The Art Elective spent the week with paint-stained hands, turning plain canvas tote bags into wearable art and sanding rough coconut shells into smooth coasters — two very different projects, and no two finished bags alike.

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Our U10 Blue Cubs fought their way to the semifinals of the Nilgiris District Football Association's tournament this week, battling through a strong field of school teams. Vijay Mithran capped it off by being named Player of the Match.

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The children had fun exploring a variety of colours through colouring activity, practising identification and naming while building fine-motor control and focus.

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The children created beautiful trees using brown and green paint with their fingertips, building colour recognition, fine-motor skills, creativity, and sensory awareness.

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Grade 9 students collected their own cheek cells, prepared wet mounts, and stained them with methylene blue — observing the cell membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus under the microscope for the first time.

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Grade 1 Hindi teaching led to this fun, hands-on activity — each child held up a card pairing a familiar picture with the Hindi matra it represents, wearing their word proudly like a crown.

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First Step's little wonders had a fun-filled session learning about different body parts through a drawing and labelling activity — each child sketched a figure and carefully labelled the head, eyes, nose, arms, hands and legs.

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First Step's little wonders enjoyed a hands-on paper tearing and peg putting activity this week — carefully tearing coloured paper into pieces and using cloth pegs to pick them up and place them just where they wanted.

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First Step's little ones spent the session exploring emotions — learning to recognise, name and express feelings through their own facial expressions. From wide happy smiles to scrunched-up angry frowns, surprised wide eyes to gentle sad pouts, each child took a turn showing off their best expression.

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This week's morning assembly belonged to Grade 2, who staged an original skit built entirely around one idea: small is strong — a water drop, a seed, a bee and an ant standing up to the idea that bigger is always better.

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Our Grade 7 students explored an interesting aspect of human respiration through a simple lime water experiment — blowing exhaled air through a straw and watching the lime water turn milky, clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the air we breathe out.

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BMS held its annual fire safety drill on 21 August, with the fire safety team from ABC Fire showing students how to use a fire extinguisher correctly — and putting on a live demonstration that brought the lesson vividly to life.

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Grade 8 tested leaves for the presence of starch this week — boiling, decolourising in ethanol, then adding iodine solution — connecting classroom biology with real, visible evidence of photosynthesis.

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Little Learners had a wonderful time exploring the pouring activity this week — one of Montessori's classic practical life exercises, transferring water from one container to another with careful hands and great concentration.

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Our little wonders enjoyed making a colourful fish collage while learning about fish and their habitat — exploring colours, shapes and features through a fun, creative activity.

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Grade 3 traded pencils for laptops this week for their first proper robotics class, coding a small wheeled robot on their own machines and watching their instructions come alive on the table in front of them.

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Grade 1's Hindi class turned into a hands-on sound hunt, sorting picture flashcards by vowel and matching them into their notebooks — one स्वर at a time.

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Grade 6 prepared, stained and viewed a thin onion peel under the microscope — and were amazed to find it was made up of many tiny, neatly arranged cells.

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Middle School spent the morning at the Sheep Breeding Research Station in Sandynallah, learning about breeds, breeding, feeding, housing and health care from the station's own scientists — then took it to the hillside, moving the flock and meeting newborn lambs in the nursery pen.

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Grade 3 turned assembly into a stage for “Do-Re-Mi,” reworked into a song about the books they love — and a reminder to everyone watching to open a book and discover a new world.

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As part of STEM class, Grade 5 students took on the challenge of building a cube out of matchsticks and glue — a simple-looking task that demanded careful measurement, balance and teamwork.

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First Step Juniors, Seniors and Grade 1 came together for a colourful group colouring activity — sharing crayons, taking turns, and learning the joy of teamwork along the way.

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First Step Juniors, Seniors and Grade 1 enjoyed a colourful audio-visual class on Independence Day — learning about the Indian flag, our freedom, and why we celebrate our country. 🇮🇳

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First Step Juniors, Seniors and Grade 1 took a field trip to a farm, exploring plants and vegetables up close and learning how they grow — a hands-on lesson in caring for nature.

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Grade 10 Biology students used a pooter to collect insects from the school garden, then examined a beetle’s wing and a spider’s leg under the microscope — connecting field collection with real scientific observation.

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Grade 1 explored naming words this week — thinking up their own examples of people, places, animals, and things, sorting them into categories, and drawing each one to make the idea of a noun stick.

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Elementary swapped the classroom for a dairy floor, visiting Aavin's milk processing plant to trace the journey milk takes from can to carton — hygiene checks, quality control, and the teamwork that keeps a dairy running on schedule.

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BMS's little chefs marked Independence Day week with a tricolour culinary class in the kitchenette — grating, plating, and presenting a saffron-white-green spread. Watch the two clips on the full post.

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Grade 4 marked Independence Day with an original assembly skit, “Dare to Be Free” — built around freedom, responsibility, and what it really means to be a good citizen.

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Grade 9's Elisha spent his Design & Technology class measuring, cutting, and gluing his way to a handmade miniature table and chair — sawdust, focus, and steady hands all around.

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Grade 10 traded the classroom for the school garden patch this week, digging in a pooter — a simple insect trap — to observe and study whatever they could find living in the soil around them.

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Grade 1 talked and wrote about their favourite toy this week, building confidence, creativity, and an early love for words.

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Even our youngest learners are finding their way into the kitchen — First Step's first culinary class, in photos.

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Grade 2's culinary class this week was all about precision and presentation — the students built their own three-tier vegetable towers from scratch.

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Grade 1 rolled up their sleeves for a hands-on culinary class this week, preparing cucumber half cups from start to finish.

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This week's culinary class had Grade 3 preparing cucumber boats from start to finish — slicing, scooping, and filling each one with care.

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Grade 4 spent their culinary class this week preparing cucumber half cups, working in small teams from grating to garnish.

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Grade 4 took on a hands-on anatomy lesson this week, working together to assemble a large-format human body jigsaw puzzle.

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Grade 5 took the same hands-on approach to anatomy this week, working as a class to piece together a human body jigsaw puzzle.

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In Grade 2's “Budding Writers” session, students spoke and wrote about their families — who they are, and how much they mean to them.

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Grade 3 traded their classroom for the school garden this week, spending their gardening class digging, planting, and watering their own plots.

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Grades 6 and 7 joined forces this week for a shared gardening class, spending time outdoors digging, watering, and tending to plots.

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BMS's dance programme was back in session this weekend with a Bharatanatyam class at BMS Hall.

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Students gathered at BMS Hall this week for a yoga session, working through poses and stretches as part of the school's focus on wellbeing.

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Our Grade 5 students brought the ultimate kitchen drama to life in their morning assembly, “The Spoon Philosophy!”

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The first assembly of the Academic Year 2026–27 was a joyful and heartwarming occasion as we welcomed our students back to campus.

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