Teachers Day

To Our Teachers, With Love – Teachers’ Day celebrations

Don Bosco High School,

Matunga, Mumbai

5 Sep, 2015

 The special occasion on which to show gratitude towards teachers, the Teachers’ Day, was a grand affair at Don Bosco’s with students felicitating their teachers in their respective classes, followed by a special entertainment programme organized by parents and the Student Council.

Preparations for the day saw the P.T.A. representatives and parents of the Primary students helping the boys to prepare the class programmes. In the Secondary section, the Student Council ably guided the boys with the same. The classrooms, the staff rooms and the corridors were also colourfully decorated.

The day began by invoking God's blessings on the teachers at a special Mass in the shrine, followed by the class celebrations where students did their best to bring a smile to their teachers’ faces through speeches, poems, songs, skits, power point presentations and dance. An entertaining programme was put up in the gym by the Student Council and parents of the Primary Section. The day came to an end with a fellowship meal shared by the management, the retired and present staff and the non-teaching staff.

A big 'Thank You' to everyone involved, for making the day very special!

A big 'Thank You' to everyone involved, for making the day very special!

Basketball team winners of DSO.

Sep 6: Our U/14 basketball team winners of DSO. We beat St. Joseph's wadala 30-09 in the finials.

NCC

Eleven of our NCC students attended the National Cadet Corps -Combined Annual Training Camp at Goregaon. They were adjudged the best troupe for drill display. Cadet Samih Shaikh was awarded the best cadet in Junior Division from among 370 cadets. Congrats to our cadets and the NCC master Mr. Shukla (not in pic).

“The Green house week”

        

  The staff and the students of the green house celebrated the ‘Green House Week’ with great gusto and pomp. The celebration commenced on the 24^th August 2015- 29^th August 2015. The green house brought about the rich culture, tradition, religion, cuisine, etc of the various states like Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu of South India.
 This celebration was carried on by a live music “Naadha Swaram” on all the major three days, followed by a Morning Talk (morning message) supported by a PowerPoint presentation that was viewed by all the standards (5^th – 10^th) .

 Each day specialized on different states.
24^th August 2015 – Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
28^th August 15 – Kerala / Karnataka
29^th August 15 – Tamil Nadu

   

      The green house also paid special attention to the celebration of “Onam”. The entire school was welcomed by the green house boys and teachers by presenting sugar cubes on their palm and signing them with chandan on their brow as a welcome gesture. The students and the teachers enhanced the beauty of the day by wearing a traditional attire to make the celebration of onam special. The staff brought about the cuisine of the state of Kerala during the lunch. Displays and charts were presented around the classrooms and corridors respectively. As an acknowledgement to the charts and displays, a quiz was conducted on all three days bringing out the significance of the states of south India.  Keeping in mind the colour of our house ‘Green’, the green house made the week very special by contributing towards nature. The students planted vegetable saplings like tomato, mint, pudina, etc on 29^th August 15 to mark the day.  The students and the staff had an immense learning experience and enjoyed the importance of all the days of the week imbibing the rich values through their experiences.

The Design For Change (D.F.C.

By Mrs. Elizabeth Soares, D.F.C. Coordinator

Don Bosco High School,

Matunga,

Mumbai, September 1, 2015:

The Design For Change (D.F.C.) programme is a global movement that cultivates the ‘I Can’ mindset in every child; empowering children by giving them the opportunity to express their own ideas for a better world and putting the same into action. Don Bosco High School, Matunga has taken on the same in the current academic year.

The Social Service students of Std. VIII, under the guidance of their teachers, Mrs. Bindu Keny, Mrs. Gracy Gonsalves, Mrs. Selma Gonsalves and Mrs. Karuna Dadipogu have identified key areas they wish to bring about the change in, as per the D.F.C. directives.

The students would accordingly be looking into-

·         Spreading awareness about electricity as a precious resource and judicious use thereof.

·         Reduction of honking outside the school premises.

·         Reduction of litter within the school premises.

·         Bringing about an awareness of the negative effects of abusive language.

Implementation of the same has been initiated through talks soliciting student and staff cooperation and informative placards.

Winners All

29 August

Our dance troupe - First place at the Media Festival organized at Mazzarello Youth Centre, Auxilium Wadala - Mumbai, on 29th Aug 2015. Congratulations boys.

2017 FIFA u-17 World Cup

The India u-16 squad for the 2017 FIFA u-17 World Cup to be hosted by India is presently in Germany to play a string of practice matches. Here, our team lost 3-5 to Germany's SpVgg Unterhaching on Saturday 29 Aug at DFI Artificial Ground in Germany.

Our Don Bosco Matunga student, Master Gaston D'Silva, one of the probables, is 2nd from left (standing). Indeed a proud moment for Don Bosco High School, Matunga.

Congratulations to Master Aditya Kotian who bagged the third prize in the below 8 years section of the prestigious inter-school Bandra Gymkhana elocution competition.

Cultural Day - Std. IV

Std. IV rock the show

-Ms. Kashmira Rodrigues

28th Aug 2015

`Helping Hands, Loving Hearts ` - this theme was beautifully portrayed by the students of Std. IV in the form of dance, drama and music. The programme began with a lovely welcome by the students who came dressed in colourful costumes and set the tone for the day with their graceful dance and melodious singing. This was followed by the students seeking God`s blessings in song and dance. The entertaining action songs, dances and skit depicting the need to create loving hearts for universal happiness kept the audience entertained. The Principal`s inspiring speech and the ‘Thank you’ song brought this programme to an end. This will be a memorable day in the lives of the students of Std. IV who got a chance to perform on stage, thanks to the tireless efforts of their teachers.