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  Grade 6 · 2024–2025

My Future as a Director

Grade 6 student Happy Jayden makes the case, in two parts, for a future as a film director — equal parts personal manifesto and a surprisingly thoughtful essay on why movies matter.

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  August 2018 · Grade 6

Cha: A History of Tea

In 2018, eight Grade 6 students researched, wrote and illustrated Cha, a booklet tracing tea's story from its legendary Chinese origins all the way to the Nilgiri hills right outside their school.

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  March 2019 · Grade 7

Flying Visitors of BMS

After an assembly on birds, Grade 7 was set an open challenge: a field guide to the birds that visit BMS, in a week. Hriday, Jagan, Kavin, Karol, Nirupama and Tenzin wrote up thirteen species — a photograph and a handwritten note for each.

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  March 2016 · Grade 2

Magical Kerchief

Grade 2's own storybook, told and written by the class, illustrated in crayon and bound with a green ribbon — a family's drive to the countryside, a kerchief that fixes anything, and a curse only a banyan tree can lift.

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Grade 5 at a vegetable stall in Ooty's market
  Grade 5

Market Visit

Grade 5 spent a morning walking Ooty's market, stall by stall — a butcher's turkeys loose on the road, a 60-year-old egg seller, a flower stall "particularly awesome," and a bakery that's been at it since 1948.

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