Dear Parents,

Greetings!
As the sun shines brighter and the academic year’s initial phase comes to a successful close, it is time for our students
to step into one of the most awaited periods of the year—the Summer Vacation!
While school breaks are a wonderful pause from daily routines, they are also an incredible window of opportunity. This
summer, we want to shift the focus from mere "idle time" to a beautiful "Summer Expedition." We encourage you to
use this time to unplug, bond, and spend truly meaningful, quality time with your children. Cook a meal together, share
stories from your own childhood, take walks in the evening, and listen to their ideas. The emotional security and
confidence a child gains from undivided parental attention are unmatched.
Our Approach to Holiday Homework: The Learning Quest
To keep their minds active and curious, we have carefully designed our Holiday Homework. Instead of traditional,
repetitive desk work, this year's assignments are structured as an engaging mission to explore, discover, and create.
We want our students from Nursery to Class XII to step into the shoes of "Little Researchers" and explorers. The
homework has been curated to encourage:
• Connecting with Roots: Visiting grandparents, relatives, and old friends to understand family bonds and diverse
cultures.
• Field Research & Exploration: Visiting new places, historical monuments, museums, or local nature trails to
observe the world firsthand.
• Scientific & Mathematical Curiosity: For our senior students, assignments are integrated with real-world
applications of Space, Mathematics, and Rocketry, helping them bridge classroom theories with the cosmos.
• Joyful Learning: Updating their knowledge and understanding through practical fun, hands-on experiments, and
creative diary logs.
Important Guidelines for Parents:
1. Guided, Not Done: Kindly guide your ward with their projects, but let the thoughts, handwriting, and creativity
be entirely their own. Let them make mistakes and learn from them!
2. Accessing the Homework: The detailed, class-wise Holiday Homework booklets have been shared with the
students and uploaded on the school portal/official groups. Please review them together with your child to help
them plan a balanced schedule.
3. Safety First: While we encourage traveling and exploring, please ensure your child stays well hydrated and safe
from the summer heat.
Let us join hands to make this vacation a beautiful blend of joy, family bonding, and intellectual growth. We look
forward to seeing our students return refreshed, wiser, and bubbling with stories of their summer discoveries.
Wishing you and your family a safe, happy, and adventurous summer break!
Warm regards,
Principal
Himalayan Progressive School
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Summer Holiday Homework (2026 - 27)
CLASS X
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Assignment 1: CBSE Project File
Topic: Sustainable Development & Resource Management
Format: Handwritten on A4 size interleaf sheets (10–15 pages), neatly arranged in a project folder.
Core Areas: (i)Sustainable Development: Meaning and core principles.
(ii)Global Initiatives: Detailed notes on the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit 1992 and Agenda 21.
Conservation Case Study: Land degradation issues or soil conservation methods practiced in India
(e.g., terrace farming, shelterbelts).
Assignment 2: Art-Integrated Project (CBSE Mandatory)
Theme: A Comparative Study of Uttarakhand and Puducherry
Format: Creative Portfolio / Scrapbook (Highly visual and artistic).
You must compare both regions across the following five specific parameters: Population, Wildlife, Natural
Vegetation, Heritage, Art forms
Assignment 3: Soil Profile Portfolio (A3 Sheet)
Collect & Paste: Gather small, real samples of different types of soil available in your surroundings (e.g., Alluvial, Black,
Red, or Arid soil). Dry them out and securely paste/tape them inside small transparent plastic pouches on
an A3 size sheet.
SCIENCE
(BIOLOGY)
Art Integrated Project : Prepare a project file on comparison of biodiversity between Uttarakhand and Puducherry.
Q1. Disease Detective Challenge
Choose any one disease from the following :
a) Diabetes b) Dengue c) Tuberculosis d) Anemia e) Hypertension
Prepare a creative case-study file including:
a) Cause and symptoms b) Affected organ/system c) Prevention methods
d) Healthy lifestyle tips e) Role of nutrition and immunity
Also Add a small interview with a family member/doctor/pharmacist Or Create a comic strip showing prevention.
(CHEMISTRY)
A. Art Integration Project
Project Title: The Chemistry of Colours: Natural Dyes in Pottery and Textile Crafts
Compare the chemistry of Natural dyes used in Pottery and Textile Crafts in cottage industries of Uttarakhand and
Puducherry.
The project should cover the following points
 Chemical composition of the Natural Dyes used.
 Investigating the effects of acids and bases on traditional colour of Natural Dyes.
 pH sensitivity of Natural Dyes.
 Make Aipan Art, famous art form of Uttarakhand or make sculpture and pottery famous in Puducherry using Natural
Dyes.
B. Assignment: Do the following questions in your Chemistry notebook –
COMPETENCY BASED QUESTIONS:
i) Ram was doing an experiment in the Chemistry lab. The teacher told him to heat 1g of Cu in a test tube. He observed
that the colour of the copper turns from brown to black. When Hydrogen gas is passed over it again changes to brown
colour.
a) Name the type of reaction involved. b) Name the black colour substance formed.
c) Write the balanced chemical reactions.
ii) What happens when dry Barium chloride and dry Sodium sulphate are mixed together? What should you do make the
reaction possible? Write the balanced chemical equation for the chemical reaction. Write the symbols of the ions
 present in the compound precipitated in the reaction.
iii) On heating Lead nitrate in a boiling tube, lead oxide, oxygen gas and a brown gas “X” is formed. Identify the type of
reaction and the gas “X”. Also write the balanced chemical equation of the reaction.
C. Sunita took about 2 g of Ferrous sulphate crystals in a dry boiling tube and heat the boiling tube over the flame of a burner.
a) What is the colour of the ferrous sulphate crystals? b) Write the changes observed during heating of the crystals.
c) Name the type of the reaction and define it. Also write the balanced chemical equations.
D. Solve the following questions in your fair notebook :
1) What is the need to balance a chemical equation?
2) The packets of potato wafers are flushed with nitrogen gas. Why?
3) Which one is a chemical change? Electrolysis of water or sodium chloride exposed to sunlight?
4) White silver chloride turns grey in sunlight. Why?
5) Which is the brown coloured gas evolved when lead nitrate crystals are heated in a dry test tube?
6) Write any one example of an endothermic reaction and exothermic reaction.
7) A cadet added Calcium oxide to water in a beaker. Answer the following
(i) Write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction that takes place in the beaker .
(ii) Write one use of the solution of the product formed in the above reaction.
8) What is the colour of FeSO4. 7H2O crystals? How its colour change upon heating? Give balanced Equation for the
changes.
9) A magnesium ribbon is burnt in oxygen to give a white compound ‘X’ accompanied by emission of light. If the burning
ribbon is now placed in an atmosphere of nitrogen, it continues to burn and forms a Compound ‘Y’.
(i) Write the chemical formulae of X and Y. (ii) Write a balanced chemical equation, when X is dissolved in water.
10) Shyam heated Lead nitrate in a boiling tube. A) Identify the type of reaction. B) Write a balanced Chemical equation for
the reaction. C) What are the gaseous products formed in this reaction
11) A substance ‘X’, which is an oxide of a group 2 element, is used intensively in the cement industry. This element is
present in bones also. Reacting with water it forms a solution which turns red litmus blue. Identify ‘X’ and write the
chemical reactions.
12)What changes do you observe in the iron nails and colour of copper sulphate solution if the iron nails are dipped in
CuSO4 solution for 15 minutes?
13) A shiny brown coloured element ‘X’ on heating in air becomes black in colour. Name the element ‘X’ and the black
coloured compound formed. Write the chemical equation for the reaction.
14)What is Redox reaction? Identify the reducing agent and oxidizing agent in the following reactions.
i) CuO + H2 → Cu + H2O ii) Fe2O3 + 3CO → 2Fe + 3CO2 iii) 4NH3 + 5O2 → 4NO + 6H2O
(PHYSICS)
ART IINTEGRATED FILE Topic: Comparative Study between Uttarakhand and Puducherry on a Physics Basis
Physics Parameter:-
i) Geographical altitude ii) Acceleration due to gravity
iii) Atmospheric pressure v) Boiling point of water
v) Thermodynamics phenomenon vi) Optical medium (air)
Solve the following problems in your fair notebook :-
Q1. Show the image formed by the plane mirror.
Q2. Why a concave mirror is used as doctor's head mirror ?
Q3. An object 1cm high is held near a concave mirror of magnification 10. How tall will be the image ?
Q4. An object 2cm high is placed at a distance of 16 cm from a concave mirror, which produces 3cm high inverted image.
What is the focal length of the mirror ? Also find the position of the image.
Q5. The image formed by a convex mirror of focal length 30cm is a quarter of the object. What is the distance of the object
from the mirror.
Q6. Explain why magnification of a convex mirror is always positive ?
Q7. What is refraction. Explain its laws with diagram.
Q8. What is the cause of refraction ?
Q9. A ray of light is incident on a glass slab at an angle of 45°, if refractive index of glass be 1.6. What is the angle of
refraction.
Q10. A 4.5 cm needle is placed 12cm away from a convex mirror of focal length 15cm. Give the location of the image and
the magnification. Describe what happens as the needle is moved farther from the mirror.
Q11. Write lens formula and mirror formula with the meaning of each term involved.
Q12. How can we use convex lens as magnified glass ? Explain with diagram.
Q13. Draw all the ray diagrams related to concave mirror, convex mirror.
Q14. The magnification produced by plane mirror is +1. What does this mean ?
Q15. Why concave mirror is used as shaving mirror ?
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MATHEMATICS
PART A
Art integrated project file : Comparative Study between Uttarakhand and Puducherry on the basis of given
mathematical parameters :-
i) Introduction of the project work.
ii) Demography and population density comparison by pie chat of last 3 years.
iii) Economy comparison by line graph of last 5 years.
iv) Literacy rate comparison by bar graph of last 5 years.
v) Comparison of latitude, longitude and altitude of both.
vi) Forest cover area comparison by histogram of last 3 years.
Also include
1. Cover Page: Title, Name, Class, Roll No., Subject (Mathematics). 2. Acknowledgement: Thanking teacher/school.
3. Certificate: Authentication of original work. 4. Index page. 5. Bibliography.
PART B
Q1. For the polynomial x2 + k(2x + k – 1) + 2 if zeros are real and equal then determine value of k.
Q2. If – 5 is a root of the quadratic polynomial 2x2 + px – 15 and the quadratic polynomial p(x2 + x) + k has equal zeros, find
the value of k.
Q3. The LCM of two numbers is 14 times their HCF. The sum of LCM and HCF is 600. If one number is 280, then find the
other number.
Q4. Solve the following pair of linear equations graphically: x + 3y = 6 , 2x – 3y = 12. Hence find the area of the triangle
formed by the lines representing the given equations with y-axis.
Q5. Solve the following pair of linear equations for x and y:
(i) 141x + 93y = 189 , 93x + 141y = 499
(ii) 51x + 49 y = 501 , 49x + 51y = 45
Q6. Find the greatest number that will divide 44, 92 and 243 so as to leave the same remainder in each case.
Q7. On reversing the digits of a two digit number, number obtained is 9 less than three times the original number. If the
difference of these two numbers is 45, find the original number.
Q8. If the H.C.F. of 408 and 1032 is expressible in the form 1032m – 408 x 5,then determine value of m.
Q9. 7x – 5y – 4 = 0 is given. Write another linear equation, so that the lines represented by the pair are:
(i) intersecting (ii) coincident (iii) parallel
Q10. A man earns ₹600 per month more than his wife. One-tenth of the man’s salary and l/6th of the wife’s salary
amount to ₹1,500, which is saved every month. Find their incomes.
Q11. Find the value of k for which the roots of the equation 3x2 – 10x + k = 0 are reciprocal of each other.
Q12. The owner of a taxi company decides to run all the taxis on CNG fuel instead of petrol/diesel. The taxi charges
in city comprises of fixed charges together with the charge for the distance covered. For a journey of 12 km,
the charge paid is 789 and for journey of 20 km, the charge paid is ₹145.
Q13. Find the smallest number which when increased by 17 is exactly divisible by both 520 and 468.
Q14. The age of the father is twice the sum of the ages of his 2 children. After 20 years, his age will be equal to the
sum of the ages of his children. Find the age of the father.
Q15. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 – 3𝑥 + 4, find the value of 1/α + 1/β − 2αβ.
Q16. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 2 + 2𝑥 – 3, find the value of 1/α − 1/β
Q17. If one zero of the quadratic polynomial f(x) = 4x2 – 8kx – 9 is negative of the other, find the value of k.
Q18. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial p(x) = x2 – 5x – 1, find the value of α2β + αβ2.
Q19. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial f (x) = 3x2 + x – 2, find the value of α/β + β/α
Q20. If the squared difference of the zeros of the quadratic polynomial f(x) = x2 + px + 45 is equal to 144, find the value of p.
Q21. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial f(x) = x2 – p(x + 1) – c, show that (α + 1) (β + 1) = 1 – c.
Q22. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial such that α + β = 24 and α – β = 8, find a quadratic polynomial having
α and β as its zeros.
Q23. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial f(x) = x2 – 4, find a quadratic polynomial whose zeros
are 2α/β and 2β/α.
Q24. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial f(x) = x2 – 2x + 3, find a polynomial whose roots are :
𝛼 − 1 𝛽 − 1
(i) α + 2, β + 2 (ii) 𝛼 + 1 , 𝛽 + 1
Q25. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial p(s) = 3s2 – 6s + 4, find the value
of α/β+β/α+2(1/α+1/β)+3αβ
Q26. If α and β are the zeros of the quadratic polynomial f(t) = t2 – 4t + 3, find the value of α4β3 + α3β4.
Q27. The cost of 2 kg of apples and 1kg of grapes on a day was found to be Rs.160. After a month, the cost of 4 kg of apples
and 2 kg of grapes is Rs.300. Represent the situation algebraically.
Q28. On comparing the ratios a1/a2, b1/b2, and c1/c2, find out whether the following pair of linear equations are consistent or
inconsistent.
(i) 4x + 3y = 9 ; 2x – 3y = 6 (ii) 2x – 5y = 9 ; 4x – 10y = 18
Q29. For which values of a and b do the following pair of linear equations have infinite solutions?
2x + 3y = 7 , (a – b) x + (a + b) y = 3a + b – 2
Q30. The ratio of incomes of two persons is 9 : 7 and the ratio of their expenditures is 4 : 3. If each of them manages
to save Rs. 2000 per month, find their monthly incomes.
ENGLISH
A. ART INTEGRATED PROJECT OF ENGLISH
Comparative Study of Uttarakhand and Puducherry”
1. Cover Page: Title, Name, Class, Roll No., Subject (English). 2. Acknowledgement: Thanking teacher/school.
3. Certificate: Authentication of original work. 4. Introduction:
5. Overview of Uttarakhand 6. Overview of Puducherry
7. Culture and Traditions 8. Famous Cuisine
9. Language and Literature 10. Festivals
11. Art and Architecture 12. Music and Dance Forms
13. Tourist Attractions 14. Bibliography
B. Writing Skills based questions to be done in English notebook.
1. This table showing the annual rainfall (in mm) in four cities — Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai from
2020 to 2023. Write an analytical paragraph in 100 – 120 words.
Year Mumbai Delhi Kolkata Chennai

2020 2000 800 1500 1200

2021 2100 850 1600 1250

2022 2200 900 1700 1300

2023 2300 950 1800 1350

3. The pie chart shows the proportion of people from different households living in poverty in the UK in 2002. Write an
analytical paragraph to describe the information in 100-120 words.

4. You are Shyam Singh, an assistant professor at Netaji Subhash University Kolkata. Outside your college, there
is a river which is polluted by the locals. You want to organize a rally to make people aware of the issue. Write
a letter to the editor highlighting the need for awareness among people and to motivate people to join the rally.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Prepare Project Work on the following topics:
1. Digital Documentation
a) Styles, Type of Styles & Styles and Formatting Window b) Applying Styles to Document objects
c) Fill format mode and how to use it d) Creating new styles using drag and drop
e) Insert Auto shapes & Textbox f) Change Fill Style/Fill colour in a Drawing Object
g) Inserting Graphic Text Art h) Properties of Drawing Objects and Images
i) Text Wrap Settings in Writer
2. Electronic Spread sheet
a) Data Consolidation b) Sub Total
c) What-if Analysis Tools –
i. Scenario ii. Goal Seek iii. Solver
Note: - Write headings properly with color pens draw diagrams or paste pictures if required. Use A4 size one sided
lined papers.