1. New Era Senior Secondary School
Annual report
2010
P re p a rin g
c itiz e n s
w ith
P rid e
Professional*Refle
ctive*Innovative
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Diverse*Effective
New Era Senior Secondary school

2. We show ourWe show our
academic prowessacademic prowess
again In 2010again In 2010

3. 5. NILESH
6. MADHAVAN
MALOLAN
7. CHITRAK
GANGRADE
8. SUNEEL MEENA
9. Many more in the
extended merit list
1. SHIVANI PATEL
2. ABHIJEET SINGH
3. KAUSHAL CHAWLA
4. GANESH KAVISHWAR

4. Excelling in academics has
become a trend
for New Era
32 students have
secured admissions to
different NITS
through AIEEE

5. Excelling in academics has
become a trend
for New Era
40 students also secured
admissions
through GUJCET
2 students selected through
AIPMT

6. Excelling in academics has
become a trend
for New Era
The school has a huge alumni and
all have them have excellently
settled in the careers.

7. Class XII board toppers
Shivani Patel(Science Stream)
Varsha Pathai(Commerce
Stream)
Gopi Shah(Arts Stream)

8. Class XII Subject Toppers:Class XII Subject Toppers:
(XII)(XII)
• Mathematics: Virat BhuptaniMathematics: Virat Bhuptani
• Physics: Abhijeet SinghPhysics: Abhijeet Singh
• Chemistry: Shivani PatelChemistry: Shivani Patel
• Biology: Nishant GuptaBiology: Nishant Gupta
• Biotechnology: Salila ChandorkarBiotechnology: Salila Chandorkar
• Engineering Drawing: Abhijit SinghEngineering Drawing: Abhijit Singh
• Computer Science: Shubham KumarComputer Science: Shubham Kumar

9. • Economics: Vinay UppinEconomics: Vinay Uppin
• Business Studies: Payal PurohitBusiness Studies: Payal Purohit
• Accounts: Sunidhi Jain, VinayAccounts: Sunidhi Jain, Vinay
UppinUppin
• Pol. Science: Urvi AroraPol. Science: Urvi Arora
• Geography: Aakanksha AhlawatGeography: Aakanksha Ahlawat
• Psychology: Gopi ShahPsychology: Gopi Shah
• Fine Arts: Gopi ShahFine Arts: Gopi Shah
•English: Shivani PatelEnglish: Shivani Patel

10. Standard X Toppers:
The following students have
secured a CGPA of 10:
1.Siddhant Mukherjee
2. Manvi Kapoor
3. Aditi Vyas
4. Harsh Patel

11. We go GLOBAL
Our partnership with the British schools
have been going strong.
There have been postal letters and E-
mail exchanges.
We had adapted and staged the poem
“The Flannel Isle’ .We filmed the skit
and sent it to Dumbarton Academy,
Glasgow. It was well appreciated.

12. We go GLOBAL
Our Swedish partner school teachers and
students came on a week long visit the school in
December.
A lot of academic idea exchange and cultural
exchange took place.
The students and teachers went on home visits
to see Indian homes
Some collaborative projects are planned by both
the schools to be undertaken soon

13. AACHIEVEMENTSCHIEVEMENTS
ATAT
NATIONALNATIONAL
LEVELLEVEL

14. Kajal Patel, Yashasvi Parikh, Rudrashish Pal,
Rudra Trivedi and Labdhi Shah
Won the national level competition for their
research on
‘The Comparative Study of Plant Biomass’
at
‘National Children Science Congress 2010’
organized by the Department of Science
and Technology, Govt. of India.
The teams research was appreciated by eminent
scientists like Prof. Yashpal

15. Out of the 700
projects
from all over the
country,
New Era
was selected
among the Top
30,
the research
Was awarded
the A+ Grade

16. 11 students
got selected
at
National level
at the
International Informatics Olympiad.

17. 25% students
Got ‘high distinction’ certificates
and more than
70% got distinctions
in the
Australian Chemistry Quiz 2010.

18. New Era
has been adjudged
the champion in
CBSE
Basketball clusters 2010
in U-19 girls category.

19. Meghna Dighe was adjudged
the ‘best upcoming player’.
She was also selected for U-14
training camp in Mumbai
for the Indian team
to be represented
at the

20. Meghna Dighe , Shikha Virdi,
Mirali Patel ,
Divya Prajapati , N.C Cauvery
stood first
in the U-16 and above 16
categories at
‘Khel Mahakumbh’.

21. Divya, Shikha ,
Mirali , N.C Cauvery
stood first in
U-19 Basketball championship at Kutch.

22. Mirali and Cauvery
stood first in U-17 category at Rajkot
They represented the
Baroda District Team

23. Jainil Trivedi
stood first in
Open Baroda Chess tournament
at the Baroda Chess Institute.

24. Atharva Joshi
got runner’s up trophy in
U-13 singles and doubles at
open Baroda badminton
championship.
His present ranking is third in U-13
category at Gujarat level.

25. Jiya Choudhary
got two silver medals and
secured second position in
17th
Inter Do-Jo
Karate championship.

26. The girls’ team
stood first in
U-19 basketball tournament
organized by SGFI,
The U-19 Reliance Cup,
&
The U-19 tournament at
Vidyani.

27. New Era bagged
winner’s trophy in
U-14 Inter School Basketball
tournament conducted by
Bal Bhavan.
Meghana and Neha
were selected for
Nationals.

28. Nehaa Pravin, Devjanee Mondal,
Kritika, Mudra, Meghna Dighe
were part of the winning team
at sub-junior basketball
state championship, at
Bhavnagar

29. Shrey Londhe
was selected for
RDC, Best Cadet
and
National firing competition
at Chandigarh.

30. Karan Shah
bagged the
‘Junior Sardar Patel Award’
for skating.
He has been awarded by the
Gujarat Government.
fourth time.

31. Nirva Patel
came
first
in girls
U-10
Open Baroda
Tennis Tournament.

32. Vihang Godbole and
C.V.Ramakrishna
got selected for
final round
of
quiz competition
conducted by
EICA

33. Yashashree Watkar
came
first
in district level
Science Seminar
held at
Community Science Center.

34. Vatsal Limbachiya
got
first position
and
Mitesh Rajput
got
second position in
“Bharat ko Jano – Prashna Manch”
organized by
Bharat Vikas Parishad.

35. Vinit Brahmbhatt
and
Richita Bannerjee
bagged first prize in
science model making
held at
Nalanda

36. Kajal and Kishan
won the second prize in the
Inter School PowerPoint
presentation competition
held at
Nalanda

37. Shubhi Gupta and Srilakshmi
won
second prize
in
Freedom-Cup debate competition
at
Chanderbala Modi Academy.

38. Shruti Warrier
got
first position
in 3-minute
talk show
at DPS, Harni.

39. Vaishali Rathore and Mansi Patel
bagged
first prize
for
environmental seminar
organized by
Socleen.

40. Preetdeepan Pradhan and Aneri Vora
won
first prize
in
Bournvita Quiz Competition.

41. TEACHERS’TEACHERS’
ACHIEVEMENTACHIEVEMENT
SS

42. The principal was invited
for the
International School Leaders summit 2010
at
Stockholm, Sweden.
She presented a paper on
‘Indian school leadership - issues &
challenges’.

43. Our principal was
invited for the
International Conference
on
‘excellence in school education’
at IIT, Delhi

44. Our principal was awarded
‘Best Principal’ award
By
National Science Olympiad.

45. • She was also invited by NCERT
to be a member of the
educationists to write teacher
training manuals for mathematics
• She conducted a 5 day workshop
on ‘Innovative Methods for master
trainers of North eastern region
to teach Mathematics’

46. CONTENUOUS COMPREHENSIVE
EVALUATION (CCE)
The School has been practicing CCE
for some time now.
Mrs. Kelkar has conducted
workshops on CCE in many schools
in Vadodara, delhi, Guwahati

47. Central Gujarat Sahodaya Complex
organized a a conference on
Mrs. Kelkar as the chair person of
Sustainable development

48. Mrs. Kelkar presented a paper on
economics education in schools at
the National Conference organized by
NCERT

49. Ms. Pradnya Gokhale has been chosen
as the British Council School
Ambassador.
Her role will be to promote the
different
British Council Programs in the Schools
in Gujarat.

50. She attended a conference
organised by TERI in Delhi.
Her lesson plan “Integrating
study of Environmental Issues in
curriculum” was adjudged as the
best lesson plan

51. Ms. Pradnya Gokhale has been
selected from all over India by
the British Council to present
her action research on Vedic
Mathematics

52. Mrs. Gokhale was adjudged the
Best innovative teacher in a
competition held by Gujarat
Nature Conservation Society.

53. Ms.Geetha Iyer & Ms.Sushmita Basu
presented a paper on
‘School Leadership for
Sustainable Development’
at the Sahodaya Conference

54. Ms. Sandhya Rai, bagged the
second prize in Inter-School
Teachers’ elocution competition
at Shannen school

55. Ms. Sushmita Basu, Ms. Manju
Vijayan and our Principal
attended a workshop on CCE
organised by CBSE

57. World of Math!
The school organized a
Vedic Math workshop
for all teachers.
It was conducted by
Mr. Mukund Mudholkar.

58. SCHOOLSCHOOL
EVENTSEVENTS

59. SCHOOL UNSTOPPABLE
We really showed how unstoppable we and
our parents can be! We collected

collected whooping 1700 kg of old
newspaper in“Pasti ki Masti” drive to buy
footwear and cupboards for a municipal
school

notebooks and helped our friends in the
municipal school

Pencils & erasers to help our friends in
municipal school

We sang, danced and played with them to
entertain them

60. Soaring in the Sky!!!
A workshop
on
rocketry was conducted
in school
to make children
learn the dynamics of
rocket flying.

61. Indian culture at its peak!!
The great diversity of Indian tradition
and religion was showcased
on the school ground
on Republic day.
Students of standard I to IV
exhibited delicious food specialties of different
states in India

62. New Year bash
Students of standard I to IV
organized
a party for grandparents
to mark the beginning of 2010!
Young chef’s of Std I and II served lip smacking
snacks to their Grandparents’

63. Remembering Vivekanand
The school students
participated in a rally with a tableau on
Swami Vivekanand & Parliament of
World religion
organized on his birth anniversary
12th
January,2011.

64. We are GREEN
The school is committed to promoting Green
Environment and takes lots of initiative in
creating conducive atmosphere wherein
students learn to care for their environment.
Frequent environment Education drives make
students motivated to maintain pollution free
green environment.
The school parents’ Green Hands Club is
expanding in number and advancing in its
efforts in this direction proving “Hum Kisise
cum nahin”

65. WORKSHOP ON PARENTING

66. We should not be
preparing our students for a
life of tests but for the test of
life.
By Art Costa