Volume 5, Issue 2
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Adieu to the Class of 2018
Grade 11 bid farewell to their seniors in November in a ‘Venetian Masquerade’ theme party.
In February, the Class of 2018 had their Graduation ceremony. Chief Guest, Mr. Jacob Mathew, Managing Editor, Malayala
Manorama, inspired the young graduates with his moving speech.
“Cyber Bullying: Should School Counsellors Intervene?” International Hoopathon Series 2017
Global Public School hosted the BIKOS Workshop for School
Counsellors, organized by Cochin Refineries School and Kerala
Police in November. The Australian Basketball team visited our school in November as
part of the International Hoopathon Series 2017. Mr. Tim Mottin
(Coach of the Australian Team), Peter Hynson, Ben Draper, Sue
Egan and Maree Mortin accompanied the Australian team.
Mr. C.V Sunny, Coach of the Indian basketball team and former
Indian National men's basketball team captain, graced the
occasion with his presence.
Dr. Karthikeyan Gokul Chandran, IPS, Asst Commissioner, Narcotics
Cell was the Chief Guest. Dr Chalam Das, MD, Psychiatrist from
Sunrise Hospital was the Guest Speaker. Forensic experts from
Cyber Cell Kochi also spoke on the occasion.
Bringing Computational Thinking to Schools
SPIC MACAY celebrated Kerala Piravi with us
The talented Langa
M a n ga n i a r s,
fo l k
singers from Rajasthan
mesmerized us all in a
programme organized
by SPIC MACAY (Society
for Promotion of Indian
Classical Music and
Culture Amongst Youth)
in November as part of our Kerala Piravi celebrations.
CSpathshala, a national computing initiative, supported by ACM,
Google and TCS, conducted a one day workshop at Global Public
School to train teachers in modern computing curriculum,
emphasizing on problem solving and computational thinking skills.
Vipul Shah, Principal Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services, Pune and
Head of ACM India CSpathshala Initiative and Mr Shekhar
Sahsrabudhe (President Systems Lts), ACM India COO led the
workshop which was attended by 30 teachers from around 10
schools.
Let's Fight The Big 'C'.
Students took a 'Protect our
Mom' pledge and learnt
about detection and
treatment of Breast cancer
from Dr Vijayalakshmi, in the
“Protect Your Mom” campaign
held in January.
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