal - Ms. S. Pavamani, ISC Coordinator
R. K. Singh (Class Teacher), Ms. D. Pingulkar, Mr. M. Lonkar, Ms. B. Desylva. - Mr. M. Ovichegan, Mr. S. Pandey (Class teacher), Ms J. Mathias, Ms P. Pawar, Ms F. Cardoz
Standing 1st Row (L-R): Mr. N. Pinto, Ashna Desai, Preksha Vishwanath, Ayana Zantye, Aarna Pagdiwala, Vedika Wadhwa, Pearl Singpurwalla, Naisha Standing 1st Row (L-R): Naina Singh, Arushi Singh, Tia Nagpal, Rose Sharon, Sameera Cunha, Saniya Prabhu, Pallavi Tulpule, Anushree Verma, Manya
Patil, Hiya Jain, Aliza Philipose, Sera Mathias, Kiara Jassawalla, Dia Agarwal, Khushnoor Panday, Ms. M. Kothari. Nigam, Sanjana Shenai, Ishita Somwanshi, Ms M. Kothari, Ms T. Abraham
Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Dev Aswani, Auvi Mukherjee, Laksh Sharma, Benjamin Varghese, Angad Kanwar, Arjun Batra, Arjun Kanuga, Isaac Rodrigues,
Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Rohail Venkat, Navya Vasnad, Suhan Jogatar, Ansh Shah, Nishhay Nichani, Advait Shukla, Aniruddh Parulekar, Vedant
Aditya Bajaj, Aryan Jain
Somwanshi, Vivaan Lal, Vaydant Vadehra, Urvaksh Kumar, Sharanya Sudarshan, Mr. S. Pandey
Standing 3rd Row (L-R): Pratham Mehra, Tarun Patil, Aalaap Seshanand, Arivan Agarwal, Eshaan Kashikar, Priyansh Shah, Aryan Varma, Yash Mehta,
Standing 3rd Row (L-R): Arnav Kale, Parth Khetwani, Nidhish Chavan, Armaan Jetha, Jared Collins, Joel Thomas, Sidh Loni, Shourya Verma, Adam Nathan Mathias, Harsh Davda, Mr G. Hilbert
Araujo, Mr. A. Fernandes.
Standing 4th Row (L-R): Arav Saxena, Shreyaan Desai, Ahan Wad, Karthik Selvaraj, Arnav Gupta, Joshua Dsouza, Azann Qureshi, Veer Prasad, Alok
Standing 4th Row (L-R): Hridaan Chandnani, Jehan Mulchandani, Arkin Chaini, Mikhail Tamboly Vernekar, Prithvi Singh
Also a part of this class: Aaryaman Parulekar

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GRADE 12 CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS PRIDE OF SCOTTISH
SCHOOL AWARDS : Koshyari, Governor of Maharashtra.
12 C
● The Chairman, Bombay Scottish Orphanage ● Bombay Scottish School has been adjudged
Society received the Bharat Ratna, Dr the Best Reading School Trophy by the GetlIitt
Babasaheb Ambedkar Award 2022 Award for Reading Programme.
excellent work & for the contribution to the
cause of justice to the deprived on the occasion SPORTS :
of the 77th Foundation Day of the People’s The following players have qualified for the CISCE
Education Society. This award was given at Nationals in their respective sports.
the hands of His Excellency Shri Bhagat Singh

Sr. Name Class Sport Category Special Mentions


No.
1 Riya Vinherkar 8D Badminton U/14 Girls Won Bronze at the Nationals.
2. Paraj Garg 9E Chess U/19 Boys Won Silver at the Nationals in
Seated L-R: Mr. J Raut, Ms. A Gomes, Ms. M Kothari, Ms A. Telang (Class Teacher), Principal - Ms. S George, Vice Principal - Ms. S Pavamani, ISC
Amritsar
Coordinator - Mr. M Ovichegan, Ms. A Nanda, Ms. B Kumar, Ms. F Cardoz 3. Camrynn Fernandes 7B Football U/14 Girls Maharashtra team, won the finals
Standing 1st Row (L-R): Ms. T Abraham, Anusha Guha, Ishita Vohra, Rhea D’souza, Ananya Bohra, Sia Mordekar, Aaisha Patel, Sana Pauly, Simar Kaur at the Nationals in Pune.
Saini, Avika Seth, Anushka Saurabh, Mr. G Hilbert 4. Sera Mathais 10F Football U/17 Girls Maharashtra team, won Bronze at
Standing 2nd Row (L-R): Nishq Nerlekar, Aarav Khanduja, Siddhanth Suryavanshi, Paridhi Patwa, Krishi Jain, Yashvi Gattani, Aashna Thomas, Keya the Nationals in Kerala
Desai, Mikhail Khatri, Nihal Dhavale, Vihaan Bomble, Kritaansh Khera.
5. Myra Virdi 11A Football U/17 Girls
Standing 3rd Row (L-R): Nemi Parekh, Archit Pethe, Nazeef Rais, Shabib Patel, Rohan Agarwal, Yash Lalwani, Aarav Gupta, Ardaan Gupta, Reyan Gada, 6. Yash Kapadia 8E Football U/14 Boys Maharashtra team, won Bronze at
Varun Gogoi, Mr V Mansuri. 7. Raghav Kanodia 8C Football U/14 Boys the Nationals in Pune.
Standing 4th Row (L-R): Rayhan Shimpi, Siddhanth Narayanan, Aman Agarwal, Ssahyan Shah, Craig Salve, Saahil Mhatre, Yash Puggal, Adit Wad, 8. Arhaan Bhat 11B Football U/17 Boys Maharashtra team, won the
Kalpen Shroff, Aadi Kundnani, Jash Bhansali, Arnav Pawaskar, Aditya Paranjpe, Arnav Akhaury
9. Diyan Savla 11B Football U/17 Boys Nationals held at Kerala.
10. Khush Gathani 11C Football U/17 Boys
11. Arnav Srivastava 10E Football U/17 Boys
12. Aadiv Das 10D Football U/17 Boys
13. Vanessa Thacker 8D Gymnastics U/14 Girls Maharashtra team, won Gold at
14. Shanaya Lingam 7A Gymnastics U/14 Girls the Nationals in Mumbai
15. Paraj Garg 9E Shooting U/19 Boys Won Bronze at the Nationals in
Bengaluru.
16. Athang 7D Cricket U/14 Boys Bronze at the Nationals.
Prabhukhanolkar
17. Aman Agarwal 12C Cricket U/19 Boys Silver at the Nationals.
18. Aarav Desai 10B Cricket U/19 Boys
19. Bombay Scottish, Football U/19 Boys Silver at the Nationals in Calcutta.
Mahim Team (Subroto)
20. Veda Sriranjan 8D Basketball U/14 Girls Maharashtra team won Gold at
the Nationals
21. Raphael Kullu 8D Basketball U/14 Boys Got Selected for SGFI.
22. Sia Varma 11B Basketball U/17 Girls Maharashtra team, won Gold at
23. Palak Chandaliya 11C Basketball U/17 Girls the Nationals.
24. Aashna Thomas 12C Basketball U/19 Girls Maharashtra team, won Gold at
the Nationals
25. Srishti Malhotra 11A Throwball U/17 Girls Maharashtra team won Gold at
the Nationals

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Gymnastics tournament. 5) First Place as ALL-ROUNDER Champion (Gold)
TEAM ACHIEVEMENTS
1 Bss U12 Girls Football MSSA Runners Up 6) First Place in Team Championship for
Kiara Savla [3A]
Maharashtra (Gold)
2 Bss U12 Boys Football MSSA Winners • Won the U9 Gold in the Free hand and Ribbon as
7) Selected for SGFI Nationals
3 Bss U12 Boys Football Anglos Runners Up well as Bronze All Round in District Rhythmic
Gymnastics competition held by the Mumbai
City District Gymnastics Association on 5th
ATHLETICS : • Secured 1st Position (Gold Medal) in the U14 At the CISCE Regional Gymnastics Competition :
March, 2023.
Reann Marissa Lobo [2B] : Girls category at Regional Level of the 6th CISCE
1) First Place to in Ball (Gold)
Regional Badminton Championship held at the Shanaya Lingam [7A] :
• won the bronze medal in the 100m run in 2) First Place in Hoop (Gold)
Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane
the Girls U8 category at the MSSA Athletic • Won Bronze in the Balancing Beam event at the
• Won Bronze at the CISCE National Games in CISCE National level and stood 2nd overall. 3) Second Place in Ribbon (Silver)
Tournament.
the Girls U14 category. 4) Second Place in Clubs (Silver)
• Won the silver medal at the YMCA State Level • Won Bronze in the Floor Exercises in the U14
Athletic Meet. • won a silver medal in the MSSA Inter - School Girls category and also stood 3rd overall at the 5) First Place as ALL ROUNDER (Gold)
Badminton Tournament in the Girls Singles - state level.
Viraj Ajgoankar [4E] participated in CANRUN, 6) Selected for CISCE National representing
U14.
previously known as Canthon - a 5km marathon to • Won Gold in the Balancing Beam, Floor Exercises Maharashtra - Bombay Scottish School,
create awareness about cancer and its prevention, and Table Vault in the U12 Girls category. She Mahim
GYMNASTICS :
in particular. The running event was from Samartha also won Bronze in the Uneven Bar. She stood
Vyana Sanghavi [1B] • At the Rhythmic Gymnastics National
Vyayam Mandir up to Prabhadevi and back. 1st Overall. This was at the District level.
Championship 2022-23, Individual (Junior and
• Won the following in the District Rhythmic
• Won a Gold medal in the Balancing Beam and Senior) held in December 2022, Vanessa was
Aaron Fernandes [5E] successfully completed Gymnastic Competitions in the U7 Girls
in Floor Exercises in the U14 girls category part of the team that won Gold (Maharashtra).
the CANRUN 5K marathon to create awareness category both for a group and individual team
in the artistic gymnastics event at the MSSA She stood 3rd in the Clubs event.
about cancer and its prevention, in particular. The
1) Gold (Group and Team Championship) tournament.
running event was from Samartha Vyayam Mandir • At the Mumbai City District Rhythmic
up to Prabhadevi and back. 2) Silver for her Ball Routine ( individual ) • Gold medal for team Maharashtra in the U12 Gymnastics Championship, 2022-23 :
3) Bronze for her Freehand routine (individual ) category at the Nationals.
1) 3rd place in Hoop event (bronze)
• Bagged four medals in the U7 Girls category • She won a Gold each in the Floor, Beam, Vault
BADMINTON : 2) 1st place in ball event (gold)
in the 32nd Rhythmic Gymnastics State and Uneven bars at the Mumbai City District
Riya Vinherkar [8D] : Championship 2022-23. She also won 1st place 3) 2nd place in clubs event (silver)
Competitions held on March 16th- 17th 2023.
• won runner up in the Girls Under 17 category overall. 4) 1st place in ribbon event (gold)
1) 2 Gold medals - Ball Routine, Group Act
in the CCI Greater Mumbai District Badminton • Was part of the team that won Gold in team 5) 1st place in all round (gold)
Championship 2022. She has also been selected 2) 2 Silver medals- All Round Achievement and event (Maharashtra state), and stood 4th all
to represent the Greater Mumbai District Free Hand routine India in the Vault event in U12 category at 6) 2nd place in team championship (silver).
in the Maharashtra Under 19 Junior Open • She also helped Mumbai team win 1st in Team the Sub junior Artistic Gymnastics National
Championships. Championship and bagged a trophy for that. Championship 2022/2023.
CHESS :
• won Bronze (3rd position) in Girls U15 Singles Vanessa Thacker [8D] won the following :
Gargi Aggarwal [2B] Paraj Garg [9E] :
category at the Yonex Sunrise Sub-Junior State
At the CISE Gymnastics Competition :
Selection U15/U17 held at Pune. • Won 2nd place in U-8 Balancing beam and 3rd • Stood 1st in the Boys U/19 category at the
place in All rounder/best player category at 1) First Place in Hoop Event (Gold) Mumbai City District Chess Tournament 2022.
• Secured 1st Position (Gold Medal) in the U14
the 14th VIBGYOR VIVA Interschool Advance 2) First Place in Clubs Event (Gold) He was also selected to represent his district at
Girls category at Zonal Level of the 6th CISCE
Gymnastics Competition the U19 state chess tournament.
Zonal Badminton Championship held at the 3) First Place in Ball Event (Gold)
Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane • Secured 2nd place in U-8 Floor Artistic • Stood 1st at the CISCE Regional Chess
Gymnastics at the CISCE Regional Artistic 4) Second Place in Ribbon Event (Silver) Tournament 2022. He has also been chosen to

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represent Maharashtra at the CISCE National • won First Place in the Men’s Lawn tennis the Ajwani Indian Master Games Pickleball x 50M FreeStyle Relay - Boys U7-11 years at the
Chess Tournament. tournament at the 2022 ITA Lawn Tennis Tournament 1st JVPG OPEN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP
Summer Circuit at Whittier College, California, 2023.
Ritvik Krishnan [10D] was awarded the title
USA.
of FIDE Master by the international chess He also won Gold (1st place) in 4 x 50M Medley
RIFLE SHOOTING :
governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale • came first in the CISCE Zonal Lawn Tennis Relay - Boys U7-11 years.
des Échecs) for outstanding performance in tournament Paraj Garg [9E] :
Anvi Deshwal (6A) :
chess in November 2022. He was awarded this • took part in the 10m open sight air rifle category
• came runner up (second) in the CISCE
title because he achieved a chess Elo rating of > in the CISCE Regional Shooting tournament. He At the 38th Sub Junior National Aquatic
Regional Lawn Tennis Tournament. He will be
2300. Henceforth, Ritvik Krishnan is FM Ritvik has been chosen to represent Maharashtra in the Championships 2022 concluded at Rajkot
representing Maharashtra in the Nationals.
Krishnan CISCE National Rifle Shooting Championship.
• Part of team Maharashtra. • Emerged as India’s fastest swimmer in Sub-
Vrisha Shah [11C] won the third prize (Bronze) • Stood 3rd at the CISCE National Rifle Shooting juniors category with Gold medal in 50 metre
at the CISCE Regional (State) round and will Competition held at Bangalore. He was awarded freestyle, clocking 30.88 sec.
now represent Maharashtra State and Bombay MARTIAL ARTS : a bronze medal and a certificate of merit for his
• 2 Silver medals in 100m Freestyle and 50m Back
Scottish School at the All India national - level achievement
Anuriti Singh [3C] secured Gold Medal in 9 events.
tournament of CISCE
yrs Individual Female Category in ‘KATA’ • won the Bronze medal at the DSO Shooting
• A Bronze medal in 100m Backstroke event.
Viha Shah [11C] won the certificate of merit at the Mumbai Open Karate-do All India Championship. He took part in the 10m open
at the CISCE Regional ( State) round and will Championship 2023, conducted by the Indian sight air rifle competition and qualified to • Gold as the opening swimmer of 4*50 Freestyle
now represent Maharashtra State and Bombay Martial Arts Academy. represent his district at the zonal event relay team of Maharashtra winning Gold for
Scottish School at the All India national - level the state.
Riddhima Singh [7C] secured First Place/Gold
tournament of CISCE • Overall Anvi representing Maharashtra State
Medal in 12 yrs Individual Category in ‘KATA’
SKATING :
Devika Pinge [5D] achieved an international event at the Mumbai Open Karate-do All India clinched Two Golds, Two Silvers and One
fide rating of 1042 at the International Chess Championship 2023, conducted by the Indian Viraj Ajgoankar [4E] secured a 2nd place Bronze medal for the state.
Federation. Martial Arts Academy. and won a silver medal in the category of
• Record Holder in the 100 Mtrs. Backstroke –
‘Professional Inline’ skating at the 10th Open
Ayaan Shaikh [7A] won Gold in the Mumbai Girls U12 Years (01:18.00-2022)
Roller Skating Championship 2023 organised by
LAWN TENNIS : District Kickboxing Championship. • Record Holder in the 100 Mtrs. Free Style – Girls
Real Fitness Skating Academy and conducted
Niharika Pai [7B] secured Silver in Individual by Mumbai Skating Coaches on the 12th of U12 Years (Group-III) (01:07.20-2022)
Pradhyuman Savant [5A] was the U10 Boys
Winner, U12 Boys Runner-up, U12 Boys Basics and Bronze in Individual Kata in the 40th March, 2023.
Doubles Winner at the Shivaji Park Gymkhana Interschool Gojukai Karate-Do Tournament
SWIMMING : At the MSSA Aquatic Meet :
Inter School Lawn Tennis Tournament. 2022 held by All India Gojukai Karate-Do in
November 2022. Jiyan Kanakia [4D] won second place in the • Won 2 Gold medals with meet records in 100m
Vivaan Karande [9C] participated in the AITA Boys U9 Freestyle event at the VIVA Vibgyor back and 100m Freestyle events and 2 Bronze
Championship Series ranking tournament held She also secured 1st Position in Individual Kata
Interschool Swimming Competition medals in 100m Fly and 200m IM.
at Aalia Tennis Academy, Rajkot, Gujarat, in and 3rd Position in Kumite at the 100th Karate
Camp organised by All India Gojukai Karate- Ivan George [5B] • She created a NEW MEET RECORD in 100m
the Under 18 Singles and Under 18 Doubles
categories, and won both. Do held in April-May 2023. • Won the Bronze medal in Breaststroke 50M backstroke event, winning Gold medal and
for the Boys U11 category at the GMAAA bettering the time by 2.5 seconds.
He also won Gold in the Boys U16 Singles and PICKLEBALL :
Swimming Meet. • Matched the meet record established in 2016
Silver in the Doubles in the AITA Championship Anush Popli [10B] :
Series Tennis tournament held at Maharashtra • Won the Gold medal in Breaststroke 50M for the in 100m freestyle winning Gold. She also won
• Won Silver in the Boys U16 Doubles and reached bronze medals in 100m Fly and 100m Individual
State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA), Boys U13 category at the GMAAA Swimming
the quarterfinals in the Boys U16 Singles at the Medley events
Mumbai in April 2023. Meet.
2nd National Pickleball Championship.
Veer Shekhar Prasad [12B] : Aaron Fernandes [5E] won Gold (1st place) in 4 At the GMAAA Swim Meet :
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• Won Individual Championship with One Gold 4 x 50m Freestyle relay and the opening leg of • Created FOUR NEW meet records in the U12 • Won Bronze at the Asian Juniors Squash
and 4 Silver medals in the following events in the backstroke of the Medley relay, helping the Girls category, breaking earlier established Championships at Pattaya, Thailand in June
Under – 11 category: Maharashtra team to the podium win of GOLD records. 2022.
medals in both relays.
• 50m Freestyle – Gold • Won the Individual Championship with Four • Won the first place in the girls U17 category at
• In total, Saanvi Deshwal bagged 4 Golds, 2 Gold medals and one Silver the National circuit event, Khelshala Freedom
• 50m Breast – Silver
Silvers and a Bronze for Maharashtra state Junior Open where she represented the school
• 50m Back – Silver Alisha Tulshan [6D] won the following at the
and state.
• Created a new meet record in 200m Individual G.M.A.A.A Annual Sub junior and Junior Aquatic
• 50m Butterfly – Silver Medley with timing of 2:45.42 Meet 2022 : • Represented India at Asian Junior Team
• 100m Individual Medley – Silver Championships where the Indian Team secured
At the MSSA Aquatic Meet : • 2nd place - 50 M Freestyle girls Group III
the bronze medal.
At the DSO Swim Meet from Mumbai Division at • Individual Championship Gold in girls under • 2nd place - 100 M Freestyle Girls Group III
the state competition, competing in the Girls U14 • Won the first place at the Western India Slam
12 age category with 19 points.
category. • 2nd place - 100 M Butterfly Stroke (an Asian Gold event) in the U19 category.
• 2 Gold medals in 200m Individual Medley (New
• Two Silver medals in 50m Freestyle, 200m • 3rd place - 50 M Backstroke group III
meet record) and also in 100m Breaststroke
Backstroke Soumya Desai [7D] won a Bronze medal in the 50 Kaavya Bansal [12A]
• 3 Silver medals in 100m Freestyle, 100m Fly and
• One Bronze medal in 100m Backstroke event. metres butterfly stroke in Girls U14 category at the
100m Back events. • Stood 1st in the Girls U17 category as well as
CISCE Regionals Swimming Meet thus qualifying
At the MIG Cricket Club 8th Open Swimming Gala, the Women’s category at the Aurobindo Realty
• A new meet record in 200m Individual for the Nationals.
26th March 2023. Telangana Open held at Secunderabad Club,
Medley event, bettering the record by more
Zara Baksi [10E], representing the School at the Secunderabad.
than 4 seconds, proving to be the best all
• Has bettered TWO NEW meet records in the DSO State Meet, stood first in the 100m Butterfly
round swimmer. • It was a National circuit squash tournament
U12 Girls category, bettering earlier established event for Girls U17. She will be Maharashtra’s top and Kaavya currently ranks no. 1 in India in
records • Also bettered the meet record in the 100 m
entry in the event for the SGFI Nationals. Girls U17 category as per the June and July 2022
backstroke event giving better timing than the
• Runners up Championship with Two Gold SRFI Rankings.
earlier set record SQUASH :
medals and Three Silver medals
• She is also ranked 6th in Asia as per June 2022
• Gold medals in 50m Freestyle and 50m Fly. At the GMAAA Swim Meet : Agastya Bansal [8A] rankings.
• Three Silver medals in 100m Freestyle, 50m • Won Runners-up Championship with 4 • Stood 2nd in Aurobindo Realty Telangana Open, • Stood 1st in Century Squash Bangalore Open,
Back and 100m IM events. Individual Gold medals and one Individual Secunderabad national circuit tournament Bengaluru National Circuit Squash tournament
Silver in the following events in Under – 11 organised by SRFI at Secunderabad in the Boys in the Girls Under 17 category
Saanvi Deshwal (6B) : category: U13 category.
• won the Rajasthan Squash Classics Tournament
At the 38th Sub Junior National Aquatic • 50m Breaststroke – Gold • He has been ranked 2nd in India and 2nd in in the Girls Under 19 category at Jaipur.
Championships 2022 concluded at Rajkot Asia in his category in the sport.
• 50m Backstroke – Gold • Came 2nd (Silver medal) in the Girls Under 17
• Emerged as India’s best all round swimmer in • Placed 4th in the Boys under 15 category in the category at the Sub Junior/ Junior Nationals
• 50m Butterfly – Gold
the Sub-juniors category ISTA Junior Open Squash Tournament that was Squash Championship at the Bombay
• 100m Individual Medley – Gold held at Chennai from 24th August to 27 August
• Gold medal in the 200 metre Individual Medley. Gymkhana, Mumbai
• 50m Freestyle – Silver 2022. It was a National Circuit tournament
• Title of the fastest breaststroke swimmer CO-CURRICULAR :
At the DSO state aquatic meet. • Placed 3rd in the Boys U15 category at the 5
• Gold medal in 50m Breast star rated Western India Slam (NAtional circuit DEBATE :
• Two Gold medals in 200m Individual Medley
• Silver medal in the 100m Breaststroke squash tournament) held at the CCI courts in Aarav Bardhan [10A] represented all the ICSE
and 50m Backstroke events competing in Girls
Mumbai schools from Maharashtra and Goa at the
• Bronze medal in the 50m Backstroke event. U14 girls category.
Fr. George Hess Memorial National Literary
• Saanvi Deshwal swam the finishing leg of the At the MIG Cricket Club 8th Open Swimming Gala, Tiana Parasrampuria [11B] : Competitions Debate Junior (Grades 9-10)
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category. He spoke against the motion, “The friendly ways and use resources only as much as psychologically different and if it matters. Her The Bandra Gymkhana Inter-school English
use of cellphones is unsafe for children. He won required essay was shortlisted out of 945 entries for a Elocution competition.
first place among those speaking against the prize in the Psychology section of the John
• Akshita Tiwari [7C] won the second place in MISCELLANEOUS :
motion. Locke Institute Global Essay Competition. The
an Inter School junior girls Hindi Elocution • Kriday Kini [5A] was part of a two member
John Locke Institute is affiliated with Oxford
Dania Khan [9A] was selected for the Chennai Competition held at Jamnabai Narsee School.
University and she has been invited to the Oxford team that won a Gold Badge at the World
camp of the ISDS Training Camp and will now
• Anvi Khattar [8B] has published a story in campus for the prize ceremony in October. Her Robotics Olympiad
represent India at the International Debate at
the anthology ‘Twenty Terrific Tales’. She essay will have gone through three rounds of • Ahana Goyal [8E] was the captain of FIRST Tech
Singapore.
completed a ten day training and mentorship reading by senior academics at Oxford and Challenge Team - Vortex, which competed with
She also won the silver final of the Imperial programme with the Scholastic Writers’ Cambridge. She received a Commendation and 60 Indian and 10 international teams and stood
Juniors Debating Competition, 2023 conducted Academy. an invite to the Gala dinner. 3rd by the end of League matches in the India
by Imperial College, London. This was her
• Dania Khan [9A] was invited to be a panellist • Viraj Ajgaonkar [4E] was the finalist with his National Robotics Championship and won the
first international competition and also first
on the topic ‘My Heart Beats in Words’ at the poem on the theme ‘The Superhero in my Life’ coveted ‘Connect Award’. Ahana Goyal was the
competition in the British Parliamentary format.
Muskaan Literature Fest 2023, which was at the GettLit Spoken Poetry Fest. Team Captain and Robot driver. The team will
She was also awarded 6th best speaker overall
moderated by the famous Author Savie Karnel. now further represent India in the Asia Pacific
in the competition. She has been interviewed MATHEMATICS :
Championship to be held in Sydney, Australia
by the Indian School Debating League for Dania is a published poet who has an anthology
• Aahaan Mahajan [3A] won a Gold medal in in July.
her success in Inter-school Debating and her called ‘Labyrinth’ to her credit.
his category at the Asia Mathematics Olympiad
achievements as an author. • Paraj Garg [9E] was chosen to attend the 10th
• Anahita Gupta [9A] has now become a 2022. He has thus qualified for the Global
edition of the prestigious Young Scholars
published author with Scholastic Writers Mathematics Olympiad. He is the only child
ART : Programme conducted by Ashoka University.
Academy. Her short story ‘If Walls Could Talk’ from India to have got this distinction.
The programme consisted of over 200
Arna Sawant [4B] won 2nd place at the Art has been included in the anthology ‘One Story
• Rashi Telkatwar [1B] ranked 2nd at the national participants from 137 schools across India and
competition held by JJ School of Art in which at a Time’.
level UCMAS Mental Maths competition and abroad. He was one of the youngest participants
4000 students participated
• Anika Joseph [10A] wrote a short story called was also a trophy winner at the state level. She in the programme and his testimonial was
Kalika Redkar [7C] secured the second place in T ‘The Jar of Laddoos’ which was published in was awarded by the CEO of UCMAS Dr Snehal published in the newsletter.
shirt painting competition at the Annual French Story Mirror. Karia and chief minister of Gujarat on 12 th
• Krishiv Bhatia [9B] won the bronze medal at the
Day held at Apostolic Carmel High School, • Sharanya Sudarshan [10F] won the 2023 February at Ahmedabad. Dr. Homi Bhabha Balvaidnyanik Competition
Bandra. Immerse Education Blog Competition. • Aarya Nasta [5D] secured first rank in the 2022-23
The competition was hosted by Immerse Mental Math competition scoring 100/100 at the
LITERARY : QUIZ :
Education along with the Oxford and Global Maths Science Education in association
• Anika Saxena [3C] has been ranked first in the Cambridge universities which had students with Math Vision PTE, Singapore The following students have placed in the Top 10
global GetLitt (Winter) Reading Olympiad. from all around the world participating. The among 575 students and 24 schools in the India
MUSIC :
• Yuvraj Desai [6C] has been ranked first in the participants were asked to pick a topic and Today Young Masters’ Quiz 2023 in the West Zone
global GetLitt (Summer) Reading Olympiad. write an article of not more than 500 words. On • Shubhika Datta [9B] secured the Gold award in (Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa). This competition
winning the competition Sharanya received a the International Western Music Olympiad held was held in May 2023.
• Himeka Singh [5C] has written and published on 26th November 2022. For this achievement,
partial scholarship to attend an online program
a story entitled ‘Tiny Honey and Loving Ballu’. she got a Gold medal, Certificate and badge. Sampada Muthukrishnan [8A] - 2nd
taught by Oxford and Cambridge professors on
The story is about a bear named Ballu who She secured the topmost Grade A+ and
different subjects. The subject chosen by her is Aksh Patoria [9D] - 3rd
finds an abandoned bear cub and this changes International rank 2 with a relative percentage
in the field of Law and she will be writing and
his life. Druvan Kapoor [9E] - 5th
publishing a research paper in one of the sub- of 95.35%.
The story talks about values of love, acceptance, topics of law during the course. Karan Philip [9B] - 7th
• Marc Khanna [6A] secured first position in
compassion and kindness. the Members category Boys 8-12 years at Advik Viswanathan [10B] - 8th
• Ishita Somwanshi [12B] sent in an academic
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OUR OTHER WINNERS
OUTREACH : Republic. The India of today has failed to live
up to this.
Paraj Garg [9E] : Completed the 8 kms Walkathon Institute for Promotion of Mathematics (IPM) Results
organised to create awareness about the harmful
CISCE : Name Grade Certificate Type Prize
effects of tobacco on World No-Tobacco Day.
• The Boys U19 Football team stood 1st at the Rs
He also contributed to the book collection drive
‘Books For Prosperity’ organised by Round Zonal level and have qualified for the Regional Yanaa Kaur Mutneja 5 Merit 350
Table India. level tournament.
Sarah Irani 5 Merit 300
Aadrika Bhandari [5D] painted and sold 40 • The Boys U14 Football team stood 3rd at the
diyas, each priced at 200/- before Diwali. Zonal level. Aaron Fernandes 5 Merit 250
Proceeds collected were used to distribute meal • Vrisha Shah [11C] won 1st place in the Girls Kairav Gupta 6 Merit 300
boxes to 50 children staying on the roadside U19 category in the Chess Tournament
Neev Shah 6 Merit 412
from Shivaji Park to Worli on 22nd and 23rd
• Viha Shah [11C] won 2nd place in the Girls U19
October. This is under her social initiative by Aashi Ramchandani 7 Merit 366
category in the Chess Tournament
the name ‘ My Little Crafts by Aadrika’
• Paraj Garg [9E] won 2nd place in this Anushka Shekhar 7 Merit 450
competition in the Boys U19 category in the Arushi Goel 10 Merit 466
INTER-SCHOOL EVENTS : Chess Tournament
Thota Venkat Surya Ansh 10 Merit 400
MODEL UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCES :
Aayati Visaria 10 Merit 400
Aarav Bardhan [10A] won Honourable Mention
as part of the Joint Crisis Committee at the
Youthsy Conference held in June 2022.
GetLItt! Summer Reading Olympiad Results
AISM :
Name Grade Total Marks Percentage Overall School Rank
• Anika Joseph [10A] and Aarav Bardhan [10A] Rank
won First Place in the Debate competition. The
topic they debated on was ‘India’s Preamble Anika Saxena 3 80 100% 1 1
promises a secular, socialist and democratic Yuvraj Desai 6 98 94% 1 1

IIT Bombay Literary Festival


Competition Junior Grade Senior Category Grade
Category Grade 9 to 12
Grades 5 to 8
Debate Sharanya 10 Best Interjector
Sudarshan
Naysa Shah 11 Consolation
Prize
Elocution Siddharth Nair 5 Consolation Jason Augustine 11 Third Prize
Clicked By Anvi Khattar (8B) Prize
Poetry Kaisha Kapoor 5 First Prize Darshil Kochar 9 First Prize
Lavanya Bhattacharya (10E) Recitation

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Competition Junior Grade Senior Category Grade 6 Zac Dcruz 3 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
Category Grade 9 to 12 Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
Grades 5 to 8 Olympiad
7 Reyansh Gupta 3 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
Pranav Karthik 8 Consolation Khyaatee Singh 9 Third prize
Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
Prize
Olympiad
Creative Ananya Gaunekar 11 Consolation 8 Adhiraj Bhandari 3 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
writing Prize Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
Ananya 11 Appreciation Olympiad
Muzumdar Prize 9 Pragati B Pandey 3 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
Olympiad
OLYMPIAD WINNERS
10 Aadit Deepak 3 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
SOF IEO/IMO/NSO OLYMPIADS ( SECOND LEVEL) ACHIEVEMENTS Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
Olympiad
Sr. Student Name Grade Olympiad International Zonal Award
No. Rank Rank 11 Parth Yashasvi 3 International Gifts Worth Rs. 1000/- + Zonal Silver Medal
Narula Social Studies + Certificate of Zonal Excellence + Medal of
Olympiad Distinction + Certificate of Distinction
1 Adhita Nag 7 International 6 1 Rs. 5,000 + Zonal
English Gold Medal + 12 Vedika Subash 3 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
Olympiad Certificate of Zonal Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
Excellence Olympiad
2 Veer Mehta 4 International 16 9 Gifts Worth Rs. 13 Sharanya Swadha 4 International Gifts Worth Rs. 1000/- + International Bronze
Math Olympiad 500/- + Certificate Social Studies Medal + Certificate of Outstanding Performance
of Zonal Excellence Olympiad + Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction
14 Shraavi N Borkar 4 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
SOF IGKO/NCO OLYMPIADS (FIRST LEVEL) ACHIEVEMENTS Olympiad
Sr. Student Name Grade Olympiad Award 15 Khyaan Jagtiani 4 International Gifts Worth Rs. 500/- + Medal of Distinction +
No. Social Studies Certificate of Distinction + Certificate of Zonal
Olympiad Excellence
1 Pragati B Pandey 3 National Cyber Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
Olympiad Certificate of Zonal Excellence 16 Idhant Lakhotia 4 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
2 Anika Saxena 3 National Cyber Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction + Olympiad
Olympiad Certificate of Zonal Excellence
17 Nirvaan Gada 4 International Gifts Worth Rs. 1000/- + International Gold
3 Vedh Y 3 International Gifts Worth Rs. 500/- + Medal of Distinction + Social Studies Medal + Certificate of Outstanding Performance
Upadhyay Social Studies Certificate of Distinction + Certificate of Zonal Olympiad + Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction
Olympiad Excellence
18 Veer Mehta 4 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
4 Vedanth A 3 International Gifts Worth Rs. 500/- + Medal of Distinction + Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
Dhamangaonkar Social Studies Certificate of Distinction + Certificate of Zonal Olympiad
Olympiad Excellence 19 Jayaditya Singh 5 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
Tomar Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
5 Ishaan Agrawal 3 International Medal of Distinction + Certificate of Distinction +
Olympiad
Social Studies Certificate of Zonal Excellence
Olympiad

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IOF Rochak Winners
Student Name Grade Olympiad Award Prize
Overall - 1st Runner Up
Category
Trophies : Winner - Grades 5 & 6
Joshua Martins 3 IFGCO (GK & International International Topper Trophy +
Grades - 5 & 6
Current Affairs Medal + Badge + Certificate
Sr. No. Event Position Participants Grade & Div
Maya Rasquinha 3 IFGCO (GK & International International Topper Trophy +
Current Affairs) Medal + Badge + Certificate 1 Placard Making 3rd Aanya Thomas 6D

Vivaan Agarwal 4 IFEO (English International International Topper Trophy + Ethan Deniz 6F
Olympiad) Medal + Badge + Certificate 2 Picture Composition 2nd Anvesha Khare 6F
Avishka 5 IFMO (Mathematics International International Topper Trophy + 3 Fancy Dress 2nd Vritika Shah 5F
Maheshwari Olympiad) Medal + Badge + Certificate
4 Hindi Elocution 1st Kaisha Kapoor 5E
Ruhaan 5 IFGCO (GK & International International Topper Trophy +
Current Affairs) Medal + Badge + Certificate
Grades - 7 & 8
Atharv Kumar 7 IFSO (Science International International Topper Trophy +
5 Story Telling 3rd Avishka Bhor 7B
Olympiad) Medal + Badge + Certificate

Soumya Desai 7 IFSO (Science International International Topper Trophy +


Olympiad) Medal + Badge + Certificate
Grades - 9 & 10
6 Speech Writing 3rd Ritika Kalantri 10A
Vaikharee Pathade 4 IFHO (Hindi Zonal Zonal Topper Trophy + Medal +
Olympiad) Badge + Certificate 7 Hindi Elocution 3rd Darshil Kochar 9D

Ayush Dhingra 6 IFSO (Science Zonal Zonal Topper Trophy + Medal + 8 Fusion Dance of 3rd Natasha Varkey 10A
Olympiad) Badge + Certificate East (Jharkhand)
Chahat Chandna 10B
& West (India)
Atharv Kumar 7 IFRAO (Reasoning & Zonal Zonal Topper Trophy + Medal + Nitya Pitle 9E
Aptitude) Badge + Certificate
Vedika Wadhwa 10F
Maegan Isabelle 7 IFMO (Mathematics Zonal Zonal Topper Trophy + Medal +
Rosario Olympiad) Badge + Certificate Kaveeya Anand 9E
Pearl Singpurwalla 10F
Sukrit Khanna 9 IFRAO (Reasoning & Zonal Zonal Topper Trophy + Medal +
Aptitude) Badge + Certificate Aarohi Ghaste 10B
Eshika Jitu Daga 11 IFMO (Mathematics Zonal Zonal Topper Trophy + Medal + Harsha Pareek 10B
Olympiad) Badge + Certificate
Open Events (Grades 5 to 10)
Sneha Narayan 11 IFEO (English Zonal Zonal Topper Trophy + Medal +
9 Exhibition of our 2nd Rewa Shetty 10C
Olympiad) Badge + Certificate
75th Independence
Isha Waingankar 10C
Avika Seth 12 IFMO (Mathematics Zonal Zonal Topper Trophy + Medal + Day
Olympiad) Badge + Certificate Riti Rawat 10C

Avika Seth 12 IFEnO Zonal Zonal Topper Trophy + Medal + Manasvi Patankar 10C
(Entrepreneurship Badge + Certificate
Grades - 11 & 12
Olympiad)
10 Dialogue Writing 3rd Lavanya Gupta 11B

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11 Master Chef 3rd Alisha Malandkar 11B Indian Sports: (Grades 5, 6 & 7)
Sharanya Sorap 11B 16 Langdi (Boys) 3rd Krishang Alva 7D
12 Solo Singing 3rd Shanaya Soans 11C Arin Mathew 7D
13 Street Play 2nd Auvi Mukherjee 12B Adit Basuray 7A
Aaryaman Parulekar 12B Joshua Fernandes 7A
Alok Vernekar 12B Vihaan Sheth 7D
Azaan Qureshi 12B Azlan Khan 7D
Adit Wad 12C Athang Prabhukhanolkar 7D
Angad Kanwar 12B Shaarav Bhoir 7C
Nishq Nerlekar 12C Sarvadnya Binnar 7D
Rhea D'souza 12C Earl Dias 7C
14 Bollywood Medley 2nd Aashna Thomas 12C Febin Nadar 7D
Dance
Saniya Prabhu 12B Ayaan Deshmukh 7C
Krishi Jain 12C 17 Langdi (Girls) 3rd Keya Talaulikar 7B
Ishita Vohra 12C Sayesha Ashar 7E
Shyesta Avadhoot 11A Akshita Tiwari 7C
Aashka Jobalia 11C Shanaya Amin 7D
Eshaan Ghosh 11B Pahal Shah 7D
Malishka Vemu 11B Namita Nimkar 7D
Indian Sports: (Grades 8, 9 & 10) Janita Maben 7B
15 Kho-Kho (Girls) 3rd Nandini Gurav 8A Rajvi Nandu 7B
Khushnoor Panday 10F Kavya Agrawal 7E
Priyanshi Kedia 8B Vinita Sunder 7B
Aliza Philipose 10F Sriya Mehta 7D
Ria Melanie 9C Divina Shah 7D
Aastha Shahane 9E
Zia Shah 9E
Zooni Fernandes 9D
Nivritee Singhi 10D
Saanika Kalliath 9E
Sera Mathias 10F
Tannis Cran 9E

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THE SCHOOL FLAG
School Song The School Flag is sky-blue in colour. It bears the ‘crux
decussata’ or the Cross of St. Andrew. Although never
There stands our School by Mahim Bay, officially adopted, the St. Andrew’s Saltire (cross) became
the emblem of Scotland and has been flown for hundreds
Built on a wond’rous site,
of years by the Scottish people. It was incorporated in the
By Scotsmen true in days gone by Union Jack that became the British National flag after the
All honour is their right. Union of England and Scotland in 1707. St. Andrew was a
fisherman and the brother of Simon Peter. He was a disciple of John the Baptist. He
So proud are we of this great School,
brought to Jesus the boy from whose lunch He produced enough to feed a crowd
We sing with right good will of 5,000. Jesus made Andrew his first apostle and promised to make him a “fisher
Its praise and follow every rule of men”.

To make it greater still.


Then we would up and cheer and laud
Our teachers ev’ry one
They spare no pains – (nor yet the rod!) THE SCHOOL SHIELD AND CREST
To see our tasks well done. The School Shield represents the ‘Cross of St.
Andrew’, the patron saint of Scotland. The white
Sing Bombay Scottish School, my lad,
‘Crux decussata’ (cross) quarters the shield into
Our School we thus address segments each representing a house colour
Sing Bombay Scottish School, my lass denoted by the Fleur-de-lis, the Castle, the Lion
and the Palm-tree. Our Motto is “Perseverantia
Sing Bombay Scottish School.
et Fide in Deo”, Latin for ‘Perseverance and
Faith in God’ — qualities which symbolise the
Scottish character. Every Scottishite will do his
duty and endeavour to achieve success by
means of honest and strenuous effort, putting
full faith in God.

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Bombay Scottish School
| The Bombay Scottish Orphanage Society |
Veer Savarkar Marg, Mahim, Mumbai-400016

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