On Friday, 18th August, 2017, seventy years of Indian independence was celebrated at The Cambridge School. Many drawings and charts were made on Indian independence by students from classes 2 to 7. Before the event started, the Indian flag was hoisted by the Chief Guest, Mr Bruce Bucknell, who is the British Deputy High Commissioner and the National Anthem of India was sung, proudly and respectfully by everyone.
After a brief introduction by our Principal, Mr Bucknell gave an interesting speech and encouraged children to work and study passionately. He also said that India has always challenged other countries with their great and rational ideas. He inspired students to keep questioning wrong ideas and wrong doers as Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose did. The Chief Guest also gave seven saplings to seven Class 8 students. Each sapling marked one decade of Indian independence. Students from Classes 9 to 12 were honoured with Merit Certificates for writing excellent reviews on movies about Indian independence and national heroes.
The young students displayed an enthusiastic and colourful show infront of the Chief Guest, Mr Bucknell and The Cambridge School Principal, Mrs Chowdhary. The bright faces from Nursery to Class 5 danced, sang and displayed different Physical Education formations and marched past on songs like “Bharat Humko Jaan se Pyara hain”, “Saare Jahan se Achha”, “Yeh Mera India”, “Karar oi louho kopat.” Students from Classes 3 & 4 performed traditional dance on “O amar desher mati”. The Go As You Like show saw the students dressed up as Rabindranath Tagore, Lal Bahadur Shashtri and some of their other favourite Indian heroes. The children also spoke about their life and contributions to India’s independence.