Literati Week

Literati Week

Writing Competition

“I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.” Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General

The Secondary Media Centre in collaboration with the Language A Department has celebrated Literati week from 6th to 10th November 2017.

We have organised a Writing Competition with “Migration” as a theme. The MYP students has written 500 word opinion piece responding to the question “To what extent can migration result in a better lifestyle in 2017?” The ELA students have written stories on the same topic by collecting pictures on Migration.

We had organised this competition to encourage students to become more informed and globally minded about important issues in the region and around the world. Migrants and refugees are the biggest concern around the world. We are now seeing an increasing number of nations take steps to tighten their borders and stem the flow of migrants in response to shifting public perceptions. As a new factors such as climate change combine with more traditional drivers for migration, more people are on the move than ever before in search of a better life. Can they achieve it in today’s world, what will be the impact?

This is our observation that students have researched this topic and handed in a very insightful and well researched opinion piece. Their writing focuses on different types of migration, for e.g. Political migration, natural environmental migration, forced migration, pull and push migration. Students have included good quotes, statistics, and pictures to present their opinion piece. Some have written their own experience about migrating from one country to another for the sake of change in parent’s job or for education.

The English Acquisition, ELA students have presented their work in a story form along with pictures on migration. One of the student has written a story imagining the migration situation is faced by him. The other student has written a story which gives the insight of his painful journey without his parents.

We CONGRAGULATE our winners and runner ups for this Competition.

Class	Winner	Runner UP
ELA Phase 2	Hugo Hahlin	Joon Hee
ELA Phase 3/4	Akshat Chatterjee	Karim Abani
MYP 1 A	Mohammad Waarid	NO
MYP 1 B	——-	Rahil Shah
MYP 2 A	Saumya Chheda	Yeshaya Engineer
MYP 2 B	HyunAh Bae	Catharina Kotte
MYP 3 A & B	Miheer Potdar	Anjali Kumaran
MYP 4 A	Sneh Deshpande	Soumil Joshi
MYP 4 B	Elsie Bebbington	Qavalina Andrade
MYP 5 A	Sophia Shahril	Sebastiano Maurilli
MYP 5 B	Menaja Bhamare	Nishka Hajela

International School Library Month was celebrated in October around the world to understand the importance of school libraries. MYP 1, 2, 3 has participated in the Digital Book Mark Exchange activity organised by the “International School Library Association”. The Theme for this month was “Connecting Communities & Cultures”.

MBIS students have exchanged book marks with Beaconhouse School System Defence Campus Karachi, Pakistan.

In our October Newsletter we had promised you that we will post the book marks made by our students and the one we got in exchange from the Karachi school. You will find them in the links posted here.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-y4UEIqrniHF0rSLb8euBmmlCgZo7M3E (MBIS)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WWjZKBgn6jshnY-ln1ctGVYtBORffj6e (Karachi School)

I would like to thank Ms Daisy (Secondary Principal) for her active support in guiding and selecting the winners. I appreciate the efforts taken by the Language A Department and EAL teachers to conduct this competition and selecting the essays. It was a wonderful collaboration and team work. Last but not the least, thank you to our students who participated and made these events successful.

Ms Sunita Malekar

Librarian, Secondary Media Centre

Human systems and economic activities	The study of how and why people construct organizations and systems; the ways in which people connect locally and globally; the distribution of power and authority.
Social organization and culture	The study of people, communities, cultures and societies in the ways in which individuals, groups and societies interact with each other.
Continuity and change through time	The study of the relationships between people and events through time; the past, its influences on the present and its implications for the future; people who have shaped the future through their actions.
Human and natural environments	The study of the distinctive features that give a place its identity; how people adapt to and alter their environment; how people experience and represent place; the impact of natural disasters on people and the built environment.
Resources and the environment	The interaction between people and the environment; the study of how humans allocate and manage resources; the positive and negative effects of this management; the impact of scientific and technological developments on the environment.

Living things	The study of the characteristics, systems and behaviours of humans and other animals, and of plants; the interactions and relationships between and among them, and with their environment.
Earth and space	The study of planet Earth and its position in the universe, particularly its relationship with the sun; the natural phenomena and systems that shape the planet and the distinctive features that identify it; the infinite and finite resources of the planet.
Materials and matter	The study of the properties, behaviours and uses of materials, both natural and human-made; the origins of human-made materials and how they are manipulated to suit a purpose.
Forces and energy	The study of energy, its origins, storage and transfer, and the work it can do; the study of forces; the application of scientific understanding through inventions and machines. (IBO, 2009)

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