Donate to kids of domlur govt school

Children of Jogupalya Urdu and Tamil Government Higher Primary Schools and Appareddypalya Government Higher Primary School, participated in a drawing competition held recently in the Jogupalya School campus. 25 Dell volunteers along with Siskhana Mentors and school teachers organised this competition. The children participated with great enthusiasm. These schools have been actively taking part in art and craft activities and have showcased tremendous talent. By encouraging their talent we have been able to help them focus on their academics too.

A trip was organized for the children of these schools in the month of December 2012. The children were divided into groups and were sent on a visit to Tumkur and Mysore. Children, who were lagging behind in academics, were chosen and sent on this trip. This was done to encourage them to do well in their studies. The trip gave the children an opportunity to see new places. This was projected as one of the incentives for the children to perform well in their academics. It was a big hit with them as they were motivated to perform well in order to go on such excursion trips.   

The children of Domlur schools are doing well academically too. Writing sheets provided by Sikshana has improved the writing speed and skills greatly among the students of these schools. A file of these writing sheets is being maintained for each student and one can see gradual improvement in the handwriting.  Stars which are given as incentives to perform well in academics have worked well with the students of these schools. Children in order to gain these stars have been regularly attending the school. This has led to decrease in absenteeism and improvement in grades.  

Appareddy Palya Government Higher Primary School, located in Domlur in Bangalore was featured in a leading national monthly magazine, Outlook Business in its September 2012 issue. The feature was a cover story, highlighting the efforts and interventions of Sikshana Foundation. The improvement in reading and writing skills in the school got a special mention in the magazine.

Bharti, an English teacher in the school expresses her happiness with the improvement in children because of this initiative. She shared her thoughts with the magazine too. She says, “There is a lot of change in the attitude of students; they just don’t want to miss school now. The star initiative has gotten students to learn faster because they all want to flaunt their stars on their uniform,” she says proudly. “It wasn’t like this before.”

The ‘star initiative’ started by Sikshana, focuses on giving stars as a reward for improvement in learning skills. The children can trade these stars for gifts too. This has led to an increase in the enthusiasm levels in the children to learn and do well in academics.

Other initiatives such as introduction of newspaper reading, laptops and access to books in libraries in the school find a special mention in the magazine. The full article can be found at Outlook Feature Story