Academic year 2017-18 was quite eventful for Chilume. Below
is the brief on the set of activities conducted in Turahalli and Yadalam government
schools.
English Coaching
Classes
Chilume has tied up with Step Up for
India (SUFI) for English coaching. As part of this, SUFI provides training to
volunteers and provide teaching materials. Volunteers took 90 sessions across
term-I and term-II. Each session is of one hour duration and attended by two
volunteers. Regular tests were held as part of coaching instruction to assess
the learning.
Both volunteers and school staff
see good improvement with English learning. Thanks to below CBH residents for
volunteering and for their effort to make this happen.
Aruna, Ashwini , Bharathi , Jalaja, Premsudha , Prabhu, Prakash,
Priyatha, Revathi, Raji, Ragini, Rajendra,
Saiprasanna, Shekhar, Shivaram, Sreevasan, Suchitra, Susheela, Vasantha and Viji.
Analog Devices has sponsored two
SUFI coaching classes, one per school. Each of these course costs Rs 1,25,000/-.
On seeing volunteers dedication and results, Analog Devices agreed to sponsor
additional two coaching classes for AY 2018-19, this is worth Rs 5,00,000/-
sponsorship. In addition, company has agreed to pay additional salary amount Rs 4,000
/- to Chilume sponsored teacher.
Thanks
to Prakash
Kuve for getting this sponsorship.
Music class:
Regular music classes are held
in Turahalli school by Seetha.
Under her guidance, students won awards in inter-school singing
competition.
Craft class
Regular craft class are held in
Turahalli school by Suchitra,
under her guidance students learnt stitching and embroidery design.
Mind map coaching:
Mind map coaching class held in
Turahalli school on Sep 2017. Mind mapping is a creative and logical means of
note-taking method. It’s used to Register, Recollect and Reproduce whatever
students would study. This coaching class conducted to introduce new technique
to government school students and teachers. Thanks to Viji for planning and co-ordination.
School Trip:
One of the founding principle of
Chilume is to provide exposure to students. This year we took 50 students and
teachers to software company located in outer ring road. Students were toured
around office facilities, like work place, meeting room, labs, pantry and other
facilities. We hope this will provide inspiration to study and dream for
higher.
Thanks to Harman International for sponsoring and facilitating this trip.
School renovation:
Apart from quality education,
one of the key challenge in government school is maintaining facilities. This
year with the help of CBH residents and residents of locality, we have painted
Yadalam school. School looks quite bright after painting.
On
these bright walls Madhuri Aggarwal,
Ashwini and CBH residents sprinkled vibrant colors. Hongirana team led wall painting in
Yadalam school. This colorful art on school walls surely made school very
beautiful place.
Thanks to all residents who have
participated in this event and donated for this project. Special thanks to Sunil who mobilized funds for
this project.
Dental Camp:
Dental camp conducted in
Turahalli school for check-up and to create oral hygiene awareness. Dr Ranjitha and Dr Vijaya Yadalam arranged this camp in co-ordination with RV
Dental College. As part of this camp around 145 school children were
screened, 52 permanent GI fillings, 25 pit and fissure sealants, 45 scaling are
done. Tooth brush and pastes were distributed to all the students
Donation from CBH residents
CBH residents have made
monetary donations during Ganesh festival. Please refer to e-mail published
regularly for complete list of donations made to school activities.
Plan for 2018-19:
We plan to continue our focus on
English teaching as this is the area of concern for government schools.
We would like to thank CBH residents, volunteers, school staff, Step Up
For India (SUFI) trust, donors and companies (Analog Devices, Harman
International) for the support.
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