The newsletter summarizes the activities that took place at Cathedral Vidya School in September. It discusses the success of students in academics and sports, as well as events like Teacher's Day celebrations, the CIMUN conference, swimming and basketball competitions, a book fair, and Hindi Divas. It highlights individual accomplishments and recaps the fun and learning that occurred through various extracurricular activities over the month.

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NEWSLETTER SEP 16’ | Volume 8 | Issue 9
Warm Greetings!
We welcome you yet again to
another issue of the Newsletter.
This month has been a fun-filled
month where students have not
only vested their interests in various
workshops and projects in the field
of Academics but excelled
wonderfully in the field of Sports.
Many of the students have brought
back laurels and bagged positions
which duly are in need of admiration
and encouragement.
Every day we at CVSL encounter a
complete new enthusiasm and zeal
in various facets of teaching as well
as student life. I am sure each
student here will gladly vouch for
that. It’s a home away from home!
The various activities and events
held this month retributed a whole
new workmanship and
camaraderie among all. We at
CVSL wish each and all of you a
wonderful and peaceful Dussehra.
Teacher’s Day
The copious of entertainment –
“Teacher’s Day”! A day we all
relished and celebrated
together as one family.
All the students came together
and planned to do something
really memorable for the
teachers. The teacher’s day
started off with a very graceful
and energetic dance performance
by the Junior and Senior students
followed by some melodious
songs sung by our very own In-
House Nightingales.
There was a wonderful video
made by a student which marked
the significance of each and every
teacher in school. There were
even acts which consisted of
figure skating, classroom dramas
and a lot more. The effort put in
by the students was really
cherished by all the teachers and
was a moment of pride for them
to see how beautifully we
showcased our love for them.
The program took an interesting
turn when the teachers were
made to play a few games. In the
first game, they had to dance on a
newspaper which was a sight to
watch. The second game was a
‘Hidden – hint’ game, where they
had to get the list of things that
were announced by the host. The
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between two teachers and it was
the highlight of the entire show.
We got to see the fun side of
every teacher and I’m very sure
that every student picked up a
step or two.
It was pretty evident that this
was one day that would remain in
the memory of all the teachers
forever as it was a very
heartwarming experience for
them to see their kids put up such
a great show.
-Harshita Shetty (Grade IB 2)
Grade IB 2
CIMUN 2016
One of the most awaited events
of the year by the students of
Cathedral Vidya School, Lonavala
is CIMUN and this year, like
always, lived up to its hype. It is a
Model United Nations held in the
campus of our school. It was held
on the 9th of September and
went up till the 11th of
September.
This Year we had
five committees:
UNODC (United Nations Office
on Drugs & Crime): With Director
Mugdha Nikam and Deputy
Directors Dhruv Shah
andTehseen Contractor, UNODC
is filled with debates and
discussions about drugs and
their affect on the youth.
DISEC (Disarmament
International Security Council):
With Director Aryan Gupta and
Deputy Directors Vardhan Gupta
and Punya Sethi; this Committee
had a good blend of first time
MUNers and experienced
MUNers. This Committee had
caucuses upon caucuses about
Drone regulation and Nuclear
Weapon regulations.
IGF (Inter-Galactic Federation):
With Director Suraj Harjani and
Deputy Director Angad Yadav,
IGF being one of the smallest
committee with only 10 people
was also given the label of “The
Most Successful Committee” in
CIMUN 2016. The IGF is a
Committee based in the future
and is an exclusive Committee to
the Cathedral Vidya School. The
agendas for this Committee were
combating the IGEA (Intergalactic
Extremist Association) and the
weaponry reform.
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FIFA (Federation International de
Football Association): With
Director Abhinav Mitra and
Deputy Directors Beomsik Park
and Kashish Dewnani, FIFA was
the Committee with the most
number of Delegates. The
Agenda for this Committee was
money being invested in Football
and Hooliganism.
International Press: With
Directors Ishita Bhardwaj and
Ojasvini Dahiya and Deputy
Directors Chessica George and
Kiara Lakdawala, the press was
told to write, shoot or even draw
cartoons about something they
saw or thought was intriguing.
Like every year it was a hard
task for them to remove the
press issues but in the end they
were successful, just like every
other year.
Everyone had a blast and had
millions of memories to take
along with them. We had two
socials after the sessions were
over, both with 2 different
themes. The one held on the first
night was “Bollywood Night”.
Everyone came up to the floor
and danced till their feet were
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the school, the second party was
“the Delegate Dance” where
everybody came wearing formals
and brought along with them a
partner to enjoy the night.
Finally we had the closing
ceremony, with the Chief Guest
A.B Ravi, an Editor of CNBC TV
18, giving us an inspiring speech.
This was followed by the most
awaited moment of CIMUN- the
Award Ceremony. Finally
everybody left the hall and
everything was back again to
normal. Phew, what a long and
tiring weekend!
-Angad Yadav (Grade IX B)
26th St. Ann’s High
School & Junior
College, Nigadi
Swimming – State
Level Swimming
Competition
Six students from CVSL had been
chosen to take part in the 26th St.
Ann’s State Level Swimming
Competition held at Shree Shiv
Chatrapati Krida Sankul
Swimming Pool in Pune.
Regardless of extreme weather
conditions the kids practised
hard to compete with the fierce
competitors at the competition.
Competitors came from almost
every club from nearby districts
to participate in such an
astounding competition. Six
students from our school
participated in different
categories. 4 students
participated under-16 and 2 more
girls participated in the category
above 16. It was an open category
for girls and boys aged above 16.
They began their journey at 7:30
am on a frosty morning and
headed straight to the stadium at
Pune. It was bewildering to see
so many participants already in
the water practising in the 50
mts. pool. All of us got into water
and took few laps so we could get
used to the length.
Finally the announcement desk
declared the opening of the 26th
State level Swimming
Competition and lit the lamp.
The events started from Under-8
breast stroke boys and as time
went by it reached to under 14
100mts breaststroke which was
Ayush Haate’s event of Grade
9 and he finished it
by 2:18:29 seconds achieving
4th Position in his heat. Soon
under 16 - 100mts breaststroke
3
was Shridhar Mundra’s event and
he achieved 3rd position in his
heat.
Followed by girls under 16,
Priyanka Ganji and Kayya Megas
came 2nd and 4th in their heat.
Savannyah and Preeti Ganji
secured 2nd and 4th position in
their heats.
Finallly in the backstroke,
Savannyah was the only one to
participate in the above 16
category securing 2nd position in
her heat. After that, we all took
rest until Freestyle was about to
start, under 14, 200mts freestyle
boys was Ayush Haate’s event
and he secured 5th position in his
heat with 4:30:13 sec and under
16 boys was Shridhar Mundra’s
event in which he came 4th in his
heat with 4:16:53 sec.
Under 16 girls, Priyanka Ganji had
secured 3rd position in her heat
with 3:53 sec and in the girls open
event Preeti Ganji and Savannyah
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heats with a timing of 1:31:29
sec and 1:29:58 sec.
The closing ceremony was done
by the club authorities. They
awarded medals and certificates
to the winners. As the
tournament came to an end
everyone was overjoyed with
such a triumphant end to a
wonderful experience.
-Sports Dept.
Basketball Districts
On 7th September 2016 a team of
12 girls (under 17) played three
basketball matches in Baramati,
Pune. The first match was against
Auxillium Convent School and the
girls won by 17 points, leading us to
the quarter finals. We had a match
with Powar Public School and the
score was14-4.
The last match of the day was the
Semi-Finals which was played with
the Sanskriti Bhukump School in
which CVSL won by 11 points. The
next day awaited the final match.
The match was a close call and
Baramati won by three points from
Cathedral. Three girls from the
team were further selected for the
state try outs.
On the other hand the under-19
Girls basketball team was geared up
for the districts held on the 8th of
September. After winning the
districts the previous year the team
got by qualifying for Semi Finals.
Everyone eagerly awaited sitting in
the shade for hours for their turn
to play as the scorching hot sun
was draining all the energy out of
the players. The team played two
matches in total, winning both the
matches to qualify for divisions.
Semi Finals: CVSL vs Ravi Krishnan
9-2
Finals: CVSL vs MIT Gurukul 15-1
After a fun and victorious encounter
at the Districts Level, the CVSL
team prepared for Divisions on
10th September with one day to
spare. Participating in last year’s
Divisions gave the team good
exposure to the kind of competition
to expect. The team played a total
of 3 matches with each match being
a knock out match. This increased
the pressure of winning each match.
Qualifier: CVSL vs Solapur Gramin-
23-1
Semi-Finals : CVSL vs PCMC ( Indira
National School )- 20-17
Finals :CVSL vs Pune City- 50-24
The team put in their 200% in the
finals but fell short to the Furgusson
School from Pune to secure 2nd
position in the Division Level.
We are proud to say that the
Basketball District and Division Level
was a successful tournament for the
4
CVSL under 19 girls team. All thanks
to the efforts of Mr.Bhushan and
Ms.Rizwana, the coach.
These matches were a wonderful
platform for the players to showcase
their talent and make their school
proud.
-Sports Dept.
Scholastic Book Fair
On 13th September, the famous
book retailer, Scholastic held a book
fair to promote reading in our school
between children of the Middle
School. It ended up being a huge
success and at the end of the day
you could see a brown paper bag in
every child’s hand with a book in it. It
had many books of different Genres
and for different reading levels that
could be read by the children of the
1st Grade right up till the 12th. This
made reading fun for everyone,
thanks to Scholastic.
-Angad Yadav (Grade IX B)
Hindi Divas
Hindi Divas is celebrated every year
on 14th of September throughout
the country to pay tribute to the
official language of India. Students
of Grade 10th organized a special
assembly under the guidance from
one of our most experienced Senior
Hindi faculty member. The assembly
unfolded beginning with a prayer
and explaining how important our
National language is and why is it
that it is now fading away.

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Hindi is our National language and
we should respect and give honor to
it. Together with the economic
prosperity and technological
development in the country, the
language is losing its importance day
by day. Everyone wants to learn and
speak English in order to get success
in almost all the fields as there is
demand for the same. Language and
culture of any country plays an
important role in creating
intercultural relations between
countries. It reveals the history of
India from Ancient times and is the
key for our identity in the future. It
also plays a key role in uniting the
diversity in India. We should be
proud of our National language and
never be reluctant while speaking it.
Students of Grade 10 put up a
wonderful assembly, and were
proud to celebrate the day
committed to their National
language. It was celebrated
wholeheartedly by all the students.
-Preeti Ganji (Grade 10 B)
Handball Districts
The Handball District Tournament
was buzzing with excitement. The
matches took place in Nira, near the
outskirts of Pune. The Cathedral
Vidya School played its first match
against team the ‘R.N.Vidyalaya
Bhor’ and won the match by 2 goals;
score being 4-2. The First goal for the
match was scored by Saloni Hariyani
and Sharon Biju continuing it by
scoring the next three goals.
The Final match was very intense;
played against ‘Mahatma Gandhi
Nira’. It was played under extreme
weather conditions. Though the
match was intense at the beginning
CVSL School won by a score 3-1;
Jaymala More scoring all of them.
Udita Balsara was the goal keeper
and saved some awesome goals.
The CVSL team did a great job and
their hard work turned out to be a
great success as they bought glory
to the school by winning the
Districts Championship 2016.
-Sports Dept.
Hindi Debate
The 8th Hindi Debate was held in the
School Auditorium on 21st
September, 2016. The Debate was
held for the seniors and juniors. The
Topic given to juniors was “Should
Non Vegetarian be part of our meal”
and for seniors the Topic was “Are
Celebrities good Role Models.”For
each topic 2 teams spoke - For the
motion and against the motion.
After every single speech, there was
a minute allotted when the other
participants had the chance to ask
questions to the speaker. Children
enjoyed, motivated and cheered
their House Participants.
Our honorable Principal, Dr. Aninda
Chatterji was invited on the stage to
address the gathering. He
acknowledged the efforts, and
courage of the participants for
speaking confidently on the stage.
Savage House, to everyone’s
surprise, secured the first position on
overall scores, followed by Wilson,
Palmer and Thomas respectively.
Finally, the great event of the day
dawned. Students and Teachers
headed out of the auditorium with
great a smile and towards the hostel
to continue with their daily routine.
-Vikram Koti Muarya (Grade XA)
Talent Show
On the 24th of September, the
Residential Staff of our school
organized a Talent Show where the
students show cased well-hidden
skills. Everyone was filled with awe
and wonder watching different
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joking to rapping, entertainment
really never got over that night.
It started off with the juniors
dancing on various songs, which got
all of us swaying on our feet to their
melodious tunes.
But Shamita Sood’s sensational
performance in Gymnastics shocked
and astonished one and all. The
seniors were no less. Ikshu’s
amazing voice filled every one with
contentment and peace. The
highlight of the night was Imran
Kapadia and Anay Sethi’s
performance on beat boxing.
The night came to a fantastic end
by a dance performed by the IB-2
girls. And all the participants were
then given a chocolate and sweets
as a gesture of appreciation by the
teachers.
-Kavya Khanna (Grade 10 B)
Inter House
Badminton
Competition
The First Inter House event of the
year was also one of the most
eagerly anticipated events of the
year- Inter House Badminton. It kick
started in the evening of the 24th of
September. There were 2 categories
in girls and 3 categories in boys.
A total of 4 players were
representing each House in each
category. A singles match, a doubles
match and if a last singles match was
to be played if the series was in a
stalemate. The participation from all
the houses was tremendous and the
matches started off to a lot of
cheering from all the Houses.
Some of the matches were intense
and very close, while some were one
sided. At the end of two exhilarating
days the results were as follows-:
Over all the winner was the Palmer
House.
Category Winner
Junior Girls Palmer House
Senior Girls Palmer House
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Sub-Junior Wilson House
Boys
Junior Boys Wilson House
Senior Boys Palmer House
-Sports Dept.
Guest Lecture by
Ashish Chawan
On Saturday, 24th of September, we
had the wonderful opportunity of
attending a Guest lecture by
Criminal lawyer Ashish Chawan who
came to our campus to talk about
being a lawyer and careers related to
law.
It started off with the High-School
students gathering in the AV Room
awaiting the guest lecturer eagerly.
After Mr Chawan arrived we were
given a presentation about how to
become a lawyer right from getting
into law school, to the types of
lawyers we can become after
Graduating. There was also
information about what subjects we
should take in school that will help
us. Good law schools, different types
of lawyers and time it takes to
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Finally we had a Question-Answer
session which had many kinds of
different and intriguing questions
like “How does it feel like to
interrogate criminals?” and
“Minimum time it takes to become a
lawyer?”
Following the Question-Answer
session, there was the morning tea
break and then the students were sent
off to their respective clubs. This
complete session was an eye opener
for many. A quote that comes to mind
“The end of law is not to abolish or
restrain, but to preserve and enlarge
freedom. For in all the states of
created beings capable of law, where
there is no law, there is no freedom.” –
John Locke
-Angad Yadav (Grade IX B)
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