Independence day celebration at BVP

BVP students celebrated Independence Day with great enthusiasm.

The program began with flag hoisting, which was followed by students performance. The enthralling Marathi desh-bhakti geets by children was much liked by all of us. More than 150 children gathered for the celebration.

Captures of the day:

 If there's a will, a real determination within to give back to the society, then there is a way...Sant sir, founder of BVP addressing the teachers. Volunteers:Ashish Balure, Vijayraj Kamat, Nidhi Singh and Deepak Sharma

Weekly meeting minutes -- 8/12

Overall:

·        Work is increasing. Need more people in Kalyan. Please look – all

·        Can nidhi take on the social media maintenance?

·        Update school website with team details

Weekend activity planning:

Sulbha madam to send plan by tomorrow. Vinod will review and have rework done – 8/14

Is Shashi joining?

Reading skills improvement - Ashish

·        Talked to Sulbha ma’m. 8 students. Across standards. Most do not know to identify letters

·        Define goals based on reading speed and standard. – 8/19

·        Figure out the method to be used – 8/22

Computer training for teachers – Vijayraj

Varsha has requested for computer training. Will work with Rashmi

Process excels implementation – Vinit

No updates yet. Dates pushed.

Student needs funding – Vinod

Vinod working on this. Collection might start from 8/14

General website idea – Vijayraj

On hold. Let’s see if we get people who can work on it. Sahana to get back from her cousins

Equipment procurement – Vinit

Equipments identified. Quotation to be obtained

Chrome book procurement – Vijayraj

We are getting 10 chromebooks. Its possible to install windows too. Sahana to explore

English improvement – Vijayraj

Vijayraj to talk to sunita and explore. See the way forward

Key meeting after a long time

Agenda for 8th august, 11:30 am:

- Meet Varsha madam. Understand her goals.

- Sulbha madam: Get exact list of help and activities from needed by school

- Sulbha madam: Get list of school repairs and quotations 

- Sulbha madam: What is the plan to spend 2.5 lakh grant, and building toilet? Cost? Dates?

- Gaikwad sir: Verify if teacher's attendance and student attendance is being tracked. Any problems?

- Gaikwad sir: share score tracking and sylabus tracking excel(vinit and pratik)

- Vijayraj: Talk about student needs excel and plan. Vinod to get updated excel from gaikwad sir before the meeting. 

- Vijayraj/Vinod: Talk about securing chrome books if we get them

- Sulbha madam: Discuss about leveraging Vinod's friend for teaching maths/science

MoM(please let me know if timeline does not work):

- All agenda items covered except score and syllabus excels, since that is still WIP. Vinit and Pratik working on it as planned

- Student needs: Excel is ready. Vinod to calculate thank you card printing cost, design is ready, recalculate needs and start process to ask for funding. What donors see: student needs with detailed breakup(our excel) What they give: money for as many students as they want to sponsor. What they get: Thank you card with their photo, students photo, and contact number

- Availability excel shared with Sulbha and Varsha mam. They will now work on detailed activities. First up will be pratik on 22nd

- Reading skills: Ashish working on defining goals as planned. Will need a plan first. If that leads to contention for volunteers, will need to discuss with Sulbha mam, prioritize and replan as needed.

- HM expectations: Had a talk with Varsha mam around new expectations as HM, challenges she might face, bare minimum(4 process excels) etc. 

- Varsha madam has requested for computer training. Need someone to volunteer. or find one

- Governemnt has started initiative to capture all school and student details online. Extremely good. School administration completely busy working towards 15th august deadline.

- Quotations for infra repairs and more technology equipment in progress.