Future of government school

Highlights from article in Prajavani newspaper on current situation and best way forward:
- Like old generation, current problem is not schools are not near to school but there are no students in government school.
- There are 15lakh schools out of which 11 lakh schools are government schools. Nearly 4.2 lakh schools have less than 50 students.
- In Karanataka, out of 49,430 schools 10,420 schools have less than 50 students and nearly 5000 schools don't have any students.
- Reason for above problem is:

1. As part of "Policy of access to schools", government built more schools

2. Demographic decline of population

3. Increase in private schools

Main problem with this is single or couple of teachers covering 4-5 standards and load on single teacher if others goes on vacation. Author suggests combining schools nearby to reverse this trend.

http://www.prajavani.net/news/article/2017/07/29/509579.html

Plan for 2017-2018

·         Tie up with Step Up For India (SUFI) for teaching material and volunteers training.

·         60 Hours of English session by volunteers to teach Phonetics based English.

·         Sponsor additional teacher to school to accommodate additional teaching activities

·         English coaching class for teachers

·         Computer education class for teachers and students

·         Non-Curricular learning on Saturdays 

Finance report - Academic year 2016/2017

Thanks for your support to Chilume Foundation. Below are the highlights of last year activities:
- Phoneitics based English teaching.
- Recruitment of additional teacher to handle additional learning activity
- School trip to Tulip resorts
- Facilitating study table for "Nali-Kali" students
- Conducting child safety sessions to bring awareness on child abuse
- Session from child psychologist and counselor. This session conducted to help teachers not to hit trouble making students but use techniques which will reduce restlessness of kids and get the focus in few minutes.

Below is the summary of donation and expense for the financial year 2016-2017. For FY 2017-18, we don't have sufficient fund to sponsor additional teacher for Turahalli school. It will be dis-continued after 6 months based on financial health. Support for school trips and other necessities of school will continue.

Republic Day Celebration

Republic day celebration in Yadalam school followed by session from Shobha Mangoli on building cognitive and emotional skills for children. It was good session where teachers learnt simple techniques to ease restlessness of students mind and bring in focus towards learning. Thanks to Ms Shobha for this wonderful session.

School trip to Tulip resorts

Chilume arranged school trips for two schools in December. Children, teachers and volunteers had gala time!

 

Change for Change

Recently one of our volunteer visited USA. During stay she got invite from School to present the work she is doing in government school. After session, impressed with work, kids collected coin for a month under "change for change" initiative and planned to hand over collected money ($500) to Chilume Foundation. Since we can't accept foreign donation, they shipped us projector. It was touching experience for Chilume. 

We also have flat screen TV donation from CBH resident. These will be used for computer aided learning.

No school bag Saturdays

Turahalli school is having no school bag day on Saturday. I think it is wonderful initiative to bring out creative aspects of students with fun.

Last week school had Radha Krishna theme costumes with games and this week Clay molding. Enjoyed making ganesha, crocodile, bull, mouse with kids. No fancy clay molding kit, just pure clay with natural decoration with stone and flower. Just loved it...!