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and body is most important for students times to create awareness about the
to keep themselves healthy from diseases instability of their wards. This not only
at all times. The Telangana Model School benefited the school in improving its
and Junior College is one such school that enrolment and attendance percentage but
have been incessantly working on the child also triggered on emotional bonding
overall development by addressing the between parents and children, after which
challenges in line. Here in the total 704 the parents have began to understand the
students, around 160 students come to nature of their wards and provided them
school irregularly. the required counselling to change their
In an attempt to inculcate discipline interest towards studies. To improve
into them, the school took the decision to students in academics, regular outreach
conduct enriched assembly. It not only activities and workshops were conducted
helped them to be self-governed but also in the classroom. On understanding the
gives them some added knowledge individual needs a learning plan for each
through the events scheduled within the student is designed by teachers. In
assembly time. On the other hand, as the addition, performance assesment, phone
students fall sick most of the days, the calls, weekly memos are a few strategies
headmistress in coordination with taken to make sure the parents keep an
teachers have introduced health awareness eye on their children. The school
programme as part of daily assembly. For administration is done by using
it to be more significant, a health expert technology. The school too encourages
speaks about the human body and students to write their views, thoughts that
hygiene. In the morning assembly at the can motivate the students to explore. To
time when the students remain to be more achieve it they have introduced the intiative
focused and active, he educates them about called 'Scrible it'.
particular disease, its symptoms and the Process followed
preventive measures. On continuation, the
children are told about organs forming a In order to help student's remember
human body and the diet to be followed what was told in the assembly, the school
to protect them. maintains a bulletin board on which the
Besides all these, the students were content is displayed in points for students
prone to bad habits and parents were not to read that whole day. Reading it becomes
known about it. In view of it, the school a revision for students of acquired
staff interacted with parents for several knowledge, health tips, etc.
60 Transformation of Schools into Vibrant Learning Hubs
