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SCHOOL CIRCULARS

SPECIAL FEATURES 

ACADEMICS

  • Our school is a BAG-FREE SCHOOL for kindergarten students. They do not carry their school bags. There are no writing lessons taught in Pre-Kindergarten and Lower Kindergarten. Writing lessons are taken only from Upper Kindergarten. Food is supplied from the school itself for the kindergarten students.  For classes I to IV, homework is not given and learning is completed in the school itself. The morning sessions are for teaching only and the afternoon sessions are revisions of the morning classes because of which there is complete learning happening at school itself and the students are free at home.
  • Seminar sessions are conducted for all the classes from grade 1 after every chapter. This enhances their public speaking and presentation skills and also helps them in thinking innovatively. Each chapter is assigned to any 5 students in class and we make sure that all the students get a chance in rotation taking the seminars.
  • The students carry lightweight bags which weigh only 400 grams. We are again the first school in India to introduce the lightweight bag system. Usually, students up to class 5 do not carry their textbooks to school. The school has also introduced a file bag system from class 5 onwards. Students write their notes on paper and file them once they are done. This is done to instill discipline and organized living within the students. For introducing Lightweight bags and File bag systems, the school had received appreciation from press and it was telecasted on almost all the television channels.
  • Skill subjects are taught in all classes apart from the regular CBSE syllabus. The skill subjects that are taught in various classes are Food Production, Beauty and Wellness, Tourism, Media, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, etc.
  • Soft skills and Personal development classes are also conducted every week. All the students must learn soft skill subject. The school also issues a certificate after completion.
  • Another feature that we have introduced to inculcate the organizing capacity and group dynamics in students are the class parties where students organize the entire event all by themselves without any support from the staff.

 EXTRACURRICULAR

  • “HEALTHY MIND, THE SEAT OF JOYFUL LEARNING”. Hence the school has introduced compulsory Play hours in the regular curriculum for all the students during the school hours itself. We are the only school in India to introduce physical education textbooks for the students. All the students are supposed to select any two games of their choice and take part in them without any fail.
  • On the cultural side, we make sure that all the students take part in at least 5 activities in a year. This is also taken into consideration while the annual promotion of the students. Another exceptional feature is that all the 2000 students in the school take part in the School Annual Day a 4 hours Mega Program. These are encouraged so that the students can overcome their stage fear and be confident in themselves and their life.

PANDEMIC PHASE 

Ever since the Pandemic has hit we have tried to make the online classes better. High-tech technology was the only solution during this period. We have converted our classrooms to studio rooms spending Rs.60 lakhs. A recurring cost of Rs.1.25 lakhs per month will also be incurred. All the teachers take their sessions from this studio. The use of this system gives all the students the feeling of sitting in a class and studying. Apart from the live classes, we are also recording the online classes and they are uploaded on our YouTube channel daily. We have more than 6000 videos on our channel for the year 2020-2021. On every Monday, we conduct the morning assembly virtually where all the 2000 students and their parents participate. All the national festivals are celebrated virtually. Apart from this, we had also conducted online dance training and football coaching for our students. Lockdown Vibes was an initiative by the school where all the students took part virtually. They had sent us videos of different activities done by them during the lockdown period. 

The school had received 3 awards for having the best online classes in Kerala. In the national online teaching contest, 35 teachers from our school entered the final round out of 200 teachers. From 600 schools belonging to 10 states, 1500 teachers participated in the contest. Two of our teachers won the Best Teacher award out of 5 categories, one teacher came second and four teachers won third prize. Our school also won the highest number of awards.

 

16 Nov 2019

 

Dr. RAJU DAVIS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, MALA

PROUDLY ANNOUNCES IT’S FIRST

LINGUA FANTA – 2019

On November 21 and 22 (Thursday & Friday)

Winners will be participating for next year’s District & State level English Fest

 

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. A student can participate in two items (EITHER INDIVIDUAL or PAIR) and a Group / Common item. IT CAN ALSO BE A GROUP ITEM PLUS A COMMON ITEM. (TOTAL THREE ITEMS ONLY).
  2.  The point calculation 
  3.  
  4. All PAIR ITEMS are considered as INDIVIDUAL ITEMS for point- calculation.
  5. ART OF STORY TELLING, CHORAL RECITATION and CHORAL READING will be considered as GROUP ITEMS.

 

CATEGORY 1 (CLASSES III & IV)

(3 INDIVIDUAL ITEMS, 1 PAIR ITEM, 1 GROUP ITEM)

  1. SPELLING MARATHON (Individual):- This item has three levels:

LEVEL 1: Participants have to listen to an audio clip (5 minutes duration-Max 30 words) and write the word in the worksheet given.                                                          IF THERE IS A TIE-BREAKER, FIVE MORE WORDS WILL BE GIVEN). 15-17CORRECT WORDS :C Grade/18-20:

B Grade/21 and above A Grade. The best 10 students will qualify for the second round.        If there is a tie in the tenth position all will be selected for second round.

CRITERIA: ACCURACY IN SPELLING (100 marks)

 

LEVEL 2: A worksheet containing a passage with wrongly spelt words is provided.(100 WORDS, 15 ERRORS, 15 MINUTES). The participants correct the mistakes. Best 5 students qualify for the final round. IF THERE IS A TIE-BREAKER, ONE MORE PASSAGE OF 30 WORDS WITH 5 ERRORS WILL BE GIVEN

LEVEL 3: Open Stage round: Each participant comes up on the stage and the judges ask them to spell out words (5 WORDS in 90 seconds). IF THERE IS A TIE- BREAKER, 3 MORE WORDS WILL BE GIVEN).Grades awarded will be as in the first stage.

 

 

  1. PHONICS(INDIVIDUAL):- ONLY VOWEL SOUNDS(for SST level)

There are 3 Levels.

LEVEL 1: The judge gives a sound and the participants write down maximum number of words starting with the sound in one minute. Best 10 are selected to the next

Level.

LEVEL 2: The judge gives a sound and the participants write down maximum number of words ending with the sound in one minute. Best 5 are selected to the next level. (Grades will be awarded as in Event one Level One)

LEVEL 3: Each participant is given 5 sentences: He/she chooses 3 of it and read the three sentences aloud with correct pronunciation, stress and intonation.

CRITERIA: ACCURACY OF WORDS SUPPLIED(100marks)

  1. HAND WRITING: (INDIVIDUAL) participants will be asked to write a given content (30-50 words) within 15 minutes. Use only royal blue gel pen. Ruled paper will be issued. Incomplete work will be disqualified.

CRITERIA: ELEGIBILITY AND NEATNESS 25 , FONT FORMATION AND UNIFORMITY IN FONTS 25 SPACING BETWEEN LETTERS AND WORDS 25, ALIGNMENT 25.

  1. BE THE CHARACTER (PAIR):- During the event, every participating pair is given a particular situation from one of the stories 5 minutes in advance and the pair presents the conversation on the stage. Those who wanted to participate give names to class teachers and the teachers will make the (5 MINUTES). Judges will take the lot for the situation to be presented. No participant will be allowed to view events of the other participants. STORIES: a. Three Little Pigs 2.Bean Stalk 3. Goldilocks 4.littlered Riding Hood 5.Shoe Maker and the Elves.

CRITERIA: INTONATION AND VOICE MODULATION 25,FLUENCY AND ACCURACY25,BODY LANGUAGE AND GESTURES IN ACCO.WITH THE THEME25 CREATIVITY & IMPROVISATION 25.

  1. CHORAL READING:- (GROUP). No. Of participants 10 to 12. Duration : 5 Minutes.

It is reading aloud in unison with a group of students. Choral reading helps build students fluency, self confidence and motivation.                           No participant will be allowed to view events of 

 The other participants until they finish their performance. Two text matters will be given for presentation in Advance.         The laminated sheets of the text will be provided for presentation on the stage.

CRITERIA: ARTICULATION & INTONATION 30 , COORDINATION IN READING 30 , EXPRESSION AND BODY LANGUAGE 20 IMPRESSIVENESS OF COSTUME 20

 

NOTE: Those who wanted to participate for group or pair items give names to class teachers and the teachers will make the pair or group

 

CATEGORY 2 (CLASSES V, VI, &VII)

3 INDIVIDUAL ITEMS, 1 PAIR ITEM, 1 GROUP ITEM

  1. LISTENING COMPREHENSION (INDIVIDUAL):- An audio clip (4-5 minutes) will be played and the participants have to listen to it carefully and fill in the blanks. The audio will be played twice. Once, for the participants to listen to and then for filling up the blanks). The works sheet will be issued on the table for each candidate.It will be kept in the reverse side. When the first bell rings the candidate is supposed to enter their chest number on the reverse side only. When the first reading is complete the candidates are expected to reverse the sheet and write their answers as and when the reading progresses. Five minutes will be given to complete the task. When the bell rings, the candidate will stop the task. There will be 15 questions , of which, 5 will be of Higher Level Order(In case of a tie, a position will be decided based on the answers produced in HOT level questions.

CRITERIA: ACCURACY OF RESPONSES 25, BREVITY 25, LANGUAGE/ STRUCTURE/GRAMMAR 25, CLARITY OF IDEAS 25

  1. NEWS READING (INDIVIDUAL):- A text (100-150 words) will be provided and the participant has to read it with proper pronunciation, punctuation and phonological aspects. ONE MINUTE FOR PREPARATION AND 3 MINUTES FOR READING.

CRITERIA: NEWSROOM MANNERISMS 25, CLARITY AND ACCENT 25, VOICE MODULATION 25, EYE CONTACTS 25

  1. PRODUCT LAUNCH (INDIVIDUAL):- The participants choose an object from the (10 )objects placed in a box on the stage. He/ She may take 1 minute for preparation and then present this object as a marketing executive does. 3 MINUTES.

CRITERIA : CREATIVITY                                  30, LANGUAGESKILLS               30, ENERGY LEVEL/BODY LANGUAGE              25, PERSUASION SKILL 15

  1. NEWS WRITING (PAIR):- Participants watch a video of 3 Minutes and then prepare a written news report in 30 minutes with a headline, tagline and other details.

CRITERIA: USE OF NEWSPAPER LANGUAGE AND STYLE 25, GRAMMAR/STRUCTURE/ACCURACY 25, RELEVANCE TO THE VIDEO SHOWN 25, CREATIVITY 25

  1. ART OF STORY TELLING (GROUP):- Total members 6 (5 members for background sound-effects and one narrator)

The participants come prepared with a story in English which could be presented in a maximum of 5 minutes. As the narrator tells the story sitting in the front, the other 5 members give suitable background sound effects but NOT WITH musical instruments/any electronic gadgets. The item encourages creativity to a great extent.

CRITERIA:INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE :PRONUNCIATION 20, EXPRESSION/  BODY  LANGUAGE 15,  CLARITY AND VOICE MODULATION 15

GROUP PERFORMANCE: CREATIVITY 20, COORDINATION 15, APPROPRIATENESS OF SOUND EFFECTS 15

 

NOTE: Those who wanted to participate for group or pair items give names to class teachers and the teachers will make the pair or group

CATEGORY 3 (CLASSES VIII)

3 INDIVIDUAL ITEMS, 1 GROUP ITEM, 1 PAIR ITEM

  1. TRANSLATION (INDIVIDUAL):- A passage of about 100 words in Malayalam is given. The participants translate it into English in 15 Minutes. The word limit of English version, can be approximate to the word limit of the given passage.

CRITERIA: VOCABULARY 25,  GRAMMAR AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE 25,  PUNCTUATION B  25 , CONNECTION WITH THE ORIGINAL TEXT 25

  1. BLOG WRITING (INDIVIDUAL):- The contestants write a Blog with maximum of 400 words and create a word file in Computer with their Regn. No. As the file name. The subject will be given by the judges on the spot and time limit is 30 minutes. The lot will be picked up by judges and given to the participant to prepare the blog writing. If the Blog written is less than 200words, it will be disqualified.

CRITERIA: CLARITY OF THOUGHTS AND ORGANIZATION 25, APPROPRIATENESS OF STYLE 25, GRAMMAR/STRUCTURE/ACCURACY25, ORIGINALITY OF IDEAS          25

  1. PROS AND CONS (INDIVIDUAL):- The participants are given a topic and he/she speaks about advantages/disadvantages of the same, switching from pros to cons and vice versa as and when the judge asks him/her to. Maximum duration : 6 Minutes

TOPICS:1.      Social Media 2. Use of Public Transport 3.Ban of Plastic 4.Reality Show 5. Roleof Advertisement.

CRITERIA: FLUENCY OF LANGUAGE 25, SMOOTHNESS IN SWITCHING BETWEEN PROS AND CONS                              25, QUALITY OF POINTS/CONTENT 25,  VOICE / ENERGY LEVEL                                   25

  1. THE MASKED INTERVIEWEE (PAIR):- Every pair is given the mask of a famous personality 10 minutes in advance. The masked is interviewed for 5 minutes by his/her pair.1. Virat Kohli, 2. Sundar Pitchai, 3. E Sreedharan, 4. A.R Rehman 5. Malala Yusuf Zai. 6. Mohan Lal.

CRITERIA       : QUALITY AND RELEVANCE OF QUESTIONS 25, APPROPRIATENESS AND RELEVANCE OF RESPONSES 25, CREATIVITY IN QUESTIONS/ ANSWERS 25, CONNECTION WITH THE PERSONALITY25

  1. ART OF STORY TELLING (GROUP):- Total members 6 (5 members for background sound and one narrator)

The participants come prepared with a story in English which could be presented in a maximum of 5 minutes. As the narrator tells the story, the other 5 members produce suitable background sound but NOT WITH ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS/ ELECTRONIC GADGETS.

CRITERIA:INDIVIDUAL          PERFORMANCE :PRONUNCIATION 20, EXPRESSION/ BODY LANGUAGE 15, CLARITY AND VOICE MODULATION 15

GROUP PERFORMANCE: CREATIVITY 20, COORDINATION 15, APPROPRIATENESS OF SOUND EFFECTS 15

 

NOTE: Those who wanted to participate for group or pair items give names to class teachers and the teachers will make the pair or group

 

 

COMMON GROUP ITEMS(GENERAL CATEGORY)

CHORAL RECITATION: (GROUP ITEM-ONLY ONE TEAM PER SAHODAYA) Choral

Recitation is a recitation of poetry where the group reciting in unison interprets the fullest measure of the poet’s thoughts and feelings expressed in his/her poems.

No. Of participants 10 to 12.

Time limit: 4 minutes. (NO READING OUT OF THE TEXT)

CRITERIA: ARTICULATION & VOICE MODULATION 30, RHYTHM AND COORDINATION 30, ACCENT/ PRONUNCIATION 30, IMPRESSIVENESS OF COSTUME 1

 

  1. Grade -       70%
  2. Grade  -  60 – 69%
  3. Grade  -  50  - 59%

 

 

I

18 Nov 2019

 

  • Students are not allowed to wear low waste pants, round neck banians or banians with writings.
  • Boys are not allowed to wear studs on their ear.
  • During Sabarimala season boys are allowed to wear black pants and not dhothies. They should have a short haircut before the lent starts and cut immediately after their visit.
  • Hairstyle: girls to have high lifted pony tail and boys should have pleasant and decent hair cut. No marking on the head is allowed. Hair should be short on all sides, front and back.

 

 

important Notice


Dear Parents and Students,                                                                                                                                                                            15 Feb 2020

Students from class V onwards, nobody is allowed to bring any kind of eatables except their lunch. Bringing any kind of soft drinks or even drinking water in soft drinks bottles / pouches is strictly prohibited. During the birthdays, students are permitted to bring cakes only. No day scholar is permitted to bring any kind of eatables or drinks to the hostellers to the campus. This is applicable in the bus also.

Students who violate this rule will be fined heavily with Rs. 5000/- and also will be suspended or dismissed based on the grievousness of the act done. The fine will be paid at some poor home as directed by principal. All are requested to follow these instructions strictly.

Chairman.

NO OFFLINE CLASSES : PARENTS 

Dr. Raju Davis International school, Mala, Thrissur conducted an online Google survey among its parents, studying in classes 1 to VII to find their opinion on the opening school from Nov. 1, in which 76% of the parents opined NOT TO OPEN the school, in this present scenario. This survey is reported to be the first of its kind among stake holders and the management hopes it would an initiative and encouragement to other schools also, so that they would be able to take a right decision. 836 parents participated in the survey. Among them 631 people were of opinion not to open the school, while 75.5% participants disagreed with the suggestion of shift based classes. When 36% participants supported the suggestion of conducting classes on alternative days, only 13.5% people supported the classes on alternative weeks. It is noted that 52.2% of the participants opined to open school only after evaluating the conditions of government schools after the reopening and 59.6% stake holders expressed their readiness in opening school from Jan 1. 

School has brought the latest technology in educating students throughout its online classes from LKG to Class XII. School has set up studio class rooms with lighting systems, camera and panel boards in each classroom in tune with the television channel studio system. These live interactive classes help the students to experience the real classroom feeling. More over these classes are edited and are made available in the school YouTube channel also. The parents and guardians evaluated this system of online classes as unparellel to any other system and took it as the reason to opt online classes, instead of opening the school in this pandemic. 

“The guidelines put forward by the government is not practical in its reality when we consider the CBSE schools” says Dr. Raju Davis Perepadan, Chairman of Dr. Raju Davis International School, Mala, Thrissur. “How can we keep one child-one seat ratio in the school bus? If so, the guardians have to pay a heavy duty for the transportation. Moreover, if the students depend public transport, it may give more chances to get infected also, he told reporters. When students of CBSE schools are hailing even form a distances of 20km, the students studying in government schools reach their schools either by walk or by bicycle. He also questioned the suggestion of government to conduct classes with 25% students, with its practical difficulties. If so the school has to appoint 40% new teachers, to its existing staff. It also should be noted that for the students who are travelling one hour after the online morning class and to reach school for the afternoon shift is unethical and also not practical.

“Considering all these facts and considering the suggestions of the stake holders, the management has decided not to open the school on Nov 1 for classes 1-7”, said the Chairman Dr. Raju Davis Perepadan. Then the condition will be assessed after one month and a prompt decision will be taken later. But the classes for the students of 8-12 will be conducted as per the fixed schedule. Management has the opinion to open the school at an early date in line with the suggestions of the government. So the school expects a practical approach from the government authorities.   

 Dr. Raju Davis Perepadan

Chairman

Ph: 9447441343

 

 

01-10-2021

Dr. RAJU DAVIS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, MALA

Retirement Rules

 

  1. Retirement age of all teaching and non -teaching staff will be 56 years.
  2. On completing 56 years they will be retiring at the end of academic year.
  3. Teachers whose evaluation is excellent or very good may get extension on the advice of a scrutiny committee. Management will take the final decision.
  4. Salary may be freezed as on March 31st of the retiring year. If extention is granted, their salary will be same as on retirement year for the extended period. All retirement benefits will be calculated as per the retirement year.
  5. If God’s grace continues to shower on the school the teacher will get a lump sum amount on retirement calculated as below:-

Half month salary x No. of years of service 

For example if the salary at the age of 56 is 35000/- then half of the salary will be Rs. 17500. It will be multiplied by no. of years in service in this school. So if teacher with 25ys of service and last salary is 35000/- calculation will be as follows. 

Rs. 17500 x 25 = She is entitled for Rs. 437500/- may be rounded to Rs. 5 lacks

  1. Those who are not completing 5years of service are not entitled for any benefits.
  2. Moreover the teacher is entitled for minimum pension of Rs. 3000/ month till her death.
  3. Staff welfare scheme benefits are in addition to the above benefits. This amount also will be almost equal to the above amount.
  4. All these benefits are calculated on a student strength of 2000 students. If the strength goes down there will be variation in the above amount. So all the teachers has to work hard to keep the strength of the school equal to the strength of the year 2022. Further the result is a main criteria to attract students. The quality of education and over all discipline also will be considered by parents for taking admission. So the group work of all teachers is needed to achieve this.
  5. Non-teaching staff is expected to get a minimum of 1/4 of the teachers benefits.

 

Chairman  

 

22 April 2020

Dr. Raju Davis International School, Mala

Breaks Boredom with Football Coaching & Competitions

Breaking the barriers of loneliness, boredom and isolation of students during the COVID Lock down period, Dr. Raju Davis International School, Mala in Thrissur  comes out  with novel ideas through online. Football coaching camp is the main attraction in it. Using the online App, students on their vacation are connected around the world including Antony Sabu, from London, Shubham Singh from New Delhi, and 120 others from various parts of the state and Gulf countries. Students reach the courtyard of their own houses at 4 pm daily for coaching under the guidance of school coach Mr. Mohammed Rafi, who was a member of under 22 state football team and the former coach of  Kerala Blasters under 13. The coach zooms a theory class from his residence in Alwaye to all students and thereafter the practical session extending upto 6.30pm daily. In between students has to exhibit the given tasks to the coach online and he gives necessary corrections. Emposis is given in ball control, game play and body fitness.

Apart from the coaching camp, school conducts online classes for non-completed portions from class 1 onwards and examinations are conducted for all classes. In view of bringing out the creative talents of the students during lockdown school conducts around 35 online creative skill competitions also. Among them Zumba dance is an attraction for girls, giving physical exercise to make them fit during lockdown. To make the students aware about the present scenario of COVID in different countries. COVID Quiz competition is conducted at 12 noon and Zoom Conference on various issues around the world at 7 pm. Another sports quiz on upcoming world cup is conducted at 9pm, daily.  Many of the items are related to COVID. For KG students handwash challenge, dance, singing, painting, etc… based on COVID are some of items. Dance on COVID music, speech, monoact, light music, etc… all based on COVID are the main challenges for school section. The participants of the various competitions will upload a two – minute video to the school and school will upload the same in the school Website and Facebook pages. Prizes are also given to winner.  “We have received more than 300 videos now and we expect around 2000 videos in the coming days” said Dr. Raju Davis Perepadan, Chairman, of the school.

For more details :  Dr. Raju Davis Perepadan, Chairman.  Ph: 9447441343.­­­