tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23033248512733175162024-03-13T05:47:05.431-07:00Jadan School - Shree Vishwa Deep Gurukul Senior Secondary SchoolInformation about what is going on in Shree Vishwa Deep Gurukul Maheshwaranand Ashram School, a charitable school established for needy village students by Paramhans Swami Maheshwaranand Puri ji Maharaj in Pali District, Rajasthan (India). The school gives a focus to girls education.
Jadan School is a Senior Secondary Hindi Medium school affiliated with the Rajasthan Board offering Science, Commerce and Arts Faculties.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-90329268683207043942014-08-09T00:46:00.001-07:002014-08-12T01:41:08.062-07:00Kho kho<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today is a school kho kho tournament. The four boys and girls houses are playing it out with full enthusiasm and a lot of noise. </div>
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Kho Kho is an amazing game which involves three players being chased and tagged by the members of the other team. The team that are the "taggers" crouch in the middle of the field and can only chase and tag one at a time. Any of them can be released when they are tagged by their running teammate who shouts "Kho". When chasing they can only run in one direction and can't cross the centre line although those being chased can go anywhere they like.</div>
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I realize that the above is an absolutely hopeless description of what happens but just know....great game, fascinating tactics, good action. If you want to know kho kho come and play in school!!!</div>
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Priya Yadav <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 92% 9th in the District merit</div>
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Krishna Rathore <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 83%</div>
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Teenu Jangir <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>83%</div>
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Usha Kiram Charan <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>82%</div>
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Bhumika Rathore <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>87%</div>
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Varsha Sharma <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 82%</div>
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Neha Yadav <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 90.5% 13th in the District merit</div>
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Dashika Sharma <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 79%</div>
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It is quite a group that should spur each other on to great success in 12th class.</div>
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Congratulations to them all on their fantastic efforts in tenth class.</div>
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The rain has been great. Nearly 6 metres of water in the talab and still coming. </div>
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For anyone who has been in Jadan you know what this means. It has been raining now for 20 hours. Not heavy but beautiful.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-65397885962773312632014-08-05T06:46:00.001-07:002014-08-05T06:46:36.232-07:00Just a thought - for the teachers of Rajasthan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Again and again teachers comment that:</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Children do not want to learn</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">They don’t want to do their homework and study</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">They don’t pay attention</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">They don’t know what they want to do with their lives. There is no ambition, no drive, no enthusiasm for the future</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What if the students wanted to be in class??</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What would <u>make them want</u> to be in class?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What would make <u>YOU</u> want to be there?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What would make you want to learn a subject?</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Interesting classes</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Relevance of the subject to daily life</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Encouragement</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A teacher who also <u>wanted</u> to be there with a <u>passion</u> to be there</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What would give a student direction and motivation?</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do they have career guidance?</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do they have a chance to have counselling for their 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup> subject choices?</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A teacher who also turned up on time!!!!</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An interesting, relevant and enjoyable subject, so good it would be a punishment just to miss a class.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A passion for learning, imbibed from someone who has that same passion</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Look around. There are some great teachers in almost every school. Do the best ones have disciplinary issues? Does the discipline in their classes come through violence or through respect for their quality of teaching??</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> A classroom can be transformed into a joyous place of learning. A place full of interest and light. A place where the student looks forward to coming to rather than a place they sit passively because of fear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Please think about the above and then consider…... The Government has not tied your hands by restricting corporal punishment. It has freed your hands to take up a challenge. To bring your enthusiasm to the classroom, enthuse your students and in the process to become even more excellent teacher. To become an ambassador for the subject which you teach. To bring the classroom to life, so that students may flourish and enjoy their education. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">When the stick is required it means that the connection with the student is not strong enough. Surely we should do everything possible to establish that connection.</span></div>
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I watched these children the other day as they walked to school. I was the day after a very nice rain. There was puddles on the road, the leaves on the trees were shining and all of the bugs and small creatures that had been waiting for the rain in order to come out were crawling around in the first days of their lives. These three girls took about 45 minutes to walk the last 200 metres to school. They were fascinated by everything. The freshness of the nature combined with their freshness of perspective was beautiful to see.<br />
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Of course they were completely late for school. But who cares?<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-26315230734876655012014-08-05T05:58:00.000-07:002014-08-05T05:58:01.751-07:00It has been a long time out of the office!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It has really been a while since the last post! So…here is the report.</div>
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School is back for the 2013-14 session. There were some amazing results in the last session. For the first time one of our students came in the top 10 in the District. She was studying in 12th Science. Whenever the results of 12th class exams come out the first ten students have their name, school and photo on the front page of the newspapers so it was a big event. Congratulations to all!</div>
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All of the other students did exceptionally well. The school's speciality subject seems to be Sanskrit where in 12th class 40% of students got distinction marks. At one stage as we were downloading the marks from the internet it was like a shock when one of the students got below 75%!</div>
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Everyone is looking forward to the year ahead. The staff have started their teaching with full speed. Students are preparing for sports tournaments, plays, singing and dancing performances over the next weeks. All students have been allocated their "house" for inter school games and arts competitions which start this week.</div>
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And, best of all, in the last weeks it finally rained. Making the atmosphere clean, the temperature a little more bearable and covering the landscape in green. Somehow it doesn't matter how good the building is, how good the teachers are, how interesting the subject may be … it is always more enjoyable when it is no longer 45 degrees!</div>
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The last days of the school year are hot and difficult. This year we used the time for games, art, singing, sports and remembering the traditional and simple games that children used to play before there was a television with cartoons in every house. It was really good fun.<br />
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<span style="text-align: right;">Friday the 23</span><sup style="text-align: right;">rd</sup><span style="text-align: right;"> March marked the start of the new calendar year according to the Indian Calendar. So welcome to Vikram Samvat 2069!!!</span><br />
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</div><span style="text-align: right;">It is a day which also signifies the start of Vasant Navratri, a nine day festival devoted to the goddesses Laxmi, Saraswati and Durga.</span><br />
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</div><span style="text-align: right;">Students were also urged yesterday to make sure when they wake up this morning that they pay special attention to how they start the day. Teachers insisted that especially today the students should wake early, bathe and make their morning worship with full concentration. Then, still in the early morning they made sure to do ½ and hours study, making the atmosphere and direction for the year ahead.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: right;">After coming to school the students, teachers, doctors and staff from the hospital and members of the ashram from throughout the world joined together at the Shiv Mandir in Jadan Ashram for puja and prayers for the Navratri festival and to wish everyone a happy new year.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: right;">From all of us here in Jadan have a great year ahead and enjoy!!!!</span><br />
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What the photo may show you is how our classrooms in school now look. As you can see there is an interactive whiteboard with a projector and a traditional blackboard. What you can't see is that the projector is attached to a computer (it is behind the board locked so that small hands can't reach it) and that that computer is attached to a network with the most amazing software for teaching and explaining the courses the children have from KG till 12th. All in English, Hindi and 10 other languages (Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati etc). Also locked away are a keyboard and webcamera.<br />
It has been a pretty exciting time. It was clear from the time when we decided to install the equipment that the children would enjoy. What I couldn't have imagined is how the teachers have taken to it. At first there was nervousness - keep in mind several staff had never used a computer before!!! Then as their training started there was reluctance from some and instant immersion from other staff. Slowly those who were new to the computer world have taken to it like ducks to water. Now they are exploring possibilities that even the company didn't think of!! (yesterday I saw a teacher had taken a photo of one of the girls with the webcam, put it up on the projector and they were learning the names of the parts of the face from her photo!)<br />
We have installed the above screens in 20 of our classrooms (stretching the budget borders to the limit!) and the students are taking turns to be in those rooms. Our school is the first school in the district of Pali to work with such technology.<br />
If anyone is interested in the system we are using the website of the company is <a href="http://www.educomp.com/">www.educomp.com</a><br />
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The students who participated in children's day celebrations in the competitions for art, mehendi, rangoli and handwriting received their awards today. Congratulations to all!!!!!!!!!!</div><br />
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Children's day was a day of art, decoration, colour, dancing and roleplaying. The children of 1st and 2nd class dressed up as characters from Indian history and mythology. Their lives were celebrated with song and dance. The boy is dressed as Jawaharlal Nehru, who's birthday is on the day of Children's day. At his behest India celebrates it's future, the children, on this day.<br />
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Here are a few samples of the art works done by the young students on children's day</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-81499186448333776792011-11-12T20:18:00.000-08:002011-11-12T20:18:47.817-08:00View of the school<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3Ol0P4Dayoc/Tr9Esol5LlI/AAAAAAAABxQ/RKhQ-kUsZwI/s1600/DSC_0078.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3Ol0P4Dayoc/Tr9Esol5LlI/AAAAAAAABxQ/RKhQ-kUsZwI/s320/DSC_0078.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a view of the school as at September 2011. For those interested Google Earth has updated their images of Jadan Ashram to photos from 2010. It is interesting to see the Om Ashram, Hospital and School. Enjoy.</div><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-43508603324256360992011-11-12T20:14:00.000-08:002011-11-12T20:14:06.565-08:00Anahat nada<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OPeQDAnPegg/Tr9D0XmLB4I/AAAAAAAABxI/tfaym07Se5Q/s1600/DSC_0105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OPeQDAnPegg/Tr9D0XmLB4I/AAAAAAAABxI/tfaym07Se5Q/s320/DSC_0105.jpg" width="180" /></a></div>For those who were in Strilky and were listening to the satsang about meditating on the sound of one stick. These are the sticks.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-73446978795097178382011-09-25T02:10:00.003-07:002011-09-25T02:10:26.303-07:00Back at school<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lGqyTjTnleM/Tn7wA0M6UaI/AAAAAAAABww/_JyWKZ72cNc/s1600/DSC_0028-726304.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lGqyTjTnleM/Tn7wA0M6UaI/AAAAAAAABww/_JyWKZ72cNc/s320/DSC_0028-726304.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656222078827385250" /></a></p><p>I was back in school yesterday after two months in Europe. It is so beautiful to listen to the children sing again. <br> Hari Om to everyone in Europe and to all the kids who were in Strilky. </p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-85016053947927823492011-09-25T02:10:00.001-07:002011-09-25T02:10:24.785-07:00First day out<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7ynvEeCjFkI/Tn7wAO3GrEI/AAAAAAAABwo/nbSWeCuN-qY/s1600/DSC_0034-1-724786.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7ynvEeCjFkI/Tn7wAO3GrEI/AAAAAAAABwo/nbSWeCuN-qY/s320/DSC_0034-1-724786.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656222068803808322" /></a></p><p>Siddhi, our new foal, enjoying her first run out of the stable with her mum Ganga. Beautiful.</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-88894268684148968012011-09-18T01:14:00.001-07:002012-04-01T04:27:20.847-07:00Siddhi's first day out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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The latest addition to our horse stable is Siddhi. Today was her first day out running around and boy can she run.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-78289342646818175262011-09-18T01:06:00.000-07:002011-09-18T01:06:05.488-07:00Smiling faces<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Oek8kgNuKBU/TnWkFTBq3FI/AAAAAAAABwE/MRF7Ne1rJHQ/s1600/DSC_0029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Oek8kgNuKBU/TnWkFTBq3FI/AAAAAAAABwE/MRF7Ne1rJHQ/s320/DSC_0029.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ceffc5YjarI/TnWkwNNUbuI/AAAAAAAABwI/wS6rz9ScRH8/s1600/DSC_0030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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</a></div>Yesterday I was in school for the first time since going to Europe for two months. It is so beautiful to hear the children singing and see their smiling faces again.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2303324851273317516.post-1219737479031107932011-06-21T23:01:00.000-07:002011-06-21T23:01:07.051-07:00Examination results part 4 - 10th Class<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In tenth class we had a huge batch of 101 students. Of those students 95 passed. Three of the students scored above 85% which is a huge mark in the 10th board, up in the merit rankings for our district. Interestingly the 10th class is often the most difficult for the students to pass. The maths is difficult and those who don't have a "maths brain" have trouble. Once they get through tenth there isn't any compulsion to take maths so those students breath easy.<br />
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A mind boggling fact about the Rajasthan board 10th examinations. One million twelve thousand students sat the 10th class examinations!!!!!!!! That is only in Rajasthan state. The overall result was that 73.7% of students passed. Our students have done much better than that average. Well done once again.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3