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MISS AYESHA’S FAREWELL

May12

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No bond is forever. Similarly, no separation is without pain. This pain was experienced by every Auxilians on 19th May as we bid farewell to our dear Miss Ayesha from Auxilium.

The day started with a cultural programme for Rabindra Jayanti followed by the farewell programme. A feeling of nostalgia, love and a tinge of sadness had enveloped the school hall. The event started with a poem recited by the students of class XII C which spoke volumes of our affections towards Ms. Ayesha. A wonderful speech presented in a witty manner, spoke about how much of an impact Miss Ayesha has had upon the students heart, not just through teaching but also through her loving and kind nature.

This was followed by a series of retro Bollywood songs sung by a group of class XII. This surely seemed to gain the audience’s attention and brought broad smiles to everyone’s face. The audience began to clap and croon to the rhythm of the melodies. After the completion of this segment, traditional Rabindra Sangeet was sung by girls clad in yellow-red sarees from middle school. A classical dance followed the series of songs.

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 Miss Ayesha was then called upon the stage to express her experiences and feelings. The hall resounded with loud applause as she spoke her parting words. She expressed her gratitude towards all her colleagues, students and sisters both past and present, who played a vital part in moulding her.Ms. Ayesha appreciated the programme and thanked the girls for their love and the effort expended on her behalf. She referred to all of her students as her ‘Heart-throb’ and gave them her words of wisdom. ‘Work harder than others, know more than others and expect less then others’ was the secret mantras for success she gave before leaving the stage.

Sr. Esther then appreciated Ms. Ayesha in a speech which she said was ‘from the depth of her heart’. She also thanked Ms. Ayesha for her 30 years of exemplary service to the institution and prayed for her good health and well-being in the future.She disclosed the fact that it was Ms. Ayesha birthday. Sister Esther handed Miss Ayesha a momento of our love in the form of a gift which was accompanied by thunderous applause and a birthday song. This marked the end of the farewell with best wishes for Ms. Ayesha.

Jaanvi Saraf

Rikita Halder

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Rabindra Jayanti Celebration

May12

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On 9th May 2017, the students of Auxilium celebrated the birthday of one of the most famous and loved poets, Rabindranath Tagore. In honour of this auspicious event, the students of Class VIII B presented a short programme on this great personality, highlighting all that he loved and cared about. A few songs were sung on seasons, depicting his love for nature and dances were performed, projecting the theme of youthfulness, joy of music and being grateful to God. To shine light on Tagore, the programme concluded with the students reciting ‘Biggo’ a famous Bengali poem written by the poet himself.

The students of Class VI and VII participated in the Inter-House Rabindra Sangeet Competition held in Tagore’s honour. The participants of the competition sang mellifluous songs composed by Tagore, accompanied with cultural instruments like harmonium, violin etc.

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Each of the houses presented a particular season, bringing its essence into the hall. The Red house represented the Rainy season, one could almost feel the drops of rain fall on the faces and the smell of sodden earth waft up to our noses. Then Blue house represented the season of spring, the feeling of fresh air could be felt on our faces and the smell of flowers over-powered the senses. The Green house presented the summer season, the warmth of the sun could be felt on our faces and one could almosthear the vibrancy of life. The programme ended with yellow house, on the theme autumn, where lost memories of warm nights awoke and a feeling of maturity and knowledge settled over us.

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Sister Esther concluded, by saying the poem ‘Where the mind is without fear’, where she explained each and every word, inspiring us all. Over all, the programme was a successful one, having different emotions and feelings, even bitter-sweet ones as we bade Miss Ayesha good-bye.

 

INVESTITURE CEREMONY

May12

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On 25th April 2017, Auxilium – Dum Dum held the Investiture ceremony with pomp and grandeur. We were privileged to have Fr. Dr. M. Thamacin Arulappan as the chief guest for the programme.

The ceremony began with the traditional practice of lighting the lamps. A Bhajan was sung. Next we had a reading from the Holy Bible. It stated that a leader should not be dominating. The leader should be “sober’, ‘holy’, ‘just’ and ‘a lover of what is right’.

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The School Captain and Vice-captain, the prefects, the Class Captains and the house captains received their badges from Sr. Superior, Sr. Principal, Sr. Vice-principal, High school coordinator Miss Sharmila & middle school coordinator Miss Sharbani.

This was followed by the flag-bearing ceremony. Rev. Father Arunlappan handed over the school flag and the house flags to the school captain and the respective house leaders. “May this flag be a symbol of your able leadership”, said Father.

“We have a vision for tomorrow – just believe, just believe… Count on us, ACS, to give our best and more. We can achieve, we can achieve”. The voices of the leaders were loud and clear as they pledged to enrich their Alma Mater. The ceremony came to an end with the chief guest speech. Father Arulappan shared with us his perspective of a leader – cheerful, pleasant, enthusiastic, charismatic, self-willed, always striving for higher goals, never rigid, pessimistic or complaining about circumstances. His speech stirred us to discover ‘the inner leader’ we all possess.

 

Easter Blessing & Supportive Staff Day

May12

 

On 28th April 2017, the Auxilians from primary to high school were asked to dedicate a few precious moments to invoke Blessing from the Risen Lord. The entire school was present to participate in this special occasion.

The blessing began with a short prayer by Fr. Hermil followed by a prayer recited by our school vice-captain Sreeja Chakraborty.

The hymns were sung by Angelina Gomes and Jaqueline Corraya of Class XII asking the Almighty father to pour out his choicest blessings upon our whole Auxilian family.

Fr. Hermil and Brother entered each and every classroom with the holy water and blessed our school. Then our school captain Olivia Dessa conveyed the vote of thanks. We dedicated ourselves to be “GOOD CHILDREN OF GOD”.

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The same day we celebrated Labour’s Day with full aplomb. The function kicked off by Jessica Singh of Class XII A with a speech welcoming the workers and acknowledging their hard work. Prayer in Bengali recited by Neelashri Bhattacharjee of Class X marked the beginning of the programme followed by a Bhajan beautifully rendered by Anwesha Bagchi of Class XII C. Shristi Shukla and Shristi Chakraborty of Class X C put up a power point on labourers around the globe which was followed by a speech and a poem by Ashwini Singh of Class XI C. They highlighted the ceaseless efforts of the workers for the development of the nation and our school in particular. Prothoma and Shreya of class XI with their rhythmic steps magnificently showcased a dance for the didis, aunties and uncles. A melodious song was performed by Class X followed by the recitation by class VIII. Gift was presented to them. Prem Uncle gave short concluding speech. It was followed Sr. Principal’s inspirational and motivating speech. Jessica Singh gave vote of thanks to all the social service club mentors Ms. Ipsita, Ms. Ayesha, Ms. Sarjana, Ms. Sunita, Ms. Martina and Ms. Sudipta for their constant support and all the sisters, teachers and volunteers for their endeavor.

Jessica Singh

(Social Service Club President)

Rabindra Jayanti Celebration

May10

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      On the auspicious morning of the ninth of May, the twenty fifth day of the Bengali month of ‘Baisakh’ we celebrated the 156th birth anniversary the phenomenal Bengali polymath, Rabindranath Tagore.

    The melodious song ‘Eso he Boisakh’ marked the beginning of the celebration which was followed by the lightnig of the holy lamp.

    After a brief summary on the life of Rabindranath Tagore a couple of heartwarming songs were sung, ‘Juto Abishkar’, a humerous play depicting the event of the unieention of the shoe’ was performed by the middle school students. A rythmio dance on a Tagore song set a tranquil atmosphere. The middle school and the High School monologue competition commenced next, with sir. Sudip and Ms. Rita as the Judges. The participants from the respective houses put up outstanding performances as they were cheered on by the thunderous applause of the audience. The high School students amazed us with their mervelous performance in the High School Monologue competition. A documentary by Satyajit Roy on Gurudev’s life was presented next. As time went by, we moved on to the High School Inter House solo Instrumental competition with Sr. Juliana and Sir. Sudip as the  judges. Lastly the President of Music club gave a vote of thanks to the students, teachers and Almighty God for the successful execution of the performance. To mark the end of the celebration, Sr. Superior and Sr. Principal enriched us with their golden words, inspiring us to follow the footsteps of this great enigmatic personality. The performance came to an end at around 12.15 p.m.

Mayurakshi Chaudhuri

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WORKER’S DAY

May10

On 28th April, the students of Classes VI and VII of Auxilium Convent School, Barasat gathered in the auditorium for the worker’s Day Celebration conducted by the Social Service Club members.

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 The event Chief guests for this auspoious occasion where the non-teaching staff and workers of our school. They were gathered with flowers and thus the event commenced at 8.30 a.m.  with the lightening of the lamp followed by an enlighting prayer song. A couple of prayers were chanted and soon after came a dance performance which added aolour and rejoice to the programme. The beat boxing session by two students of class XI upped the tempo, which was arrived on by a drama consisting of a collaboration of famous revolutionary poems and speeches accompanied by melodious background music, hosted by the literary club members. After the upbeat felt like a soothing breeze to the quiz and debate club caused the audience to rock their brains as they searched for answer. The programme concluded with the golden words of Sr. Superior, two inspirational videos which told us about the importance of workers in our day to day life.

Pratipta Sharma

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The “Life Skills Education” Training program

May6

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The “Life Skills Education” Training program was conducted by Development Office on 29 March for NCP & Evening Coaching children of Kolkata zone. It was very satisfying, that all the centres and communities collaborated generously and so we were able to reach out 300 children from various centres.

The Objective of the life skill session was to give awareness and empower children with knowledge and skills required to build their self-esteem, assertiveness and abilities for adoptive and positive behaviour that enables individual to deal effectively the demands and challenges of everyday life.

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The programme commenced with the hymn to Jesus. After which Sr. Juliana the Vicar of the house welcomed all the participants in the name of the Superior. She encouraged and appreciated the children for their willing participation. Before the session there was ice breaking game organised by Sr. Alma Bilung the coordinator.  Children loved the game and were invigorated. This was followed by the session.Sr. Alma together with Miss Purinima Naskar animated the programme. They presented the programme through visual to make the session more lively and interested.  Though the topic was new children were very cooperative and attentive, which was observed in their spontaneous response and group work. It is a great achievement that we were able to reach out to big number of children who were from periphery. We believe, they have learnt and achieved something. The programme ended with sumptuous lunch. Thanks and God’s Blessings to all who were part of this successful event.

 

Exciting experience

May6

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12 of, NCC Cadets, of H.C.Auxilium Vasant Vihar got an opportunity to visit the Hindan Flying Station Ghaziabad on 3rd May 2017  for the flying lessons. It was a life changing experience for us to be in the Air Force Base. We were taken to the air traffic control tower where they explained to us how they manage the smooth take offs and landing of the aircrafts. Wing Commander Sameer Mehra introduced us to the various parts of the aircraft Zen Air 701, which was specially made for beginners like us. The highlight of the day was when each of us got a chance to fly an aircraft for 20 mins sitting in the cockpit while being assisted during take-off and landing. We forgot all the tiredness of getting up 4 in the morning with the picture-perfect view of Ghaziabad city from 1400 feet above the ground among the clouds. We also got a lifetime opportunity to see C-18 Hercules, which is one of the heaviest aircraft of Indian Air Force in Action right in front of us. Though we struggled to keep our feet on the ground, our spirits were in the air filled with joy at the sight of its take off. This experience in the Flying Station is something that will be cherished forever.

Annie Antony

IX

 

World Gratitude Day Celebration

May6

On 26th April 2017, H.C. Auxilium celebrated the ‘World Gratitude Day’ feast of Mother General Yvonne Reungoat. The stage programme began with an opening Prayer for the gift of Mother General and for FMA world. It was followed by songs and a skit to highlight the theme ‘With an Oratorian heart in the educating community, with daring we bring the Joy of the Gospel to the young’.

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Then with the help of PPT, the students briefed the audience about the culture of Benin in Africa, where the Mother General is celebrating her feast this year. The students also expressed that the celebration will certainly help them grow more and more in their love for the Institute and appreciate values the Sisters and Staff inculcate in them in the Salesian style. In the concluding message, Sr. Maria, Superior shared with the students that young people are joyful, trustworthy, have hearts rich in love, able to be messengers of God’s love etc. which are the sentiments of Mother General with regard to young people and she requested them to keep praying for Mother and every Sister in the Institute.

 

 

 

 

 

 YCS Commitment day

May5

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On 1stMay at 7 a.m. 21 students of Auxilium Barasat, with three animators set out for St. Mary’s School Ripon Street, to participate in the YCS commitment day programme. There were eight schools present. The day commenced with prayer service the readings chosen for the occasion was that of Jesus washing the feet of his apostles. 

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Rev. Fr. Nitinatan, vice principal of St. Mary’s gave a motivational talk on servant Leadership. He invited the audience to be strong like the lion, flexible like the monkey; sore high like the eagle he also exhorted us to be humble and service minded like Jesus our master. The animators were encouraged and felicitated with small gift to appreciate their role in animating the YCSrs. The DEXO members were elected. Sonali Soreng of Class XII and  Sreya soreng of Class X were elected as media in charge. After tea break there was a solemn Eucharistic celebration animated by the St. Mary’s Students. The YCSrs took their commitment during the Eucharistic celebration. Rev. Fr. Devraj the YCS Chaplin, invited more students to participate in the forth coming National convention which will be held in Don Bosco Park Circus on May 22nd to 25th. The programme ended with a fellowship meal. The Youngsters and their animators left the campus with a resolve to be more committed YCSrs.