ANNUAL REPORT 2024-25

DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL, NTPC, KANIHA

ACADEMICS

The session 2024-25, commenced on a delightful note when the results of X & XII CBSE Board examinations got published. We are happy to share with the details of the commendable performances of our students. 60 students appeared in SSE (STD-X) in which we achieved 100% pass result and 92% of the students passed out in first class. 15 students out of 60 scored more than 90% and five students occupied the position of 1st, 2nd and 3rd topper. With 97.2%, Miss Shagun Srivastava& Master Pradyot Senapatitopped in the school in the SSE (2023-24)with a rare accreditation of perfect 100 on 100 in Mathematics, Social Science and Mathematics &Sanskrit respectively, followed by Master Ashutosh Sahoo & Miss Deepdarshini Satapathy with 95.8% and master Atiksh Dev Singh with 94.2% respectively. Besides, Miss Prisha PraptiRaulalsosecured 100 on 100 in Sanskrit. Similarly, in the SSCE out of 26, 81% of the students passed in first class in which 3 students scored more than 90% and MissSwayampragyan Sahoo topped in the SSCE scoring 94.2%.This is because of the incessant endeavour of the teachers and students commingled that the school got placed in the VERY GOOD category at the Regional Directorate, Odisha Zone, wherein the toppers of CBSE conducted board examination were felicitated.Consistently to yield the best in academics we have been conducting Extra Guidance &RemedialClasses, Class Tests, Mock Tests, Chapter End Tests etc.to cater to the scholastic needs of the students. The school sturdily admires the practice of learning beyond the classroom. You will be happy to knowthat in order toacquaint the children with Competency & Case based questions through experiential learning, the Scholar Club members of STD IX & X were taken to places like Science Centreand State Planetarium for practical oriented learning.Further, children are given revelation to seminars on techno smart, artificial intelligence, leadership and collaboration etc. To keep up with the competitive environment children are also given exposure to various competitive exams like SOF, DAV Olympiad, Mathematics Talent Hunt Examination, CBSE Heritage& Navy quiz and other aptitude-based exams besides various inter as well as intra school activities. To induce the young minds with love for books, every Thursday children are put to read a non-textual during the reading period. To nurture dearness for books, the school organised Book Fair in collaboration with the Oxford Publications during the National Book Week Celebration. Keeping this tune continued, we organized the4th edition of Literature Conclave (as per NEP-2020 guidelines for multilinguistic approach) in English, Hindi & Odia during this session wherein amidst the personnel of literati, nominated CBSE budding authors and members of Readers’ Club delegated sessions like panel discussion, book review, storytelling, seminar talks etc. In order to broaden the global vision of our students we create opportunities for them for their direct involvement in various awareness programmes such as SwachhataPakhwada, Vigilance Awareness, Safety Awareness, Energy Conservation, Mock Evacuation Drill, Van Mahotsav, Health & hygiene and so on.

STAFF ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME

As teaching has become the most challenging profession in these days,in order to cater to the need of the ever-changing educational scenario, it becomes obligatory for us to fine tune the workforce to make all our strategiesprosecutedfeasibly. For this reason, we facilitate our teachers under various training programmes such as Capacity Building Programme, Content Enrichment programme, Skill Based Modules etc. to make them update with the changing curriculum and classroom challenges. Hence, during summer vacations, all our teachers ranging from PPTs to PGTs attended activity cum workshop-based training programme to build up their class room capacity and enrich their contentknowledge. All these training programmes are conducted at the Regional Directorate, DAV Institutions, DAV Centre of Academic Excellence and CBSE Regional Office level under the expert guidance of resourceful personnel having intense theoretical as well as practical knowledge so that our teachers can transmit the same to our students.We are elated to announce that Mr Bhagaban Rout, TGT (Biology), Mr Santosh Ku Ghosh, TGT (Physics),Mr. Akil Aktar, TGT (Hindi), Mrs Somali Mohanty, PRT (English), Ms Jaymitra Raul, PRT (Comp. Sc.), Mrs Ankita Patra, PPT presented their sessions as Master Trainers and Resource Persons in the teachers’ training programme under Regional Training Centre, DAVCAE.

PTM, PTCC, PTSC,SQAAF, SEXUAL HARASSMENT COMMITTEE, GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL CELL

All our plans and objectives can’t be materialised without the active involvement of our worthy parents. We are very much thankful to the entire parents’ community for their active response and constructive suggestions whenever we needed during the PTMs scheduled on the 2^nd Saturday of every month. To strengthen this approach, we constituted the PTCC under the able guidance and supervision of Mr Ram Avtar Banjara (HR) that comprises 14 parents’ representatives, 7 teachers’ representatives and the Principal. It may be PTM or PTCC, our objectives are crystal clear. Any activity we undertake it must pacify the need of the students not only academically but also physically, mentally and spiritually. So, their safe keeping is our prime duty. That is why we have constituted a 14 members PTSC comprising 7parents’ representatives, 5 teachers’ representatives and 2 school cabinet members to look after the safety and security of the students in the school. Besides we have constituted Sexual Harassment Committee and Grievance Redressal Cell through which students and parents can directly present their grievances. We have been very religious in ensuring the smooth functioning of all these mandatory bodies as a result of which in SQAAF (School Quality Assessment & Assurance Framework), launched by CBSE out of the categories of Inceptive, Transient, Stable and Dynamic, we have been placed into….The democratically constituted School Cabinet comprises 16 student representatives who can directly address to the needs of the students through different constituted committees’ heads.All the students from Std-III to Std- XII have been equally divided into four Houses viz. Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva. Each house is headed by a Captain assisted by a Vice-captain and House Representative. To monitor the house activities we have School Leader, Assistant School Leader, Sports Secretary and Cultural Secretary.When we are talking about safety, we must apprise the congregation that we have even made the provision of visitors’ pass to ensure the safety of our students. This is the rule that parents must produce the Visitors’ pass along with the exit slip to the security while picking up children during the class hours for any exigencies.

OBSERVATIONS & CELEBRATIONS

DAV strongly believes in imparting value-based education. That’s why different observations and celebrations such as Republic Day, Independence Day, Gandhi & Shastri Jayanti, School Foundation Day, International Yoga Day, Fit India Week, Constitution Day, Flag Day, Communal Harmony Week, Shikhya Saptaah, World Environment Day,National Sports Day, Children’s Day, Teachers’ Day,Utkal Diwas, Rasa Purnia, Janmashtami, Car Festival, Id, National Mathematics Day, Christmas, Birth Anniversary of freedom fighters are taken up to imbibe cultural, social, moral, ethical, patriotic and secular values. Further, during the celebration of Joy of Giving Week, a group of students, accompanied with cabinet members and teachers went to a nearby slum to distribute clothes. You will be happy to know that in order to empower students with the philosophy of community service, a blood donation camp was organised and around 70 units of blood were collected from generous donors.

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

We strappingly believe that each child is special and unique in some or the other way and this very belief has enabled us to breed and broadcast NCLB (No Child Left Behind) in our school and we are very happy with the apt response of our students for their active participation in various cultural as well as literary events. Further, NCLB doesn’t confine in ensuring the participation only in the events. It broadens the horizon of participation which may be direct or indirect. Thus, NCLB not only nurtures talents but cultivates life skills and values. The recent big events like Annual Sports on 12& 13 November and Annual Exhibition (Plenorama) on 14 December are blatant examples through which we materialize our noble purpose of nourishing and showcasing each budding talent. Calisthenics education is an integral part of the school curriculum. Learning beyond the class room with practical involvement brings the platform for the children to prove the best of their potency. By providing a conducive and encouraging environment the students are mentored to participate in varieties of intra and inter school competitions. So different literary and cultural events have been taken up to refine their latent talent to accelerate their competitive spirit. We are very thankful to the sportive spirit of our beloved parents for their participation in the sports events meant for them. You must have witnessed their zeal and vigour in the fun filled events during the Annual Sports Meet. If, by some reason you could not, then we bring you another opportunity this evening with the cultural presentation by the parents. Precisely, their unconditional co-operation in every school activity helps us to excel. We aspire the same in the times to come.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

• This time CBSE Centre of Excellence entrusted our school to be the training venue for Happy Classroom Concept wherein around 50 teachers from different CBSE affiliated schools had joined as trainees.
• Miss Swayampragyan Sahoo qualified JEE Mains and pursuing B. Tech in Computer Science.
• Master Janmejaya Sahoo& Miss Srishti Rani of STD X and Master Soumya Ranjan Sahoo of STD VIII got placed in the best 100 of the East Zone, CBSE in Aryabhatta Ganit Challenge.
• Master Debi Prasad Sahoo of STD X has bagged All India 1st position in NFLAT (National Financial Literacy Assessment Test), 2023-24 in the Intermediate category (STD IX & X) and was felicitated at MUMBAI
• Master Shivom Debta & Miss Adrita Kanjilal of STD-IX got the 1^st prize in Metal & Material Quiz Competition, Conducted by IIM Nalco Nagar, Angul Chapter.
• Master Brajesh Kumar Sahoo qualified IIT with All India Rank 2813 and presently pursuing B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur.
• Ms Rupambika Kar qualified NEET and is pursuing MBBS in SCB Medical College, Cuttack.
• Bighnesh Behera is pursuing B. Tech in Electrical Engineering in IGIT, Sarang.
• Master Alandeep Kujur qualified JEE Mains& is presently pursuing B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering at Odisha University of Technology & Research, Bhubaneswar.
• Master Mohit Kumar Nayak is pursuing B. Tech inElectronics and Electrical Engineering atSambalpur University Institute of Information and Technology, Sambalpur.
• Odisha Kho-Kho (girls) team, under 14, led by DAV, NTPC, Kaniha, emerged Champions at the DAV Nationals Sports-2024-25, held at Noida Sports Stadium, New Delhi that was held from 2 Dec- 4 Dec’ 24.
• Boys’ Badminton team under 14 comprising with G. Surya Nihal, G. Karthikeya, Divyansh Sahoo and Swayam Sarthak Bhoi, bagged the Championship in DAV Sports Zonal Level held at DAV Banharpalli.
• The Boys’ Badminton team comprising with Master Anirvinay Pradhan, Master Anshuman Garnayak and Master Ayushman Dalei of won the Championship in the DAV Zonal meet held at DAV Banharpalli.
• Anirvinay Pradhan, bagged the Gold Medal in 400 Mt & Silver Medal in 800 Mt Race U-17 Boys in DAV Sports Zonal Level held at DAV CS PUR, BBSR.
• Chaitali Hembrom, bagged the Gold Medal in 800 Mt U-14 Girls inDAV Sports Zonal Level held at DAV CS PUR, BBSR.
• Ipsita Behera, bagged the Gold Medal in Long Jump & 100 Mt Race U-14 Girls in DAV Sports Zonal Level held at DAV CS PUR, BBSR.
• Abhismita Sahoo, bagged the Gold Medal in 200 Mt Race U-14 Girls in DAV Sports Zonal Level held at DAV CS PUR, BBSR.
• Elina Kujur, bagged the Silver Medal in 400 Mt Race U-14 Girls in DAV Sports Zonal Level held at DAV CS PUR, BBSR.
• Debabrata Pradhan, bagged the Bronze Medal in 400 Mt Race U-14 Boysin DAV Sports Zonal Level held at DAV CS PUR, BBSR.
• Soumyajit Pani, bagged the Bronze Medal in Roller Skating U-14 Boys in DAV Sports Zonal Level held at DAV CS PUR, BBSR.
• Chaitali Hembrom, bagged the Bronze Medal in 800 MtinU-14 Girls in CBSE Athletic Meet (CLUSTER II), held at KIIT BBSR.
• Ipsita Behera, bagged the Silver Medal in Long Jump in U-14 Girls in CBSE Athletic Meet (CLUSTER II), held at KIIT BBSR.
• Anirvinay Pradhan, Biswajit Nayak,Ritesh Roul and Rudraksh Kumar, bagged the silver medal in 4X100 Mt RelayRace, U-17in DAV Sports Zonal Level held at DAV CS PUR, BBSR.
• G. Surya Nihal and G. Karthikeyabagged the Under -11 Champions Trophy in the Odisha State Badminton Championship 2024, held at BBSR.
• Boys’ Team under 14 & 19, bagged the Championship in Badminton held during the DAV Sports Meet 2024, Cluster-III at DAV NTPC Talcher Thermal.

In the recent held Rural Sports Meet at the Ambedkar Stadium, NTPC, Kaniha our students performed remarkably. The school got declared as overall Runners up.

• Ipsita Behera baggedGold Medal in 100 Mt & Long Jump.
• Jayashree Sahoo bagged Gold Medal in High Jump.
• Chaitali HembrombaggedSilver Medalin600 Mt race.
• Niyatee Sahoo bagged Bronze Medal in Putting the Shot.
• Anirvinay Pradhan, Biswajit Nayak,Ritesh Roul and Rudraksh Kumar, bagged Gold Medal in 4X100 Mt Relay Race, Boys.
• Ipsita Behera,Jayashree Sahoo,Chaitali Hembrom and Abhismita Sahoobagged Gold Medal in 4X100 Mt Relay Race, Girls.
• Master Anirvinay Pradhan and MissIpsita Behera got adjudged as Individual Champion in respective category.

SOCIAL COMMITMENT

There is no shadow of doubt to quote that “School is a man making factory”. When we say man, it stands for the whole mankind. The formation and reformation of the society is a reclusive and absolute contribution of the school alone.That is why probably it is said a Guru rules on the conscientious, king rules the rogues and Yama rules the sinners. And our commitment to the society is to convert all rogues and sinners into conscientious. Thus, apart from knowledge available in the book, wisdom matters a lot for the personality development in an individual for which we are in a zest of social commitment which we exhibited fruitfully through the session of 2024-25. For bringing up love for Mother Nature we conducted awareness programmes on Swachhata, water conservation. To bring up consciousness for resources poster making-cum- slogan writing, elocution and self-composed poem recitation competitions were held on the theme of energy and fuel conservation. To evolve cognizance for motherland essay competition was conducted during Vigilance Awareness Week. Spiritual awareness is equally essential for internalising traditional ethos. For which, every Saturday Vedic Hawan takes place in presence of students, teachers and parents. While sharing our social commitment, I must mention to the luminary listeners that we have also undertaken the mass cleaning act for keeping our heritage clean and worth visiting. When we are vouched uncompromisingly for our social commitment, I must apprise my worthy listeners that students’ safety on road is a prime concern for us. Hence, time and again in different forums we have been appealing parents not to allow their underaged wards to drive vehicles. In this connection, I would implant a very relevant observation that many parents encroach the safety distance demarcated in front of the school gate while picking up their wards during both arrival and dispersal. The crowd of vehicles brings a halt to the movement. So, kindly help us in the pursuit of our social commitment. There are many to be enlisted in the course of our action.

INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT SO FAR

• Opening of Balvatika/Pre-LKG
• Installation of CCTV in most strategic locations, excepting few.
• Opening of the passage to the field (Better accessibility for disaster management)
• More 28 computers have been received.
• Furniture for Class Room and Staff Room has been received.
• Construction of gate-2 at the playground.
• False ceiling and wall panelling of the MP hall have been done.
• Interactive/Smart bords in every class room (excepting few).
• All safety certificates have been obtained from the concerned departments and have been uploaded to comply to obtain mandatory COR & NOC from the state govt.

PROPOSALS

• Interactive/Smart bords in seven other rooms as per CBSE Guidelines.
• Basketball Court
• Procurement of school band, octapad and a complete set of sound system.
• Construction ofIron Frame Backdrop on the stage
• Notice Board at the left Side of the entrance
• Upgradation Of e-Library
• Electrical Potter’s Wheel
• Lab Materials
• Installation of ACs in the Library (2 Nos), Exam Section (2 Nos), Staff Room(2 Nos)
• CCTV