A V E
Issue I ssue 1, 2011
Established: 1995
Tuesday, 28th January 2011
The AVE welcomes back the student community from a well-deserved winter break and wishes Class 10 and 12 good luck for the forthcoming ICSE and ISC examinations.
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EDITORIAL
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From 28 November to 1 December, 2010, The Assam Valley School participated in the Round Square Conference at Vidya Devi Jindal School, Hissar. The theme of this conference was Get Going; and it encompassed areas as diverse as leadership qualities and the development of reading habits.
F IRST AVS I NTER -S CHOOL B ASKETBALL T OURNAMENT In the first AVS Inter-School Basketball Tournament held at AVS during 15-18 December 2010, AVS secured the second runner-up position. St. Francis School won the trophy.
AVS AT ALL-ASSAM BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT At the All-Assam Basketball Tournament held at Guwahati in December, 2010, the AVS Girls’ team reached the semi-final round, while the AVS Boys’ team defeated Jorhat district and achieved the fifth place in the tournament.
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D IFFERENCE
At the Young Round Square Regional Conference held at The Daly College, Indore during 7-9 January, 2011, AVS was represented by Anoushkaa P. Kashyap, Anushka Ganguli and Moumili Dutta. They were escorted by Mrs. Pamela Syiemlieh.
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During 19 -21 January, 2011, the Regional Round Square Conference took place in Delhi. Nishi Agarwal, Daksha Salam, Chaity Sarkar and Mrinal Koijam of AVS took part in the conference. They were escorted by Mrs. Anusha Sharma
Y OGA C OMPETITION
In the 37th Annual Yogasana Championship 2011, the AVS pupil awardees were: Award Name P o s i t i o n House Gold Niharika Dowerah First Subansiri Gold Rohan Tayal First Namdang Silver Riya Todi Second Subansiri Bronze Shivam Bajaj Third Lohit 1
- Mr. Adreyo Sen the laurels of a final year richly spent, as you start prepar ing for the ICSE and ISC examinations, many of you (often for no reason at all) are undergoing considerable anxiety. You think in a linear fashion, imagining that a good percentage in the Board Examinations will guarantee a good college placement, which will then assure you a good career and the promise of a stable life afterward. This is wrong. Life is not linear and the years that follow your graduation from these sylvan confines will be as full of joys, sorrows, reversals and victories as your years here. Increasingly, people switch jobs, hunting for that perfect career, and this uncertainty is by no means agonizing. The best institutions are not always that much better than the ones that come after them in the rankings and once you finish your education, you might often be at par or better in the job market or graduate study hunt as your counterparts from better institutions. Institutions are competitive and people are competitive. That exam that looms so large now will become a mere blip on your resume as you proceed with your lives. Learn for the sake of learning. Pick up skills that reflect or enhance your vocation. Convert those hours spent in Social Service or Desktop Publishing into a career that never fails to excite you. Be with your friends, but study in silence. Play that one hour of badminton or squash or go for a long walk through the whispering groves of our campus. Remember always that no matter how you do in the examinations, you have already been blessed. You have grown into fine young men and women, mature, thoughtful and kind, always ready to extend a helping hand. You have learnt to rise as you fall and smile away your tears of pain. You’ve become strong individuals with an unwavering conviction of what is right. Remember, too, that you’ll always be happy and that it takes very little to be happy and that as long as you can carry your band of friends and family in your heart, you will have all the armour you need to take on the world. So study hard, but don’t tear your heart out. Memorize the melting temperature for ice cream, but don’t scream your lungs out. And best of luck.
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