Learning @ CI

On the occasion of National Sports Day, 29 August 2017, our school’s Sports department organized an interhouse swimming competition, where all the houses competed for the most number of wins they can achieve.   Students from all the houses were placed in two categories to maintain a fair level of competition: seniors and juniors. The senior category had students form MYP 4 and MYP 5, while the juniors had students form MYP 1 to MYP 3. The competition had all the four strokes of swimming. We started with the senior 25 m freestyle. It was a close competition between Kartavya Sharma of Mandela house and Siddharth Joshi of Lincoln house. The winner was Siddharth Joshi with Kartavya Sharma coming at second place. From the junior category, Akshat Shahjade, Shaswat Gupta, Leera Gupta and Disha Kukreja led the competition. The next three senior events on the remaining strokes respectively were won by Kartavya Sharma of Mandela house, securing first position in all of ...

Sangam Fest 2017 was held from 24.08.2017 - 26.08.2017 at Sangam School of Excellence in Bhilwara, Rajasthan. The fest comprised of varied events that kept the contestants on their toes: Hot on Heels "Kho-Kho", Word Virus "Scrabble", Rendition "India 2030", Genesis "Life creation", X-pose "From the Newsroom", Dil Se "A Talk-show", Entwined Symphony "Jugalbandhi" and Contradance "Street dance". Once the invite was received, the preparation for it began in full swing by mid-August. It was a mixed group of students from MYP 3 (Tina), MYP 4 (Yogesh, Ved, Bhavesh, Arya and Dhruwal) and MYP 5 (Dhanraaj, Aalind, Utsav and Ileshaa) who represented our school at Sangam Fest 2017. Sangam Fest - Day 1 The team started off on 24.08.2017 early in the morning at 4.30 a.m. from Indore by train. En route to Bhilwara, the students practised on the train as well as rested in preparation of the hectic...

Wildlife is an important part of our environment. In order to promote awareness and educate students about wildlife conservation, an ‘Inter-School Wildlife Quiz’ was organized by Indore Zoo, ARPF, Tupperware, 92.7 BIG FM and Indore Municipal Corporation. The intra-school level quiz competition was organized today at Choithram International. The questions in the quiz were related to important environment days/places/years, famous international/national conservation organizations, state birds/animals, animal facts, scientific names of animals and birds, nature/animal movies and characters, animal-bird calls/songs/voice, wildlife sanctuaries etc. 18 students from MYP 2, 3, 4 and 5, in the form of 6 teams, participated in this quiz contest. Through 6 rounds of the quiz, one team was selected for the inter-school level competition. The winning team comprised Rajwardhan Sisodia (MYP 5), Sanskar Patidar (MYP 3) and Shaaranya Garg (MYP 2). These students will represent Choit...

Our MYP 1, 2 and 3 students attended an interactive session on "How to write meaningful service reflections" with our MYP 5 student Sujay Jain. In a very friendly discourse, Sujay explained that a reflection is more than a written summary of the activity; it needs to include ideas, thoughts and feelings as well. He also explained in detail the MYP service learning outcomes, and concluded by giving a very good strategy – Edward De Bono's Six Thinking Hats strategy – to be used while writing reflections. More photos here .

“As you sow, so shall you reap.” This famous proverb held true as our students of MYP 3 began their mission to convert a part of the barren land within our school campus into a herbal garden. The students prepared the land and sowed fenugreek (methi) seeds on 1 July 2017. They prepared the seed bed using school compost which is being produced from the school kitchen waste. Their hard work paid off when the entire cultivated land filled with fenugreek plants which they picked, cleaned and handed over to the school kitchen. The next day, the students, teacher and other staff members savoured hot ‘methi paranthas’ prepared from the fenugreek (methi) collected from the herbal garden. The students beamed with happiness to see the result of their hard work being enjoyed by everyone. More photos on our Facebook album .

An interactive technology-based quiz contest was held at Choithram International on 19 August 2017. The contest, titled “Dell Champs Quiz Challenge”, provided a platform for parents and their children to work together in collaboration and compete with other teams. 13 teams, consisting of students and their parents from MYP 1 to MYP 4, participated at the school level, which included written preliminary round, based on which 7 teams qualified. There was a tie between 3 teams in this round. However, 6 teams went ahead to the final round. The final round consisted of three parts: visual, connectivity and audiovisual rounds, where all six qualifying teams participated with full enthusiasm and exhibited their knowledge in the best possible manner. Again there was a tie between the final 2 teams. Finally, Akshat Shahjade from MYP 2 bagged the first prize and the first runner up was Bhavesh Rochlani from MYP 4. These two students will represent ...

by Harsha Pherwani Peer assessment is a learning tool wherein the students assess their peers’ work and have their work assessed by peers. It gives an opportunity to the learners to comprehend the assessment criteria in a better manner along with increased motivation and engagement in the class. The students give feedback on the quality of their peers’ work, often with ideas and strategies for improvement.  While assessing their peers the students enhance their own learning and self-confidence.  They get a deeper understanding and gain an insight into their own approach to an assessment task in comparison to their peers. This collaborative learning technique helps the students to develop their listening, communication and thinking skills. Richard Branson has rightly quoted that “The best way of learning about anything is by doing.” As a part of Language and Literature Unit - “Childhood” the students of MYP 1 did a Formative Asse...