May 2021
Message from the Principal’s Desk:
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but the willingness to go on, with all the wisdom that experience instilled in us.”
– Hal Borland - Dear Parent,
The school ended on a high note with the virtual graduation ceremony of the batch of 2021 on May 22nd. This year was an exciting journey of innovation and learning as we successfully navigated through the worst pandemic known to man in the modern history. Covid-19 forced us to make many changes since March last year—redesign our homes into office spaces and classrooms and the teaching learning too was pushed to shift gears from physical campuses to campuses on the cloud. We evolved with hypervelocity and adjusted to the new world order. Despite challenges – we moved on, determined to not give up. Students were provided with new opportunities in building competencies through the innovation curriculum. This transformed in the classrooms into design thinking and climate chal-lenge giving rise to collaborative learning. The past year helped us to rethink our priorities, to be responsible, empathetic and compassionate . Our teachers and students adapted to the change to become lifelong learners. But this success would be incomplete without the appreciation and gratitude towards our young warriors – the young Eagles of IISH, our parent fraternity whose unending support helped us glide smoothly the past year and welcomed us in their houses and their lives and our teachers who displayed courage and relentless care support to their students. In recognition of all the hardwork and willingness to overcome the turbulent times, we at Indus, Hyderabad decided to rein-state the special awards to students of grades 6-12. The list of the awards and their winners is attached as an annexure of this news letter. I wish you all a happy, safe and healthy summer break and look forward to seeing everyone in July. Let us begin with some events in the month of May.
1. Year end meeting of the Principal with teachers and Staff – The Principal had a meeting with all teachers and staff
looking back at how far and how well the education at Indus transformed and evolved to suit the online scenario.
The Principal congratulated and expressed gratitude towards each member of the Indus faculty for their unending
support and service to the Indus Community.
2. IBDP:
a) Grade 12 Graduation: - The virtual graduation ceremony of the Grade 12 students was conducted on 22nd May 2021.
Our chief guest, Lt.General Arjun Ray addressed the graduating students followed by our Principal, Ms Aparna
Achanta. It was indeed a moment to reflect on our students’ time and experience at Indus. Although we were emo-
tional to say goodbye to this incredibly talented and diverse group of students, we also couldn’t wait to see them
fly high equipped with attributes and values gained over the years spent at Indus, to make an impact in the real
world.
b) Pre-IB Classes: - The Pre-IB classes continued in the month of May. The students are learning various skills required
in the Diploma Program, be it the approaches to learning (ATL), learner profile, academic honesty, Theory of
Knowledge, Extended Essay. Students are also exposed to innovation curriculum and college placement procedures.
c) Grade 11 TOK Exhibition:- The online Theory of Knowledge exhibition at IISH DP by the grade 11 students was con-
ducted on 19th May 2021. The exhibition was an embodiment of theory of knowledge in our everyday world pre-
sented by our grade 11 students. The grade 11 students welcomed parents, teachers, pre-IB students and their peers
to a world of reflection on questioning the prevalence of knowledge and finding answers within common place ob-
jects. Each student explored one IA prompt whilst relating to three regular objects around them to discover the
awaited answer. The event concluded with students sharing their reflections on their journey of preparation for the
exhibition. The theory of knowledge (TOK) course plays a special role in the Diploma Programme (DP) by providing
an opportunity for students to construct their knowledge, rather than acquire it by adopting the art of metacogni-
tion.
3. MYP:
a) Parent Orientation: - Middle Year Programme (MYP) conducted Parent orientation Programme current grade 10
students who are moving to Diploma Programme on 22nd May 2021. The aim of this orientation was to facilitate
smooth transition from MYP to DP. Leadership team briefed about the programme requirements and expectation.
90 minutes session included the subjects offered, unique features of DP at IISH, and the start-up school and its ben-
efits. This was supported by the college placement and counselling department. The session went well with question
and answer session at the end.
b) Grade 10 E-assessments - MYP year 5 (10th grade) second batch at IISH successfully completed their academic year
on 21st May 2021. Though pandemic was the challenge for every one MYP took it as a challenge and conducted the
final exam. As IISH is offering e-assessment to all the students, our students have took the challenge and gave their
exam. All the students wrote their exam in spite of all the hurdles they had due to Covid-19. This is the clear evidence
for our schools motto “In Omnia Paratus” prepared for all challenges. Our students have documented their learning,
skills attained. IBMYP came up with an idea of Alternative Task Assessment (ATA) due to the pandemic to make the
year-end assessment more reliable and valid to certify students learning. As we have prepared our students and
parents for ATA, it was a smooth journey this time.
4. PYP:
a) PYP Exhibition: - The PYP exhibition is a significant event in the life Grade5 students. As a culminating experience,
Exhibition gave an opportunity to the students to exhibit the attributes of the IB learner profile, to synthesize and
apply their learning of previous years and reflect upon their journey through the PYP. Students of Grade5 also inte-
grated their learning with various forms of art such as dance, music, art and drama. It was great learning experience
for our students as took ownership for their learning.
b) Grade 5 Graduation: - With a sense of pride and achievement students of Grade 5 graduated from primary class and
got transitioned to the middle year of school. It was a very proud and memorable moment for the graduates, par-
ents and teachers . We congratulate all our fifth graders on their achievements and we wish them all the very best
in all their future endeavors.
c) PYP Student Led Conference -Term 3 :- PYP Students have successfully participated in term 3 SLC wherein students
enthusiastically and confidently showcased their learning with the parents and teachers.
5. Counseling & Placement:- This month the Counseling and Placement office completed with the Pre-IB classes. The
Grade 10 profile-building meeting was also accomplished.The students of Grade 10 completed with their subject se-
lection session.
The following were the objectves covered in the Sessions:
a) The students to be aware of general eligibility for admission into popular countries like the USA, UK, Canada, Singa-pore, Australia, Europe, India, and the Middle East.
b) To learn of what weighs higher in application assessment for top universities like Ivy league
c) Be competent to select subjects according to their career interest
d) To understand the research process to look for a university, course, requirement, and application timeline.
e) Be confident of designing their own profile
f) Be aware of various test requirements for admission, like SAT, ACT, IELTS, TOEFL, BMAT, UCAT, NEET, JEE, etc
g) Understand the entire application process and the crucial timeline for each component
h) Be able to strengthen their writing with reflection.
6. CAS at Indus:
a) Money and its Importance – Poem by Anand Kamma, Grade 11.
It is said that with money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite; Medicine but not health Knowledge but not wisdom Glitter, but not beauty Fun, but not joy Acquaintances, but not friends Servants, but not faithfulness Leisure, but not peace.
b) Video on COVID Precautions by Simridhi and Kiah of Grade 11
The goal was to create a video on precautions to take during this Covid 19 pandemic. The video is made in Hindi and
English so that people from all over India can understand this especially the one’s living in rural areas who are not aware
of the pandemic and its adverse effects. Hundreds of people died as proper precautions were not followed. Therefore,
this video was aimed at creating awareness.
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7. IISH Start-up School Update:
a) Elevator Pitch Presentations – Round 1 - 28 May 2021
Thirty-five of our start-up school students took part in Elevator Pitch Presentations (Round 1) scheduled on 28 May 2021. A total of seven teams participated in this event, and each team presented its elevator pitch to a panel of four of our start-up school Parent-Mentors comprising Ms Kanchan Chakravarty, Mr Rajesh Agarwal, Ms Shalini Sadhu & Ms Amita Lulla. Each team was given 5 minutes to present the pitch, which was followed by a Q&A session. The panelists assessed each team on the following criteria:
1. The Idea 2. The Impact 3. Implementation Plan 4. Structure of Pitch 5. Delivery of Pitch The top three teams will be competing with six other teams from Indus Bangalore & Pune, scheduled for 03 June 2021 to be attended by the CEO & MD of Indus Trust Lt Gen Arjun Ray, Principals, and a Panel of Parent-Mentors. It was quite reassuring to witness the effort put in by our students to pitch their idea to the selected panel of judges. They answered all the challenging and thought-provoking questions asked by our Parent-Mentors quite confidently. The glimpses of this event can be seen below.
8. Boarding at IISH: - The boarding team extended help and support to all boarder parents and boarders by conducting
evening prep from Monday to Friday from 5:30 pm to 7 pm. The boarders and their parents appreciated this support
immensely as they were able to clear many of their doubts during the prep time. This helped them in their prepara-
tions for their exams as well. Weekend activities like creative writing and painting competitions were conducted for
the PYP boarders and they loved it.
The boarding counsellor and the boarding team worked in close unison to extend all emotional support to all board-
ers during their exams,
9. Run for oxygen:- The event was organized by Indus International School Hyderabad under the guidance of our Prin-
cipal, Ms Aparna Achanta. This event was led by our students of grade 11. The purpose of this event was to provide
support to the people in need of oxygen and concentrators under the guidance of government rules and regulations
whilst spreading awareness of the importance of physical activity.
Students led core team was made was provided with necessary guidance led by our Principal and Vice-Principal. The
CAS Coordinator- Mr Samuel Joseph and the Head of Sports Mr Franclene Rajesh were involved in executing the plan
on the ground. The inception of the idea had taken place towards the end of April when the unfortunate cries of our
fellow citizens reached our ears regarding the lack of oxygen. The need to do something was strong and it slowly
began to take shape and action in the form of the virtual spots event. The core team played a vital role in creating
the website, posters, acknowledging the mails and the various social media platform were used like Facebook, In-
stagram to publicize this noble cause.
The students across programmes actively participated in this event including the teachers and parents. They were
given in a common platform where they involved in physical activities led by the sports teachers.
The two-day event registered a total no. of 318 participants and collected – ₹ 3,04349.1
The success of any event lies in the resolve to pursue excellence and in this case it was combined with the will to do
good so even during these uncertain times, we had people coming together to help and support the people in need
– of Oxygen –in the Fight Against COVID-19.
I thank wholeheartedly everyone for their encouragement, participation and support. The funds as promised will be
sent to the government hospitals to support the underpriveliged in the hour of need with medical supplies.
10. Awards and Recognitions for the Session 2020 – 21: -
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them
feel".
The School also introduced the following awards in recognition of the goal mindedness, grit and determination dis-
played by our students along with role modelling the core values of Indus i.e. love respect, empathy and discipline.
a) Mahatma Gandhi Award- This award is the highest award in Indus International Schools and is bestowed during the
graduation ceremony to the Grade 12 student who embodies the Indus philosophy of servant leadership and Inno-
vation.
This is awarded to students who have not only transformed themselves but brought in transformation in soci-
ety. The impact of the servant leadership displayed by the student should lead to a visible and impactful social
change. It includes a silver plaque and a scroll of honour.
b) Indus Eagle Award- This award is given for exemplary community service leading to high impact in the chosen area.
This is awarded during the Graduation ceremony for the selected Grade 12 students. It includes a memento and a
scroll of honour.
c) Gold Star Award: This award is given to the student who has shown high levels of empathy and pursued their pur-
pose in community service with a single-minded focus. The student should have won the Blue star award for three
years consequently. The student who wins the Gold star award wins a nomination for the Eagle award in Grade 12.
This is awarded to the student of any grades 9 and above. This includes a scroll of honour and a badge.
d) Blue Star Award- This award is open to all students of grades 6 -12. This is given to students who have been able
to balance between excellent academic performance and co-curricular activities. This award is given at the end of
every school year. This includes a scroll of honour and a badge.
e) Green Star Award. This award is open to all students of grades 6 -12. This is given to all students who have dis-
played consistent academic excellence throughout the grade. This award is given at the end of every academic year.
This includes a scroll of honour and a badge.
Please find the list of awardees from the graduating batch of 2021 and the green and blue star awardees from grades
6-11.
f) Eagle Award Winners 2020 – 21:-
a) Smriti Marar founded Project WE in July 2019. This is a non-profit organization with the aim of creating a program
for girls of her age to grow and develop into independent, self-sufficient women. At Project WE, Smriti has taught
computer & financial literacy, goal setting & career counselling to more than 100 girls until now. Many of these girls
are studying in colleges right now and quite a few of the remaining are employed in supermarkets, IT companies &
beauty parlours. In March 2020, the dreaded pandemic threatened to derail her project. However, she displayed re-
silience, innovation and creativity to overcome the challenges that she faced. In just a few weeks, Smriti seamlessly
moved from offline to online by creating a library of video modules to teach the girls.
b) Abhinaya Polaka founded GREAP, a non-profit organization with the motto of guarding the rights of the animals
and the environment. Growing up in a small town in Andhra Pradesh, she witnessed first-hand how animals are
treated cruelly and the utter disregard the people had towards the natural environment. Abhinaya took matters
into her own hands to bring about a change in the community. She planned, initiated, organized and managed many
projects including the Tree Plantation Drive, Animal Rescue Drive, Animal Birth Control Programme & Beach Cleanup
Drive.
VALEDICTORIAN
1 2
Palki Gupta Smriti Marar
YOUNG ACHIEVER AWARD
1 2
YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR Armaan Singh Bagga Krishna Reddy
3 4
COMMUNITY SERVICE Gitika Velichala Sreeja Muppaneni
5 6
MUN Abhinaya Polaka Harini Botcha
7 8 9
SPORTS Sreeja Muppaneni Azar Khan Aditya Sai Prakash Reddy
10 11 12
SPIRIT OF INDUS Avanish Meedimale Aalekhya Satya Narayani Palki Gupta
13 14 15
MUSIC Chaithra Lakshmi Gorre Reddy Aalekhya Satya Narayani Bhavana Balasubramanian
16 17
VISUAL ARTS Ratchanun Kitjumroen Prasanna Pattan
18 19
DRAMATICS Ivy Micheal Clement Varun Mehta
GRADE 12 - SUBJECT TOPPERS BATCH OF 2021
SUBJECTS STUDENT NAME
English A Lang & Lit HL Aakash Reddy Sudini
English A Lang & Lit SL Vaishnavi Muthu Krishnan
English B HL Chaewon Park
ESS SL Gitika Velichala Prerana Mahapatra
Biology HL Palki Gupta Vaishnavi Muthu Krishnan
Biology SL Shreyas Reddy Palley Tvisha Shukla
Economics HL Tvisha Shukla
Economics SL Aalekhya Satya Narayani
Physics HL Shreyhas Yachamaneni
Physics SL Palki Gupta Chaithra Lakshmi Reddy
Psychology HL Esha Sai Manduva
Psychology SL Jinryeol Park
History HL Tvisha Shukla
History SL Aakash Reddy Sudini
Business Management HL Rhea Agarwal
Business Management SL Smriti Mara Gitika Velichala
Hindi B HL Saanya Gupta
Hindi B SL Akshira Sharma Smriti Marar
Spanish B SL Chaithra Lakshmi Gorre Reddy
Spanish Ab initio SL Aan Gupta
Computer Science HL Aalekhya Satya Narayani
Computer Science SL Shreyhas Yachamaneni
Chemistry HL Palki Gupta
Chemistry SL Rhea Agarwal
Mathematics AA HL Palki Gupta
Mathematics AA SL Tvisha Shukla
Mathematics AI HL Jinryeol Park
Mathematics AI SL Esha Sai Manduva
DP BLUE STAR AWARDEES
GRADE 11
S. NO. NAME OF THE STUDENT
1 Prabhath Puli
2 Sindhuja Muppaneni
3 Abhishikth Savarapu
4 Amy Rachal Clement
5 Krishnam Raju
6 Mahima Chennadi
7 Tanmay Grandhisiri
8 Revanth Reddy
9 Chandana Nayeneni
10 Dyuti Rama Ratna Peddada
11 Umang Singhania
12 Harshitha Reddy Suram
13 Aditya Munamarty
14 Rohan Movva
15 Prashant Reddy Pilla
16 Aarush Kumbhakern
17 Kiah Tashaa Meneses
DP BLUE STAR AWARDEES
GRADE 11
S. NO. NAME OF THE STUDENT
18 Shridhatri Reddy Gandhi
19 Alimineti Vijaysimha Reddy
20 Simridhi Ram
21 Mridani Kashyap
22 Riya Rachel Mani
23 Savannah Pinto
24 Naimish Kandula
DP GREEN STAR AWARDEES
GRADE 11
S. NO. NAME OF THE STUDENT
1 Nahyeon Ju
2 Sameeka Reddy Poddutur
3 Rohan Tummala
4 Saianjan Akella
5 Sohan Rao Kondapelli
6 Ashok Kamma
MYP BLUE STAR AWARDEES
GRADE 6 GRADE 7
S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT
1 Ayan Dharod 1 Saanvi Maguluri
2 Saisha Bagga 2 Pradeep Reddy
3 Moksha Duggirala 3 Shreyas Nallavelly
4 Aanya Pande 4 Esha Agarwal
5 Nirvaan Duggirala 5 Hyungjoon Kim
6 Rahul Iyer 6 Nirupa Yalavarthi
7 Bhavya Agarwal 7 Srivik Gandhe
8 Aagam Jain 8 Rishi Ponangi
9 Akul Khare 9 Dhanya Chowdary Arimilli
10 Maya Yadlapalli GRADE 10
11 Medha Koppula S. NO. NAME OF THE STUDENT
GRADE 9 1 Panipak Kitjumroen
S. NO. NAME OF THE STUDENT 2 Nishanth Reddy Aduma
1 Sarayu Meedimale 3 Sohan Koti Yedulla
2 Anwisha Reddy 4 Arya Dharod
3 Adhira Sannidhi Thyvalap 5 Divya Choudhury
4 Meghana Munamarty 6 Ved Sriram
5 Megna Yadlapalli 7 Diguvamurthi Lesika Choudary
6 Ashria Yalamanchili 8 Kongpak Soonthornwan
7 Anusha Agrawal 9 Shian Jeewani
8 Anisha Sulthana 10 Trisha Rao Yachamaneni
9 Aditya Srinivasan 11 Sheen Gupta
10 Diya Madhusoodan
11 Pranith Bollampally
12 Rohan Sriram
13 Raaina Kumar
14 Harshini Reddy Gandhi
15 Anish Atluri
16 Palle Hemanth Sai Reddy
17 Vipul Kurapati
MYP GREEN STAR AWARDEES
GRADE 6 GRADE 7
S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT
1 Tisha Sehrawat 1 Sanyogita Bobba
2 Edamakanti Dhruv Reddy 2 Amogh Reddy Badikol
3 Sai Prateek Mandadi 3 Nitya Kashyap
4 Deepal Jain 4 Naithrav Satish
5 Shravya Sri Gorre Reddy 5 Dhruv Behera
Hearty congratulations to all the winners and we are sure that they will pursue their goals with same zest and enthusiasm in future too. Warm regards,
Ms Aparna Achanta
Principal, IISH
6 Natcha Chonsaranon 6 Rian Johnson
GRADE 8 7 Ruhan Gudeli
S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT 8 Shiwoo Kim
1 Abhay Roshan 9 Pratham Narayan Parvathneni
2 Torita Chakravarty 10 Praveenya Neelam
3 Ahana Kripalani 11 Shreya Ramesh
4 Urvi Gupta 12 Anjali Reddy Ranga
5 Donghyun Shin 13 Cho Hyunwoo
6 Zayan Ali 14 Naysha Kapre
7 Arya Tiwari 15 Dhanya Chowdary
8 Vishnu Rama Kalidindi GRADE 9
9 Pattraporn Soonthornwan S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT
10 Saanvi Sai Manduva 1 Sanjana Iyer
11 Srivalli Konakanchi 2 Mohammad Emaad Anzar
12 Napas Chonsaranon 3 Lakshmi Poojitha Annapureddy
13 Sheik Nashitah Hussain GRADE 10
14 Tejas Mandke S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT
15 Kirti Vemuri 1 Mehek Shreyas Sanghavi
16 Meenakshi Ponduri 2 Esha Sai Saxena
3 Smaran Teja