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RAMDAS NAMDEO MIRGE
Z.P.CLUSTER MARATHI UPPER PRIMARYSCHOOL

HIWARKHED BLOCK KHAMGAON, DIST.BULDHANA
E-mail – zpschoolhiwarkhed@gmail.com

Z.P.C.M.U.P.S. Hiwarkhed is a cluster school. Under whose supervision there are

10 ZP Primary schools. The village is nearabout 15 kilometers far from Khamgaon
block and 80 kilometers from its district place Buldhana. The school is 1.2 kilometer
interior from the main highway (NAGPUR-PUNE) road and bus stand. There are

altogether 336 students in the school from which 142 are boys and 194 are girls. There
are 1 to 7 classes in the school. The total population of the village is 3050. There are

various types of communities like Kunabi, Mali, Dhangar / Shephard live in Hiwarkhed.
We are constantly conducting new educational activities for the students. Most of

the parents in the school are shepherds by profession and are away from their home for at
least 6 months a year. This, of course, brings their children along with them.
But once these children go to their remote areas to feed the sheep with their

parents, the children will enjoy changing their villages every day for the care of the
sheep, their beautiful lambs, the picturesque hills, and the flowing water of the river, the

trees, flowers, fruits, stones and clay. They do not have the mentality to back to school.
Also, they do not want to leave their world. Naturally, their school absenteeism increase
and this affects their studies.

Most of the parents are shepherds and some of them are members of the school
management committee. With the help of them and the villagers, it was easy to bring

such students into the education stream.

INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES – LETTER

CAPS -
In Maharashtra, we have been learning English as a third language for many

years. Then the former Education Minister Shri. Ramakrishna More recognizing the
importance of the English language decided to teach English from the fifth standard.
This decision enabled many generations to learn English in a fear-free environment.

Many activities have been implemented in our school so that students can learn
English playful and joyful mood.

The first and most important obstacle to not learning English is to spell words.
The spellings spelled out in them are not remembered forever. There is a lot of

difference between rolling information and searching for information. Recognizing
this, we have created the English letter caps from a to z to allow children to create
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