{"id":4630,"date":"2012-06-16T12:59:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T07:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2012-06-16T12:59:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T07:29:01","slug":"a-normal-day-at-navabharat-school-children-action-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/a-normal-day-at-navabharat-school-children-action-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"A Normal Day at Navabharat School \u2013 Children Action Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4632\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/17-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Exactly at 7.30 a.m. the noise of the school van reaches our ears and we know many children from Pudupakkam and the surrounding villages will walk to the road to be picked up. Now we have one and half hours left until the school starts and one hour till we get our breakfast which will arrives with the first van children.\u00a0 After devouring breakfast we go down to the still-playing students. It\u2019s not a far way because we are living on the school estate. \u201cHigh and Catch\u201d and \u201c7 stones\u201d games all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Finally (mostly some minutes after 9 O\u2019clock) the second van brings the last children. \u201cTime over\u201d, teachers starts to let the children gather for the assembly. After the National Anthem the students leave one by one to the classrooms. With the attendance register, a duster and a few chalk pieces all the teachers leave to facilitate their first lessons. All subjects are taught in English except Tamil \u2013 the local language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Everyone is awaiting the snack-interval \u2013 the first possibility of the day to go to the bathroom, drink water and \u2026 eat snacks! Students not having snacks with them, generously receive some from their classmates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4633\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/26-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a>We teach English for children of IV and V standard and computer as well. Additionally we play games, sing some songs or draw with all the children from I to V standard. Between our lessons we assist in the LKG &amp; UKG and we accompany them during the lunch session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Now every teacher gets welcomed with a \u201cGood Afternoon Miss\u201d till at 3.15 p.m. the evening prayer starts. The day ends with another National Anthem at which end every van. Children are eager to get the best seat in the bus. The others await theirs return to get back home. They use the time for homework and after that enjoy to play games with the youngsters and of course we the volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Miss Clara &amp; Miss Tony <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">FSL-India Volunteers from Germany<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly at 7.30 a.m. the noise of the school van reaches our ears and we know many children from Pudupakkam and the surrounding villages will walk to the road to be picked up. Now we have one and half hours left until the school starts and one hour till we get our breakfast which will arrives with the first van children.\u00a0 After devouring breakfast we go down to the still-playing students. It\u2019s not a far way because we are living&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/a-normal-day-at-navabharat-school-children-action-trust\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fslnews","category-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}