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Human Rights with Prof. Murthy
On September 12, we had the privilege of hosting Prof. Y.S.R Murthy, Founding Vice Chancellor of RV University, Bengaluru and former Founding Professor and Registrar of OP Jindal Global University at ...
27 September, 2022
Dreaming Big at the Centre for Imagination
Over these last weeks, so many good things have emerged from our Centre for Imagination (CFI), including two fantastic student-led events profiled below The CFI is Woodstock’s dedicated interdiscipl...
28 March, 2022
Creativity, Activity, Service as part of a holistic approach to education
In more conventional times, last week would have been our Spring Break, marking the mid-point in the semester and a brief pause before the build-up to the final flourish of the academic year begins in...
21 March, 2022
Showcasing Creativity, Ingenuity and Learning – The Festival of Ideas
On Saturday, 11 December 2021, we witnessed the return of the Festival of Ideas, a Woodstock School institution which enables students to showcase their projects and talents to the wider community. Th...
13 December, 2021
Design in these times
Centre For Imagination invited Rupali Lamba, a social media consultant to host a mini zoom series on graphic designing and social media for Upper Years at Woodstock last semester. During her session...
24 March, 2021
Winners from the Full Sail University Creativity Marathon
The Creativity Marathon from Full Sail University is a global video editing competition where participants were invited to create a 3-minute video addressing one of the SDGs. Teams would then compete...
19 March, 2021
Imagining a stellar future for our students
How do you plan for an uncertain future during a time of rupture? Woodstock Principal Dr Craig Cook shares the challenges of strategic planning which has to imagine everything students will need to ...
18 March, 2021
2020 and beyond
Welcome to a new year and the start of the 2020s. As we enter a new decade, it’s an opportunity for pause for thought around what we’ve achieved, and what lies ahead over the next ten years. Back ...
10 February, 2020
Three Threads for Woodstock’s Future
Principal Dr Craig Cook looks back at his experiences on this year’s Activity Week, and forward to share what’s needed to ensure Woodstock remains distinctive into the future. It was my ...
28 December, 2019
Keep Reading this Winter Break
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 importan...
16 December, 2019
One-Book Woodstock – Maus
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 Spr...
12 December, 2019
Entrepreneurship: Real-world Learning
Summer at Woodstock’s Entrepreneurship Programme is an immersive experience which covers the processes and approaches startups use to achieve success. Summer at Woodstock Entrepreneurship parti...
18 June, 2019
Ten things you learn as a ‘Woodstocker’ in your first year
What exactly is it that makes us Woodstockers unique? Navya Sethi from Grade 11 shares the ten things you learn in your first year at Woodstock. How to be your own parent! From making your bed...
06 December, 2018
CFI Student Intern – Alisa
Alisa is a student intern at the Centre for Imagination, with a particular focus on graphic design. She shares her experience of her internship at the CFI. What attracted you to becoming a CFI ...
25 May, 2018
Tomas Forman – CFI Resident Intern
Tomas Forman, a gap year student from the United States, joined the Centre for Imagination during the Winter and Spring of 2018. Here he tells the story of his time in India, his work at the Centre, a...
25 May, 2018
Woodstock Coffee House
In pictures – Woodstock Coffee House This week saw Woodstock’s first Coffee Night, where students gathered to share their personal stories, original poetry and acoustic music. The standar...
18 May, 2018
Power to change the world
On Sunday, April 15, the Centre for Imagination hosted renowned environmental engineer, physicist, and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) Amory Lovins. Lovins has led a 40-year career in...
25 April, 2018
John Sagan – Resident Scholar at the Centre for Imagination
John Sagan joins the Centre for Imagination as a Resident Scholar from Evanston, Illinois outside of Chicago. He was a teacher for 8 years before deciding to go to Law School. He went on to be Lawyer ...
27 February, 2018
Satish Kumar – Eight thousand miles for peace
Activist and editor Satish Kumar made a big impression on Centre for Imagination intern Shatakshi Kabi. Fifty-five years ago, when the echo of a nuclear test had become a recurrent experien...
09 November, 2017
Alumni Spotlight – Dr. Eleanor Nicholson
Dr Eleanor Nicholson has spent the last month at Woodstock running the Women in Leadership Program. At Woodstock, she has dedicated her time to the Centre for Imagination, as well as staff and student...
20 September, 2017
Cultivating Compassion – An interview with Wendy Singer
CFI Intern and Grade 11 student, Nandini Seth interviews Wendy Singer, a modern Indian history scholar visiting from Kenyon College. It’s strange how life offers us so much: endless poss...
13 September, 2017
Well versed
This morning the Centre for Imagination came alive with rhythm, rhyme and pace, as upper years students participated in a poetry recital. Over the coming weeks, every upper years student has been cha...
08 September, 2017
On leadership
Inspired by a talk from our resident scholar, Dr Eleanor Nicholson, student and Centre for Imagination Intern Shatakshi Kabi gives her perspective on leadership at Woodstock. Walking around the hall...
01 September, 2017
Imagination, wide open
The Centre for Imagination opened up its doors to the local community with its first open day of the year on Monday. It was an opportunity for staff, students and local residents to explore the space,...
23 August, 2017
India and Woodstock, Sixty One Years Later
A more literary title would be Passage to India, The Return of the Native, or Richer by India (to duplicate the title of my mother’s book about our life there in the 1950’s), but all of these woul...
22 August, 2017
Dr Delacy’s India
Shatakshi Kabi, Woodstock student and Centre for Imagination Intern, interviews our resident scholar Richard Delacy. Where in the world is India? Where is India? Looking at a world map, ...
09 August, 2017
Does fear within the patriarchal society of Afghanistan result in women being silenced?
Fifteen year old Zohal Haidari arrived at Woodstock in July from Afghanistan, knowing almost no English and without a sense of what an essay in this foreign language might look like! Less than a year ...
14 May, 2017
Does a Standardized Education Impoverish a Child’s Future?
In a thoughtful research essay for her AP Seminar class, Tshokey Gyaltshen explores the impact of standardization on education and work. Her piece both demonstrates the quality of academic writing st...
09 May, 2017
The White Helmets – striving to save lives
Woodstock Student Shatakshi Kabi reflects on her conversation with alumnus Nellie Little about the work of Syria Civil Defense, colloquially known as The White Helmets. A few weeks ago, th...
17 April, 2017
Experiencing social entrepreneurship through simulations
Aspire coordinator Priya Rollins explains why the social enterprise programme is founded on a philosophy of learning through doing. Among educators, the old Chinese proverb, “Tell me, I&#...
31 March, 2017
Seven Inspiring Indian social entrepreneurs
Woodstock student Shanti Mathias shares some of the changemakers who have fired her interest in social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship can be an incredible force for change. Essentially, it...
06 March, 2017
Being the change we wish to see
Internships at the Centre for Imagination The Centre for Imagination is excited to announce our first team of student interns, whose work will include planning, publishing and hosting events, as well ...
17 February, 2017
Why I Aspire: Tanashya Batra
Woodstock student Tanashya Batra shares her motivation for getting involved in Aspire, our new social entrepreneurship summer programme. Aspire is an initiative of the Centre for Imagination in colla...
03 February, 2017
This is Aspire
Woodstock Student Shanti Mathias introduces Aspire, our new summer school programme for budding social entrepreneurs. Woodstock School has a long-term commitment to community service. This has led ...
30 January, 2017
Talking Faith for Peace
Woodstock student Taarini Gupta writes about Talking Faith for Peace, a special event bringing together speakers from some of India’s major religions. On 26th November 2016, an event which deep...
08 December, 2016
Albie Sachs – Freedom fighter and nation builder
Last night at the Centre for Imagination, in keeping with Woodstock’s weekly theme of conflict resolution, a group of students and staff had the privilege of speaking with South African freedom figh...
22 November, 2016
The gift of global mindedness
Reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic used to be referred to as the ‘three R’s’ and they were seen as the fundamentals of a good education. But we know it takes more than reading...
14 November, 2016
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