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Unity in Diversity
Unity in Diversity
Children dressed up like freedom fighters.
Little heroes
On Republic day.
Flag hosting by Chief Guest C.I Ganga reddy
With the help of Sri Vidyanjali School , we are providing Lunch to all the school children and staff…
Healthy food provided by Sri Vidyanjali School…
Andrew’s visit
Andrew Newton is a Doctor from England. He visited Hyderabad for a medical conference this November. He had seen the work of Patashala and Hyderapals online and got in contact with us before his visit.
Andrew was only in Hyderabad a few days and we were very lucky to have him spend two days with our students. On Andrews first visit to Patashala he gave our students some early learning toys and held an interactive workshop on hand washing and dental hygiene. Andrew used 
picture handouts to demonstrate the importance of washing hands. It was to our horror that only 3 out of 30 students admitted to washing their hands after they’d been to the toilet! To show students how to
improve their teeth brushing habits Andrew distributed plaque-disclosing tablets and tooth brushes. When you crunched these fruity tablets they turned your whole mouth purple and blue. The blue areas showed lasting plaque that needed harder brushing. It was great fun 
doing this with the students, some loved the purple fruity mouth while others gasped!
Andrew also took classes 4 & 5 to Golconda fort. They had a spectacular time. A tour guide took them round and talked about the history of Golconda. The students were happy to visit a historical place that they had learnt about and seen in their textbooks. It was a long and very enjoyable day.
Thank you Andrew!
Andrew and his two sons. They completed 10k in Cardiff. Some of the sponsorship money was spent on the toys bought for Patashala.
Music as Therapy
Patashala School has been very lucky to host two music therapists from Music as Therapy. Music as Therapy is a UK based charity whose mission is the “development and use of music therapy, as a means to relieve those living in conditions of need, hardship or distress, suffering from mental or physical disability and the effects of poverty or sickness.”
Alistair and Somesh leading a workshop
Alistair Robertson from Edinburgh and Somesh Purey from New Delhi came together to run 5 weeks of skill-sharing workshops with our staff and students. They were also here to work with the ARMS center; a local school specialized in learning difficulties.
Somesh and Alistair ran interactive workshops with our teachers to equip them with the skills and confidence to run music programmes addressing the psychological, emotional and social needs of our students.
Patashala students and teachers taking part in a workshop.
The Patashala teachers had a very exciting five weeks learning new skills that they can use in their classrooms. They have learnt new ways of interacting with the students through singing, clapping and using music instruments to help children build confidence and express creativity.. Our teachers have been practicing at home with their children and are now back after the Dussera holidays, excited to implement their new skills.
Click here to read the blog Alistair and Somesh wrote while they were here in Hyderabad.
New academic year 2015 !
The summer of 2015 has been terrible as a heat wave has swept across parts of the country and specially in Hyderabad.But the good news is that the monsoon is not far away and with it we bring in our new academic year 2015-16. The New government has announced that the academic year would begin a few weeks earlier than usual . As a yearly practice we procured all the necessary text books to distribute to the children free of cost. The text books are a mix of the state printed and a variety of privately printed ones to suit the needs of our children and teachers alike while keeping costs
in check.
Delivery of books.
School Uniforms will be distributed as well and a special thanks to Mr. Ravi Krishna for his kind donation towards the uniforms.Many thanks are in order to M/s Padmavati who with her band of workers put together our uniforms for a second year. She heads a Women’s self-help group that stitch school uniforms by employing local women and giving them a livelihood. We are looking forward to the new academic year.
Cultural Evening 27/03/2015
We were coming to the end of our first academic year and teachers thought it best for the children to have a ‘cultural day’ where they could showcase their talents. So the whole school went into preparation mode and children of all ages were encouraged to put together dances and plays. The children had some help from the former students and their principal Lavanya.
On the day of the event children and parents alike assembled in front of the school where a stage was set up, full with lights and a sound system. The stage was open to the air so everyone in the neighbourhood could come see the event. The children from the lower years came up in turns to recite nursery rhymes both in English, Telugu and Hindi. The upper years put together a series of Dances of their favourite Bollywood songs as did a few of our ex- students. But the little children from Nursery stole our hearts with a ‘fashion show’. Parents and students cheered them on as they made their way up to the front of the stage one by one.
All our teachers made their very first speeches in English in front of all our guests and they received their certificate of teacher training from Tom Holloway.
Medical Camp (31st October)
The parents of our pupils are often less informed of their children’s health. We thought it imperative to hold a medical camp of sorts to have our children’s general health evaluated. The school has been associated with Ramdev Rao memorial hospital who have held medical camps in the past and this year they did graciously as well.
The camp was held on a regular school day where children were screened class wise with their class teachers present during their check up. The children’s height, weight and body temperature were recorded in their school diaries by a team of nurses before they were to be screened by one of two general practitioners waiting inside in a make shift dispensary. Children needing further analysis were referred to pediatricians in the main hospital which was free of cost. All 156 children were screened by the end of the day. Medicines which were prescribed were to be distributed to the parents in the following days.
The general consensus was that our children were malnourished owing to bad dietary practices. Almost all children were prescribed multi-vitamin supplements. But medicating them is never the answer so we made a trip to the National Institute of Nutrition in Hyderabad to get some more insight. We procured booklets on Low-cost Nutritional diets suited for the people of our region. The book called for including more wheat, pulses and fruit instead of a rice heavy diet. Parents were counseled on the day when medicines were distributed by their teachers and made aware of our findings.
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