“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
Ever since the inception of AVM Debating Club, students started experiencing thrill and excitement to involve in all proceedings of AVM Debating Club. With the kind grace and blessings of His Divine Holiness Param Pujya Swamiji, who is the ultimate inspiration for the foundation of this Debating Club, the students enthusiastically participated in Semi-Finals and Grand Finale of Inter House Debate Competitions.
Using Debate as a Mechanism for education, AVM Debating Club selected such topics to make it more of an academic debate. Research and discussion on these topics created an opportunity to train and develop students in the core academic skills of the language arts: reading comprehension, critical thinking, and communications skills. For Semi-finals and Finals three Speakers from each House made a team. Each House team of each group(classes) got one topic to speak ‘FOR’ or ‘AGAINST’. Competition for each group was between two House Teams, Unfolding two opposite sides of the same topic. Topics were given in prior, on which the teams were supposed to gather as much information as possible.
Semi Finals
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Group
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Topic
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For
(Points -earned)
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Against
(Points -earned)
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Winners
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6th and 7th Standard
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Glamorising Cricket: Is affecting other sports?
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Satyam
196 Points
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Shivam
191 Points
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Satyam
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Restrict playing and selling of Violent Video
Games
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Sundaram
208 Points
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Suhradam
206 Points
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Sundaram
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8th & 9th Standard
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Voting Should be made Compulsory
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Satyam
188 Points
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Suhradam
226 Points
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Suhradam
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Indian Villages – Our Strength or Weakness?
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Sundaram
209 Points
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Shivam
198 Points
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Sundaram
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10th 11th & 12th Standard
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Right-brain person enjoys life/successful more
than the left-brain person.
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Sundaram
223 Points
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Satyam
233 Points
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Satyam
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Science boon or bane?
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Suhradam
177 Points
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Shivam
216 Points
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Shivam
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Grand Finale
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6-7 Winner
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Newspapers are things of past
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Satyam
215 Points
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Sundaram
198 Points
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Satyam
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8-9 Winner
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Internet brings more harm than good
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Suhradam
228 Points
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Sundaram
196 Points
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Suhradam
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10-11-12 Winner
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Believes they should get a Masters Degree
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Satyam
231 Points
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Shivam
193 Points
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Satyam
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While preparing for Debate Competition, the students (members of AVM Debating Club) set up well for critical evaluation of ideas, arguments, and points of view. It is only through this critical evaluation that students learn to distinguish among competing claims for truth and thus determine themselves as autonomous thinkers.
The teachers trained the participants of the debate competition to learn how to analyze and critically think on the given topic to research relatively. The best outcome of the semifinals of Inter house debate competition was the team spirit, coordination and togetherness. It was quite satisfying for the trainers Prajval Sir, Prabhudarshan Sir, Chirag Sir, Saumya Madam and Seema Madam to acknowledge that teams in the AVM Debating Club are made up of Debaters who understand the roles and responsibilities as well as the complexities associated with each speaker’s position. With this understanding, the speakers can appreciate how the roles complement each other and thus put the team in the best position to win.
Finally, the much awaited event of Grand Finale of Inter House Debate Competition arrived. The knack of relevant references, contextual evidences, and reasonable arguments and the verbal fights among house contestants interspersed with lots of claps and nodding from judges. Following the set rules of Debating and quite sophisticated arguing techniques made students be in a position where they could argue with understanding and assertion.
It is a great pleasure to mention a deep sense of appreciation for [Harsh Sarda and Sachin Verlekar of Satyam House], for their explanation of Master Degree or Specialization in a subject is not good. Again refer to its opposite, were the arguments put forth by Shivam House’s Vishesh Mistry and Vishlesh Gondaliya.
Further, it was so amazing to listen to [Keyur of Suhradam House], for demonstrating his speech on Internet poses more harm than good. Referring and responding to this , were solid arguments by Rushi and Sahjik of Sundaram House.]
It is unavoidable to mention Yathansh Joshi and Ravi Patel of Satyam House in Junior group for giving an excellent coverage to the topic “News papers are things of past”. Referring and responding to them was the opposite team of Rahul and Aakash of Sundaram House.
The gracious presence of honourable Vijay Sir and other teachers was quite motivating. AVM debating club feels proud to create such an event which was brimmed with podiums where students’ talent can not only reach the pedestal but acknowledge them with the very fact of debating: “Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.”
Inter-house English Competition 2012-13
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Writing
Points Earned
Sundaram
Sundaram
Suhradam
AVM Debating Club: an indefatigable impulse to say something new about the all-too-familiar.
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than the left-brain person.
While preparing for Debate Competition, the students (members of AVM Debating Club) set up well for critical evaluation of ideas, arguments, and points of view. It is only through this critical evaluation that students learn to distinguish among competing claims for truth and thus determine themselves as autonomous thinkers.
The teachers trained the participants of the debate competition to learn how to analyze and critically think on the given topic to research relatively. The best outcome of the semifinals of Inter house debate competition was the team spirit, coordination and togetherness. It was quite satisfying for the trainers Prajval Sir, Prabhudarshan Sir, Chirag Sir, Saumya Madam and Seema Madam to acknowledge that teams in the AVM Debating Club are made up of Debaters who understand the roles and responsibilities as well as the complexities associated with each speaker’s position. With this understanding, the speakers can appreciate how the roles complement each other and thus put the team in the best position to win.
कक्षा 8, 9 एवं 10 में हिन्दी भाषान्तर्गत जनवरी मास में कविता-निर्माण का आयोजन
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हिन्दी भाषा के अंतर्गत हिन्दी भाषा-शिक्षक श्री मुकेश जोशी के मार्गदर्शन में
हिन्दी कविता-निर्माण का आयोजन किया गया। जिसके अंतर्गत कक्षा 8 में कविता निर्माण
का विषय था—“उड़ी पतंग”, कक्षा 9 में विषय था— ‘बचपन’ एवं कक्षा 10 में
कविता-निर्माण के 3 विषय दिए गए, जिसमें से छात्र अपना पसंद का विषय चुन कर अपने
विचारों को मुक्त रूप से अभिव्यक कर सकें। जो निम्नलिखित हैं—
(दुनियाँ)।
अपनी प्रतिभा का परिचय दे दिया।
External Football and Skating Competitions
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આકાશનો એ બદલે જાણે રંગ.
એના મનમાં જાણે પહોંચું પ્રભુજીની પાસ.
જાય છે. આકાશમાં ઉડતો પતંગ એ આનંદનુ પ્રતિક છે. પતંગો પાછળ સમજવા જેવુ જ્ઞાન છુપાયેલું છે. ઘણા પતંગો દિશા વગર ગમે ત્યાં ઉડીને ફાટી જાય છે. તેમ કોઈ દિશા
વગરનું જીવન પણ વેર-વિખેર થઈ જાય છે. અઢ્ઢો જો અક્કડ હોય તો તે સારી રીતે ઉડી શકતો નથી, તેવી જ રીતે આપણે જો જીવનમાં ઉંચાઈઓ પર પહોંચવું હોય
તો નમ્ર બનવુ પડશે. જેમ પતંગને આકાશમાં ઉડાવીએ ત્યારે ઉડાવનારા હવા પ્રમાણે દોરાને ઢીલ આપીને પોતાનો પતંગ સાચવવો પડે છે, તેવી જ રીતે આ આકાશરૂપી દુનિયામાં આપણું મન પણ વિવિધ પરિસ્થિતિમાં ડોલમડોલ થતું રહે છે, જે એ પરિસ્થિતિમાં પોતાના મન પર કાબૂ મેળવીને આગળ વધી જાય છે એ જ મનુષ્યનું જીવન
યથાર્થ સાબિત થાય છે.
આ વર્ષે ઉત્તરાયણ પર્વ નિમિત્તે ધોરણ 5
ના નાના નાના ભૂલકાંઓએ વિવિધ આકારની પતંગોનું હર્ષોત્સાહ સાથે સર્જન કર્યું હતું.
તેમજ ઉત્તરાયણના પર્વનું માહાત્મ્ય સમજી સાચા અર્થમાં ઉત્તરાયણ પર્વની ઉજવણી કરી
હતી.
લડાવવા… પેચ કાપવા… હેપ્પી ઉત્તરાયણ.
“પાંચ દાણા”
/0 Comments/in AVM Updates, Creativity, Value Based Education /by AVM Teachersદાણા’ આ બોધકથા ભાષાશિક્ષણ અને વ્યવહારબોધનો ઉત્તમ નમૂનો છે. જેમાં એક શેઠ પોતાના
ચાર દીકરાઓની વહુઓની આવડત અને વ્યવહારકુશળતા જાણવાની ઈચ્છા રાખે છે. આ માટે શેઠ
દીકરાઓની વહુઓને અનાજના પાંચ પાંચ દાણા આપી, દાણાને સાચવી રાખવાનું જણાવે છે. થોડા સમય પછી જ્યારે તેઓ પોતાના દીકરાઓની વહુઓ પાસે પેલા
પાંચ દાણા માંગે છે ત્યારે શેઠને તે વહુઓની સૂઝ, સમજ, આવડત, હોશિયારી અને વ્યવહારકુશળતાનો
ખ્યાલ આવે છે.
માહિતી મેળવી અને પોતાની સૂઝ, સમજ અને આવડતથી અનાજના દાણાને વિવિધ આકારમાં ગોઠવી
કલ્પનારૂપ સર્જન આપ્યું હતું.
64वे गणतंत्र दिवस एवं आत्मीय विद्यामंदिर के 9वे वार्षिक खेल-कूद महोत्सव का अद्भुद समन्वय
/0 Comments/in 21st Century Skills, AVM Updates, Sports /by AVM Teachersपश्चात 9वें वार्षिक खेल-कूद सम्मेलन का आयोजन खेल-कूद उच्चाधिकारी श्री रमाकर जी
के अध्यक्षता में किया गया। अतिथि वेशेष के रूप में आत्मीय विद्या मंदिर के संचालक श्री
विट्ठलदासजी, महेन्द्र बापा, नटुदा, श्री हरेश सर, प्रधानाचार्य श्री विजय सर,
उपाचार्य श्री आशिष सर, भोजनालय के प्रबंधक श्री अर्जुन मामा तथा संत श्री
सत्यस्वरूप स्वामि एवं प्रबोध स्वामि का
स्वागत किया गया, जिन्होंने 26 जनवरी गणतंत्र दिवस के समारोह के पश्चात आत्मीय
विद्यामंदिर के चारो हाउस(सत्यम् हाउस, शिवम् हाउस, सुंदरम् हाउस एवं सुह्रयदम्
हाउस) के चारों झंडों एवं खेल-कूद के झंड़े को हवा में फहराया ।
आत्मीय विद्यामंदिर के खिलाड़ियों ने प्रज्वलित की एवं प्रधानाचार्य श्री विजय सर
ने मैदान को खेल-कूद के लिए औपचारिक रूप से खुला करने की उदघोषणा की।
शिक्षको के अनुदेश एवं मार्ग दर्शन में खेलों का प्रारंभ किया।
जोशी(हिन्दी शिक्षक), श्री पुष्पक जोशी (हिन्दी शिक्षक) एवं श्री क्षितिज पाटंकरजी
ने अपने प्रभावी एवं सुक्तियों, मुहावरों एवं बिंबों का उपयोग कर खेल के मैदान को
शब्दों का शृंगार पहनाकर सुशोभित कर दिया।
2013 तक चला। बच्चों ने हर खेल में नएँ-नएँ अनेक कीर्तिमान स्थापित
किए। इस तीन दिवस के आयोजन में विविध संतों ने अपनी उपस्थिति द्वारा बच्चों का
उत्साह बढ़ाया। जिसमें प्रेमस्वरूप स्वामि, सत्यस्वरूप स्वामि, प्रबोध स्वामि आदि
मुख्य रहें।
निर्णायक परीणाम आता गया उसी दिन शाम को प्रमाणपत्र एवं विजेता को जयचिह्न
(trophy) से अलंकृत किया
गया। सभी खेल बहुत ही रामांचक रहें। छात्रों ने इन खेलों का
भरपूर आनंद उठाया।
प्रतियोगिता में 304 अंक हासिल करके सुह्रदरम् हाउस द्वितीय विजेता रहा तथा
399 अंक प्राप्त करके सुदरम् हाउस विजेता बना।
Group
Tally
मुकेश जोशी
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Great Grandeur of R-DAY Celebration at AVM
/0 Comments/in 21st Century Skills, AVM Updates, Value Based Education /by AVM StudentsNurturing the feeling of patriotism and righteousness and preparing the students to be effective participants in civic society, Atmiya Vidya Mandir celebrated 64th Republic Day with much gusto and grandeur. All students, teachers, hostel staff members and other members of AVM family gathered at school cricket ground to commemorate this national festival on 26th January. The chief guests of the event were P.Prabodh Swamiji, P. Sugney Swamiji and P.Fuvaji. These esteemed guests were accompanied by honourable dignitaries of the school P. Harish Sir and P Natuda. The chief guests were welcomed with mush zest as they arrived. After the pujan and invoking blessings of God, the flag was hoisted by the school principal Dr. Vijay Patel. The unfurled flag was honoured with singing of the national anthem. The jolly and jovial hosts of the programme were P Pushpak Sir and P Kshitij Sir. Soon, they announced beginning of the march past by the colourful troop of all four student-houses. The spectators students and teachers filled with pride to see them marching. It was followed by a heart-stirring speech by P Mukesh Sir.
The main attraction of this event was the melodious song on unity and fraternity sung by AVM choir group. Everybody presented in the event was enthralled to witness mesmerizing drill show by students of 1st and 2nd grade. It was an incredible show by tiny tots dressed up as black commandos as Sports teachers Yogesh Sir and Raj Sir trained them for such swiftness and scintillating movements. It was followed by a mass drill show by students of 3rd , 4th and 5th who were trained by Hemant Sir. Students of grade 6th and 7th demonstrated different Yoga exercises for healthy mind and healthy body. Last but not the least was human pyramid formed by students of 8th to 10th. These students exhibited their amazing strength and flexibility for forming human pyramid. The programme ended with vote of thanks and distribution of sweets. The celebration was marked with saluting the flag , carry the true spirit of independent and aware citizen of a self-governing country.
…………faith in our words,
…………….pride in our hearts,
…………memories in our souls,
with patriotic zest and fervour…… Let’s salute the nation on Republic Day!!!
Written by: Yathansh Joshi (Std 7)