Computer club To impart knowledge of real world challenges related to Information technology through various programs.

Computer Club (Senior Club) : Life is not about finding yourself its about creating yourself and the computer club focuses on creating innovative minds. The month of july was all about thinking out of the box.

Softwares of the month were :
Class 11th and 12th :- Adobe Photoshop (Photo editing software)
Class 9th and 10th :- Windows Movie Maker (video editing software)

Adobe Photoshop Cs8:

We learned how to merge to photos , we also learned to change the background or foreground of a picture. Every student’s different perspective and innovation gave beautiful results this showed that one picture modified and enhanced in many ways. Many students aspire to become photographers and graphic designers and this software will surely help them to shine in their future careers.

Windows Movie Maker:

This software is used to edit clippings, photos and songs and then merge them into a movie. This software has many uses for preparing presentations for long assemblies, it is also used by many professionals students who aspire to be movie directors, video editors can be benefited by this software,.

Everytime we learn something new it gets more exciting for us. The experience of learning something new and useful is exhilarating. Thank you sister for giving us the golden opportunity of gaining so much knowledge. We would also like to thank Mr. Tandon who has been a wonderful guide.
Thank You,
Gurdiksha Kaur
(President of Computer Club)

Computer Club (Middle School)

Computer has always been an interesting subject to us. In today’s developing world, computers are very essential for our day – to – day life. We can gain a lot of knowledge just by sitting in front of the machine. It helps us to enhances our knowledge and shape our future.

We, the computer club group I (class VI, VII, VIII) girls had very interesting activities for July month.

VIII :- Movie Making

VII :- Spreadsheet & Reasoning

VI :- Gaming and Reasoning

Class VIII :- Movie making is one of the activities held in the month of July. During this activity we got additional information about the software which has helped us to enhance the way of creating and editing a movie. The movie which we had made was displayed on our school website. All the club members had participated in this event. This software has helped us in showing the presentations in a more effective way.

Class VII :- Our group (class VII) has gained a lot of knowledge on spreadsheet package apart from the regular syllabus, we have learnt a lot of new things in MS Excel and we are sure that it is going to improve our arithmetic techniques for future.

Class VI :- For us, computer is not only an interesting subject, but also the best partner that teaches and helps us in every field. In the month of July, our class had learnt to play a few interesting games and do logical reasoning. The games were very interesting and exciting. The reasoning activity helped us in building our logical skills.

To eliminate stage fear and enhance their speaking skills through debates, discussions, extempore, recitation etc.

Debating Club Report

To create general awareness of the local, national and international events / personalities / sports etc. and sharpen the memory through quizzing, puzzles and intelligence games.

The G.K. Club aims towards creating awareness about the ongoing happenings in India and the world. The classes conducted enhanced our knowledge about India. Various in – class quizzes were conducted to test what we have retained from our classes and from our classes we discovered some very amazing and fascinating about our Incredible India – our topic of the month.

On Wednesday 25th of July, members of the G.K. Club held a questionnaire about our school – St. Mary’s Convent High School for classes 3 to 5. The question asked were based upon their power of observations. And how much they knew about their teachers. The questions asked were accompanied by a power point presentation. It was a delightful experience as it gave us opportunity to spread awareness about our institution.

The teachers in – charge of our club are Ms. Bhaumik and Mrs. Basu. The theme of our club for the month of April – May was “Literature and Mythology”.
The main objective of our club is to enhance our knowledge and help us to remain in tune with the new updates in the field of art, culture, literature, science and technology.

In keeping with the view of our prospects and objectives, various activities like quizzes, rapid – fire rounds, questionnaires, logical and analytical reasoning were held in our club meetings. During the summer vacations, the students were asked to prepare a chart high lightening the “amazing facts and news headlines” with the combined efforts of the students, we had also come up with a beautiful logo for our club also maintain a separate record of all the general knowledge questions which are discussed in our meetings. The members of our club had been reading out the news headlines and amazing facts in the morning assemblies. On Fridays, we had been conducting a short quiz based on general knowledge for the students of other clubs.

During the month of July, few students had participated in the inter school quiz competition and had indeed faired well.

At the close of the month, the teachers in – charge had conducted a short quiz for the students of our club. We were also given the opportunity to evaluate our club activities in one of our sessions. We were openly invited to give our views and recommendations, if any. All the above activities have increased our knowledge and helped us to stay connected with the outside world. In the end, I would like to say ,

Quiz Competition

To strengthen the vocabulary and sharpen the memory and concentration of the students through various interesting activities like- Spell Bee, Spider's web, JAM etc.

“Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.”

Words are the most powerful form expression in this world. They are the tools of thought. Why do large vocabularies characterize executives and possibly outstanding men and women in other fields? The final answer seems to be that words are the instruments by means of which men and women grasp the thought of others and with which they do much of their own thinking. Our vocabulary is an important part of our personality and requires as much attention as anything else. The term ‘LITERARY’ is a measureless prospective encasing language and literature. If literature is the body then language is its backbone and both the two being boundless fields. The clubs has been doing and is doing every possible task to make the infinite, finite.

In the first few sessions we introduced ourselves to each other. The annual strategy for the club was devised where the rules, objectives and the action plan was briefly discussed with students. Soon activities like Spelling Bee and others were conducted. Our first step was to test the present vocabulary skills of the students. Indeed they all performed well. We helped them in augmenting their lexicon through various interactive sessions. Also, we held regular discussions in the club about their progress and what the members felt about the time they in the club and with the other student members. The activity involved cross-questioning rounds where the students quizzed their fellow members. It was a fun-filled experience and faired up well.

Along the daily activity, we moved on to our action plan for the month of May. It was decided that on certain days the club members would go around the school to the various classes into conduct session and hold a small quiz. The response which we got from all the classes was remarkable. The students were eager and enthusiastic throughout the session. As expected the excitement of the primary wig was on the top of the list. We were privileged to have this opportunity. This was a uniquely pleasing and unforgettable experience for all of us.

After the school opened, we put our attention towards grammar session with activities on preposition, tenses, etc. recently we had extempore sessions in the club. We aim at covering all our bones and emphasize on overall build up quality. Enhancing the vocabulary is not enough, the students need to be well versed in the technical aspect of the English language also. We are gradually progressing as a whole and steps to meet the goal of the literary clubs.

To enhance the acting ability and to overcome their shyness. The various activities are plays, monoacting, mimicry etc.

The dramatics club, lead by Mrs. M. Banerjee and Mrs. M. Shukla, concentrates on enhancing the acting skills of the students. Various activities have been conducted over the months for the attainment of our prime objective.

The first activity that was conducted by the club was ‘MONOACTING’. Many students came forward and performed and were applauded for their performance. This activity was conducted in the month of April.

In the month of May, we had conducted the ‘Adman Show’. A group of about five students each prepared the ads for the various products. The Adman Show had proved to be a great success. It was not only loved but also enjoyed and appreciated by all.

In the month of July, the club members had been involved in preparing the scripts and dialogues for the Hindi and English plays that the club members will be soon presenting to the school.

For the coming days, the club has decided on a very interesting and creative competition that is the ‘MASK PAINTING COMPETITION’ where the students will be required to portray a particular emotion through their masks. For this all the club members are divided into six club groups. Each group will be required to paint a particular emotion on their masks like love, tragedy, sadness, comedy, horror and happiness.

At the end, I would like to conclude by saying that “BE ORIGINAL. DON’T DIE AS A COPY AND BE THE BEST IN EVERY CHARACTER YOU GET TO POTRAY IN LIFE”.

Dramatics Club (Middle School)

Dramatics club is a club in which we get the opportunity to reveal our talent in the form of drama. It was very exciting to join this club.

The first day when we went there, we were told about the different activities that would be performed throughout the year. This was explained by our respective club teachers, Mrs. M. Singh and Mrs. A. Nigam. They appointed us different duties. The first activity that we performed in the month of April was Mono Acting. Mono Acting is an acting in which a person enacts as two or more characters at the same time. Many girls performed but only few were selected depending upon their performance, and the girls who did not perform well had to perform once again.

In the month of July, we had to enact a play. In the play classes 6, 7 and 8 were divided into three groups. Each group had 8 to 10 girls. Each group performed very well. The plays were both in English and Hindi.

We are happy to be a part of this club under the able guidance of our teachers. It is stimulating experience for all of us.

To develop mental aptitude, conceptual clarity and applying scientific and mathematical concepts in daily life through quizzes, experiments and model making.

This club aims to help us to build a scientific attitude and to observe each and everything carefully so that we may create our own laws and become great scientists and mathematicians in future. The first day when we entered class 9 – A we were very much sure that the last day we came out we’ll have much to say and much to show. We all joined the club with a strong desire to explore the unknown. Maths & Science never leave our way they are always with us, whether it is to our fingers, 2 hands or 1 nose. Each and everything in this world comprises a large part of Maths & Science. The chair you are sitting on, the clothes you wear and the pen with which you write is all the creativity of science. We also had the discussions about what science is and its various branches of which the relevant ones are :- Physics, Chemistry & Biology. The next day we were divided into 5 groups

1. Edison’s Group
2. Maxwell’s group
3. Einstein’s Group
4. Pythagorus Group
5. Archimedes Group

The first activity conducted by the office bearers was Quiz 1 in which the relevant facts were questioned which we were studying or have studied till now like valency, symbols and formulaes of various elements, whits, S.I Units, equations and other things. Next was the collage making competition based on environmental issues like save water, Trees and our Mother Earth, precautions needed and causes to be mentioned. This continued for 2 days and at the last Maxwell’s group came out to be victorious. Then was the slogan writing competition in which each group has to prepare 2 slogans each for science and maths. Some of the slogans were :

“1, 2, 3, 4 Maths is what we adore, 5, 6, 7, 8 hoe we cannot appreciate.”
“Put a stop to a drop, four minute shower not an hour so don’t waste it just taste it.”
Next Quiz was based on the Inventors and their Inventions and the winners were the Einstein’s Group. Then the most interesting part of Maths which are the tricks to gain the mentioned result were taught. We were also taught the reasons why the sky is blue and why the sky is black at night. Coming after a long time, we discussed the observations of the girls that were explained by our Club Incharges. We also had hung someone interesting and amazing facts in the school campus related to Sciences. We were taught the square roots of different numbers and tables too. We can only become great and intelligent scientists only when we are not prejudge mental that is we not only see what’s happening and answee the questions. At last I would say that Science doesn’t know its debt to imagination, Men love to wonder and sow the seeds of Science. So,

Be perturbed, to gain more,
Be scimatic, to explore

“The SCIEMAC CLUB”

Teachers Incharge- Dr. (Ms.) S. Trivedi, Mr. A. Banerjee

Someone asked EINDTEIN-“which is your best invention???”

EINSTEIN:”MY NEXT INVENTION!!!”

As the world started with ”The Big Bang Theory”, a journey of new inventions and discoveries began. As the world’s scientists are busy discovering the GOD”S PARTICLE, we the future scientists started an attempt to enhance our scientific temper, logical reasoning and aptitude.

Our initiative included- Daily meeting, Olympiads, quizzes, games like cross word, match fixing, guess the sequences, rapid fire, brain-o-brain, drain your brain etc.

Practical experiments and scientific explanations to the daily life phenomena played an indispensible role in our daily schedule. Both of our coordinating teachers have been pillars of support, for the little yet fruitful time we have spent as clubs members.

These endeavors shall be continued and we promise to show improvement in every new opportunity that comes our way.

To create and foster a spirit of understanding and caring for the environment. To serve the school and community through various ways such as ppt / documentaries / quiz / street plays etc.
1. In April, a logo making competition was held. Three students contribution was combined for the final design of the logo.

2. A poster making activity was conducted in which a poster highlighting environmental awareness issues were displayed at various strategic spots on the campus.

3. Senior students held talks in junior classes, explaining them about use of cloth bags and about avoiding plastic items.

4. A patch of land in school was assigned to the eco club where medicinal plants were sowed.

5. July- cloth bags of different colours bearing the logo of eco club were given to the whole school.

Every responsibility brings in us a change that enhances our personality and helps us to get ready for new challenges. Thus being elected as the President of the Dance Club, I gained confidence in my dance skills . I desire to bring about innovations in the various practicing different dance forms to improve our dance skills.

The teachers incharge, Mrs. S. Basak and Miss. S. Pandey and the President and Vice President, decided to divide the club into three groups that is Prayer dance, Classical dance , Folk dance. The Folk group was further divided into three groups, based on the dances of different states. The Club members enjoy practicing different dance styles, and the teachers are making a lot of effort to prepare the club for the competition and for annual concert also.

There will be a performance for the annual concert by the performance for the annual concert by the Dance club, which would be based on the dance forms, from North, South, East and West. And all these dance forms from the different states of all four directories will be performed in the concert.

The practices are all going very well and we, the members of Dance club, assure yoy, that our club will give its best and everybody would enjoy and will definitely see something new.

Umama Zaman
President
(Dance Club)

The activity started with hemming work keeping in mind its importance in daily life. Next embroidery was taught particularly simple stitches etc. They were asked to pre[are any article out of it i.e. using embroidery they had to make a bag, belt, table cloth, mobile cover etc.

Some examples cards were shown to them and they were asked to prepare four greeting cards each using any style of decoration.

When they come back they were asked to bring any old decorative item to revive its beauty by painting again or using silver foil or by any decorative article.

The response so far has been good. The students are also enthusiastic about their work.

“Music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty ” – So is the aim of our choir club “Spoken Symphony”.

Music, since time immemorial has been a way to enrich our souls and to admire the ravishing beauty of nature. St. Mary’s Convent has always been an epitome of love and peace. Therefore, “Spoken Symphony” is a small way to harmonize with the beauty of life through music. It has not only made the aura of the school more musical but has also helped the students to know each other better and to widen the horizon of our life.

Many new talents have come up in this group and the active participation of students have helped in coming up with various new fields,. Such as – “composing, lyrics written and singing in groups and solo”. In the first month itself, two new songs were written and composed by middle group and the senior group named “Let me fly” and “True friend” with Anjali Singh and Pooja Jaiswal as leaders of the middle group and Sarah Abdia nd Katyani Srivastava as the leader of senior group under the guidance of Mrs. Silas.

The choir club of SMC “Spoken Symphony” has been a great success and it has helped the students to come up with their innovative ideas and talents.

And it will continue to make the ambience of SMC more musical because……
“Music is a way to communicate with soul and nature.”

Sports Club “All work And no Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy”

Our sports club aims at developing physical and mental fitness, unity as well as discipline. Sports club comprises the “Basketball and Athletic Club“. The students are further divided into “Middle School” and “Senior School”. The activities conducted are – Basketball matches, dribbling, shooting and lay – up shots for the beginners. Preparing Athletics to participate in inter house Athletic Meet. Sometimes they play major and minor games. They do conditioning and stretching exercises. It is a matter of pride that three of our Athletic club athletes have been selected for “Kanpur North Zone Athletic Team”

They are :
Asna Farooq (XII-C) – High Jump

Anushka Gupta (XI - B) – Javelin

Geeta Khetarpal (XII - B) – Javelin & Discuss

Students have learned that sports are important besides studies. They do recreation. After watching OLYMPICS 2012, they are eager to know various strategies in different Athletic events. Students will be participating in many more inter – school basketball and athletic competitions.