ANNUAL REPORT - Modern-School

1 ANNUAL REPORT 1. ACADEMICS This year, 414 students of the school appeared in the All India Senior school certificate examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education. 54% of the successful students scored marks above 80% and 21% of the successful students scored above 90% marks. Pallavi Gupta topped the school and stood first in the Commerce stream with an aggregate of marks. Gauri Chandra was the topper of the Humanities stream with 96% marks. Both, Avi Agarwal and Dhruv Chand Aggarwal were the toppers of Science stream with 95% marks. There are six students who scored 100% marks in some subjects in class XII. Mayank Chandna & Abhiroop Aggarwal scored in Mathematics whereas Arushi Khosla, Anjali Kumar, Saloni Gautam & Vrinda Agrawal did it in Psychology.

2 With immense pleasure, I would like to place on record that twenty one students from the batch of 2012 namely Anjali Kumar, Arushi Khosla, Madhav Seth, Malvika Bhatia, Saloni Gautam, Selene Khosla, Vansha Sethi, Vrinda Agrawal, Akshita Singal, Abhiroop Aggarwal, Alisha Mobin, Arjun Pratap Sindhu, Jyotsna Mahajan, Kavya Gupta, Pallavi Gupta, Avi Agarwal, Mayank Chandna, Devika Aggarwal, Dhruv Chand Aggarwal, Tanvi Gupta and Aditya Aggarwal, have been awarded the Merit Certificates by the for their being within the top (subject wise) in the All India Senior school certificate Examinations held in March 2012. Four students from the batch of 2012, namely Avi Agarwal, Dhruv Chand Aggarwal, Parth Bansal and Sheikh Farhan Amin, have qualified for award of Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) from the for their being within top 1% (in aggregate) in the All India Senior school certificate examination of the CBSE held in March 2012.

3 The All India Secondary school certificate examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education was taken by 336 students. Similarly, twenty five students (presently in class XI) namely Anurag Bagga, Natasha Panesar, Akshit Choudhary, Bhuvan Agrawal, Devyani Aggarwal, Jai Sahni, Punya Taneja, Samika wadhwa, Shohtaj Singh, Sunny Gakhar, Tejas Sirohi, Aarushi Gupta, Natasha Raj Mehta, Saurabh Sharma, Shikhar Sharma, Kriti Garg, Megha Bansal, Saniya Maini, Siddharth Seth, Subhangi Chandan, Akanksha Wasan, Bhavya Garg, Gunank Hora, Rishi Madhok and Shrey Rajesh, have been awarded Merit Certificates by the for obtaining Grade A1 in all the five subjects in the All India Secondary school certificate examination held in March 2012.

4 Akshaye Singhi, Rachit Bansal and Aakash Bhalotia, all three from class S5, have qualified the Junior Science Talent Search examination - 2012 and have been selected to get the JSTSE Scholarship. In the Talent Reward examination conducted by FIIT-JEE in December 2011, Aatmik Gupta, Devyangi Upadhyay and Utsav Garg became Zonal Toppers - Rank-I, II & III respectively. Aatmik Gupta secured first position in both, Science EduOlympiad and Mathematics EduOlympiad conducted by Educomp Online Supplemental Services Pvt. Ltd. and got cash prize of ,00,00/- for each Olympiad. 2. AWARD TO TEACHERS Joshi, presently Dean-Physical Education of our school , is the proud recipient of coveted CBSE Award to Teachers for the Year 2011 in September 2012 by the Central Board of Secondary Education.

5 Gupta, school Counsellor, has been awarded with the Yale Educator Award 2012 by Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Yale University, , for inspiring and supporting to achieve excellence. 3. STUDENTS /TEACHERS EXCHANGE PROGRAMME Our Seventh International Community Development & Leadership Summit ( 2012) on Women Empowerment will start on 5th November 2012 and conclude on 11th November 2012. The participants of the CDLS-2012 are students and teachers from twenty five schools from twenty three countries across five continents. During the year, our students and teachers attended the following exchange programmes/conferences.

6 Date Purpose/Host school Names of Students & Teachers 26-30 May 2012 Summit at s school , Malaysia Three students of class XII Teacher Kapoor 6-12 June 2012 Students Exchange Programme at Beijing New Oriental Foreign Language school , Ynagzhou, Beijing, China Eight students of class XII Teachers Kapoor & Singh 17-25 June 2012 Summit at Malay College, Malaysia Three students of class X Teacher Puri 20-30 June 2012 Twinning Programme at Liebigschule Giessen, Germany Eight students of class XII Teacher Sarkar 22-30 June 2012 Students Exchange Programme at Liaoning Province Shiyan High school , Shenyang, China Nine students of class XII Teachers Saxena & Singh Jiani 2 - 9 July 2012 Students Exchange Programme at Sikoh Seriputeri, Malaysia Eight students of class XII Teacher Chadha 12-18 July 2012 Asian Young Leaders Convention 2012 River Valley High school , Singapore Ten students of class XII Teacher Dhawan 21-30 July 2012 Summit at India China Alliance for Cooperation, Beijing, China Twenty students of class XII Teachers Bedi and 28 July- 6 Aug.

7 2012 Students Exchange Programme Clifton school , Durban, South Africa Six students of class XII Teacher 29 Sept. 8 Oct. 2012 Collegiate school , Virginia, USA Three students of class XI Teacher Joshi 4. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR TEACHERS Teachers of almost all the subjects, besides the school s librarians, counselors and the school doctor, attended various workshops and seminars conducted by the , , , other schools and hospitals during the year. 5. WELLNESS CENTRE/COUNSELLING DEPARTMENT To propagate the importance of leading a healthy and positive lifestyle, the Wellness Centre of our school organized its ANNUAL event 'Good Life Campaign' from 19 to 21st December 2011.

8 Marathon, Modern Master Chef, Graffiti Making and Inter- school Band competitions were highlights of the event. After holding Aptitude Testing & Goal Setting Workshop for students of class S5 and on the basis of detailed analysis their aptitude & suggested careers, individual counseling for the student & parent was arranged by the expert career counsellors from Eduignite (Educomp Solutions Ltd.) from 16th to 25th January 2012. An Orientation Programme was held for parents of the students of class S4 & S5 on 15th and 16th March 2012, for helping them have deeper understanding of the Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) & its requirements, and to ensure better performance of their wards in their academic journey.

9 Career Awareness Week was organized for students of class S6 and their parents from 2nd to 4th April 2012. The Career Counsellors from Eduignite separately addressed the students opting for Science, Commerce & Humanities stream on different days and gave them details of the academic institutions for higher studies in the respective fields. On 4th April 2012, the school organized an orientation programme for parents of students of class P5 of Modern school , Humayun Road, whose wards were to join class S1 in senior school from April 2012. Nagpal, a well known Consulting Psychiatrist, addressed them on parenting of early adolescent child and Handling Transitions.

10 From 19th to 22nd April 2012, Peer Trainers of our school participated in the International Life Skills, school Health and Well-Being Summit 2012 organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education in collaboration with Expressions India. Our students presented a choir followed by a band performance. Siddharth Seth and Asees Bhasin won the first prize in Health Quiz . Devyani Aggarwal won a consolation prize in elocution competition. During April and May 2012, officials of various universities from USA visited us and made presentations to our senior school students on registration procedure , writing essay & student profile etc. Subsequently, Counselling Department held a workshop on comparative study of all these universities.