INTRODUCTION:
The
Tibetan Children’s Village, Gopalpur with humble submission and deep reverence
to His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama came into existence in the year 1997 with
His grace and His younger sister whom we dearly called Ama la to accommodate the influx of children coming from Tibet. It
is now well established 22 years old in nurturing and catering to the future
seeds of Tibet as well as other children from the Himalayan regions.
STATISTICAL DATA AT A GLANCE:
Number
of Children in the previous year: 768
Number
of new admission: 172
Class
XII Passed out: 73
Class
X transferred to other schools: 32
Expired:
0
The
total number of children at the year-end: 716
Total
number of regular Staff: 102
Total number of contractual Staff: 18
Total number of contractual Staff: 18
RESULT AT A GLANCE:
CLASS
|
STRENGTH
|
COMPARTMENT
|
FAIL
|
PASS
%
|
12
(CBSE Board)
|
73
|
1
|
0
|
98.6
|
10
(CBSE Board)
|
70
|
4
|
0
|
94.3
|
EDUCATION:
The
Principal takes the overall head of the education greatly supported by the
headmasters of the two sections. Beside all the regular activities like debate,
quiz, elocution, reading time for all, Remedial classes, Verse Memorization,
Gyalshen Week, school hair dressing and energy hub unit and etc. the school
takes new and extra initiatives on promotions of secular ethics and
professional development programs for the teachers which are briefly explained
below :
SOME IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES CARRIED
OUT BY THE SCHOOL:
· Promotions
of Secular Ethics (SEE Learning): We have decided to spend
the last two periods of every Saturday which will be used to learn the basics
of Buddhism and particularly Buddhist philosophy. So far, the following topics
were covered namely; Uncertainty of death, Taking refuge, Ways to repent our
sin, Meditation and the body postures & our mental attitude & four noble
truths.
Professional development programs for the Teachers
· Science Teacher’s Workshop: As a part of the Teacher Professional
Development program for the academic year 2019, Science teachers from 7 Tibetan
schools and 4 Indian schools teachers participated in the workshop from 24th
to 25th June, 2019.
·
Early Childhood development Workshop: Mrs. Gayatri Nambier who was an early
childhood expert gave a short session on early childhood development and art of
dialogue to the student leaders. As a part of this program, student leaders are
organizing life skill programs every Wednesday morning.
·
Tibetan language improvement program
for primary teachers: We have organized Tibetan language improvement
program for the primary teachers
·
Collaborative
program: As a part of
collaborative activity, science department has invited Mr. Tenzin Ngodup of
Upper TCV and Mr. Lhundup Namgyal of Lower TCV during Science teacher’s
collaborative program.
·
Workshop on lesson planning: One whole day workshop on lesson
planning was conducted by Mrs. Vijayam Kartha. All the teachers of senior
section and junior section took part in the workshop
·
Teacher’s Reading Corner: We have a beautiful room with all
the needed things for the teachers which are located just next to the staff
room. That’s makes it more approachable. All the TPD related books are kept
there and materials to prepare teaching aids are also available.
· Life Skill Education for class VI-X.:
Mrs. Vijayam Kartha has given
this workshop for a whole day.
HEALTH:The school has a dispensary with 1 nurse, 1 health workers and 3 ayahs. We also have dentistry with 1 dental hygienist. This year the school has 4614 outpatients and 17 inpatients. The school dental hygienist and also help from the Upper TCV dentist, we treated 736. From the diseases, the URI (Upper Respiratory tract Infection) case was the most predominant as the dispensary has treated 1371.We are fortunate to have Dr. Kakahara, a Japanese doctor who comes once in a year and do check up all the children and if time permits he also see our staff. There is no major outbreak of major diseases in the school.
HOMES AND HOSTELS:
HEALTH:The school has a dispensary with 1 nurse, 1 health workers and 3 ayahs. We also have dentistry with 1 dental hygienist. This year the school has 4614 outpatients and 17 inpatients. The school dental hygienist and also help from the Upper TCV dentist, we treated 736. From the diseases, the URI (Upper Respiratory tract Infection) case was the most predominant as the dispensary has treated 1371.We are fortunate to have Dr. Kakahara, a Japanese doctor who comes once in a year and do check up all the children and if time permits he also see our staff. There is no major outbreak of major diseases in the school.
HOMES AND HOSTELS:
·
At
present, out of 30 homes, we are running 21 homes accommodating at least 24
children in each home. Beside the homes, we have 2 hostels for the senior boys
and 3 hostels for the senior girls and 1 home for baby room. In the middle of
the year, Girls hostel for class XII i.e. Youlokoe has to close temporarily as the hostel matron took an emergency resignation from
the work. The girls are sent to the two girls hostels. The homes and hostels
are well looked after by 26 motherly figures. The home mothers and wardens not
only attend to daily chores but equally take part in upbringing a healthy
cultured educated child. The school provides different in service workshop to
further train the home mothers and wardens.
Professional development programs for the Home Mothers
·
Orientation Course: Mrs Kalsang Sharling was invited to
give half day orientation course to the home mothers during the Staff
Orientation Day
·
POCSO Workshop: The home mothers have received two
workshops organized by the DoE (CTA) on the POCSO and Children’s
Behavioral Changes.
PERFORMANCE IN SPORTS:
School gives so much importance to sports which are practice
on regular basis. Under the leadership of late Mr. Wangchuk, our school
football teams are able to develop skills through constant practice. Our
participation in different tournaments brought lot of prizes and victory to the
school. We were the champions in two categories in Reliance Foundation School Football
tournament in district Kangra, H.P during the year 2019.
Important
Visitors: DoE Secretary, Mr. Karma Sangye la on 23rd June, 2019,
Private Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Ven. Yangten Rinpoche on 6th
July, 2019, Members of Parliament Shri Kishan Kapoor on 15th August,
2019, Member of Legislative Assembly of Himachal Pradesh, Shri Ashish Butail on
5th Oct, 2019 and our President Gyen Thupten Dorjee la, General
Secretary of administration Gyen Choeying Dhondup la, Education Director Gyen Sonam Sichoe la, Data
administrator Gyen Phuntsok Namgyal la and General Secretary Mrs. Lobsang Tsomo
la.
Brief report submitted by:
Kalsang Phuntsok
Director
TCV Gopalpur
