‘Music begins where the possibilities of language end’ – Jean Sibelius. Realizing the significance of music in a student’s life, Study Hall School organized the inter-house western music competition 2019-20. The students of classes 6^th– 8^th to showcased their talent. All the four houses competed under the venerable judgement of Mr Nitesh Tiwari, Mr Niraz Ahmed and Mr Piyush Sood. Melody, coordination, clarity, diction, and confidence formed the basis of their judgement. The houses performed songs which pertained to the genre-country. The songs performed by the houses were I’ll Fly Away by Alison Krauss and Gillian Welsh – Jacaranda, Mean by Taylor Swift -Cypress, Country Roads by John Denver – Fireflame and I’ll Wait For You by Mumford and Sons – Silver Oak.

Silver Oak and Fireflame shared the first spot with Cypress and Jacaranda closely trailing behind at second and third positions respectively.The show concluded with the resonance and tremolo of Mandolin, coming in from Mr. Miraz Ahmed’s side and proved to be the icing on the cake.

Study Hall School organised an inter-house music competition on 26^th of July. Each house selected a Hindi, non-Bollywood song with meaningful messages related to equality, democracy, etc.

The order of the performances was- Cypress house – Sakhi, Jacaranda house – Bekhauf, Silveroak house – Jhakjhor de duniya and Fireflame house- kaun hai madari aur kaun jamura.

The 1^st position was taken by the Fireflame house with song “ kaun hai madari aur kaun jamura”, followed by the Silver Oak house, at the third position there was tie between Jacaranda and Cypress house!

Study Hall is providing an opportunity to the students to become democratic and politically conscious citizens by partnering with ‘Young Leaders for Active Citizenship’ and ‘Oxfam India’ to establish equality clubs for standard 6^th to 12^th. YLAC is an organization established by Harvard and Oxford alumni which along with Oxfam India (a global NGO) aims to create an equal and just society by empowering the underprivileged sections. They have chosen top schools all over India to enable students to develop social leadership skills and build empathy as they learn, discuss and implement actions to create a change through stimulating activities, role-plays, debates, competitions, campaigns and field trips where they learn from experts in fields of gender, economic and social equality. The opening ceremony was held on 3^rdJuly ’2019, the club began with great fervour as students expressed views and engaged in activities like word association and dance and tell helping them to become aware of the prejudices existing in society. The principal, Mrs. Shalini Sinha further explained the students on how they are supposed to speak up in the face of inequality, the students left with sparks in their hearts and minds to stoke a greater fire of the fight against inequality.

Study Hall School elected its new cabinet for the session 2019-20. Aditya Shukla and Malvika Pandey were elected as the new head boy and head girl, and Aditya Agarwal and Ayesha Sheikh as the vice heads by Ms Shalini Sinha, the principal of Study Hall. The sports captain Gokulesh Tripathi and Bhavya Singh and the vice sports captain Arunim Agarwal and Shagun Suryavanshi were appointed next. The rest of the cabinet was appointed by the vice principal Ms Meenakshi Bahadur.

The new house captains are:

Fireflame house captains Ishita Shail Pathak and Sparsh Tiwari, vice captains Devika Chawla and Aryaman Tripathi.

Silver Oak house captains Sukaina Masood and Shashank Shekhar, vice captains Paridhi Arya and Shantanu Vidyarthi.

Cypress house captains – Vageesh Chaudhary and Hitakshi Tiwari, vice captains Kushagra Trivedi and Kriti Walia.

Jacaranda house captains – Manthaj Jaiswal and Deepanshi Verma, vice captains Abuzar Afzal and Tweesha Agarwal.

Editors in chief: Kamda Srivastava, Vidhi Agarwal, Khushi Gupta and Vandita Singh. Official photographers – Atharv Saxena and Anoushka Hajeley and the cultural secretaries: Khushi Singh and Gaurisha Prakash.

The newly elected cabinet, pledged their devotion and sincerity to the “universe of care” Study Hall. The principal wished the cabinet luck and spoke about who a true leader is and how they should motivate everyone to be better. She further stressed the core values of Study Hall and democratic citizenship. Our founder Dr Urvashi Sahni also blessed the newly elected cabinet and inspired them with her wise words.

Study Hall School students participated in the Uttar Pradesh state swimming championship on 20^th May, 2019. Vanshika Mishra of class 8^th won silver in 400 meters freestyle. Another student from class 4^th, Kapil Yadav stood 4^th in 200 meters breaststroke.

Kushagra Mishra of class 3^rd won bronze in 400 meters medley relay state championship held in Bareilly.

Farhan and Pehel of class 2^nd won medals at Skating competition 2019-20 held at St. Francis School, Gomti Nagar. Pehel won 2 silver medals and Farhan won a bronze medal.  

Study Hall School had great results this year. The highest score of 10th class, 2018-19 batch is 98% and the average score is 87%.

Paridhi Arya, scored highest with 98%, Niharika Chaturvedi scored 2nd highest with 97.8%, 3rd highest is Mohommad Numair and Vandita Singh with 97.7%.

The average score of school is 87%, 5% more than last year’s. 65 children out 140 scored above 90% and 23 children above 95%. The highest score in English is 99%, Hindi 98%, math 99%, science 100% and social science 100%.