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This year too many
competitions were held. Many students
appeared for scholarship exams and
Master Abhishek Patil of Std. VII
secured the scholarship. Many appeared
for the MTS (Maharashtra Talent Search)
and the NTS (National Talent Search)
examinations and also the Mathematics
(Ganit Sunbodh and Pravinya examinations).
Master Shriniket and Katdare Tejas
Vilas passed the NTS exam and were
selected for the VIVA. Students were
encouraged to take part in most of
the activities conducted by the Nehru
Science Centre and competitive exams
like the Homi Bhabha young scientist
examination, quiz and so on. In keeping
with the spirit of competitions, various
English, Hindi, Marathi, recitations,
elocution and ex-tempore competitions
were also held in the school. Winners
were awarded certificates and unsuccessful
ones were encouraged to do better
next time. To sharpen the memory,
Quiz competitions were organized,
Inter class science contest was held
and projects were exhibited through
an exhibition. To encourage the artistic
talents of our students, singing as
well as pot painting competitions
were also held.
Our little ones
of Jr. and Sr. KG section also had
competitions like singing, recitation
and fancy dress and many more.
Every year our
students appear for Inter-School drawing
and painting competitions. Few of
our students appeared for the Camelin
Colour Contest and secured the Individual
prizes, city level prizes and state
level prizes too. Some of our students
entered the Chitre Kala Niketan, Pune
drawing contest and 30 students bagged
the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals
in various categories. In the Swami
Vivekanand Foundation ( Belgaum ).
Drawing Contest, St. John secured
30 gold, 25 silver and 23 bronze medals.
Every year many of our students appear
for the Government Elementary and
Intermediate drawing examination and
the year 2002-2003 saw many of our
students perform excellently. The
pass percentage this year was 93%.
In the elementary examination 15 students
secured 'A' grades, 21-'B' grades
and 80-'C' grades. Whilst in the Intermediate
examination the pass percentage was
90, 17-students bagged the 'A' grade,
26-'B' grade and 73-'C' grades. An
excellent performance indeed.
St. John firmly
believes in the Maxim 'A healthy mind
in a healthy body'. Our sports section
is also growing stronger and stronger.
The year 2002-2003 saw our young cricketers
and young sportsmen and women do quite
well.
Basket-ball:-
Our under 16 yrs Girls team reached
the semi-finals in the Inter-School
Basketball Tournament held at Kalwa.
In swimming 4 of our girls took part
in the Inter-School Swimming Competition
held at Kalwe and one of them Miss
Roy stood 3 rd in the District Level
Competition.
Cricket:-
Our under 16 cricket team won the
Inter-School, Taluka, District and
Division Tournaments and were runners-up
at N.T. Kelkar tournament held at
Thane. The team won the 'Chatrvrand'
cricket tournament held at Kalyan.
They also went on to win the 'Nehal
Inter School Cricket Tournament held
at Mulund. The team under 15 won the
H.T. Bhandari Cricket tournament held
at Kalyan. One of our young cricketers
Master Oninder Singh Gill was selected
to represent Mumbai under 15 team.
He along with Xavier Santigo and Nikhil
Walaunj were selected for Maharashtra
state under 16 cricket team for the
school national cricket tournament
held at Delhi in the year 2002
Many of our students
participated in various Karate and
Judo competitions winning medal, certificates
and trophies.
All these various
activities and the success would not
have been possible had it not been
for the tremendous and selfless efforts
of the teachers concerned, indeed
they rightly and truly deserve our
thanks and appreciation, not forgetting
the support by the Principal and somewhere
behind all these successes and efforts
was the strong moral backing and trust
of all our parents and guardians.
Thank you dear parents for your help
and good will.
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