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| Green Campus has its natural advantages |
| By: Anjum Babukhan, Director-Education |
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| Glendale Academy International is a school is consonance with nature. Its green campus is a testimony to this. The learning valley of Glendale Academy International is nestled amongst a vast ten-acre campus with sprawling green landscape. The picturesque backdropof compelling indigenous boulders symbolize the inner strength the school nurtures in environmental intelligence. The positive energy radiates throughout the campus as the fresh flow of breeze enhances free flow of thought. |
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| The school building is architecturally designed to radiate ample natural lighting and enhance cross ventilation in the classrooms throughout the campus all day. The campus is connected with open corridors and access to gardens and open landscaped areas throughout the campus. Every room on campus can boast a great view. The central courtyard epitomizes the school’s affinity to nature with its molded hills, waterfall and shady trees under which teachers often choose to meet for class discussions with their students. Furthermore, outdoor classrooms are built up but the shade of any of the big trees or perched rocks lends itself to a class meeting point as well. School programs such as Vanamahotsav celebrate Nature with a vow to protect it and tree-planting is an annual affair. |
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| The school does its best to ensure that the equipment utilized in the school is energy saving and CFC-free. Recycling measures are in place and the teacher-student body is in the process of making it a wrapper-free zone. CFL energy saving bulbs are installed in the school. The architect’s design of the campus is too conserve “human energy” as well by its layout which breaks out into natural open areas offering natural invigoration. In addition, solar water heaters are installed in the kitchen for cleansing of dining utensils. The school harvests rainwater and the entire landscape is irrigated using treated water with auto-cut off sprinkler. Through the installed sewage treatment plant we utilize grey water after it is treated into clean water for watering the gardens. Furthermore, maximum number of students commute to school through the bus facility which reduces traffic and air pollution on the roads. Tree cover is provided for parked vehicles. |
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| Glendale Academy provides exposure to fertile minds to mental stimulation and nimble bodies to healthy quests for the full flowering of persona. The meticulously landscaped campus cradles facilities for a wide range of sports, extracurricular and outdoor activities. The alluring range of flora and fauna is not only a treat to the eye, but also educative to the young minds. Glendale’s environment engages, challenges and influences brain development as it lends a platform for “experiential learning.” |
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| VANAMAHOTSAV |
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| Director-Education with glendalites |
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A Skit on 'A Giving Tree' by Teachers |
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| The day begins with the Director-Education, Ms.Anjum Babukhan, administering The Glendale Green Pledge to the entire school and the parents of Grade I. |
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| As said by George Nakashima, a simple wood worker, ‘A tree is our most intimate contact with nature’. And Vanamahostav, a festival of the forest celebrated all round India, is a one day when we all get together and appreciate the importance of that contact. Vanamahostav was initiated in 1950, by K.M.Munshi, the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food to create awareness and enthusiasm in the people for the conservation of trees. |
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| Here at Glendale Academy, Vanamahostav was celebrated in a big way on Friday 9th July 2010. The students and the staff were dressed in green and there was a fancy dress competition, card making for the younger children. For the seniors, there was a lot of fun and ordered chaos with salad making, poster making, collage making, Ikebana, body art and photography. Class X, the seniors planted bamboo saplings. Some students from the Radhakrishna Orphanage School visited Glendale and enjoyed themselves at a storytelling session and an art competition, escorted by the students of Grade IX. Classes VI and VIII, designated ‘Nature’s Good stewards’, went for a cleanup walk, picking up waste in and around school. Class VII students adopted a tree each on the school campus and have vowed to look after the tree of their choice. Class XI decided to take Vanamahostav beyond the school, and stuck posters on the school buses to help and spread awareness. |
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| It was a day none of us will forget, and well hopefully stay in our minds as a remainder of the value of nature. And although our contributions may seem small in the big world out there, it contributions like these which come together to make a difference. |
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| Glendale Academy International is the first school in Hyderabad to have applied to the Indian Green Building Council, CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) for Green Building Certification and will shortly be recognised as the only 'Green School of Hyderabad' |
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