Message on Cambridge International blog

https://blog.cambridgeinternational.org/a-message-to-cambridge-schools-from-chief-executive-christine-ozden/

Audible stories

Click on the link below to find incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help you continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

Story weaver workshop

A good story telling session can do wonders to a child’s imagination and can really work at enhancing his/her expression.

A workshop for story-telling was thus organized for class 3,4,5 Cambridge International wing, by the teachers of DAV Public School ,Pushpanjali Enclave in the month of February . The session was indeed valuable and distinct. Children found it really interested and engrossed in the story of “Manchh ka Darr ” which was told to them with creative gestures and facial expressions. The appropriate use of voice modulation and body language infused passion, enhanced imagination and expression and introduced children to new horizons of storytelling. It was an interactive session where children were taught the right way of telling the stories. Students thereafter , narrated another story “ Akku  hui gussa “ enthusiastically ,with expressions and voice modulation. Overall this session helped the young souls for creative thinking.Stories create magic and a sense of wonder at the world

Holi celebration

Holi gets us close to our religion and our mythology as it is essentially the celebration of various legends associated with the festival.

Foremost is the legend of Prahlad and Hiranyakshyap. The legend says there once lived a devil and powerful king, Hiranyakshyap who considered himself a god and wanted everybody to worship him. To his great ire, his son, Prahlad began to worship, Lord Vishnu. To get rid of his son, Hiranyakshyap asked his sister, Holika to enter a blazing fire with Prahlad in her lap, as she had a boon to enter fire unscathed. Legend has it that Prahlad was saved for his extreme devotion for the lord while Holika paid a price for her sinister desire. The tradition of burning Holika or the 'Holika dahan' comes mainly from this legend.

Holi also celebrates the legend of Radha and Krishna which describes the extreme delight, Krishna took in applying colour on Radha and other gopis. This prank of Krishna later, became 

Another legend of Holi which is extremely popular in Southern India is that of Lord Shiva and Kaamadeva. According to the legend, people in south celebrate the sacrifice of Lord of Passion Kaamadeva who risked his life to revoke Lord Shiva from meditation and save the world.

There is yet another scientific reason for celebrating the Holi, this however pertains to the tradition of Holika Dahan. The mutation period of winter and spring, induces the growth of bacteria in the atmosphere as well as in the body. When Holika is burnt, temperature rises to about 145 degrees Fahrenhiet. Following the tradition when people perform Parikrima (circumambulation or going around) around the fire, the heat from the fire kills the bacteria in the body thus, cleansing it.