Achievements Galore

A Report by the Principal — Cultural Nite 2004

Greetings Everyone

Perfection is gained through practice. And by our work, we understand the importance of doing so by visiting the vast proximities of the outside world. In the course of this year, the Abhyasa family has bagged laurels in several Inter-school competitions apart from participating in various work-shops on education and technology and visits to places of intellectual interest like the Intel® Science Fair, CCMB etc.

Academics at Abhyasa has always been a supreme pursuit towards excellence. This year has proved to be a fruitful one by the efforts of young minds.

Following are our achievements:

National Awards

Abhyasa was one of the chosen 20, among prestigious schools in our country to be bestowed a 'National Award' by the Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, Kanchipuram.

Out of the 680 schools which participated in a conference, Abhyasa was chosen for its ‘Creative techniques in classroom teaching.' In fact, the National Centre for Research and Development in Education Science and Technology, with eminent educationists has invited Abhyasa to participate in the society's programmes all over the country - to propagate effective, creative and new methods of teaching at the school level, to enable the children all over to succeed in their learning process. Out of the chosen 20, Abhyasa is the only school to be invited for the society's programmes, all over the country. Happiness shared is happiness doubled ! Indeed an occasion to celebrate!

Introduction of ISC - Class XI

Abhyasa joined the ISC fold with the commencement of class XI with XI students —choosing the following optional groups — Maths, Biology, Physics, Chemistry; Biology, Physics & Chemistry with Bio-technology and Commerce, Accounts and Economics. A total of 27 candidates appeared for the JCSE March 2003, conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi — Abhyasa secured 100%.first classes with 70% distinctions.

Science Quiz

Abhyasa's exhibit showcasing the importance of bio-technology and information technology was:

Awarded the first position for best exhibit in satyamotsav - in which almost 20 top schools from all over South India participated

Awarded the second best position in the category of Information Technology . The District Science Fair, organised by the Department of Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh at the Medak town, in which more than 600 schools from all over the district participated.

Off to Mars

Abhyasa bagged the second position for its creative power point presentation organized by IL & FS Education & Technology Services Ltd. integrating the use of Technology and multimedia with participation from 45 schools across the city. Abhyasa's presentation entitled 'Living on Mars', included imaginary and creative illustration of life on the Planet Mars,

Sports

Abhyasa carved a niche for itself in the sports arena, by playing host for the A.? State Regional ISC & ICSE Sports Meet'2003 in which around 50 schools from all over Andhra Pradesh participated. Abhyasa was lauded not only for the fair conduct of the sports meet but also setting a record with the least expenditure incurred on the event with its strict financial discipline,

Now for our medals tally in the Meet:

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Swimming (50 mts)	1	1
Swimming (100 mts)		1	2
Swimming (200 mts)		1	1
Discus throw	1
Shot put			1
5 km walk	1	1
3 km walk			1

Five of our students were selected to represent Andhra Pradesh in the National meet held at Lucknow in Oct'2003 Master Jayesh Kariya returned with a bronze in swimming.

Hyderabad District Meet

Event	Andhra Pradesh Library Association, Hyderabad.
Javelin Throw	First
Discus Throw	Second
Chess	Fourth

Three of our students have been selected in the bowling competition organised by Loyola Cricket Academy to represent Hyderabad League Cricket (Under 7).

Learning is a process with a lot of experiences. These experiences are brought to life by a variety of activities. Our achievements in the fields of Art, Cultural and Literary are as follows:

Horlicks Kool Skool Fest 2003

Sponsored by Horlicks in which around 50 reputed 'schools from all over the twin cities participated. There were around 40 events in which Abhyasa bagged the following positions:

Event	Position
Short Play	First
Essay Writing (Hindi)	First
Mehendi Design	First
Flower Arrangement	First
Cartooning	First and Third
Hair Styling	Second & Third
Essay Writing (English)	Second
Collage	Second
Air-crash	Second
Calligraphy	Second
Fusion Group Dance	Third
Vegetable Carving	Third

Ms. KAVITA QUALIFIED FOR THE FINAL ROUND OF Mr. & Miss Activity. (a personality contest which was based on overall abilities and life skills of students) in which around 45 students participated out of which Ms. Kavita qualified among the first five finalists.

Satyamotsav'2003

First position in Science Quiz.

Second position in drawing.

Nachiketa Tapovan Drawing competition

About 50 schools from the twin cities had participated in which we hugged the Second in drawing competition.

Latest Achievement

An Organization Sanskriti had conducted a National Level Art Competition and the following are the Awardees:

Bapuji Sanskritik Puraskar	Apurva Gaddam, Class IV.
Prathibha Puraskar	Trisha Reddy, Class IV
	-Keerthi Pidathala, Class V.
	G. Charith, Class III.

In all, 2400 paintings from all over the country were received.