The Orchid School

                       Baner, Pune                        

Circular No. TOS/FRO/CIR/SS/10-11/13

Date: 16-8-11

Sub: Field Trips for VI to IX

Dear parents,

In keeping with the theme for the year ‘India’, TOS has organised various excursion and trips for our children. Apart from its educational value, these trips aim to enhance

• Learning beyond the walls of the class room
• Team building
• Life skills

Class teachers / subject teachers will accompany children for the trip/excursion.

You are invited for a presentation on the overview of the trips on 17th August 2011at 3.00pm Representatives from Explorers School and Anet India will make a detail presentation of their program. This will help to answer queries you might have about any of the trips. We request parents to attend this presentation as it will not be repeated again.

List of Trips-

Over and above Class VII will go for an overnight rural camp in the month of Nov 2011.This is a compulsory camp. This camp will be organised by and paid for by the school.

About the trip

1. .Hampi - organised by Explorers School - www.anidayventures.com/

Explores are an organization that have programs which are high on facilitation and learning, beyond just travel and sightseeing. They aim to deliver meaningful programs which have a visible impact on the learning’s for participants.

2.Exchange Program with Riverside / Shishuvan

Exchange program is integrated in our school curriculum. This enables our students to visit different schools as well as get a feel of different cities in the country for holistic development. 

This year, in the month of January, we had an exchange program with Riverside school Ahmedabad, wherein 20 students from grade VII along with their three teachers had visited our school and stayed with host families. They spend two fruitful days at our school, participating in the day’s activities, playing friendly matches, went for field trip / Pune Darshan, and also had an outing with the host families. As a reciprocate to the exchange ,

25 of our students from Grade VIII will be visiting them in November this year.

We have also extend this program to Shishuvan school Mumbai as our pedagogic goals and objectives are in alignment. Once we get confirmation from them there will be room for 30 more children.

 3.Trip to Andaman organised by Anet Centre for Island Ecology - www.anetindia.org/education.html

ANET is an organisation that aims at spreading awareness about ecosystem biodiversity within these islands. The team has developed various programs for school and university students from India and globally. ANET’s team tailor makes programs according to particular curriculum requirements and learning objectives of each school as well as provide for different age groups This gives young people an interactive learning experience on the importance of conservation while adding impetus to local environmental tourism. Their education programs vary from introductory awareness activities to in-depth studies of particular flora and fauna of each of the different habitats.

Please attend the presentation to get more clarity on the trips mentioned.

Prepared by                                                                                                                       Approved by

Jainita   Batra                                                                                                                 Shilpa Solanki

Unit Head Secondary                                                                                                           Principal