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Lucknow, September 30 : Four students of City Montessori School, Chowk Campus, Aaryan Saxena, Abhijeet Parwani, Aditya Gupta and Shivika Rastogi have brought glory to the school by their outstanding playing performance in various musical instruments in the Graded Music Examination of Trinity College London. Aaryan Saxena took the graded music exam in Plectrum Guitar, Abhijeet Parwani in Classical Guitar, Aditya Gupta in Electronic Keyboard and Shivika Rastogi in Piano and earned Certificates of Distinction for their excellent performance. CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi congratulated these students for their achievement and wished them success in their future endeavours.         CMS Chief Public Relations Officer, Mr Hari Om Sharma informed that Trinity College London is one of the most prestigious institutions for learning music and its certifications are highly valued worldwide. These brilliant students of CMS Chowk Campus displayed their masterful skills in playing various musical

Lucknow, September 29 : Kastoori Nigam, a student of class 11 of City Montessori School, Rajendra Nagar Campus I brought glory to the city by winning first prize in the Zonal Inter-school Declamation Competition organised by Association of Schools for the Indian School Certificate (ASISC). In a tough competition where students of prestigious schools of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand participated, Kastoori impressed the jury members with her strong reasoning and eloquent speech and won herself the first prize.             CMS Chief Public Relations Officer, Mr Hari Om Sharma informed that for the past 62 years, CMS is single-mindedly pursuing its goal of inculcating a global vision in its students because of which they are consistently winning accolades in national and international competitions. In order to hone their talents and develop their latent skills, CMS organises 28 educational international events in various disciplines such as Science, Mathematics, English, Computers, Robot

Lucknow, September 28 : Arshika Mishra, a student of class KG of City Montessori School, Aliganj Campus II has been awarded first prize along with the title, ‘Talented Star of the Year’ in a national level fancy dress competition. The fancy dress competition was organised under ‘Talentina 2021’ event by Twinkling Star Kids, an educational organisation in which students from reputed schools from all over the country participated.             Arshika won over the jury members by displaying immense talent with her attractive appearance and tremendous confidence. She was honoured with a shield, medal and a certificate for her achievement. CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi congratulated Arshika profusely and blessed her with a successful future ahead.             CMS Chief Public Relations Officer, Shri Hari Om Sharma said that CMS encourages its students right from their formative years to hone their talents and develop their latent skills through participation in various interesting and

Lucknow, September 27 : Four brilliant students of City Montessori School, Chowk Campus; Mrityunjay Pandey, Om Mehrotra, Saad Furqan and Yashfeen Shahran have been awarded scholarship worth Rs 16 lakhs by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. These students have been offered this scholarship to pursue higher education in Sciences under which each student will receive Rs 80,000 per year for five years. They secured this prestigious scholarship by figuring in the top 1% merit list in the country on the basis of their ISC (Class 12) percentage marks. These meritorious students credit their parents, teachers and the study environment in their school for their outstanding achievement. CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi congratulated all the students for their outstanding achievement and said that CMS creates opportunities for its students to qualify various competitive exams and pursue higher study from the best universities by giving them free-of-cost coaching classes af

CMS CEO, Mr Roshan Gandhi to receive the award Lucknow, September 26 : City Montessori School will be awarded the ‘’Iconic Leadership in School Education Award 2021’’ for its efforts to make its students ‘Good and Smart’ and for its ‘Broader and Bolder Education methodology’ at the ’New Normal Education Leadership Summit and Awards’ to be held at Hotel Radisson in Gurugram on 1st October. CMS CEO, Mr Roshan Gandhi will be the main speaker at this national level event and will also receive the award on behalf of the school.             Top schools of the country were nominated for this coveted award, however after a thorough research, the jury announced City Montessori School as the winner of the ‘Iconic Leadership in School Education’ award 2021. CMS Founder Dr Jagdish Gandhi has expressed his profound gratitude to all the Principals and teachers of the school for this achievement.             Chief Public Relations Officer of CMS, Mr Hari Om Sharma informed that CMS is among the top

Lucknow, September 25 : In a matter of pride for the country and the city, Dr Jagdish Gandhi, Founder of City Montessori School, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Social Science Honoris Causa by Queen’s University Belfast, UK.             The citation of the Honorary Doctorate read, “Dr Gandhi is a world-renowned educationist and a true visionary in his field. He co-founded (with his wife Dr Bharti Gandhi) the City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow, India, in 1959.  Sixty years later, the school has grown from 5 pupils to 55,000 and is recognised as the world’s largest school.  Size, however, is not its distinguishing feature but rather the global citizenship focus, which underpins CMS’s educational ethos. Dr Gandhi has crafted meaningful initiatives to create a wider set of circumstances for peace and conflict prevention at a local, national and international level, including 28 international events aimed at inspiring world unity.”             Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Cha

Lucknow, September 24 : City Montessori School reached another milestone in its commitment towards Sustainable Development in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh  Bharat Mission and the UN call for Sustainable Development Goals with the launch of the Waste Management initiative 'Blue Nudge- Pathshala'  at CMS, Chowk Campus today. This is done in collaboration with Singapore's thirdlargest integrated waste management company, Blue Planet Environment Solutions Pvt. Ltd..             High Commissioner of Republic of Singapore, H.E. Mr Simon Wong launched this programme at CMS Chowk Campus. Ms. Alice Cheng, Deputy High Commissioner of Singapore in New Delhi; Ms. Sabrina Ho, Regional Group Director (South Asia), Enterprise Singapore; Ms. Denise Tan, Regional Director (Delhi), Enterprise Singapore; Mr. Wu Po Cheng, First Secretary, High Commission of Singapore in New Delhi; Mr. Deepanshu Sharma, Assistant Information Officer, High Commission of Singapore in New De

Lucknow, September 23 : Shubhangi Sinha, class X student of City Montessori School, Mahanagar Campus has made the school proud by winning the first prize in an All India level Essay Writing Competition. Students from several prestigious schools across the country had taken part in this competition organized under the joint aegis of Indian Roti Bank and Udaan Educational Squad. The above information has come from Chief Public Relations Officer of CMS, Mr Hari Om Sharma. Mr Sharma informed that this talented CMS student made a mark of creative and abstract writing in the competition besides displaying her awareness on various topics like literacy, poverty, child labour etc., and raising a call for unity, peace and harmony in the world as a solution of various global problems. The organizers of the competition lauded Shubhangi's global outlook, creative thinking and writing acumen, honoured her with a citation and wished her a bright future.             Mr Sharma informed that CMS stu

Lucknow, September 22 : Dr Shiksha Tripathi, the Environment Coordinator and teacher at City Montessori School, Kanpur Road Campus has been felicitated jointly by Wipro Earthian and Centre for Environment Education (CEE) for educating the youth and raising awareness about environment and climate change. Dr Shiksha Tripathi is among a select group of teachers from the entire country who have been felicitated for their valuable contribution towards environment.             Under her able guidance, students of CMS Kanpur Road campus have worked extensively on ‘Sustainability and Biodiversity’ project through which they have raised awareness and motivated the citizens of society to adopt the concept of ‘Reduce, Re-use and Recycle’. Due to her incessant efforts to encourage and motivate students to work on environment-friendly projects, CMS Kanpur Road campus has bagged the Wipro Earthian award for a record number of 6 times.             Expressing delight at Dr Tripathi’s achievement,

Lucknow, September 21 : Poulomi Pavini Shukla, an alumna of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar Campus I has brought laurels to the city by being featured in the Femina’s ‘Fab 40 of 2021’  list which has been published in the September edition of the magazine. The list includes stalwarts of India from different fields like Olympians Mirabai Chanu and PV Sindhu, famed actor, Priyanka Chopra and Alia Bhatt, Who’s Who of the society like Kusha Kapila, Meenakshi Lekhi, Nita Ambani, Mahua Moitra, Barkha Dutt, Rana Ayyub, Masaba Gupta, Bhumi Pednekar etc.,  women judges of the Supreme Court and women scientiests behind Mangalyan.             Poulomi Pavini Shukla has been a very talented student of CMS Gomti Nagar Camps I who completed her class XII in the year 2008-09 with 94.25% marks. Besides academics, she has always been a pioneer in the social awareness programme of the school. She was also the Head girl of the school. After completing school, she went on doing unparalleled work for

Lucknow, September 20 : Sachin Srivastava, a student of City Montessori School, Station Road Campus has secured scholarship worth Rs 4 lakh from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Sachin has been offered this scholarship to pursue higher education in Sciences under which he will receive Rs 80,000 per year for five years, and thus a total of Rs. four lakh. Sachin secured this prestigious scholarship by figuring in the top 1% merit list in the country on the basis of his ISC (Class 12) percentage marks. Sachin credits his parents, teachers and the study environment in his school for his outstanding achievement.             CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi congratulated Sachin for his outstanding achievement and said that CMS prepares its students to achieve success in all the competitive exams in nationally and internationally so that they may go on to serve the global society with their knowledge and wisdom.  

Lucknow, September 19 : Six meritorious students of City Montessori School, Kanpur Road Campus were awarded a cash prize of Rs 5,000 each by the CMS management for bringing fame to the city at the international level with their outstanding performance in the International Benchmark Test (IBT). These students achieved an outstanding feat by achieving 1st rank globally by virtue of figuring in the 100th percentile in various subjects in International Benchmark Test (IBT) organised by Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).             Suman Kumar of CMS Kanpur Road Campus secured marks in the 100th percentile in both Science and English while Siddhima Shukla, Rishan Haldar and Arush Ajeet Pratap secured marks in 100th percentile in Science and Aditya Verma and Anveshika Shukla, secured marks in 100th percentile in Mathematics in this prestigious competition, making the institution proud of their achievement. CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi and Principal of CMS Kanpur Road Camp

Lucknow, September 18 : Bhanu Prakash Verma, student of Class VIII at City Montessori School, Aliganj Campus I earned the title of 'National Winner' in the prestigious environment based 'Saevus Eco Achievers Olympiad-2021', bringing pride to the city of Lucknow. Bhanu was presented a cash prize of Rs. 5000 along with a gold medal and citation for this achievement. Chief Public Relations Officer of CMS, Mr Hari Om Sharma informed that a large number of students from various prestigious schools of the country had participated in the competition. Bhanu's selection as the national achiever at such an Olympiad demonstrates his awareness and commitment towards the environment. Through his performance in this Olympiad Bhanu has also given an excellence display of his knowledge of the various environmental issues and his concern for the issues like climate change, global warming, loss of biodiversity etc., besides at the same time underling the school's efforts in prepa

Lucknow, September 17 : The 3-day International History Festival 'The Relic International 2021' organized by City Montessori School, Aliganj Campus I concluded this evening with a grand closing cum prize distribution ceremony held online. Prize winners of various competitions from USA, UK, UAE, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Nepal, Vietnam, Peru, Ukraine, Belgium, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Algeria and different states of India were felicitated on this occasion amidst a colourful educational-cultural programme presented by CMS students in the honour of the participating teams from India and abroad. Chief Guest of the occasion, Dr Shailja Sharma, Director, Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific, Tokyo, Japan, graced the online ceremony with her gracious presence. It may be mentioned that through participation in various interesting and informative competitions held at the 3-day International History Festival, students from 17 countries of the world not just got an opportunity

Lucknow, September 16 : A record number of 152 CMS students qualified for JEE-Advanced after the results of 4th round of JEE Mains were declared, by getting higher than the cut off of 87.89 percentile.  21 CMS students have secured above 99 percentile and 128 CMS students have scored above 90 percentile, bringing laurels to the institution.             Ravija Chandel of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar Campus I topped in JEE Mains in the city with a total score of 99.96 percentile, achieving an All India Rank of 509. She bettered her score of 99.6 percentile that she achieved when she appeared in the second round of JEE Mains in March. An immensely talented student, she has already qualified for Government of India’s Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojna (KVPY) scholarship and the Indian National Olympiad for Chemistry earlier this year.             Exuding pride, Mrs Abha Anant, Principal of CMS Gomti Nagar Campus I said, “Ravija is a brilliant but a very down to earth person. She has

Lucknow, September 15 : The three-day International History Festival, ‘The Relic International 2021’ being organized by City Montessori School, Aliganj Campus I was inaugurated online today by Shri Swami Prasad Maurya, Minister of Labour and Employment, Government of Uttar Pradesh who was the Chief Guest on the occasion. Student teams from the USA, England, UAE, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Nepal, Vietnam, Peru, Ukraine, Belgium, Sri Lanka, Germany, Mauritius, Algeria and different parts of India are participating in this international event. The inauguration of the event saw scintillating educational-cultural performances put up by CMS students which mesmerized everyone in the audience. In the course of next three days, the participating students will compete in several interesting competitions like Debate, Creative Writing, Film Making, Poetry, Drawing and Photography and learn about different cultures and civilizations, fostering appreciation, unity and brotherhood among thems

Lucknow, September 14 : Aviral Kumar Agarwal, a student of City Montessori School, Mahanagar Campus (Batch 2014) cleared the CA final exam conducted under the aegis of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the results of which were declared recently. 27 students from Lucknow qualified in the CA final exam and Aviral Kumar Agarwal was one of them. An outstanding student, Aviral did his class 12 (ISC) from CMS Mahanagar campus in 2014 with 93% marks. CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi heartily congratulated Aviral on becoming a Chartered Accountant and said that CMS instils confidence in its students to appear and succeed in various competitive exams nationally and internationally. It is because of this, scores of CMS students qualify in prestigious competitive exams like JEE, NEET, CA etc every year and go on to build their careers in their respective fields.             While Aviral succeeded in clearing the CA final exam, four other CMS students, Rohit Singhania, Priya Agarwal, A

Lucknow, 13 September : Bhavishya Kero, a student of class 7 of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar Campus I has won the national level Ramanujam Maths Scholarship, bringing glory to the city. Bhavishya stood at third place in the country and has been awarded a cash prize of Rs 10,000/- for his outstanding achievement. CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi congratulated Bhavishya for his enormous achievement and wished him success in life. He also congratulated his teachers for preparing Bhavishya to achieve this success.             This prestigious event was organised online by Counting Well, an educational institution based in Bengaluru, wherein over 33,000 students of classes 6, 7 and 8 from over 200 prestigious schools of India participated. Excelling in this tough competition, Bhavishya secured third rank in the country, bringing glory to the institution.             CMS Chief Public Relations officer, Hari Om Sharma said that realising the importance of this era of Science and Technolo

Lucknow, 12 September : 12 meritorious students of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar Campus I were awarded a cash prize of Rs 50,000 each by the CMS management for bringing fame to the city at the international level with their outstanding performance in the International Benchmark Test (IBT). These students achieved an outstanding feat by figuring in the 100th percentile and achieving 1st rank globally in various subjects in International Benchmark Test (IBT) organised by Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Aryan Verma, Satyarth Pandey, Vinayak Dalmia, Aamish Ahmed Beg, Kumar Yashasvi and Aditya Singh of CMS Gomti Nagar Campus I secured marks in 100th percentile in Science while Pranjal Verma, Praharsh Chaturvedi, Atharva Pratap Singh and Utkarsh Kumar Verma secured marks in 100th percentile in Mathematics and Raman Misra and Anusha Singh secured marks in 100th percentile in English in this prestigious competition. CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi and Principal of CMS

Lucknow, September 11 : Students of City Montessori School conveyed the message of Religious Unity and showcased the importance of peace and unity through beautiful educational-cultural and inspirational presentations at the ‘New Parents’ Evening’ organised by City Montessori School, Rajendra Nagar Campus II and Station Road Campuses. Grandparents of students were specially invited at the New Parents’ Evening – ‘Aagaman’ organised by CMS Rajendra Nagar Campus II who registered their presence online in large numbers and motivated the students.         Earlier, the programme began with the traditional lighting of the lamp ceremony. Students presented School Prayer, All-religion and World Unity Prayer which created an atmosphere of serenity.  Speaking on the ocassion, CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi said that every student has the potential to become the light of the world. CMS is committed to imparting human education to its students apart from material education and this programme is one

Lucknow, September 10 : International Literacy Day was celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervor in the campuses of City Montessori School. Through various educational-cultural programs presented on this occasion, students were not only made aware of the importance of literacy, but were also motivated to create awareness of literacy in their homes and neighborhood. While congratulating the students, teachers and parents on 'International Literacy Day,' CMS Founder and eminent educationist Dr. Jagdish Gandhi said that this type of celebrations are organized enthusiastically at CMS to make students aware of various topics of contemporary and social importance and to enhance the participation of the younger generation in social upliftment. He said that CMS makes every effort to make its students aware of their responsibilities towards the society and so that they contribute constructively to the development of the society.         At CMS Rajendra Nagar Campus II, the four dime

  Lucknow, September 10 : 84 students of City Montessori School have secured scholarship worth Rs 3 Crore 36 lakh from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. They secured this prestigious scholarship by figuring in the top 1% merit list in the country on the basis of their ISC (Class 12) percentage marks. These students been offered this scholarship to pursue higher education in Sciences under which each student will receive Rs 80,000 per year for five years, thus a total of Rs. 4 lakh each, amounting to Rupees 3 Crore 36 lakh scholarship for all the 84 students. These meritorious students credit their parents, teachers and the study environment in their school for their outstanding achievement.         The meritorious students who have been chosen for this prestigious scholarship include Avishi Jain, Srijan Agnihotri,Ali Kausar Kaamran, Ananya Saxena, Animesh Srivastava, Anushka Kaithwas, Stuti Upadhyay, Sania Zehra Rizvi, Bhavya Ambardar, Shailesh Agarwal, Ary

Lucknow, September 9 : 11 meritorious students of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar Campus I were awarded a cash prize of Rs 5,000 each by the CMS management for bringing fame to the city at the international level with their outstanding performance in the International Benchmark Test (IBT). A total cash prize of Rs 55,000 was awarded to the 11 students. These students achieved an outstanding feat by figuring in the 100th percentile and achieving 1st rank globally in various subjects in International Benchmark Test (IBT) organised by Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). Ranesh Maurya, Aditya Srivastava, Satyarth Pandey, Anvesha Singh, Garima Rathi and Apratim Tiwari of CMS Gomti Nagar Campus I secured marks in 100th percentile in Science while Praharsh Chaturvedi, Saksham Pandey, Sumi Pandey, Aditya Sharma and Subhranshu Pandey of the same campus secured marks in 100th percentile in Mathematics in this prestigious competition. CMS Founder, Dr Jagdish Gandhi congratulat

Lucknow, September 9 : City Montessori School, Chowk Campus organised their ‘New Parents’ Evening’ online here today. On this occasion, the students mesmerized the audience with their educational-cultural performances. Dr Srishti Dhawan Rathore, Additional District Magistrate, Waqf Tribunal, Lucknow and Dr Ankit Shukla, Queensland Medical School, Brisbane, Australia joined the online event as Chief Guests.             Speaking on the occasion, Dr Srishti Dhawan Rathore appealed to the parents to ensure a learning environment for overall development of their children and not pressurize them to perform beyond their capabilities. In his following address, Dr Ankit Shukla said that such programs go a long way in aiding the overall development of children.             The inauguration of the event saw the students present the school prayer, all-religion and world unity prayer. The presentation of ‘World Parliament’ drew the attention of the audience towards the current issues plaguing t