Papago Badminton

[Sabina Kehler]

Todate, Mr Iskandar and Ms Quah are helming the badminton team in a bid to bring back the glory days, shaping the character of our players at the same time. Our three-pronged approach enables development in the technical, physical and mental aspects of our players. Through astute coaching, currently provided by Mr Justin Tay Li Wei and Mr Kenneth Khoo, and exposure to various external competitions, our players are able to enhance their learning experience and improve progressively. We will continue to pursue excellence so as to produce exemplary student-athletes in years to come.

In 2020, our B boys beat Chung Cheng High in their zonal group stage to ensure progression into the Quarter Final rounds of the National School Games. However, due to the COVID pandemic, the National School Games had to be suspended.

Students from Grades 3, 4 and 5 have participated in the Pasir Ris Beach Clean-up activity and unfurled the Earth Day Banner at the Bird Watching Tower. This meaningful activity inspires them to be mindful of keeping the beach and environment clean, free from litter and pollution! An important life lesson learnt for today and tomorrow.

Congratulations to the High School Grade 10 IGCSE students who have won the championships and runners-up for the History Bee & Bowl Asia Oceania Spring League! The students have competed with 9 Internationals schools around the world. NPSI Team A has achieved excellent results in the final round and emerged as the overall Champions!

We celebrated Earth Day, an annual event where the whole of Early Years and Primary Years get to demonstrate their support for environmental protection. The students put in their best efforts and creative skills dressing up as Astronauts, Mermaids, Prince, Princesses, Kings, Queens, Robots, Kimonos, Rockets for the "Save the Earth" contest!

NPSI has integrated Maths and numbers counting in the activities too. Dr. Marji Puotinen, a Climate Researcher from Australia has also shared with our students the importance of climate change to make the world a better place! It was a meaningful event for students to learn in an innovative way!

Congratulations to Advaith Bharadwaj for winning the Outstanding Performance Award at the International Maths Olympiad Challenge! He has competed with 2.5 million students between Grades 1 to 10, 3,638 schools across 34 countries!

Congratulations to Rithika Somasundaram from Grade V for winning Gold Medals at Papago Badminton Tournament for Singles & Doubles Girls under 13! She has competed with 54 students across 30 local schools, international schools, and badminton clubs. The exciting tournament was held at the Singapore Sports School.

We had fun-learning activities for Early Years students where they think out of the box and utilise their fresh creative-thinking skills to make their own astronaut spacesuit using containers, aluminium foils, and recycled materials!

Our U-19 boys Basketball team participated in the ActiveSG tournament this month and competed with approximately 2000 players island-wide, aged between 15 to 19. Our team, (Pratyush Gupta, Deveish Sivakumar, Shaurya Agarwalla, Aryan Midha and Tarun Shankar) qualified for the East Zone finals after 3 weeks of round robin matches which lasted from 19th Feb to 5th March.We are delighted to announce that our boys finished second in the zonal finals, held on 12th March. Our team will now enter the super league where the top two teams from each zone will battle it out to determine the best 3v3 Basketball U-19 team in Singapore. Our boys' team will play the super league this Saturday (19th March) and hope to qualify for the final 4 matches.

In the spirit of Chinese New Year, our teachers and staff are happy to spread joy, happiness and gifting hampers to all the cleaning and security support staff for their hard work in keeping the campus clean and safe!

Being the youngest athlete to qualify for the finals, it was overwhelming and exciting for him. He has gained a lot of learnings from this event and he is working towards to becoming a better athlete!

On the 14th January, Malavika Ramesh & Nanadana Rajesh from NPS International School, took part in a painting camp as part of a Pongal festival event at Clive Street, Little India, Singapore organized by LISHA. The public was able to witness the students doing their artworks representing the Pongal Festival giving students the experience of interacting with the public while painting. This was a different and very valuable learning experience for the students as they could curate their art depiction of what Pongal means to them. It proved to be an interesting and popular event for the public making it the headlines on the MediaCorp Seithi Tamil News.

On 15 and 16 January, Our honorable Deputy High Commissioner of India High Commission, Singapore, Mr. Siddhartha Nath visited our students Art Gallery @ the rooftop terrace pavilion of Tekka Place. All artworks in the showcase were created by our talented students.

Congratulations to Atiksh Agarwal for winning the 3rd place in the Virtual Penang Chess Competition. He has competed with students from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand and we are very happy with his achievement!

Congratulations to Vedant Nayudu from Grade 5! Competing with 38 students in Singapore, he has won the 3rd place in the ASEAN Rapid Chess Tournament, "under 10" group category! The tournament was held on 26 December 2021, organized by ASEAN Chess Academy and in co-operation with the Singapore Chess Federation.

NPSI activities and programmes are designed to stimulate creative expressions. Creative activities help the students to develop their observation skills, boost self-esteem and confidence level. It helps to increase problem-solving abilities and develop physical and emotional thinking skills for their future success! To book a slot for the virtual or non-virtual campus tour, please call us at 6294 2400, ext. 203 and 205 OR register online by clicking here.

At NPSI, we believe in cultivating empathy in children. Our students have donated over 4,000 storybooks to Beyond Social Services, a charity dedicated to helping children and youths from the less privileged backgrounds. These donated books will be sent to the children who are living in rented flats with minimal exposure to books. We hope by donating these books, the less privileged kids will be benefited from: - building up the vocabulary, prevents cognitive decline, strengthens the brain and cheering them up!

Congratulations to everyone at NPSI. We are successfully rank 13th in the world "Global Top IB Schools", standing out among local and global schools! Thank you management, principals, teachers and students for the remarkable efforts! It has been a wonderful IB journey we all had!

Warmest Congratulations to our students on their achievements in the recent competitions! Organised by Sangam Singapore, supported by the High Commission of India and World Hindi Secretariat, Mauritius.

Competing with 5 schools in Singapore, Aashna Gaikwad from IBDP Grade 11 has won 1st prize in the Debate Competition, Srishti Arora from IGCSE Grade 10 has won 2nd prize in Essay Writing and Aditi Kaul from CBSE Grade 10 has won the Best Speaker Prize award.

NPS International School has collaborated with Bedok Public Library to display vibrant artworks by our students depicting various Indian festivals for Deepavali. You're cordially invited to view our students' artwork at Bedok Library, Level 3 near the entrance, till Nov 8 2021 from 10am to 9pm.

Heartiest congratulations to L. Adhbutha Kesari from Grade 5B for winning the 1st place in the online Orissa State Chess Tournament. During the tournament, Adhbutha has played competitively in the series of chess games competing with 39 students around the world. The panel of judges looked for analytical skills, tactics, strategy, and planning skills.

At NPSI, the students get to explore, visualize, and spark their imagination through Poetry Recitation and Storytelling. Congratulations to Anika Sharma (Grade 4C) who has won the 2nd place, Estella Monica Lijo (Grade 3C) 3rd place, Sachit Singh Goraya (Grade 4A) 3rd place and Tiara Chakroborty (Grade 5F) consolation for the Poetry Recitation & Storytelling competitions organized by Hindi Diwas & Saptah SG 2021. Competing with four schools in Singapore, the judging panels are from Fiji, Japan, India and Singapore. They were very impressed by their performance!

At NPSI, we believe that Poetry is a form of expression. Students get to learn self-awareness, sparks creative thinking, and improves language skills. Our students have recently participated for the Poetry writing competition for the Language Week. Students are expected to write and recite the Poem using the right pronunciation, tone and confidence!

Heartiest congratulations to our students who have won the Grand Prizes in the "Kids Care about Climate Change" International Poster Contest organised by Fifteen Trees and Homeward Bound. 2,629 students from 213 schools have participated across 33 countries!

Every drawing will be part of a giant banner size 7m x 5m. The giant banner will tour and be filmed in iconic forests around the world that are under threat like the diverse and unique forest of SW Australia, the giant trees of Tasmania, mangrove forests in Australia, Indonesia and Brazil, tropical rainforests of the Amazon and southeast Asia, giant sequoias and redwoods in the USA, and boreal forests in Canada! All the travel associated with this giant banner will be 100% carbon offset by planting even more trees! The students' work who had their work included in the banner will be presented to the Climate Conference in UK.

Our students have participated for the Poster Competition on 10 Aug and here are the winners Shaurya Keshari from Grade 4E and Kiyara Khanna from Grade 3C. They have unleashed their creativity by transforming the upcoming event poster into an art piece! These Posters will be used for the upcoming Language Week & Book Donation Drive event in September!

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