The Kindergarten classes started from the last week of January . Two teachers were hired and also being trained bi weekly by a veteran Teacher from a US primary school system and who received State's best Teacher Award in 2023.
New cohorts of students will be admitted after this class graduate to the next to keep the continiuty of the school culture and consistency in learning. With donations, we were able to buy two projectors and a screen for the class which is helping the kids to enjoy visual learning as well and would have access to International volunteer teachers to teach through zoom.
Nutritional snacks are being provided as we found out from a free health check-up that most of the kids in that locality are under nourished. With our limited fund, we are able to provide egg, 1 glass of meal and energy biscuits to the students everyday.
Due to the continious outage in the area, we are still in need of a generator or smaller electricity backup system soon as the summer is in full swing.
Attached are some photos from the class room activities, health clinic, International Water Day awareness program, crafting etc.
More partents are interested to bring their kids to the school but as its the middle of the year, we stopped admitting new kids. Also, parents with no income do not have to pay the subsidized monthly school fee which we are trying to compensate through individual donations.
With increased fundign we would be able to more educational programs for the kids in the community including trip to museum, competitions, community clean-up... We envision this school to be a positive changing force in the community.
Shwopnochura Shafat Memorial School in Ashulia (Outskirts of the Capital city Dhaka) is ready for operations. We hired three teachers for the school and they will be trained to follow the Social Emotional Learning curriculum emphasizing on building caring and curious learners.
We got donations to make furnitures for three classroom setting. Got donated toys. Funding is needed to buy instructional materials and at least ensuring 6 months salary for the teachers. We are also looking for support to provide healthy snacks during the school hour to the kids. We are starting with few number of students from Pre-K. AFter school programs on computer learning, english language, arts will be launched soon.
As the area is in the rural setting , one of the bigegst challange is to find the right teachers. This is why, we hired university students to support the initial stages of learning at Pre K and Kindergarten . Also raising fund for screens in the class to bring in expert teachers teaching the class online with the aid of assistant teacher present in the classrooms.
We are planning to build a comunity library inside the school to promote reading by creating the space to inspire young people in the community to read and grow.
Final preparation for inagurating the school is on the way completing the last phase of work such as exterior painting and involving volunteers to add art work to the building.
Furnitures are being made and more fundraising plans are being undertaken to raise the monthly operation cost at least for 6 months.
Two Instructors are hired, 4 more personnel needs to be hired.]
The first year classes starts in January 2023 with 25 kids in Kindergarten who will be the first batch to a innvovative curriculum.
Teachers training will take place in late October.
Fund is crucial for the operating cost and nutritional meals during school hours.
Child care facility will be available for the children of the industrial worker who are working long shifts.
Due to COVID shutdown of Schools-- the process and operations of Shwopnochura Shafat Memorial School was slowed down from 2020 to 2021. Due to the normalization of COVID-19 pandemin and reopening of schools in Bangladesh from March-- the inaguration of the school is now to be held in August 2022.
Progress: The two storied building is now fully completed.
Fund are now needed to purchase rest of the furnitures, at least operational cost for 6 months, curriculam is being developed with experts in the field of Primary school education, seeking instructor for the regular and computer classes .
Audio-visual room for learning iis being designed.
Educational games and learning materials are listed for purchase.
Admission notice for the parents in the comumunity will be distributed at the end of May.
Day care set up will be completed in collaboration with a local Non Profit Fulki that will be providing their service of teaching two teachers and setting up a room for the after-school day care for the children of the industrial workers in the community.
Shwopnochura Shafat Memorial School is in the last phase of completion. The two storied building is almost complte with the genrous support from the donors and final touch on exterior painting and work on the interior decor for the classrooms have started. We plan to open our Pre-school and Kindergarten class along with the day care soon.
Objective: To build a school for low-income and underprivileged children in Ashulia Industrial Zone that will provide effective early childhood learning experience in Bengali medium with extra emphasis on English language. The Primary school education will be designed in a way so that the children from Pre-K to grade 5 can have the right tools of communication and life skills to become-----
---------an independent and creative learner
--------Caring and environmentally conscious citizen
------- Critical thinker
-------Better communicator in both Bengali and in English
--------Aware on one’s own interest and true potential
--------Responsible adult on health & hygiene; and
--------A person of strong moral character with a positive mind-set.
We are working on raising the operating cost for at leats 6 months of operation and developing the curriculum and selection of School Board Members are on the way.
The community is eagerly waiting for the school to open as many workers of the nearby industries are planning to bring their children back from their villages to be with them. As we not only want to educate the children but also the parents and the community towards becoming more environmental conscious, healthier and supportive --- the school could be a changing agent to build a conneted community that could be an example and model for many other local schools across Bangladesh.
The local Medical center also connected with us to provide free health screening to the students and collaborate to provide health education through the school into the community. After school programs and also computer classes for the community members will take place during the weekends.
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