CELEBRATORY MOOD AT SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGES

Midday meal 

The state government has decided to reduce the number of midday meal centres in schools and provide the noon meal through centralised kitchens across Odisha. It has also sought applications from charitable organisations, local self-help groups and social entrepreneurs to set up such kitchens for the effective management of the midday meal scheme. There will be at least 10 schools under each central kitchen. A committee of experts, headed by the secretary of the school and mass education department, will examine and select the agencies to set up the kitchens. 

Teachers’ workshop

A three-day workshop for Odia language teachers was held at DAV Public School, Pokhariput, in Bhubaneswar  last week. Around 75 teachers from various schools of the DAV Group took part in the workshop. 

Experts from the field discussed with the participants issues such as computer education, the necessity for personality development of students, problems faced by teachers in teaching grammar in the vernacular to a set of students that has become increasingly bilingual. 

Science exhibition

The Science Express Climate Action Special train, an innovative mobile science exhibition that aims to make create awareness about climate change, its anticipated impacts and different issues related to it, arrived at Bhadrak on May 9. Hundreds of students and teachers from various schools in the district saw the models inside the train after district education officer Ranjan Kumar Giri inaugurated the train. It will halt at Bhadrak till May 12. It will halt at Puri from May 13-16 and Chhatrapur from May 17-19.  

Celebration

SOS Children’s Villages, Bhubaneswar, paid tribute to caregivers of the organisation with daylong celebrations. The event started with a felicitation of mothers for their selfless love, devotion and care towards the once parentless or abandoned children and for nurturing them into becoming contributing members of society. The celebration also witnessed cultural performances  by the children. Moved by their performance, mothers also took part by playing games and dancing with the children.

Magic lessons

A workshop on magic is being hosted for schoolchildren at Kidzee, Saheed Nagar. The event is being hosted by magician Bishnu Prasad, who is teaching the kids the basics of magic tricks. A number of summer classes are being held at various schools across the state as well.