Dimapur, June 6 (MExN): A special felicitation programme was held at Livingstone Foundation Hr Sec School to felicitate the AISSE (Grade-X) National Toppers and AISSCE (Grade-XII) School Toppers on June 4.
The programme which was held at the School Auditorium was attended by parents of the Toppers along with the parents of the present batch of students from Grades-IX to XII who had been invited to attend a meeting and workshop which was organized alongside the felicitation programme.
All together six AISSE (Grade-X) National Toppers and two AISSCE (Grade-XII) School Toppers were felicitated during the programme with Merit Certificates and Gift Hampers apart from Cash Prizes and Scholarships in the form of Fee Concessions for the six AISSE (Grade-X) National Toppers. They were felicitated by the Administrator of the school, Arthur Edwards who in his short speech encouraged the toppers and asked them not to become overconfident as it would lead to their premature downfall.
The programme started with the invocation prayer by Ani Yepthomi, Director of Junior High, which was followed by a word of welcome by Prabhat Mandal, Principal (Academics). The felicitation of toppers began a short while later with a few words of encouragement and greetings from the Chairman cum Principal of the School,Andrew Ahoto.
Speaking on behalf of the parents of the toppers, Chubainla profusely thanked the Livingstone School management and faculty for their immense role in motivating and shaping the success of her son and the other students who had come out successful in the AISSE and AISSCE 2016 of CBSE.
Onito T. Assumi, Odijungla Imchen and J. Meyawati spoke on behalf of the toppers. In their short deliverances they expressed their deepest gratitude to the School Management and Teachers for guiding and moulding them so that they could become Toppers and become shining examples for their friends and family. They also expressed hope that their teachers would always be there to guide them in the future too.
‘Students self-formation and positive parenting’ workshop held
The next session of the programme was a special workshop on ‘Students self-formation and Positive Parenting’ by Darlin from Builders Self Development Programme which is taking care of Life Skills Education in LFHSS since this year. Most of the workshop session was focused on handling and managing adolescents.
The resource person talked in length about the attributes of a balanced child, viz. Physical, Social, Emotional and Cognitive. According to her, children these days are not properly given the right parenting resulting in wrong values being imparted and thus leading to negative impacts in their lives. She emphasized on the immediate and most urgent need for parents to help their children develop the right attitude and also to help their children to learn how to deal with emotions.
The programme concluded with the Chairman cum Principal, Andrew Ahoto’s interaction with the parents and toppers followed by his vote of thanks.
