The students don't just learn to play the drums, they also learn a sense of beat and rhythm. It is learnt with clapping games, simple drumming games and much more. When the pupils can then drum along to simple songs, the joy is great.

This year, the winter CCA sport program offers a wider variety of disciplines and increased hours of training.
Thanks to some refurbishments, we now have small pitch football field (5 players), three mini volley courts, one regular volleyball court, one high jump and one long jump platform. Through an agreement with the nearby St Jesus and Mary college, we can also access their sport ground and practice sprint run and shot put.
Last but not least, Saturday football training has been added to our weekly CCA program that now amounts to four sessions.
At present we are practicing the basics of each discipline all together. Later on the pupils will keep on training in different groups according to their preferences, age and gender.
All those participating in the program will be offered the chance to be part of the team which is going to represent our school at the 2025 South East Asia Games in Singapore.

On Monday the 21st of October, we were invited by the British School to a friendly match. Our football-loving team was immediately excited. Although we didn't put in our best performance this time, we came out on top against the TBS team with a narrow 4:3 victory. Difficult games show us our weaknesses and we now have a better understanding of what we still need to work on with our coach.

Yohaan

At the end of our swimming season, the AES invited us to a swimming competition in which the British School and an Indian swimming academy also took part. It was our first swimming competition in a long time and the excitement was real. We realised that we had improved a lot through training, especially in the breaststroke and crawl, but we also realised that we still needed to improve in the backstroke and butterfly, for example. The atmosphere was good and some of us did very well in our heats. After the Diwali holidays, we will continue to work on our strength and endurance so that we can start the next swimming season stronger.

Yohaan

We boys from sixth to ninth grade love to play soccer. We don't have a soccer CCA, but we play soccer together every break. Whether it's forty or ten degrees, you'll always find us playing football. In Mr. de Luca's sports and swimming CCA, we are also sometimes allowed to play for a short time, for example after a successful swimming training session. That's why we were particularly pleased when he told us that the AES had invited us to a friendly match. We walked to the American School on Tuesday afternoon, a little excited. We were allowed to play against different teams as we didn't have our own team in each age group. With great results of 6-0 and 4-1, we made our coach proud and will continue to work on our skills to be at the top of our game in Singapore.

Yohaan

At the moment we, the Sports and Swimming Club, are preparing for the South East Asian Games (SOAS) in Singapore. Since the beginning of the year, we have been putting together a sports team under our coach Mr De Luca. Our training has become more serious and for the first time, we have participated in a comparison training with another swimming team.

We were invited to the British School (TBS) on Friday. There we were able to train together and took part in a few sprints and a relay swim at the end. This allowed us to compete with the others and learn to better assess our level of performance. Although we still need to work on our performance, this joint event strengthened our team spirit and motivated us to improve even further. I particularly liked the fact that we had this experience as a team and that we are making our way towards Singapore together.

Yohaan Shivhare

On Saturday, we, the DSND table tennis team with our coach Mr Mösinger, visited the AES to play some friendly matches against them, as in the year before. In previous years they were always superior to us, but after a lot of training and practice we managed to win some games this time. It was fun to play against others and good to see that we had improved through training. We also learnt different playing techniques and gained experience. We are looking forward to play against them again next year and hope to keep in touch.

Our new lanes help our students to train professionally and performance-oriented. Of course, there is still plenty of time to have fun!

Between the British and the American School in Delhi, not too far from the DSNS the Vivekananda community is located, where several working families under visibly simpler living conditions are living. If these kind of living conditions lead to an unhappy life of the women there or if they are may be even oppressed in their social structure was the interesting approach of a film project, which had been initiated by Mariela, grade 10, as a competition contribution to a democratic forum. With seven other companions of the grades 5-9 a concept has been elaborated, the main passages translated into Hindi, in the end everything had been filmed with marker, camera and audio on location over several weeks. The partners of the interviews have not always been prepared to speak officially, in general permissions had to be requested. How it looks like over there, what does daily life look like, all these contents the documentary has been put together and can now be watched on the Vimeo platform of the school.

We wish a lot of interest in watching and understanding how the life in the neighbourhood of the DSND looks like.

I am a trained dancer in Hip Hop, Bollywood and Classical Indian Dance. For the last 10 years, I have been teaching various forms of dance in academies and institutions like the French Embassy School or the Japanese Expats Group. I like teaching at DSND and would love to continue to work here for many more years.

I am a former water polo player, with all round passion for sports. Being a FINA swimming instructor and fitness trainer, I love to teach the younger generation. The Motto I try to pass on to them is “ Sport is a way of life”.

It's full on energy after the summer break for the kids in the secondary I Taekwondo AG.

This semester the school offered the drum workshop. Curious to learn something we participated. Although not everyone could play a percussion instrument before, it is fun. With our teacher Abin we practice different rhythms, get to know new instruments and drum together. But that doesn't mean that we always play the drums. Sometimes we just use our bodies or clap a rhythm.

Yohaan Shivhare

Together or alone, with or without guidance, we write stories, diaries, love letters, recipes, ... and everything else that absolutely needs to be written down.

For this purpose we meet every Tuesday in the 8th lesson.

Sometimes we do research on the internet, sometimes we just need to have a long chat, while others retire to write because there's a great story... well, just come around.

Since I joined the DSND in the second grade I went to the parkour AG. Due to corona the CCA could not take place for a while, but I am happy that Mr. V´s CCA is back. I am now in the sixth grade and I still like the CCA as much as before, because we always get to learn and try out new things. At the school festival we have the chance to show what we can do. We get to impress the parents with flips, round off’s, hand stands, tuck jumps and back handsprings.

Yohaan

Since I joined the DSND in the second grade I went to the parkour AG. Due to corona the CCA could not take place for a while, but I am happy that Mr. V´s CCA is back. I am now in the sixth grade and I still like the CCA as much as before, because we always get to learn and try out new things. At the school festival we have the chance to show what we can do. We get to impress the parents with flips, round off’s, hand stands, tuck jumps and back handsprings.

Yohaan

The sport CCA was conducted by Mrs Spangenberg and her son Robin. We were allowed to choose the games during the cooler season. We played basketball, soccer and volleyball. We practiced the different techniques and because our group was very small we played only a few matches. During the hot season we swim. The sport CCA helps me to improve my marks for sports because I am getting the chance to practice things we did in class . I like to play games during recess which I can continue during sports CCA.

Yohaan

The school band is an integral part of every DSND school event, from theatre plays to board exam ceremony. We have rehearsal every Monday afternoon and try our hands on western music, pop and rock. Under Mrs. Demeyere's observant and critical eyes we turn from hobby musicians to real musicians, never losing our passion for music. Did you get curious? We are always ready to jam, come over, join us. We are looking forward to your participation.

The Art and Camera AG is existing in this form for the first year, except techniques for camera, photo shootings, writing a film script and attempts to make movies, many students also painted intensively, especially in the premises of the school itself by painting flying elements in the upper section of the second floor.

Younger students had a special interest, to make a never ending spontaneous film, to create helmets made out of plaster for carnival or to create objects in clay. Furthermore drawing and painting techniques have been studied and applied very accurately.

All in all the AG is an important creative and artistic offer, that is welcomed by the students and furthermore serves the school in supporting as far as possible the documentation of events.