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“For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.” – Eleanor Everet In keeping with its goal to make the children responsible adults, Shalom Hills International School observed Road Safety week from 18 th -23 th January 2023 by conducting different activities like Street Play, Slogan writing, Essay competition on the Importance of Road Safety. The activities were both entertaining and enlightening. A Street play performed by the students was a great way of learning through doing. The experience created awareness in the children about the importance of road safety and its role in our safety and security. The basic road safety rules reiterated were: • Always wear a seat belt • Avoid distractions • Do not cross the speed limits • Follow traffic signals • Do not drink and drive • Drive to the left side of the road • keep to your lane • Overtake with caution While these are very common traffic rules, they are also some of the most regularly broken ones. Some of these basic features were highlighted in the activities so that students can understand the rules and regulation which are made for the benefit of common man. The students and teachers pledged to follow all traffic and road safety rules.
"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual's desire to be clean." Shalom Hills International School organized a Cleanliness Drive under Swachta Phagwada Programme. The main purpose of this programme was to create awareness among the students regarding Cleanliness and its benefits. Shalomites organized the Cleanliness Drive under the mission by taking a Pledge in the morning assembly. The main objective of this activity was to spread awareness among the students about the significance of Cleanliness and its benefits. All the students from classes 4th to 12th had participated in the program organised by our school. The teachers took part in the cleaning program of the entire school premises and propagated the message of Clean India, Green India.
As part of its Community Outreach Programme, Shalom Hills International School has adopted a welfare centre for hearing and speech impairment for conducting various activities. As a part of the programme, a cricket match was organized between senior graders of Shalom Hills and the students of the welfare centre. Mr. Mohit Burman, the coach at Shalom Hills took the school’s enthusiastic cricket team to the welfare centre for a friendly match on 3rd Dec’14. The match started by winning of toss by shalomites who choose to bat first.Shalom cricket team made 78 runs in 15 over and they were closely chased by students of welfare centre with score of 78 in 9.5 overs. Anmol Mehta of Class V D was declared as the man of the match.
Shalom Hills International School under its Community Outreach Programme has adopted a welfare centre for speech and hearing impairment. As part of its ongoing programme, the students of Class V along with their teachers visited the welfare centre on 12th September’14. Our students appreciated the neatness, cleanliness and serenity of the place. As a mark of their sensitivity, the young Shalomites learned a smattering of the sign language and made an attempt to communicate with the inmates of the centre through the same. As part of the ‘Share a Meal Programme’, the young Shalomites turned into little chefs. The students had taken with them the raw materials to make sandwiches, along with juices, and biscuits. The students of the welfare centre formed groups with the young Shalomites and set out making sandwiches in the dining hall. All the children looked a perfect study of harmony and mutual coordination as they donned the mantle of little chefs and prepared delicious sandwiches. The Shalom students distributed smart chef caps and badges among the students of the welfare centre. After the brunch everybody assembled in the open area of the campus for the circle time which was full of activities and fun games. It was enriching experience for the students and they expressed their wish to visit the place again.
Shalom Hills International School in association with NGO UTHAAN has taken up a community based project to increase the green cover in the city. A planned schedule has been chalked out in which students will be engage in community level work. The school is providing water tanker for the same. The students contributed towards their bit to cleaning the environment by performing activities like cleaning the area, removal of dry leaves, weeding out the parasite from the host plant, collecting all dry waste from open area followed by dumping in the open pits, where the biodegradable waste are treated with micro-organism for the formation of green manure. In order to place emphasis on aforestation, a small activity was done in the form of planting saplings. The children prepared many open furrows in which each child planted a sapling. The objective of the activity was to make student understand the value of trees. After planting the saplings, the fledging plants were watered from the water tanker. The programme concluded with a group photo of all students along with teachers who assisted them.
