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Sports Gala 2022

The Sports Gala-2022 was held from 21st to 23rd November 2022 at SST Public School Rashidabad. This annual event was inaugurated by the principal of SST Public School Rashidabad, Air Commodore (Retd) Nayyar Qayyum Khawja. Four schools participated with zeal and fervor. The participants were;

  1. SST Public School Rashidabad
  2. Baqai Cadet College
  3. Cadet College Sanghar
  4. Cadet College Larkana

The Gala was featured in five sports including Cricket, Hockey, Volleyball, Basketball, and Football. The annual sports gala lasted for three consecutive days during which the participants displayed a high standard of professional excellence and sportsman spirit. After three days of zeal and fervor, the last match of the football was held between SST Public School and Cadet College Larkana, in which SST won the match by 4-1. Hockey and Football were won by SST Public School Rashidabad. Cricket was won by Cadet College Sanghar and Volleyball by Baqai Cadet College. Cadet College Larkana won the Basketball. There was a Winner’s trophy based on overall performance and it was shared by SST Public School Rashidabad and Cadet College Sanghar.

Now moving towards the final ceremony, in which Commissioner Inland Revenue Hyderabad Mr. Farooq Azam Memon was the chief guest. He encouraged the youth and highlighted the importance of sports in schools. His articulated words were physical fitness, tolerance, solidarity, and the culture of the nation based on the sportsman spirit.

The principal of SST Public School thanked all and distributed shields and awards among the winners accompanied by the chief guest. The principal SST Public School presented souvenir to the chief guest. Later on, all the  participants presented souvenirs to the principal SST Public School Air Commodore (Retd) Nayyar Qayyum Khawja. The event ended with the slogans of Nara-e-Pakistan and the national anthem.

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2 Day Training Session on Implementation of SLOs in Teaching and Learning System

SST Public School Rashidabad takes special interest in its teachers’ professional development and for the said purpose, the management, in coordination of the school teachers’ training department, schedules various in-house training sessions.

On Saturday and Sunday dated 5th & 6th November, 2022, an interactive training session was conducted by Mr. Aijaz Baig and Mr. Altaf (Master Trainers from ABILITY) on the implementation of SLOs in teaching and learning system. The first session started with an introduction of cognitive learning and its importance in the 21st century learning process. Mr. Aijaz Baig also demonstrated the concept of Students Learning Outcome (SLO) by connecting it with the learners’ mental capability to explore new ideas and concepts taught to him in any class or related to any subject. He also explicated, with the help of multiple activities, how a student experiences an upward shift from dependence or inter-dependence to independence while learning from his social interaction or environmental culture. He termed this behavioral change as ‘proximal development’. The session concluded with a brief introduction of Mr. Altaf and an amazing demonstration of math magic by him as one of the best starters for Math teachers.

On the second day, the topic of discussion was ‘dynamic teaching’ and Mr. Aijaz Baig explained how much a carefully designed question paper plays a significant role to assess students at multiple levels of learning in the form of information, knowledge, understanding and application. Teachers were given a task to design questions using a set of command words based on ‘Blooms Taxonomy’ and its different level of cognitive learning. Mr. Altaf played another Math Magic trick and surprised the audience; he also appreciated the role of management and teachers of SSTPSR for doing a fabulous job to help students learn in a conducive environment where they are treated as a person of worth.

The training sessions concluded with a commitment to work for the overall well-being of SSTIANS.

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The Battle of Words: 8th All Pakistan Bilingual Declamation Contest, Oct-2022

29th October, 2022 (Saturday): Public speaking is one of the skills that receives immense rumination all over the world, and its significance for young students is beyond words. Since inception, SST Public School Rashidabad has always remained enterprising to develop this skill in its young learners, and help them hone it by providing them various platforms like inter-house, regional and national public speaking events. 

On Saturday, October 29, SSTPSR organized its 8th All Pakistan Bilingual Declamation Contest in the state of the art building of the school auditorium. 15 schools from all over Pakistan got registered for their participation including Cadet College Sanghar, Cadet College Larkana, Cadet College Pano Aqil, Bakhtawar Cadet College Shaheed Benazirabad, Tabani’s College Karachi, APS Hyderabad, City School Hyderabad, Hayat Girls College Hyderabad (Sindh), PAF Academy Risalpur, Nowshera (KPK), Sadiq Public School, Bahawalpur and (Punjab), Pakistan Navy Cadet College, Ormara and GDA Public School Gwadar Port (Baluchistan). The presence of Eng. Prof. Dr. Samreen Hussain, Vice Chancellor of Aror University of Art, Architecture and Heritage (Sindh) as the chief guest redoubled the grace of the event.

As PAF Academy Risalpur and City School Hyderabad excused for their participation, it was the battle of words between the 26 speakers from 13 institutions. The audience enjoyed a nail biting competition wherein all speakers in Urdu and English declamation performed amazingly well, and gave judges a tough time while making their judgement. However, the jury, comprising highly qualified and experienced subject specialist and public speaking experts, finally came up with the results as undermentioned:

Top 3 Speakers  In Urdu CategoryTop 3 Speakers  in English CategoryOverall Winner
Ibrahim from Sadiq Public School, BahawalpurCadet Daniyal from Cadet College OrmaraTabani’s College, North Campus Karachi
Azra Alam from Bakhtawar Cadet CollegeMaryam Rasool from Tabani’s College North Campus
Oshal Aden from Tabani’s College North CampusAbdul Moiz from Sadiq Public School, Bahawalpur

Dr. Samreen Hussain gave away shields, certificates and trophy to the position holders and winner. In her address, she admired the school management for organizing such a grand event, and also advised the young students to avail such opportunities quite religiously. The event was concluded with the vote of thanks given by Principal SSTPSR in which he urged students to develop a constructive approach towards failure which never means losing something but gaining the insight into the fact that we have to put in a little more effort and energy to achieve our goal.

In the end, the guests were served lunch, and finally they departed with some everlasting memories. The event was presided by the school head boy, Shahid Daniyal and conducted by Hassnain-e-Qadir, Muhammad, Muhammad Bilal Rind and Muhammad Sarfraz.