National Sports Day, which is celebrated on 29th August every year, is dedicated to the memory of renowned hockey player Major Dhyan Chand . He was known for his extraordinary ball control and goal-scoring feats, in addition to earning three Olympic gold medals, in 1928, 1932 and 1936, during an era where India dominated field hockey. His influence extended beyond these victories, as India won the field hockey event in seven out of eight Olympics from 1928 to 1964. Our school celebrated National Sports Day with much enthusiasm this year, starting with a speech about Major Dhyan Chand in the Assembly by Krrish Vikram Jain, the Assistant Sports Captain, who spoke about the significance of the date and also encouraged students to inculcate physical activity in their daily routine to keep themselves fit and healthy. Later, we had an exciting volleyball match between the teachers and the school volleyball team in which the teachers proved to be more sporty than our school team and thus won the match! For students of Classes III to XII , we had various fun activities throughout the week starting from 24th August to 29th August. The activities included a lot of games like kho-kho, head shoulder knee toe, seven stones, balance the ball, air hoopie, giant tic-tac-toe. We ended the celebrations with a hard fought tug of war between Classes XI and XII. The Sports Department planned and organized these activities and said that sports should be a part of everyone’s life.
ANON Global Foundation, an initiative to develop Mental Health and Lifestyle, organized an event called ANON Utsav on the 29th of July 2022 as they turned three. The event was organized at Apparel House, Gurgaon where our school’s Team Awaam was invited to perform a street play on one of the life skills. We chose Khrod (Anger, an act on how anger affects one mentally and physically) The three hour long event also saw dance, music, poetry and more from 14 other schools across Delhi. The guest of honor was Mrs Rema Alex Daniel, recipient of Delhi State Award & CBSE National Award and the Chief Guest was Mr J.P Saini, Vice Chancellor of Netaji Subhash University of Technology. The founder of ANON, Ms Aarti Girdhar praised our performers for their efforts and shared some insightful thoughts on how schools can contribute towards mental and physical well-being.Our student performers were Parthivi Bhatia and Viniti Sabharwal of VIII-B, Kavya Anand and Angad of class X, and Aarav Suri of class XII. The students were also felicitated with gifts and certificates of participation.
The Inter-House Sports Activities organised for classes IX-XII in the month of July included Badminton, Table Tennis and Cricket. In each of these the students showed excellent team spirit, competitiveness and well thought out strategy in order to advance their House points. RESULTS Sports Activity FIRST POSITION SECOND POSITION Cricket – Sr Boys Ekta House Shanti House Table Tennis – Sr Girls Shanti House Ekta House Table Tennis – Sr Boys Pragati House Shakti House Badminton – Sr Girls Shakti House Ekta House
The Inter-House Sports Activities organised for classes VI-VIII in the month of May included football and volleyball. The teams put in their utmost to make their House win. In volleyball too, each participant tried their best to not let the ball touch the ground and thus lose points. RESULTS Sports Activity FIRST POSITION SECOND POSITION Football – Jr Boys Pragati House Shakti House Volleyball – Mix Jr Category Shanti House Shakti House
The Inter-House Sports Activities organised for classes VI-VIII in the month of April included Badminton, Table Tennis and Cricket. The students played doubles and displayed great skills. Table tennis singles were also fought out with enthusiasm On the Cricket pitch, despite the lockdown, each student displayed teamwork and gave it their best shot. RESULTS Sports Activity FIRST POSITION SECOND POSITION Badminton – Jr Boys Shakti House Ekta House Badminton – Jr Girls Shanti House Ekta House Table Tennis – Jr Boys Ekta House Shanti House Table Tennis – Jr Girls Shanti House Pragati House Cricket – Jr Boys Shanti House Ekta House
Disha is an annual event organized by Project Saksham, a student led initative of Tagore International School Vasant Vihar, which aims to sensitize society especially the youth. In June 2022, over the course of three days, young people who are intellectually challenged, took part in various competitions organized by the volunteers of Project Saksham. These events boost the confidence of such youngsters and give them an opportunity to display their talents. Their art work, music, photography skills, food art and gardening efforts were all much appreciated by the judges and audience. Certificates of participation and appreciations were given to the participants. We received over 200 entries and all were unique in their own way. The judges commented that it was a tough competition but for them everyone went home a winner. The volunteers (Tishya Chandok, Gurmaan Singh,Vrinda Arora, Saanvi Awasthy,Viniti Sabharwal and Lavanika Nanda and others ) were delighted to see the smiles of their intellectually challenged friends. Disha 5.0 was indeed a special event which once again highlighted the service mindset and social outreach of TIS,VV.
Students of the school Eco Club project TerraTime, visited Samarpan School, in Vasant Kunj on 15th July 2022 to conduct a workshop on the management of plastic. TerraTime is an initiative to collect non-recyclable plastic and create eco-bricks out of them, which is then used to make furniture, such as tables and stools. Our students sensitized Samarpan School students from grades 4 to 6 about the ill effects of plastic and demonstrated how to make eco-bricks. The children from Samarpan were excited when each group made their own eco-bricks! They were enthused by the prospect of making their own eco-brick stools , chairs and other creative innovations at their own homes and in their school. An eco brick stool made by us was also presented to them.
Another impactful Gender Sensitization Workshop was conducted by Breaking Barriers campaigners for Soami Nagar Model School students of grades 9 to 12 on 16th July 2022. Our enthusiastic students are eager to create similar resource groups in other educational institutions.The workshop was conducted in collaboration with the High Commission of Canada , in two batches of one hour each, with more than a hundred students benefiting from this workshop. The workshop started with a short talk and video by the Deputy High Commissioner of Canada, Ms Amanda Strohan highlighting why such workshops are extremely important at youth level.Breaking Barriers is a youth level social initiative based on United Nations Sustainable Development Goal no. 4, Gender Equality. The focus of this sensitization workshop was: to reduce bullying and discrimination that happens at educational level. to spread awareness on human rights, equal opportunities and lgbt rights to raise empathetic humans who respect diversity in all forms and create a inclusive and just world for all to open dialogue and foster open mindedness right from a young age to offer a platform that allows conversations that were long treated as stereotypes