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Humour is the spice of human relationship. We keep on organising different activities, sessions, talks and
presentations to keep students in good humour and instantly appreciate and incentivize their
achievements. We encourage students and parents to take part in social and community service for
sustainable development in which everyone is contributor as well as beneficiary. We instilled a sense of
belongingness, collaboration and partnership among our students, parents and community.
Students‘ Council was assigned duties of developing rapport with the targeted students and their parents
whereas SMC was involved to meet parents and intervene in the matter of absenteeism. The school
organised orientation programmes for community members and social workers and roped in them for
better upkeep and maintenance of the neighbourhood for developing a congenial social environment.

With such and other bouquet of planned interventions, we have been able to contain absenteeism and
poor attendance issue.

 Behaviour, Attitude and Communication of Students: By and large almost all students of our
school belong to lower strata of the society and most of the parents work as daily wage earners,
hawkers, house maids, casual labourers and local mart sellers. Their small one- two room houses are
located in thickly populated resettlement clusters where social atmosphere is charged with family
unrests, abusive exchange of language, petty crimes, domestic violence, property disputed, illegal
encroachments etc. Children often learn from their immediate atmosphere and this gets reflected in
school also. Some students, teachers and parents reported about rude behaviour and filthy language of
some students.

Without any wait and watch, we took the issue at initial stage and began with morning assembly where
short talks on human values, good practices and mannerism were given at regular intervals. All the
teachers start their lesson with some or other moral thought, quote or saying with concise explanation if
required. These initiatives brought positive changes in behaviour and language of the students. Some
counseling sessions and orientation programmes were organised for students and parents in whom stress
was laid on accepted communication and good behaviour. The result was very encouraging and students
became so sensitive and vigilant that they started taking note of all misuse of language and behaviour. We
also talked to those parents who had family unrest and other problems at home. A majority of parents
responded positively.

In some complex cases the school roped in SMC members, Special Education Teacher and school
counselor to visit children‘s homes for onsite observation and remedial counseling. On every PTM, an
orientation session on ‗Effective Parenting‘ was organised for parents who were acquainted with the
strategic behavioural tips for improving overall performance and behaviour of the children.

All these measures and interventions brought expected changes and now these issues are settled to a large
extent and that has been reflected in the all round performance of the children. This became possible with
the joint collaboration and intervention of students, teachers, parents, social workers and volunteers.

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