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Timeless Travels
One of the most treasured memories of school life are the picnics, educational trips and adventure camps attended with friends. To ensure that our students can add more to this treasure, every year the school organizes visits for all. Smiling faces, twinkling eyes and giggling laughter – are our memories from each such trip. And yes together we learn sharing and caring, team spirit and time management and come back enriched and empowered.
14th December 2012 – Visit to Rashtrapati Bhawan
 Students of classes VI and VII, got the golden opportunity to visit Rashtrapati Bhawan, considered to be one of the best known monuments of India on Friday, 14th December 2012. The Rashtrapati Bhawan is the house of parliament of India also known as the Viceroy’s House is a real masterpiece that was built in the British period. It is the focal point of New Delhi and situated in the Raisina Hills.
A guide showed the students around the vast mansion and enriched their knowledge about the place. The splendor of the Rashtrapati Bhawan is multi-dimensional. It is a vast mansion and its architecture is breathtaking. Rashtrapati Bhawan is a beautiful amalgamation of Eastern and Western architectural style.
They visited the Lutyen Gallery, Marble house, kitchen Gallery, Gift GALLERY, Dining Hall, Ashoka Hall, Durbar Hall (the major venue of all official ceremonies of the Indian Government such as the oath taking ceremony by the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the Members of the parliament) and the Mughal Garden. They found the Rashtrapati Bhawan grand in every sense, whether it was ceiling with its amazing design or the beautifully carved furniture or the exquisite presents of the President collected from all over the world or the history related to it.
Students enjoyed exploring the visual treat that the Rashtrapati Bhawan is and were amazed to see the beauty and magnificence of this historical building.
12th December 2012 – Eco Adventure Camp
 In order to give a break from daily routine work, the students of classes Buds – II were taken to Eco Adventure Camp, Najafgarh. At the venue the students were escorted by the team members of the camp. To start with a magic show was organized which was enjoyed by everyone. Children also enjoyed the rides on camel cart, bullock cart and tractor. Other Adventure activities included ‘Flying Fox’, ‘Tyre Climbing’, ‘Burma Bridge’. In-house DJ played rocking music to which the students as well as teachers danced to the fullest. The food provided to the students was mouth watering and children relished it.
30th November 2012 - Annual School Picnic (VI – XI)
Sachdeva Global School, organized the annual picnic for student of classes VI – XI to Adventure Island on 30th November 2012. It was quite refreshing for the students as it gave them a little break from the regular studies. The students were excited and happy. They enjoyed the rides of various swings like twister, splash, striking cars and so on.
There was a magic show at 12:30 p.m. which was quite entertaining. Hot and delicious lunch was also served for students and teachers. Students had a lot of fun and were back to school in the evening.
(22-23) November 2012 – Visit to Gurudwara
“Guru Nanak Jayanti” – being a sacred festival of the Sikh community, is falling on Wednesday, 28th November 2012. The importance of this event was instilled in the little ones of classes Buds - Blooms. A visit to a nearby Gurudwara was organized on 22nd and 23rd November 2012. Students were excited and happy to see the ongoing preparations for the approaching festival. The sikh guru as they call him ‘Bhai Ji’ elaborated on the sacred ‘Guru Granth Sahib’ and the teachings of the Guru. Kids were told about the importance of always wearing ‘bandana’ inside the Gurudwara and they were also given the ‘Prasad’.
20th November 2012 – Visit to Axis Bank
In an endeavour to provide hands on experience as a part of their CBSE Business Studies Curriculum students of class XIB visited the Axis Bank, Dwarka along with the teacher. The visit provided them an opportunity to observe and understand banking activities.
Students were shown the entire process of depositing and withdrawal of cash at various counters, lockers availability, depositing of cheque and priority banking facility etc. Students were made familiar with various documents used in bank like Pay-in-slip, Cheque book and Pass book.
At the end, queries of students were addressed well by the employees of Axis bank. The visit was well grasped by students and such an exposures will certainly enrich awareness of our students.
6th November 2012 - Visit to Bal Bhawan
Visit to Bal Bhawan was planned to develop creative thinking among children through non formal educational activities which will inculcate in them confidence, self reliance, patriotism and love for values that in turn will make our nation stronger. On 6th November 2012 students of classes III – V visited Bal Bhawan in collaboration with HT Pace. The visit gave the students a wonderful opportunity to observe the nature closely. Special attractions were mirror house, science gallery, swings and a museum named ‘Hamara Bharat’. Children explored the astronomical facts related to the SUN and its family. Historical facts were reviewed through various carvings on the walls of the museum. It was a sort of infotainment for them and to the delicacies of nature, they just had one word to describe it all – WOW!
2nd November 2012 - Visit to Gurudwara
In an endeavour to foster secularism and make the students understand and appreciate each religion, 145 students of classes I – II visited a Gurudwara located at sec-11, Dwarka, on Monday, 2nd November 2012. Students were briefed about the significance of sikh religion and the ‘Guru Grantha Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs. After the prayer, the Prasad was distributed to the students. The visit truly gave them an essence of Guru Nanak Jayanti (28 Nov).
3rd March 2012 – Visit to the Book Fair, Pragati Maidan
The 20th World Book Fair began on Saturday, 25th February 2012 at Pragati Maidan. Organized by The National Book Trust, this fair showcased the biggest book fair in the Afro Asian region. Exhibitors from India and abroad took part in this fair.
Teachers of Sachdeva Global School, Dwarka visited the fair on Saturday, 3rd March 2012. While the focus was on selecting books, keeping in mind the overall development and enrichment of different skills, utmost care was also taken to include books which would boost the students’ interest in reading.
Books on display, ranged over a variety of genre, starting from books on moral values, to Effective Communication Skills, Books on Correct Grammatical Usage, Letter Writing, Great Speeches by famous political personalities, books on Enrichment of Skills in Able and Talented Children, Selected Essays on Urbanization, its Maladies, Growing Violence, Essentials of Nation Building, Modern Man’s Apathy, and the list went on. Selected books were bought to be added to the extensive collection of the school library.
2nd March 2012 – Trip to ‘The Garden of Five Senses’
Annual picnic was organised for students of Classes I – II. Our students had a fun filled time at ‘The Garden Of Five Senses’ located on the Mehrauli – Badarpur road on Friday, 2nd March 2012. A clean and well maintained entrance way led to a wonderful garden designed to stimulate the five senses with its beauty and attractions; its special features include sundial, solar park and an amphitheatre.
Students were encouraged to touch rocks and greens and feel them, smell the fragrance of flowers, view the appealing landscapes and listen to the pleasing ceramic bells.
After they had seen the whole garden and played lot of games, they were hungry and luinch was served to them in this naturally enthralling ambience. Later, the students enjoyed playing ‘Passing the Parcel’ game.
It is a wonderful place to visit and leaves a deeply entrenched feeling of satisfaction and beckons to visit the park again and again. Everyone returned in high spirits.
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