Tree Saplings Planted

Volunteers from the Parle company came over to the school campus to plant 50 Neem tree saplings. A fine gesture, since trees are what we need to sustain this planet from an early death. The students at school got few lessons on eco-balance; as the 40 strong volunteers, mostly workers of the factory took time off to come and plant the saplings. Their efforts would bear fruit and in years to come we shall see it.

Ground digging


Parle & HOPE foundation Team


Each Volunteer certified to acknowledge their participation


Certification in progress


Girls involved in planting process


Boys, not left behind


Volunteers from Parle


Need all the green we can get


What you sow - you reap

Children's Day

Children getting to enjoy the Entertainment

Teacher's Unplugged

It was the turn of the teachers now! To entertain their students, each teacher came up with a fabulous performance through dance, which left the children excited. They saw the side of their teachers, which they had never seen before. This event, to celebrate Children's day, brought the students and their teachers closer together.

If you are supporting our school, then you have a big reason to be proud of us. We are enabling these chilren (who otherwise have no choice) to grow with with adequate education, which would empower them as adults.

If you are not yet, you can see the reason to be part of these process.

Sonal Chandrikaben

Meena D Gor

Supriya & Shalini

Poonam Sharma

Ashwini

Salma Ismail Lakhani

Neetu Gupta

Filled Amphitheatre

The stage is set

Welcome!

Rajakumar

Bhavsar Sisters

Enjoying the show!

Under-14 T10 Cricket Tournament

During the Diwali Holidays, A Under-14 T10 Cricket Tournament was organised for the boys from the communities closer to the School. 4 teams were registered and the lots were drawn. Every team played 3 matches each after which 2 teams on top with best points and Run Rate were chosen to fight it out in the finals for the trophy. It was exciting to see the small children get involved in a big way and enjoy.

Each match was a 10-10 overs match with 7 players a side.
The highest score by a team was 111 by the HOPE foundation Team.
The Highest individual score was 43 by Shanthi from Ashapuranagar Team.
The finals was between HOPE foundation team and 36th Police Qtrs.
The later won the Trophy.

The success of this tournament has prompted us to plan for an under-18 tournament during Christmas this year.

Enjoy the pictures.

The Winner(right) & Runner up Trophies with players trophies


Christopher having a pre-match talk with teams


Play in progress


The 36th Police Qtrs Team


The Ashapuranagar Team


The Shanthinagar Team


Sharad-Capt of HOPE foundation Team - Runner up trophy


Diwaker-Man of the Match-Finals


Diwaker - Capt 36th Police Qtrs - Winners Trophy


The Winning team


The Runner - up team

Singing Competition

To encourage the young ones to harnes their talents, the school focusses and organises small events from time to time which in turn show cases their abilities and helps them to look forward to grow in that particular talent. This time it was the singing talent that was focussed upon. The school held a singing competition for the 1st class to 5th class.Following are some of the pictures during the event and not forget these winners will be rewarded.Enjoy...

Dhvani - 2nd Standard

Zayed - 2nd Standard

Heth Gor - 1st Standard

Utsav - 2nd Standard

Krupali - 2nd Standard

Rajjab Ali - 5th Standard

Sahil Juneja - 3rd Standard

Manav - 3rd Standard

Some Teachers got into the act too...

Mrs. Neetu Gupta - Junior KG Class Teacher

Mrs. Nishu Kumar - Teacher

Virtual Tour of the School

A Virtual Tour of the school in Bhuj is on the web. For initial glimpse of the same and for a simple virtual tour of the school please click on the link below:

http://www.mailonmap.com/imt_file/virtual_tur/india/gujarat/bhuj_school_v2/

I shall post again when the final work is done, till then....

Celebrating Freedom'08

THE NEW INDIA.

Dear friends,

Some reasons for celebration, no matter how many times you might have celebrated, never lose its flavor. The Indian Independence Day is one such. We recently concluded our 61st Independence day.


Flag Hoisting by MC


Local Leaders with Principal & Director

As tradition goes, we Hoisted our Flag at the start of the event. The hoisting was done by the Local Municipal Councilor, Mr. Jagdish Bhai.


School Parade

This was followed by a Parade marching past the flag and saluting it at the same time, by the students of the school.


Group Gymnastic Routine

For the first time in HOPE foundation School, we held Gymnastics event. A small group of selected students performed couple of routines taught by their Physical Trainer Mr.Peter.


Cute Participant in Fancy Dress


The tiniest of all students displayed their stage presence by putting on a Fancy Dress competition, for which every one of the participants received a Prize.


All Participants of Fancy Dress


Bombing the City for Parents-Game

The Parents enjoyed the game which was organized for them, another first in our school.

All in all, it was another great day at school

Teachers Training Workshop-2008

Aarti Majithia returned to continue the training she had begun last year, about the same time. It was a wonderful gesture on her part to come back to take the training to the next level.



This time around she continued where she left last year, Behaviour Management and took up more topics like, Lesson Structure.



The physical evidence of her work is the Compact but very useful Teacher's Pocket Book she prepared for all teachers to have. It is a kind of book, which as notes from their training sessions as well as tips and ideas. We hope to see much changes coming out of these sessions for the better future of our students.

We also wish Aarti all the very best in her life. Thank you Aarti.

Parle's Biscuit Factory

Children are and will always be fascinated by food, especially biscuits. Parle is a very famous and well known biscuit and confectionery manufacturing company. They have 10 mother plants in India, one of which is situated in Bhuj, where brand's like Parle-G and Monaco are being made. Everyday about 150 tonnes of them are made!

What a great experience it would be for children who love biscuits to see how they are being made. As part of their CSR, Parler reached out to HOPE foundation School and invited our children to see for themselves.




So we took the students from 1st to 5th class for the trip. They had a wonderful TREAT!

As they arrived each and everyone of the 180 students were treated to mouth watering freshly baked bisuits, "as many as they could have", in the CSR Representative Mr.Viren Gor's own words.

That was followed by an 20 minutes Animated feature in their Auditorium about the history and other features of Parle. It was very well done.

Then the students enjoyed the trip to the inner part of the factory and saw how the dough was mixed in a giant container and how they were lined out and impressed by the die and taken to be baked and cooled and packed, all in one long stretch. It was a sight. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take photographs, and we respected it.



The children had a wonderful time. THANKS PARLE!