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Mock entrance test by GNIMT Ludhiana, May 11 The students who qualify in the test will be offered a free refresher course of 10 days. Dr A.S. Bansal, Director, GNIMT, Gujarkhan Campus, Model Town, said a number of students had approached the institute for guidance on entrance tests conducted by various universities for admission to the courses. He said the last date for acceptance of application forms would be May 16. Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, will hold an entrance test for admission to MBA/MCA courses on June 8. |
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HAMARA
SCHOOL Being run in the name of Jain Acharya Shri Atam Ram Ji, it is not just Jainism that the students of Atam Public Senior Secondary School, Atam Nagar, are preached. In fact, on every day of the week, the students listen to a prayer from different religion. It is Gurbani on Mondays, bhajans from the Bhagavadgita on Tuesday, Mahavir bhajans on Wednesday, and so on, and finally ‘Eh malik tere bande hum’ on Saturdays. A group of students recite these hymns from a permanent stage and the students, standing in their classrooms, listen to these through the speakers installed in each corridor. For such reasons, the school gets students from all religions and the percentage of children from Jain families is just 1 of the total school strength which is nearly 3000. Unlike other Jain schools in the city, this school has medical stream for the students of class XI and XII where the students learn dissections as per the syllabus. To encourage the students to eat home-cooked meals, the school does not have any canteen for the students. The students are not allowed any breads, instead they have been directed to bring stuffed paranthas or paranthas with some vegetables. The teachers sit with the students during their lunch time to ensure that all of them finish their meals, bring their aprons and napkins and follow proper eating habits. Where students from all religions learn together The school administration has also disallowed the parents to bring any packets of sweets on the birthdays of their children. Instead, they have been given an option to donate books for the library on such occasions. Such books go to classroom library of that student, as the school has recently introduced a concept to set up a mini-library in each class with some books coming from the school funds and others pooled by the students from their homes. The students are given books from these libraries during their free periods or extra time left in a period after the teacher finishes with the lessons. Ms Geetanjali, supervisor of the junior wing, has brought out some novel ways of encouraging the kids. Inter-class activities are arranged for the children at every weekend and winners of such competitions are photographed. The cut-out photographs of such children are pasted over slots on silver stars on the bulletin board meant for ‘Shining stars of school’ with their names in bold letters. There is encouragement for the children who show excellent performance during their monthly examination. Such children get a chance to have lunch with their favourite teacher. For children who behave well and do neat work, a small toy is also kept on their table for the whole day distinguishing them apart from the rest of the children. To refrain children from playing outside in hot summer afternoons, the school has set up four halls for indoor games and other activities. Besides, there are other activities such as vocal music, instrumental music, dance, painting and craft. Certainly, the school which started as a nursery school in the year 1973 has now come up in a big way. |
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‘Win students by love and affection’
Ms Jain said she had directed all teachers not to resort to corporal punishment and instead try to draw reasons of their weaknesses by means of love and affection. She said her entire staff stayed back in school for another hour after the school closed and this extra time was devoted on taking special classes for weak students. More emphasis was being given ‘Teachers should not resort to corporal punishment’ on subjects like English, science, mathematics and social studies, she said. Ms Jain said currently she was working on preparing text for getting designed a website for the school. She said the website would include details of history of the school, attractive features of the building, achievements, results and administrative team along with photographs. She said the website would be launched in a month or so. Regarding the results of the school, the Principal proudly said this year her Class VIII students had shown 100 per cent results. She said the school management had decided to honour Khushboo Basra, topper of the school, for attaining 88.3 per cent marks.
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Two things
Two things to respect religion and lawTwo things to admire beauty and music Two things to watch behaviour and character Two things to love honesty and truth Two things to stick to promise and love Sonia, Class VIII Success Even if you’ve lost a game, life is not always the same tomorrow you could be a winner so do not feel like a sinner Success will definitely come your way but its not a matter of a year or a day keep on trying as wisemen also say Rome was not built in a day get up, awake, for this morning light believe me, would give you a lovely delight always have the rising sun in your sight believe in yourself and be in the limelight Akarshit, Class VI Gorilla A giant gorilla came to tea he came in through the kitchen wall it took six chairs to seat him all he drank his tea straight from the pot and sandwiches - he ate the lot he picked the jellies to make them wobble then swallowed them just one gobble all that remained on the plate was the cake there was nothing else from him to take when he has eaten, then I showed him door and hoped he’d go now for there was no more instead he ate the door as well except for the knocker and the bell Shagun, Class VII-C Examinations I studied the whole night for the finals were near I got no sleep but my thinking was clear I knew all the answers my marks would be best but I failed anyway because I slept through the test Geetanjali Gupta,
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Saka Sarhand staged Ludhiana, May 11 In the next scene, they are caught by the Mughals and walled alive. The play is based on a historical fact and the subject revolves around two young, intrepid boys. Directed by Vipan Sharma, the play has a strong cast of 60 artistes. The main roles are being played by Jasdev Singh, Mota, Purshottam, Kishen Joshi, Amarjit Kaur, Swapan and Trilochan. The play is being supported by the Rang Manch Sansthan and the Punjabi Sahitya
Akademy.
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By devoting extra time and special attention to weak students, much improvement could be brought about in overall result, believes Ms Usha Jain, Principal. She said she herself had prepared a list of weak students on the basis of their performance in annual examinations, along with their phone numbers and was keeping a track on their progress shown in unit tests. She said parents of such children were called more often for counselling.