For information on academic, extra curricular and sporting awards and accolades received by our students, please consult this section in the near future.
Academic Awards
2007
Students received Certificates of Merit for being in the top 0.1percent
2005
Three students were awarded Certificates of Merit for being in the top 0.1percent in the English CBSE Examinations
2004
A student was awarded Gold Medal for obtaining the highest mark in Global Mathematical Talent Search Examination in Mathematics
2002
A student won the Global Mathematics Olympiad in 2002 – 2003.
Our Own English High School Abu Dhabi won the best participating school award in the All india Talent Search Examination in science
Sporting Awards
2005 – 2006
Our Own Inter School Athletic Meet 2005 at the Dubai Police Stadium
Second runner-up – Virendra Gupta (100 mts)
Inter School Athletic Meet organized by The Indian High School, Abu Dhabi
Second runner-up - Sabrina Fernandes (Under 14 Shot put)
Second runner-up – Cancio Fernandes (Under 10 Shot put)
2002 - 2003
Inter School Athletic Meet in October 2002
Winner: Sabrina Fernandez – shot put (Girls Category)
First Runner-up: Venezia Rodrigues - discus throw and shot put (Girls Category)
First Runner-up: Rainer Fernandez - shot put (Boys Category)
Extra Curricular Awards
2007 - 2008
Runner-up: Akhil George Mathew won in the 3rd Category in the International Festivals of Comic Strips
2006 - 2007
Winner: Nitu Hari in Bharat Natyam in the Inter School Dance Competition organised by Our Own English High School, Sharjah
Second Runners-up: Rewati Kulkarni in the K.S. Varkey Inter-School Elocution Competition
Inter-School Painting Competition
First Runner-up: Ansar Mohd (Category I)
Second Runner-up: Sanjana Dude (Category I)
Alston Saud Rodrigues - 2nd Position
Inter School Cartoon Competition
First Runner-up: Ansar Mohd, Grade 4
Runner-up: Sania Ashraf, Grade 9 and Lata Karmali, Grade 8
Science Exhibition held by IDEA in December 2006
Winner: Nazish & Team (Sugar Preparation)
Seond runner-up: Rewati & Team (Arc light)
Third Runner-up: Janice & team (Plastic Surgery)
Fourth Runner-up: Chinta & team
Runner-up: Akhil George Mathew, Grade 5 in the Go-Green Competition organised by Coral International Hotel, Resorts & Spa under the kind patronage of Ministry of education adn Dubai Investment Park
2005 – 2006
Second Runner-up: Public Speaking Competition organized by Emirates Environmental Group in April 2005. The participants were Anu – Speaker, Andrea & Asna – on power point, and Shalini and Chithra – with charts & models.
Al Ain Inter-School Science Festival
First Runner-up: Mrs. Mini Nair(Teacher) , Anu Chandra Kumar, Chithra Ramachandran, Kazima Anees and Ridhima Pradeep in the Science Symposium
Seond Runners-up: Students - Mariyam, Seema Shah, Harshada , Raghavi Hariharan; Teachers – Mr. Abdul Majid, Mrs. Anita Rema Chandran, Mrs. Jayalatha in Emit
Second Runner-up: Raghavi Hariharan, Grade 9 in Caption Writing Contest
Overall Ranking: Third Runner-up
Second Runner-up: Laxmi Chandrasekhar in the Kathak Juniors category in the Inter School Dance Festival, Sharjah in April
Dubai Modern High School Creative Festival 2005
Second Runner-up: Kazima Azam in the Hindi declamation contest
Second Runner-up: Taskeen Tabassum, Farah A Rehman, Dana James and Anita meter in the Fashion Contest
Winner & awarded the Rolling Trophy - 12th Inter School Music Competition 2005 organised by Indian School, Ajman
16th Inter School Islamic Quiz Competition
Third Runner-up (Boys): Mohd Sajid, Grade 9; Sawrab Suderan, Grade 9 and Farzeen Hasharaf Grade 8
Second Runner-up (Girls): Samiha Mohideen, grade 10; Kazima Anis and Aparna Das, Grade 9
Inter School Declamation Contest organized by Indian Islahi Islamic School, Abu Dhabi
First and Second Runners-up in the junior category
First Runner-up in the senior category
Second Runner-up: Prakruthi, Grade 5 student in the sub-junior category in the Jawaharlal Nehru Inter School Hindi Declamation organized by the Indian High School, Dubai
Inter-School Read Aloud Competition organized by The Indian High School, Dubai
First Runner-up: Grade 3 and 4 boys
First Runner-up: Grade 3 and 4 girls
Runners-up Trophy for girls
Bharat M. Nanda, Grade 4 and Sarat M. Nanda, Grade 4 stood 18th and 20th , respectively from among the 100 winning paintings in the Save Water Colouring Competition organized by Coral International Beach Resort, Sharjah that had 50,000 students participating from 300 school.
2004 – 2005
Jawaharlal Nehru Hindi and English declamation contest in May organized by the Indian High School, Dubai
First Runner-up: Santosh Rao (Boys junior category in Hindi language)
Second Runner-up: Aliya Akthar (Girls senior category in Hindi language)
Second Runner-up: Tanya Jajal (Girls sub-junior category in English language)
Second Runner-up: Vishnu Krishna Chandran (Boys junior category in English language)
Second Runner-up: Anita Roy (Girls seniors category in English language)
Winner: Kavya Krishnan in the Silver Jubilee Interschool essay writing competition organized by the Sharjah Indian School on May 27th, 200 2004.
Inter-School Science festival held at Al Ain
Winner: Anita Roy for Impulse
First Runner-up: Salla Sagar and P.J. Rakesh for creative display.
Second Runner-up: Shammas Mohiudeen in the caption writing contest.
Overall ranking: Third Runner-up
Our girls team ranked 6th in the QuizYT 2004 organized by young times in October 2004.
Dubai Modern High School Creative Festival
Winner & Rolling trophy – Group Music Competition
Winner: Asna kareem and Andrea Christy in Graphic Designing Competition
First Runner-up: P.J.Rakesh and E.Niyas Abdullah in Graphic Designing Competition
First Runner-up: Shakeeb Asam in Hindi Declamation contest
Overall ranking: Second Runner-up
The Indian Islahi School Abudhabi organized the Inter school English declamation in November
First Runner-up: Anna Mariam Thomas (Girls section)
First Runner-up: Syed Tasmiya (boys section)
Second Runner-up: Shakeeb Aasam won the 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively thereby walking away with the rolling trophy.
Inter School English Declamation held at Indian Islahi School, Abu Dhabi – Rolling trophy
First Runner-up: Anna Mariam Thomas (Girls section)
Second Runner-up: Syed Tasmiya (Girls section)
Second Runner-up: Shakib Azzay (Boys section)
2003–2004
Best Participating School Award - All India Talent Search examination in Science in May 2003
P.S. Rohit and Rithwick Warrier were among the rank holders of the All India Talent Search examination in Science held in May 2003.
Jawaharlal Nehru declamation contest organized by the Indian High School, Dubai
Overall trophy in the Sub-junior category
Winner: Tanya Kini (sub-junior category in Hindi language)
Winner: Deepika Rao (sub-junior category in English language)
First Runner-up: Tasmiya Syed (junior category in English language)
First Runner-up: Sharath Sankar (senior category in English language)
Shalini Hemachandran - first runner-up among participants from 18 schools from all over the UAE in the Inter School Painting Competition organised by Our Own Abu Dhabi in September 2003
Dubai Modern High School Creative Festival
Second Runner-up: Prashani Vijayakumar and Jane David in collage competition
Second Runner-up: Deepti Rao in Hindi Declamation.
In December 2003, the school organsied a Charity Fair to raise funds for physically challenged children and the Red Crescent Society and successfully collected a total of Dhs. 60,000.
Creative Writing Competition organized by Gulf Today in association with Our Own English High School, Sharjah
P.S. Rohit, Salla Sagar, and R Balaji were among the top ten creative story writers
Gulf Today Rolling Trophy for Creative Writing
2002 - 2003
Winner: Sana Mohd., Maya Radhakrishnan, Nuzah Basheer and Naheedah Abdul Khader displayed a presentation on Smart Science in the Inter-School Science Festival hosted by Our Own English High School, Al Ain in April 2002.
Winner: Madonna Antony, Deepti Rao, Natasha Kini and R. Bala won the 1st prize in a debate on ‘can smart Science unify the world?’ at the Science Symposium in the Inter-School Science Festival hosted by Our Own English High School, Al Ain in April 2002.
Second Runner-up: Rahul Unni – English Declamation - in the Jawaharlal Nehru Inter School English and Hindi Declamation contest held at The Indian High School, Dubai in May 2002.
Winner: Sriram Sidharth – UAE Inter School Essay Writing Competition organized by Archies Gallery, Dubai
Dubai Modern High School Creative Festival in October 2002
Winner: Silpa Sankar and Prashani Vijayakumar in the Collage Making Competition
Winner: Achal, Ullahas, Arjun and Akhil in the Mad Ad Contest
First Runner-up: Vyshakh Jinnaraj and Michael Victor in the Mural Painting Competition
Second Runner-up: Group Dance Competition
Second Runner-up: Group Singing Competition
First Runner-up: Among 500 exhibits put up by schools from all over the Gulf in Doha Qatar at the Jawaharlal Nehru National Science Exhibition conducted by NCERT, India, Deepti Rao’s project on Oil Degradation in Marine Life won 2nd prize and was selected to be displayed at the All India Science Exhibition.
Our Own English High School, Abu Dhabi is the first school from the UAE to represent at the National level in the Jawaharlal Nehru National Science Exhibition conducted by NCERT, India.
Inter-school English Declamation contest held at Indian Islahi Islamic School, Abu Dhabi in November 2002
Overall school championship
Winner: Vyshakh Jinnarajan (senior boys category)
Winner: Anita Roy (senior girls category)
First runner-up: Rithwick Varrier (junior boys category)
Winner: Merlin Antony (junior girls category)
Winner: Rewati Kulkarni in the junior category in the K.S. Varkey Elocution Contest for Girls held on 7th of November
Rithwick Warrier secured 12th rank, Rohit Sasidharan 15th rank at the All India and Gulf level in the All India Talent Search Examination in Science.
Best participating school award achieved in the All India Talent Search Examination in Science
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