SWANIRVAR PRIMARY DIVISION HALF YEARLY REPORT 2009-10

INTERVENTION IN GOVERNMENT PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Key Persons : Prosanto Mondol and Gopal Mondol and assisted by rest of Primary team

The West Bengal govt has two kinds of primary schools (i) the regular primary schools run by education dept numbering about 60,000 (ii) Shishu Shiksha Kendras ( SSK) run the Panchayat & Rural Development dept numbering around 20,000.

The following activities were done with govt schools ( both regular primary schools and SSK)
1. Empowerment Training for Interested Teachers
Last year some of the govt teachers had requested our Shikshamitra resource person Sudeshna to conduct a training on “assessment” . Accordingly a two day workshop on “ Alternative assessment ; what to assess ; open ended questions” was held at Swanirvar on 14-15 April 2009. This was attended by 10 govt and 4 Swanirvar teachers. Normally this is something very new to most teachers and they have difficulty in translating the concept into creating different kind of questions. But the workshop involved lots of examples and actually making the teachers do many exercises. We do not expect immediate changes in govt schools . But this was really an eye opener to many of them and will hopefully lead to widening their horizons.
2. Individual Sahitya Sabha
This is a cultural event where children put up various performances involving reading , reciting , singing , dancing , acting and the whole thing is conducted by children. We used to organize this with 10-15 govt schools participating where each school would send 4-5 children. But now we are shifting to holding this event in each individual school so that many children can participate and local community can also enjoy and be part of this. Parents , ex students , ex teachers , panchayat members came to these programmes .
We had four events in this period . There was excellent participation from large number of children in the latter two schools.

Date	School	Performers	Audience
17.05.09	Jasaikati SSK	30	200
19.05.09	Kalinga Adarsha FP	20	500
15.09.09	Lakshinathpur FP	80	300
23.09.09	Jashikati FP	70	250