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anjana and Shantanu for giving us an overview of last academic year. While you touched upon the highlights and special events, we know each day had its own spice and flavour which made it a year it was.

2012 – 13 was a historical year. We crossed an important milestone - our first batch of Class X gave their CBSE board exam. Nine years ago, it was a distant dream, today a reality. While we are happy to see them grow into confident young adults ready to take on life, we miss them immensely.

Excellence in academics is the hallmark of any good institution. Effort in preparing and class X has been intensive and we await the results eagerly. We are positive that the students will do us proud.

The statistics of the school based result section which is 70% sounds like this – Out of 42 students in class X – we have 28 in A1 grade which is between 91 – 100 percent (that’s more than 50% of the total number), 14 in A2 which is between 81 – 90 percent and 12 in B2 between 61 – 70 percent. The rest 30 % will be defined by the board exam. So we are already expecting 100% result. The next batch will follow suit, we know.

The last year saw varied events and happenings that touched us, inspired us and taught us. All year through the whole school team continued to put efforts towards quality improvement in every aspect of our work. We set standards and goals for ourselves and strived to achieve them – be it in the area of academics, sports, events, discipline, leadership, management systems and more.

Our school completed re – registration of ISO 9001:2008 in April 2012. This validated that the processes and systems match the standards set.

The last year also had its own share of challenges and disappointments.(especially in the case we had on child sexual abuse). This experience has undoubtedly disturbed us, but we all had lessons to learn from it. While the passage was tough, the end of the struggle will be satisfying because the choices and decisions were based on principles that were morally, ethically and legally right.

Each year lays the foundation for ideas and improvement in the year to come. The coming year is promising and defining too. So it is time to move on…

The enrolment figures for students at the point stand at a total of 1133. We had 148 new admissions and 48 withdrawals. Staff status continues to be stable – The total staff strength is 132 – with 75 teaching staff , 28 admin staff and 29 service staff. All teaching staff at Orchid meets the professional requirements for teaching. We had 15 resignations all together.

We are approaching our 10th year of school – a decade soon. Time truly flies. It is time to consolidate and reiterate the principles, values and beliefs TOS stands for. This sentiment resonates in the school calendar this year as the theme of the year.

We have laid down tiny achievable tangible tick able targets (we call them TATTs) for