Value Based Skills Oriented Quality Education

Within the rural heart of Andhra Pradesh, India, is a school that’s trying to be better for its students. With numerous initiatives like eliminating heavy schoolbags, increasing multimedia learning options, introducing relevant curriculum such as computer education, upskilling through vocational options, rekindling forgotten folk arts, or building confidence through social animation, BCT Residential Model High School has been focusing on it all. 

This holistic approach at a macro level was translated to the micro level in the following ways, over the past month.

Academic progress: On the academic front, students were busy with exams. Those lagging behind were offered extra support either through peer-to-peer learning or through extra classes. 31 students also appeared for their tenth-grade board examinations. This included six specially-abled students from BCTs Sri PV Venkatesan Center for the Challenged.

A week prior to their exams, prayers were offered to the resident deity Sri Dwimukha Kalyana Vinayaka at the campus. A custom prevalent for a decade now, over 567 children from nearby villages joined for the prayer this year too. Following this, students were given tips on how to manage their time well and attempt the exam to the best of their capability.

Skill education: Along with academics, students continued to work on their skill education too, as they actively participated in horticulture, electrical skill education, charkha spinning and tailoring. Along with these, a new addition was the introduction of training on LED Bulb assembly, which the students took up with great enthusiasm.

Personality development: Social animation, an activity that helps build confidence in children was also actively pursued. Students are now rehearsing and polishing the folk dances, and the older students are training the newer ones on dance forms of chitikelu, dappu dance, kolatam and burra katha. Students will perform these dance forms at their villages from 9^th to 13^th May, and for this dresses are being readied for them. Kum Tulasi, a BCT high school alumni is visiting us this week as well, to share her kolatam skills with her juniors.

Visitors including dignitaries, student groups and well-wishers continued to shower blessings and love on our children. And for this, we are enormously blessed. Health camps were held & career counseling was provided by volunteers from groups such as Young Indians, Vizag chapter.

The road is long, and made easy by the support of people like you. For this we are eternally thankful. While we feel extremely blessed to have the opportunity to better our children’s future, there’s still much more we wish to do.

Hoping that you will continue to support us in our work for rural children in India,

Thank you