From 16th January to 20th January 2012, Anand Vidya Vihar, had organized a Social Science (S.S) and Information & Computer Technology (ICT) week. Various activities were planned and successfully executed throughout the week. Programmes like a documentary on inflation and recession, power-point presentations on topics such as Global Warming, Internet Hacking, debates on the significance of multi-party system in India, role play of the Panchayati Raj System in India, quiz on monuments of India, wholesale and retail market exhibition. Also during the week resource persons from Intel and Dell visited school and interacted with the students. A movie show of Gandhi and Shatranj Ka Khiladi was arranged; students participated in the activities at Navlakhi Vav and a disaster management demonstration was done for the students. Intra class counter strike competition, cultural programme for the parents on the finale day and many more such activities kept the students engaged throughout the week.

Continuing with the philosophy of making learning as real as possible for students, our school does it yet again! A three day art/photography show by students of classes V to XI has been organized at the exhibition hall faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U. The exhibition is titled 'What impacts me,' and has 39 works on display; the works are as varied as the budding artists themselves. We were extremely honoured to have a renowned chief guest, Prof. Dr.Shailendra Kushwaha, Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts of The M.S University. The school motto being 'education with a difference,' every now and then there are occasions to showcase this difference!

Annual Day

On 23rd December 2011, Anand Vidya Vihar celebrated their 12th Annual Concert, Prismatic Symphony. The whole school participated in variety of dance performances, skit on Environment degradation, Rock Band performance by students of classes VIII and X, fashion show by class 1 and many more breath taking items were show cased. The chief guest for the day was Ms Ayswaria Wariar, a renowned Mohiniattam exponent.

In the Rock Stars Rock Band Competition organized by Vadodara International Half Marathon, a team of students of class VIII- X, ‘Seventh Fret’, participated and were awarded Runner Up in the School Category, in the Amphi theater at Kamatibaug on the 24th December 2011.

Recent Events

On 4th April, the school started its new academic session for the year 2011-12. As a norm, HKG students from Anand Balwadi, now promoted to class 1, are brought from the Balwadi by their seniors, class 2.

The new academic session started on a promising note. Having committed to including global issues in the curriculum, the school celebrated International Blue Day. On this day, many activities were organized for the whole school, related to the theme of blue, synonym of water. Activities such as, slogan writing on ‘Save Water’, advertisement making and enacting on ‘Water Conservation’, collage work on Life in water, sentence starters, ‘What if’ situations, visiting of resource persons from Community Science Centre, Talk on ‘know your water’ and many more such activities kept the whole school, dressed up in shades of blue, enthused, lively and inquisitive.

Going ahead with the green endeavours and initiatives, students & staff, celebrated International Earth Day, with lots of enthusiasm. Several activities were organized throughout the school, whole day long, from class I-XII, like picture colouring, poem composing, collage making, slogan writing, group discussion and many more. Students wore clothes with shades of green and/or brown to add on to the celebration. The morning assembly also had activities like songs such as Heal the World, and a dance performance by students on a song related to mother earth. School’s ambience reflected the significance of the Earth and conveyed its message in every corner of the school.

Another thought provoking initiative taken up by the school was to become the official Tetra- pack collection centre to promote recycling. This was inaugurated on 21st April by Principal Madam and thereafter students and staff have been regularly contributing to this noble cause. Particularly, the junior students have been depositing tetra packs very enthusiastically.

On a mission to celebrate global days round the year, we celebrated another such day, World Kids Colouring Day on 6th May. Whole school participated with lots of fervour, since variety of activities were planned to make the day special and colourful for the students.It turned out to be better being the last working day for the students, before summer break Activities such as fancy dress, Rangoli, picture painting, Antakshari, mural painting with global messages were done throughout the day. Students enjoyed to the fullest and went home with a colourful smile on their faces.

Ecstasy

As a part of the ‘Decade Celebration’, the school added another feather to its cap by holding a 3-day (1st – 3rd January 2011) art-photography show at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. The works included water colours, pencil drawings and mixed media. The artwork was also put for sale, the proceeds of which will go to charity. The aim was to expose children to the professional world of art and also include in them the habit of giving away something they’ve made themselves for a cause.

The school celebrated its 11th annual day on 23rd December’10> as always it was with a message woven into the theme of ‘Pravah, an allegoric metamorphosis’. Threaded along the ‘ Dashavatar’ or ten different phases of triumph of good over evil, the event was a complete show stopper.

24 students of the school, Principal Maam and Usha Maam visited Turkey from 16th-23rd October. They visited Istanbul, Cappadocia, Kusadasi and several other places of interest.

Street play was performed by the students in Tejgarh at Bhasha Research and Publication Centre on 9th September.

Seema Kadri and Nalini Iyer were selected as school’s representatives at the Green School Teacher’s Training programme on 19th-20th August, at New Delhi.

In continuation with the Go Green drive, Independence Day was marked with Bhoomi Pujan done by the school during the flag hoisting. Students lit candles and paid respect to the mother earth by pledging to be at the forefront to protect it in every way.

On 31st July, school organized Salad Making Competition for the parents of classes I and II. Chef of the Welcome Hotel was the judge for the event.

Interschool Street Play competition was organized on 08th August 2010 in the school. Seven Schools had participated. Mr. Debaldas Gupta, Head of Russian Department  and Dr. Vishnu Virat Chaturvedi, Professor  from Hindi Department  were the Judges.

School had a four day workshop in association with SPIN academy and the show was staged in C.C. Mehta Auditorium

Various competitive examinations conducted in school, Asset, INCA etc.

Time to time the school promotes events for the students to enhance their skills and potential. Events like Library Week, English Week, Maths Week, Maths Display, and Winter Festival so on and so forth are organized. Inter School Competitions, Inter House Competitions, different workshops for the students and the teachers also add on to the list of events that AVV organizes for its students. Solo song, Dance, Quiz, Drawing, Sports competitions and displays are the events which students look forward to for participation throughout the year. Students have been bringing laurels to the school by securing good positions in all the events they are participating in within and outside school. 

Resource persons are regularly invited to add to the learning experiences of students. This helps them to take a look at different fields from a first person point of view.

• Tom Alter famous theatre personality and Bollywood actor visits school    for a five day workshop for the students of classes VIII to X.