Isha Home School

Take Me Out to the Circus

August 3, 2017

It was class as usual for the juniors on the 17th of July, till right after lunch, when a meeting was called for and it was revealed that we were going to the circus!

The energy was buzzing as we made our way to the venue, where shortly after getting seated, the performance began. There was a juggler throwing all kinds of things in the air, catching and releasing them with rhythm and grace; acrobats jumping up and down while doing impossible feats with their bodies!

Just as they returned behind the curtains, a few clowns walked around, creating a wave of excitement among the little ones. Sanjana, Kenzie, Nirav, Dharane, and Sarvesh were all called up onto the stage. They were to be the stars of the next performance! “Usually I am scared of clowns, but these clowns were the good ones,” said Sanjana, after she performed an applaudable feat of jumping ropes!

Dangerous stunts proceeded, with a few performers balancing their body weight on sharp spears, bikers riding upside down in a steel sphere, and the trapeze artists flying in the air from one bar to another! The show ended with great applause from the juniors, some secretly wishing to attempt the stunts they had just seen.

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Sports Day 2

August 2, 2017

The second sports day of the term was power packed to the max! The morning started with a Junior School football match. It was a sight to watch all the little feet run after the ball. Both teams – Chola & Hoysala vs Kaktiya & Maratha, were evenly matched, so much so that after 30 minutes of play, the game went to a penalty shootout. Chola & Hoysala emerged victorious through the nerve racking experience, to win the game 2-1. Aariyamaan was once again named the player of the match.

Next up, was the introduction of a new sport to the Sports Day lineup, Basketball! The Senior School boys competed in this high octane match to help add points to their team’s total tally. After forty minutes of insane three pointers, rebounds, steals and free throws, Kakatiya & Maratha beat Hoysala & Chola 62-59 to be named the first basketball champions. Aditya was awarded the player of the match for his overall score of 32 points.

Finally, it was time for the much-anticipated game of the day, the Senior School girls Volleyball – Kakatiya & Chola vs Hoysala & Maratha. Neither team was willing to give up and the scores remained even through most of the game. Hoysala & Maratha held their nerve to win the match 26-24, 28-26. Deeksha was named the player of the match.

After yet another action packed sports day, the scores are as follows:

Maratha – 95

Hoysala – 70

Chola – 65

Kakatiya – 40

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Visit to the Regional Science Centre

August 2, 2017

On the 18th of July, the automobile and science TED students went to the regional science museum of Coimbatore to understand what our TED is about and to get an idea about what we are going to do. The science TED students decided on what type of experiments they will do based on the ideas they got from the museum. In the museum they were entranced by the experiments that had been done and were kept on display: the Infinity Pool and Foucault’s Pendulum. They learned how these simple objects and theories they used every day can make such interesting, complex, beautiful and of course, mind blowing experiments. Meanwhile, the automobile TED students explored the different type of gears and machines that had been opened and made easy to understand. After racking their brains, having fun and exploring all of the park, the teachers treated the students with a trip to Hot Chocolate after all their hard work of processing so much new information. All in all, the students enjoyed their trip to the science park and are looking forward to doing the experiments and taking apart machinery.

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AGLOA National Tournament 2017

August 2, 2017

Isha Home School (IHS) sent a team comprising seven students – Tejasvi, Aditi Iyer, Maya, Praajita, Shrilekha, Viveka, and Kaavya – to the US to join over 1,000 students to compete in the Academic Games League of America’s (AGLOA) National Tournament, known simply as Nationals. The 3rd place finish in one of the five games of the IHS elementary team, named Made in India, shocked many as the only team outside of the US knocked one of the nation’s top teams out of the playoffs. Additionally, their outstanding performance in Equations earned them an honourable mention while Maya received an award for going undefeated in WFF and Viveka in Linguishtiks.
Their trip to the finals was no cakewalk. Late into the Nationals it appeared that the girls would be returning empty handed for the third year in a row. A tenacious start in their strongest two games was met with a series of setbacks as the team was edged out of the playoffs in both WFF and On Sets by five points each. Adding to injury, Maya was eliminated from perfect score contention in On Sets by a single point and Viveka by two.
An uninspiring start in the opening rounds of the remaining games signalled that the chance of any success was bleak. Redoubling their efforts, however, the team rallied in the final two rounds securing a trip to the playoffs in Linguishtiks. At the end of the first playoff round, the IHS team was left tied with one of the toughest teams in the country for a trip to the finals which would be decided by a head-to-head, sudden-death match. Demonstrating their mettle, the IHS team nearly swept their way into the finals tying one match and winning the other four outright.

“Holding my thinker [trophy] made the three years of training totally worth it.” — Praajita
“I was surprised that an all-girls team was the first IHS team to make it to the finals.” — Maya
“We shocked everyone making it to finals in the English grammar game. Many of our opponents didn’t think we spoke English.” — Aditi

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Creating Ripples Through Thought-Provoking Theatre

July 16, 2017

14-Jul: Senior Students were treated to a night of theatre. Mumbai-based theatre group The Blind and The Elephant performed an original play entitled Ripples which was inspired by the pre-independence Indian educator Gijubhai Badheka’s classic on education, Divasvapna (written in the 1920s).

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riters: Harsh Desai & Gerish Khemani
Director: Gerish Khemani

Production Manager: Priyanka Babbar
Cast: Gerish Khemani, Varun Vazir, Chirag Lobo, Barkha Fatnani, Vaishnavi RP, Amol Kulkarni, Sagar Gholap

Crew: Niranjan Jadhao

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