Dear Shalini,

Just wanted to say Thanks for quite a wonderful year, specially for Urja.

As you know we relocated from Dallas last Sept & she joined your school in Cultural II with Ms Vishali as her teacher. The first 10 days were all she required to get over her past school experiences and start looking forward to her new school, teacher & friends. She learnt to read, multiply, play soccer , horse riding and quite a few other things , in the last few months.
She is now in 1st Grade with Ms Geetika and so far all seems to be going well.

Barring a few hiccups from our end ( not at all from Urja's ) , we are very pleased to have chosen Excelsior because we feel that it is doing very well for her overall development. We were keen that aside from Academics ,Urja should also be exposed to a wide spectrum of activities. Which luckily your school has provided us .

A large part of the credit goes to you, my dear & the way you have  chosen & trained your Staff.

The School environment is so important for our children specially because they spend majority of the time with you ,learning all that they can. Please keep up the good work & also commend your Staff & Colleagues for the same.

Lookin forward to rejoining in July......

Have a great Summer!

Enjoy.......Neelambari

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Hi,

I am impressed with this voting activity you are having in school.it surely will prepare them to be responsible n wise citizens.India badly needs such citizens who care for the  well being of their country n not just themselves.
great going.
keep it up.

regards
mauravi singh sharma

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Dear Shalini and the rest of the Excelsior family,

Many congratulations on a wonderful Annual Day production.  We were very impressed and loved every minute of it.  Both Vikram and Madhavi had a great time rehearsing and performing during the Annual Day itself.  A special thanks to Ms. Shazia, who I heard worked very hard to bring everything together.

We’re looking forward to the next session.

Kind Regards,
Rajiv & Erin Trikha

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Dear Shalini & Teachers,

We are so proud of being a part of American Excelsior, Lavanya is in good hands.

Fantasia 2009 was very well organised, and done well by all the children, each one took their part so seriously and the show turned out super and an overall wonderful affair.

Thank you all for putting up such a great show at Fantasia 2009 and we look forward to another rocking Fantasia in 2010.


KEEP IT UP    :-)
Thanking you
Faye & Rajdeep ( Lavanya's Partents)

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Hi,

What a wonderful and thoughtful idea Ms. Shalini! These letters would be great keepsakes for our children to remember their early childhood years. Samarth and Avantika have throughly enjoying schooling at Excelsior and look forward to their school day each morning. As a parent it is extremely heartening to see them excited about each new day at school.

Many thanks for all your efforts and our heartfelt appreciation to Excelsior.

Cheers and Regards

Monica Chopra

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Dear Shalini,

Thank you for providing children with nurturing and non-judgmental environment in the school and classroom. We could not have found a better school coming from US. Just knowing that our children were not threatened and intimidated while away from us for the major part of the day made a lot of difference. Kuddos to you and your staff. Grisham remembers Ms. Parul and Ashi talks about Ms. Ekta. They are currently going to a school with a hands on learning and whole-child philosophy in San Francisco Bay area. Please do convey my warm regards to Ms. Ekta and Ms. Parul for being patient and loving. A very happy new year to you.

Regards,

Bhavana Kansal

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Dear Shalini Nambiar,

This is to confirm that due to family relocation requirements, Ms Imogen
Symonds' last day at Excelsior will be Thursday 29th Jan 2009.

Imogen has really enjoyed her time at the school and both my wife and I
wish to thank you and your staff for all the help and support you have
given us over that past 5 months.

We are sad to be leaving India so soon and we will miss all the friends
that we have made our experience here in India so memorable.

Best of luck for the future.

Regards

Mr Duncan & Kate Symonds

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Dear Ms Radhika,

Wish a speedy recovery for Aryaman. And many thanks to Exscelsior family for
this quick a  support. It is a matter of great pride that we have a guardian
like Ms. Nambiar who is very proactive in addressing all issues regarding
every individual child. May God be with her always.

Thank you Ms.Nambiar for being there with all of us.

Regards
Moumita Mukhopadhyay
Manav's Mother

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Dear Parents,

I would like to share this incident with you all. On 06th January, my son Aryaman Gupta [I B] was playing in the school after school hours, in my presence and under my supervision. At 04.15 pm he fell from the slide and was howling in pain and bleeding profusely from the mouth.
Ms Shalini Nambiar came out on hearing the screams and the guard Tiwari picked up Aryaman. She got the school driver to get the school vehicle and they rushed us to the hospital.
All this happened in 60 to 90 seconds. Ms Shalini was very concerned and reacted very fast.
Mr Tiwari, the guard did not get flustered and he knew exactly what he had to do. The school staff stayed with me till things was under control.
My Friend Sheetal and her husband Avnish were with me throughout the traumatic experience. Sapna was very concerned and reached the hospital too.. They are all Excelsior parents.
We are very thankful and grateful to Ms Nambiar for the immediate evacuation to the hospital.
I wanted to share this with all the parents since it happened in school. Even though it was much past school hours, our school was so well equipped with handling an emergency.
Aryaman has cuts inside his mouth and on the chin. He is recovering well and is enjoying all the visits from his classmates and school friends and all the cards that are coming from the school, from Ms Navneet and all the children of Grade I B. He will be back in school soon.
Our sincere thanks to Ms Nambiar and all the staff of Excelsior American School.

Best wishes
Radhika and Adarsh Gupta
[Aryaman's parents]

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Dear Shalini

I would to congratulate you and the Excelsior family for completing another successful year. I am very happy with the overall growth of my kids. Shalini, we as parents never had any doubts about the school.We have always been very positive about everything.I feel you are an adorable person.I am yet to come across a teacher like you. Believe me it is not just the kids who always praise you but I have seen it myself, the way you handle kids is just amazing. It's gives us so much confidence that our children are in safe hands.Sanskriti cannot stop talking about her Ms. Shalini all the time.The confidence that Arjun has developed is very satisfying.

I am very happy to know  the infrastructure growth happening in the school. Keep up the good work.Wish you all the best!!!! Have a great Sports Day tomorrow!!!!!

Thanks
Parul Kohli 

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Dear Miss Shalini and Miss Anupma

This note is meant to express my gratitude for you and for all that you have done for my daughter Hemangi.I don’t have words to acknowledge the myrid changes in her because of your goodness.I especially want to thank you for inculticating loads of confidence in her and allaying all her fears and inhibitions in self expression and writing skills.

Thanks also for all the encouragement and motivation given to her for every little effort that she made.I must acknowledge that it is your dedication and patience that has brought out my daughters latent talent which would have been left unexplored but for your kind support.I must say that Hemangi is fortunate to have mentors like you.
Thank you once again and please keep up the good work.

Regards
Prajna.Ahuja

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Dear Ms. Shalini,

    Its very nice to hear that the Excelsior wishes to maintain a healthy child teacher ratio inspite of the fact that there could be several students packed in one class would mean more profits! Parents should be happy that there is a school that cares for the children more than the numbers. As far as the the growth is concerned, we have seen the school grow fast in the last one year.
   
    Besides, the quality of teaching will always ensure a huge patronage and a time comes when people strive hard but do not get admissions in the school.
  
   Personally, I support your philosophy completely and truly believe that the children do much better when given a nurturing environment. They feel confident and cared for. They do notfeel inhibited which is very important for their personality growth. This,according to me is more critical than to let them be simply good in academics. Their creativity needs to be fostered. I have seen that in my son Aaryan. He is an intelligent and confident and a well mannered child with greatcommunication skills. I don't wish to send him to a school where he will just be another roll number.
   
    I hope the school will always set an example to others by setting unprecedented quality standards which will truly produce bright global citizens of the future.
   
    Please let me know if we can contribute in any way to be a better part of our children's lives in association with the school.

Regards and Thanks.

Veenu Puri

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Mrs. Shalini,

This is great. Heartiest congratulations to participants and our teachers.

You  have proved it again and again that we may be moving slowly, but our feet are very steady !!!!

We are in Canada at the moment and Bhavya always impresses everyone with her confidence and approach. All credit goes to you and Ms. Radha and everyone involved. Bhavya is missing her school already......

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Ritesh

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Dear Ms Shalini

Hope you remember our daughter, Aditi Badde who started as a 20 month old at Excelsior in 2006 Feb. She spent two wonderful years at the school and
developed into a very confident and young child. Unfortunately, my husband got transferred to mumbai in April, Aditi is now at Bombay Scottish. First Parent Teacher meeting for me was not pleasant as Aditi was not happy chaniging schools and here was a class of 45,finding difficult to adjust. But when I had a detailed sitdown session with her after this, she was able to act on the feedback and transformed herself. Second PTA was a pleasant one and the teacher could not relate to the earlier feedback shared by herself. Yesterday, she had her first term report card and her class teacher remark was \"Aditi is a polite and well behaved child and also an outstanding student\" and with principal\'s stamp of \"Terrific Work\". Both my husband and self give most credit to Excelsior for preparing Aditi to be able to adjust to a very competitive and challenging life in Mumbai. She remembers all her friends from her discovery days even today and keeps asking her dad when are you getting transferred back to Gurgaon so that she can join Excelsior again. Hope she is welcome back whenever we are back at Gurgaon. Thanks Excelsior and wish you all the best.

Regards,
Jyothi and Vijay

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Dear Ms. Shalini,

Just wanted to thank you for the wonderful letter of recommendationthat you wrote for Misha and for providing me with the numbers of Ms.Bose. I will call her as soon as we reach Hyderabad.

Also please tell Ms. Ekta that not just Misha but all of us reallyliked the lovely card the class made for Misha and will miss her. Thesame for Ms. Radha. Both have been a huge influence in Misha's life
and we sincerely hope when we return to gurgaon, we will be able to send both our kids to Excelsior. meanwhile we wish the school our very
best.
 
Thanks
Raj, Meenakshi.

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Dear Shalini,
 
 
Just to let you know that Sari is showing tremendous// improvement in his personality ---after coming for only 8 days!
Ms Hema has achieved so much in so short a time.
 
Noticed today that he likes to interact with others & even went into the lunch room on his own. It will be great if you could organize some play time with the kids. Pls, let me know whenever this is possible.
 
 
Thank you
Samantha Fernando