Guru Poornima celebrated in the school on 7th July 09

Lunch Party for the Children of our School

Mathematic Workshop For The Teachers

On 12th and 13th of June, Mathematic workshop was conducted in school by Dr.Anju Naik and Mrs Kirti Shah. All the teachers, along with the coordinators and the staff of NIMH attended the workshop.

The workshop focused on teaching Maths to pre-primary to primary level and the topics that covered during the workshop were fourteen pre-mathematical concepts of numbers from zero to nine, the number value and number formation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, concept of time, measurement and currency.

The workshop stressed the importance on teaching the concept of mathematics and how it helps them in the concept of number, computation and application skills. For example, in teaching the concept of big/small, the child is able to give the value to the size and then relate the size to the number value and finally to the number concept of big/small.



The two-day workshop was very useful to teachers, “It was very informative, the basic concept of maths are needed, for further operations, it is something which is not given much importance in normal schools! Hope you all can bring about this awareness, I really enjoyed the session, thank you’” said one teachers at the end of the session.

Art lesson for Suraj Kotian.

Suraj Kotian, a 20 year old student of the vocational group enjoys drawing and painting, although he does many more things in school like making paper bags, making jewelry, candle making, and he also sits on loom to make dusters, like his other class mates in vocational group do. But art is the class he enjoys the most.

It is very relaxing to sit in Mrs. Madhuben’s art class. She is the art teacher for special children and she comes to school twice a week, on Wednesdays and on Thursday. Patiently she teaches children to draw and paint and children are very happy in her class.



Suraj listens carefully as his art teacher guides to produce perfect strokes, and color the art work. He has speech problem but he can follow all instructions and is able to produce many useful articles. He is paid a stipend for making saleable articles like Rakhees, dusters and greeting cards.

He lives in Nerul and comes to school by school bus. He is quite independent and will be able to work in sheltered workshops.

Swamiji's Punyatithi Celebrated in school on 29th May 09

Appeiciation Award Presented to Pushpa by Swami Brahmanand

On the occasion of 18th Annual Day of Swami Brahmanand held on 15th April 2009 at Vishnudas Bhave Auditorium Ms. Pushpa Moorjani was presented an Appreciation Award for her contribution, dedication and selfless service towards the rehabilitation of children with special needs by the Manangement of Swami Brahmanand Pratishthan at the hands of the Chief Guest Shri. Jagannath Sinnarkar - Dy. Muncipal Commisioner (Navi Mumbai) & Honoured Guest Mr. Ravi Subbaia &

The other members who were feliciated on the same day were Ms. Madhukanta Shah (Art Teacher) and Mrs. Sarita Karekar (Attendant)

New Term Begins………2009-2010

Next week, the school re-opens after the summer vacation of 45 days and the children will be very excited to come back to school. They will come with stories to share with their teachers and friends and the school will once again become alive with their sights and sounds.

The teachers too have been busy preparing the curriculum for the next term. Teaching special children require special skills and the lesson have to be tailored to meet children’s individual needs.

Today, all the teachers met in the common room with Sukanya, (The Principal), Shirish (The founder), and Pranita (Officer-in-charge for National Institute for Mentally Handicapped) to discuss briefly the activities and teaching methods that the teachers will use during this year.

Every year, new students are admitted in the school and we have about 120 students presently. The teaching plan will now be structured in such a way that children are trained for some vocational activity to find jobs in the main stream. The teachers in the vocational group were advised to study the job opportunities for the special child and train the child accordingly. This will help the school to admit new students while the older children are integrated into the independent world. The parent’s cooperation will be required to help the child and the skills, that are taught in school, can be improved at home.

In the primary level, the children will be trained in reading, writing, art, music and in other various types of activities. There will be field trips and daily life activities. Much has been planned by teachers and the assistants, but the progress will depend on the ability of the student.

Teachers will continue to strive harder each year…….

Last week of celebration during this school term

On 15th April, annual day was celebrated at Visnu Bhave Auditorium, at Vashi and the show was amazing. There were songs, and dances with the back-drop of a slide show and it was performed by talented children.

Children’s performance was enjoyed by everybody present and was even recorded by local TV channel. Due to time restrain, the prize distribution could not take place during those three hours that the show went on.



Therefore, on 17th April, the prize distribution program was organized. And every child was given the gift for their effort and performance during the year. In special school, each and every child is felicitated because every child is differently-able

After the prize distribution, all children returned to their classroom, where lunch was served to all



The lunch was cooked in the school kitchen by Monica and it was so delicious, that she had to cook twice.



The lunch was sponsored by our well wisher from Madrid, Mrs. Kamlu Daswani and the menu included vegetable puloa, salad, chana, pickle, papad, and jelebi.

The school term has come to an end, and the school is closed for summer vacation.

Sharing and Caring Day

During the year, many special days are celebrated to express our love and gratitude for the people we care. We celebrate ‘Teachers’ Day’, ‘Mothers’ Day’, ‘Fathers’ Day’, ‘Valentine Day’, etc, etc, but, what about the people in our life, whose work is sometimes taken for granted?


I am talking about the common people who work for us, making our life easier, they help keep our environment clean, cook and serve us food, drive us around in this crazy traffic. Yes, they deserve a special day too, a day when we can show our gratitude for them.

And the parents of our students did just that.

Parents of our students are happy that their children ‘well-cared-for’ by our assistants during the school hours.

They decided to celebrate 1st April as ‘Sharing and Caring day’ in school to show their gratitude to the helpers in our school. The assistants were honored on this day; Gifts were given to each assistant by the parents of the students while the children cheered loudly and happily.



Later, the children were guided to their classrooms where they were served snacks (Vegetable cutlets and wafers with tomato sauce) that were sponsored by our well wisher, Roshini Kamrani, from Madrid, Spain.

It was a memorable day for our assistants and children had one more reason to celebrate!

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Invitation for Annual Day