Notre Dame Academy

Patna, July 6: To pep up and encourage young achievers of the institution, Notre Dame Academy today organised an award distribution ceremony for Class X toppers.

The principal of Notre Dame Academy, Sister Mary Tessy, honoured toppers who bagged 10 on the Cumulative Grade Point Average system in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations.

The best thing about the event was that the toppers were felicitated in front of their parents on the premises of the school. In all, 30 students of the school were honoured.

Replacing the earlier marking pattern, CBSE introduced the grading system in the Class X examinations last year, according to which the answer sheets of the examinees were evaluated.

This year too, toppers in Class X have been judged by the highest Cumulative Grade Point Average of 10.

Notre Dame Academy had 30 students with a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 10.

Sister Tessy presented mementos and certificates of excellence to the students. Tessy said: “The school is happy to see a good number of students scoring the highest Cumulative Grade Point Average. The students should continue doing better.”

At the event, Harshita Priyadarshini, a Class X topper, said: “It’s a great experience to be honoured for our hard work. We feel good in making our parents and teachers proud and would continue working harder to sustain the same.”

Rupali Singh, another topper, said: “I had never expected such an achievement that catapult me among the school toppers. On the other hand, it indeed feels great to be a topper, and to be honoured is something even better. I will try to keep up my good performance.”

Parents too were delighted on seeing their daughters getting feted and they tried to make the beautiful moments memorable for a lifetime by capturing them on the camera.

A beaming Purabi Bhattacharya, the mother of Aradhana Bhattacharya, said: “This is just the beginningof my daughter’s achieve-ments today. I feel very happy and am proud of my daughter.”

Another parent, Darshana Chakraborty, the mother of Rachna Chakraborty, said: “This is an occasion which I will cherish through my life. It is great to be here to see my daughter honoured and that too by the principal.”

A few parents could not bring their daughters along since they have already got admission outside Patna and started classes.

One of them, Dr Meenakshi Prasad, who is a professor in Khagaul Mahila College, said: “I am proud to receive the award on behalf of my daughter Medha Smriti. She could not come but missed the event a lot. She kept on insisting that I must come to the school to attend the event.”

Prasad added: “The discipline in the school is to be highly admired and I am proud that my elder daughter, Twisha Prasad, who is presently studying in an IIT institute, passed out of this institution.”