The ability to read, write, and analyse; the confidence to stand up and demand justice; the virtues that shape a good life; and the potential to become productive members of society all of this begins with education. At Red Roses, our mission is to guide students towards improving not only their own lives but also that of others, ultimately contributing to a better world. Education, as the soul of our society, bridges generations, and we believe it is a journey much like riding a bicycle: we must keep pedalling to move forward.

It brings me immense joy and pride to reconnect with all of you through this special edition of our school magazine after a significant gap of three years. The challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic were unlike anything we had faced before. This hiatus serves as a reminder of the difficult times we endured, but more importantly, it highlights our collective resilience and the strength of our school community. The world has changed, and so have we. We adapted, grew, and supported each other through uncertain times. This edition of the magazine is a celebration of our comeback a showcase of creativity, perseverance, and the unity that kept us going. Within these pages, you will find stories of the incredible progress our students have made during these transformative years.

Despite the pandemic, our school has witnessed significant achievements. From outstanding academic performances to impressive feats in sports, cultural, and co-curricular activities, our students have excelled across various domains. We proudly celebrate their successes on the grand stage of our Annual Day celebration in December 2024, and their remarkable accomplishments are also recorded in this magazine for all to cherish.

In 2021, we quietly marked a major milestone our 10 Years of Inception. The pandemic may have limited our celebrations, but we held a meaningful ceremony with our staff, reinforcing our shared vision and dedication. To address the learning gaps caused by remote education, our teachers designed a special bridge course, focusing on core subjects like Mathematics, to help students regain confidence and meet the expected learning outcomes due to the learning gap.

I am also delighted to share that our school achieved a 100% success in the CBSE Board. Examinations for Classes X and XII for three consecutive sessions (2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023- 24). Students secured 100/100 in Psychology & Painting and several students passed with distinction. Many of our alumni have secured admissions to prestigious institutions, including NLU Patiala, IISER Tirupati, VIT, JKMC & MKCG Medical Colleges, Delhi School of Journalism and some foreign universities in Russia, Canada and USA, reflecting their hard work and the guidance of our dedicated teachers.

The post-COVID era has embraced a hybrid model of education, and our faculty has been proactive in enhancing their skills through various capacity-building programs organized by CBSE, Diksha, and Swayam.

Our commitment to holistic education goes beyond academics. We have collaborated with international partners, such as SHIN Educational Services from Japan, to offer courses in non- cognitive skills for primary students, and facilitated cultural exchanges with schools in the UK, strengthening global connections and fostering cross-cultural understanding. Our school participated in Birmingham Commonwealth Connections Project in August 2022 students performed on the famous Broadway musical 'The Wizard & I' from 'WICKED' under the guidance of UK based choreographer, Mr. Joseph Junkere at the British Council Theatre in New Delhi.

The school celebrated its grand Annual Day in December of 2022. The event was graced by Chief Guest, Member Legislative Assembly, (late) Sh. Rakesh Daulatabad, Guest of Honour, Suptd. Engineer, Irrigation Department, Govt. of Haryana, Sh. Shiv Singh Rawat and our Star Guest, a prominent Bollywood celebrity, Smt. Sheeba Chaddha. Other distinguished guests included esteemed members of Sh. R.R. Mehta Educational Trust, Members of SMC, and dignitaries from the educational community. The highlight of the evening was the spectacular Light & Sound play 'Dastaan-e-Dilli,' scripted and directed by Ms. Seema Chhibber, which captivated the audience with its powerful depiction of historical tales of sacrifice and valour. Despite the chilly weather, the spirit of celebration and the warmth of the performances kept the audience engaged concluding with a vibrant Grand Finale dance, leaving the audience spellbound and creating lasting memories for all in attendance.

Deeply committed to addressing global issues and taking the social and moral responsibility. NURTURANCE- 2023 an exhibition, focussing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was presented by students, guided by their teachers.

It truly takes an entire community to raise a child, and the progress of our school is a testament to the strong partnership between parents, faculty, and management. As we look to the future, we remain committed to providing quality education and fostering lifelong learning. Our focus will continue to be on developing well-rounded individuals who embody values of empathy, integrity, and a sense of social responsibility. We are confident that our students will contribute positively to society and make a meaningful impact in the world.

I extend my deepest gratitude to each of you for being part of this journey. Let us continue working hand in hand, driven by a shared vision of excellence and a collective goal of building a brighter, more compassionate world.

The ability to read, write, and analyse; the confidence to stand up and demand justice and equality; acquire virtues and moral habits to live good life and at the same time become productive, contributing members of community; all of this starts with education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. At RED ROSES our endeavour is to help our students learn to improve their lives and that of others and make the world a better place. We all would agree, that educating children is a continuous process, it’s like riding a bicycle; unless you pedal, you don’t go forward.

Dear parents. After a gap of more than 2 years, witnessing your children perform on this Annual event is your day of pride. I assure you that each heart is going to swell with joy as you watch and cherish your child’s performance today.

I often say that teaching is the best and noblest of all professions, because we get a chance to build the character.

These are moments of fulfilment for us when, under the able guidance of our faculty, and especially Mrs Seema Chhibber, the director and script writer and soul of this presentation, our students present a mega show Dastaan e Dilli. You will be happy to know that almost all students are participating, either on or off stage to showcase their talent.

Let me begin by giving a quick run through with the work done during the pandemic years till date.

• Most importantly we COMPLETED 10 YEARS OF OUR INCEPTION in 2021. OUR SCHOOL MAGAZINE Pragati 2018-20 was released on the occasion.

To plug the learning gaps that occurred due to online studies, particularly in mathematics, students were helped through bridge courses developed by our teachers for classes 1st, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th to bring them at par with the learning outcomes of their class. Beginning of the session was devoted to basic reading and understanding of the textbooks.

• Class X and XII results No Board exams were conducted in session 2020-21, but CBSE’s criteria for declaring Result was well thought out. It not only reflected students’ comprehensive school-based performance of two years but was a mirror for every school, as it considered the previous years’ performance of the school in boards. Our result was very encouraging.

For rest of the school, we took a collective decision with parents to assess students on avocation as well as academics, because while staying at home also children picked up various hobbies and honed new skills.

In session 2021-22 class XII result was again 100% with highest percentages touching as much as, 93% in Science and Commerce and 95% in Humanities. One student scored 100/100 in Psychology. The class average was 75% and out of 17 subjects offered at +2 level students scored above 90% in 13 subjects.

Class X also had 100% result. Out of 38 students who appeared, there were 43 above 90% scores. A student scored 100/100 in Sanskrit and the school average was 79%.

This year one student cracked CLAT entrance exam and got admission in NLU, Patiala. Another in prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Tirupati and One is pursuing B.TECH in Electronics and Communication, at triple IIIT, Manipur.

• Teachers’ trainings – our teachers underwent more than 200 hours of training conducted mainly by CBSE and Microsoft, learning ICT Skills and updating themselves in the use of variety of educational apps and tools to make their teaching more interesting and innovative. The principal was assigned the duty of conducting offline and online training sessions for teachers and heads of CBSE schools across DELHI NCR. She was appointed CBSE Observer and member of CBSE FLYING SQUAD. Our school became centre for NEET & CET exams conducted by CBSE. SHIKSHA, SANSKAR AVM SANSKRITI KE LIYE SAMARPIT, GURUGRAM felicitated our teachers, Mr V. Krishnan, Mrs Preeti Singh, Ms Esha Goyal and Ms Gunjan Pathak with ‘SANSKRITI KE SAARTHI’ AWARD on Teacher’s Day.
• Keeping our students grounded to the Indian values and ethos we provide the much needed International exposure to them as well. SHIN educational services, a Japanese company with whom we run a course in non-cognitive skills for our primary children organised a virtual exchange program for secondary students with their counterparts in Japanese schools. Students on both sides interacted and exchanged info on food, culture, festivals, and language of their respective countries.
• I am very proud to announce that British Council selected our school along with 5 other leading schools across Delhi NCR to participate and represent INDIA in Commonwealth Connections 2022 Birmingham Games. It involved students in Sports, Arts and Citizenship training. We exchanged A plethora of activities with Smith’s Wood Secondary School in the UK. The culmination of the prog was our students presenting ‘Wicked’, an English musical, at British Council for which JOSEPH JUNKERE, a British choreographer trained our students along with our Dance teachers.
• Several International Days of significance and festivities of social and cultural importance were celebrated with zeal and zest like Environment Day, Plastic Bag free day, friendship day, Chess Day, Tiger Day, Yoga Day, Sanskrit Day, Storytelling Day Swachhta Pakhwada, Poshan Maah, Jan Aandolan for Covid 19 and Gandagi Mukt Bharat etc. Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and Ek bharat Shrestha bharat are yearlong activities!
• Students were introduced to Astronomy and VIPNET, a department of Science & Technology initiative for encouraging students to understand science through experiential learning. Students spent an exciting evening spotting and video recording the moon and various Planets through the telescopes of the school Astronomy club.
• A trip to ‘Bharat Darshan Park’ to promote waste management techniques was organised for classes I to XII.
• Our School is now a part of the Gurugram Progressive Schools Conference. It is the CBSE Sahodaya where best schools of Gurugram share their best practices. Students have been participating in GPSC inter school events and bringing laurels.
• Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports – Govt. of India, after conducting various online physical fitness activities conferred FIT INDIA SCHOOL certificate on our school.
• Our school became centre for Covid vaccination twice.
• In collaboration with IBM our school has started an Empathetic- Exemplary- Elders initiative in which students built upon life skills and good value system by visiting homes of senior citizens and spending time with them.

Several curricular and co-curricular Webinars were attended by students and teachers.

Students Participated and achieved various positions in several Inter school, State, National and CBSE Campaigns & Competitions. Some of whom will be awarded today. All students from classes 9-12 participated and received certificate for the first phase of Pariksha pe charcha, an initiative by Ministry of education GOI. The programme is continuing, and more activities are lined up. All students from VIII-X participated and received certificate in CBSE Reading Challenge 3.0 initiative.

• Coming to sports I have some very special moments to share.
  Our girls’ football team has been bringing laurels from every tournament they play.
• In the tournaments organised by Department of Secondary Education, Haryana. Under 14 and under 19 both teams were district Champions IN SESSION 2021-22. In this session under 19 team is DISTRICT CHAMPION. DSE also selected our team to play in SUBROTO CUP as Gurugram district team.
• Five of our under 19 girls were selected to play for Haryana State in Sr women’s tournament.
• As the parents are aware that our students are exposed to a host of cocurricular activities Archery being one of them. AYEESHA YADAV of class 8th secured 1st position in District level and 3rd position in state level ARCHERY competition organised by DSE.
• In CBSE Sports, North Zone she has also secured 4th position and will be playing Nationals this month.
• In session 2021-22 in athletics, 800mts race, under 17 boys, Karan Rathi secured 1st position in district level.
• In Taekwando ORGANISED BY DSE, Haryana, Dishant Thapa under 63kg weight category and Suryansh Kataria under 55kg secured first position in district in this session.

There is a long list of awardees today, who will be awarded for their accomplishment in academics, sports, and co-curricular activities.

My address would be incomplete without acknowledging contribution of our entire staff and students who have done their best to put up this entertaining evening. The students on stage, the compering team, the backstage teachers and volunteers, the costume designers, the make-up artists, the Art teachers for preparing props, choreographers, music teacher, video presenter, the Creativity and Design head. THE LIST IS LONG. And my most affectionate and joyous thanks go to the czarina of today, Ms Seema Chhibber, who needs no introduction, for envisaging, crafting, and executing such a presentation, that we are awaiting with thrilling expectation.

Thank you all.

Our school, management and students combined, have always strived to outshine our targets. With each passing year, we set new goals for ourselves and achieve different milestones. I am delighted and proud to share with everyone, the following achievements that our school has achieved in this session.

• With the vital support of Sh. H. Bedi, General Secretary, Shri R.R. Mehta Educational Trust, we were able to get N.O.C. from the Government of Haryana, as a result now our school is affiliated with Haryana State Education Board as well as CBSE, up to Class XII and has received permanent recognition from Haryana Education Department.
• As you will recall, in 2017, the School upgraded to all streams at senior secondary level namely, Science (PCM+PCB), Commerce and Humanities, our first batch of Class XII appeared in CBSE board examinations in March 2019. You will be delighted to know that with fifteen students on board, we achieved 100% result. The students obtained twenty-six distinctions in total, and highest percentage of marks achieved was 88%. Also, in four subjects students got above 90% marks. Similarly, from Class X, total of twenty-three students appeared for CBSE Board Examinations, we got 100% result with 93.4% being the highest and a magnificent sixty-four distinctions and overall 8 students and subjects scored above 90%.
• One student (Ritik Lamba) got Gyan Kunj Puraskar and Hindi teacher (Ms. Seema Chhibber) got Gyan Saarthi Award for securing above 95% marks and getting 100 % result respectively.
• In a move to broaden our curriculum, students of Secondary and Senior Secondary classes shall have the option of taking vocational courses such as Financial Market Management and Information Technology whereas students of up to Class VI shall have the option of taking Spanish as an additional language.

Education and learning are no longer measured in terms of marks alone. In order to prepare our students for being successful and happy citizens of the next generation, a lot of focus has been shifted towards co-curricular activities. Several steps have been or are being taken to strengthen overall performance of the students. A co-curricular period has been added daily for classes up to VIII which includes, development of non-cognitive skills through Japanese Math curriculum, STEM i.e. Science, Technology and Mathematics in education, Nature Nurture, Personality Development and Yoga. As per the CBSE guidelines the curriculum has been designed in a way to include Art and Information Communication Technology in all subjects.

Multiple workshops and hands on sessions were organized for all classes on various interesting topics such as Cyber Security, Mind Set, Time and Stress Management, Career Guidance, Fun and Sports, Sanitation and Hygiene, Balanced Diet, Growing up Issues, Good and Bad Touch and Elder Care.

Several educational visits ranging from Taj Mahal, Gandhi Smriti, several places of worship to National Stock Exchange, 5-star Radisson Hotel, INDUSIND Bank and Old Age Homes were organized.

Various awareness programs, drills and celebration of National and International Days were observed. For promoting conservation of natural resources ‘Van Mahotsav’ was celebrated with great enthusiasm, wherein students took out a ‘Save Trees’ march in Palam Vihar and then planted 250 saplings of fruit, ornamental and medicinal trees in the greenbelt adjoining the school premises. Our school has adopted a no paper wastage policy under which everyone has pledged to save every bit of paper in the school or at home. Thus, in its first phase we have collected 300kgs of paper to be given away to get recycled stationery items thereby teaching the students the value of recycle and reuse. Weeklong activities on 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, that included Cleanliness Drive, reading his life’s experiences and stories, observing Honesty Day and activities promoting Hindi, Sanskrit, Science and Mathematics were organized for students.

As part of school safety and security policy, disaster management drills were conducted for the whole school to manage emergencies promptly and efficiently.

Students have this year participated and received appreciation in various inter-school co-curricular events like Model United Nations, Dance and Musical Cultural Programs, District Science Exhibition and Science Quiz organised by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

None of the aforesaid achievements would have been possible without the untiring and relentless efforts of our esteemed teachers who have put their heart and soul in ensuring the best accolades to our School.

Inservice training of the faculty has been our top priority, therefore all the teachers regularly attend workshops and trainings. Ethics in education, Lesson Planning through Mind Mapping, developing Non-Cognitive Skills, Stress Management, Enhancing Mind Power, Financial Markets Management, STEM, Discipline, Adolescent education, CBSE Health and Fitness Prog under Khelo India apart from CBSE’s Capacity Building Programmes for the main teaching subjects were attended in this session.

CBSE has been entrusting our school with the responsibility of hosting Capacity Building Programs on various subjects for all schools of National Capital Territory, Delhi. Also, CBSE has appointed the Principal of this School as its Resource Person to conduct workshops and act as an Observer to other schools in Delhi NCR and Rajasthan in the last two years. In terms of major infrastructure improvement:

• a metallic ramp has been constructed for emergency evacuation from the building which will also provide added security and safety for the students and staff.
• a sports room next to the playground for easy access to the sports equipment has been created.
• a canteen, on popular demand of students and parents has been started, wherein fresh fruits, juice, salads and milkshakes for fruit break, wholesome meals for lunch break and light snacks for the afternoon break are available.

Our very talented Art faculty and the budding artists of our school have exhibited their handiwork all over the School. The artwork on the walls, the small art and craftwork exhibition and our sports mascot ‘CHETAK’ are all due to their contribution.

In order to promote scientific temper among students and understand and appreciate science in everyday life, under the STEM education program, with the help of own faculty, we have designed and created a small science park with 10 exhibits of various scientific phenomenon used around us. This is one of the many measures that the School is taking towards creating a wholesome scientific infrastructure for the students.

Our well-wishers are aware that under the connecting classroom programme of the BRITISH COUNCIL (INDIA) we contest for the INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AWARD and I am happy to announce that we again managed to get the award last year for the next three years, up to 2021, scoring 100% marks. Our English Department faculty were warmly received and hosted for a week in early November 2019 by FRODSHAM MANOR HOUSE SCHOOL at Cheshire, UK under the able leadership of Mr. Ian Roberts and his team, where apart from gaining an insight into new ways of teaching and learning processes they got an opportunity of making new friends for lifetime and visited places of local sightseeing too. We are glad to have the honour of company of Mr. Dev-Roberts and Ms. Carmody as the Chief guest and Star guest for our Annual Sports Day ‘Gati-2019’ respectively and are looking forward to gaining from your classroom interactions with our students and teachers in days to come.

On behalf of Sh. R.R. Mehta Educational Trust, the school managing committee, school staff and students I thankfully acknowledge the contribution made by all and we are eagerly looking forward to our upcoming session of 2020-21!

Warmest regards,
Ritu Bedi
Principal
RRPS – Palam Vihar