THE CREEPY ISLAND

My friends and I had been evacuated at last. When we were being taken to Chicago on a vacation trip, our plane was suddenly shot at. It burst into flames but one part of its body with all of us safe fell down to the earth. The other part had fallen into the sea. Soon we found that it was an unknown island with hills, forest, rivers, caves and swamps. Luckily I realized that my phone was safe in my pocket and soon tried to connect with our parents but due to our bad luck there wasn’t any network in the areas where we crash landed.

The island was surrounded by sea. We soon found a fresh water spring. The immediate need was of searching a place for shelter since we never knew how and when we could be rescued. So we began to search a place for camp with fresh water supply and some fruit trees nearby. When we had gone ahead, we heard a mysterious sound. I said to Ashish, “What creature can it be, calling so mysteriously?” He was dazed but said, “It might be a monster or a demon who swallows the victim alive”.

The cry was heard again and to our amazement we saw a shadow approaching toward us. “Look, Ashish!!We are totally dead”, I exclaimed. He yelled like a mad man. Then both of us grappled the shadowy figure but to our amazement it was Allen who had thought to freeze our blood for fun, but the wild cries would still be heard.

Finally, we selected a place for camp in between the trees and the fresh water spring at the southern-coast of the island. We brought dry branches, wood, dried grass and leaves from nearby trees. We thought it would be a safe place to camp. In case of any danger, we could go to the near by caves. The cliffs could help in attracting the attention of the rescuing party.

Soon after two days surviving in the unknown island a helicopter spotted us and we were rescued. Our courage, fearless trip, commandership and above all, the creepy jungle sense, kept us alive!!!

Soon after we came to know that the island, where we had crash landed was called “Topo Island”…………..

A true experience by: Rohan Mammen Roy & Ashish, Class-X  

Links to PGT-English's blog

Here are some useful links for students and teachers to the Mr.Santhosh Kumar Kana's (PGT-English) blog.


i) http://somatmika.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-you-taste-what-you-read.html
ii) http://somatmika.blogspot.com/2011/02/adventure-by-jayant-narlikar-full-story.html
iii) http://somatmika.blogspot.com/2010/01/adventure-by-jayant-narlikar.html
iv) http://somatmika.blogspot.com/2010/01/checklist-for-cbse-english-class-xxi.html
v) http://somatmika.blogspot.com/2011/06/writing-skills-sure-shot.html
vi) http://somatmika.blogspot.com/2010/09/reader-response.html
vii) http://somatmika.blogspot.com/2010/08/need-to-introspect-pablo-nerudas.html
viii) http://somatmika.blogspot.com/2010/02/painting-inner-spacelandscape-of-soul.html

PTA meeting for Class XII

For the academic year 2012-13, the first PTA meeting for Class XII was held on 12.05.2012 Saturday at 1.00 pm in the Resource Room of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kathmandu.

The Principal, Dr.Cicy Roy Mathew addressed the parents giving them the feedback of their wards' performance in the recently conducted Monthly Test for April and urged them to extend sincere co-operation in enhancing the performance of the students. She asked the parents to see to it that their wards are regular to school and in their work. "Mobile phones and other such gizmos are strictly prohibited within the school campus as it would disrupt the discipline of the school", she emphasized. 

                                                      Dr. Cicy Roy Mathew, Principal

Special classes have already started after school hours for all the subjects of Class XII and students should make the best use of the quality time teachers are sparing for them. During the summer break, there would be special classes in Physics, Chemistry and Maths. It is a commendable gesture from students like Asim Krishna Prasad of Class XII-Science to take up peer group learning after the school hours. Other students too must follow the same. 

The parents were given the answer sheets and the progress report by the class teachers and the parents interacted with the subject teachers. 

KV KATHMANDU AT STORY BOOK WRITING WORKSHOP by KATHA

KV, KATHMANDU children make their presence felt at the STORY BOOK WRITING workshop at Rato Bangla School.

Priya Adhikari, Sreelakshmi Bhatt, Geetha Dharmarajan, Sashakta Thapa, Avantika Jhunjhunwala, Mrs. Kar, Ashwin Raj and Rishav Koirala

The Indian Cultural Centre in Kathmandu in collaboration with New Delhi-based Katha Books organised a workshop on children’s story book writing at Rato Bangla School, Patandhoka from 26th to 28th of April, 2012.

Set up in 1988, Katha is a profit-for-all voluntary organization seamlessly connecting grassroots work in education, urban poverty alleviation and literacy. Katha runs 98 schools in slum communities in Delhi and reaches out to 200,000 children through a unique Reading Programme. Katha’s efforts are inspired by the vision of empowering children to become community leaders through education, transforming their lives as well as that of their communities.
                                                      http://www.katha.org/site/
Katha endeavors to spread the joy of reading, knowing, and living amongst adults and children, the common reader and the neo-literate. It started its reading programs with a children’s magazine for first generation school-goers. Through cooperative action and activism, it brings together parents, teachers and others who are keen to increase children’s engagement with reading. Katha leverages its mission goal on a single powerful idea, that children can help their communities get out of poverty, and bring change that is sustainable and real.

ICC has involved teenagers from four schools, namely, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Embassy of India in Kathmandu; Rato Bangla School, Patandhoka, Lalitpur; UCEP, School for Underprivileged Children, Bhaktapur and Triyog H.S. School, Kathmandu, and one teacher from each school to participate in this learning process of three days story book writing workshop.

Role play by students of Class VIII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJU-NFGNs8
based on the story THE SELFISH GIANT

KV, KATHMANDU's Participation lauded

WILDLIFE TRUST OF INDIA under the programme ANIMAL ACTION EDUCATION 2011conducted All India Painting Competition on the theme ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET. Seventeen entries were shortlisted by a panel of three eminent artists from India and three winners declared.
Our student Kum. Subrasmita Shill, of Class IX, brought laurels to the Vidyalaya by her commendable participation.

This is the painting by Subrasmita on the theme "Elephants Never Forget"

Here is an explanation given by a student of Class-XII-Science, Asim Krishna Prasad, to the strange experience of Prof. Gaitonde in the lesson "The Adventure" prescribed for Class XI in the English textbook Hornbill.
http://straittome.blogspot.com/2012/02/adventure-by-jayant-narlikar-my.html
The greatest honour is that the writer himself, Prof. Jayant Narlikar, sent a word of appreciation for the student.