Khel Mela 2010 - Annual Sports Meet (10.02.2010 & 11.02.2010)

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The programme started with Flag Hoisting in front of the school block followed by sports and games between staffs and parents. At 6.30 pm Director in Charge Swami Swaroopananda addressed the parents explaining the importance of Mantras before we commence any function, shows our Bharatiya culture. Then swamiji spoke on the famous ‘Santi Mantrah’ which explains how can our learning be more effective. Why this particular Mantrah is selected for teaching learning process because, it threw light on how can we get protected from distractions of our own mind, Are we really free to be happy? Enjoy and be greatful for the treasures given to us, we should put all our efforts together for progress, Let our intellect be bright, brilliant, non stop learning and finally let there may be no misunderstanding between people. Swamiji concluded his talk by emphasizing the ‘Role of Team Work’ through this mantrah and how it guides every aspect of our life.

After this was the most wonderful show of sky scrapers for the first time in CIRS, followed by fire drill by 11th graders. The dinner was made delightful with magic show and music feast.

The 2nd day was full of field events starting with House presentations, Parade Inspection (first time in CIRS), March Past, Oath Ceremony and sports events including Balmandir

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P Saravanan of Class VII secured the first rank in a national level competition on All India Environment Awareness, conducted by Jim Corbett. He was awarded a Gold Medal in Group B.

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Republic Day (26.01.2010)

We had our Principal, Smt.Shanti Krishnamurthy as Chief Guest for the Republic day celebration. The function started with Flag Hoisting ceremony followed by National Anthem, March Past and Patriotic songs, Madam Principal addressed the audience saying that with all the rich natural resources, our country is able to develop like other nations. Madam concluded by reminding, it is the moral responsibility of the youngsters to take our country to the heights, setting ethical work culture in all areas of our life.The final celebration of the day was Patriotic Song competitions, followed by Gurudev’s Arati. (Please click here to view the Photographs)

Masquerade(29.11.2009 to 02.12.2009)

CIRS provides a myriad of opportunities to its students to showcase their talents- be it academic, cultural, literary or social. One such activity is the “Masquerade” where every house stages a play for about an hour’s duration. This was a treat for all the people who love imaginative creativity and appreciate the almost professional.

The school was upbeat with enthusiasm as every house vied with one another to be the best, from 29th November to 2nd December 2009. Valmiki house presented an extravaganza based on the concept of time travel with a very powerful message of how sacrifice wins called “Enigma.” The Vashishta house staged the fascinating “Judgement of Paris” which proved that wooing a girl was not an easy task and what if the suitors had to prove their mettle through acting skills? Hence we had a play in a play. The Vishwamitra house staged ‘His and Hers.’ It was simply hilarious. It dealt with the issues of the perpetual gender equality issues between a couple and how they reach a compromise. The Vyasa house took us out on a tour to the world of Disney which had a heady mix of everything in it– love, laughter, action and of course villains.

The students did almost everything independently- be it selection of the story, writing the script, making the most creative and elaborate stage decoration, selecting and designing the costumes, choice of apt music, designing publicity campaigns, practising after class hours and honing acting abilities. Teachers witnessed the budding producers and directors of CIRS tirelessly working to put together an amazing show.

“Masquerade” was an exercise in teamwork and cooperation. There was perfect division of work, planning and coordination. This could provide a lesson or two to the corporate heads, as every student in the campus pitched in to contribute to the resounding success of their respective house plays. (Please click here to view the Photographs)

Contributed by the
Jr. Cultural and Literary Secretaries

Youth Day ( 12-01.2010)

The Youth Day was celebrated during the assembly in the presence of Poojya Swamiji. Our Swami Swaroopananda addressed the assembly by speaking on the importance of youth day and glories of Swami Vivekananda, thus making an impact. The most important part was the flag hoisting ceremony. The three flags hoisted were School Flag by our School Dean; Indian National Flag by Swamiji; and Hindutwa Flag by Swami Vivekananda. One of our student Swapnam of IIyear IB, dressed up like Swami Vivekananda. He gave a short inspiring speech and in the end he made all to take an oath. It left an indelible impact in the minds of the students and teachers. In the evening Marathon for students and walkathon for teachers was held. During evening Arati a presentation on Swami Vivekananda to glorify his vision and the youngest Indian achievers was shown, to inspire the students and make an impact.

IAYP –National Training Workshop

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award – Organised by CIRS & the workshop was coordinated by IAYP Award Leaders Mr.P.A.Srinivasan and Mr.M.Siva Shanmugam.

The International Award is an exciting self-development Programme available to all young people worldwide equipping them with life skills to make a difference to themselves, their communities and the world. This unique programme has been a part of CIRS activities and it has been offered to our students from grade 9th. It was a proud privilege for CIRS to host the National Training Workshop for International Award for Young People (IAYP) from 08-01-2010 to 10-01-2010.

Highlights:-

• 35 IAYP Award Leaders from 32 Institutions across the country took part in the National Workshop.

• The Workshop was inaugurated by Poojya Sw.Swaroopanandaji – Resident Director of CIRS. In his “Make it happen” session Swamiji emphasized the need for Physical, Emotional, Intellectual and Spiritual growth for the holistic development of a child.

• Mrs.Margaretter Davidraj – Chairman IAYP-SZAA, unfolded the “Role of Award Leaders” in the overall development of young adult’s personality.

• Life saving skills activities were also demonstrated by the Fire Fighting Personnel’s and elite Police Dog Squad team.

• Poojya Swamini Vimalanandaji expounded the mantra for “Grooming the Youth for Tomorrow” in her session to the award leaders.
  

CIRS In Tamilnadu Soccer Team

S.S. Dhiaan, a class 12 student and the senior sports secretary of CIRS, has been selected to play for the Tamilnadu Soccer tournament. He is now attending the training camp at Hosur. From a very young age he excelled in the Athletics field, always being judged as the Best Athlete. Soccer is his passion though he also plays Hockey and has represented the school in the CBSE national hockey tournament at Ghaziabad.

A receipient of the Black belt holder at Karate, Dhiaan wishes to pursue his career with sports.

Trip to Sri Lanka -By the First year IB students

Fifteen students of the IB 1st Year CIRS, Coimbatore embarked on their first ever foreign educational tour to Sri Lanka on the 15th November 2009.

As part of their CAS activity, they took up the renovation work of an old Hindu temple belonging to the Hindus employed at the Mackwood Estate, in Sri Lanka. This was so unique an experience that a television crew appeared to capture this with the promise of telecasting it on the Sri Lanka's national channel! It must be mentioned that the Mackwood Estate also had a pre-primary school which the children visited. They distributed colour books, pencils, crayons to the children, spent time with them and returned heady with the love and gratitude that was showered on them. When they finished their assignment they handed over to the Village Head a sum of 15 thousand rupees.

NCC Day - Rain Water Harvesting Rally

As a mark of honoring 24th November 2009 as ‘NCC Day’ Sri.M.Shivashanmugham (NCC Officer) and Sri.P.A.Srinivasan (IAYP Co-ordinator) organized “RAIN WATER HARVESTING RALLY” to spread the awareness in the society about the need for conserving rain water. The rally consists of 125 students ranging from IX to XI grades. ( 50 NCC cadets; 15 CAS students; 60 IAYP bronze and silver medal students )

Children carrying placards with Tamil slogans started from CIRS, passed through Sadivayal, Madhvarayapuram, Dhompulipalayam and reached the final destination Alandurai thus creating awareness about rain water harvesting in and around all these areas.

The Hindu Young World Quiz

Devaprashanth Karunakaran	Hrishikesh Umesh Bhatt

Two children Devaprashanth and Hrishikesh Bhat won forth prize in The Hindu Young World Quiz held at G D Auditorium, Coimbatore on 06.11.09

CIRS Plays for District Football

The following three students have been selected for District Sub-Junior football and they shall play the State Championship Tournaments at Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu from 28th September 2009 to 4th October 2009.

Master Sathya Narayana Balakrishnan.V - Class X	Master Madhav Ramesh Class IX	Master Vandit Ladha Class VIII

Guruji's Visit to CIRS

27.08.09:

Poojya Guruji Sw. Tejomayananda was welcomed in a traditional way with Poorna Kumba, and followed by greetings from the staff members of C.I.R.S. family. Guruji addressed the gathering of staff members with a quote “You Sit where you Stand.” He elaborated on this point and explained that our attitude makes us achieve higher altitudes. He also emphasized that the height we reach was dependent on the depth that we have. Further Guruji also threw light on Gurudev’s vision explaining the terms knowledge, service and efficiency “Jnanam Seva Cha Kaushalam”. Basically Guruji reminded us that the mission of all the Chinmaya Vidyalayas is live up to the master’s vision. This was followed by a question answer session which was very relevant to the present times, where Swamiji answered to the best of our satisfaction in the most interesting and humorous manner. Guruji then sang a melodious Bhajan and thereafter he blessed each one of us and prasad was distributed.

28.08.09:

It was indeed fortunate for the children of C.I.R.S. to have Poojya Guruji with them. Guruji first asked a very philosophical question “What is Life.” He then went on to explain that if we thought life is war we would constantly be at with everything happening in our life and if we thought life is a challenge then we would always be worrying about how to surmount the challenges posed every moment of our life. He went on to say that if we thought “Life is Music” we would always enjoy every moment of life, just like we enjoy every musical note. He then introduced a Dutch family, Mr. Frank and his two teenage children, Gerard and Antom. Gerard played the Violin and Antom played the Cello. The two youngsters introduced to us the melody of western classical music through varied compositions from across Europe like France, Germany, Italy, etc. They ended the concert with a piece called ‘Gratitude’ a homage to Gurudev with Guruji’s famous bhajan ‘Jai Siya Ram’. The performance mesmerized all present in the hall. The session concluded by proving that Life indeed is Music.

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Intellectual development activities:

1. An inter house spelling bee competition was organized for the seniors.

2. Science week: 13.7.2009- 18.7.2009: To bring out the creative talents in our students an activity to create Airplane was conducted for class 9. A debate on whether “India should be developing nuclear energy” was conducted for class 11. Information on the working of NASA was given to the students of class 11.

3. Maths Week : 20.7.2009: History of mathematics , Technology in mathematics, fundamental math and mathematics in daily life were various activities conducted. In the math lab, a math walk was conducted for the students of the junior classes where puzzles, riddles and worksheets were exhibited and solved by children.

4. English quiz: 29.7.2009: An English language quiz was organized for the senior students. The quiz conducted by the English department was very well received by the senior students.

5. Social science week: 17.08 2009-22.08.2009: The department started the “Turn Coat” contest wherein every student was given a topic and was asked to speak for 1 minute if favor and against the topic was enjoyed by all the children. Quiz on the flag of India was another activity all children enjoyed. Advocate Mr. Prabhu Shankar was invited to address the students of classes 9 & 10 on legal awareness. To develop independent thinking in children an activity “If these people meet…” was conducted.

6. DEAR program to Drop Everything and Read was taken up by the library.

7. More news papers are being made available in the dorms to revive to enable children aware of the current affairs.

8. Steps are being taken to improve the handwriting of children. This is done by making it mandatory to write one page of cursive writing everyday.

4.7.2009 - CVP Orientation Program:

Br Rishi Chaitanya conducted the CVP awareness program for all teachers. The session was followed by teachers demonstrating how CVP can be implemented through various subjects. Each department presented 10 sample lesson plans with tips on effective implementation of CVP through class room teaching.

CIRS - IB Results May 2009

 

CIRS - CBSE BOARD RESULTS 2009 (Class X & XII)