Anchored in Excellence

Sushmita Olivera of 12O bagged third position in 800m in the CBSE National Athletic Championship

which held in Raipur, chattisgarh,India from December 27th to 30th 2015.

CBSE NATIONAL ATHLETIC TEAM

NAME CATEGORY CLASS EVENT POSITION

1 Sibin Kunnumbrath U-19 12N 100m & 200m First

2 Sushmita Olivera U-19 12O 800m &1500m First

3 Nevin Joe U 19 11C 800m &1500m(3rd) First

4 Christina Honey U-14 9C 400m First

5 Reshma Jiji U-19 11B 3000m Second

6 Jessica Anantha keesari U 16 9A Shot Put Second

7 Dharika Udhay U 14 8D Shot Put Second

8 Tom Joseph U-19 9O 1500m Third

9 Sudipta Vinod U-16 9D 1500m Third

10 Shalene Saji U-16 9D 400m Third

11 Sneha,Anumol,Sudipta,

Shalene,Sharon

U-16 4X400M RELAY Third

GEMS Our Own Indian School Athletic team won 6 first, 3 second and 5 third positions in the UAE Cluster CBSE Athletic Meet 2015.

KGS MUSIC FESTIVAL

.“Music gives a soul to the universeWings to the mindFlight to the imagination and light to everything”

The students of GEMS Our Own Indian School did exactly that and made us proud by winning the Runner UpTrophy in the Group Competition and 1st Prize in the Solo Competition at the recently held KGS Music Festival, heldat the Kindergarten Starters, Dubai. They were trained by Mr. Ian Stephenson. It was indeed an overwhelmingexperience, as our students handed over the Trophy to our Head Mistress, Mrs. Usha Balachandran.

Annual Sports Day- 2015-16

The Annual Sports Day was held on December 13, 2015 at the GEMS Modern High Campus. The Chief Guest of the day

was our headmistress Usha Balachandran. The meet began with the March past of the four houses Aquarius, Aries,

Taurus and Leo which is led by the Sports Captains .

Our young athletes showed great team spirit and battled to the finish in all the events. The students proved the maxim

that participation is more important than winning. The Aquarius House lifted the Over- All Trophy and Aries house

emerged as Runners up and Leo house bagged Second runners up trophy.

The Individual Champions of the day are:-

Junior boys:- Dhanush George -6Q

Junior girls:- Nandana Krishna-6B

Inter boys:-Abdul Haleem and Mohd.shamil-8Q

Inter Girls:-Jemi Mary Philip-8E

Senior Boys:-Tom Joseph-9Q and Rixon Lobo-9O

Senior girls:-Christina Honey-9C

Super senior boys: -Sibin Kunnumbrath-12N

Super Senior girls:-Sushmita Olivera-12O

Diwali Assembly

A special Diwali Assembly was presented by the students of Grade 3 F. Students advocated and shared various recommendations on how to celebrate an eco-friendly Diwali at the same time campaigning to a just cause on reducing pollution and reusing things. An enthralling dance performance put up by students of grades 3 and 4 trained by Ms. Shiny Melvin created added a festive mood to the assembly.

GEMS Our Own Indian School celebrated the 44th anniversary of the

Federation of the beloved United Arab Emirates with much pomp

and splendor. The students paid tribute to The Godfather and the

leader, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, the builder of the

Emirates and stressed on the achievements of the country. The

students were decked in the traditional Arab costumes in

commemoration of this great day and provided an audio – visual

treat for the audience with their performances.

The celebrations commenced with the recitation of the Holy Quran

followed by Prophet’s hadeeth

The students were quite informative about the history of UAE and

shed light on the various process involved in the strong collaboration

of this great nation under the patronage Of Sheikh Zayed. The UAE

has a long history, a history that extends well beyond the last 43

years. This great nation was created by few with the prosperity of

many. It is now a nation that has been made up of faces from

different places, bringing with them important skills, cultures, and

personalities from every corner of the globe. The success of the

nation today and tomorrow has been and will continue to be

through the collective strength of the many.

The students extolled the vision of Sheikh Zayed which was the

catalyst for the UAE as we know it today.

The program was further embellished by the traditional dance and

song by our talented dancers and singers.

UAE National Day

The children of KG 1C and KG 2 F had a special assembly on peace . Their head bands showed the symbol of peace and they sang a beautiful song too. This filled peace in every ones heart . The assembly was well enjoyed by the parents.

Diabetes Day Awareness

Diabetes- There is no need to sugar coat such an enduring issue. The impact of its ever growing footprint

cannot be understated. About 1/3rd of all people suffering from diabetes are not even aware they have the

disease! Thus, the students of 10D decided to promote awareness along with the rest of the world based

on World Diabetes Day, this Wednesday in the school section assembly. This is definitely something you

should know about, as over 30 million diabetics in the world are aged under 20.

SPECIAL ASSEMBLY ON “RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

An excellent Assembly on “Random Acts of Kindness” was put up by the students of Grade 3 E.

The students conveyed the importance of kindness through a skit. Doing kind deeds for others for no reason has so many rewards. In an instant, the best of our humanity and heart comes forward. Acts of kindness connect our hearts and build bridges.

Soaking in the spirit of Christmas, we at Our Own celebrated the festival in advance. Overriding every other emotion, a wave of cheer enveloped the school. Christmas is a time to give and forgive. Celebrated everywhere as a joyous family affair, we too, at School celebrated Christmas as a happy time for our children. Depicting the true essence of love, joy and peace, children sang Christmas carols. “Rudolph the red nose reindeer” ,”Dashing through the snow……” filled the air with festivity and good cheer.

The messages shared by the SLT gave a sense of authenticity to the festive season. The messages were interspersed with carol singing by teachers. The precious gifts of hope, peace, joy and love are the gifts of Christmas. In turn, we must do similar for those less beholden than ourselves.

Christmas Celebrations

All the students were asked to display and speak about their models based on the theme transport. The students spokeenthusiastically and exhibited great confidence. Thank you dear parents for your support and engagement.

KG Project Day

MATH WEEK

Mathematical skills are crucial for a wide array of analytical,technological, scientific, economic and soft skill applications.Training students to become adept users of Mathematics andto appreciate its usefulness is of paramount importance forthe future. Keeping this in mind, Math week was conductedwhich comprised of Math Art where students got anopportunity to do Art based on Mathematics, Sudoku,Problem Solving Activities and a Math Quiz that wasconducted by the Math leading stars of Grade 10 for our Grade3 and 4 students. Ms. Selvanayaki, Ms. Avinash and HODMathematics Ms. Prathija Ramesh trained the Quiz team. TheMath week events were coordinated by our Math coordinatorMs. Govinda Selvanayaki and the Math team.

MATH ART SUDOKUGRADE 3

1ST- ABHINAV SASIKUMAR – 3E

2ND –MARHA ABDUL SALAM -3 A

3RD- SWETHA SHAJAN – 3 B

1.JIYA MARIA JIJO -3G

2.REIA CATHERINE

THOMAS - 3D

3.BUSHRA KHAN- 3BGrade 4

1ST –MOHAMMED FAIZAN -4G

2ND- SAONEE NANDI -4E

3RD- ANJUM THASNEEM.T.R- 4G

RANEN ABRAHAM TOMS – 4D

1st -.AnkaanBera - 4A

2nd -Niranjan Mohan - 4C

3rd - Ranen Toms - 4D

3rd-Batul Mohd.

Zainuddin -

4G

SCIENCE WEEK

“Science Week” was celebrated in the Primary with great zeal .Different activities were conducted during the week that included “Young Scientist", where students created toys out of simple materials and needed to show and explain about the models they made. Innovation/ Wealth out of waste Activity was conducted where students used discarded/recycled aluminum foil, straws ,egg cartons, bottles, used cans, used bottle caps, used CDs, tissue to make innovative things and models out of waste creatively. Students also learnt how to develop their Entrepreneurship skills. They could choose an important nutritional concept and develop an advertising plan to sell the idea, develop a product line of nutritional snacks and decide how to sell them. Establish and name a company that will market the nutritional snacks. A Science Quiz was also conducted and students wrote the answers on OMR sheets as part of IBT practice and the best 3 students were selected from each class.

Wealth Out Of Waste

Entrepreneurs selling their products and Young Scientists creating toys

Class/

Sec

Science Toy/ Young scientists

Winners 08/11/15

Wealth Out of Waste(WOW)

Winners 09/11/15

Young Entrepreneurs

Winners 10/11/15

Quiz winners

12/11/15

3A 1. AkshayMayalekshmySa

nil

2. KhadeejaNourin

3. YashasChickmagalurJag

adeesh

1. ZayedSudheer

2. RaahiTejas Shah /

DaineCyriacSinoj

3. NooraFathima

1. AbinSaajid and Group

2. NooraFathima and Group

3. RaahiTejas Shah and

Group

1. AshbahMerim Francis

2. DaineCyriacSinoj

3. NooraFathima

3B 1. Aashita Singh

2. Teresa Davis

3. Rafna Risha Kunnath

1. Team G

(Haytham Qaisar, Bilal Sajith,

Ansily Pattuparambil, Rafna

Risha Kunnath, Asta Santhosh

Haytham Qaisar,

Nethra Baiju

1. Aashita and Team

2. Anwin and Team

3. Ansily and Team

1. Ansily PATTUPARAMBIL

2. Aashita Singh

3. Clive DSouza

3C 1. Darrel Olivero

2. KushagraBhandariI

3. Judith Rey Anthony

1. Darrel Olivero

2. Chris Danton

3. GaureeNandhana

1. ShradhaSanthosh and

Group

2. VaishnavKrishnakumar

and Group

3. GaureeNandana and

Group

1. Aaron Jacob Louis

2. VaishnavKrishnakumar.

3. Ryan Mathew.

3D 1. Elwin Vibinmanikat

2. Ankithasatish

3. Mohammed Wasi

1. Minaalshafeek

2. Kavya Pradeep

3. Sruthigokavarapu

1. Ankithasatish And Group

2. Pragatheeswaran And

Group

3. Sivani Ghosh And Group

1. Joseph Jorly

2. Elwin Vibinmanikat

3. Diya Sunil

3E 1. Aman Praveen Kumar

2. Chris Joe Jacob

3. Akhileshwaran

Visweswaran

1. Ayaan Hyder

2. Paul Varghese

3. Kevin Jose

1. Aman And Team

2. Diya And Team

3. Briana And Team

1. Diya Sujith Pillai

2. Ayaan Hyder

3. Aman Praveen Kumar

3F 1. Aamir Fahad

2. Aman Mohamed

3. Warren Naik

1. Karen Nikhil Shirsat

2. Adhitya Sanjay

3. Riona Fleur

1. Merin And Team

2. Sophia And Team

3. Aazim And Team

1. Mohammed Hathim Ayan

2. Merin Mary Regi

3. Sama Riad Muzavor

3G 1. ANNJALIN MARIA

2. VINAY KRISHNA MANOJ & VIVEK

KRISHNA MANOJ

3. AYUSH VIJAY

1. JABEZ NITIN JOHN

2. AYUSH VIJAY &

AFSHEEN RASHEEQA

3. VEENA KATTA &

SAGARIKA MAJI

1. VeenaKatta& Team

2. Annjalin Maria &Team

3. Ashnia Mary Roy &

Team

1. Annjalin Maria

2. Paarth Sameer Gadekar

3. AnaghaKallattuValappil

Sudheer.

4A 1. Amy Sajan Thomas

2. NimishSanthosh

3. Kevin Kurian Thomas

1. NimishSanthoshPuthiye

dathu

2. Keith Wilson Samuel

3. SheethalSomaraj

1. Nimish’s Group

2. Erin’s Group

3. Amy’s Group

1. Tania Rose Jaison

2. SheethalSomaraj

3. AnkaanBera

4B 1. AmrithaAjithkumar

2. Asisha Mariam Biju

3. BhadraSunilkumar

1. AmrithaAjithkumar

2. Joanna Ammany Joseph

3. Shahul Hameed Basheer

1. Thahir’s Group

2. Aleena’s Group

3. Bhadra’s Group

1. Johann Joshy

4C 1. ParthipPrasooth, Shreya

Shrivastav, Akash Ram

C.S., Darren Joshua

Mathias,

AkshadaaKaruppiahSent

hilRajan,JohnCheckalazhi

komVipin.

2. AsulabhPulikodan

3. Dhanushree Suresh

Edwin Joseph Sonny, Gianna

Fernandes, Sailesh Krishna

Balaji, Niranjan Mohan,

Jemimah Johnson Lazarus,

Janice Kurian Mammen

1. Ahana Shetty

2. AsulabhPulikodan

3. Dhanushree Suresh

4D 1. TanishLella

2. Ranen Abraham Toms

3. TharushiAnargali Silva M.,

AnaghaBiju

1.Bouncing Ball (collaborative)

AnaghaBiju

TharushiAnargali Silva

Ishita Deep

Rayan Shajimon

NiranjanaPremjith

AmalPuthalath

2. Newspaper Basket

(Individual)

MisbaFathima

3.News paper and can trophy

(individual)

LiyanaSahar

1. TanishLella

2. Mizna Nabil

1. Niranjana Premjith

Samiya Mokhles Rahman

Ranen Abraham Toms

4E 1. Saonee Nandi

2. Hannah Jane Mason

3. HridyaArukettyManoj

1.Cale Vaschel D’Souza

Leanne Philip,

RoshanManglani,NischayRa

i, Abhisri Chowdhury,

2. Sanee Nandi, Meha

Ramesh, ArchaAsok,

NehaSalil, Diana Cavala

George

3. Anjali Binu,

Abishekkrishna M.M,

KarthikaSatheesan,

NandanaMeenakshiPrasant

h, Buena Madhusudan,

DakshVangani

Abhisri Ghosh Choudhury,

RoshanManglani,

NishchayRai,

CaleVaschelDSouza, Leanne

Mariah Phillip, Vighnesh

Jaya Kumar

1. KarthikaSatheesan

2. HridyaArukettyManoj

3. Saonee Nandi

4F 1. Allan Joshua

D’Souza

2. TanishkaSamenthe

Murthy

3. BanupriyanSankar

Art Kit( Individual)

1. RASHIDA BOHRA

School Bus(Indivdual)

2. LOKA CHANAKYA

KONDAPARTHI

Frame

3. ASTEN RICARDO

D’ SOUZA

1. Prathna’s Group

2. Aarushi’s Group

3. Archana’s Group

1. Loka chanakya

kondaparthi (14)

2. Amith Varughese

Thomas (13)

3. Kavya Ravichandran

(12)

4G 1.Niranjnana Rajesh

2.Nasheet Mahreen

1.Imranah Ilias

2.Saarthak DeeprajJadha

v

3.Nasheet Mahreen

1. Riham’s group

2. Imranah’s group

3. Niranjana’s group

Children’s Day

A special programme was put up for our students by the teachers and supervisors to celebrate “Children’s Day” which is the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, to commemorate his affection towards children and faith that education of children could propel the country’s progress. The teachers entertained the children with songs and dances. Students were enraptured and captivated seeing their teachers perform on stage.

Chrysalis

Chrysalis an Inter School Competition, was hosted by the Primary Section of our school which recognises the immense potential that lies latent within our Primary school students as well as students from other schools, awaiting an innovative platform for their creative minds to unleash and showcase their talents, through an ensemble of events like Caper and Fuse, Colour Splash, Cadence, Spell Bee and Sudoku. The Over All Rolling Trophy went to GEMS Our Own Indian School but being the host school the trophy was handed over to the Runner Up School, GEMS Our Own High School Al Warqa, Dubai, Boys.