The most awaited of all events 'Podar Samman' was hosted on the lush green premises of the school building. The students to be honoured and their parents had taken their seats sharp at 9.00 a.m and the program started with an invocation to God, followed by a dance performance by students of Grade 6 to 8. Then the exhaustive and exclusive Annual report for the academic year 2016-17 was read by the Principal, Ms. Preeta Pillai. She greeted the parents in her usual gracious manner and expressed her gratitude to the august gathering for having present inspite of having busy working schedules. She expressed that she felt a great sense of pride and contentment for having accomplished more than what we anticipated with respect to student achievements. The names of the students and the category of their prizes for Grade 1 to 5 were read by the Primary Co-ordinator, Ms. Dolly Patel while the second half for Grade 6 to 12 was read by the Secondary Co-ordinator, Ms. Durgeshwari Gusein. The purpose of 'Podar Samman' is to create an agile culture among the learners by felicitating them not only for their academic performances but also for being the Scholar of the year, best citizen, for being the well versed or literary aware, Principal's choice (the Medhavi Award), Class teacher's choice, etc. Besides the best class for maintaining Hygiene, Display board work, the Best Teacher, Parent of the year award also formed a part of the medal tally. The best parent and the best teacher’s trophies were rolling ones and so they would be retained in the school.
Other awards given for students were awards for Excellent performer, Very good performer, Good performer, subject scholar awards for each of the subjects in each division of every grade, yearly progress award, 100% attendance award, etc.
In the Primary section the recipient of the Scholar of the year award was Master. Rishit Mawani of Class I B while the Principal’s choice went to Master. Tanishq Gajrani.
Similarly in Class II, III, IV and V the right recipients were recognised and awards were distributed. Master. Anish Singh of Class V A was chosen for the ‘Student of Year’ award for his exemplary performance in Olympiad Competitive exam winning the top 3 ranks in SOF consecutively for the last 5 years among millions of students who appeared across 25 countries. He has won a cash prize of Rs 65,000/- for the same at a function organized at Delhi. It was indeed a moment of jubiliation for the Podarites.
In the Middle school, the recipient of the ‘Scholar of the Year’ award went to Master. Siddharth Pillai and the Principal’s choice award went to Master. Dhairya Patel. Similarly the recipients of Classes IX and X for the above mentioned awards were recognised and were duly felicitated.
In the Secondary section, the recipient of the ‘Scholar of the Year’ award went to Master. Asvin Nigam and the Principal’s choice award went to Kumari. Jahanvi Patel. Similarly the recipients of Classes X and XI for the above mentioned awards were recognised and were duly felicitated.
Some prestigious Awards such as Good Citizenship award, student of the year award, parent of the year award and Literary Awareness award in the primary section went to Kumari. Sachi Shukla (III A), Master. Anish Singh (V A), Parents of Master. Abhinav Tiwari (Mrs. and Mr Vishvajeet Tiwari) and Master. Avinav Tiwari (V A) respectively.
In the Secondary section Kumari. M.S. Yalmukhi (VII B), Kumari. Shirin Sam (XI), Parent of Kumari. Arpita Samal (Mrs and Mr. Arun Kumar Samal) and Kumari. M.S. Yalmukhi (VII B) were the recipients of the above mentioned awards.
After the announcement of awards for every section the parents were requested to collect the summative assessment reports of their wards for the academic year 2016- 17 from the respective class teachers.
On the whole the programme was a great success and both the parents and the children were quite happy and pacified as most students from each class got a prize and not only the meritorious ones. This very well defines that Podar believes that every child is unique and special with one or other latent attributes in them.
