Children's Day 2011

The Children's Day was awesome! Every teacher spent time with their respective class and conducted various games for their classes. After this they came together at the amphitheater for a special time. Teachers performed a special dance and song, while few students performed a dance too. Everyone were given a packet of biscuit as a gift as they left for the day.

In fond memory of India's first Prime Minister

All pupils gather at the Amphitheater

Dance routine of the students - Desi Girl song

Teacher's dance routine - Bhumro Bhumro

More Dance

Special Song

The 7th standard students

Summer Camp'11

As tradition goes, the month of May is when the schools are closed for summer vacation, HOPE foundation school conducts a month long summer camp. Its an exciting period, when children are taught new and interesting skills and have fun as they learn.

A picnic at the Rotary Club's Hill Garden.

Games for boys

All kids having fun at the play area.

Fun under the Sun

Resting after climbing on to the Hill Garden

A bit of friendly banter

Exciting climb on to the Hill Garden

With buddies an exciting trek

Learning from the pros - special pottery designs

Her own hand work

Exiting to finish what was started

In the process of making colourful presentation

Boys will be boys

Initial stages in pottery designing

Learning as a group

Football Focus

Break the bunny game

Age old Snake and the Ladder game

Football tournament

Though Cricket is the craze in our country at the moment, what with Team India winning the World Cup 2011 and all, yet there is a lot of talent for other sports as well, which is proven by some sporadic yet spectacular performances around the country at times.

In the HOPE foundation school, a 2 week long football tournament league was introduced for the first time. 7 teams took part in this from various Primary classes. On 27^th March 2011, the semi-finals and the final were held. All players were awarded with prizes for participation while the winners and runners-up received trophies and few goodies.

The most interesting thing about this tournament was that the players have never played football in their entire life and they learnt it from the PE teacher Mr. Rajakumar, who himself has played in District Level in Karnataka. The student have put in much hard work by coming to school early morning everyday and practiced before school and have achieved this incredible feat. We hope that they continue to hone their new found skills and put it to good use.

We welcome sports volunteers who can come over to the school and spend time teaching the student more.

Principal kicking off the Semis and Final

Players and referee enter ground

Toss and Kick-0ff

Trophies and goodies

Winners - Leopards Team

Runners - Giraffe team

With Coach Rajakumar

Special Mid-day meal

Mr. Kishore Vadhia from UK is a very close friend of HOPE foundation. He has constantly remembered the poor and needy throughout the country. He also remembers to remind his friends to do the same.

Recently through his inspiration his friends gave some money to the school to host a special meal during lunch time for the students. The students received 2 days of some special and traditional Guajarati food during the lunch time from this generous donation. We thank Savitaben Parmar, Madhubhai J. Chauhan and Tulsibhai J. Chudasama along with our common friend Mr. Kishore Vadhia for their kind donations which helped put smiles on these young ones.