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21 Mar Creativity, Activity, Service as part of a holistic approach to education

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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 earnest. This year we have set the break aside to maximise the opportunity of having...

13 Dec Showcasing Creativity, Ingenuity and Learning – The Festival of Ideas

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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. The event is an initiative of the Centre for Imagination (CFI), Woodstock's dedicated interdisciplinary space, where students can pursue...

24 Sep Masks for Mussoorie

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While the pandemic has caused multifaceted problems in all aspects of our daily lives, most of us have been lucky to have access to safety measures and healthcare services during the lockdown. However, there are many communities across the country and the world that do not have access to healthcare...

08 Sep Helping vulnerable communities fight the challenges of COVID-19

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Tawishi Dogra, from the Class of 2022, has recently started a project to help women and families from low-income communities around her town. The project started with her desire to spread awareness about the safety guidelines put in place during the lockdown, in an attempt to curb the spread of the...

21 May Middle Years Awards May 2020

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Our Middle Years students have been amazing this year - even more so because of the adversity and disruption they've faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our virtual Middle Years awards celebrates their hard work, dedication and talent across a range of academic and extra-curricular disciplines. Comment below to share your...

10 Feb 2020 and beyond

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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 in 2013, Woodstock formulated its 2020 vision, a blueprint of what we wanted...

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...

26 Sep Vishva Vidhya – Global Education

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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

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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...

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