Millennium Community

Mayor Cup BasketBall Tournament was held at Chintamani Nimhan Sports Academy’s Basketball Court, Baner Road between 12th and 21st February. Boys and Girls team from the school participated in U/13 category.

The teams played really well, winning all the league matches and made it till the Semis. Both the semi-finals – boys and girls were exciting and ended very close. These teams then played the matches for the 3rd position, winning us Bronze medals in each.

Both the teams were awarded a trophy, medals and cash prize of Rs. 7500/- each. Congratulations to the teams and coaches!

After hosting the National Camp for Volleyball successfully, Millennium received the honour of hosting the State Basketball camp for U/13 Boys and Girls.

The camp was held in Millennium National School from 15th January to 21st January for selection of U/13 State Team for the U/13 Basketball State Championship, Mumbai.

Students from Millennium too participated in this camp. Ojj Mishra and Mihir Gole got selected in the Boys’ team and Rewa Rawat, Sakshi Sahasrabudhe in the Girls’ team. Heartiest Congratulations children!

Our Basketball coaches Mr. Sachin Gaiwal and Mr. Dasharath Birhamane coached the students effectively at the State camp.

To add to the achievement, the Boys’ team selected through this camp won the 3rd place at the U/13 State Championship. Kudos!

Recently 4th District level – single age group and super sprints swimming tournament was organized for various age groups at Nande Swimmimg Pool, Balgandharva, Pune.

The students from the school participated individually in this competition and received prizes in various categories. Here is a list of the achievements:

Three cheers for the efforts put in by these kids. Indeed a great job kiddos!

Once again, a happy turnout of parents at the Parents Sports Day for Std. 5 to 8. 200 parents participated and exhibited great response!

To make it more interesting for parents, individual games this time were changed to musical chair and obstacle race, which the parents enjoyed thoroughly, with childlike glee. The sports staff provided coaches for team events – Volleyball for men and Throwball for women. After the practice session, the parents played the games in different teams. They took a moment to plan and strategize before the start of the game. Overall it was a great display of sportsmanship on the arena.

The refreshments after the games, were followed by the prize distribution session. The sports competition winners from Standards 5 – 8 were felicitated at the hands of the seniors in school who conveyed heart-felt thanks to all the parents for their over-whelming participation.

A great idea – of having parents’ participation at the sports day, conceptualized excellently this year. Congratulations to the entire sports department and all the parents.

We hope to come together to witness many more such events in the near future!

Millennium won the Volleyball U-14 Girls’ State Championship in December. Chosen five from the team, viz. Anjani Kadam, Janhavi Tamhankar, Samruddhi Deshpande, Samiksha Zagade and Srushti Pandit represented Maharashtra in the National Championship held around mid-January at Telangana.

The Maharashtra team, managed by our very own Kuldip Konde Sir and led by our student Anjani Kadam, played a fantastic game of Volleyball in the entire tournament which was played by a league cum knock out system. The girls nailed the Nationals too!!!

Hats off to the Volleyball girls’ team for their un-broken winning streak right from the Z.P. Tournament in August 2015 to the National Championship in January 2016. During this long journey they got crowned with the Zonal Championship, State Championship & National Championship.

The PGSAA held the Kho-kho tournament recently. Our U-14 girls team entered it with the determination to win it, just like the Z.P. tournament.

Displaying splendid athletic skills, the girls won the matches one after the other against renowned teams like Sevasadan and beat Bharati Vidyapeeth in the finals scoring 9 to 1.

Congratulations girls and coaches! We hope the best for you.

The process of learning is enhanced when the kids do some related hands-on activities. Activities that are designed, teach the child a lot more than what we can perceive from it. Let’s take sorting of pulses. It teaches the kids fine motor skills, differentiation of colours and shapes, hand-eye co-ordination, pincer grip and also recognition of different pulses. To add, it also can be used as a tool to increase the child’s concentration.

This activity was held in the KG kitchen for the Nursery class. Children were given a bowl of mixed pulses like black-eyed beans (chavali), black pulses (rajma), chick-peas (chhole) and groundnut (shengdane). All different in shape and colour. They had to separate these in four different bowls.

The kids sorted the pulses most cleverly by picking out the black pulses first and then separating the rest according to their shapes…. the sorting was much faster this way. Teachers monitored the activity closely, helping them and praising them for their ‘good job’!

The next time you are cleaning pulses at home, do ask help from your lil’ one.

With all the ingredients, minced, chopped, boiled – ready with them, the 5 year olds can too make a tasty dish. Believe it or not, they just made yummy sprout bhel – healthy and tasty!

As the bhel got ready to be served the kids were asked whether they remembered the recipe, and to our surprise, each one of them could revise it in the exact sequential order. They stated that they started with a big steel vessel with some sprouts in it. Then they added some chopped tomatoes, boiled and cut potatoes and chopped onions to it and mixed it well using a big spoon. When asked what brought the taste to the bhel, the kids said that they added some salt, chat masala, cumin powder and also squeezed some lemon in it. And when asked about the green-coloured ingredient, they answered it was cilantro which some added as they thought it looked good and some said it smelled great.

This yummy preparation was then served by the teachers in bowls and was topped with shev to make it yummier. Kids promised that they would make it at home too…. Do try it out once!

After a successful Z.P. tournament, the basketball teams entered in the 1^st invitational league – Deccan Gymkhana U/13 Basketball Championship, for boys and girls. Millennium participated with 2 Boys and 2 Girls team.

All the teams displayed awesome performance. The girls headed to the semifinals and the boys made their remarkable play till the finals and secured the 2^nd place.

To specially mention, in the 1^st league match we broke the 3-year winning streak of Kamal Nayan Bajaj School and in the Semis we won against St. Mary’s School which too is one of the top teams for over 20 consecutive years. The final too was a nail-biting one.

Aryan Nikam from Std 7 was awarded the Best Player of the tournament.

Congratulations to the Basket Ball teams. We wish you the best for the next tournament.

Sakharam More Krida Pratishthan (SKMP) – a renowned name in Volley Ball – held its 20^th yearly tournament this year.

All deserving players from the school, Std 5 to Std 9, played in this tournament which had more than 20 teams participating in each category. Millennium girls played as 4 different teams in the U/14 category, 3 in U/17 category and 2 for the women’s open category. The boys too participated in the U/14 and U/17 categories.

Millennium registered a roaring win in the tournament by bagging a total of 20 prizes in different age groups – team as well as individual, one of the best achievements ever for the sports department!

Astounding achievement girls! You make us proud