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The current school condition in Salme Khola…
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The teachers have no formal teaching
qualifications. Their only qualification is
to have completed their formal schooling to
the age of 16. |
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There are only two teachers for three
classes (65 children) and because of this
they are unable to provide appropriate
levels of differentiated teaching to met the
needs of the children. |
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The school is very poorly resourced,
lacking in basic teaching materials such as
pens, exercise and textbooks. |
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The classrooms are small, dilapidated
and cramped - “The children are packed in so
tight, they can hardly move”. |
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The roof leaks and there’s no money to
do even the most basic repairs. |
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Old, worn out blackboards are almost
impossible to write on. |
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This situation is replicated in the
schools of the other villages. |
Additional facilities at the schools in
Salme Khola area are also very basic...
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Toilet
- Basic squat toilets
- Only two for entire school (no
separate facilities for girls)
- No proper hygienic dispose of waste
Close to school so bad odors
- Lacks privacy as door broken
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Kitchen
- Small, inadequately equipped room in
school building
- Open fire
- The students eat same meal everyday,
and have to eat from their hands whilst
standing up
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Water
- Single tap, which currently does not
work
- Water supplied by pipe, so the
children have to drink directly from it
by hand
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typical school day...
- Basic tuition given in Nepali, subjects
taught are Numeracy, Literacy and Social
Science and very rudimentary English.
- Teaching is almost exclusively by rote,
with very little additional guidance and
instruction from the teachers. Any limited
learning is through repetition, children are
left to copy out text without any guidance
on pronunciation or comprehension.
- Lessons are limited in their context:
- there is no structure or balance to the
curriculum and there is a lack+ of
contextual relevance to their future needs
- the children complain they are taught the
same things over and over again, this leads
to a lack of motivation to attend school
- there are no assessment procedures to
record the progress of the children
The resources of schools in the area...
Text books are in very short supply
for all subjects and levels, mostly
students have to share. Many are also
out of date, torn or ripped. A lack of
books makes schooling difficult for the
teachers, inconclusive and unsatisfying
for students
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