Welham Girls School’s 58th founder’s day began with the annual sports meet involving various events including the march past, athletics, karate and aerobics demonstrations. Many athletes who participated in the various events organised were medalists of the District Athletics Meet and have represented Uttarakhand State at the national level.
Speaking as the chief guest on the occasion, the GOC Uttarakhand Sub Area, Maj. Gen S Sabharwal lauded the efforts made by the school for promoting sports. He encouraged the students and staff concerned to pursue their aims with dedication.
Founder-director of ICS-International (Institute for Career Studies, lucknow), Dr. Amrita Dass held counseling sessions on subject and career choices for parents of classes VIII and X. Apart from a collective session, individual counselling sessions were also organised for the interested parents and students.
In an effort to highlight the beauty and importance of cycles in nature, the students of the school presented an audio-visual treat titled ‘Seasons in Silhouette’. The programme displayed a blend of live music and science, orchestrating the various seasons of the planet earth, with the help of vocal and orchestral music and shadow puppetry. The presentation engaged the audience and they were captivated by the quality of singing and playing by the school choir and orchestra corresponding with the visuals in shadow, depicting the endless fluctuations in environment.
The ex-students who attended the celebrations included girls from the class of 1965 (Golden Jubilee Class) and from the class of 1990 (Silver Jubilee Class) among hundreds of other students spanning the decades from 1964 to 2015.
live exhibitions showcasing a blend of academic and co-curricular activities were put up by the students in the morning hours. These covered subjects like Science, Mathematics, languages and the Humanities as well as areas of special interest such as Art and Craft, Dance, Multimedia and Photography. These exhibitions displayed the multifarious interests and talents of the students and the school’s endeavour to identify and showcase them to the maximum. The exhibitions based on the theme ‘The Invisible Forces of Nature’ provided an insight into the complexities of Nature and the impeccable balance among the various forces constantly at work in our surroundings.
With the help of presentations, street plays and soap-box oratory, the students made the theme of the exhibition come alive.
The main founders’ day programme included speeches, prize distribution and a fusion performance displaying the ‘Equipoise’ that exists among the multiple forces in nature.
A former Director at the lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (lBSNAA), Mussoorie and currently the Director General of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis, Bhopal, Padamvir Singh presided over the celebrations
The awards given out were not just to recognize marks alone or achievements in Sports etc., but to extol those qualities which build a person’s character – Good Citizenship, Helpfulness, Creativity, Compassion, and Community Service.
Through a fusion of Dance and Yoga, the students of Welham Girls’ School depicted the various forces constantly at play around us, striving for balance, pushing and pulling, acting and reacting and consequently sustaining the inhabitants of this planet and the bodies of the Universe. The presentation clearly depicted the School’s commitment to pursue excellence in every discipline. The invocation by the School Choir and the beautiful dances, including Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Jazz and Yoga left the audience appreciative.