NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 2025
Dear Bodhian Family,
As I look back on last a few weeks, I do so with a deep sense of pride, gratitude, and fulfilment. It has been a remarkable period for Bodhi International School, marked by the successful culmination of several significant events, each extremely close to my heart and truly reflective of what Bodhi stands for.
Our Career Fair was a proud milestone, with over 50 leading national and global universities participating. As I walked through the venue, I observed students engaging in meaningful conversations—asking thoughtful questions, exploring possibilities, and imagining futures beyond boundaries. One such moment—watching a student confidently articulate aspirations to a university representative—beautifully captured the spirit of Bodhi: empowered learners making informed choices. As rightly said, “Education is not about filling minds, but about opening doors.”
This month also gave us the joy of celebrating Children’s Day, a day that reminded us why we do what we do. Our younger students were taken to a local picnic spot, where laughter, games, and carefree moments filled the air, while our senior students travelled to Jaisalmer, creating memories of friendship, exploration, and joy. Watching their excitement took me back to my own childhood, when a simple school picnic meant weeks of anticipation and stories that lasted far beyond the day itself. Those moments of happiness, I believe, are as important as lessons in a classroom—they shape confident, joyful individuals.
I extend my heartfelt appreciation to our students, parents, teachers, support staff, and the entire Bodhi team for their dedication and collaborative spirit. These successes are not events in isolation—they are milestones in our ongoing journey of nurturing excellence, values, and globally minded citizens.
Together, we continue to grow, inspire, and lead with purpose.
Brahmam Bodhi!
Ms. Nitu Bothra
The Career Counselling Department at Bodhi International School successfully conducted key initiatives aimed at guiding students and parents towards informed academic and career decisions.
Subject Selection Process – Grade 8
The Subject Selection Process for Grade 8 was conducted as part of the school’s early academic planning framework. To support parents in making well-informed decisions, a Parent Orientation Meeting was held on 22nd November 2025 at 9:00 a.m.
The orientation session provided parents with clarity on subject combinations, curriculum expectations, and their impact on students’ future academic pathways. Detailed guidance was shared on aligning students’ interests and strengths with appropriate subject choices. Parents actively participated in the session, raising queries and engaging in meaningful discussions, which helped strengthen collaboration between the school and families in supporting students’ academic journeys.
Higher Education Expo 2025
Exposure • Guidance • Future Ready
In continuation of its commitment to career readiness, Bodhi International School successfully hosted the Higher Education Expo 2025, bringing together over 40 leading national and international universities on campus.
The expo offered senior students a valuable platform to explore diverse higher education opportunities and interact directly with university representatives. Delegates shared insightful information on academic programmes, admission processes, internships, and scholarship opportunities, enabling students to make well-informed decisions regarding their future studies.
The event was seamlessly executed with the constant support and vision of the school management and senior leadership. Their presence and guidance played a vital role in ensuring a productive and inspiring experience for students and parents. The enthusiastic participation and meaningful interactions throughout the expo reflected the school’s strong commitment to nurturing globally aware and future-ready learners.
The expo concluded on a highly positive note, empowering students with greater clarity, confidence, and direction towards their higher education goals.
The Inter-House Eco-Innovation Challenge for Grades 9 to 12 was organised to encourage students to think creatively and innovatively about environmental conservation. The event provided a valuable platform for students to showcase their ideas through working and non-working models addressing real-life environmental issues.
Students presented a diverse range of projects. Most teams effectively used eco-friendly and recycled materials and explained their projects through charts and presentations.
Projects were judged on relevance to the theme, creativity and innovation, practical feasibility, presentation, and teamwork. The competition witnessed enthusiastic participation and strong collaboration across houses, with many projects demonstrating practical and sustainable solutions.
The event successfully fostered environmental awareness, critical thinking, and teamwork among students, reinforcing the school’s commitment to nurturing responsible and environmentally conscious citizens.
On 19 November 2025, the "Logo Logic" competition brought together thinkers from Grades 6, 7, and 8 in a high-pressure display of artistic and marketing genius. This inter-house event required participants to think on their feet and produce a full print advertisement and logo for a product revealed only at the beginning of the session.
Four houses, namely Agastya, Aryabhata, Chanakya, and Drona, participated in the event, with three dedicated learners from Grades 6, 7, and 8 in each team. Teams worked collaboratively in a focused, no-audience environment.
To excel, participants had to seamlessly combine art and creativity with a strong marketing sense. The rubrics stated that each advertisement should be executed on A3-size paper and include four key elements: an original and hand-designed logo; an attention-catching jingle or tagline; the product name; and an appealing, handmade, detailed product illustration.
Following strict criteria, students were only allowed to use their own art supplies-paints and brushes-and nothing else; no digital tools, no stencils, and no printed references. Final submissions were judged on creativity, neatness, and how well the design got the message of the product across.
This was indeed a highly successful event as the teams from Agastya, Aryabhata, Chanakya, and Drona gave it their all. The excellent quality of the handmade visuals spoke not only of the technical skills of the students but also of their ability to think critically on the aspects of branding and consumer engagement under pressure.
Students of Grades 4 and 5 participated in a creative art-therapy session facilitated by Miss Anusha, which focused on self-awareness and emotional expression through art. The session began with a reflective activity where students described “their weather today,” using sunny, rainy, or stormy conditions to express their feelings. They then engaged in a fun drawing task, creating imaginary superheroes complete with names, special powers, and personalized shields, allowing them to use imagination as a tool for emotional expression. Finally, students envisioned themselves as their superheroes, exploring the challenges they might face and how they would overcome them with courage, strength, or problem-solving skills. Overall, the session fostered self-awareness, creativity, and confidence while providing a meaningful and enjoyable artistic experience.
Children’s Day & Picnic Celebration
Children’s Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm, bringing smiles and laughter to our little learners. Alongside this, a fun-filled picnic experience was organised, allowing children to enjoy a relaxed outdoor setting. The picnic encouraged social interaction, sharing, cooperation, and bonding with peers, helping children build early social and emotional skills in a natural and joyful way.
Daddy Day Out
A special Daddy Day Out was organised to strengthen the school–family connection. The children lovingly created invitations for their fathers, expressing excitement and anticipation. The day was filled with engaging games and activities that encouraged bonding, communication, and joyful participation. It was heartwarming to see the children confidently interact and create beautiful memories with their fathers.
Unit of Inquiry: Understanding Day and Night
As part of the Unit of Inquiry, How the World Works, children were introduced to the concept that Earth’s natural cycles influence the activities of living things. Using a globe and light source, children explored the concept of day and night. They observed that the side of the Earth receiving sunlight experiences day, while the opposite side remains dark, experiencing night. Through this hands-on exploration, children began to understand that the movement of the Earth causes day and night.
Halloween Celebrations
Halloween was celebrated with creativity and excitement. Children participated in simple craft activities related to the theme, allowing them to express their creativity. A colourful ramp walk added to the celebration, where children confidently showcased their costumes. Their enthusiasm, confidence, and imaginative attire made the celebration truly delightful.
Sensory Exploration
Children explored sensory stations focused on the five senses—touch, sight, taste, hearing, and smell. Through carefully planned activities, children used different sense organs to explore textures, colours, sounds, flavours, and scents. This sensory exploration supported cognitive development, language building, and curiosity, while allowing children to make sense of the world around them through direct experiences.
Exploring, Creating, Celebrating
November was a month of meaningful learning and joyful experiences, where all activities and celebrations were thoughtfully connected to our transdisciplinary theme “How the World Works.” Through play, exploration, and shared experiences, children inquired into materials, their properties, and how they change and function in our world.
Bubble Making Exploration
Children investigated how bubbles are formed by combining air, water, and soap. They observed changes, made predictions, and shared their thinking, developing curiosity and early scientific understanding.
Paper Mâché Creation
Using paper and glue, children created paper mâché bowls. This experience helped them understand how materials change when mixed, shaped, and dried. Children proudly took their creations home, reflecting on the process and outcome.
Mystery Box – Touch & Feel Inquiry
Through the mystery box activity, children used their sense of touch to identify different materials. They described textures and qualities such as hard, soft, smooth, rough, heavy, and light, strengthening their observation and language skills.
Exploring Strength of Materials
Children explored the strength of different materials by building simple bridges. They tested which materials were strong or flexible and discussed why some structures were able to hold more weight than others.
Celebrations Connected to Learning
Children’s Day Celebration
Children’s Day was celebrated with excitement and happiness. Teachers presented a special assembly, helping children understand appreciation, care, and togetherness. A fun-filled Children’s Day trip further enriched their learning and social connections.
Daddy’s Day Out – Learning Together
As part of our community connection, children came to school with their fathers for Daddy’s Day Out. Through games, songs, DIY activities, and a cheerful ramp walk, children experienced bonding, teamwork, and confidence-building moments.
Parent Reading Session
We were delighted to have parents join us for a special reading session. Listening to stories read by parents supported language development, imagination, and a love for books, while strengthening the home–school partnership.
All experiences this month supported children in understanding how materials behave, change, and are used in everyday life, while also nurturing social skills, confidence, communication, and collaboration.
Field Trip to Machia Park: A Provocation to Change
The month began with an exciting field trip to Machia Park, which served as a provocation for our unit of inquiry, “All living things go through the process of change.” Surrounded by nature, children observed plants, birds, animals, and their habitats, noticing differences in size, color, movement, and growth. This real-world exposure encouraged them to ask questions, make connections, and reflect on how living things grow and change over time. The experience nurtured curiosity, observation skills, and a deeper appreciation for nature, laying a strong foundation for inquiry-based learning.
Children’s Day Picnic: Celebrating Joy and Togetherness
Adding a burst of fun and excitement to the month, we celebrated Children’s Day with a picnic filled with laughter, games, and shared moments. The picnic provided children with opportunities to bond with peers, practice social skills, and enjoy unstructured play. It was a beautiful reminder that learning also happens through joy, friendship, and shared experiences, helping children develop emotional well-being and a sense of belonging.
3D Shape Engagement in the Wonder Room
Learning took an exciting turn in the Wonder Room, where children explored mathematical concepts through a dynamic team game focused on 3D shapes. Each team was assigned a specific 3D shape and challenged to find objects matching that shape within the Wonder Room. The activity encouraged teamwork, problem-solving, and keen observation as children searched, discussed, and classified objects. Through this hands-on engagement, students developed a clearer understanding of 3D shapes while strengthening communication and collaboration skills.
Understanding Young Ones: Animals and Their Babies
Another enriching experience in the Wonder Room involved matching puzzles of animals and their young ones, along with exploring animal mini models. Children carefully observed features, made comparisons, and matched each animal with its baby. This activity supported their understanding of living beings, life cycles, and relationships in nature. It also enhanced visual discrimination, logical thinking, and vocabulary, while reinforcing the central idea that all living things grow and change.
Graffilicious
Learners enthusiastically participated in the Graffilicious activity, where they immersed themselves in the imaginative world of stories written by Julia Donaldson. Each learner selected a story of their choice and took on the role of one character from the narrative. Through this engaging enactment, students brought the stories to life by expressing the characters’ actions, emotions, and dialogues using voice modulation, facial expressions, and body movements.
This activity encouraged learners to explore character traits, understand story structure, and connect deeply with the text. It also supported the development of confidence, creativity, communication skills, and collaboration, as students observed and learned from one another’s performances. By stepping into the shoes of their chosen characters, learners demonstrated their comprehension of the story while celebrating the joy of storytelling and dramatic expression in a meaningful and memorable way.
Little Shoppers, Big Thinkers
Learners actively participated in a hands-on learning engagement where they role-played a shopping experience. They “bought” and selected various items from a mock shop set up in the classroom. The items included a mix of everyday products, allowing learners to observe, touch, and discuss each one closely.
After selecting their items, learners thoughtfully sorted them into two categories: natural and processed. Through guided discussion and questioning, they identified natural items as those that come directly from plants or animals, while processed items were recognised as those that change before reaching us. Learners shared their reasoning for placing each item in a particular category, which helped strengthen their understanding of the concept.
This experiential activity enhanced learners’ critical thinking, observation, decision-making, and communication skills. It also made the learning meaningful and relatable by connecting classroom concepts to real-life experiences. The engagement fostered curiosity, active participation, and a deeper understanding of the difference between natural and processed items, enjoyably and interactively.
Exploring Tectonic Plates Through Hands-On Learning
As part of the Unit of Inquiry under the transdisciplinary theme Where We Are in Place and Time, students actively participated in the Graham Cracker Activity to explore the movement of tectonic plates. By modelling different plate boundaries, students demonstrated a clear understanding of how the Earth’s surface changes over time.
The activity encouraged critical thinking and creativity as students observed, discussed, and explained plate movements through hands-on learning, making the experience engaging and meaningful.
Learning Through Patterns and Shapes
Students enthusiastically engaged in a creative learning experience where they designed patterns and rangoli using 2D and 3D shapes. Working collaboratively in groups, students explored how different shapes can be combined to create meaningful and visually appealing designs.
This activity helped students demonstrate their understanding of shapes while encouraging teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking. Through discussion and shared ideas, students explained their choices and reflected on how shapes are used in everyday art and design.
The group activity made learning interactive and enjoyable, allowing students to apply mathematical concepts in a creative and hands-on way.
A Fun-Filled Children’s Day Celebration
To celebrate Children’s Day, students visited OTC Park and enjoyed a day filled with fun and excitement. The outing included a variety of engaging activities such as a magical show, play rides, a bounce house, camel rides, and many more joyful experiences.
The trip provided students with an opportunity to relax, bond with friends, and create happy memories outside the classroom. It was a delightful day full of laughter, learning, and celebration.
Celebrating Learning, Joy, and Togetherness
Children’s Day Celebrations
Grade 3 learners celebrated Children’s Day with great excitement and joy. To make the day special, children went on a picnic where they actively demonstrated the IB Learner Profile attributes of risk-takers, caring, and thinkers. Through various activities, learners stepped out of their comfort zones, supported their peers, and made thoughtful choices, making the celebration both fun-filled and meaningful.
Unit of Inquiry (UOI)
In their Unit of Inquiry, learners explored the concept of migration in depth. As a provocation to spark curiosity, learners were shown a suitcase containing a book, a biscuit packet, and a piece of cloth. This encouraged them to think and question whose suitcase it might be and why it was packed, leading to rich discussions. Learners then developed an understanding of what migration is, the causes of migration, forced migration, and voluntariness. To strengthen their understanding, students conducted a survey related to migration and discussed their findings in class. These experiences helped learners connect the concept to real-life situations and build empathy and awareness.
Daddy’s Day Out
Daddy’s Day Out was a joyful and memorable event where children spent quality time with their fathers. Learners and their dads participated in various activities such as different sports, an open mic session, and a ramp walk. The event helped strengthen the bond between children and their fathers and created cherished memories filled with laughter and togetherness.
Audition Overbooked – Interschool Competition
Learners also participated in ‘Audition Overbooked,’ an interschool competition. Students showcased their creativity and confidence by presenting their talents enthusiastically. Their participation reflected courage, self-expression, and a willingness to take on new challenges.
Mathematics
In Mathematics, learners explored operations on fractions through fun-filled and engaging activities. Hands-on tasks helped students understand concepts better while keeping them motivated and actively involved in the learning process.
English
In English, learners focused on opinion writing using a transdisciplinary approach integrated with the unit ‘How We Express Ourselves.’ Students explored how language can be used to express ideas, share viewpoints, and influence people’s thinking about real-life and inquiry-based issues. They read engaging stories connected to the unit and identified the structure of opinion writing by clearly stating an opinion, supporting it with reasons, and concluding effectively. Through group discussions and collaborative activities, learners shared perspectives and developed their ideas. They then applied their understanding by writing their own opinion pieces, demonstrating confidence, clarity, and meaningful connections between English and the Unit of Inquiry.
Grade 3 continues to be a space filled with inquiry, collaboration, celebration, and joyful learning.
Celebrations & Academic Highlights:
Grade 5 students experienced an enriching month filled with joyful celebrations, meaningful engagements, and a strong focus on academics, supporting their all-round development.
Children’s Day Celebration:
Grade5 celebrated Children’s Day with great excitement and joy. To make the day special, they went on a picnic to OTC Resort, where they actively demonstrated the IB Learner Profile attributes of risk-takers, caring, and thinkers. Through various activities, learners stepped out of their comfort zones, supported their peers, and made thoughtful choices, making the celebration both fun-filled and meaningful.
In addition, a special assembly conducted by teachers added warmth and joy to the celebration, making learners feel valued, appreciated, and truly special.
Daddy’s Day Out – Family Bonding:
Daddy’s Day Out welcomed fathers and guardians for a fun-filled day in school. The ramp walk encouraged confidence and self-expression, while outdoor games promoted teamwork, coordination, and sportsmanship, creating joyful memories for families.
Creative & Competitive Experiences:
Halloween celebrations brought out students’ creativity through imaginative costumes and activities. Grade 5 students proudly represented the school in the Overbooked Inter-School Competition, showcasing communication skills, confidence, and a healthy competitive spirit.
Academic Focus & Rigour:
Alongside celebrations, mock assessments and academic review assessments helped students reflect on learning, strengthen concepts, and build exam readiness. Through inquiry-based learning and regular feedback, Grade 5 continues to nurture confident and responsible learners.
