{"id":55227,"date":"2018-12-21T20:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/?p=55227"},"modified":"2018-12-22T06:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T01:00:22","slug":"christmas-comes-calling-at-sdmc-primary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/christmas-comes-calling-at-sdmc-primary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Comes Calling at SDMC Primary School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Comes-Calling-at-SDMC-Primary-School1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55228\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Commemorating the year-end festive\nseason, pre-celebrations of Christmas were held today at South Delhi Municipal\nCorporation (SDMC) Primary School, near Okhla Water Tank. To mark the occasion,\na cultural programme was arranged at the school premises, where both students\nand teachers took part with equal amount of enthusiasm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme began at 10.30 AM with a\nwelcome song \u201cSwagatam\u201d by a group of students from the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\nstandard. A dance mash up by the nursery and KG students on \u201cZoobi Doobi\u201d and\nother Bollywood songs enthralled the audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Comes-Calling-at-SDMC-Primary-School2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55229\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mr. A J Philip, Secretary and Chief Executive, Deepalaya<\/strong> motivated the students by narrating a\nstory written by American author O. Henry; this story &nbsp;\u201cThe Gift of Magi\u201d is a sentimental tale of\nthe challenges and selfless sacrifices of a couple to buy Christmas gifts for\neach other. The moral of the story was that love is precious and priceless at\nthe same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mrs. Jaswant Kaur, Executive Director, Deepalaya <\/strong>and<strong>\nMr. Jagmohan, Principal of the school<\/strong> alsogave speeches to inspire the students in academics and\nextra-curricular. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Comes-Calling-at-SDMC-Primary-School3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55230\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the guidance of music teacher Mr. Himanshu Anand,\nstudents from various classes put up song performances too. Befitting the\noccasion, songs like \u201cGhanti Bajao Santa aya\u201d and \u201cJingle Bells\u201d were\nplayed.&nbsp; Some of the children dressed up\nas young Santas to mingle with the rest of the children and distribute gifts.&nbsp; Mamta, a student of 5<sup>th<\/sup> standard\npresented a song highlighting the message of \u201cSwachh Bharat\u201d.&nbsp; Towards the end, refreshments were also\ndistributed to more than 200 students who attended the function. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commemorating the year-end festive season, pre-celebrations of Christmas were held today at South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) Primary School, near Okhla Water Tank. To mark the occasion, a cultural programme was arranged at the school premises, where both students and teachers took part with equal amount of enthusiasm. The programme began at 10.30 AM with a welcome song \u201cSwagatam\u201d by a group of students from the 5th standard. A dance mash up by the nursery and KG students on \u201cZoobi Doobi\u201d and other Bollywood songs enthralled the audience. Mr. A J Philip, Secretary and Chief Executive, Deepalaya motivated the students <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55231,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55227\/revisions\/55231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}