'Make your own Butterfly Garden" workshop conducted at Witty International School, Borivali (2020-21)

Make your own Butterfly Garden

 “Butterflies are nature’s angles. They remind us what a gift it is to be alive”– Robyn Nola

Butterflies are the most magnificent and fascinating creatures in the world designed with unique and beautiful features. Their aesthetic aspects are mesmerizing and the change they make from one form to another, called metamorphosis is astonishing.

We at Witty International School, Borivli have always encouraged our students to be au courant about protecting and preserving the species of our ecosystem, hence a DIY workshop was conducted for them where they learnt to , “Create their very own Butterfly Garden”

Our guest speaker, Nitya Agarwal, a Nature Enthusiast shared tremendous knowledge about butterfly species and spoke about how to create a butterfly garden in your own backyard. She provided information about morphology of butterflies, host plants, feeding habits of butterflies. The interaction on biodiversity developed the curiosity in Wittians and they truly had a wonderful time.

Story telling on "Insect World" conducted at Witty International School, Borivali (2020-21)

Let’s Peep into the Insect World!

 In continuation to the anthology of wild life story telling series, this week Witty International School, Borivali conducted a storytelling session on the ‘ Insect World.’

Katie Bagli , an acclaimed children’s book writer, nature enthusiast and Rex Karamaveer Global Fellowship Award winner conducted a book review on ‘Let’s peep into the Insect World.’

The book endeavored to arouse curiosity in children about insects. Katie described variety of insects with beautiful illustrated pictures that showed different behaviours of these insects in their natural habitat. Her way of storytelling helped imagine and understand the insects better by sharing many fun facts and trivia to the Wittians.

Students learnt about arthropods, songsters, grasshoppers, cicada, katydid, ants, southern birdwing butterfly and the most efficient energy producing– Fireflies. She also spoke about insect mafia, a monster insect, fleas- recorded as high jumpers, ants- red conquering the blacks and antlions digging pits.

Katie’s knowledge on insects was mesmerizing and students were too keen to grab it all. The story had both wit and escapade. It was truly a fruitful, successful and erudite session for the Wittians.

Art of Origami - Workshop for Secondary Section at WIS, Pawan Baug (2020-21)

What do pizza boxes, pastry boxes, paper bags and fancy napkins have in common? Well, you have guessed it right!ORIGAMI .

 

Everyone loves the magic of turning a piece of paper into something useful or a toy or a pretty decoration. This is the most exciting of all paper crafts. Imagine minimum usage of scissors and glue! Origami is fascinating.Just that one square of paper can be turned into so many wonderful things. But not only is Origami for kids fun, there are also huge educational benefits.

 

In a nutshell, Origami, not only develops eye hand co-ordination, sequencing skills, math reasoning, spatial skills, memory, but also patience and attention skills. Origami allows kids to develop fine motor skills and mental concentration. All of this combined stimulates the brain – especially when both hands are being used at the same time.

 

School believes in developing students’ creative talents and holistic approach. To boost their creativity and move away from the mundane routine, an Origami workshop was conducted by an Education Advisor and Career Counselor,Ms. Merlyn Torres for grades 6,7 and 8 on the 25^th of July.

 

An important theme of celebrating Parents’ Day was associated with the workshop. Wittians couldn’t miss this opportunity to thank their parents uniquely and amazingly. To express their love and thoughts, some came up with precious, fragile, imperishable floral arrangements, while others came up with ornamental, conventional, winsome bouquets crafted not by a local florist, but from the art of using a paper as a decorative tool. Many Wittians also prepared beautiful sacred designer Photo Frames to say thanks to their parents for their commitment and love who mean a complete world to them; for them to realize parenting is a tough job, it takes sacrifice and dedication.

 

While the lower grades were busy in the Cut and Fold, our IGCSE I put up a dance for their parents to express gratitude and love. The dance was conducted by Ms. Impal Kadhi.

 According to Mr. Bijo Kurian, the Principal, and the guiding force, “This is not just a day to honour to Moms and Dads, but also a day when parents can rededicate themselves to their children. No matter what you do for your mom and dad on Parent’s Day, and no celebration or gift can compensate their love and sacrifice, for they are truly selfless, unconditional and forgiving.”