During the last academic year students did gymnastics, Tennis, pyramid formation, races, mass drills, Kung Fu, Karate, Table-Soccer…They played Khokho, Langdi, Dodgeball, Handball, Throwball, Football, Rugby, Volleyball, La techque, Cricket and other games with Anirudh Sir and Benjamin Sir. Ultimate, the new game introduced this year has been extremely  popular. In the inter-class competitions held between MYP classes,  Grade 8 (MYP 3) demonstrated great zeal and very good skills in this new sport.

Students of KG3 to Grade 6 participated in the Sports Day that was held in March. Different activities adapted to the physical capacities of each age-group were offered.  Apart from that, both the girls’ and boys’ Football Team participated in an inter-school Under-14 Football Tournament and made it till the semi-finals.

This academic year, we have revamped the bathrooms to include showers and dressing rooms for boys and girls (separate). Athletism and gymnastics will continue to be included as part of the students’ regular training. In addition to the below mentioned activities, football, cricket, basket, karate and kung fu sessions will be offered after school as an optional sport from Grade 6 to 12. Diploma students can opt for the optional sport as part of (Action)-CAS. We are considering to offer judo as an optional sport this year.
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In the State Level Table-Soccer Tournament, students of Std 1-8 won 15 Gold medals, 14 Silver medals and 16 Bronze medals. In Karate, they won 5 Gold medals, 1 Silver medal and 6 Bronze medals. At the National Karate Tournament held in Chandigarh Fowzia Hawa won the Gold medal, Mazhar Hawa the Silver medal and Jatin Solanki the Bronze medal. The trio then went to Nepal for the International Karate Tournament held in May 07 and Jatin Solanki won the Bronze medal.
A shield was given to Jatin Solanki by the Mayor of Ahmedabad in a ceremony hosted by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on 6/8/07 to commemorate student achievements in the city. Jatin won a bronze medal in the South-East Asian Karate Championiship held in Nepal in May 2007.
          Congratulations to the students and to Hussanara Alvi, their coach!

Trusha Oza, a student from Grade 9 secured the first position in the National Karate Tournament. She also got her brown belt. Congratulations!
It has been a matter of pride for us to have so many girls participating in martial arts offered in school. Last year Fowzia Hawa, a student from Grade 9 (then) won the Gold medal at the Nationals.We hope that our students keep a continued interest in martial arts.

RTI article on MGIS

Students of MGIS were the first students who learned to use the Right to Information Act. Several forums and discussions with government officials, journalists, media persons and personalities later, they were ready to fight for issues they believed in. Many of them took a stand for their teachers with the RTI Act (click to read the article link above) and later used RTI to help others in their immediate surroundings.

        The school has resumed its pedagogical and administrative activities for the academic year 2008-2009 since June.

Visitors can come between 2:30 p.m and 4:30 p.m, Monday to Saturday.

    Class-Timings 

Kinder Garten:        1.00 p.m to 4.30 p.m

Grade 1 to 10:         8.50 to 3.00 p.m

DP Year 1:               8.30 to 4.30 p.m

DP Year 2:               8.30 to 6.00 p.m

Abhik Basu:

I am studying Economics at University of Denison, USA.

“I’d like to think that that the most important asset that MGIS provided me with is a world-sensitive outlook. In the future, as I see myself move from place to place I think this is one thing that will help me no matter what I do. Besides that, it gave me a pot full of amazing, and fun memories as well!”

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Mr. Atul Karwal lived a long cherished dream of scaling the world’s tallest mountain range. Getting through the selection process itself is a feat as the selection lasted a few months, testing his physical abilities, endurance, adaptation skills, his knowledge about flora, fauna, mountain climbing, nutrition…his motivation!

To get selected he had to trek for weeks in dense forests under difficult circumstances that included rains that would refuse to stop for days, walking in knee deep murky water, sleeping in inhospitable conditions, facing crawling insects, slimy reptiles and wild animals. The list goes on. He lived his dream to climb the Everest for almost fifteen years and took more than a year getting ready for the expedition. After getting selected, the journey had just about begun. It included detailed, step by step guidelines to minimize health hazards and risks. The expedition was long and a single slip could prove to be fatal.

His determination, dedicated effort and ability to dream big are truly commendable.

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On Wednesday, the students celebrated Holi with organic colours and water. Students got wet and
pulled their teachers into getting wet and coloured, later they danced to peppy numbers.