Greenlawns High School, Warden Road
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ CLUB
As it is rightly said that “Knowledge is power” the GK quiz club aims to empower the students with this power while at the same time inculcate a healthy bout of curiosity to keep them aware on the current events The GK Quiz club aims towards creating awareness about ongoing happenings in India and the world. It gave an opportunity to identify students talented in quiz and encourage them to sharpen their quizzing skills The club aims to incuicate the a passion for gaining as well as sharing knowledge. The GK Quiz club had students from standard VIl to Standard IX. Besides just organizing regular quizzes on various topics ranging from current affairs, history,geography,literature etc. We at the club also discussed with the students methods and ways to organize a quiz activity which would get them the training required to become quiz masters on future occasions . All the students were organized into teams in order to encourage a competitive spirit. On several occasions
students from different teams were asked to collaborate while making and posing questions, thus encouraging them to co-ordinate and work as a team rather than an individual. Overall the quiz club thus gave the students chances to test their ability to recollect the knowledge they already possessed and also encouraged a sense of curiosity to lear more about varied topics that were opted by students as per their interest.
Teachers in- charge
Ms Farhanaaz and Ms Pratibha
Greenlawns High School, Warden Road
CYBER CHALLENGE CLUB
The cyber challenge club has been introduced with the aim of making computers fun activity and more interesting for students in this digital era.
Club Activities:
- Animations using Scratch Programming
- Making crosswords, puzzles using Ms Word
- Fun activities using MSW Paint
- Making presentations using Ms Powerpoint
TEACHERS IN-CHARGE:
- Ms Lata
- Ms Manisha
Greenlawns High School, Warden Road
THROWBALL CLUB
The Throwball club is organised for Girls. The importance of catching and throwing is important as these actions require proper coordination and strength by the multiple body segments to produce the skill. We teach them rules of the games and how we can improve the skills by means of this particular sport. We also teach them fun and easy ways of incorporating these skills of catching, throwing ball into their day to day life. Girls will develop improved hand-eye coordination through this.
Greenlawns High School, Warden Road
THE MIGHTY PEN
Calligraphy is an art form which teaches us to enhance the meaning of the written word by infusing beauty, texture and style along with mere words on paper. It is meditative. It builds creativity and fosters patience and improves handwriting in general. Student learn different styles of fonts, patterns, styles of writing and lettering along with combinations of inks, paints and pens. They also to write in symbolic form; reliving the ancient forms of writing. They made bookmarks of their names written in Egyptian symbols. They also created their own fonts and own styles of writing.
Teachers in charge
Ms. Fatema Kapadia
Ms. Vrushali Pisat
Ms. Myra Rose
Greenlawns High School, Warden Road
HINDI CLUB
The Hindi club has been introduced with the aim of making Hindi language more interesting for students. It endeavours to bring about a substantial change in oral communication skills among students.
Club Activities:
· Reading (Stories, Newspapers etc.)
· Debate
· Elocution
· Story writing
· Story telling
All these activities help to develop confidence among students and prepare them for the future.
· MR. SANAT KUMAR DWIVEDI
· MRS. POONAM NAIR
Greenlawns High School, Warden Road
CREATIVE MINDS CLUB
The Creative Minds Club is a place where children develop their creative and artistic skills by indulging in interesting and easy art and craft techniques. We strive to engage students in hands on colourful art and craft activities which ensures that children grow a healthy interest in Art and Craft. We believe that creativity stimulates vigour and enthusiasm.This, in turn, will help advance their academic standing and simultaneously promote their overall welfare. A few activities that we conducted lasted year include doodle art, newspaper craft, funny blow art project, clay ganesha, positive notes art etc.
Teachers In charge - Mrs.Yolanda Creado, Mrs. Shreya Prabhudesai, Mrs.Geeta Thakker and Mrs.Nisha Mascarenhas.
Greenlawns High School, Warden Road
ART FOR A CAUSE CLUB
"Art for a cause" is a club conducted by Mrs.Sushmita Salgaonkar and Mrs.Nivedita Wadkar .Many art and craft articles are made in this club.
At the Annual Art Exhibition,Few things are sold out and the proceeds are given for charity
Greenlawns School, Worli.
The Interact Club
The Interact Club Greenlawns School, Worli [ICGSW] was initiated on 28th August, 2017. The aims of the club were achieved by the students of Classes 7, 8 and 9 under the guidance of Ms. Reema Wagh, Sir Rajendra Madipelli and Ms. Sonali Bane. The teachers enthusiastically conducted the following activities during the academic year 2017-18:
- The students painted pots and designed jewellery boxes and diyas. These articles were sold at an Exhibition conducted by the members of ICGSW at the Open House.
- The students also designed logos and Greeting Cards. The students shouldered their responsibility towards society by enthusiastically designing ‘No Honking’ stickers.
- The members of the ICGSW actively participated in the ‘Walkathon’ conducted by the Rotary Club.
- The students also participated in the Interschool Competition, ‘We are the World’ conducted by the Rotaract Club of H. R. College (RCHR).
- The students actively participated in the Interschool Competition, ‘Word War I’ conducted by the Rotaract Club of Jai Hind College (RCJC).
- The ICGSW also conducted activities like Pramerica, Crossword, and Windmill for the students of our school.
- The ICGSW actively participated in the ‘Joy of Giving’ which encouraged the students to collect toys for the underprivileged children as well as collect newspapers for a social cause.
Ms. Reema Wagh
Ms. Sonali Bane
Sir. Rajendra Madipelli
Greenlawns School, Worli.
The Home Science Club
The Home Science Club carried out activities to help children deal with situations in their home environment. During the course of the year, the children were encouraged to participate in the various activities, some of them being:
- To prepare a floor plan of the ‘House of Your Dreams’
- To fold a napkin and use the napkin to set an elegant dinner table.
- To prepare a gift for your sibling on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.
- To make Christmas decorations for your home.
- Learning to mend small things at home. (school bag, earring, torn books etc.)
These activities were meant to make children more self-sufficient and independent by enabling children to take care of their daily needs without too much expenditure. The goal of the club was to bring children closer to the family by encouraging them to participate in household activities and not impose the entire onus of running a home onto their parents. The teachers hope that they have in their little way been able to bring some families closer due to these activities and the values inculcated by these activities, since family is the most important in the lives of little children.
Ms. Mariette Dias
Ms. Pradnya Parkar
Greenlawns School, Worli.
The Young Writers’ Club
The Young Writer’s Club is a creative club that helps the students to identify and enhance their innate qualities as authors or poets. The potentials of the students are enhanced and developed outside the four corners of the classroom. The teachers not only supervised activities but also guided the students according to their skills. The students worked productively in every field like writing poems, sharing their views on various social issues and writing about the importance of art. These articles eventually found their way to the club’s magazine tilted ‘KINDLE’, which was published twice in the year. The club received a good response and has the potential to achieve the goal of creating good writers, poets, artists, news reporters and spokespersons
Ms. Archana Ahire
Ms. Bipasha Kumar
Ms. Vandana Mishra
Greenlawns School, Worli.
The Cultural Club
The Cultural Club was established with an aim to focus on enhancing the knowledge of the students about the different cultures and traditions in the country. It was truly evident that there was a great potential for creative acumen amongst the students. The club conducted innovative activities on various religious and diverse cultural aspects of India as well as the lost freedom fighters of India. The teachers noticed that the students displayed their best efforts while discussing about the diverse cultural aspects of the country. Various festivals like Makarsankranti, Independence Day, Diwali and Christmas were celebrated by the students by displaying kites and colourful charts. The children dressed up in traditional clothes and brought festival sweets to give the occasion a religious touch. It also laid out a blueprint of the future prospects of the students’ budding talents. This achievement evidently and expectedly demonstrated that the Club could go wherever the visions and energies of its members could take it, especially towards the full spirit of celebration.
Ms. Arlene Bhoi
Ms. Rohini Kamble