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he House assemblies organised by the school are really                                                              goal with ease. On the morning of the assembly, I had butterflies in
           House Celeb R a T ions                      informative. As a parent, when I come to attend my                                                                  my stomach. My parents were also there to boost me up my morale.
                                                       daughter's House assembly, I get amazed seeing such                                                                 I got really nervous when my turn was about to come. When it
                                             Tsmall children on the stage conducting them. The level                                                                       finally arrived, I spoke with tremendous confidence and there was no
                                             of confidence exhibited by the participating students, needs to be                                                            stopping me. It helped me gain ample confidence and I enjoyed it a
                                             applauded.                                                                                                                    lot.
                                                Recently, I attended two assemblies organized by Shaheed Bhagat                                                                                                               Khusali nahata, P5 E
                                             Singh House. The House teachers performed a commendable job in
                                             training such small children to actually do what we adults find it so                                                                      e have attended a lot of morning assemblies involving
                                             difficult. The comfort level of the children displayed on the stage is                                                                     the participation of our child during his last 5 years
                                             worth mentioning. The information given on the theme ‘Health and                                                                           of journey at school and like always, we look forward
                                             Hygiene’ was very interesting. The students understood the advantages                                                         Wto them. This time, the topic of the assembly which
                                             of good health and hygiene easily as it came from their fellow                                                                was presented by members of Shaheed Bhagat Singh House was
                                             classmates. At the end, the Headmistress elaborated on the same theme                                                         ‘Friendship’. In order to make everybody understand the essence
                                             in such a way that the children could easily relate to her. Her words                                                         of friendship, two stories were enacted which revolved around this
                                             always encourage the students to do even better and give a marvellous                                                         theme. The first story highlighted the invaluable bond between
                                             performance. I also attended another assembly in which the pariotic                                                           Bhagwan Krishna and his childhood friend Sudama. It taught us
                                             song ‘Mera Rang de Basanti Chola’ was sung which truly touched my                                                             how friendship should be based on mutual love and respect between
                                             heart and an immense feeling of nationalistic pride ran through my                                                            individuals regardless of their financial status. The second story was
                                             body. Indeed, I felt proud of my country. I really feel that through                                         Vikrant Gupta, P3 B  about a ship carrying two friends who are marooned on an island
                                             these assemblies, the school is teaching the children to be capable of                                                        after their ship capsizes. They decide to stay on opposite sides of the
                                                                      facing all kinds of challenges that life has to                                                      island to look for help and inform the other person if help arrives.
                                                                      offer. Therefore, I would love to attend more                                                        One friend prays to God for food, clothes and house and his prayers
            shaheed bhagat singh                                      of these beautiful mornings in school.                                                               are answered. Finally, one day he prays for a ship and God sends
                                                                                                                                                                           him a ship too. He gets on board the ship and decides to leave his
                                                                                      abha Khanna, M/o Samaira Khanna,P4 A
            House                                                                                                                                                          friend behind. Suddenly, God appears before him and tells him that
                                                                     I                                                                                                     all his friend’s prayers should be answered. The important lesson to
                                                                                                                                                                           he is leaving the same friend behind whose only prayers were that
                                                                          got really excited when my Housemistress
                                                                          told me that I was to participate in an
                                                                                                                                                                           value one’s friends and well wishers couldn’t have been put across to
                                                                          assembly based on ‘Determination’. I had
                                                                                                                                                                           children in a better way! The performance by the entire team along
                                                                          to present my speech in Hindi which
                                             was a challenging task for me. I started the preparation with great                                                           with the hard work of the teachers won our hearts hands down.
                                             enthusiasm. I was given a poem composed by Late Shri Harivansh Rai                                                                                          Manish & upama Gupta, P/O Vikrant Gupta P3 B
                                             Bachchan-‘Koshish Karne Walon Ki Kabhi Haar Nahi Hoti’. It was a
                                             tough poem to memorize but my Housemistress helped me achieve my                                                                    haheed Bhagat Singh House members put up a brilliant
                                                                                                                                                                                 assembly in the month of July. I was thrilled as I got a chance
                                                                                                                                                                                 to speak about the legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and
                                                                                                                                                                          Sgot an insight into his life. He was born on 27 September 1907
                                                                                                                                                                           in Lyallpur (now in Pakistan) and he was hanged to death on 23
                                                                                                                                                                           March 1931. In his short life span of 23 years, he became a symbol
                                                                                                                                                                           of supreme sacrifice. He carried out a non-violent protest along
                                                                                                                                                                           with Raj Guru, Sukhdev and B.K Dutt. In 1921, Congress boycotted
                                                                                                                                                                           the Simon Commission. The police fiercely beat up the peaceful
                                                                                                                                                                           protestors. Bhagat Singh claimed revenge by shooting dead a British
           House Masters:                                                                                                                                                  police officer and escaped to Lahore. Then, Bhagat Singh and B.K.
           Ms. Shashi Dahiya                                                                                                                                               Dutt dropped bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly to draw the
           Ms. Madhu Sethi                                                                                                                                                 attention of the people to the British injustice. They did not injure
           Ms. Chandni Kapoor                                                                                                                                              anyone but they were jailed after this. He underwent a 116 day fast
           Ms. Nishu Sharma                                                                                                                                                in jail to demand equal political rights for both British and Indian
                                                                                                                                                                           political prisoners. Finally, he was hanged to death but continues to
                                                                                                                                                                           live in our hearts even today. Jai Hind!
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Ruhaan singh, P5 E


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