July 2023 Newsletter



The Ignatian month of July brought opportunities for meaningful exploration of Ignatian character. 

Firstly, the commitment to justice, as we observed Fr. Stan’s death anniversary during our summer break. We created a tribute video of Fr. Stan’s struggle with our chorus and orchestra’s performance of Fr. Cristobal Fones SJ’s La Herida (The Wound) in Nepali, from the Ignatian Year Musical last year. We invited students and parents to share their stories of justice - when they stood up for what was right or someone stood up for them. As soon as the school reopened, the assemblies and morning meetings in class were dedicated to these justice stories. 

Secondly, we organised an Ignatian novena at assembly. On day 1 and 2, Mrs. Rosa Kumai and Mr. Jerome Tamang, Teacher Mentors and Discipline Prefects took up the Examen and Discernment respectively. Day 3 onwards, classes 3 to 9 presented on the following topics: Finding God in All Things, Magis - Striving for Excellence, Men & Women For and With Others, Developing the Whole Person - Unity of Heart, Mind and Soul, Forming & Educating Agents of Change, Cura Personalis - Care for the Individual Person and Contemplatives in Action. 

Our School Coordinator, Sr. Veronica Lepcha SJC and our Teacher Mentors & Prefects attended the Ignatian Leadership Workshop at Matigara. On the  31st, we will celebrate the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola with a special prayer service and a staff professional development workshop on Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm by the Teacher Mentors & Prefects. 

Our Health and Community Team conducted Village Zonal level Meetings in all nine zones with more favourable response this year owing to stronger representatives in the Parent Guardian Council. They also attended the DLSA Awareness workshop in Gitdabling through Hayden Hall Institute. 

We conducted the Open House and began Term 2 with a lot of events and activities. The Nepali Team marked Bhanu Jayanti and Shahid Divas through ‘Sanskriti’ our Nepali Language Day. The English Team followed with its Inter House Elocution Competition, ‘Young Orators’ and the Music & the Arts Team conducted ‘Rendition’, the Performing Arts Festival. 

With grateful hearts and student and teacher performances, we bid farewell to our music volunteer from Germany, Ms. Anna Berentzen. At the same time, we welcomed two new volunteers, one from the USA and one from Jesuit Volunteers, Germany.

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