Bakrid is an annual festival celebrated by the Muslim community. It is also called a festival of sacrifice because it honors the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God’s command. Muslims celebrates this festival by offering special prayers, greetings, and gifts. To mark the festival special assembly was conducted on 09-8-19 i.e. Friday, in which our students spoke about the importance of Bakrid and reason why it’s celebrated. They also stated the important practices like distribution of meat among relatives and chanting the takbir.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily. Debating helps you to develop essential critical thinking skills the ability to make reasoned and well thought out arguments in addition to questioning the evidence behind a particular instance or conclusion. Excellia School organized Inter-House debate competition on 3 rd Aug’19 i.e. Saturday wherein the students from class V to X expressed their views about the given titles & brought out their hidden aptitude.
The winners were given certificates for putting forth their best views in front of everyone.

“Take care of your minutes and the hours will take care of themselves”. Just A Minute (JAM) activity is an all-round fun event that is all about the control of mind over the mouth. The just a minute competition tests student’s creativity, presence of mind and command over language all within a span of one minute. The Inter-House JAM Competition was organized at Excellia School on 3/8/19 wherein the participants of all the four houses from Grade I to IV displayed their oratory skills and spoke empathetically on the allotted topics. This JAM session provided a platform for the students to showcase their talent and expertise in an impromptu speech.

General knowledge narrows our sense of perceiving the world, understands and analyzes the situations better as one would without proper knowledge. Our students attended a workshop of G.K workshop which was taken by Mr. Vinaypreet. Students learned many new things and gained valuable knowledge.

Kargil Vijay Diwas, named after the successful operation Vijay, is celebrated in India on 26th July. Keeping in mind the victory of India which took place in the year 1999, the students were shown a video clip which commemorated the contributions of the martyrdom of soldiers who fought the conflict poured in on the microblogging site. India celebrates the 20th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas to commemorate the victory in the Kargil war.

When it comes to number recognition, repetition is the key to success for preschoolers. There is no timeline for children to begin learning to recognize numbers. An activity was conducted for Grade Nursery at Excellia School on 25-7-19 i.e. Thursday on Snakes & Ladders in which each child stood on every number block and spelled the number aloud which enabled them to learn to count and recognize the numbers efficiently.

Colors are the smile of nature. To make our K.G toddlers aware of primary and secondary colors, an activity was conducted at Excellia School on 24-7-19 i.e. Wednesday. The
children learned the concept of primary and secondary colors using poster colors. Their hands were painted in different colors. The children were excited to see the formation of new colors on their palms after rubbing the two primary colors. This helped them to learn and differentiate between primary and secondary colors.

Skip counting is an important concept we should teach our kids at an early age. Keeping this in mind the students of grade I-B conducted an activity on 25-7-19 i.e. Thursday at Excellia School. We had done this activity on Snakes and Ladders which will help to improvise their analytical ability and sense of number pattern.

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
-Rosalynn Carter
The Investiture Ceremony for the academic session 2019-20 on 24th July was yet again a special occasion where the newly appointed Head Boy Kushagra Jain and the Head Girl Shradha Rathi along with their team of 13 office bearers, were prepared to don the mantle of responsibility and to carry it out with utmost dedication. The chairman of the school Mr.
D.S. Pathak graced the event as the Chief Guest. The ceremony began with the pinning of badges to the office bearers by the Chairman Mr. D.S. Pathak and Principal Mrs. Sonia Vardhan. The office Bearers took the pledge to keep the school in high esteem and to fulfill their duty with utmost sincerity. The Principal Mrs. Sonia Vardhan congratulated the
newly elected Office Bearers and hoped that they would perform their duties with utmost diligence.

The students of Grade I was taken out for the Outside Learning Area session i.e. learning beyond the classroom for the concept of Skip Counting by 2’s. The children thoroughly enjoyed the concept and were able to comprehend the same.

The Government has taken an initiative to aware the people about communicable diseases and thus carries out campaigns citing the same agenda in one form or the other. Extending support to the same initiative Excellia School organized an awareness parade related to communicable Diseases (संचारीरोग) in the Omaxe locality on 20th July’19. Students displayed charts & amp; placards depicting ways and means to avoid diseases. The Principal Mrs. Sonia Vardhan flagged of the rally and briefed the students about the relevance of hygiene to ward off diseases.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Excellia School organized Excellian Idol on 20th July’19. The students sang
mellifluent songs of their choice. The Principal Mrs. Sonia Vardhan applauded the children’s zeal with which they sang and motivated everyone to come up with more participation. The judgment was done on specific parameters and the winners were felicitated with the certificates

Shades of yellow stimulate our little ones. Yellow is the color of Sunshine, hope,
happiness, freshness, positivity, intellect and joy. To make our little excellent
aware of the yellow color “Yellow Day” was celebrated at Excellia School on 19-
7-19 i.e. Friday. To develop fine motor skills our toddlers did various activities like
paper tearing, ladyfinger printing and hand printing on various yellow objects with
great enthusiasm. They also brought yellow snacks in their lunch and thoroughly
enjoyed their day.

Keeping in mind the most important and conducive time of the day, which is the
morning assembly, the students were briefed about a very serious problem
prevailing in today’s time, i.e. संचारीरोग (communicable diseases). The students were
told about the serious case which took place in Bihar as many students died due to
this infectious disease named as ‘दिमागी बुखार’. The students were made aware of
the harmful effects of the disease which spreads from person to another. Also, the
students were given a few tips to be taken care of by which they can keep themselves
safe from getting infected.