Progress in the City schools -
2007-08
Three new city schools join Sikshana
Three schools from the HAL area Vimanapura
GHPS, Nellurupuram LPS and Nellurupuram
Telgu LPS schools have joined our
system of city schools. These
schools are adopted in a
partnership basis with Broadcom
Corporation. This is first such
venture for Sikshana where we have
allowed joint adoption of a small
set of specific schools.
The team of broadcom employees
is highly dedicated to the cause
and they are highly active in
monitoring the schools. A bi-weekly
mentors report is sent to the
broadcom employees and they visit
the schools every saturday to
monitor the progress.
Summer camps in Sikshana schools
Summer camps were held for three of the six weeks comprising the annual vacation
in the following Sikshana schools where Trust teachers have been deployed:
Chikkakallsandra, Gubbalala, Arehalli, Vasanthapura, Gowdenpalya and Srinivasa
Colony. Interest to attend these camps was running so high that we had to regulate
the attendance to a level of 30 kids to a teacher.
Besides covering subjects like
English, Handicrafts and Painting, the teachers concentrated on kids who were
significantly lagging behind the class in specific areas.
Increased
emphasis on dictation and writing One of the programs that have received
an increased impetus this year is the dictation and writing drills. Our mentors
in the field are highlighting the need to increase the frequency of dictation
and also practice writing using library books as reference. Teachers are
encouraged to keep a log of dictations they give so that they themselves can
rate how well they have been able to focus on this aspect. Also to improve
writing skills each student is given 8 sheets of paper. They are encouraged to
write at least 2 pages each day and every time they finish a sheet of paper
they submit it to the teacher and obtain another blank sheet. More and more
schools are now getting on board this program and we hope to report a
successful program at the end of the year. Library
- Sapna bookstore expedition Like last year this year also all the
schools in the cluster visited the Sapna book store in Jayanagar, Bangalore in
batches of 5 schools. This year also we got some excellent speakers from the
art and literary fields who inspired the kids on the need to read especially
non-text book material. 
This
year since we have an office in kanakapura we have decided to store all the
books selected by the teachers in the office as a teacher's library. With each
school buying Rs1000 worth of books for the teachers we now have a sizable
collection for the teacher's library. This year we asked the teachers to talk
of the importance of return on investment on library books. Once the kids
selected the books they sat around with the teachers to reselect them based on
the constraint that the budget was Rs1000. Kids were made aware of
difference of cost of paperback vs. hardbound books, etc.
Delhi Trip Quiz
The Delhi trip has gained new level of popularity now. In fact some schools have
one of their goals for the year as to get one of their students selected for the
trip.
As before Amruth Foundation was kind enough to conduct a quiz competition on
July 25th. This year about 40% of the marks were general knowledge and half of
the task
were interactive in nature. One unique test this year was one where students
were asked to identify not so common vegetables, fruits, flowers, grains etc.
Ten students were selected for
the trip based on the quiz
performance and they joined 30 kids
from Kanakapura cluster for the
Delhi
trip from
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Name
|
Class
|
School
|
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Vidhya G.S.
|
7
|
Kadirenahalli
|
|
Ramesh K.S.
|
7
|
Gubblala
|
|
Mamatha P.
|
7
|
Kumarswamy Layout
|
|
Prema K.
|
6
|
Vasantapura
|
|
Asha
|
6
|
Turahalli
|
|
Somashekar N.
|
6
|
Chandranagar
|
|
Kavya G.
|
6
|
Kumarswamy Layout
|
|
Divya K.
|
5
|
Gowdanpalya
|
|
Ranjita
|
5
|
Chikalasandra
|
|
Aakash S.
|
5
|
Gubblala
|
Quantitative
Assessment
The quantitative assessment for
students of Class V was held in
July ’07 and again in Feb ’07.
This test is administered by Amruth
Foundation and is based on the APF
model. All the ten schools showed
an improvement. This year after the
first assessment the mentor visited
each of the schools and discussed
the answer papers with the school
staff to identify areas where the
students lagged the most and
corrective action was taken, the
result of which is reflected by the
improved scores in the second
assessment.
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|
|
2007-08
First Assessment
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2007-08
Second Assessment
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SchoolCode
|
Name
|
NumStudents
|
AvgScore
|
|
NumStudents
|
AvgScore
|
|
ARE
|
Arehalli
|
33
|
40.71
|
|
30
|
67.65
|
|
CHK
|
Chikalsandra
|
27
|
55.75
|
|
25
|
67.00
|
|
CHN
|
Chandranagar
|
39
|
31.23
|
|
41
|
74.44
|
|
GPY
|
Gowdanapalya
|
20
|
45.73
|
|
21
|
80.64
|
|
GUB
|
Gubblala
|
22
|
22.65
|
|
24
|
55.25
|
|
KAD
|
Kadirenahalli
|
59
|
31.79
|
|
55
|
68.55
|
|
KSL
|
Kumarswamy Layout
|
20
|
55.7
|
|
19
|
85.11
|
|
SVC
|
Srinivasa Colony
|
14
|
59.08
|
|
15
|
93.57
|
|
TUR
|
Turahalli
|
18
|
44.95
|
|
18
|
89.47
|
|
VAS
|
Vasantapura
|
33
|
31.55
|
|
31
|
56.76
|
It was observed during the
school visits by the program
director and also by the mentor,
that the trust teachers in most
schools were spending extra time
after school hours with students
who scored low in the first
assessment. The improved scores can
in part be attributed to the
efforts of these teachers.
Incidentally the topper of our
assessment exam, Srinivasa Colony
Govt. Lower Primary School topped
the whole cluster in the KSQAO
exams conducted by the Dept. of
Education and won an award of Rs.
5000/-.
Annual
Exams
The emphasis from Sikshana all
year was that there should not be
any student below B grade (50%) at
class 7 (or class 5 in case of
lower primary schools). The schools
which had a higher number of C and
C+ grade in the first semester were
identified and our mentor put some
extra focus on these schools and on
the corrective action they were
going to take to improve the
numbers. The results from 1st
and 2nd semester exam
results below show the improvement
at each of the schools. The
first four lower primary schools
have done very well and the next
four higher primary schools showing
very good improvement. The
Chandranagar school number actually
went up and will need closer look
along with the staff to analyze the
result which our mentor will be
doing at the end of the summer
break. The data for the school
Gubbalala is currently not
available and will be posted as
soon as it is obtained.
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|
|
|
Num
C+ Grade Students
|
|
School Name
|
Standard
|
Total Strength
|
1st Sem
|
2nd Sem
|
|
Gowdanapalya
|
5
|
22
|
5
|
0
|
|
Srinvasa Colony
|
5
|
20
|
2
|
0
|
|
Turahalli
|
5
|
18
|
4
|
0
|
|
Chikkalsandra
|
5
|
30
|
2
|
0
|
|
Arehalli
|
7
|
32
|
8
|
4
|
|
Kadirenahalli
|
7
|
68
|
17
|
4
|
|
Kumarswamy Layout
|
7
|
32
|
16
|
9
|
|
Vasantapura
|
7
|
35
|
25
|
9
|
|
Chandranagar
|
7
|
37
|
9
|
11
|
|
Gubbalala *
|
7
|
26
|
5
|
n/a
|
| 
Progress in City
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