Community school adopts English medium to attract students

Rajendra Prasad Paneru / Kanchanpur, Dec 17: The teachers, guardians and people’s representatives here have made collective efforts to increase the number of students in a community school by adopting the English medium for teaching and learning.

The Baijanath Basic School has been catering education in English medium from grades one to eight. With this, the number of students has increased, said principal Amar Singh Mahara. He added that they were successful to bring in the students who went to private schools and paid many fees earlier.

There are currently 286 students in the school. The students get ties, belts and sports materials free of cost from the school. No fee is imposed.

Both the students and teachers are strictly directed to maintain discipline by timely attending and running classes. The students mandatorily participate in PT before morning prayer.

With the emulation of the best practices of the private schools, we are now successful to make overall development of the school. Extensive discussion and interactions were held with guardians on how the quality could be ensured here, shared a teacher Madan Singh Thagunna.

Various extracurricular activities like sports and cultural events are organised on Fridays.

Cultural celebrations and festivals, such as Holi and Deusi Bhailo (played during the Tihar festival) are also organized to generate internal income for the school.

Moreover, the kitchen mess has a cook and assistant who prepare and serve mid-day meals managed from the school’s internal income.

A water boring system has been put in place by the Bhagawati Community Forest to ensure drinking water facilities in the school.

The forest users group has also provided six computers and internet service to the school. The local ward offices have been paying two teachers recruited from a private source.

Ward Chairperson Bahadur Singh Mahara shared that efforts were coordinated with other agencies for budget management to take forward the school’s activities.

According to him, volunteer teachers were also arranged for additional tuition for the weak students. The school established in 2049 BS has nine teachers at present. (RSS)