श्री शंकर मठम् आयोजित संस्कृत श्लोक पठण स्पर्धेत साक्षी पालांडे या इयत्ता ४थी /ब मधील विद्यार्थिनीने तृतीय क्रमांक पटकावला.
अभिनंदन!!
Monday, December 18, 2017
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Sports day - An integral part of School Life
‘Sports’- the word itself encourages and energizes us! Our School, VPM’s Vidya Mandir has always valued the role of sports in the progress of its students. Our physical fitness teachers Mr. Shirke, Mrs. Neha and all other teachers make sure that all the students are active in sports and in other extracurricular activities. Our school recently hosted its Annual Sports Meet 2017-18 with more than two hundred students participating in it. The event took place on the school ground on 30th November and 2nd December, 2017.
All the participating studentsand the teachers assembled on the school ground at 7:00 a.m.The students were very excited and eagerly waiting for the sports events to start. The Chief Guest for the event was Mr. Mhambrey, a football enthusiast and a champion in his college days and true lover of sports. Some of the other notables who attended the event with him were our Headmistress, Mrs. Tharval and our school committee member Mrs. Sonali Joshi.
The programme started with a welcome song. Then the honourable Chief Guest hoisted the Olympic flag and the National Anthem was sung. Thereupon, the teachers proudly announced the names of the students who had shown excellent performances in sports in interschool, district, state and national level championships. The sportsman’s oath was taken by Ms.Aditi Bane, who had represented the school in interschool Kho-Kho matches. This was followed by the ‘Lighting of the Torch’ ceremony.The torch was proudly carried all around the ground in the form of a relay by the athletes who had represented the school in variousevents. The Chief Guest gave an inspiring speech wherein he spoke about the dedication of stalwarts such as Sachin Tendulkar and Sakshi Malik.He called upon the participants to play in the true spirit of sportsmanship.
The first sports event, 50 metres running under-12 boys, was started off by the whistle blown by Mr. Mhambrey. On the first day of sports, i.e. on 30th November, 2017 only individual sports events such as 50m. running, 100 m. running, 200m. running, shot put, long jump etc. were conducted. On 2nd December, 2017, the second day of sports, group events, namely Langadi matches for V and VI and Kho-Kho matches for Std. VII to X, division wise, were held. This ensured maximum participation of students. Several others had come to cheer for their friends. The final rounds of these matches were immensely thrilling and the winners were able to claim the trophy after a nail-biting finish.
At the end of all the exciting events, awards, that is, medals for individual events and trophies for team events, were distributed to the winners. AHM, Tharval madam proclaimed that all the participants were winners as they had played a fair game. The Vote of thanks was given by Neha miss. The Sports Meet concluded with the lowering of the Olympic flag. Everyone had had a great time! The winners went home proudly and the others went with a resolve to do better next time.
These two days will remain in the minds of students forever..!!
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Your dream career
- by Akash D. Parab – X B
Doctors, Engineers, CAs, ……we have so many of them around us. And we students are often told, ‘Study well so that you become an engineer or doctor’. We grow up to believe that all careers start and end in medical and engineering. So you have around you many ‘future’ doctors and engineers. However what if I say that some ‘new and different careers exist’? Disk Jockey (DJ), Radio Jockey (RJ), Stand Up Comedian, youtuber (earning money through one’s own youtube channel), blogger (writing and developing content on the internet), vlogger (traveling to different places and giving information of that place by creating video and uploading it on social media), digital media buyer (buying bulk advertising space for clients on social media platforms and websites for advertising purposes), landscape designer (designing landscape gardens for huge housing projects and companies), sommelier (wine taster), food writer, travel writer, sports nutritionist, app developer …. The list is endless.
I am sure many of us are not aware of these careers. We all have somehow not searched for career options beyond engineering, CA and medical. Many people stumble upon such ‘different career options’ when they fail to find job satisfaction in their regular engineering or medical or commerce related careers. When you are passionate about something and really love doing it from your heart, you end up taking your passion as your means of earning money.I am sure many of you have seen the movie ‘3 Idiots’. We saw in the movie that one of the character wants to be a wild life photographer but is toldby his parents to become an engineer and hence takes admission in an engineering college. Finally he finds that if he does not pursue what he likes (wild life photography), he may become an engineer but a bad one not the best one. He thought instead; why not follow my heart and be the world’s best wild life photographer? My father gave me a similar example. He is in advertising. He knows people who are good at writing ads (called copywriters) and who were science graduates or engineers or CAs or researchers but loved writing. Ultimately they switched careers to become successful copywriters. We find many such people around us. People who give up well paying jobs to take jobs with work they love doing. Those who suppress their passions remain in jobs they don’t like and face dissatisfaction and stress in their jobs. So you may often come across a well educated person struggling in his career and a comparatively less educated person doing well in his chosen field. I am not suggesting at all that we should not take degrees or not become engineers and doctors. But it is important to ask ourselves whether we would love be an engineer, a doctor or somebody totally different.
The point which I want to make here is that we need to find what we are good at and match it with a job profile or career. Unlike a few years back, today we come across many courses and degrees offered by training institutes all over India which can help us make the right career choice. So a student with flair for writing can be a blogger or content writer on the subject of his choice. If you love eating, be a food writer. If you love plants start a nursery or become a landscape designer. If you love tea, become a professional tea taster.
Whatever your liking, start searching a career that matches your passion or liking. Take the help of internet, read books, read newspapers, you will get a wealth of information. I know you may have questions. Will my liking help me earn well? What is the guarantee that I will be successful? Well, first let me tell you what I have heard my parents and elders tell. They believe A) nothing in life comes easy. Hard work, discipline and maintaining good relations with people around is very important. Even a stand up comedian needs to work hard and be disciplined in his practice to make people laugh. B) Concentrate on giving your best in whatever you do, fame and fortune will automatically follow and C) No education goes waste
Finally I would like to end by saying that your dream career or job should be one you would love doing every day and find great satisfaction in it. We may come across our dream career either early or late but we need to start searching for it. Each one of us has talent, likings and skills we are born with. We should try and find that hidden liking or talent. That I think is real education. Finding what we are good at and using it for the good of society and ourselves.
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