Just back from another visit to Bal Bigyan school, initially as part of our plan to make a number of educational videos for some schools in the UK. The plan includes four specific videos related to Buddhism, Shopping, Schools and Kathmandu Central. Today's video included a "tour" around the school and a specific maths class taken by Bashu our sponsored teacher.
In addition we had an informal more relaxed chat with the Headmaster about his vision and plans for the school. He has been teaching at the school for 20 years now and cares passionately about it's performance. Specifically he has a vision to make the school the best in the district to which the permanent population will send their children and this includes:
1. Increasing the number of children attending, a big issue in Nepal
2. Enhancing the quality of education with a shift to child centred teaching as opposed to teacher centred
3. Building a new extension to the current school on their existing land which would allow them to include classes up to year 10 therefore becoming a secondary school.
In the case of this latter element the initial costings for the two storey extension are for about £20,000 of which they currently have found £3000.
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