Education Matters

16 Dec Keep Reading this Winter Break

Posted at 10:11h in All, Centre for Imagination, Education Matters, Enrichment, Principal's Views 3 Comments

The last few days have been cold, wet and windy up here on the hillside, and most of us are looking forward to getting down to lower altitudes and warmer climates. The winter vacations are an important time for us all, not just to escape the most severe of our Himalayan...

12 Dec One-Book Woodstock – Maus

Posted at 08:25h in All, Centre for Imagination, Education Matters, Enrichment, Principal's Views 3 Comments

One-Book Woodstock is back for the winter break. The idea is that everyone – students from Grades 6 up, teachers and staff – will read the book over the Christmas period. When we return in the Spring, the book’s themes will feed into our studies across the curriculum. Essentially, we’re...

18 Nov Navigating college applications

Posted at 09:37h in All, college counselling, Education Matters, Outdoor Learning, Principal's Views 3 Comments

All around the school, students are putting tremendous efforts into getting away from Woodstock. That is, our seniors are busy preparing their applications which will very shortly see them moving off to study at colleges and universities around the world. Moving from school to college is a crossroads moment in...

08 Nov Fair Share

Posted at 14:22h in Community Development, Education Matters, Enrichment, Student Views 5 Comments

In many schools in India which are attended by children from low income families, access to hands-on science and maths education has still not been achieved. The education system in these schools needs to be reformed in order to provide better tools and create a hands-on model for learning. As a...

03 Nov Social Enterprise in the Kumaon

Posted at 09:52h in Community Development, Education Matters, Enrichment, Student Views 0 Comments

This year for Activity Week, the community engagement department offered students a chance to go to Kumaon, the other half of Uttrakhand, in order to visit two leading non-governmental organisations in the area; Kumaun Grameen Udyog (KGU) and Central Himalayan Rural Action Group (CHIRAG). I was one of the students who was able to...

02 Nov Across the Ganga

Posted at 12:15h in Education Matters, Enrichment, Outdoor Learning, Student Views 1 Comment

This Activity Week, Grade 8 ventured out for a week-long rafting expedition down the upper reaches of the Ganga. Student Asha shares her experience of their adventure in this poem. volleyball and hikes, swimming in a clear blue sky first few days pass as we stay in carefree paradise sleeping with half-roofs over our head, playing empires...

26 Sep Vishva Vidhya – Global Education

Posted at 13:44h in Community Development, Education Matters, Student Views 1 Comment

Archita Aggarwal from the Class of 2021 puts the spotlight on Vishwa Vidya, a community engagement project with a mission to contribute towards improving the quality of education delivered at economically deprived local schools in and around Mussoorie. In the four years since its establishment, the Vishva Vidhya (Global Education) project has...

20 Sep Don’t Bottle it Up

Posted at 20:45h in All, Community Development, Education Matters, Student Views 1 Comment

While every logical, environmental, and financial argument goes against bottled water, people still buy it. Daeun Lee from the Class of 2020 asks why. As I observed how my Instagram feed was being painted with dying turtles and choking marine animals, I wondered if those images motivate people enough to make a...

20 Sep Meeting the Board

Posted at 19:02h in Community Development, Education Matters, Student Views 1 Comment

On Friday 15 September, Students leaders involved in Community Engagement projects presented their work to the Woodstock School Board and General Body, explaining how their initiatives have impacted on their lives and those of people in the local community. Janvi Poddar from the Class of 2021 reports. Once every year, the Community...

06 Sep Students Connect with Sanathan Dharam

Posted at 16:20h in Community Development, Education Matters 0 Comments

Archita from the Class of 2021 writes about our Community Engagement project's partnership with Sanathan Dhraram, a girls' school in Mussoorie. For the past three years now, Woodstock students who are engaged in Community Engagement, have been actively participating in making improvements to a government-aided school, Sanathan Dharam, which is attended...