Chit Chat

Students stage a play at the annual fest of St Teresa’s Secondary School. Picture by Sanat Kumar Sinha

 

Candle craft

Christmas eve was celebrated in a special way at Oxford Junior with a candle decoration workshop for children, organised in association with Sasha and Asha Niketan, an NGO.

The children were first introduced to the workshop conductors Sankar and Rana from Asha Niketan. A demonstration of decorating and colouring a candle followed. The method of decorating a jelly candle was also shown. The participants were then given the colours, tools and a candle each to work upon. It was an engaging experience for the 25-odd children in the four-14 age group.

By the end of the session, each participant had made a decorated candle which they took away as a Christmas gift from the Oxford Junior store.

 

Power presentation

Diya Bhattacharyya and Bahnisree Ghosh from St John’s Diocesan Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Calcutta, emerged the junior group winners of Powerplay 2005-2006, the 4th inter-school PowerPoint presentation contest held recently.

It was the first time that the school participated in the contest. The girls made nine slide presentations in two hours on the topic “The power of FM” in an intra-school contest in which they came second. For the inter-school round, they made 11 slide presentations on the topic “My PC, My brain”. There were 3000-odd competitors from 25 schools in the junior finals.

Besides the girls winning the first prize, the school was also declared the most IT-savvy school, thanks to the participation from over 300 students from classes IV to IX. The Heritage School topped the contest in the senior group.