MONTHLY BULLETIN OF CITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL, LUCKNOW, INDIA

Personality Development

CMS creates a better future for all children by maximising
their opportunities through quality education and initiatives for unity and development.

April 2018

NEWS FROM CAMPUSES

Aliganj Campus I

Karnika Pandey

Karnika Pandey of Class VI secured Olympiad Rank 1 and won a cheque of ₹ 10,000/- for her performance in the Smart Kid KG Olympiad. She was also interviewed by the News 18 news channel.

Pranay Singh

Pranay Singh of Class VI secured the first runner up position in the Natural Capital Olympiad. He stood second in the country and was awarded a cheque of ₹ 15,000/- for this achievement.


Teachers of senior section attended a one-day Training & Awareness programme organised by Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS), O.P. Jindal Global University at Hyatt Regency,Lucknow. Ms Suneeta Pandey (Economics), Dr Rima Modi (Chemistry), Mrs Divya Saxena (Commerce), Ms Vandana Jakhanwala (Computer Science) and Ms Swapnil (Psychology) attended the seminar addressed by Dr Sanjeev P. Sahni, Principal Director, JIBS. The topic of this interactive lecture was "Best teaching practices in school education for school leaders."

Rachit Srivastava of Class XI and Shashwat Tripathi and Ayush Srivastava of Class XII were appreciated and presented certificates for their participation in All India 5th Korea-India Friendship Essay Writing competition 2017. Environment Co-ordinator, Mr Kailash Keswani was presented the Paryavaran & Vanyajeeva Dronacharya awards by the Indian Centre for Wildlife & Environmental studies in South Asian Region (ICWESSAR) for his guidance and encouragement to students. On this occasion, Shreyansh Kumar Singh of Class VIII received the Paryavaran Ratna Kansya Padak award and Parul Nishtha of Class VII bagged Vanyajeeva Ratna Swarn award.


As many as 56 students of the campus secured high distinction and 90 secured distinction in the International Benchmark Test (IBT) organized by the Australian Council for Educational Research.

Ayan Verma of Class III secured a silver medal in the Late Geeta Singh Memorial District Inter-school Taekwondo Championship.



Shashwat Tripathi

Shashwat Tripathi of Class XII was declared the City Winner from Lucknow and was awarded the Student of the Year title by USAUnivQuest.

Saatvik Siddharth

Saatvik Siddharth of Class XI secured the first position, 6th state rank & 93rd Olympiad rank in the Silverzone International Olympiad of English Language organised by the Silverzone Foundation.


Shashwat Tripathi

The top scorers of the campus who participated in the Silver Zone Smart Kid GK Olympiad were presented medals and certificates for their achievements. The students won a total of 5 gold, 13 silver and 4 bronze medals. Homa Siddiqui of Class VIII has been presented ` 10,000/- and Shyam Agarwal of Class IX has won ` 7,500/- after competing with their counterparts from India and abroad.

Asharfabad Campus

Atharv Tiwari of Class V won the first prize in dance competition at Bal Utsav organised at Rai Umanath Bali auditorium.

Students' teams won prizes in A-Capella and declamation competitions at Interfaith Harmony Week organised by the campus.


Students of the campus visited Regional Science City Centre for learning and doing experiments.

Students participating in generation Global Video Conference "talking to" students in Pakistan

Anand Nagar Campus

World Sparrow Day

Gomti Nagar Campus I

Pre-primary students celebrating World Pet Day
Pre-primary kids' first day to school in the new session
International Day of Happiness

Suhani secured the seventh position in the Saevus Natural Capital Olympiad conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India in association with the Classmate. She was awarded a gold medal and cash prize of ₹ 1,000/-. Raman Vatsal Misra, Shivi Singh, Shrestha Singh, Khushi Agarwal, Prakhar Verma, Shreya Agarwal, Priyanshi Singh, Karishma Singh, Arpit, Yash and Sakshi also received medals and certificates in school category.

Gomti Nagar Campus II

Muskan Singh of Class IX won the second prize in the Artificial Flower Decoration competition, (category 17) held at Raj Bhawan, Rajkiya Udyan, Lucknow.

A team of 16 students of the campus attended a workshop titled 'Storytelling from Mesopotamia to the moon' organized by the Department of English and other foreign languages, University of Lucknow. The workshop was conducted by Prof. Martin Puchner from the Harvard University.

Principal, Mrs Sangeeta Banerjee and Junior Section Coordinator, Mrs Maseerah Arif attended the Classroom Based Research Mela organized by the British Council at Ambedkar University, Lodhi Road Campus, New Delhi on 11 March 2018. Ms Jemima Hughes, Ms Amy Lightfoot, Dr Amol Padwad from Ambedkar University and Mr Richard Smith, Academic Advisor to teacher research mentioning schemes in Latin America and India were the facilitators at the event.


Varuni Hazra, student of Class VIII, won the first prize in the State Level Painting competition organised by the Central Groundwater Board, Northern Region. She won a cash prize of
₹ 6,000/- and will be going to Delhi to represent Uttar Pradesh in the National level Round.

Spell Bee, G.K. Quiz, Storytelling, Talent Hunt Contests were held at the campus in pre-primary section between 19 February to 5 March 2018.

Yoga Workshop for teachers conducted at the campus
Pre-primary students’ first day in new session

Rajendra Nagar Campus I

Divyansh Vaish of Class II won a silver and a bronze medal in the Gymnastics competition organized at Vibgyor High School.

Zaid Ahmad, Dev Agarwal and Syed MD Ibrahim of Class IV, Lakshya Pant and Mariyam Alvi of Class V, Akshat Awasthi of Class VI and Kashish Agarwal of Class IX were awarded Certificates of Distinction for their performance in the International Benchmark Test organised by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

Mariyam Alvi of Class V was awarded a participation certificate for her participation in 'Be the Next Shakespeare' contest of creative writing organized by Nav Bharat Times.

Rajendra Nagar Campus II

Farzaan Ahmad of Class VII was awarded the Certificate of Distinction in English in International Benchmark Test (IBT) conducted by ACER. His Percentile Rank in India is 93.7 and in IBT International is 86.1.

Rajendra Nagar Campus III

Students of the campus performing an item at World Unity Satsang
First day to the school in news session

Holi celebration at the campus
International Day of Happiness