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Ramche Community to Take Responsibility for Operating School

Santi School Project (SSP), which has funded the construction of Shree Shanti Primary School in Ramche -2, Sindhupalchowk, and funded the subsequent operations of the school, has decided to handover the operational responsibilities to the School Management Community from April 2012 as per the agreement reached with the community at the start of the project.

Rabindra Maharjan and Bijaya Babu Shiwakoti attended the meeting with the parents, guardians and  members of the school management committee of the Shanti Primary School held in the school premise on January 30, 2011 to inform the community about the decision. All the present were informed about the decision of the Shanti School Project (SSP) to empower the community by mobilizing them to seek resources to sustain the operations of the school. They were informed about the two deadlines; mid April 2011 – the time to prepare a business plan for the school and submit that to the SSP for information – and another the mid April 2012 – the time when the community has to shoulder the total responsibility to run the school.

The School Management Committee has started working with the teachers and the community members to prepare a business plan for operating the school.

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Shanti Primary School Appoints a New Teacher

Shiva Prasad Nepal has been selected as the English teacher of Shanti Primary School in the position vacated by the Principal Ms Rosy Lama. The School Management Committee and the Parents Teachers Association of the Shanti School had earlier decided to hire a new teacher with good fluency in English language.

Mr Nepal who has been judged as the best amongst the candidates who had applied for the position. Besides being fluent in writing and speaking English and the he teaches using different materials. Soon after he assuming his responsibilities as a teacher, he will be enrolled in early childhood education trainings.

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Shanti Primary School – Evaluation Report (2009-2010)

Shanti Primary School is the first project undertaken by the Santi School Project. Located in Ramche village within the mountainous district of Sindhupalchowk in Nepal, the school is about 90 minutes walk from the nearest road. The school was first conceived by Christopher Heun and his friend Lila Tamang in 2003. The school was constructed in 2008 and in May 2010 completed its 2nd full year in operation.

This evaluation report provides our stakeholders detailed information about the school’s activities in its second academic year (May 2009 through April 2010).  

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New School Management Committee Formed at Shanti Primary School

Shanti Primary School got its new school management committee (SMC) and parent teacher association (PTA). The committee and association formation were held on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Validity of new SMC and PTA will be 3 years from the date of formation. The new SMC and PTA were formed under the guidance of Resource Person Mr. Padam Basnet. Around 60 participants were present during the committee formation. The assembly elected nine members of new SMC under the chairmanship of Mr. Lila Tamang (Former SMC chairperson).Mr. Lila Tamang was unanimously elected for the post. Name of the new SMC members:

1. Chairperson:                                Mr. Lila Bahadur Tamang,

2. Woman representative:     Mrs. Kalpana Nepali,

3. Member:                                        Mrs. Indira Thapa

4. Member:                                        Mr. Mahendra Rayamajhi

5. Member Secretary:                Ms. Rosy Lama

6. Teacher representative:   Ms Solmu Sherpa,

7. Member:                                       Mr. Bishnu Bahadur Tamang

8. Member:                                       Mr. Pahal Man Tamang and

9. Member:                                       Mr. Bhupendra Poudyal.

Similarly, 11 members parent teacher association (PTA) is formed under the chairmanship of Mrs. Nirmaya Tamang. Name of the new PTA members:

  1. Chairperson:                            Mrs. Nirmaya Tamang
  2. Woman representative:   Mrs. Ambika Sapkota
  3. Member:                                      Mrs. Kendra Kumari Thapa
  4. Member:                                      Mrs. Swasthani Thapa
  5. Member:                                      Mrs. Sukumeli Tamang
  6. Member:                                      Mrs. Pancha Maya Tamang
  7. Member:                                      Mr. Lal Bahadur Tamang
  8. Member:                                      Mr. Kumar Tamang
  9. SMC chairperson:                  Mr. Lila Bahadur Tamang
  10. SMC member secretary:   Ms. Rosy Lama
  11. Teacher representative:   Ms. Solmu Sherpa

All the participants were very excited for the meeting and to take the roles and responsibilities of SMC and PTA as they believe that Shanti Primary School is providing quality education to their children. More than 70% of the SMC and PTA are women. This is very encouraging as children whose mothers are interested in their education perform well at school

 

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New class added at Shanti Primary School, New Teacher Appointed

Shanti Primary School has finished the Class 3 upgrade process. During the upgrade process, different documents had to be prepared by School. Lila Tamang, the school management committee’s chairperson, worked hard to make it happen. SSP sent a letter to assure the District Education Office of our continued financial support for the school to get the officials satisfied.

Dipesh Tamang, a resident of Ramche -2 is appointed as a new primary teacher in Shanti Primary School. He is a very active youth in the community. He had earlier made several requests to Lila Tamang for the teacher post in Shanti Primary School. He will be under a 6 month probation to review his performance as a teacher.

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New Volunteer Arrives at Shanti Primary School

Sarah Tenzer, a volunteer from Austria, arrived in Kathmandu on November 23rd, 2009. She will travel to Ramche to volunteer at the Shanti Primary School where she will work along with the teachers at the school.

Santi School Project has been encouraging volunteers to from from outside Nepal to provide a different learning education to the school’s students. Sarah is the third volunteer to teach at Shanti Primary School.

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Volunteer from Saudi Arabia arrives in Kathmandu

Mohammed Omar, a volunteer from Saudi Arabia, arrived in Kathmandu on October 24, 2009. Mohammed will volunteer at Shree Santi Primary school for a period of one month.

Santi School Project has been encouraging volunteers to from from outside Nepal to provide a different learning education to the school’s students. Mohammed is the second volunteer to teach at the school.

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Shanti Primary School plans to hire a new teacher, teacher’s salary increased

Shanti Primary School in Ramche, Sindhupalchowk is making preparations to hire a new teacher for the school due to the increasing number of students at the school.

SSP is also creating a guideline for increasing the teachers salaries at the school to match the government standards. A mechanism has been created to evaluate the teachers salary every six months.

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Shanti Primary School Receives Government Funding for a Teacher’s Salary

The District Education Office of Sindhupalchowk District has finally approved to pay the salary of one of the teachers at Shanti Primary School. This will go a long way towards ensuring sustainability of our school. The District Education Office has also nominated a resource person to monitor the school’s progress.

In the mean time, two of the teachers at the school are also receiving early childhood training as part of their professional development.

Now that Shanti Primary School is running smoothly, SSP has also began the research for our second project. Our team in Nepal has decided that instead of building a new school, we will focus on renovating existing schools. Over the last three years since our inception, we have come to a realization that the main problem in Nepal is not that there aren’t enough school – it that the school lack the proper infrastructure, the necessary resources and trained teachers. Therefore, we have decided to focus more on these three elements in the future.

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Shanti Primary School Completes its first year of Operation

Even in its first year in operation, Shanti Primary School now has more students in Class 1 than any other schools in the area. See the the chart to the left for details.

Of the 25 students who completed the first year at the school. All of them have passed and will graduate to Class 2.

Students as far as the village of Arukharka, an hour walk from the school, are now coming to the our school primary because we are providing a better quality education than they can get in a nearby school.

SSP’s Project Coordinator had visited Ramche from May 10 to May 14 2009. The main purpose of this visit was to evaluate the school’s performance in its first academic year. During the field visit, PC visited the parents of the students and interviewed them. Our primary goal was to know if the parents are satisfied with the school and the overall performances of their children. PC also met with the teachers of Shanti Primary School and surveyed them about the performance of their students and their general feelings about the school.

We found that most parents were happy and satisfied with the overall performance of their children and the school as well. The teachers also shared a similar opinion. An evaluation report was created based on the interviews and shared with the related stakeholders. The following measures were recommended in the evaluation report to run Shanti Primary School effectively and successfully:

  • Quality education should be maintained in Shanti Primary School as almost all of parents believe that Shanti Primary School is providing a better quality education to their children than the other nearby schools.
  • Teachers training should be provided to the new school teachers.
  • It has been observed that some parents are admitting their children to Shanti Primary School in lower classes. The parent have a very high expectation about the quality of education we are providing. Such expectation need to be managed to a more realistic level to keep the parents happy.
  • A perimeter fence need to be built around the school for the safety of the school’s children.

The teachers of the school have also ask SSP to review the possibility of increasing their salary. SSP has come up with a mechanism to evaluate the salary requests every six months and meet it if it is deemed appropriate.

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