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Community – 50% (Bihari, Marwari, etc.). 70% students are from low income group. The
parent‘s chief occupation comprises mostly as factory workers, lower level business, hawkers,
drivers, farmers and only 5% hold government jobs.

The two most important aspects/ challenges are as follows:
1. Poor Performance in Science and Mathematics: The students‘ performance in Science
and Mathematics subjects was found to be low.
Background:
(i) The record of past 5 years did not show the School‘s participation in any Inter-school
Science events at District Level or State Level, etc.
(ii) The students were found to have either phobia or not interested in Science and
Mathematics subjects.
(iii) Child-Centric method of teaching was followed by a handful of teachers only.
(iv) The participation/ involvement of students were less.

The Principal shared the problem with the teachers and decided to conduct child centric
activities to arouse the interest of the students and at the same time increase their
participation and enhance the performance.

PLAN: The School decided to organize Science Carnival with the objective to provide
hands-on experience, to stimulate interest and curiosity, help them explore, so that, they
can joyfully learn, understand, and apply the scientific knowledge in real life. It also aims
to acquire skills of research using a variety of resources such as the Internet, interviews,
books, magazines, etc., to develop skills of interpretation and analysis of data and at the
same time to develop communicating skills both verbal and non-verbal (through models,
charts and power point presentations). It will help students understand the concept of
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

STRATEGIES:

(i) Science and Maths Professional Learning Community (PLC) was formed.
(ii) Meeting was convened to plan Science Carnival.
(iii) Science and Maths teachers of Classes I – VIII were instructed to guide students to
prepare models and projects as Formative Assessment (FA) activity in a group of 3-5
students. Likewise, teachers of Class IX & X were to guide secondary students as Subject
Enriching activity and Class XI & XII Science/IT as Projects/ PPT as per the CBSE
norms. After the assessment, the teachers were asked to give one best model each in
Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology from each class and seminar presentation for IT
stream.
(iv) The neighboring 3 higher technical institutes viz., Sikkim Manipal Institute of
Technology (Mazhitar), Advance Technical Training Centre (Bardang) and Government
Industrial Training Institute (Rangpo) were invited to exhibit their models. 6 feeder

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