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Dear Ms Shalini

Hope this finds you well.

We had been in mumbai for divis assesment visit and would share the neurologists positive news with the excelsior family.

Divis progress in the last six months has been impressing -- credit for this goes to his being in the school, leading to phenomenal progress in his overall development.

All along the way we have understood how extra tiresome it becomes for you, the teachers, all the support staff, the classmates, their parents -- but would like all to know that all of it has been worthwhile and appreciable beyond words. the school enviorment has been important in bringing developmental changes in him, and the school will remain the prime place which can continue bringing the most phenomenal progress.

Continue to seek your support.

Thankyou
Divis parents.

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Dear Ms Shalini,

Kudos for Marathon!  Not only for that, for all your well planned vision.  Our personal congratulations.  Your enthusiasm and your ability to motivate children, teachers and mainly parents, has resulted in a significant increase of interest.  We appreciate your efforts and the assistance you give to your colleagues.  Your hardwork and positive attitude will take your children to the peak.  You have an enviable ability to stay cool.  We admire your willingness, energy and organizational skills.

Thankyou verymuch for your support.

With kind regards,

Kalyani Ganesh / Ganesh Srinivasan
P/O Shreya Ganesh

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Dear Shalini

The recent school trip to Agra was not just a great outing but also a big learning experience for my son.Apart from the historical knowledge Raaghav has also picked up that he must listen and obey to his teachers.I thus feel that it becomes my duty to thank the school for their endeavour.I would also like to make use of this opportunity to extend my gtatitude to the teachers specially Ms.Kamna for taking extra care for Raaghav\"s medication and giving his dosage timely. Best Regards

Radhika & Rohit Gupta parents of
Raaghav Gupta
Grade-IV

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Dear Shalini.

This thank you mail has been lying in my Inbox for sometime now and even though I saw it a few times I didn't know how to articulate how I wanted to thank you.

That particular incident (when I had messaged you) just triggered so many positive feelings for the school all because of you.

To start with - the other day when I had messaged you and I was so, so stressed that I just didn't know what to do and when you spoke to me and told me to tell my son that he won't have his test the next day just de-stressed me so much as though I had been meditating the whole day. It made me realize this is how a problem in a ideal world should be. Someone of authority solving a problem without the constraints one puts on themselves. What I want to say is that any other Principal would have just said that my son needs to study harder or that this is how a school works and would have just given me ten reasons why the test will be the next day. You, on the other hand decided that my son won't have his test the next day. Such a simple way and yet, very unconventional way to solve this problem. And when I think of this school and think of you at the helm of it I realize that I would love my kids to learn from a person like you.

Kids are best led by example and when I look at others and then at you I can't think of a better example. From the big things to the way you run the school and  how any parent can just come to you and talk to you about their worries, or how you organized the Science Week (and all the guards were wearing their full uniform- just made the occasion so much more festive and special), to the fact that you blog. I don't know of many Moms of 20 year olds who blog and of course the way you dress. Not many schools can boast of a Principal who can walk the runway as she does the school corridors with equal ease. If my kids grow up and have even half of all that you have I would consider them a resounding  success.

I have to once again say I admire the way you handle things. That is one of the best things about you. I don't know how you handle people above you who must be pressuring you to do things in a certain way but you don't bring that down. You take care of your own very well.

I am glad my kids are in such great hands.

Sincerely,
Shailley (Mother of Nida, Rytam)

PS- After writing this mail I waited for a day so because I felt maybe the next day I would feel that the mail was over the top but even after a day I feel there's nothing I would want to change in the mail as it says exactly how I feel.

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Dear Shalini

The recent school trip to Agra was not just a great outing but also a big learning experience for my son.Apart from the historical knowledge Raaghav has also picked up that he must listen and obey to his teachers.I thus feel that it becomes my duty to thank the school for their endeavour.I would also like to make use of this opportunity to extend my gtatitude to the teachers specially Ms.Kamna for taking extra care for Raaghav\"s medication and giving his dosage timely. Best Regards

Radhika & Rohit Gupta parents of Raaghav Gupta Grade-IV

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Shalini Nambiar

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Dear Ms Shalini

Hello,
 
Thanks for the invite. Please enrol Aparna and myself for this exciting Cross Country run.
 
Great Initiative !!

Regards,
Anuj

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Dear Ms Shalini

 
How are you? The children were very excited about the Halloween party today. Hope they have lots of fun.

 
Science week was a great experience. The children were enjoying their experiments and I think each one of them learnt a lot. The little kids dressed up in Lab Coats looked really cute and scientific. 

 
Regards
Ritu Uberoy

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Dear Ms Shalini,

It was really good of Ms Krishna to send all the detailed information about the work done in class.

Vanshi is really looking forward to go to school and finds the class intersting also.

I have seen a positive change in Vanshi.

I hope she'll always love going to school and the teachers will do wonderful job as usual.

Thanks,
Rachna and Vinay

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Ms shalini

I thought I would take this opportunity to also thank you. There are so many things you have to deal with on a daily basis, hourly and weekly basis from all angles of running a school and still you smile an make time to listen to the worries and concern of individual parents.

I have personally met you several times for several issues and never one have I felt you don’t have time for me or don’t care. This is incredible. To make time for so many parents and each child plus run a school with so many new aspects in so commendable.

The school is developing with so many academics and non –academics opportunities for the kids so we do not have to so much outside the school for them. Plus the teachers you have recruited are so warm and caring that they look after our children emotionally.
In this era- parents are often demanding of their kids and any institute they study at which sometimes creates more problems for directors but you always manage to deal with all situations with a smile.
I am still happy with my choice of your school in India- and if any prospective parents wish to ask me what I think of your school, I will be happy to recommend your or “our” school. Sometimes it helps parents decide if they have a current parents viewpoint.

Thank You for everything from all of us
Warm Regards
Rina- Kulin
Simran & Shyan

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Hello Shalini,

Thank you soo much for replying to my emails so patiently. I really appreciate that. You know this is the best thing about your school that you all so patiently answer to all parents queries. I have inquired many schools but have experienced this mannerism only with your school and definitely want to put my child in that kind of atmosphere where each and every staff is so humble, modest and moreover understands a parent's problem.
Thanks again from depth of my heart.
Looking forward to see you in future,

Nitika

m this a wonderful thing you have started.most of the parents are very finicky
about hygiene but never bother to make their kids do any cleaning job at
home.just lecturing them is not enough.when they clean it themselves they'll
realise how IMP it is to leave the toilet clean for other's to use.
keep it up.
regards.
mauravi

Shalini Nambiar

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Hi,

It was a pleasure visiting your school. Excelsior fulfils all the requirements we were looking for. And we really appreciate the helpfulness and friendliness of Shalini and Kamna.
We want to take this opportunity to inform you that of all the many schools we'd visited in Gurgaon,
Excelsior stands out in every aspects.

We are glad we came to Excelsior (though we almost gave up as we couldn't find our way :))
See u soon !

Raja and Ahoi

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Kudos for providing each and every child with an opportunity to speak up
in front of their peers and loved ones. It inculcates confidence and boosts
their self esteem. Also the informaliy of the event took away the pressure

of performing.

Cheers for the effort !
Monica chopra

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Dear Ms Shalini,

We have been in continuous touch with Ms Rachna and the activities going on in the class. We are really happy with the progress of activities in various subjects. Shardul has shown significant progress in English, EVS, Mathematics and initiation on cultural curriculum is good. We were hugely impressed by the confidence with which Shardul presented his power point presentation off late. We will appreciate if more effort is put in Hindi as well along with more practice sheets.

We wish Ms Rachna quick recovery and hope she will join back soon.

Looking forward for your continued support.

Regards,
Sanjeev Sadavarti
Head - Corporate Quality
Apollo Tyres Limited
7, Institutional Area, Sector 32, Gurgaon 122001
Phone - 91 124 2383002 to 10 Ext. 143
Mobile - 98711 00381

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Hi Shalini

Sanskriti is really excited about the school dog. She has also certain names in mind. She was after me to get a dog at home  but now you have solved our problem for sometime atleast.

Best regards,
Parul Kohli

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Dear Shalini,

What a lovely idea and initiative!

Best regards,
Radhini

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om'
Hi Shalini,

Thats a wonderful idea to hv pets in school.dalmations n labradors are very child friendly unless u r thinking of getting a small breed.
keep coming up with great ideas.
tk cr.

mauravi

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Dear Ms. Shalini,

As a parent myself since our relocation I rely very heavily on fellow parents for any and all referals ranging from dentists/pediatricians/stores/schools etc.

Excelsior has been such a solid framework and foundation for our settling down in India. Kids took to Excelsior from day 1 and each morning they are eager to get to school. My son Samarth complains that his baby sister Avantika delays him each morning. Its a joy to see our kids enjoying each day at school and which has made  our relocation so much more easier. Friends from US inquire how our kids are liking India and how are they settling. I have sent out Excelsior website to many of my friends who want to see where our kids are schooling and they themselves also are contemplating relocation. They are encouraged to see a school of Excelsior standards and facilities. 

I am very sure that parent referral would be a great initiative to take Excelsior forward. Please rest assured that at any given opportunity we would be proud to introduce Excelsior to fellow parents.

Regards
Monica Chopra

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This incident  brought tears to my eyes too. I truely agree with what Ms Shalini said. It is difficult for us as adults to show such examplory behaviour and these kids have so much of wisdom, maturity, compassion and selflessness !

A big hug and blessings to these kids :)
We are proud to be a part of this school !

Regards,
Ila Gupta

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dear mam,

i would like to congratulate the school fro imparting these type of quality education to our kids. i would like to request you and all the others school staff to help harshita also in becoming a good student .
thanx

Rekha n Arvind

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Hi Shalini
 
Thanks for taking time to send this detailed note of appreciation. Anannya was quite excited after reading this. The school also needs to focus on imparting right values to students along with book-based learning; so I agree with your view point below.
 
Thanks once again!
 
Regards
 
Sandeep Neha

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Dear Shalini,

The August menu looks great.  Am I too old to enroll at Excelsior? 

Erin Trikha
Clinical Operations Manager
INC Research, Inc.
510-511, JMD Pacific Square
32nd Milestone, Sector 15, Part II
Gurgaon - 122 001, Haryana, India
Telephone:  +91 124 4642 442
Mobile:  +91 9999935881
etrikha@incresearch.com

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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