Summer Camp - 2008

Total Students Attended = 45

Subjects of Camp:Craft work, Dance classes, Story telling sessions, General Knowledge classes, Drawing, Indoor & Outdoor Games


Craft work taught


Craft work deing practised


Completed works


Completed


Craft and Drawing by the girls

Due Credit

As another academic year comes to the end, it would be apt to take stock of the school and its performance. For any unit to perform well, the players have to be commendable. The teachers are one of the main players in a school. They are the multi-faceted facilitators. They don many roles on any given day. The roles are varied as teachers, mothers, friends, guides, motivators to name a few. Even as they take up these roles, they are constantly on a learning curve. They try out all means to bring to the child a wholesome understanding. I appreciate the spirit with which the teachers in HOPE foundation school work. They give to the students, unconditionally. They are the cornerstones of the education we impart within this campus. This note is to give them due credit.

Salma - Teacher with Class

Pallavi - with her class

Usha Bindhu - with her class

Sridevi - with her class

Evaluation Time

The month of April at school is a month most of the children look forward too. That is not because of the final examination, but rather because of the summer vacation that follows the examination! I went back to my report of April 2007 before I prepared this year’s April report. I found that not much has changed with regard to the attitude of the children. Their approach to exams, especially here, is not with fear or apprehension. That does not mean that they look forward eagerly to the examination too. But it rather seems to me that the students have learnt to take one day at a time and do what it requires to complete that day. Come exam or holiday or a new lesson. Since they have done what they had to do through the year, exams are not that hard to face.

Final Exam

Final Exam

Final Exam

Colour Splash - II

The Drawing competition held on 26th Jan’08 as part of Indian Republic day celebrations brought the very best of talent in many students who took part in it.
In order to encourage all students to take those talents higher and others to take up new hobbies, we decide to organize an exhibition of the drawings.One fine day in we did it and the children were treated to a variety of expressions, which had come from them.

The Exhibits

Students viewing.

Students viewing

Soheb Ghafar

Soheb’s education is a beacon of hope for the family for whom tragedy is not alien. His family has had more than its share of sorrow.
On 26th January 2001, as the earthquake shook the land of Bhuj, his family were among those whoes life has been shaken upside down.
Soheb (left) with classmate Fhehzan His 2 elder sisters lost their lives during the earthquake. Due to the situation at home and with added pressure Soheb lost his father due to a heart attack.
His mother took over the reins of leading the family and started feeding the family by selling dry fish. Presently his 2 other elder sisters work as maid servants and 2 sisters study in a Gujarati medium school and a toddler sister hangs out with mother.
Among all things that appear bleak at times for their family, we would like to make Soheb’s education a reason for their happiness. Soheb is in Senior Kindergarten and will be moving on to Grade 1 class from June’08.

Soheb(Left) with friend Fhezhan

At School with friends

Inspiring Change

Prizes from Principal

Team of the week with their Rewards

A big part of changing lives requires understanding the need and addressing it. When we see children in our school, we see potential for growth. Good and Bad. We want to encourage good growth. Some of the values we thought they would require for the future are: Leadership skills, Team spirit, Creativity. In order to encourage these, we have formed teams within the Primary School and have encouraged them to use their lunch period to perform team activities which would fetch the best team rewards on a weekly basis.
It was inspiring see a wide range of activities taking place. Some of them include, team games, campus cleaning, revision of the day’s lessons, etc. On every Friday, at the end of the week, a team is selected based on their performance chart and every member of the team is rewarded. Some teams that need change are addressed on a personal basis.
We really hope this will bring about changes which will inspire growth in the children.