Make Good Habits and They'll Make You.

“A habit cannot be tossed out the window ;it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” – Mark Twain

  

An excerpt from The Essence of Leadership by Mac Anderson

Food for Thought...

I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest asset or heaviest burden.
I will push you up to success or down to disappointment.
I am at your command.
Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me,
For I can do them quickly, correctly, and profitably.
I am easily managed; just be firm with me.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with the precision of a
machine and the intelligence of a person.
You can run me for profit, or you can run me for ruin.
Show me how you want it done. Educate me. Train me.
Lead me. Reward me.
And I will then...do it automatically.
I am your servant.
Who am I?
I am a habit.

Career Awareness Workshop

    

As student, we all ponder upon our future after high school and future careers. Although we think and imagine about our future many a time, it is hard to give a concrete decision what should we be doing in the future and what career we are willing to pursue. Hence, in order to resolve this complication, Oakridge International School had conducted career session for the students of Grade X, XI, and XII on 18^th, 19^th, 20th and 21st July, 2011.

The orientation was given by One Step Up an organization formed by the alumni group of IIM. They gave us the presentations on various careers both in science and humanities. Throughout the sessions, they had explained as many careers as they could with their own experience. Moreover, they had explained us about the variety of career choices, with the example of various types of coffee in one café shop. The entire session was fun and interesting.

During the session, we got to see the videos of real professionals, such as doctor, photographer and journalist in which we learned how they carry out their job in daily life. Moreover, we could listen to their advices as well. Through the presentations made by the instructors, we were informed about the universities related with certain careers, related courses in college and finally ways to obtain certain careers.

Finally, through these sessions of 3 days, all of us could plan out our future in a better and brighter way. For myself, these sessions not only made me to be aware of where I am standing at the moment in my life, and what I am supposed to be doing to acquire what I want to be in the future hence encourage me to thrive, but also be aware of different interesting careers which I may take as my options.

Lucy Shin

IBDP - 12 B

Sr.School Results-Interhouse Dance Competition

Category A: Amartya Sen-I Place Mother Teresa - II Place Rabindranth Tagore-III Place C.V. Raman- 4th Place

Category B: Rabindranth Tagore-I Place Amartya Sen-II Place Mother Teresa & C.V. Raman- III Place

Overall Result of the Dance Competition

Amartya Sen -Ist Place

Rabindranath Tagore - 2nd Place

Mother Teresa -3rd Place

C V Raman - 4th Place

Sr.School Inter House Dance Competition 2011-2012

                  

The Interhouse Dance Competition was conducted on 29^th July 2011. There were two categories - A for grades 7, 8&9 and & B for grades 10, 11&12.

For the first time we had’ fusion’ of eastern and western dances. The entire school got an opportunity to watch the show which was a boost to the morale of the house team.

The occasion was graced by the Principal, Capt. Rohit Sen Bajaj.

Dances were beautifully choreographed by the students and were appreciated by one and all.

The dance performances were spectacular, well timed and the performance order was maintained without any time gaps.

Ms.Rubina,

Coordinator

Dr.Devi Shetty

A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya(Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.

Q: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?
Ans:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar
Q: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?
Ans: No
Q: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person
gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?
Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.
Q: Are heart diseases hereditary?
Ans: Yes
Q: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you suggest to de-stress?
Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life.
Q: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to keep a healthy heart?
Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints
Q: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to do so?
Ans: Mother Theresa , who was my patient.
Q: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?
Ans: Extremely rare.
Q: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age
(I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age?
Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.
Q: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart ?
Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.
Q: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?
Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.
Q: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?
Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil.
Q: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?
Ans: All oils are bad .
Q: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific test?
Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP, Treadmill test after an echo.
Q: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?
Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour.
Q: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble?
Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.
Q: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and serious heart problems.
Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, sedentary lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and Americans.
Q: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?
Ans: Yes.
Q: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the child. Is it true?
Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not have a software engineer as a child
Q: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions would you recommend?
Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these irregularities. However, as you grow older, respect the biological clock.
Q: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications (short / long term)?
Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. However, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.
Q: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?
Ans : No.
Q: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?
Ans : No.
Q: How would you define junk food?
Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds , samosas, and even masala dosas.
Q: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food?
Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease.
Q: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?
Ans : No.
Q: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of forwarded emails on this)?
Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up.
Q: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to heart problems?
Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity.
Q: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise?
Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot.
Q: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?
Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.
Q: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation?
Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time , Control cho lesterol, BP, weight.
Q: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when compared to day shift workers?
Ans : No.
Q: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs?
Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to
reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.
Q: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart attacks?
Ans : No.
Q: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?
Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45. (Present Global census show that the Percentage of heart disease in women has increased than in men )
Q: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?
Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six months recommended) ....

It takes sharing of knowledge to discover and understand the world in which we live.

Mr.Geeve Mathew

Guest Lecture by Dr Nazia–PP1

 

     

On Thursday 28^th July 2011, the tiny tots of PP1s got to interact with our school doctor, Dr. Nazia in connection with our on going POI topic “Me a small Wonder”.

Dr.Nazia spoke and presented a PPT on the different body parts and their functions.

She also spoke about the importance of maintaining good health hygiene. It was a very informative session for our little ones.

Rekha

Grade 9 Chairman’s Cup

Should cell phones be allowed in school?

The question that has many answers and attracts loads of controversy. On the 28^th of July, 2011, a nervous group of students debated on this topic and hopefully reach a conclusion. There were many strong points put forward, judged by Ms. Anusha and Ms. Sulochana our career counsellor and librarian respectively.

The debates started with class 9A and each section presented their views. Students who wanted to carry cell phones to school put forward points such as being able to communicate with parents during emergency, using applications for calculators and dictionaries. Becoming more organized with the help of reminders and calendars.

Students against mobile phones opposed, saying they cause indiscipline, cyber bullying, cheating and could be misused in many ways. The moderators summed it up in a very diplomatic manner, some reaching a conclusion and some leaving it to us to decide.

In the end, the audience learned a lot and the speakers became more confident and the speakers became more confident and lost their stage fright as everything went smoothly and nobody messed up.

We definitely look forward to next week’s debate.

Payal & Jhanvi

Grade 9 IGCSE

Our Investiture ceremony

Every year at Oakridge we have our Investiture ceremony, where we all stand proud to see our leaders of school take their places, and we all look up to them. This year our Investiture ceremony was in the Multi Purpose Hall from 10 A.M to 11 A.M. We all assembled there by 9:50 and sat down according to our houses. The ceremony began with the junior school choir singing our school song and ‘Top of the world’. Then came the exciting part. In came our prefects who would take up great responsibilities this academic session. They were all standing tall and proud. They marched to the front and took their places. Then our Principal, H.M ma’am ,Vice Principal and Bursar felicitated the prefects with their sashes. The prefects all felt proud and so did we to have our friends on stage who were ready to make the best of their opportunity. The Principal then addressed all of us which was then followed by the head boy and the head girl who proposed the vote of thanks. We then sang the national anthem and dispersed. At the end of the day all the teachers and students of the student council were treated to a chocolate cake for their hard work and effort put. All in all it was a wonderful ceremony and everyone had a great time.

 RIA.T

VI F

Profile Week

We, the students of grade 5-E celebrated Profile Week with full gusto. Each of us were assigned the name of a famous person who is/was differently abled than all of us. We did our research on the person, his life, how they are differently abled and most importantly, what they did to overcome their disabilities. After we had our information, we compiled it along with their pictures. On thursday, 28th of July, we presented our projects to Shalini ma'am, our coordinator. We talked about the life of these people and the profiles they showed in their character.She was very happy with the way we presented our findings. The Profile Week was a great way to make us think about the Profiles.

Bhavya Tibrewala

Class 5 E

Favourite Books

  

"To read is to empower
To empower is to write
To write is to influence
To Influence is to change
To change is to live."
~ Jane Evershed ~

Yes, it’s true!! I have displayed a chart on library’s soft boards for each grade for their “Favorite Book” called “FAVOURITE BOOKS” Our students read the borrowed book at home and if they find it interesting, they may fill in the columns in FAVOURITE BOOKS.

Students are welcome to pen down their thoughts through the “FAVOURITE BOOK”. Our Children are open-minded, communicators and reflective in sharing their thoughts through the “FAVOURITE BOOKs.”

It helps in several ways:

Ø It makes the children to remember the Title of the book.

Ø The children’s mind starts thinking about the PYP Profile and Attitude of the book as they have to write in the FAVOURITE BOOKs. They cultivate the habit of concentrating on the profiles and attitudes while they read.

Ø The “Learning Outcome” expresses the moral of the book.

Ø The “Rating column” stimulates the other children to read the book of the other’s favourite book.

Thus, it helps and leads the students in different ways to express and develop their PYP Profiles and Attitudes.

Ms.Veena Bhat

Librarian