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"The Rhythm of Life"
Beating Pollution with Recycled Materials
![]() On September 5th, our school participated in the National Creative Percussion Competition 2009. In this competition not only did we have to make the instruments with recycled materials but had to produce beautiful music out of them too. We started off by collecting water cans, bottles, glasses, combs, buckets and a few dust bins. The percussion along with the rain stick instruments were very innovatively designed by Mrs. Meher Verghese, our Art Teacher .The latter was a cylindrical shaped cardboard piece with incisions on the sides where rulers had been inserted to obstruct the flow of the grains of rice which had been poured inside. ![]() This produced the sound of falling rain. When each of these instruments was played separately, it produced a sound which wasn t music to the ears but when played together, it was absolute symphony. We were eighteen studentsin our group and our Music Teacher, Mr. Anand Dhamelia, who apart from being our coach was also the composer of the piece. Our costume consisted of plain white T-shirts and jeans and we used phone cards, broken CDs and rolled garbage bags with designs on them made with chocolate wrappers, as embellishments. We made some accessories out of plastic straws, groundnuts, scrubbers and silver foil. Our costume designer was also our Art Teacher. The auditions were at Ping Yi Secondary School. It went off smoothly. The judges appreciated our performance and we were very relieved and happy to be informed of our selection for the finals.![]() The Grand Finale was held at the Republic Polytechnic in Woodlands. After registration and a brief run-through, we went up on stage, not before giving each other a Best of Luck hug . In the contest there were two categories, senior and junior. We were in the junior category. A huge crowd was present there. Some of our teachers had come to cheer us. After an introductory speech by me, we took the stage ………by storm! The booming music of the various percussion instruments along with the energy that we displayed on stage left everybody spellbound. We felt it was great, but we could not be sure about the result. As all the schools performed very well, it must have been a tough time for the judges too. After holding on to our breath for a time that seemed endless, we got to know that, our school had got the second prize. It sure was a red letter day in our lives.
Anamika Rajiv
Class VI A "We love our teachers" Teacher s Day was celebrated with a lot of gusto and fanfare, ![]() what with preparations starting a fortnight earlier. Notwithstanding the Damocles sword in the form of the Semester Examination hanging over our heads and the demanding hours of study, we did not leave any stone unturned to make this day for all the teachers to remember. Happiness and laughter spilled out of the staff room and infected the entire school, with each class vying with the other in putting up their own performance on stage in the form of either a dance, a skit or a song. There were Bollywood dances with children swaying to popular numbers, one act plays and beautiful rendition of songs. The entire programme was overseen by Class XII, which made sure it was heartfelt and enjoyable with the message, We Thank You Teachers coming across loud and clear. Varsha Venkit
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