ANNUAL REPORT (2011-2012)

Eureka Schools

Implemented by AID INDIA Supported by Sella Synergy

Annual Report – June – 2011 to April - 2012

Introduction: AID India and Sella Synergy joined their hands for the 6th Consecutive Year for the betterment of education. And coincidentally both AID India and Sella Synergy celebrated their 15th Anniversary this year. Aid India is running 2 schools, one is in Kancheepuram and another one is in Thiruvannamalai District. Our schools were the place where every child is without fear and head held high, where tireless striving is born of curiosity, where learning is always fun. This report covers the following items:

• Report Summary

• Activities and Events

• Annexure A: Events Report and Photographs

• Annexure B: Training Report

• Evaluation Results will be sent as a separate report.

Report Summary:

Inclusion of VI Standard at our Eureka School – Koovathur At the end of the previous academic year (2010-2011), Dr. Balaji Sampath met the parents and discussed about their kids progress. During that meeting almost all the parents wanted to start VI standard at our school and they were willing to send their kids to our school till X standard. Based on their request we have started Class VI and simultaneously we worked on the up gradation process from Nursery and Primary School to Middle School. And we also set up the Science laboratory and BBC series video classes at our Koovathur School. And in vembakkam, we initiated a football training programme with the help of “Life is a Ball” Team.

Providing Learning Resource Materials: This Academic year also we have followed Tamil Nadu’s Samacheer Kalvi Syllabus books with our Eureka Methodology. Mr. Bala, Volunteer from Infosys Started going to school and taught math and Science among the kids. We have continued designing Pre-primary, Math, Tamil, Science, Social Studies and English kits and supplied those to our schools. We have provided

� Samacheer Kalvi Books from I STD to V STD � Around 50 Bilingual books and 60 Story books for Library � Pre-Primary Materials

o Step Cards o Tamil Letter calendar o Sight words – Tamil and English words o Stirrer for place value, addition and subtraction o Thenthuli word Poster o Thenthuli attai o Crown material made by teacher o Kola mavu for writing practice o Flash Cards – English and Tamil o Workbooks – 3 Terms o Teacher’s Manual for Every Quarter

� Math Kit o Basic Numbers chart and step card o Number sequence board o Kit for Time o Addition Board and Charts o Subtraction and multiplication boards o Division and multiplication kits o Fractions kit o Kit for measurement o Worksheets for each concept o Teacher’s Manual for Every Quarter

� Tamil Kit o Letter , Word, Sentence calendars o Thiruppi Padi – flip chart o Para and story cards o Story Books o Teacher made big size story posters o Puzzles o Grammer Worksheets o Teacher’s Manual for Every Quarter

� English Kit o Letter Domino cards o Letter Worksheets o Combo letter poster o Vocabulary picture cards o Sentence Calender o Vocabulary cards – 3 letters o Flip chart o Worksheets – Grammers, Writing practice, Phonics, Activity sheets o English DVD – phonics

� Science Kit o Puzzles o BBC Series CDS o Experiments on light, magnetism, air pressure o Science C.Ds o Record Sheets o Simple machines o Worksheets

� Social Studies Kit o Wooden map board o Teacher made worksheets

Providing other Materials:

� Uniforms – Pink and Blue shirts with Grey shorts � Water Bottles � T-shirts with Eureka School Logo � School diaries � Health Cards � Note books � Evaluation files � Skill Charts � Pencil boxes, pencils, pens, sharpner, Erasers etc � Karate Uniforms

Activities and Events

� Eureka Schools both Koovathur and Vembakkam Kids Performed in both Eureka’s and Sella Synergy’s 15th Year Anniversary. During Sella Synergy’s celebration kids performed Silambam, Dance and yoga. (See the Annexure for the Brief write up and Photo graphs)

� Teachers from Sai Sankalp Nursery and Primary school visited our school and they did a full day classroom observation. 5 from the management and 8 Teachers visited our school and discussed with our teachers.

� We inaugurated Foot ball coaching at our Vembakkam School with the

help of “Life is a Ball” Team. (See the Annexure)

� Independence day was celebrated in our Eureka Schools, Koovathur and Vembakkam on 15th of August, 2011. Respective Panchayath leaders hosted the flags then flags and sweets were distributed to kids. Chief guest spoke about the responsibility of today’s citizen of India. Teachers talked about Freedom Fighters and their contribution towards independence and Kids also performed cultural programmes and the Event was concluded with our "National Anthem".

� Children skills development programme (CSDP) from Sri Lanka visited

our koovathur Eureka School for the fifth time in a trot during December to promote and share their cultural programmes with our kids. (See the Annexure)

� AID India’s Health Team – “Arogyam” along with Sankara Nethralaya Eye Hospital, St. Thomas Mount conducted Eye Camp in both the schools during October. And “Arogyam along with Ragas Hospital conducted Dental camp also. (See the Annexure)

� Ms. Giada’s parents and Mr. Murali’s family visited our Koovathur School

� Volunteers from Scope and Infosys visiting our schools during alternative

Saturdays and they are conducting Science Classes, Math Classes. They actually set up the lab, also Infosys Volunteer projecting the BBC Series videos in the TV and explaining that to the V and VI standard kids. ( See the Annexure)

� Teacher Training was conducted once in a quarter and 4 Teacher training

programmes were conducted during this 2011 – 2012. (See the Annexure)

Annexure A (i):

15th Year Celebrations: Our Kids performance at AID India’s 15th Year: AID India celebrated its 15th birthday on 28th, August, 2011. The Chief guests for this event were Mr. Ram, Director, The Hindu (Daily), Dr. Rajagopalan and Dr. Vasanthi Devi, Educationist and Mr. Vishwanathan, Chairman, VIT. Both the School Kids Performed in that mega event. Our Vembakkam School Kids Performed the Opening Song for that function and Koovathur Kids performed Karate Performance. Everyone enjoyed that event, applauded our kids. During this event Ms. Saraswathy, Math Teacher, Koovathur and Ms. Manjula, Math Teacher, Vembakkam facilitated for their wonderful efforts and their initiatives in our schools.

SELLA’s : Sella Synergy’s 15th Year Celebrations was held on 11th February, 2012. Our koovathur and vembakkam kids performed Silambam, dance and Yogic postures. In this event, Dr. Balaji Sampath, founder of AID India, spoke about the school and our successful journey with Sella synergy. Kids Silambam Performance Video taken during Eureka 15 was telecasted in the event and VI Standard kids from Koovathur School performed few Silambam stunts. And V and VI Standard kids performed Yoga postures and explained about its clinical importance. Vemabakkam kids performed folk dance and classical dance and all the spectators enjoyed the maximum.

Annexure A (ii): Launched Football coaching at Vembakkam School We inaugurated Football coaching at our Vembakkam School on 24th November, 2011 with the help of “Life is a ball” team Life is a ball is a team formed by group of young people who mainly focus on promoting playing football among rural areas. When they visited Eureka School at vembakkam few months back they were excited to teach football to our kids. They even raised money to do leveling of the school playground. The idea is to train a local person as a coach. On the day of lauch...

Kids were split into three batches and were asked to play. Vikram from Life is a Ball team couldn't stop talking about how just a little bit of training could do wonders for these children given that most of them were naturally athletic. Future Plans

One hour Classes will be conducted on every Tuesdays and Thursdays. All children are allowed to play the game initially. Slowly children who are not regular to the game will be removed and will be given other opportunities. David is the coach. He will train the techniques and make sure kids know the basics of the game. Planning to organize events once in a quarter. Ten tennis ball, 2 footballs and four cones have been given to our School.

Annexure A (iii): CSDP, Sri Lanka – 5th time visit to Koovathur School

During February, 44 kids from CSDP visited our Koovathur Eureka School. Vivek, Project manager briefly described about the History, Methodology and objective of our Eureka School to the kids and the CSDP staffs.

Their pre-primary teachers wanted to observe our KG Classes. They were observed the KG Classes and also observed other classes. They were discussed lots of things with our teachers and shared lots of techniques with them. They took classes for our kindergarten kids, they taught stories and jingles. Later, they performed dance programme and drawing competition among both Srilankan and our school kids. Our school kid Jayashree, VI Standard girl got the 2nd Prize in the drawing competition and Praveen, Standard VI boy got the 3rd Prize in dance competition. They also distributed prizes for these kids and also gave consolation prizes for all the participated kids.

Interesting Snapshots:

Annexure A (iv): Eye and Dental Camps at our Schools:

AID India’s Health Team – “Arogyam” along with Sankara Nethralaya Eye Hospital, St. Thomas Mount conducted Eye Camp in both the schools during October. 280 Kids were benefited by this camp. 12 from Vembakkam and 15 from Koovathur went for advanced screening test and were given aides. During December “Arogyam” along with “Ragas Dental

Institute” conducted Dental camps for the schools. Both the school kids benefited by this camp and kids who

need special attention were taken to Ragas Institute and gave the treatment.

Finding the reason for the Slow Learners: In Eureka School we monitor each child very closely. We have a record of their strength, their weakness areas and the area interest etc. For us each child is very special. We always try to make sure all children attain their age level competency by the end of the year. Though children learn differently and attain skills at different period we make sure each year all children attain all skills. Our teachers conduct special classes for lagging behind children after the school hours as well. In koovathur school we found about 6 children in different classes were having difficulties in attaining the skills. Each one had different problem. One had poor memory, one had problem in understanding etc. We really wanted to know their problems in detail and help them do better. So as a part of this initiative we took them National Institute for Empowerment of Person with Multiple Disabilities, Muttukadu, Chennai. There they had a psychological screening test done at free of cost. We are waiting for the detailed analysis but the doctor said Karthika from 6th std is pre-matured. So it will be difficult for her to cope with other kids. For rest of the kids the doctor suggested different methods of teaching will help the kids acquire the skills.

Annexure A (v): Math, English and Science Lab at Koovathur School

We have inaugurated Math, English and Science lab at koovathur School on 19th November 2011 with the help of volunteers from Scope International. In the lab we have interesting science experiments, math puzzles and games for kids to have fun and learn. The most important thing is we have very motivated volunteers from scope international coming and teaching at our school. Every Saturday these volunteers conduct classes for our 5th and 6th grade children using the lab materials. Kids are also enjoying the activities and having real fun with the volunteers. Volunteers also tested our children on their math ability. They were zapped to see children solving fractions and division problems confidently. Mr. Balasubramaniam, Infosys Volunteer visited our school on every alternative Saturdays and he has screened BBC Series Videos and explained those videos in tamil to our kids. And at the end of the session he asked few questions relating to the video. Kids loved his sessions and he screened the videos about Planet, Penguin, and Earth. Mr. Bala also taught fractions to the V and VI grade kids. He discussed with our Math Resource person Mr. Tarnus and came up with lots of activities and worksheets to teach fractions and ratios. For the next academic year, he is willing to come to our schools during weekdays also.

Annexure A (vi): Ms. Giada and her Parents, Mr. Murali and his family spent a days with our Koovathur School Kids Ms. Giada and her parents along with Mr. Murali and Ms. Raji spent a day at our Eureka School, Koovathur. They went to each class and spent their time with those kids. Each class exhibited their talents. They all very amazed to see our kids Science knowledge. Ms. Latha, Murali’s Cousin wanted to design math and social content. She also wants to utilize our senior kids and equip them to compete with the urban kids. Kids were played in the bouncy during the break. Few interesting snaps

Annexure A (vii): Sports Day: Eureka Schools, Koovathur Sports Day was organized by volunteers from Scope International which was held on 21st April, 2012.

Group Boys Girls

LKG - UKG

Dance Telling Rhymes / Singing Fancy dress

Dance Telling Rhymes / Singing Fancy dress

1std -3 std

Running Sack Race HOP HOP

Running Lemon & Spoon HOP HOP

4std -6 std

Running Sack Race HOP HOP

Running Lemon & Spoon HOP HOP

Scope International CEO Mr. Edward was the special guest for that event. 30 Volunteers came and spent half a day with these kids. Winners have been given certificates and prizes like atlas, geometry boxes, pens etc. Mr. Edward was really excited to witness our kids’ ability to solve math problem and science experiments with ease. He said he wanted to do something for the school. In the afternoon they all played along with kids.

Annexure A (viii): Yoga Class at our Koovathur School: We have started yoga classes at our Koovathur School. It is happening on the morning of the every alternative day. Kids’ from II Standard to VI Standard coming for this yoga class. Senior classes were even being taught difficult postures like “Sirasasana”, “Chakkarasana” etc. Few snaps are here:

Annexure A (ix):

External Visitors Feed-back about our school “It has been our pleasure visiting this school and knowing more about Eureka Child, It is fascinating to know that the level of learning among children is so high here. Thanks to the dedicated teachers and their commitment towards making education a fun process. Keep it up!!”

- Ms. Shalini Shastri, No Logo Group

The Children were very enthusiastic in learning. Participation was good. Teachers were very encouraging. The children were very interested in sharing their knowledge with us and others. The Teachers were very much helpful there by the interaction. After a while they come out of their shell and ask many questions. Its essential to continue the workshops for the children so as to get familiar with the English fluency.

- Group of IBM Volunteers who are teaching English to our Kids (Siddharth, Sowmya, Neeraj, Sudeshna, Swathi)

“Did Maths and Science with the children. I think some of them add faster than me! I have enjoyed seeing how much the children know and how creative the teaching methods are!!

- Ms. Shalini Umachandran, The Times of India

“The Scarcity of words in English language makes me not to express my beautiful thoughts. I enjoyed teaching and learning with the children. The innovative teaching aid simply superb. Excellent work. Keep up the good work.”

- Mr. Raghuveeran and Bhaskaran,

Ex HM P.S. High school and Present administrator of Sri Valli Varadaraj Matric School, Theni

“I was here for a week along with the teachers. It was a wonderful experience, I was being taught spoken English for the senior kids. I was able to see the eagerness to learn among the kids. They are brilliant, teachers were energetic, I would like to come back again and I can write to many of my friends to come internship to AID India.” - Ms. Anetha, Poland girl

“All the kids and teachers were so enthusiastic about learning and teaching. It was a very happy and humbling experience to see such truce service happening. May god bless you all. And Individual attention to kids and materials prepared by your teachers were the best highlights!”

- Ms. Aparna, AID, Columbus Volunteer

“We had the pleasure of visiting the Eureka School and were so impressed with the level of instruction at even the youngest ages. The children were warm and welcoming and clearly love their school. Excellent Work”

- Ms. Kristen Suokku, Annika Antholis

“I really enjoyed handing out candy to all the students and was amazed how much they knew. They even want to mail us.”

- Kyri Antholis (Ms. Kristen’s daughter – 8

yr old)

“I love teachers’ commitment, especially Kindergarten teacher who is really committed to her kids and very energetic and it is an ideal environment to learn! I am amazed to see the teacher made materials and its usage. Keep up the good work.”

- Mr. Brad Freer, Capital World Investor

“We are very much impressed with the methodology adopted in teaching in this school and also the freedom enjoyed by the pupils. And the teachers are really boon to this school, they are very energetic throughout. We wish the school, the staff and the students Best of luck".

- Ramalingam, Payir Trust

Ms. Sudeshana, a Volunteer, feed-back on her English Conversation class during weekends at Koovathur

Right from the beginning the children and their English teacher showed a lot of enthusiasm towards the classes, not to mention the hospitality they extended towards us. We were worried that after the initial excitement of seeing new faces their interest would dwindle. Much to our surprise and delight the children remained sincere till the very last day of class. Since this was going to be an English conversation class and not a formal English course, we thought it best to make them promise enough to speak a few lines about themselves and be able to question and answer about several basic information.

In our first class, in an attempt to get familiar with the students, we had played word building games. The vocabulary of some of the students in standard six is noteworthy. After that we had concentrated on various forms of questions and how to answer them correctly.

Since the students have preliminary training in the English language, they had some difficulty in the beginning but towards the end most of the senior students had got a fair grasp on this activity. From what I observed during the few weeks of conversation classes I think such classes are a little advanced for the younger kids and should only be red to students studying in standards five and six.

Since the kids are not often exposed to, and hence cannot naturally pick up, English they must have a basic understanding of the language before they can hold conversations. Nonetheless, it should be mentioned that the school has successfully provided the children with an overall educative environment. I was highly impressed by the teacher-student relationship in this school. Once I even believed that a student was the Math teacher's own daughter! Also, a major advantage is that the students are not shy and reticent.

In spite of my complete inability to speak in Tamil, I had a one hour long conversation with a class 3 students, who was able to explain everything to me with her broken English and hand gestures! Towards the end we started taking English classes for the teachers of Eureka and nearby schools. We will be continuing these classes for some time.

Even one day's class has brought forward the fact that the teachers at the Eureka school are far better than the rest. That may be due to experience or otherwise. However, all the teachers need a lot more grooming if the ultimate aim is to make the students adept at English. We have to chalk out the classes for the teachers even more carefully and we have also thought about sending worksheets for the students through the teachers.

It is very inspiring to come across such a well-coordinated school in the middle of nowhere. But I think the assessment procedure should be a little stricter. There are a few students who should be more comfortable in lower classes, and a few teachers who are not yet ready to teach.

Annexure A (x):

Students from S.D.N.B. Vaishnav College for Women did 3 month Internship programme at our Eureka Schools

Ms. Maheshwari and Ms. Naadia, MSW student from S.D.N.B. Vaishnav College for women, Chrompet did their 3 months internship programme at our Eureka Schools. They did case studies, administered our ECAT Tests, analysed data and also conducted a) first aid awareness programme for the Teachers, b) Awareness about banks and their Chelan to the kids, c) Computer Training programme for the Teachers & d) conducted an event at Vembakkam School.

They have been in the schools during Mondays and Thursdays and conducted few classes for our teachers as well. They did lots of case studies and even our kids their presence. In that event, they have conducted competitions like tamil elocution, poem writing, drawing competition among the kids and were given a book and a prize for our kids. Some snaps taken during their class visit:

Annexure B:

Annexure A (x): Teachers Initiatives:

Our Koovathur School Tamil Teacher, Ms. Revathi prepared 3 story posters for children. She took stories from the Children magazines and collected pictures for that story and prepared an A3 size front and back story poster. And she is using it in her classes. She has prepared 3 stories like this and kids love these stories.

Our Koovathur School English Teacher, Ms. Umarani, took help from Mr. Siddharth and Ms. Sowmiya, TCS Volunteers who were teaching spoken English for our IV, V and VI grade Koovathur kids regularly for the grammer component and she designed few grammer worksheets herself and took notes from their classes, clarified her doubt with them and she started teaching those in her regular class as reinforcement. They both praised her curiosity to make her kids to do well.

Ms. Malarvizhi, UKG teacher from Vembakkam developed lot of materials for teaching vocabularies, alphabets, numbers and even to tell the stories. The material which we are seeing in the picture is just a puppet using ice cream sticks to teach Capital Alphabets and Small Alphabets through games. And she also developed finger puppet to narrate stories. She is a very innovative and pro-active teacher in our Eureka School, Vembakkam.

Annexure A (xi): Case Studies:

Gayathri is studying in V Standard in our Eureka School, Koovathur. She comes from a very poor family. Her parents are sell- ing flowers for their living. They are earning around

3,000 rupees per month. They say that even this they won’t earn during the rainy season. She is very good at mental math and also solving some complex word problems, which involves lots of procedure, and also fractions. She proudly said she wanted to become a Math Teacher in our Eureka School itself. Her favorite subject is English and Math.

Mr. Tarnus shares his Field Experience Mr. Tarnus shared that when we visited vembakkam school he tested Class 4

students. He was happy that they were able to do 3D Addition, Subtraction and 2Dx2D . He shared that he also taught them some shortcuts like 2x2=4 and 20x20=400. 3x4=12 and 30x40=1200. 6/2=3, 60/2=30 and600/2=300. Rajeswari challenged the rest of the class to do a 4Dx3D and wrote the problem 9763x989 on the board. Yugeshwari came forward and solved the problem

Jayashree studying in VI Standard in our Eureka School, Koovathur submitted a interesting project. Her project name is Her Dream world with a Robot. In that project she actually drew lots of pictures. In few pictures she wants her robot to teach Physics, to act as a umpire for her games, to cook for her, to drop her in the school. She is a very intelligent girl who loves science. She wants to become a scientist.

Report on Teacher Training Training – 1 – Introductory phase

Goal:

1. How to Handle kids

2. Content.

3. Class room management and Techniques

4. Teachers capacity building

5. Skill Chart Training

A 2-day training program for the Eureka school teachers was held on the 12th and

13th of June, 2011. Training was given for Tamil, English, Math, Science Mr.

Umapathy, Mr. Tarnus, Ms.Meenakshi, Ms. Devi, Ms. Sumangali and Ms. Nalini

were the resource people for Maths, Science, Tamil and English respectively.

Ms. Sumangali and Ms. Nalini was the resource person. Ms. Rejina from

Vembakkam and Ms. Umarani from Koovathur attended this training. The

training started with the review of what they have done last year and it was a

basic training about phonetics, Reading practise etc.

Ms. Devi gave the Tamil training for our Teachers. It was about to teach the

words, letters, sentence through the teacher made materials.

Mr. Umapathy and Mr. Tarnus designed the math curriculum for an entire year

and taught the trivial things to focus on to teach numbers, number concepts,

place values in math. They both gave lot of assignments to the teachers and gave

sample worksheets to them.

Ms. Meenakshi, science resource person started with a last year review and

taught the basic science concepts like air, light etc.,

Like previous academic year we measured skills of the kids through skill matrix.

We have extracted the skill which needs to be acquired by that particular grade

and formulated the chart. And also given training for the teachers about how to

use the skill chart. It was all designed based on Samacheer Kalvi Syllabus

Training – 2

Eureka School Teacher Training held on 13th and 14th of August 2011

Eureka School Content Training was held on Second week of August, 2011. 18 Teachers from Koovathur, Vembakkam School participated in the session. Training was provided for all the contents. The resource people were:

• Ms. Revathi, Ms. Deepa – Pre-primary • Mr. Tarnus – Math • Ms. Devi – Tamil • Ms. Sumangali, Ms. Mala – English • Ms. Meena – Science

Pre-Primary: Ms. Revathi and Ms. Deepa started her training with an individual activity. She taught the rhymes, activities relating to fine motor and sensory motor skills. She also taught numbers and number counting concepts. They have designed exclusive work books for the LKG and UKG Kids and gave those to the teachers along with the teachers manual.

Math: Mr. Tarnus reviewed the activities conducted by the teachers in the last 3 months. Teachers shared their difficulties while teaching number concept for the I standard kids. And teachers were given the activities to overcome the difficulties. Mr. Tarnus, taught the concepts of time, measurement, fractions, divisions some basic geometrical shapes. He gave lots of sample worksheets for the teachers to teach fractions, and measurements.

English: Ms. Sumangali and Ms. Nalini gave the English training to our Eureka school teachers. From this month onwards English team planned to conduct Eureka Resource Group full-fledged training package for the I and III Standard kids. She taught grammers like noun, common noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and some Greetings, Courtesies, by illustrating several examples and she also asked teachers to continue Phonics from last month’s training. They also gave lots of worksheets relating to grammers.

Science: As usual, Ms. Meena started her training with a small game. She prepared activity sheets regarding living things and non-living things. She also gave worksheets for the solar system. Meena gave a C.D on the concept of “Insects and Magnetism”. It was designed in a manner that allowed student to participate. She gave projects for preparing herbarium. She also asked the kids to do some small project on renewable and non renewable wastes.

Tamil: Ms. Devi focused on Reading skills, Story Comprehension, Conversation, Letters, composition, Extracting information from the newspapers, story writing practices etc for Standard IV and V. She also gave lots of Projects for Classes I to V –about the trees. She gave the sample worksheets for the teachers.

Snapshots:

Training – 3

Eureka Schools teacher training was held on 15th of October, 2011, Saturday at Eureka Block office. 6 Teachers, 5 Resource Person, 4 Staffs from Laya and Periyammal Trust and 6 Volunteers participated in this training. This is the first training we are organizing in this academic year. Math Training: The math training started with the review of last quarters goals. This training was mainly focused on training teachers on simple techniques for teaching areas and perimeters for regular and irregular shapes. Mr. Tarnus involved the teachers actively while demonstrating the activities. He also gave some inputs on fractions and integers to our teachers. Pre-primary Training: Ms. Deepa and Ms. Revathi gave the training for the pre-primary teachers. In Tamil and English Jingles with actions, weather charts, and Fine motor skills was the focus. In language training on how to teach Uyir Mei Ezhuthukkal was the focus. In Math the training was on number identification from 1 to 40 for LKG and up to 100 for UKG. In Science they trained teachers on doing 5 simple experiments. English Training: Ms. Sumangali, Ms. Nalini and Ms. Mala conducted the training on English reading, writing, and speaking components for teachers in Std1 to 3.

Training 4: Pre-primary Training

Eureka School Kindergarten Training was given to KG Teachers on 4th January, 2012. It was a one day training programme given by the resource person Ms. Revathi. 3 Teachers from Koovathur and 3 Teachers from Vembakkam along with 4 periyamma trust KG center teachers. The training was given on Insects Vocabularies, In math, teaching addition using “Kattu Vudhuri” Concept, new set of English and Tamil Jingles and stories, in tamil “uyir mei yezhuthukkal”. She also gave lots of innovative colouring worksheets, fine motor activites and workbooks for the kids.

And few more math and English training happened on the field itself. Those resource people visited the respective school and gave training to the respective teachers.