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A comprehensive report on all their activities conducted helped them win this accreditation.

It’s another feather in the cap for the prestigious Coorg Public School (COPS) in Gonicoppa in Kodagu as it has won the International School Award (ISA) instituted by the British Council for its all round achievement this year.

Various activities

The school had organised a plethora of activities with a range of subject areas and collaborative work with partner schools overseas. Annual results have remained outstanding since its inception.

Visitors from the U.S.A, UK, and Thailand had come to the school and several interesting interactive sessions with resource persons from India and abroad were held. Return visits by the COPS students to those countries have made them bolder and instilled tremendous amount of confidence in them, Senior Principal of the COPS, M.D. Nanjunda says

Field trips and nature camps were organised and they had helped students gain experience. Exchanging information on the minute details of even plants in the gardens showed the keenness of the learners. Fashion show, quiz, skits, debates and awareness campaigns were also a part of those activities.

Reporting work

A dossier compiled by the students involving 11 projects such as Fruit World, Famous Monuments, Freedom Fighters, Costumes, Flowers, Snakes, Birds, Dances of the world, Celebrations of National Festivals, Organic Farming across the world and Coffee, reflected the concept of international education that formed the base on which COPS made the grade.

The British Council had adjudged the dossier as the most comprehensive and well structured documentation of the elaborate work. COPS now had the privilege of using the British Council logo on school literature, website and promotional materials.

Aiming globally

Moreover, it will enable it to create an international environment for students to further strengthen their contacts with schools abroad. This prestigious award will be presented to the school in October. Prof. Nanjunda says the efforts of the staff and students had fetched the award and it was a great accomplishment in pursuit of excellence. “The objective of the school is to empower students with global education,” Prof. Nanjunda adds.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / Life & Style > Kids / by Jeevan Chinappa / Jun 15th, 2010

Multi-faceted Talent makes Kodagu Proud

With her special achievements in academic and extra-curricular activities, multi-faceted talent Jahnavi Prasad, an SSLC student of St Joseph’s College in the city, has shown all potentials of attaining a bright future.
Daughter of B N Prasad, the manager of Canara Bank branch here and C N Thejaswini, Jahnavi has secured several awards in the competitions held at different parts of the State. A budding talent in education, arts and sports field, she is the only student from Madikeri to secure the merit scholarship, given by the State government in 2007-08.  

Jahnavi’s mother Thejaswini is a dancer. Hence, the girl has naturally endowed with the talent. She has already given dance performances at different places for the past seven years, and is presently undergoing rigorous training from Vidushi Dr Vidya Muralihar of Madikeri for the senior grade in Bharatanatyam.

Jahnavi Prasad has passed the Kannada entrance exam conducted by the Kannada Sahitya Parishat by securing 178 marks out of 200. She has also passed the all India level general knowledge exam with distinction conducted by the Centre for Human Resource Development, Bangalore, in 2005 and secured a scholarship too.

The girl has also cleared the national-level scholarship contest conducted by the National Council for Development of Education, Chandigarh, this year. She has the credit of being third in the district in the Bharatantyam junior grade exam (2007-08) by securing 352 marks out of 400.

Jahnavi is good at Mathematics too. She surprised the peers by winning the ‘Professor of Maths’ award, clearing an exam conducted by National Educations, Bangalore, as early as 2002. She was the topper at the national-level in a competitive exam on Science conducted by ICETC, Davangere, in 2006-07.

Naturally, Jahnavi is a favourite of her teachers and friends. Proving her potentials in sports, she has won the first place in the Bangalore south zonal level table tennis tourney hosted by Bangalore Urban Zilla Panchayat and Public Instructions Department

source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Madikeri / DH News Service / Aug 29th, 2009

 

65 year Old Graduated with a Diploma

Daisy Karumbaiah

Daisy Karumbaiah

Daisy Karumbaiah graduated with a diploma from her psychotherapy and counselling course recently. So what’s the big deal you ask?

The deal is that Daisy is a 65-year-old who spends her time telling wonderful stories or holidaying with her son and his wife at their home in Coorg. Last year, she decided she wanted to be involved with people, therefore the psychotherapy diploma.

“The others in my batch were young people or doctors and PhD holders,” she says. For Daisy, age doesn’t translate into rolling chairs. There’s lots more to do.

“It’s never too late to learn”

 

source: http://www.coorgnews.wordpress.com / Nov 13th, 2009