Students from St. Mark's, Meera Bagh Host students from Shantiniketan
A group of 12 students from Path Bhawan School which is under the renowned Vishva Bharati University (Shantiniketan) visited St. Mark's Sr. Sec. Public School, Meera Bagh, alongwith 2 faculty members and their Principal Ms. Bodhirupa Sinha from 02 August 2009 to 05 August 2009. A cultural programme was presented by the students of St. Mark’s School to welcome the guests. The students from Path Bhawan presented a song and dance performance ‘Ritu Rango’ – that was based on seasons.

The next day the visiting group celebrated the Vriksharopan Ceremony (Tree Plantation). The Eco Club members of St. Mark’s also participated in the same. This was followed by a beautiful dance drama ‘Shyama’, performed by the students of Path Bhawan. Thereafter they interacted with the students of St. Mark’s and even taught them how to make Rakhis for the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.

They enjoyed the food of Delhi and the sight seeing in particular. It was a privilege to have this group of students from the eastern part of India. It was a wonderful learning experience indeed!

St. Mark's Joins ASEFC
St. Mark's School, Meera Bagh becomes the first Indian school to join ASEF (The Asia-Europe Foundation).

The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) advances mutual understanding and collaboration between the people of Asia and Europe through intellectual, cultural and people-to-people exchanges.

St. Mark's Sr. Sec. Public School, Meera Bagh has been working with this forum since the year 2005. The students had collaborated with an Italian school to review the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Hence the forum wasn't anything new to the school. But India was officially not a member of the Forum. Year 2007 saw India being included in the forum while year 2008 saw St. Mark's School become the first Indian school to get registered. Year 2008 also saw a representative of the school attending the 7th AEC-NET Conference a Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

The conference was held over a period of 4 days. There were four essential elements in the programme.

1. Prominent speakers gave presentations on topics dealing with the latest in ICT applications in schools which helped in the professional enrichment of all participants.

2. The participants were divided into different working groups to discuss and develop individual project proposals.

3.Visits t places of cultural and historical significance in the host country was organized to give the participants a better understanding of the different aspects of the host country.

4. The participants got opportunities to interact with one another at the social level to engender camaraderie among participants thereby forming the foundations of future and further contacts and collaborations.

In recognition of efforts to produce outstanding online projects, ASEF also presented the AEC Award to project groups responsible to develop and create online learning platforms.

e - Pictionary by Buttercups and Bluebells
Our Primary students are embarking on an English Project called 'e-Books' in partnership with the GHIM MOH PRIMARY SCHOOL, IT CLUB, SINGAPORE. Their first project project e-Pictionary is ready. It will certainly enrich students' learning in the English language and improve their ICT skills. The students were trained to work on MS Power Point in May and within fifteen days they came out with an incredible result. The participating students are:

ST. MARK'S SCHOOL MEERA BAGH SHINES IN ROMANIA
  
Muskan Pandya, of class IV, of  St. Mark's Sr. Sec. Public School, Meera Bagh, has done the school proud by bagging the III prize in 'The Art of Childhood' contest held in Romania, Europe. The other participants of the contest were Ruchi Kejriwal, Hardik Tara,  Amardeep Singh and Lush Gulati.

ST. MARK'S MEERA BAGH DELEGATION AT SWEDEN

Mr. T. P. Aggarwal, Chairman and Ms. A. Aggarwal, Principal, St. Mark's Sr. Sec. Public School, Meera Bagh, take pride  in the successful initiation of a new global venture  with Jattestenskolan, a reputed school in Sweden. A four-member  delegation comprising of Vice Principal Ms. R. Sethi, Ms. G. Rajan, Ms. I. Walia and Ms. L. Srinivas enjoyed  true Swedish hospitality when  they were state-guests at Grums - an enchanting community near Karlstad, in the neighborhood of  the birth place of Alfred Nobel, from 15 May 2008 to 29 May 2008. The aim of the visit, initiated by Ms. G. Rajan and Mr. Magnus Johannson, Head of School Improvement, was to promote peace, co-existence of man and nature and mutual exchange of teaching methodology. The hosts saw that the visitors were escorted and looked after by different activity groups of the  school on a daily basis. Freedom of expression, stress- free atmosphere and punctuality are some of the features that stood out in Jattestenskolan School as well as in Ebba Petterson School of Gothenburg, Sweden. This visit has resulted in various online projects involving students of both countries. Student exchange is in the offing too.

ST. MARK'S MEERA BAGH STEP INTO A NEW LANE

ST. MARK'S MEERA BAGH GOES GLOBAL

Student of St. Mark's Sr. Sec. Public School, Meera Bagh, were part of a global project 'Hands Around the World'. Students of classes XI & XII made colorful hand prints and wrote information about themselves, their school, city and their country. Some even wrote about the Indian culture, the national symbols and festivals. Around 125 handprints were sent to the US and  in exchange our school too received around 70 handprints with information from around the world. It was indeed a novel way to cultural exchange.
      

A TRULY MEMORABLE CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME AT ST.MARK'S MEERA BAGH 
St.Mark's Sr.Sec.Public School, Meera Bagh, had two very special visitors, Ms.Beverley Bartczak and Ms.Joan Price from C.R.Coblentz School, Ohio, US.A. As part of a project 'Where in the World' the two teachers, who are special educators, will be visiting many schools, landmarks and diverse cultures around the world. In their quest to celebrate diversity, they reached India and their hosts were the teachers and students of St.Mark's School, Meera Bagh. At St. Mark's, they took part in the Diwali pooja and even witnessed a play, the traditional Diwali story about Lord Rama and Sita Their trip was made further memorable as the Principal Ms. A. Aggarwal arranged for their visits to very special schools of students with significant physical and mental disabilities. If their visit was memorable for them, their stay at St.Mark's was equally memorable for St.Markians as they too learnt that the world is truly a 'Global Community'. 
 
More about 'Where in the World' at

http://www.epals.com/groups/elections/pages/issues.aspx

http://www.globaldreamers.org/09share/prophet/index.html

http://www.globaldreamers.org/09share/holi/index.html

http://www.globaldreamers.org/09share/pi/index.html
 

As part of the International Cultural Exchange Programme, our students are now interacting with a number of school abroad. The students exchange post cards which depict the famous places of their country. SMS has till now exchanged postcards with following schools.
 
Jerabek Elementary School, San Diego, Academia San Ignacio, Puerto Rico, Hazel Butler School USA, Minsk Elementary School, Belarus.
 
We hope to interact with many more schools in other parts of the world. For the past one year our students have been contributing regularly to various websites. One of such website is www.webnews.textalk.com. The username is stmarksschool and password is 20april. We invite parents to log on to this site and browse WEBBA and PREVIEW. The students who have till now contributed to this site are Karan Beweja, Jatin Bweja, Vaibhav Dua, Nabarun Pal, Shivam Saggar, Aditya Singh, Varun Monga, Aachal Marwah, Ahuja Gopal (From STD IX) Vasundhara Srinivas, Roohneet Kochhar, Surbhi Batra, Shailza Chawla, Dhruv Gupta (from STD VIII) and Garv Malik (from STD VII)

OUR SCHOOL GOES INTERNATIONAL