Yoga Day Celebration

Yoga Day observed

Silver Hills Public School observed the second Yoga Day on June 21, 2016. The event took place in the school auditorium under the guidance of Anil Kumar, well-known yoga trainer and Ms. Kavitha Satheesh, a yoga trainer and dance maestro. Yoga is a regular programme of the school CCE.

Silverites in yoga poses

Say ‘Yes’ to Blood Donation and ‘No’ to Bloodbath

The World Blood Donor Day is celebrated every year on 14 June. 

Blood is our lifeline. Without sufficient blood, no animal or human being can survive. It is the common biotic link of humanity. When we say blood is thicker than water, the value of blood relationship is underscored.

It is not just family members who share blood relationship with each other.  When blood is donated, a new relationship is born between the donor and recipient. There are many cases where the donor does not know who the recipient is going to be.  But, millions of lives are saved by the humane gesture of blood donation.  It is an invaluable service to our fellow beings. That is why every year on 14 June, World Blood Donor Day is celebrated. 

Blood is the priceless common currency of hospitals. There is a blood bank in all major hospitals.  Blood bank stores different groups of blood to meet emergency situations. In India, every year 12 million units of blood are required, out of which only 9 million units come off the blood bank’s shelves through voluntarily donated blood. 

Many people lose lives in the face of accidents and emergencies or complicated surgeries due to the shortage or unavailability of blood in the bank.  Only if people donate blood, the bank will have sufficient stock.

Anyone between the age group of 18 to 65, weighing above 45 kgs, and having a haemoglobin level of 12.5 or above can easily donate blood. The blood donated is less than half of the extra blood which your body does not need. All healthy adults can and should donate blood every three months.

The theme of this year’s World Blood Donor Day is ‘Blood connects us all’.  It thankfully celebrates blood donors and highlights the value of sharing. The day also creates awareness about the need of risk-free blood and safe transfusion.

Many of Silver Hills parents and teachers donate blood regularly. Several of them are also members of blood donors’ forum.  If not, let us convince them about the value of the great gesture.

Let me conclude by saying ‘yes’ to blood donation and ‘no’ to bloodbath.

M. Gopinath

Silver Hills Stages Drama on Environment

As part of World Environment Day celebration, Silver Hills Public School staged a drama titled ‘Thalam’ to sensitize the students about the urgency to salvage the fragile earth from further decay and improving the quality of environment. 

 ‘Thalam’ highlights the greed of man which denies a peaceful life for all living things and in the bargain endangers his own existence.  A cat and a little girl happens to retrieve a veena long since dumped in the attic.   The musical instrument shares its life history with them.  In the good old past, the veena was a huge tree on the bank of a river.  The cat and the girl who are in search of the river breaks into tears unable to trace it.  Before their poignant tears, the river emerges in a dream-come-true moment.  In that rare moment, myriad living beings on earth merges with the rhythm of nature.  The rhythm

The drama which is directed by Bichoos Chilanga is based on the script of Sunil Nagambara.  All the actors were students of the school who also presented environmental songs and speech.