SWAMI VIVEKANANDA YOUTH MOVEMENT

Viveka Tribal Centre for Learning, Hosahalli

REPORT FROM THE MONTH OF APRIL 2014 TO MARCH 2015

Goal: Quality Education, focusing on values, literacy, numeracy and appropriate vocational training through joyful, experiential and child centered learning processes for children in H.D.Kote taluk in the age group of 6 to15, particularly girls.

Objectives:

 Provide quality and value based education from classes I to X adopting child-centric, joyful, and experiential learning processes  Facilitate holistic development of children covering their social, emotional, physical and psychological needs by additional soft skill training  Provide pre-vocational training in electrical, mechanical and agriculture to the students of Classes VI and X. Location:

Hosahalli, Beeramballi post, taluk

Mysore district - 571116, state.

Tel: 08228-269123

Target Audience: Children of all the tribal colonies of H.D.Kote Taluk

Facilities available : Primary classes usage of Montessori learning aids and activity oriented learning materials in resource centre (for hands on experience), Laboratory for Experiential Learning in Science. Library with 8760 books, 228 audio cassettes, CD ROMs 555, well equipped indoor-outdoor sports facilities. Computer laboratory for competing with modern world, Xerox machine, Multimedia projector, Internet to have world wide connection, Nature, Summer and Adventure camps. Lot of exposure visits for awareness about the outside world. In the campus, provided conducive environment and tasty/ nutritious food for the children and orientation in life skills.

Resource Support to: Scholastic and Co Scholastic activites, Prevocational skills (Introduction to Basic Technology) and training for Learning Facilitators.

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Methodology: Mind Mapping Methods, Experiential Learning, Peer Group Learning, Team Teaching, Project Works, Activity Oriented Teaching, Multi Level of Learning, Child Centered Learning, Self Centered Learning, Collaborative learning and Integrated methods.

Assessment done throughout the year for the overall development of the child.

Through:

 Worksheets  Questionnaires  Periodic Tests and Examinations  Project Works  One to one interaction.  Quiz  Continious Comprehensive Evaluation

Month wise Activities at the school:

April & May 2014:

The School closed for vacation from 15th of April to May 24th. Summer camp was organized for 7th to 9th std of VTCL and VSOE children. This camp was conducted in 2nd week of April by Mr.Prakash Principal of Vidyavardhaka College B’lore and with other resource persons. During the four days camp various activities were conducted like free hand painting, craftwork, quiz, project work on Tribal and Urban culture, Creative games. Nearly 80 children were benefitted from this camp.

From 9th to 13th May 2014, the School Head Master Mr.Shivappa and Mr.Kendagannaswamy attended a workshop on Entrepreneurship Development at VLEAD, . The program was jointly organized by ICREATE & SVYM to develop entrepreneurship skills.

On 17 & 18th May 2014, a workshop on Art in Education was conducted by Sri.Roshan Sahi from Bangalore to the teachers. The workshop focused on how to bring art in scholastic learning. This was attended by all the teachers of VTCL which helped the teachers to get ideas to motivate the low achievers & challenging learners to participate in classroom learning & progress according to their own pace & uniqueness.

On 22nd May, 2014 Vivekananda Teacher Training and Research Centre (VTTRC) conducted a workshop on 5Es instructional model [Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate & Evaluate] to the teachers of Viveka Tribal Centre for Learning (VTCL) on 5Es model which is an instructional teaching method based on constructivism principle. This was very useful to the school as most of the students are kinesthetic & visual learners.

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June 2014:

The School admission committee was revised and the parent representative of the four tribal communities were selected by ensuring equal participation of both women and men with senior teachers. The committee demanded to extend the enrollment of girls in Gendathur village who also belong to ST but not forest based tribe. This was decided based on the social concern about the community, to prevent early marriages & avoid early motherhood which is predominant in that area.

This academic year 425 students were enrolled out of which 213 are (52%) girls (annexure-1) from tribal communities. The students who did not come to the school were regularly monitored by the teachers through visiting the haadies with the help of retention committee. The average attendance of the school for the entire year is 91%(refer annexure-2).

In the lower primary section, this year the school introduced the new concept of single teacher to 1st grade to 4th grade.i.e., a teacher facilitating all the subjects of the respective class. It was really helpful for the teachers & students to build rapport, understanding & knowing each other. The classrooms were set up to accomodate students to learn through montessori method. All the materials were purchased, arranged and training was given to the teachers in the new method.

In the primary section, this year special focus was given to average and below average children through introducing Innovative Academic tutoring programs. For this the capacity building program was organized to all the teachers on various topics in Communicative English, Effective utilisation of Technology, Child Psychology, Child Centered Education like Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation, Constructivism principles, Instructional models like 5Es 5As, etc. All these trainings were helping the teachers to develop their skills and knowledge to improve the children‘s academic skills. The co-scholastics like Art, Computer, Physical Education, Agriculture, Music, Sports, etc. are integrated to Languages & Mathematics.

In High school section, beginning of the year, by seeing the students’ annual academic performance, the school focused on teaching fundamentals (both in language and Math). Then after the remedial teaching classes, gave a rigorous input in academic for the entire school especially for high school section. The timetable was specially designed for teaching each subject for the entire day for one week integrating other mediums like ICT, Library, Art and Sports. Few classes were successfully planned by preparing innovative methodologies and techniques. The children also liked the integrated classes, but were not happy with the whole day learning the same subject. Then after taking feedback from the students and teachers, the school re-looked the entire strategy and shortened the time by giving a half- day for each subject. Then for two to three weeks, this method worked and then gradually children

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For high school section soft skills training were organized and conducted by both internal and external persons to enhance self-esteem, logical, mathematical, problem solving and decision- making skills. The tribal children are not exposed to analytical skills in their day-to-day life. The reason is that, the parents have minimal exposure to the day-to-day utilization or transaction of money, concept of saving etc. Knowing the fact, the school in collaboration with I Create organization, conducted a workshop on ‘Entrepreneurship Development’ for 10th grade students. It was a four-day workshop purely focused to elicit the hidden and enhance the self-esteem, logical, mathematical skills, communication and presentation skills of the students. The whole concept of entrepreneurship was weaved to make contextually relevant to gain the interest & inner spirit of the students. Among them two students were selected for a regional level competition on Entrepreneurship Development Program. The children gained confidence after participating in the Business plan competition and helped them in identifying their strength and build leadership abilities. Hence, the school started giving major roles to students both at school and at hostel.

Training on Vocational Skills was provided to the children of 6th to 10th grade. The Instructors conducted classes for the students in both theory and practical focusing on the trades in Electrical & Mechanical. July - 2014

Parents meeting was held in Brahmagiri tribal hamlet (haadi) on July 24th. The retention committee team met the parents and explained to them that school will take action for the benefit of the students like providing bus pass, to keep day scholars in the hostel during rainy season, the parents were also invited to stay at school and hostel to get real life experience. The parents also agreed to it and stayed, later the same was implemented by the school. From 30.07.2014 to 01.08.2014, 26 students of 5th to 10th std participated in an art competition organized by Raviverma Academy Trust.

Teachers with the Students who won Prize at competition organized by Ravivarma Rahul, student volunteerAcademy from USA, stayed in Hosahalli for 3 weeks and had prepared a Science lab manual for high school section and a review was conducted by Head of the school with the help of Science teacher and this manual is been used in the lab by the teachers and students. On 17.07.2014 to participate in Taluk level sports, training was given to high school 6 students by

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Physical EducationTeachers. From 21st to 27th training was organized in Block Resource Centre, Government run Education programs in H.D.Kote taluk. Six High School Teachers had attended to this program. This helped the teachers to implement new methodolgy in the classrooms. On 30.07.2014, six SSLC passed students got admitted to Diploma in Plastic Technology at CIPET, Mysore. On 31.07.2014, one student of VTCL got admitted to KPJ Prabhu Handicraft training course near Bidadi, Bangalore. Mr.Ravi who is Alumni student of VTCL chosen the course in wood and stone carving.

August – 2014

Entrepreneur Development program was conducted on 01.08.2014. On 15.08.2014, Independence day was conducted by Student Council members with the support of teachers, the students made the speech, sang the patriotic songs and Aerobics was performed by the students. Both VTCL & VTTRC staff and students including parents participated in the program. Sweet was distributed at the end.

On 16.08.2014, students of the school participated in the Hobli level sports meet held at B.Matakere, in H.D.Kote taluk. The students bagged many prizes in Kho-kho, running event and field event. On 16.08.2014, five teachers participated in the workshop held in VLEAD Mysore (Vivekananda Institute of Leadership Development, A unit of the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement).

This workshop was facilitated by the founder Dr.R.Balasubramaniam of the Organization and the topic disscussed was on 'Learning to Lead and Leading to Learn“. On 28.08.2014, the school celebrated Gowri- festival. On this occassion Ganapathi statue was installed in Annaporna dining hall. The students and staff participated in the celebrations. Later after seven days, the statue was given a grand farewell. As per the academic year plan, the school conducted the first Formative assessment to all the students in both scholastic and co-scholastic. The feedback of the assessment was given to all the students.

From August month, onward Sri.Rakesh, a flautist and Vocalist from Mysore teaching music to our children by using innovative techniques, like teaching poems by giving different tunes, teaching light music, prayer songs. All the students learnt the music enthusiastically.

September - 2014

On 05.09.2014, Teachers Day was celebrated in the school. The student council members with the help of Intern teachers (Budding Teachers) conducted fun games, cultural activities to all the teachers. The students themselves organized the event for Teachers & it was well planned and appreciated by all. This event helped the student council members to learn various leadership skills.

On Teacher’s day, a TV show was organized to all the children and teachers, to watch the speech of Honorable Prime Minister Sri. Modi. He spoke with the children representative who came from all over , the topic he addressed was on the role and responsibilities of the

5 teacher and the importance of Education. On 06.09.2014, on the occassion of teachers’ day celebaration, the organisation organised a quiz programe for all the teaching staff of our Education Institutions. Infosys team of Mysore conducted this event.

From 11.09.2014 to 14.09.2014 our primary school teachers participated for Maths and English workshop which was conducted by Government Education department. On 20th September a Spiritual retreat was conducted by the Organization in our school. All the staff participated in this session. Ethical values and the cultural heritage of India was talked about by Poojya Swamiji. The relevance of Swami Vivekanandas thoughts on education was shared by Sri Madegowda, a Social Activist from Mandya. The staff got the chance to learn the moral and ethical values to shape up the future generation. On 27th September, Budding Teachers (Interns) review meeting was held at Viveka School of excellence, . In addition, a workshop on how to teach slow learners was conducted by Mrs.Shobha Managoli, Child Psychologist from Bangalore.

October-2014

On 2nd October, Gandhi Jayanthi was celebrated. Head of the Education institutions Ms.Malathi H.D. and Teacher Educator from D.Ed College Sri.Keshavmurthy gave an inspiring speech & told anecdotes from the life of Mahatma Gandhiji the father of India. The School remained closed from 3rd to 12th October for Dasara holidays. The students went home and came back on 13th when school reopened. On October 4th VTCL Alumni batch with parents from Kadukuruba tribal community got a great opportunity to perform dance in a world famous Mysore Dasara Procession. The organization took initiation in getting this wonderful opportunity for the alumni batch with parents. They performed tribal dance, which is unique in their culture, and thus show cased it to the whole world.

On 6th to 8th October a study circle was organized by our Education programs on the theme “Vivekananda thoughts on Education”. This discussion was initiated and facilitated by an NGO called ‘Karnataka Education Network. There were around 35 participants from all over Karnataka including our education team members and this session went on for three days. The founder of SVYM Dr.R.Balasubramaniam, the CEO, Dr.M.A.Balasubramanya, Sri.Jayadev from Deenabandhu and many resource persons from various institutes participated and shared their thoughts. Many renowned scholars, educationists, experts shared their views and perspectives on the thoughts and philosophy of Vivekananda focusing on Education with the present education system. This discussion helped the teachers in understanding Education on Vivekananda’s view and reflecting on their practices in teaching and learning process.

Sri. Madappa of VTCL participated in the Radio math’s script writing on 9th & 10th October, 2014 held at Saragur. This helped the teachers to use modern technology in the classrooms. On 17.10.2014, Dr. Rajaram conducted workshop to our Primary school teachers in Mathematics & English through simple techniques and activity oriented method, and he addressed the teachers on child-centered education. On

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18.10.2014, Sri.Ramesh Kikkeri, took special classes for the alumni students of Introduction Basic Technology (IBT) on life skills. This helped the IBT students to use in their life.

On 29th & 30th October, 2014, Sri.Devadasu & Jyothi P of VTCL participated in the CCE workshop held at St.Mary’s School H.D.Kote. This helped the teachers to implement in the Classrooms. On 10th, 11th and 18th SaAth centre training was given to the high school staffs by Sri.Hareesh, who is a training coordinator in Premavidya, Bangalore.

On 20th October, Prof.Lakshmi from Bangalore conducted a workshop for the school faculty on the Child Centric Education by giving lot of case studies, innovative methodologies which were conducted in different places in India through explaining the Principles of National Curriculum Framework-2005(NCF- 2005). She also shared her experiences working as a Dean in a Women‘s University in Banasthali and where she was a pioneer in developing the Teacher Education Curriculum for the B.Ed course.

From 17th Oct for a week, Dr.Rajaram & Ms.Shashwathi from Chennai conducted a training program for 1st std kids on Math’s and English through using color rods. This method helps the children to develop the concept easily in arithmetic, geometry and building vocabulary in turn informally helps in improving the English language skills. This pilot project was started in September will go on up to March. During his stay in school, he also conducted few sessions for the teachers on Education. Mr.Lokesh primary school teacher attended the training in Nali Kali program conducted by education department in H.D.Kote. Sri.Gananath, resource person from Mysore conducted a one-day workshop for the Primary school teachers on the subject ''Education” and ‘‘Reflective practices.

November-2014

On 01.11.2014, Rajyothsava was celebrated in the School. Flag was hoisted and inspiring songs, speeches were given by both teachers and students. The IBT(Introduction to Basic Technology-Pre Vocational Centre) students visited Vinyas factory at Mysore on 02.11.2014 for real life exposure. This helped a lot in career guidance.

Ms. Julie West from Texas USA who is a Professional Writer, Videographer and Nehru fellowship Scholar visited and Volunteered from 1st November to 7th. She had facilitated sessions for 5th and 7th std children by introducing new concepts called Digital Story telling. She selected a theme called wild life conservation and the stories of children in connected to the forest. The children enacted on the topics named 'Close encounters' and 'The places I go'. All the stories were video graphed in the tribal villages of the children. She walked with the children inside the forest.

From Nov 1st to 8th Sri.Chakrapani, a Theater personality from Mysore took classes on ‘Theatre in Education’ for the students of VTCL. The purpose of conducting this workshop is to facilitate the children to improve the communication and presentation skills, to come out of the inhibition, effective usage of body language. During the four days workshop, Mr.Chakrapani who is from rural area, knew about the children local language and knew how to facilitate the group, he used lot of techniques like dance, folk songs, tribal songs, enacting, stunts etc. Most of the children

7 were able to participate actively in the session; some of the hidden talent came out during the session. He also discussed with the students and taught them to enact skills by selecting the topics/issues related to the tribal community like alcohol abuse, early marriage, Importance of education. During the workshop, he also took the Budding teachers support to give them exposure in role-plays. He already prepared two groups for street plays on Alcohol and Importance of Education. The High school students are interested to perform the role-plays in the tribal community.

On November 4th Sri.Hareesh a Yoga teacher from Viveka School of Excellence (which is run by SVYM), visited the campus and taught the children on the importance of Yoga and meditation for 10th std students. On the occasion of Children’s Day celebration, Dr.Arundathi from Vivekananda Memorial Hospital, Kenchanahalli was the chief guest and she gave an orientation for all the adolescent girls of the school on Menstrual Hygiene. Later special snacks & ice cream was distributed to all the children. Innovative games were conducted for the children by Budding Teachers and other Teachers. Special snacks Gobi manchuri was prepared and distributed by the EDP (entrepreneurship development program) trained students.

On 15.11.2014, 30 students and Science Teachers went to Lions School Saragur to see the Wild life Photography exhibition. This provided a new exposure to the students about the flora and fauna.

On 17th November, Sri.Shivappa, alumni student of D.Ed.College (Chiguru organization) came as a resource person took classes for the students of 8th to 10th std on “How to face the exam joyfully without any stress”. On 25.11.2014, a tribal meeting was held at Balle haadi and the admission committee members participated in the meeting. The parents agreed to send their children to the school. They also agreed to visit the school regularly to monitor their children’s progress. On 27.11.2014 Cluster Resource Person Sri.Nanjaiah and 3 other members visited the school and examined the documents regarding school renovation. On 27.11.2014, Dr.Mohan from VMH Kenchanahalli, visited the school and conducted health check up for students. This regular check up has helped all the students to maintain the physical fitness. On 29.11.2014, Dr.Srinidhi & Mrs.Robin from USA conducted English Language development program for English Language Teachers of the School. She used the techniques called ‘Total Physical Response’ through using various learning aids like flash cards, worksheets, songs etc. She also donated the learning materials to the school.

December 2014

From 2nd December to 8th December 2014, Ms. Maya who is a student volunteer from Canada, volunteered to teach English class and foot ball to VTCL students. She took classes for 7th grade children on Communicative English for around 7 days. These classes motivated the teachers and students to improve their communication skills. On 4thDecember, Tribal Action Research training was conducted at H.D.Kote by the government education department. Mr.Chikkabomma who is a

8 teacher from tribal community participated in the program. The main agenda of the training was on ‘Teaching tribal children in their own dialect’. On 4th December, the founder of SVYM Dr.Balasubramaniam R. visited the campus and motivated the teachers and staffs through speech on ‘How to work with Compassionate and Commitment” by quoting live examples of great personalities from various fields. The staffs were inspired and energized by his speech to do more work with dedication.

On 08.12.2014, Dr. Rajaram reviewed pilot Project class for primary school in Math’s and English. This helped in implementing new ideas effectively in the school.

Review of Pilot Project for primary school children by Dr. Rajaram

On 12.12.2014 Sri.Shivappa participated in the National level Health conference on convergence of Allopathy & Ayurveda organized by SVYM. This helped in getting exposure to use modern technique with traditional wisdom. The students with the help of computer teacher prepared PPT & around six students participated for the State level competition, which is going to be held in Bangalore on 22nd December On 13.12.2014 Ministry of Tribal Affairs Government of India, Delhi Organized a meeting on the issues related to Tribal affairs on topic ‘Brainstorming Consultation on the utilization of Tribal sub plan for the Tribal development’. Ms.Malathi H.D who heads the Tribal school participated with the financial director of SVYM. During the meeting, she had suggested few innovations, which were experimented in the education activities in the last many years.

On 13.12.2014, Montessori training conducted for Lower Primary School (LPS) teachers at Blooming Buds institution in Mysore. This helped in implementing new ideas effectively in the school.

Montessori Training for Lower primary school by Blooming Bud Institution

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On 21st December, SVYM Foundation Day was celebrated at VLEAD Mysore. All the staffs participated in this program. The School teachers also gave cultural Program. They won many prizes in sports activities conducted for this special occasion. On 22.12.2014 Shivappa, the HM VTCL-HPS attended the training on Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) at H.D.Kote organized by Block Education Office (BEO). This helped in implementing new syllabus effectively in the school.

On 25.12.2014, ‘Sulochana Pattabhiraman Sangeetha Mahasabha’ conducted a drawing & essay competition for VTCL High School students on the subject “Love for nature”.

On 27th December, Titan Company ltd CSR head Mr.Sridhar and his team came to VTCL and in the interacted with the students and teachers in VTCL, especially with 10th std students he asked about their dreams and interest in pursuing higher education. In the afternoon, 2nd quarterly review meeting was organized in training hall, Saragur. The challenges, learning’s during last three months were discussed. The academic performances of the students were shared with remedial measures under taken. Mr.Sridhar gave his observations and inputs regarding the performance of the present students and the alumni’s higher education and employability. He gave inputs on the importance of the research projects and process documentation. Finally, the future plans of the school were discussed, mainly to focus on the academic performance, skill oriented education and higher education.

On 30.12.2014, 60 students with teachers from 1st to 4th std went for an educational excursion to Mysore surroundings, to Zoo garden, KRS, Ranganathittu etc. The children enjoyed and got exposure to the new places outside their place.

JANUARY -2015

A student 10th std boy Mr.Nandeesh got selected in Business plan competition to compete in National level. He competed with the college level students who came from all over the states. Mr.Nandeesh presented a paper on ‘designing and selling the greeting card’ for Business plan and won the Consolation prize. The school is really proud of this grand success and congratulated for his sincere effort.

Mr.Nandeesh participated in National level Business Plan

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On 1st & 2nd January the school arranged educational excursion for 5th, 6th and 7th standard children. The students had been to Neharu Tharalaya, Vidhana soudha, Cubbon Park, Iskon temple, Vishweshwaraiah museum etc. at Bangalore. The children had real learning exposure and helped them to improve their learning.

Visit to Nehru Tharalaya, Bangalore Visit to Vidhana Soudha On 02/01/2015 – Review the performance of all the budding teachers was done by Ms. Malathi (Institution Based Education Program Head), and Dr. Ramkumar (Education Coordinator), all teachers shared their work experience and sought further guidance from them. On 05/01/2015 – People from ‘Gurukula Ashrama’ had visited the school and organized the program of ‘ Sahasranama’, and taught the same to the students. All had rich experience of the Pooja by knowing the mythological, cultural and scientific background. From 7th to 10th January Students and Teachers visited some ‘tribal colonies’ continuously three days for the follow up of absentee students and bringing them back to school and also having a rapport with community. In this process, some children also involved and they went and motivated their friends.

On 09/01/2015 the training of mentor teachers of the intern teachers was held at Sri Adichunchanagiri College, H.D. Kote. The training was attended by Mr. Shashidhara R Asst. Teacher at our school and participant had rich learning exposure. On 09/01/2015, some staff and students of our school attended the annual day function of “Kautilya Vidyalaya” at Mysore. It helped to the staff and students to have a different learning experience and helped us to conduct the school Annual day very effectively. On 13/01/2015 meeting regarding SSLC examination was held by DDPI at Nirmala Convent, Mysore. The meeting was attended by the Head Master of our school Mr.Devdas. It has helped us in channelizing Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation in the school, especially for SSLC students. On14/01/2015 the Annual day function of “Viveka School of

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Excellence” was held at Saragur, 50 students of our school, Budding Teachers and all the Staff had attended the function. It helped pupil to get a different experience, and benefited us to prepare our own School Annual day celebration. Students mixed with other school children who were belonging to different communities, different socio economic background and semi urban area.

Mr. TGK. Murthy the Scientist at ISRO, Bangalore had visited our school campus and had interaction with staff and students. Seeing the works done by the Organization and after the communication with us all, he expressed that he was deeply motivated and inspired. He wished all the students and the staff.

On 18/01/2015 Mr.Raghu of Rotary Club, Mysore along with his friends visited the school and taught Memory games, Life Skills to our SSLC students through various activities. On 19/01/2015 Mr. K. G. Kumar, Director Vishwesharaiah Museum, Bangalore, has visited our school and observed all the activities of each classroom; he also collected information about all the school activities from Ms. Malathi, the Head of Institution Based Education Programs. Then he gave a speech to our students and inspired them to be proactive citizens of India, who is aware of duties and responsibilities. Seeing the works done by the Organization and after communicating with all of us, he expressed that he was deeply motivated and inspired. He then wished all the students and the staff.

To improve the scientific skills and temperament of students on 19/01/2015 Students of School were taken to the Science exhibition, which was held at Viveka School of Excellence Saragur, by Science and Mathematics teachers. On 20/01/2015 Mr. Lakshmeesh, National Level Archery Champion, and his Team, from Bangalore, had visited our school to collect sports activities. He shared about a project to take tribal students under age 18 and train them for State and National level championships. It helped us to develop the sports team of the school. On 22/01/2015 the school arranged educational excursion for 8th and 9th standard to Suttur J S S Matha, J S S Institutions, and GRS Fantasy Park, Mysore as part of their educational tour. The children had real learning exposure and helped them to improve their learning. On the same day the school arranged another educational excursion for 10th Standard to NTTF(Nettur Technical Training Foundation) Colleges both in Peenya and Electronic City, Bangalore as part of the industrial visit; they were also taken to Vishveshwaraiah Museum, Indira Gandhi, Musical Fountain and K.P.J Prabhu Arts & Crafts Training Centre, Industrial Area etc.

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10th students visit to NTTF college and Artizan Centre in B’lore

On second day students visited Vinyas Industry, Mysore and Talent School in for the Musical program called ‘RHYTHM ADDA’, which was performed by Mangalore Musical Troop and to watch the drama ‘Dhyavarappana Dhaari’which was played by the students of Talent School. The children had real learning exposure and helped them to get exposure to different training centers.

10th students visited Vinyas Factory in Mysore

26th January is well known day for all Indians because entire India became united in the form of states on 26th January 1950 & this was called as the Republic day. This was celebrated in the school. All the staff and children participated joyfully. On this occasion Ms. Malathi (Institution Based Education Program Head), Dr.Ramkumar (Education Co-coordinator), Mr. Shivappa & Devadasu, Headmasters unfurled the national flag. Dr. Ramkumar, as a Chief Guest, gave a speech about “Meaning of the National Anthem and its importance” by explaining the meaning of its content. The children also gave speeches about the Republic day.

Celebrating Republic Day Speech by Dr. Ramkumar 13

On that wonderful occasion, CCE workshop was held by the resource person Mr. Sathish, (Demonstration School in Mysore) for all the Budding Teachers, staff of the school, Vivekananda Teacher Training, Research Centre, and Viveka Tribal Centre for Learning, Hosahalli. Everyone shared their experience at work place with each other. It helped a lot for staff about applying Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation in the classroom.

On 31/01/2015 – “Tribal Culture Festival and Classical Music Concert” was held at the school by inviting Leaders from all the tribal colonies, Dance of “Betta Kurubas” and “Jenu kurubas” was outstanding. The children had different exposure and helped them to improve their knowledge in Music.

Tribal Parent speech Tribal Dance performance Classical Concert FEBRUARY – 2015

On14/02/2015 School Annual day function “DARPANA - 2015 and 25th Anniversary celebration was held. Sri Bhaskar Bhat, the Managing Director, Titan Company Limited, Bangalore, was the Chief Guest, Mr. Ramesh, Tribal Representative, Balle Haadi was specially invited, Dr. Sridevi Seetharam presided over the function. Cultural programs like Drama, Dance, Mono acting caught the attention of all the students, staffs, budding teachers, students and staffs of Viveka School of Excellence. The Doctors of Vivekananda Memorial Hospital Saragur, representatives of Tribals, all the parents of the school and those who were present at the moment, same day inauguration function for starting up the construction of “Museum of Tribal Culture” was done by “Sri Yuktheshanandaji”, Correspondent, Sri Ramakrishna Vidhyashala, Mysore. Totally, it was a memorable function and the children had different exposure and helped them to improve their learning.

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Dance performance by school children in Annual Day On16/02/2015 – “Alva’s Residential School of Sports” officials have visited our school, and did first level sports camp which included students from other schools for the selection process. 19 students from our school and 7 students of Gundathur School have been selected out of 100 students. In the 2nd level camp to be held on April 22nd to 30th 2015. It has been told by teachers of Alva’s that this selection will be helpful for those who are selected, will get free education as well as employability.

On18/02/2015 Celebrated the birthday of “Sri Ramakrishna

A selection committee from Alva’s Participation of other schoolchildren 100-meter running competition Sports College Paramahamsa” in a simple way, Headmaster of our school Mr. Devdas narrated the life story of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to all. He motivated all teachers and students to adapt the philosophy of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. All the staff and students sung and Devotional songs. On 20/02/2015 – The students (Girls – 5, Boys – 7 ) who were trained for three months about PCB ( Printed Circuit Board) were taken to Vinyas Innovative Technologies Pvt. Ltd and joined them for work, Managing Director of the company expressed his gratitude towards trainees and trainer and informed to keep this progress further too.

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Alumni students exposure visit and learning PCB

On 23/02/2015 – Sports competition and quiz competition was held between students of VTCL and VSOE, students of VSOE won the prize in quiz, and students of VTCL won prize in sports. This program gave good exposure to get mingle freely with students of urban area. It also helped to improve confidence level in students. On 27/02/2015, a group of Manipuri Dance Artists along with Sri “Padmashri” award winner had visited the school and gave Manipuri dance performance for our staff and students, which was organized by Spic Macay and sponsored by Titan Company. We all enjoyed the dance, which was eye catching and mind blowing event. Even our students performed their tribal dance and learned some steps of Manipuri dance.

Performance by Manipuri Dancers On 28th February science day was celebrated. It is also known as the birthday of famous Indian scientist Sir. C.V Raman. On this occasion, a quiz program was arranged, students were dividend to four teams for the competition, 1) Sir. C. V. Raman, 2) Newton, 3) Einstein and 4) Srinivasa Ramanujan. Sir C. V. Raman Team won first prize. Same day essay competition on the topic

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“Hygiene” was held for SSLC students. This Science Day celebration helped the students to improve their General Knowledge level and avoid the fear of facing the Public Examination.

High School participated in Quiz competition and Science day

March – 2015

On 02/03/2015 – Director of Canara Bank has inaugurated “The Rain Water Harvesting Tank”, Sponsored by Canara Bank near the girls hostel. This has really enabled us to overcome the water crisis in the school campus. Dr. R. Balasubramaniam, Founder of Institution and Dr.(Flt Lt) M. A. Balasubramanya, CEO of the institution was present for the inaugural function. A group of students performed tribal dance as a part of the celebration.

Inauguration by Canara bank General Manager Construction of Rain Water Harvest in Girls Hostel

On 04/03/2015, State Level Preparatory Examinations for SSLC students was held. The preparatory examination helped the children to face the Board exams with courage and confidence. On 08/03/2015 eight students of SSLC, who were interested to choose the science combination at PUC level, attended the entrance test for enrolling to the field of science. The test helped them to pursue their further education in science field, also improvement of their faith, self-confidence and take steps towards their aim.

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On 09/03/2015, Workshop on the topic “Being an Empathetic and Compassionate Teacher” was arranged. All teachers of VTCL were present for the workshop. It helped us to know about quality education, exercise, equality, bad and good thoughts, also how should be the performance of teacher at class. Teachers expressed their gratitude by expressing that they got ways to build their ideas and improving their skills with passionate teaching attitude in filling self-confidence and positive thinking among students.

On 27/03/2015 – As part of the 30th Anniversary celebration of Swami Vivekananda Youth movement. A Video shooting of all the activities of school was captured for the SVYM documentary as per the wishes of Dr. R. Balasubramaniam. The founder of the organization gave a spark for the start up of all planned activities for coming years. He also expressed that “The reason for the success of Organization by overcoming all the problems and challenges is the co- operation and participation at each level of development. So, instead of limiting ourselves for particular job let us think about development of society by helping the people who are suffering from poverty, let us give value based education, concentration on each child, so that, the child should be involve in social works in future, and let us join our hands in participating at the work towards construction of our Nation and its good deeds”.

Speech by Dr. R. Balasubramaniam to 10th std Speech by Dr. R. Balasubramaniam to Staff Students

RECORDS SUBMISSION OF FORMATIVE ASSESMENT -4

On 15th March all the VTCL teachers had submitted the Formative Assessment -4(FA-4) and Summative Assessment documents to the office. These documents included the curricular and co-curricular performances of the every child. The SSLC board exams will commence from 31st March to 13th April. We are anticipating for better results. All the teachers and institutional Heads were involved in the review process of the yearlong activities and after series of discussions and deliberations, the school has evolved with goal for the upcoming academic year.

Alumni Students joined to Job Oriented courses:

This year, four students joined Nettur Technical Training Foundation course & six students for Central Institute for Plastic Engineering Technology, in Mysore. Mr.Ravi joined a wood carving course at KPJ Prabhu art school near Bidadi. He is learning fast with good output. He is getting

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25% income from the sale of his carvings. The 6 students who have joined for regular 3 years Diploma Course in Plastic Technology were taken to Taluk Social Welfare Office to submit documents to get Scholarship for their studies. Two students have joined to Kautilya Vidyalaya, Mysore and have taken Science and Commerce in 1st year PUC. On September 1st, 6 (1boy & 5 Girls) SSLC passed students who dropped out of College were admitted to CIPET for short term 6 months course in plastic technology. After completing the training, the students will be given placement in industries.

On October 4th VTCL Alumni batch with parents from Kadukuruba tribal community got a great opportunity to perform dance in a world famous Mysore Dasara Procession. The organization took initiation in getting this wonderful opportunity for the alumni batch with parents.

Alumni students - Training in our Introduction to Basic Technology (IBT) centre:

This year, among the alumni, twelve students were got trained in soldering and out of twelve candidates; nine were employed at Vinyas, an industry in Mysore. Before this, even the instructors had training of soldering for 15 days in the same institute. Those who completed 3 months PCB soldering training at IBT went for a visit to Vinyas industry for orientation on November 4th. Nine of them were later recruited with an initial salary of 6500/-pm. Again, another batch of 15 students is getting training in the same Soldering technology. The students were inspired by the success of past batch. Every month monitoring visit is being done by the teacher who is coordinating the alumni students program. During the visit to the student’s colleges, he takes feedback from the college faculty about the progress of the students, attendance and if there is any other issue.

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10th std Supplementary students of VTCL:

The 12 students who had failed 10th std, presently only 10 students are coming to school and getting orientation on various skills like mechanical, agriculture, electrical, tailoring, embroidery, art work, clay modeling etc. These students were taken to Mysore to see Gombe mane (Dolls House) & Flower exhibition. The students were then given skill-based training in making dolls, Wire baskets, paper bags, simple jeweler works, embroidery etc. They were also given special coaching classes to pass 10thexam through using EVD’s, ICT, and Worksheets etc. These students are taking exams in March with freshers. Other income generation activities are also planned for these students and will be given training in tailoring, Candle making, manufacturing phenol and greeting cards.

Ms. Malathi H D Head – Institution Based Education Programs Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement

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