STD I CULTURAL DAY PROGRAM

The First Standard had their Cultural Day this afternoon, Saturday the 6th October 2012, and had as their theme Equality for All. 

They had a Welcome song for all the parents and then a prayer to ask the Almighty for His Grace and Blessing.

Fr. Principal set the tone by informing the parents that it is always refreshing to see the little ones perform so beautifully and do so well.

Then came the skit that had the Time Family with Seconds as the little one and then in ascending order, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months and Years and of course Mum and Dad.

This little play brought out the concept of how each and every one is important and though sometimes Year seemed so arrogant because it thought that it was more important than the rest it soon learnt that every second counts for all of them and every one had a part to play that is important.

Fr. Rector in his talk informed the parents that every second is important and that time flies and what perhaps is the most important is the fact that children need a lot of time and it is important that as parents you spend as much time as possible with them as this is what they will cherish all their lives.

The two little comperes did a great job and the finale was indeed grand with the whole cast on stage.

BLUE HOUSE DAY PRIMARY SCHOOL

On the 3rd October Wednesday, the Primary Section of the School had their Blue House Day and the theme for the program was centered around Mahatma Gandhi. They brought out incidents in the life of Mahatma that changed his life and made him to be a better person.

The skit brought out the aspect of caring for the poor and the neglected and see in what way we can reach out to the less privileged.

Fr. Rector in his talk said that Education is not just the study of books but an all round formation and insisted that as students one of the points that we need to look at is helping our place and environment to be clean. He encouraged the students to make sure that the classrooms and corridors are not littered with paper and rubbish. Rather he insisted that we learn to use the bins to drop all waste.

As the exams were round the corner he said let us imitate the story from the life of the Mahatma and refrain from unfair means to do well in our examinations.

VIII A ASSEMBLY

This morning the VIII A Students together with their class teacher, Miss Valerie Mascarenhas, had their Class Assembly and had as their theme: ‘Youth Sports’

The students brought to light some aspects of sports that help youngsters to grow well and wholesome. They said that sports trains one to have qualities such as Discipline, Team spirit & cooperation; helps one to learn crisis management and control one’s emotions and helps to learn how to strategize and plan.

They had a little skit that portrayed Shyam a youngster who was glued to the modern gadgets playing on his mobile game not interested in sports at all and soon found himself getting exhausted and tired as he did not have the stamina to either run or participate well.

With a little encouragement from his friend, Sam, he soon learns the discipline of exercising and playing as a team member and learns to control his temper too. His hard work and support from his friend helps his team to reach the finals and come out victorious.

The choral song left us with some food for thought:

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t!
If you like to win, but think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will;
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can even win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who THINKS HE CAN!

We congratulate Miss Valerie and the students of VIII A for their beautiful performance and the message they gave each one of us to take away from this morning’s assembly.