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The Bhutia‘s have their own culture and traditions with a touch of Buddhist inclination whereas
Nepali follow Hindu culture and tradition but the most interesting part is too see how these two
opposite culture blends together during different festivals where no one can distinguish who is
celebrating which festival. Here one can definitely see communal harmony in its true essence.

The major challenges that the school was facing were
1. Unavailability of land for gardening.
2. Absenteeism.
3. Low performance in mathematical table recitation.
4. Poor in spoken English.
5. Poor co-ordination among staffs.

Efforts Initiated or the Process of Transformation

A staff meeting was called upon in the beginning of the session where we tried to identify
challenges and problems of the school. After much discussion and brainstorming it was decided
to take up three major problems for the session 2018-19 namely: -
1. Improving the spoken English of the students.
2. Mathematical table recitation up to 20.
3. Development of School kitchen garden.
Once the problems were identified, the staffs were encouraged to come up with innovative
ideas and share it. Once the ideas were shared, proper planning was done. It was decided to
make three groups to take up three different problems.

1. Improving the spoken English of the students.

to allocate spoken English period. During
this period, individual teacher would groom
students in spoken English. The students
were encouraged to communicate in
English and were reinforced with verbal
and non-verbal cues even if they were
speaking the wrong sentences. Gradually,
(Kids practicing English conversation) the teachers were able to reduce the
hesitation of the students. Since the schools
A group of 5 teachers were assigned with
improving the spoken English of the were over burdened with the activities and
students. Classes 3 to 8 were the targeted programmes the desired result could not be
group of students where classes were obtained. Hence, we made it into another
segregated as 3 & 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. A year‘s plan.
provision in the school time table was made

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