GMGS-Centenary

Exams are just round the corner and the CBSE board has reached out to all schools affiliated with them to participate in 'Pariksha Pe Charcha', an annual event that celebrates the festival of exams and provide ample ideas to students to approach exams positively in a stress-free manner.
This year, the Pariksha Pe Charcha 2023 is scheduled to be held on January 27, 2023 wherein Hon’ble Prime Minister of lndia will discuss about managing exams stress and celebrating life joyfully as an 'Utsav'.
Students, teachers and parents are encouraged to watch the live programme which will be telecast live on all major channels including Doordarshan and All India Radio.

Annual Sports 2022-23 saw tremendous excitement and competitiveness as the students of classes II to XI participated in various events and tried their best to win! Miss Itikona Pandit, an eminent footballer of our state graced the occasion with her presence to encourage the participants.
Along with sporting events, there were March Past, Fancy Drill, Karate performances, Dandiya dance and Mass Drill to showcase the talents of our students.
Mitter House came first, followed by Das, Mukherjee and Sinha in 2nd, 3rd and 4th places respectively.
The Tug of War between Past and Present Gokhalites was won by the Past Gokhalites!

Colourful, cheerful and creative, GMGS Annual Sports 2022-23 Day-I saw the students of KG-I, KG-II and Class-I dress up for Go as you Like, run with their counterparts in different partner races and outright run at their best speed in the Flat Races!
Congratulations to all winners, best wishes to all participants and a big round of applause for the parents who have put in so much effort to get their daughters ready for today!!!

Our Gokhalites got vaccinated against measles and rubella under the MRV initiative taken by the KMC - some brave faces, interspersed with a few bursts of tears, toffees afterwards and a future safe from the two deadly viruses!!

House Competition: Non fire cooking, Salad decoration and Flower bouquet!
All the best to the 4 Houses!

Christmas is for everyone, in all languages. Our girls who have elected to take French as their third language sang Christmas Carols in French as part of the House Competitions!
Das House - Vive le Vent (Jingle Bells)
Mitter House - Petit Papa Noel
Mukherjee House - Fra la la la (Deck the halls)
Sinha House - Douce Nuit Sainte Nuit (Silent Night)

Have you been naughty, or have you been nice? Santa came to GMGS today and checked his list twice!
Christmas was celebrated with carols, class picnics and all its good cheer!! 🎀🎁🎉🌠

The winner of Spirit of Gokhalites Academic Scholarship for the year 2022 and 2023 is Ms. Pubali Bhattacharya, as chosen by the Board of Gokhalites of East Coast USA Alumni Association.

She was selected for her outstanding Academic performance and proven financial need. The same scholarship will be renewed to Ms. Pubali Bhattacharya for completing Class XII, provided the criteria of the scholarship continue to be met.

This year the scholarship has been co-sponsored by Gokhale Alumni Ms. Sweta Sengupta in memory of her mother Dr. Ratna Bhowmik.

Congratulations Pubali, may you overcome all the obstacles in your path!
We thank our East Coast USA Alumni Association for coming forward to support the current Gokhalites in their pursuit of excellence!

The long awaited, most anticipated event of Anandamela, where happiness knew no bounds!

Gate coupons for Anandamela will be available for Rs 20 from the Swayambar counter on
Thursday 8.12.22 (2:40pm-3:30pm)
and
Friday 9.12.22 -(12:40 to 1:30pm)

Today we had our Investiture Ceremony, where the existing cabinet of School Captain, Vice-Captains, House Captains and Vice Captains, the Sports Captain, after leading the school their term, handed over the responsibilities to their worthy successors.
The new cabinet accepted their badges, medals and flags signifying their ranks and responsibilities, and took their oath to serve the school above all other interests.
Here's to the new hands that will keep our flag flying high!!
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Winter vibes: The badminton and tennikoit tournaments are underway as the stalls being built for Anandamela (which is to be held on 10th December) form the background!

Here we are, with the fourth and final set of photos from the Prize Distribution Ceremony! We congratulate all the winners, may their futures be bright with success in all they do!

Presenting the third part of our Prize Distribution ceremony, where hands remained busy clapping for our students who have made their parents and their school very proud!
Congratulations girls, may you be blessed with success in all your future endeavours too!

Some necks jingled with the music of multiple medals, while the fire in some eyes burned with the promise to better their best in future!
Here we are with the Part-II of our Prize Distribution Ceremony which took place on 26th November in the Sarala Ray Memorial Hall!
Let's hear the cheer for these winners!

On 26th November, along with Founder's Day, we had another joyous occasion in school - Prize Distribution ceremony for the Secondary and Higher Secondary sections.
The photos will be shared in batches because of technical constraints, Here we are with set-1.
Well done, all winners!!

Let's put our hands together for the winners of First Round of Spell-A-Thon, Classes II to V!! Well done girls, best wishes for the next rounds!

We celebrated the 161st Birth Anniversary of our founder, Mrs. Sarala Ray. The occasion was headed by Acharya Shri Aniruddha Raksh*t and was concluded with the launching of the Centenary Volume of our school magazine, 'Sadhana', by the oldest Gokhalite, Ms Ena Choudhury!

Today we had the Inter House Competition on Model Making.
The subjects chosen were -
Das House - Chemistry
Mitter House - Geography
Mukherjee House - Biology
Sinha House - History
Mrs Baishakhi Bhattacharya and Mrs Debjani Sarkar from our school, and MrTarun Das from BITM were the judges for this event. The results will be declared at the end of the curricular year.
Good luck to all the four Houses!

"Every child is a different kind of flower, and all together, they make this world a beautiful garden." Here are a few glimpses of the programme the gardeners who help the flowers blossom in school put up to celebrate the occasion! Happy Children's Day to all!!
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Today, a workshop on Internet Addiction - A Growing Menace among Students was held by our Psychology Department.
The Internet has become an integral part of our lives, but excessive and compulsive urge regarding computer use creates a psychological dependence leading to tolerance and withdrawal symptoms giving rise to psychological problems. It is lnternet addiction disorder.
The warning signs are poorly controlled computer usage, which acts as a relief from stress, depression, anxiety, loneliness etc, leading to a life of isolation where social interaction diminishes. It also hampers the academics of students who cannot go 10 minutes without their smartphone!
Physical effects include insomnia, neck pain, eyestrain etc.
Psychologically, they suffer from mood swings, fear, inability to prioritise, and have no sense of time.
Remedies to this situation are -
An extensive support system,
Getting involved in hobbies and interests,
Developing reading habit,
Monitoring computer usage,
Parents giving time,
Counselling and therapy,
and Cognitive behavioral therapy.

We hope for a world where the youth will not be enslaved to the screen and lead a happy and healthy life - both physically and psychologically!

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN - 50 DAYS TO GO!! ❤️💙💛💚

Grandparents brighten our days a little bit more, make the food tastier too, and most importantly, sprinkle the stardust of fantasy over the mundane with their web of fairy tales! With unconditional love and patience they nurture the grandchildren and make their lives beautiful!
This year, Grandparents' Day was on 11th September, and today we had a late celebration in our school to thank them for being there!
Here are a few moments captured from the day's programme, where the children performed, the grandparents rocked the stage with their singing and recitation, and then tried to recapture a slice of their childhood in the game zone arranged for them!

Budge Budge KhushirJhuli is an NGO created with the intention of spreading knowledge and cheer, especially among the slum children living adjacent to Budge Budge station. As our beloved teachers took their precious time out to initiate such a noble activity, on the rain-drenched Saturday of 23rd July, 13 students of the Interact Club, the board members, Anwesha Das, Sriyadita Ghosh, Arjayeeta Pal, Aparajita Bannerjee, Aranyaa Kundu, Anushmita Raksh*t, Sraddha Chakraborty, Bidisha Seth, Aishiki Chatterjee, Medhashree Basu, Adrija Chatterjee, Rajita Das and Debarpita Biswas, had got the pleasant opportunity to visit this very special organization guided and accompanied by 3 teachers Mrs Saha, Ms Ghosh and Mrs Duttagupta. From 19th June to 18th July, the Interact Club of the school collected money, pens, pencils, erasers, compass, protractors, rulers and story books from the students for the NGO. We were able to collect 20,000 rupees, while the Social Service League of the school came forward with a donation of 250 notebooks amounting to 11,250 rupees. The school was happy to provide some technological aid in the form of a desktop computer. We feel honoured having received this noble opportunity and it was truly delightful and blissful to interact with the children there. We spent some time and distributed snacks (bought with the money collected from the students of GMGS). Overall, it was indeed a mesmerizing and gratifying experience and we definitely pledge to have more such days.

For the Khushir Jhuli project by Interact Club of Gokhale Memorial Girls’ School, Rotary Club of New ballygunge was awarded the First Prize for their projects with interact club in the Rotary Award Ceremony year 2021-22. This event was also published in the Rotary GML- August issue.

The students of Gokhale Memorial Girls' School and Abhinav Bharti High School got a taste of the vast cultural richness across the globe during an outreach programme on Folktales of the World!
There were charts and posters, songs, puppet shows, dance performances, and skits where the children of both the schools made folktales from different corners of the world come alive.
They enacted the tales of India and Bangladesh, and also the exotic lores of Africa, Arabia and China, on 6th September, in our Sarala Ray Memorial Hall.

As a part of the Hub of Learning Program, an initiative by CBSE, a Bengali Workshop for Senior Secondary Teachers was held at our school on 2nd September 2022.
Our Senior Secondary Teacher Ms. Poushali Ghosh was the resource person. Apart from the chosen subject unit, in her discussion she emphasized on the varied opportunities of a literature teacher in a senior secondary classroom and how we can imbibe sense of history, culture and heritage in our young souls.
Teachers from member schools of the 'Hub of Learning', viz. Indus Valley World School, BDM International and National High School along with the host school benefitted from the workshop.

Today, with heavy hearts, we held the condolence meeting in memory of Late Dr. Kumkum Mukherjee, our Hony. Joint Secretary, who passed away yesterday after a long and active life dedicated to the growth and welfare of the school.
May her soul rest in peace. 🙏🙏

Recently we celebrated TANJAM, our own Inter School Competition, and this year the event was themed on Satyajit Ray and his works. the Debate was about the strata of audience of Ray's movies while the Music competition was based on the songs he created and the songs he used in his films. Science Model Making saw the students trying to recreate the riveting inventions of Prof. Shanku, and the Short Film Presentations were based on the maestro's short stories!

Irrespective of who won which event, all the participants enjoyed two days of enriching experience centered around Satyajit Ray and his abundance of genius creativity!

Last week, some of our little Gokhalites participated in 'Jai Hind 2022', an interschool competition arranged by Apeejay School. Aditri Chakraborty of Class 2 won third prize in Nerf Gun Target and Shriyadita Ghose and Shriya Show, both of KG II, were joint bronze medalists in Salaam India - an event portraying the diversity of India. 👏👏👏👏
Congratulations and best wishes, may these medals be the first of many in your lives!

Freedom from virtual celebrations on online media! We celebrate 75 years of Independence with March Past and Flag Hoisting to much jubilation of everyone involved!!
As customary to our school, our Social Service League collected money from the students and donated the following -
1) BLIND PERSONS' WELFARE ASSOCIATION - ₹ 15,000
2) CINI - ₹ 10,000
3) SUCHETANA - ₹ 10,000
4) GUNJ - ₹ 10,000
5) OFFER - ₹ 10,000
6) TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION OF BENGAL - ₹ 5,000
7) ST. JOHN AMBULANCE - ₹ 1,000

Jai Hind! 🇮🇳🇮🇳

The students of classes VIII and IX participated in a STEM Science Model Making Workshop oragnised by ISR yesterday!

Yesterday, the students of classes VII, IX and X enjoyed a Science show organised by Birla Industrial and Technological Museum and explored various fun aspects of this field!

The results of the All India Senior School Certificate Examination are out! From our school, the

Highest Marks has been obtained by Yubasana Kapas (487 - 97.4%)
2nd Highest by Atreyee Nag, Teerna Chakravarty and Choutisha Chatterjee (485 - 97.4%)
and 3rd Highest by Anumita Samaddar (483 - 96.6%)

Highest in Humanities has been scored by Yubasana Kapas,
Highest in Science by Teerna Chakravarty, and
Highest in Commerce by Sharanya Chakraborty (477 - 95.4%)

Let us congratulate the girls who will now step out of the school and enter the larger world of higher education! ❤️💙💛💚

Let's put our hands together for the girls who gave their best effort for the All India Secondary School Examination, and wish them all the very best for their future education!

After a 2 long sessions, the House Competitions are back in offline mode!!! ❤️💙💛💚❤️💙💛💚❤️💙💛💚❤️💙💛💚
Here are a few glimpses of the participants from Das, Mitter, Mukherjee and Sinha Houses performing in today's events -
1) Story Telling for classes VI and VII - based on any short story by Satyajit Ray
2) Poster Making for classes VII and VIII - drawing a scene from their favourite movie by Ray!

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Books are our best friend, and to bond with that friend better, GMGS is observing the 'Reading Month' honouring the father of the Library Movement, the late P. N. Panicker.
Dr. Partha Sarathi Das, Assistant Library and Information Officer, National Library, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, held a seminar on 'Discovering Open Access Learning Resources for Online Learning and also visited the exhibition of library models and posters made by the students of secondary and seniour secondary sections.
Our little Gokhalites had a fun filled session with pictures based on their favourite stories too! ❤️💙💛💚

The students attended a seminar on managing plastic waste by Changemaker and learnt to care for the environment better 🌿🪴🍀🌱