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INTERNATIONAL two choices. These university acceptances have included 93 offering support to students, and English-Vinglish, teaching Project by the British Science Association and an “Outstanding
acceptances to 19 of the universities listed in the QS World's
Achievement Award - Engineering Category” at the British
basic English to the support staff at DAIS were a valuable
CURRICULUM Top 30 Universities. This group of university includes the Russell addition to the life of the school. International Education Association (B.I.E.A.) for creating
innovative packaging material from food waste. in Grade 8
Group in the UK and the US Ivy League.
Special thanks are due to the Student Council. Their goal is to
These students are our ambassadors in the wider world, and make sure that the student body is actively engaged with Ayaan Shankta was named an International Young Eco-Hero
2021 by Action for Nature, a San Francisco based NGO, which
we are confident that they will represent all the virtues which various activities in the form of inter-house events - aiming to honours young environmental activists globally. Ayaan has
we seek to engender in our students. Our objective has always encourage students to explore new hobbies and find their designed a water pollution sensor, 'Hydrus'.
been to help develop principled, reflective, and self-directed passion through them. From the beginning of the year, the
leaners who enrich the country and the world by their Student Council has conducted online events, for students In the creative sphere our students in Grades 9, 10 and 11 have
contributions. Our Alumni have always done so, and we are from Grades 1-12, including the Indian Music Competitions, won gold and silver awards in the Queens Commonwealth
confident that the class of 2022 will continue this tradition. The Art and Photography Competitions, Spoken Word essay competition 2021 in the senior category and a group of
Alumni have continued to engage with our students and offer Competition and more. It was with great pleasure that Student Grade 9 French IGCSE students won the prestigious Jury's
valuable guidance and support. This has included a number of Council was able to restart in-school events as we returned to award at the National Cinerama competition organised by the
internship opportunities, an area we are looking to further physical school. The joy on the faces of students as they took to French Institute and French Embassy of India.
develop in coming years. It was a great pleasure to have an the playing fields in interhouse sports events, including The abatement of the pandemic has given the school the
Alumni speak at the TedXYouthDAIS event in September on football, throwball, and basketball is something that energised opportunity for in-person events. Beginning with the
Leadership and Entrepreneurship. Neil Satra, an alumnus of the the whole school community. graduation of the Class of 2021. Indeed, this was a year of
class of 2011 spoke with great insight on what he has learned multiple graduations, a total of 12 mini graduation ceremonies
Mr. Michael Shields Ms. Sonali Bajaj That excitement was even more evident during our first Athletics
on his journey from product manager at Google to recently Meet since 2019 as the students and staff took to the field to take took place in the school Auditorium and served as a fitting
Head, International Deputy Head, securing a place at Entrepreneur First to build his own start up, part in a festival of sports. Long contained energy and finale for the class of 2021. A further highlight was the
Curriculum International Curriculum Magi Metrics. enthusiasm was allowed to finally find a suitable venue in an opportunity to conduct Student Council Investiture for
Round Square (RS) continues to be a key part of the school and outstanding day of friendly, but intense competition in our 18th Academic Year 2021-22 in the school grounds in the presence
of our Vice Chairperson, Ms Ambani Piramal. The further
As we come to the end of the academic year, we have the this year's Round Square King Constantine medal winner, Annual Athletic Meet. In the week before a staff versus Grade 12 easing situation allowed us to celebrate in school with our
opportunity to reflect on an extraordinary year in the life of the Kareena Shankta, richly deserves her recognition. Kareena is a football match brought the whole school on to the field to savour grade 10 and 12 students as they came to the end of their
school. From beginning the year online, we have been able to student who has an attitude that supported her service a great match. Experience was no match for Youth in the long run IGCSE and IB studies. Student Council members and students
move back to in person schooling safely as a consequence of involvement in school and outside the school community. She and as the game wore on the students were able to get the upper from grades 9 and 11 provided wonderful evenings of
the great efforts of our medical staff and the wise guidance of has taken her passion for the arts forward through her Kayasha hand and claim a well-deserved victory. entertainment which were greatly enjoyed by the students and
our Chairperson and Vice Chairperson. Our COVID testing charitable initiative which connects buyers with disadvantaged DAIS students have made their mark in sports as diverse as chess, staff in attendance. It has been heartening to see the
protocols and programme of supporting vaccinations for staff groups who sell their art as a lifeline to survival. She consistently where we have a State Champion, table tennis and golf (where a resumption of so many in school events as the year progressed,
and eligible students have been driven by Mrs Ambani and Ms involved the CAS (Creativity, Activity, Service) team and has grade 12 student has been selected to play for the University of including our first university representative visit, students being
Ambani-Piramal and have made our school an outstandingly taken feedback to further improve her projects and continues Akron's women's golf team with a 100% scholarship) and able to undertake fieldtrips, an excellent Group 4 science
safe learning space. This has allowed us to deliver an to contribute to the school community by guiding her juniors Equestrianism where we have a National Equestrian Competition project exhibition, and Earth Day celebrations.
educational experience which has combined the best of what to take on and pursue her project. Round Square continues to silver medallist. We even have a Guinness World Record holder in
we did in the online world, the use of Microsoft teams as a be an avenue for international and cultural exchange and the niche area of Airline identification! Where there were benefits in staying online, we continued to
platform that allows remote learning for those who must many students have enjoyed and benefited from the RS Our students have continued to excel in competitions both use the microsoft teams platform as a way of allowing wider
isolate and serves as a repository for students’ learning Postcard sessions and the RS India-Peru Virtual Cultural extracurricular and academic. Robotics has always been a great participation. DAIMUN 2021 offered the experience of sharing
materials, with the joy of in person learning and co-curricular Exchange events on a variety of themes. It is very pleasing that strength of the school and our team, Elev8, competed in the First views and opinions on important issues in our global world
activities. The resilience of students, parents, and the faculty 6 of our Grade 11 students have volunteered to participate in Robotics competition regionals at Sacramento and Central with students around the world online. As well as enjoying our
during this period of remote learning has supported our shift Expani- Teaching English- a service initiative. They will be Valley, USA from 22 March to 03 April 2022 where they won the students excelling in their pursuits, we have benefited from the
back to in person schooling. At the heart of all of this activity teaching English language to under privileged children in Peru Entrepreneurship Award in the Central Valley Regionals. Special wisdom of speakers in our Leadership series who have
has been the school's concern for the students, their (Online) through weekly sessions with the Peruvian students, mention goes to Aarna Sanghai from grade 11 who won the themselves exceled in their fields. This year, for the first time,
opportunities to grow and their wellbeing. for a period of 2 months. DAIS hosted the Service-In-Action Dean's List Finalist Award. This award recognizes the individual we extended the invitation to take part to Middle School
virtual Round Square conference 'Service through the lens of students during the Questions and Answer session which was
The cancellation of the IGCSE and IB examinations for the class selfcare” where over 260 participants comprising delegations efforts, leadership, and dedication of FIRST's most outstanding held with Olympian, Ms. Saina Nehwal.
of 2021 was a source of great disappointment to our students from 38 schools from Dodoma, Armenia, Australia, Canada, secondary school students. In the field of computing and We are very grateful for our students, parents and staff
who relish the opportunity to demonstrate their learning. France, India, Oman, Thailand, and Pakistan, focused on what programming a grade 9 student who was a National Winner in completing the CIS survey. The survey is a useful tool which we
However, the students were rewarded for their efforts by the has been a key theme for the school over the year. The whole the Google Code to Learn 2021-22 competition. use to assess how we are meeting the needs of all of our
examination boards who used information on student's DAIS team can take great pride in the feedback given by the RS In Mathematics we have had winners in the AIMO (Asian stakeholders and will assist us as we prepare for our upcoming
performance to award grades. The Class of 2021's average regional co-ordinator that this has been “the only event from International Mathematics Olympiad) and HKIMO (Hongkong CIS/NEASC re-accreditation visit. The school staff have continued
score was 41.1 points, which ranked us once again among the South Asia & Gulf region this year, and has made the whole International Mathematics Olympiad) and students who have the process of curriculum review and self-reflection which is at
the Top IB Schools in the world. Seventeen students Region proud of your students” competed in the WIMO (World International Mathematical the heart of the process and your inputs are vital in this.
earned the perfect score of 45 points, compared to 1351 Olympiad) from both the IGCSE and IBDP cohort. We have had Our sincere gratitude and appreciation go to our Founder and
worldwide. 73% of our candidates achieved 40 or more CAS activities and charity work have continued to be delivered students place in the top five nationally in the American Maths Chairperson, Mrs. Nita Ambani and Vice Chairperson, Ms. Isha
points. This is our best performance at IBDP. Our IGCSE online and have made a difference to the lives of all of those Contest Grade 12 (AMC 12). Our mathematicians continue to Ambani Piramal for their visionary and inspirational leadership,
students also continued to earn excellent results. 92.6% of all involved, student volunteers and those who are the target represent the school with great success, and this was further and to our Board of Governors. Heartfelt gratitude also to our
grades achieved were A*and A grades, which is our highest group for the projects. The Workout Warriors project has reflected in the triumph of our senior team in the Infinity Math IGCSE and IBDP Coordinators and Assistant Coordinators,
ever. Fifteen students earned 11 A*'s in all the subjects they supported elderly citizens get active during the physically Competition in January 2022. Ms. Mukherjee, Ms. Dhawan, Ms. Basu, and Mr. Makwana; our
appeared for and Six students achieved 10 A*'s. One sedentary time that has been the pandemic by a combination Further success was enjoyed by Maanav Kothari and Aditya Curriculum Coordinator, Dr. Potukuchi; our RS Coordinator, Ms.
of online sessions and interactions. The ongoing Menstrual
student topped one subject in the world (Dhruv Bhalla; Movement works towards breaking the taboo surrounding Mehta of Grade 11 who won the GRAND AWARD in Nanda; our Heads of Department and Subject Coordinators; to
International Mathematics) and one topped 1 subject in menstruation and mitigating 'period poverty' in India. Biomedical Engineering Category at the IRIS (Institute of our Student Care team, our College Counselling team, The IT
India (Devika Kothari; Hindi). Our great results and Research & Innovation in STEM) national fair 2022. They will support team, administration, security and support staff, and
reputation for producing students who are well equipped for We had ten Y 12 CAS projects running this year. These ranged now represent team India at the Regeneron International especially to all our faculty colleagues, who work closely with,
further study has resulted in our students being accepted in the in focus from Environmental protection and awareness to Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), USA in May 2022. As part guide, and mentor students on a daily basis and work tirelessly to
best universities across the world. The Class of 2022 has had an those that concentrated on need for financial literacy among of their research project, they have designed an innovative inspire them to excel.
acceptance rate of 45%of their applications and 44% of the female domestic workers in the informal economy in an product -MOUTHSCOPE. It is an autonomous detection device Michael Shields
class receiving funding from 75 scholarships, totalling US$ increasingly cashless society, to those with a focus how the arts for oral precancerous lesions using fluorescent imaging and Head, International Curriculum WELL-BEING
5,543,355 over four years. 22% of the Class of 2022 have can be leveraged to support animal charities in the city. The Artificial Intelligence. Our students have also excelled in
been offered a place by their university of first choice and 45% focus was not always out of the school community however, environmental areas with awards of the prestigious GOLD Sonali Bajaj
of them have been offered a place by the University of their top and two projects had an impact in school. Peerhelp, focused on CREST AWARD for a Water Contamination and Purification Deputy Head, International Curriculum
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