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HAMARA
SCHOOL The only prestigious and famous Government Girls Senior Secondary School before Partition, housed in the Islamia School building, was shifted first to Saggar House buildings after Partition and then to the present building in 1977 at Bharat Nagar. The school began with only the science block building. Now it has beautiful and spacious buildings, lush green lawns and a number of playgrounds. It caters to the needs of about 1800 students. Each class has sufficient furniture and the necessary infrastructure. The construction and maintenance of buildings is being done with the help of donations and cooperation of the Parent-Teacher Association and area counsellors. The school has a well-equipped library and a career’s corner where
student gain knowledge and guidance for adopting a profession in future. The laboratories in the disciplines are also well equipped and properly functioning. Girl students not only from the city but also from nearby villages come here to get education. Since its inception in 1977 in this new building, this school has gained new heights year after year under the leadership of able Principals and members of the staff. The school provides every type of education facility according to the taste and aptitude of the students. The school runs a science stream, commerce, arts stream with many major combinations and vocational stream with 6 trades — commercial arts, home science, food preservation, garment making, electronics and secretarial practice. Computer education is an additional asset of this school. Over 400 students become computer literate every year to become a part of computer age. The school results are always above the board’s results and results of the last year were 100% in science and vocational streams, 97.62% in commerce and 96.86% in arts. The vocational stream, which was started in 1986 with the objective of imparting education to prepare students for self-employment, is running successfully to date. Under the stewardship of able and national awardee teachers, the students of commercial arts vocation have been topping in the PSEB for the last four consecutive years from 1997 onwards. Ms Kiranjot Kaur, a commercial art student, was honoured on children’s day, 2002, by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh at a state level function
for getting 3rd position in the vocational stream. Besides academics and sports, co-curricular activities are also highlighted. Able sports teacher, and coaches provide special coaching, leading to top positions in different sports. The kho-kho team bagged the national acclaim for two consecutive years. Manpreet Kaur and Paramajeet Kaur won gold and silver medals this year and Sukhdeep Kaur and Paramjeet Kaur won gold medals in kho-kho last year at national level. The school students were encouraged to participate in zone and district-level competitions in co-curricular activities and they bagged first and second positions in shabad gayan, var gayan, kavishri, poetry recitation, poems and essay writing competitions. In sports also the students of this school bagged the first position in kho-kho and cricket and second position in judo, athletics and basketball at the district-level tournament. The girls also participated at the state and national
level in sports under Ms Sudesh Bajaj, who occupied the post of Principal after the post lay vacant for two years. The school is well reputed in discipline and is making steady progress. |
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Give incentives and motivation for best results
The chief task of the school is to give good education and for this the teachers have to be dedicated. The teachers are motivated and at least in this school the teachers do not use help books. These so-called guide books kill the initiative of students as they supply readymade answers. The school teachers also do not take any tuitions and work with dedication, and hence we get excellent results. In our school the government has offered several vocational courses like home science, fine arts, type-writing, garment making and electronics which are good. More schools should be offered such courses as they are job-oriented. In government schools, the vacant posts are not filled immediately and on that account education suffers. There has been a vacancy for a Mathematics teacher since last August, but the vacancy is still there. So the other mathematics teacher has to teach all those sections which is quite burdensome on that teacher. The examination system and evaluation system must be fair and there should be no cheating and copying.
Working to the best of one’s capacity is true religion. If one considers ‘work as worship’, then that is the best way of serving God. In the curriculum of schools run by the Government, there is no provision for moral science whereas there should be. So indirectly through our actions of tolerance, punctuality, kindness, we impart moral values to students. Students lead us into prayers and to show secular phase of religion, we sing ‘shabads as well as bhajans’. We try to mould the character of girls by giving them meaningful talks on how to have a clean character — so vital for girls.
Can you imagine any educational institution running without discipline? asks Ms Bajaj. Without discipline nothing is possible. It requires team work to impart discipline to the students. Everyone, Principal, teachers and students, have to complete the task given to them in right way and in given time. There are eight houses in the school. Before discharging their fortnightly duty, the teachers as well as students hold a meeting with me, and after careful planning, they carry on their duties. Of course., I keep taking rounds to see that all is well. Before I took over the job of Principal, the school grounds were used as thoroughfare. By closing one gate permanently, and posting two guards at two main gates, trespassing has stopped. This itself has improved the discipline by 90 per cent and the rest has been taken care of by students and staff, including me. I don’t like shirkers and indisciplined people, and that also takes care of indiscipline problems.  |
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Poems by students Nature Nature is the true beauty, To preserve it is our duty, To save it is to save gold, This is what we are often told. Birds flying high, To touch the sky, Flowers bloom, Grass grows, birds chirp merrily, Animals run happily, Birds, flowers, animals, trees all gay make our world beautiful, let’s keep it that way Ruchi Marwah, class - XI H The bee The bee is always busy, their life is not very easy, It gives us honey But demands no money. It collects nectar from flowers Moving from bower to bower. Let us also learn from its life. We should always be busy In work whether difficult or easy Namita Bhakoo, class - XI Always smile A match stick has a head But it does not have a brain. Therefore, whenever there is a little friction it flares up immediately. Let us learn from this humble match stick you and we have brains Therefore, let us not react on impulse, so always smile. Neelam Verma, XI Arts group How to be happy Keeping your heart free from hate, your mind from worry live simply, accept little give much, sing often pray always, fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine forget self, think of others do as you wish to be done with. These are the ways and means by which man can find contentment Always keep smiling Ritu Uppal class - XI (medical) Day and Life The day begins with birth, The day ends with death. The morning comes with childhood playing all the time in woods. The noon comes with ‘young age’ facing difficulties with courage. Then evening brings the middle age giving responsibilities that put us in a cage Neelam, class - XII F Mother My mother is like a flower but when she is ‘angry’ she looks like a ‘dry flower’. I see her working all time, with a smile on her weary face, she gives me courage, to fight with troubles, and keep them away, with a hard struggle, I love her when she makes my bed, And when she pats and kisses my forehead Neeru Lamba, class XI-G |
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1,100 students take GK test Ludhiana, January 19 Around 1,100 students participated in the test. There were two categories in the test, groups A and B. The group A comprised of students from classes VII to X, whereas the group B comprised of students from classes XI and XII. Results will be declared on January 27. Students getting the top three positions in both groups will be given prizes of Rs 5,100 for the first position, Rs 3,100 for the second position, Rs 2,100 for the third position. Seven schools were designated as examination centers for the test. Students of college units of the ABVP performed supervisory duties during the test. Mr Rajiv Katna, municipal councillor, distributed papers to the students at BVM School, Udham Singh Nagar. Ludhiana unit president Sandeep Kapoor, secretary Rohit Sharma, vice-president Rajat Sood and many other activists of the ABVP were present. on the occasion.
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Career
Launcher centre opens in city Ludhiana, January 19 With the launch of the Ludhiana Centre, the Intel Capital-funded Career Launcher (CL) is now present in 32 cities in India, apart from its UAE operations. Renowned for its management entrance training, the Career Launcher will run its popular Pegasus programme aimed at the common admission test (CAT) for the IIMs and other leading management schools. Speaking on the occasion, Prof Satish Sharma, Senate Member, Punjab University, Chandigarh, said the lack of quality and proven training for a tough entrance test like CAT was being sorely felt by the student community in this part of the state.” I am confident that the launch of this centre will address the long felt need. The fact that the Career Launcher is run by IIM alumni makes this education corporate unique and most effective in its
domain, "he added. The Ludhiana centre heads Mr Rajesh Batta and Mr Dharmendra Sharma, informed the gathering about the track record of the Career Launcher in CAT and other entrance tests for engineering, BBA, BCA, fashion technology, hotel management, National Law School etc. “Out of every five students making it to the IIMs from Delhi, four belong to the Career Launcher. With the excellent course material, faculty support and technological backup from the Career Launcher, we are confident of replicating the record in Ludhiana,” the duo asserted. Its Mall Road location should make the CL centre most accessible to the management aspirants, they added. Later in the day, Career Launcher’s highly successful Personality Development Programme was initiated by Mr Chandra Shekhar Singh, an IIM alumnus functioning as Academic Head, Pegasus, at the Career Launcher’s corporate headquarters in New Delhi. |
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Mrs Sudesh Bajaj took over the reins as the Principal of one of the oldest and biggest schools, Government Senior Secondary School for Girls in Bharat Nagar Chowk in August, 2002. She says, “Since the school was without a Principal for two years, there was lack of discipline. The sprawling campus was not very clean. So my first task was to upgrade discipline and see to the cleanliness of the school. I also undertook a plantation drive to make the environs more
green. I saw to the overall development of the students in all the fields — academic, sports and co-curricular activities. In some of the classes, there were no benches, I saw to it that benches were provided. Even some parts of the building needed renovation, They were carried out. I have always used motivation and given incentives to both the staff and students to get the best out of them.”