Annual Report
RIS Gandinagar Annual Report 2023-24
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.
A beautiful quote by “Swami Vivekananda”
We believe in nurturing our students into responsible citizens with strong characters, hence become the creator of their destiny.
The school, during the current academic year has added several feathers to its cap. We are proud of our students and teachers who strive hard beyond expectation.
Innovation is at the very root of our teaching pedagogy which has 4 petals.
The report for our 1st petal i.e. Academics:
We are indeed proud to announce 100% result of class 10th and we extend heartiest congratulations to our school topper Mohammad Vahora for a performance par excellence and 100% score in Mathematics.
Olympiad
Our students participated in Science, Mathematics, English, Hindi, General Knowledge, Social Science and Cyber Olympiads conducted at the National level and did us all proud by getting gold medals.
No. of students who participated in Olympiads are more than 250
We received 1 Gold medal of Distinction and 27 gold medal of Excellence
1 student got International Rank and 4 students got to 2nd Level
For IMO & Cyber Olympiad -results are awaited
Edubition-2023-24
Sustainable Development Goals, a much talked about and a universal call to action for 17 sustainable goals which was incorporated by CBSE as well in school activities to spread the awareness and let the young students know it in a better way and take their responsibility towards the world. This year again the students were at their eloquent best, leaving the audience awestruck. They spoke about all the 17 sustainable goals and tried presenting a solution for all the goals in their own ways.
Active learning
We encourage learning by doing having activities chapter wise to instill practical skills is our children.
Active learning is part of academics which we ensured to happen alongside the regular teaching learning process. This included dramatizations, role plays, games, small experiments, mathematical games etc. It also included the projects they made, the collaborative efforts to research, collect the information and present it together.
PTM
PTM on regular basis helped the parents to understand the progress and area of improvement of their wards.
Best Student and Teacher award was given every month for the best work and discipline showcased by them.
Educational visits
Educational visits are part of curriculum which were held at many places. Students visited IIT Gandhinagar for Science Expo & Tech Expo, Communal Harmony visit to various religious places, Dandi Kutir visit for ‘Mohan to Mahatma’ session, our preprimary also made lots of visits which included bakery, nursery visit and so on.
Book Fairs
To inculcate the habit of reading Gurjar Sahitya book fair was organized at RIS.
Robotics
Robotics, Block coding are the need of our future and keeping this in view, Robotics classes for grade 3-9 was introduced.
Report on our 2nd petal Physical education & Sports
Sports Activities
A healthy mind resides in a healthy body and that’s why our Students were encouraged to participate in sports.
RIS had collaborated with Pratibha Academy and the coaches for Football, Lawn Tennis, Cricket for helping the young sportsperson to learn the required techniques.
We regularly conducted Yoga and Karate classes apart from their regular games & skating periods. International Yoga Day was celebrated with our guest.
Archery session for grade 8-10 was organized in association with Pratibha Academy. Students learnt the skills with lot of dedication and concentration.
RIS also hosted Inter-school Wado Kai Karate Championship and gave opportunity to more than 600 students to participate and show their talent.
With the registration opening of Khel Mahakumbh, more than 200 registrations were done by RIS for students under various sports events. school level selection rounds for the enrolled students were started at school from last week.
Report on our 3rd petal Humanities:
CCA Activities
Co-curricular activities provided children opportunities to showcase their talents. Inter house and inter class competitions were conducted throughout the year which included singing, fancy dress competition, poem recitation, story telling, English & Hindi extempore, debates, elocution, poster making, quiz amongst many. Talent hunt gave them a platform to showcase their talent.
Creative marathons, Abhivaykti, Kilkariyas, Jhankar, Sparsh colouring competition were specially organized for the Preprimary.
Special Assemblies & Celebrations:
For the holistic development of our students many special assemblies were conducted like mathematics day, guru purnima, labours day …You can have a glimpse of a few of them. Also lots of celebrations like Janamastami, Ganesh chaturthi, Teachers day, children’s day, doctors day, Independence day, Navratri, Diwali , Christmas carnival etc. were celebrated.
Our pre-primary students celebrated various colours day, mothers day, grandparents day, Gandhi Jayanti, International mud day and so on…
Report on our 4th petal Life skills;
Awakened Citizen Program
RIS in association with CBSE & Ramakrishna Mission started with Awakened Citizen Program to know themselves and to know and practice the right and wrong from a very young age.
Super Saturdays
The Super Saturdays enhanced the creativity and pragmatic learning among our students and they got a lot of exposure to learn the values, skills and enhance their knowledge with various guest lectures, club activities and life skill programs.
Students participated in swachhata abhiyan and the school council election.
Connecting with society
Philanthropy must be inculcated amongst children from a tender age and we here at Rangoli International School are committed to it.
On the occasion of Plantation Drive, all the members of Rangoli planted saplings.
The basic sense of good touch and bad touch session was conducted for students of grade 1-3.
We as a team held a number of projects, for our students to give back to the society. Some of these projects were Samvedana- the joy of giving.
Students value-based visit also included an Old Age home where they met the grandparents and put their efforts to bring smiles on their faces. The donations collected for Help Age India boosted their will to help them.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship module is conducted every year for our young rangolians who aspire to do their own business. This time the module was conducted by our Principal Mrs. Anamika Anjaria. It is fun and enterprising to set up a business and run it, with all the financial risks in the hope of profit and we at Rangoli encouraged our young entrepreneurs to set up stalls during Christmas carnival.
Guest Lectures
A session on Basic Life Support to give CPR was conducted looking at the current health scenario.
Academic Enhancement session was conducted by Mr. Dankesh Oza for the students of 6-10.
Under the Vocal for Local initiative, guest from Swadeshi Jagran Manch were invited to address the students and to encourage local things.
Adolescence Health Academy, Ahmedabad(AHAA) conducted a crucial session on Adolescence and Parenting for student and parents.
Cyber awareness session was conducted by the students of NFSU students.
Session by Army officials to encourage the young children to know more about Indian Army.
Fire safety session for any emergency situation at home or school was conducted at RIS.
Guest lecture for Preprimary students were also conducted which included visit by Police personnel.
On Doctors Day, students got the opportunity to interact with doctors. They learnt their hard work and dedication.
Suryanamaskar Session was held recently for our students to start taking their health seriously and to start inculcating exercise in their daily routine.
Inter-School Competitions
Students participated in:
Heritage Fest – 3rd prize
Divyapath School Edufest – 2nd prize in mimicry & fancy dress.
Divine Fest – Group dance.
St. Xavier’s – Edufair for Science, LogiQuid exams etc.
TCS – English Essay Writing competition
Lion’s Club Peace Poster making competition – 2nd prize and consolation prizes.
Quest for Brilliance Quiz – 3rd prize among 26 schools.
Students during Navratri participated at Kesariya Garba and won best costume and best performer award.
Our students also participated in various Championships organized in state and outside State. One of our student participated in Boxing Championship held at Chennai, and won gold medal.
Students also participated in Gandhinagar District Chess championship and 2 of our students secured 5th position.
Our students who participated in Wado Kai Karate Championship brought laurels to school by winning 2 gold, 3 silver and 8 bronze medals.
2 of our students participated in Gujarat State level Karate championship and won gold medals.
Teachers’ Training
Various workshops were organized with an aim to keep teachers abreast with the latest trends in the field of education. Such interactions with top academia helps teachers to hone their skills further which in turn translates into better performance.
We had Workshop conducted by Capacity Building Programs introduced by CBSE. Apart from this various training programs conducted by the Rangoli Head Office and in association with our publishers.
Awards
This year we received lots of awards for our dedicated work in the field of education.
Our Principal Mrs. Anamika Anjaria got Top 100 Principals Award at Education Excellence Conclave Award.
Our Chairman, Mr. Prahar Anjaria was awarded and honoured by Dr. Kalam International Foundation in the category of Skill Guru Excellence and
Our Principal, Mrs. Anamika Anjaria was awarded and honoured in the category of Leadership Excellence at DKIF Education Summit & Awards 22-23.
RIS Gandhinagar has been ranked 5th by Education World India School Rankings 2023-24.
National School Award has honoured RIS with Educational Excellence Award-2023 for our exemplary work at National School Awards-2023 Zonal-E.
RIS got recognized for Holistic development for students by ArdorComm*
Our Chairman Mr. Prahar Anjaria was facilitated on the eve of Women’s day under category of “Women Empowerment by Men”
Conclusion
To conclude with, at RIS we not only are in the process of making our future citizens but creating the responsible citizens who understands their responsibilities for a sustainable development and work towards the betterment of the environment they are staying in. We have aligned our curriculum ensuring holistic development of students as per NEP 2020. At closing, I would like to echo the words of the famous painter, sculptor and poet Michel Angelo….who said “I saw an Angel in the marble and I carved until I set her free.” Jai Hind & Jai Bharat
