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Volume 6, Issue 1
18th January 2015
H A P P Y N E W Y E A R TO A L L !
Dear Parents,
A ‘Happy New Year!’, and welcome to this edition of the
Nelson’s International School
newsletter.
Inside this issue you can see
some fantastic photographs
from our ‘Expressions’ function,
as well as our recent NIS sports
day held at Khokhara sports
ground. Students performed
drills, dances as well as competing in many events, and
earned many medals and certificates for their achievements.
We still have quite a few events
and activities lined up on the
calendar for the rest of this
year to look forward to.
As it is still quite cold in the
early morning at the start of
school, parents are reminded
to ensure their children are
well wrapped up with scarves,
jumpers, school jackets and
other warm clothing to avoid
coughs, colds and flu.
In this season of coughs, colds
and flu - please discuss good
hygiene habits with your child
or children - if they are coughing or sneezing they should
cough or sneeze into their
elbow if a handkerchief is not
available. It is important to
wash hands carefully and well
to help prevent the spread of
infections.
On behalf of the school I
would like to sincerely thank all
the parents, students and
teachers for all their support
and hard work, especially dur-
ing our annual ‘Expressions’
function and sports day. It is
only with the dedication and
hard work shown that these
events become the successes
that they surely have been.
If you have any questions or
comments on any school developments or other school
issues or suggestions - please
do not hesitate to contact us at
any time through the school
office.
Your feedback is invaluable to
us, and we welcome the opportunities to meet and talk
with all members of our school
community.
Dates for your diary
2
Let it snow… with KG2!
2
Expressions ‘14/’15
4
Expressions ‘14/’15
5
Design for Change
6
New NIS playgroup
10
Light and shadows
11
Warmest regards,
Ian Scott,
Head of School
Special points of
interest:
Expressions ANNUAL FUNCTION 2014/2015
 Monday 26 January Republic Day (holiday)
 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics) Week
coming up… watch this
space!
This year’s ‘Expressions’ function took place at Kushabhau
Thakre Community Hall with
students and teachers putting
on a colorful and entertaining
show ...
 Wednesday 8 - Saturday
25 April - annual exams
(tentative dates, to be
confirmed)
(You can find
...with students from all classes
performing for an appreciative
audience!
Inside this issue:
more photographs from
this event
inside this
edition of the
newsletter.)
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NIS NEWSLETTER
SNOwmen activity with KG2
We don’t get snow in Ahmedabad… but
KG2 with a little help from their teacher still
managed to make some fantastic
snowmen!
U P C O M I N G Dat e s F o r Yo u r C a l e n da r / D i a ry
January 2015
Tues 19: IGCSE Hindi as a Second Language - paper 2 exam (1:00 - 1:45 pm)
Mon 26: Republic Day
Mon 4 May - Sun 7 June: Summer vacation
February 2015
Mon 9 (tentative date - to be
confirmed): 4th monthly tests
begin
June 2015
Mon 1: First day of school for teachers
Tues 17: Mahashivratri
March 2015
Sat 7: Dhuleti
Sat 28: Ram Navmi
Mon 1: First day of school for new
nursery students
Tues14: Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti
Mon 20: Parshuram Jayanti
Sat 25 (tentative date - to be confirmed): Last day of school for students
Mon 1 - Sat 5: Teacher training, orientation and preparation week (no
school for students )
Mon 8: First day of school for students
(KG1 - 10th std )
April 2015
Thurs 2: Mahavir Jayanti
Fri 3: Good Friday (holiday )
Wed 8 (tentative date - to be confirmed): Annual exams begin
May 2015
Sat 2: Last day of school for teachers
Tues 12: IGCSE Hindi as a Second Language - paper 1 exam (1:00 - 3:00 pm)
July 2015
August 2015
Sat 15: Independence Day
VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1
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NIS ART DAY ACTIVITIES AND EXHIBITION
As part of Nelson’s International School
varied themed curricular activities, students
from KG through 10th standard learned
about different artists through art activities
and an art exhibition of student work.
Students created their own art works in the
styles of artists such as Vincent Van Gogh,
Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky.
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Nelson’s International school Expressions … 2014 - 2015 !
NIS ‘Expressions’ annual function took
place this year at Kushabhau Thakre
Community Hall,, CTM on Friday 21st
November 2014.
Teachers worked tirelessly with students across all classes in rehearsals to
put on a function full of drama, energy
and enthusiasm across many different
acts.
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Nelson’s International school Expressions … 2014 - 2015 ! (continued)
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DESIGN FOR CHANGE - MUNICIPAL SCHOOL
community VISIT BY 7th standard
At Nelson’s International School we
view links with other groups and organisations within the community as
important.
As part of our involvement in the
‘Design for Change’ programme, and
to help foster and develop an understanding of community sharing and
helping those in need, a group of NIS
students with their teacher visited one
of the local municipal schools.
The students and teacher group donated some school supplies, shared
some of their own learning
with the municipal school students
and performed a short play.
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Hindi day - ह िं दी हदवस
All of our students study Hindi, and as
part of the ’Hindi Day; celebrations
students with the assistance of their
teachers dressed in tri-color clothes,
as well as enjoyed the fantastic tastes
of food from North, South, East and
West India.
We would like to sincerely thank all the
parents involved for their support of
this event!
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NELSON’s INTERNATIONAL SCHOOl SPORTS DAY 2015...
The annual sports day function for NIS
took place on Friday 9th January
2015. Students started the day with a
march past, followed by demonstrating their their skills in synchronized
drills.
Students took part in many sporting
events including running races, back
race, long-jump and catch/throw to
name just a few of the competitive
activities which took place on the day.
Medals and certificates were awarded
to the winners of all the single, pair as
well as team events.
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NELSON’s INTERNATIONAL SCHOOl SPORTS DAY 2015… (continued)
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NEW NIS PLAYGROUP - HAVING FUN!
The new Nelson’s International School
playgroup class established this year have
been having a lot of fun with their teacher…
many activities taking place in the class
including drawing and wiping the blackboard, playing with toys, crawling through
tunnels and other fun stuff!
P u z z l e c o r n e r s o lu t i o n s
Puzzle corner solutions from NIS newsletter vol 5 issue 1…
MATHS SUM
I found an old maths book, this addition
sum has been marked ‘correct’ by the
teacher, but the 3 squares were where the
writing was bad and I couldn’t read the
figures.
WORD LADDER
PICTURE PUZZLES
Fill in the word ladder, changing only one
letter at a time.
The ‘hidden phrases’ or sayings in these
images are:
Each step on the ladder must be a real 4letter word!
COL D
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
_ _ _ _
WARM
The correct ladder steps are:
COLD -> CORD -> WORD -> WARD ->
WARM
The ‘missing figures’ from top to bottom are
0, 9 and 0.
Top secret, jack-in-the-box and deep in
thought.
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OFF TO THE ZOO… with THE NURSERY
CLASS
Nursery students and their teacher
enjoyed a fun-packed trip to the zoo.
Nursery students learn all about animals in their books with pictures, but
they can learn much more by seeing
the same animals in real life.
On this trip the children saw elephants, tigers, turtles, bears and
snakes!
N i g h t a n d day … a n d s h a d ow s w i t h 1 s t s ta n da r d
As part of their studies in science and
maths , 1st standard students have
been looking at the concepts of night
and day and shadows.
As the Earth rotates, so the sun only
shines on some parts of the Earth
which students
saw using the
classroom globe
and a torch.
Using the sun in the playground, students examined their shadows and
measured the size of different shadows with a measuring tape.
NELSON’S INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Nelson’s International School
Near Hirabhai Tower
Uttamnagar
Maninagar
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380008
Phone: 91-79-25471677, 91-79-25462967
Fax: 91-79-22773487
Email: [email protected]
“Excellence in international education within
the context of Indian society.”
We’re on the web:
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PUZZLE CORN ER…
KAKURO
Language Challenge…
Use the numbers 1 to 9 to fill the empty
cells so that the sum of each horizontal
block equals the clue on its left, and the
sum of each vertical block equals the clue
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Which word, if pronounced right, is wrong,
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Pronounced as one letter but written with
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