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The DIL Jabri School showed tremendous progress in the second quarter of 2013. The teachers are cooperating with each other and the Principal. There is a lot of improvement in the discipline of the students, cleanliness, and punctuality. The principal does not let any teacher take a class without a lesson plan in place for the day. During school visits it was observed that cupboards are well maintained, seating arrangements have improved a lot, the displays on the soft boards are well-maintained according to the guidelines provided and the notice board in the principal's office displays all the required information for the parents and teachers.

Two of the best teachers of the school resigned as both of them had to move with their husbands to Peshawar and Karachi respectively. It is difficult to find a good teachers due to low literacy rate in females of this area as there are no girls schools in the area.  The newly-appointed teachers have been given full support and proper guidelines before they could start teaching. 

The newly-hired KG teacher received training on how to manage her class as did the new English teacher. The Urdu, Science and Math teachers are using the training sessions effectively. They are improving their teaching day by day which is benefitting the students.  These teachers are using the teaching material, charts and reference books properly. For example, the Math teacher is using hands on activity to teach addition and subtraction. 

Jabri students are using the library very well. The students are allowed to take books home. Teachers take the students to library according to their time table, and help them to develop good reading habits.

Favorite Fruit Day was observed in the school in order to bring in awareness among the students of good eating habits. It was well conducted activity. Students were asked to bring a fruit of the season. They brought different summer fruits available in the market. The teachers arranged the fruits and then briefed about the names, taste and how they are useful. Variety of fruits was arranged on the tables and then students enjoyed eating those fruits also. The children enjoyed the activity and at the same time learnt to share with each other.

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Here is the latest school report from the school that YOU helped build:

The Jabri School is progressing well and the staff is determined to improve the academic standards. Activities are arranged according to the annual activity calendar. For the morning assembly, teachers have been assigned duties, each class has to make a short presentation for creating awareness on the issues selected that the students present in group or individually.  

The school has an elected head girl and a head boy from the senior most class.These school representatives have been assigned duties, such as keeping the play areas clean and ensuring that lights are turned off after a class leaves for an activity. 

Earlier each classroom had charts pasted on the wall. These charts were removed and soft boards were fixed. The material on the soft boards includes diagrams, a word wall and students work.The teachers are giving tehs students a chance to the child to come up with their own ideas and discuss. During the class, proper guidance and instructions are being given to the students. Earlier the answers to questions were written on the board and the children would copy on their note books. The new practice is that the students are taught the concept and allowed time to respond in their own language instead of dictated sentences.

Miss Farzana Khan, the science teacher, believes in practical work for a better understanding of theory. Wen giving a lesson on the concept of solid, liquid and gas to Third Grade students, the teacher provided materials and explained the properties of these states. The teacher divided the class into three groups to work on each state assigned to them. Each group was asked to talk about the state after they had conducted the experiment. 

As an assignment the students were given the task to look around for more examples and bring it the next day for class discussion. This activity was useful and there was more clarity on the state of matter.

Similarly in English, to clear the concept of action words, the students of First & Second Grade were taken outdoors to work on action words. The teacher said the action word and the students were supposed to act and say the word like "stop", "jump", "walk", "run" and "sit". The students did it very well!