School academic-year ends on April 19th
and the children will go for summer holidays. Teachers will continue to work
till end of April making reports of the progress made by the children during
the year, upgrading lesson plans and other activities for the next academic year.
For the successful running of the school, planning is important, each child is
unique with different level of understanding, the plans are made to get the
maximum progress of the child. Parents play an equal and important role in the
development of the child, it is important for them to work parallel to teachers
in receiving the desired results.
The main aim in teaching at Special School is
to make the child independent in self-care and to develop those skills that he
has an interest and aptitude to progress.
On April 3, annual planning workshop was held
at school, attended by 38 persons that included teaching staff, helpers and
parents of both the centers, (CBD and Uran.) Sukanya Venkat, the Principal of
the school, and Shirish Poojari, the founder, conducted the workshop.
The workshop started with an interesting game
whereby everybody were asked to close their eyes and imagine them selves to be
in a deep desert. Sukanya asked them to study the details of the words like
cube, ladder, flowers, horse and storm, their relationship to each other, their
physical characteristics and other details. The idea behind this game was
self-discovery and the relationship of the person with family and friends. It
was interesting to learn about their interpretations and perceptions.
The next session started by calling each person
to the mike and giving them an opportunity to relate their experiences of
working at school during the year, to relate their achievements and their
overall performance at school. Most of the staff was pleased by the performance
and was open to the idea for improvement for the benefit of the children.
Parents were also very happy with the progress of their child at school.
There are many events organized during the year
whereby children learn in an informal way through fun and activities. It is no
use teaching from textbooks when first hand experience can give better results.
The events are planned; teachers and parents volunteer and are given the
responsibility for management of the events.
After lunch break, the events were listed out
on the white board as follows:
Festivals
Parents’ day
Grandparents’ day
Teacher’s days
Caring day
Children’s day
Annual day
Food festival
Picnics students, staff
Camps
Sports
Fun fair and exhibition of articles made by
children.
Birthdays
Different themes are chosen for birthdays every
year. Details of the theme can be found here.
The school celebrates 25th year
of its service this year and there is line-up of events during the year. Staff
members, parents, sponsors, well-wishers, all have played an important role in
the progress of what our school is today. Clearly, it’s teamwork!
To be continued……..
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