student activities

Sports Festival

The Sports Festival at Abacus is a three day event and includes various indoor and outdoor games, track and field events. Indoor games include carrom, chess and table tennis. Basketball, football, kho kho and badminton are the outdoor games. The field events that children participate in are cricket ball throw, short-put, long jump and high jump. The track events include running races, relay races and hurdles.

The events for the children of the Elementary include obstacle races, running races, long jump, shot-put, carrom, chess and table tennis.

Results of Sports Festival

BEST ATHLETES FOR THE YEAR 2011-2012

Open Day

On this day the children of the secondary display multi-disciplinary team projects and classes 11 & 12 do internships with external organizations. At the primary level, parents are invited to watch their children at work in their environment. Open Day projects are also displayed at the elementary level.

Inter house culturals

It happens on Children's Day and is organized by the students of Class 10. The children take part in various competitions such as dance, western music, costume designing, sandcastle, treasure hunt, cooking, best out of waste, ad-zap.

Concert

The Annual Concert is a festive event scheduled towards the end of the academic year. It is a two day event and the primary, elementary and secondary concerts are showcased separately. During the concert, children display the skills they mastered through the performing arts classes. Performing arts for the Elementary and Secondary include Mridangam, Recorder, Kalaripayattu, Folk Dances, Music and Drums. The faculty for these classes are professionals in various fields like folk dance, theatre and music. All the children participate in the concert.

Interschool Culturals and Sports

Abacus participates in interschool culturals and sports on invitation. The recent events Abacus participated in 2010-2011 are the Interschool Football tournament held at Vaels Billabong and the Interschool Junior Sports Meet held at Sishya. Abacus girls won the winners trophy at Vael's Billabong. Abacus Girls and Boys of the Elementary section stood second in the Sishya Athletic meet.

Excursions

Children in the Primary and Elementary go on excursions every term. These trips are explorations of resources outside the classroom, known as "going out" in the Elementary, where the children themselves plan and coordinate the outings. The children of the Secondary also go on field trips that help them experience the knowledge gained from books and once a year visit out station destinations.

Outstation Excursions 2011-2012

Editorial Board

The editorial team compiles articles from all sections of the school and bring forth the Abacus Express which is the school magazine.

Editorial Board 2011-2012

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