Kyorugi Taekwondo Championship – 2015
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recently in its circular had asked all its affiliated schools to train girl students in self-defence. Stepping Stones Senior Secondary School on its own initiative had much earlier, laid emphasis on teaching self defence techniques to both boys and girls. In this context, Stepping Stones, organized its 2nd Open Tricity Inter-School Sub Junior / Cadet / Boys and Girls Kyorugi Taekwondo Championship – 2015 in the School premises.
The championship was conducted for age groups under 12 and 14 years of age. Mr. Narendra Kumar, the director of the School inaugurated the championship, and speaking on the occasion said that teaching girl students to defend themselves is a useful means to empower them, and inclusion of self-defence training for girls is highly desirable. “These strategies cultivate in individuals the ability to remain alert yet calm at all times. Therefore, self-defence training will assist not only the girls but also the boys to become more aware of their surroundings and be ready for any situation”.
Students of various private and government Schools participated and made the event a great success.
Results :
BOYS
Ojas (Delhi PublicSchool ) U-18 Gold medal
Divit ( Chitkara School) U -18 Silver medal
Suryansh (Hallmark School) U-18 Bronze
Bawandeep (Stepping Stones School) U-27 Gold Medal
GIRLS
Nisha Yadav (G M H S 38) U-22 Gold Medal
Yashika ( Sharda Sarvitkari) U-24 Gold Medal
Nimisha Arvind(Infant Jesus Int. Sch) U-26 Gold Medal
Stepping Stones Organizes the 8th Scrabble Interschool Competition
Both tiles and tensions ran high, as Stepping Stones Senior Secondary School, Sector 37 Chandigarh played host to the Eight Inter School Scrabble Competition. The scrabble contest, an annual event hosted by the school, saw students from across Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula taking part in the globally popular word challenge.
Students from Classes V to XII challenged their vocabulary and spelling skills as they made their way through various rounds of the competition. The teachers and other players were left amazed as students no older than 14 years exhibited their power of vocabulary, besides it helped to improve their thinking as well as planning skills. In addition, they felt proud of representing their school experienced how important fair play is.
Yug Dahiya of Group A from Bhavans Panchkula, Ketan Goyal of Group B from The Gurukul, Madhav Chaddha of Group C from Bhavans Panchkula and Naval Singhal of Group D from Stepping Stones Senior Secondary School won the first prizes in each of their respective groups.
Director academics, Mr. Sunil Kumar towards the conclusion of the event stressed upon the need for such competitions to promote creative learning amongst school children. He congratulated the prize winners and thanked the visiting schools for their whole hearted participation.