As part of the International Awards Scheme, an Intra Class Greeting Cards Competition was conducted for classes III & IV. The theme was ‘International Currency’. The following students won prizes:

Class III

1.       Simrat                     III B                          First

2.       Ridhiman Singh     III B                          Second

3.       Sartaj                      III B                          Third

Class IV

1.       Kavita                     IV A                         First

2.       Gurman                  IV B                         Second

3.       Harpinder Singh   III B                          Third

The Online Poll of the STEM Projects has brought forward the following result:

1.       Project No 028--- Artificial Intelligence

2.       Project No 017---Electromagnetic Catch

3.       Project No 027--- Network Topologies

4.       Project No 010---Windmill Energy

5.       Project Nos. 002 & 006---Noon Day and Induction Chimney

BBC  NEWS  SCHOOL  REPORT---4 students of 'The Millennium School', Mohali have taken part in a BBC News School Report Project in which they were meant to highlight some local problem, interview people about it and give a report. Following is the report compiled by Mahima (class VIII), Kshitija (class VII), Riya (class VII), Anhad (class VI):

Cattle Menace In Mohali Punjab


Cattle  menace  dots  Mohali   roads   , posing  a  great   danger   to  the  life of  commuters  . No  day  passes  when  there    is   no  such  news   in  the  newspaper   about   fatal   accidents  taking  place   due  to   cattle .
 Any  given  day  the  cattle  can  be  seen  sitting  or  roaming  on  the  busy  roads   and  public  parks .



In fact , they  are left  to  roam  about   by  their   owners.
 “These  cattle  are  like  cars  standing  in  the  middle  of  the  road  causing   traffic   jams “, said  Sqn Ldr Amarjit Singh, one of the  residents  of  Mohali .
 You  can’t walk  ten yards  without  bumping   into  a  cow. Who is  to  be  blamed  for this ? Actually,the cattle owners release their cattle after milking them to graze and they  are  found  spoiling  the  roads , public parks   and  even  seen  sitting  near  the  residential   areas . The  Mohali  Municipal  Committee  official  when  contacted  said  that  there  is  no  Act/Law  to  take care  of  the  menace  posed  by cattle  but  the  committee  has passed   a  resolution where  the MC staff  lifts  the  cattle  off  the  street  and  shifts  them  to  the  cattle  pound in Industrial Area,Mohali . The  cattle  owner  is fined  Rs. 1000    for   a  grown  up  cattle   and  Rs.500  for  a   calf  and  then  it  is   released and those left without owner are shifted to the gaushalas in Mohali  . They  also  informed  that  the  money  earned   from  the  fine  is  used  to  provide  fodder  to  the  cattle .
Inspite  of  the   of   the  best  effort     of  the  Municipal  Committee   the  cattle   owners  are  not  learning  a  lesson .We interviewed some of the residents of Mohali to know the solution of this problem. The  problem  would  be  solved   completely  only  when  the  local   cattle   owners   are  shifted   to  some  new  sites   away   from  the  town   area, they said . It  seems  the  residents   of  Mohali will  breathe  a sigh of relief only when the authorities take  some  remedial  steps   to  curb  cattle  menace .

The projects put up by the students on December 11 as part of the Science Fair were highly acclaimed by one and all. The children presented them beautifully, showing full knowledge of the subject at hand. Three eminent people were invited to judge the projects: Mrs. Harpreet Kaur, Principal of Guru Harkishan Public School, Dr. Surinder Kaur, Professor at the State Institute of Science & Education, Punjab, Mr. Anurag Aggarwal, a well known industrialist and President of PECOSA. The parents were also asked to vote for the project they liked the best. The results that emerged are given below:

Judges’ Opinion:

1.       Project No 018---Levitation

2.       Project No 026---Life of a Star

3.       Project No 021---Earthquake & Tsunami (India & Japan)

4.       Project No 008---Energy Bridge

5.       Project No 005---Ozone Layer

Parents’ Poll:

1.       Project No 026--- Life of a Star

2.       Project No 029---Robotics, A Green City

3.       Project No 021---Earthquake & Tsunami (India & Japan)

4.       Project No 027---Network Topologies

5.       Project No 028---Artificial Intelligence

In the Monday Quiz on the week’s TOI, the following students won merit certifictaes for being able to answer the questions asked:

Raghav Jaitley       III A

Tanay Sharma       III A

Kabir Kalsi              IV A

Nandini Gupta       IV A

Aksmaneet            IV B

Sebastian               V B

Vanshika                VII B

Abhay Tipnis         VIII A

Charul                    VIII A

Manuj Trehan       VIII A

Mahima Gupta      VIII B

Sushant                  IX A

Classes VI & VII

HINDI: INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS:

1.       Simarprabh (VI---Agni House) & Sanjivani (VII---Aakash House)

2.       Aayush---class VI---Aakash House

3.       Pragya Kalsi---class VII---Agni House

PUNJABI: INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS:

1.       Karman---class VI---Jal House

2.       Gurleen Kaur (VII---Agni House) & Aanchal (VI---Aakash House)

3.       Maulick---class VI---Agni House

HOUSE POSITIONS:

1.       Aakash House

2.       Agni House

3.       Jal House

4.       Prithvi House

The Millennium School, Mohali participated in the event called ‘One Nation Reading Together’ in association with Scholastic India. All staff members and students took ‘The Reading Pledge’ followed by a 30 minutes reading session. The students really enjoyed this event. For every school that takes part in this reading session, Scholastic India, gives a hundred books free of cost to a needy village school.

Classes IV & V

HINDI: INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS:

1.       Nehal Khosla--- class IV---Prithvi House

2.       Aarushi Madan---class IV---Agni House

3.       Parvita Singla---class IV---Aakash House

PUNJABI: INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS:

1.       Ashmeen---class V---Aakash House

2.       Jai Singh---class IV---Jal House

3.       Aksmaneet---class IV---Agni House

HOUSE POSITIONS:

1.       Agni House

2.       Jal House

3.       Aakash House

4.       Prithvi House

INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS:

SECTION A

1.       Rishika

2.       Sanjot Singh & Seerat Kaur

3.       Hargun Singh

SECTION B

1.       Varun

2.       Rishik

3.       Lavanya

SECTION C

1.       Dhanvi

2.       Tejas

3.       Anika

SECTION POSITIONS

1.       Section A

2.       Section C

3.       Section B

Emerging Wings 1 (Nursery)

1.       Udhav & Daksh

2.       Jigyasu

Emerging Wings 2 (Nursery)

1.       Yanis Kumar

2.       Kamya Sharma

3.       Sehajleen Kaur

Emerging Wings 3 (Nursery)

1.       Ruhaan Shori

2.       Siddhant Lakhi

3.       Diya Sharma

Ready to Fly 1 (LKG)

1.       Mannan

2.       Rehhat

3.       Ishpreet

Ready to Fly 2 (LKG)

1.       Anshita

2.       Japneet

3.       Vanshika

Ready to Fly 3 (LKG)

1.       Vandita

2.       Panini

3.       Aryaman

Flying High 1 (UKG)

1.       Sehaj

2.       Tajveer

3.       Samiya

Flying High 2 (UKG)

1.       Tamanna Sabharwal

2.       Samridh Bahri & Aroniaa Khatri

3.       Siya Bedi

Classes II & III

HINDI: INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS:

1.       Devank--- class III---Agni House

2.       Zarah Choudhary---class III---Aakash House

3.       Aadhya---class II---Prithvi House

PUNJABI: INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS:

1.       Gurkirat---class III---Aakash House

2.       Deepshikha---class III---Agni House

3.       Ira Singh---class III---Jal House

HOUSE POSITIONS:

1.       Aakash House

2.       Agni House

3.       Jal House

4.       Prithvi House

The Library Week, apart from a story writing competition and a book-mark making competition, had an interesting feature added to it---story telling by grandparents. Six grandparents of students of classes I & II volunteered to visit the Library and relate stories to the students of the class of their grandchildren. The grandparents came fully equipped with props, songs, poems, and an interesting story which delighted all the students attending the session. The wonderful response of the students could be seen by the answers they gave to the ‘Q/A’ session post the story telling session. The tastefully and appropriately decorated library added to the atmosphere created for the Library Week.

As member of the ‘Global School Partnerships Programme’, ‘The Millennium School’, Mohali is partners with ‘Little Sutton Primary School’, Birmingham, UK. Each of the partner schools has undertaken some projects centered on global dimensions and interspersed them into the school curriculum. One of the activities undertaken is a mutual visit by one or two teachers to schools in both countries. Rita, the Lead Coordinator from Little Sutton has been in India, visiting ‘The Millennium School’, Mohali from November 12, 2011. She has been a part of the system, attending and conducting classes, story telling sessions, art, music, and dance lessons. She has spent a considerable time with the IT department to learn how technology is being made use of in the school curriculum and for administrative purposes, including compilation of the school result at all levels. Having been to some other Indian schools as well, she has declared that she’s found ‘The Millennium School’, to be a very modern school, while at the same time not losing its focus on the value system which is such a beautiful part of the Indian Culture.

Children’s Day was celebrated in a unique style at ‘The Millennium School’, Mohali. Firstly, a KBC style quiz contest was organised for all level of students from classes I to X. From each level two students’ names were pulled out of a box and the pair sat on the ‘hot seat’ and was asked 10 questions relevant to their age level. Three life lines were given to the students---50/50, ask a friend, flip the question. The pair could discuss the answer before ‘locking’ it. For each correct answer, students were given prizes. If an answer was wrong, the pair was eliminated. If the pair had answered less than 10 questions, the names of another pair were pulled out from the same class and this went on till the 10 questions had been answered.  The children really enjoyed this format of quiz competition.

After the quiz contest, a 45 minutes show was put up by the staff which included the rendering of a ‘shabad’, a group song in English, a semi-classical dance by two teachers, and then a performance of ‘sami’ by 20 teachers.

On the whole it turned out to be a day of fun ‘n frolic and a unique experience for the children. The Global Schools’ Partnership team which is here from the UK also attended the show and applauded the effort put up by the teachers.

In the Math worksheet done by all the classes on Nov 7 (Monday), class 3 B has stood FIRST in the Primary wing and 8 A stood FIRST in the Secondary wing.

Every Monday all the classes from I to X, after Assembly, do a Math worksheet prepared in advance by the Math teachers. Every Friday the same classes have an English Dictation test from words given earlier. Henceforth, the classes obtaining first position separately in the Primary wing and Secondary wing, after taking out the class percentage, will be mentioned on the web site. For the Math worksheet done on Monday, Oct 31, class 2 A stood FIRST in the Primary wing, class 8 B stood FIRST in the Secondary wing. In the English Dictation conducted on Friday, November 04, I C stood FIRST in the Primary wing and VI B stood FIRST in the Secondary section.

November is the month of blood donation and a number of activities have been organised for the students to sensitise them on the importance of blood donation.

On Nov 09, a calligrahy competition was held for the students of classes VI to X. They had to write a piece, in Hindi and English, on something to do with blood donation.

The following students won prizes:

VI A:

Anhad Ghuman---First

Nikita Aggarwal---Second

Ojasvi Kaur Brar---Third

VI B:

Zaheen Kaur Gill---First

(No one else from VI B got shortlisted)

VII A:

Kshitija Kaur---First

Pragya Kalsi---Second

Himanshu Sharma---Third

VII B:

Parul Singh---First

Riya              ---Second

Karman Kaur Brar---Third

VIII A:

Lavish Bansal---First

Charul Mehndiratta---Second

Deepak Jindal---Third

VIII B:
Sumedha Sharma---First

Mahima Gupta---Second

Kanwar Mehtab---Third

IX A:

Chandan Padda---First

Aishwarya Munjal---Second

Aman Negi---Third

IX B:

Parul Chhabra---First

Manpreet Kaur---Second

Rahul Thakur---Third

X A:

Jashanpreet Kaur---First

Harnoor Uppal---Second

Guramanat Kaur---Third

Flower Arrangement Competition:

Class VIII

Mahima Gupta---VIII B---First

Sumedha---VIII B---Second

Charul Mehndiratta---VIII A---Third

Class IX

Sukhjot Singh---IX B---First

Avjit Singh---IX B---Second

Sankalp Sharma---IX A---Third

Parnit Kaur---IX B---Third

Blue Ocean’ is a term used to refer to clean, pristine market spaces. These are areas in an industry where customers exist but there are extremely limited or no competitors. Blue Oceans emerge because of new needs, new consumer groups, changed habits, new product development, etc.

In the context of the workshop, a Blue Ocean referred to “New Ideas” – innovations that have never been thought of before.

On the first day of the workshop, the members of the YI discussed with the students what the workshop was all about and encouraged them to come up with new, innovative ideas.

On the second day of the Blue Ocean Dialogue, various groups presented their charts, which captured their ideas of the innovations being proposed. The teams very strongly defended the innovation being proposed by them and predicted the likely developmental impact on a sector. The Blood Savers Group won the first prize for proposing a machine which could convert blood types to match the one required by a patient; the Catalysts Group won the second prize for proposing a machine that could clean roads independently and on it own.

The following students donated cycles to help the needy children as part of the 'Joy of Giving Week':

Garima Gupta (Pre-nursery B), Ishpreet Kaur (KG A), Manya (UKG), Abhijay Pandey (I C), Nikhil Aggarwal (II A), Arushi Jindal (II B), Devank Oberoi (III B).

The rest of the students donated enough money for the school to purchase 3 cycles.

All these cycles were given to some under privileged children at Kaimbwala Village.

Thankyou all for participating in this noble venture.

The Aviva Great Wall of Education, an initiative of The Times of India and Aviva India is an opportunity to help educate underprivileged children. This is a wall made entirely out of donated books and these books are used to educate thousands of underpriveleged children, to give them the future they deserve.

Please donate generously.

Ceramic Painting Competition:

Sidharth Sharma---IX A---First

Yatin Kalra---X A---Second

Mandeep Singh---IX A---Third

Embroidery Competition

Jashanpreet Kaur---X A---First

Harnoor Uppal---X A---Second

Jasleen Kaur---VIII B---Third

Results of the Inter House Skating Championship

Group A: Boys: 

Ranak, Aakash House, Class I B---First

Prabhpreet, Agni House, Class I B---Second

Ekanoor, Agni House, Class I B---Third

Group A: Girls: 

Kismat, Jal House, Class I B---First

Sumin, Jal House, Class II B---Second

Pavni, Agni House, Class II B---Third

Group B: Boys: 

Lim, Jal House, Class IV B---First

Arjun, Aakash House, Class III B---Second

Aditya, Prithvi House, Class III B---Third

Group B: Girls: 

Gurman, Jal House, Class IV B---First

Sehaj, Jal House, Class IV A---Second

Asmi, Aakash House, Class III A---Third

Nehal, Prithvi House, Class IV A---Third

Group C: Boys: 

Amved, Prithvi House, Class V B---First

Prabhsimran, Aakash House, Class V A---Second

Sahil, Agni House, Class VI A---Third

Group C: Girls: 

Priyanshu, Aakash House, Class VI A---First

Anum, Agni House, Class V B---Second

Anhad, Prithvi House, Class VI A---Third

OVERALL HOUSE RESULT:

Jal House---First

Aakash House---Second

Agni House---Third

Prithvi House---Fourth

'Health for all' should not be an empty slogan. In this age when diseases and accidents destroy so many lives, health professionals try to save as many as they can. For all these humanitarian endeavours blood and its components are a critical necessity. On August 24, 2011, Mrs. Daman Duggal and Mrs. Popli from the Rotary Blood Bank Society visited the school and enlightened the students on the importance of Blood Donation. Ofcourse, children below the age of 18 cannot donate blood but they can persuade their parents and relatives to do so. Blood should be donated only at any licensed Blood Bank or at any camp organised by licensed Blood Banks.

AT TMS, MOHALI A BLOOD DONATION CAMP WILL BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 26, 2011 (Saturday). PARENTS ARE REQUESTED TO NOTE DOWN THIS DATE AND COME FOR THE CAMP.

In a solo singing competition for Class II, the following students won positions and medals:

Manit (II A)---First

Shreya (II C)---Second

Surbhi (II A) & Akshita (II A)---Third

The Inter House Table-tennis tournament brought forth a lot of sports talent. In the overall tally Agni House came first, with Aakash House second, followed by Jal House and Prithvi House in the third and fourth places respectively. The participants were:

Agni House: Rahul Thakur (IX), Inderjeet Singh (IX), Sushant Chadha (IX), Sanan Goyal (VIII), Lavish Bansal (VIII).

Aakash House: Tavjot Singh (IX), Sajanpreet Singh (IX), Hirday Pratap Singh (IX), Chiraz Singh (V), Parvita Singla (IV).

Jal House: Harpreet Sidhu (X), Karanveer Singh (X), Sukhjot Singh (IX), Manuj Trehan (VIII), Varun Gupta (VIII).

Prithvi House: Veerteg (X), Sukhman (X), Deepak Jindal (X), Harshdeep Verma (VIII), Alisha Jindal (VIII).

The Inter House Math Quiz was conducted from August 18, 2011 to August 24, 2011. The Quiz challenged all levels of students to do quick thinking, calculate fast, and 'think outside the box'.

The result, group wise, was:

Group A (classes II & III): Agni House---First, Jal House---Second, Aakash House---Third

Group B (classes III & IV): Jal House---First, Prithvi House---Second, Agni House---Third

Group C (classes VI & VII): Agni House---First, Aakash House---Second, Jal House---Third

Group D (classes VIII, IX & X): Jal House---First, Aakash House---Second, Agni House---Third