Thank you to everyone that supported our recent fundraising event, the 91´«Ã½ Danceathon, through showing us your very impressive dance moves or donating to the fund. This event really showed what our community represents; the desire to provide support for others and the ability to come together in an inclusive manner. The spotlight this week is ‘Community’ and our Community Ambassadors articulate what this means to them in such a powerful and meaningful way; highlighting support, relying upon and helping others and building relationships. The latter is such a strength of our community, where relationships are positive, respectul and formative amongst and between all of our ‘stakeholders’. It is through our interactions and actions that define us as individuals and as a community: our students represent all of these values and live these each and every day. Â
Congratulations to all of the students that put themselves forward for the KS4 Ambassador positions; I am sure that you will all have a positive impact on our community in the years to come. I am especially excited about our Primary Ambassadors’ plans for a Climate Change event in the near future. As the G7 Summit starts today in the UK, with a focus on vaccinations and climate change, I reflect on the leaders that will be making decisions that will impact our lives, and only wish they attended school’s such as ours, where values, actions and subsequent decisions reflect a genuine desire to support the community and global needs. Â
On Monday, we will be focusing on our wellbeing with a variety of activities throughout the school to help us reflect on how we can look after ourselves, so that we are in a position to help others. There are schedules posted for both and students which include: sports and fitness; meditation and mindfulness; self coaching and goal setting; music and performing arts; meaningful engagement in hobbies – juggling, bucket drumming and live air guitar jamming look particularly engaging and fun! Our wellbeing activities will take the place of any regular specialist, small group or individual lessons. We hope that all students (and parents!) will take the opportunity to participate as fully as possible, as it promises to be a very enjoyable day. Â
Have a lovely weekend and take good care.
Brian Platts
Principal
Recent and future updates
Community Spotlight
With your help, we made 91´«Ã½ a kinder place for our community
Thank you to all members of our 91´«Ã½ community (students, parents and staff) who have remained connected this year and worked together to support the health and wellbeing of our community partners, as well as one another. Together, we have helped support and grow our community partners through a variety of projects. Although lots of our regular events may have been affected by the pandemic, we still managed to support our local and wider community in various ways.Â
Food packages DistributionÂ
During the lockdown we distributed food packages and support to:
Our community partner school/organisation’s students and parents.
Lalitpur Metropolitan City Ward 3 daily wage workers.
Underprivileged families of Kakani village in collaboration with Dharti foundation.
Restaurant workers of Balaju area in collaboration with Lion’s Club.
Animal centers.
Home Learning packages distributed
As a school, we believe education should be accessible to all! Thanks to your support we provided learning packages to 116 students in Sinamangal and 88 students from Shree Tika Vidyashram school who would otherwise not have access to alternative methods of education.
ICT Training to our partner schoolÂ
The 91´«Ã½ ICT team provided training to 15 teachers from Mary Ward Lubhu school with basic ICT training on how to run online classes using powerpoint presentations, nepali typing, tracking attendance online, how to secure zoom sessions and challenges of offline teaching vs advantage of offline teaching.
Christmas Gift BagsÂ
This year we distributed 1,068 Christmas gifts to students of Hope Rising School, Shree Tika School, Mary Ward Lubhu and Jhamsikhel Schools, Disabled Service Association, Shramik School and Guheswari School. Those gifts were designed to keep students safe from Covid-19.Â
First online version of our 91´«Ã½ Community Conference
91´«Ã½ offered four online training slots to 50 students of the Early Childhood Education Centre. Our Primary and Secondary teachers have delivered ten different webinars to 155 teachers of our Community Partners. It was a pleasure to be able to share our skills and knowledge, this is one of the many things that makes working at 91´«Ã½ so rewarding!Â
Dance- A Thon Fundraising eventÂ
On the weekend of the 5th and 6th of June, the Global 91´«Ã½ Community Dance-a-thon was held! As a community, we dance for 28 hours across different countries and continents to raise money for those in desperate need. We raised nearly 3200 euro, this money will be used to support local initiatives to increase oxygen and food supplies as covid rates remain high in Nepal, and many people remain in need of these life-saving resources.
Here are all the Danceathon highlight videos published so far!
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Supply of Medical Items to Lalitpur Metropolitan office.
This week 91´«Ã½ supplied a range of medical equipment to the Lalitpur Metropolitan office, which will be used in a Covid Isolation centre established by the Metropolitan offices in the Sunakothi and Bagdol area.
Primary Community Ambassadors
The Primary Community Ambassadors will update you on the Community work that has been completed this year during this week’s Primary assembly, where they will also be sharing an impression of the earlier mentioned Danceathon. Yaja, Larissa, Pema, Nabirah and Lilian still have lots of ideas for Community Events! Next year they hope to organise a big Climate Change Event amongst other happenings. Unfortunately Maulik, Yajur and Fahmi will have to give up their role as Primary Community Ambassador, because they will be joining Secondary after the summer break. We would like to thank them for all the energy they put towards our community!
Community Prefects for 2021
We are very excited to introduce our two new community prefects for 2021/2021. We hope they will have a positive impact on our school community in the coming year. They will also be joined by three new Key Stage 4 Community Ambassadors who will be announced in the coming weeks.
Vibek Gurung
Year 13 (2021/22)
What does ‘community’ mean to you?
I think a community is a collection of people who generally share the same interests, that support each other, and work with each other for a better future. In simple words, I’d say a community is a place where you know you have people on whom you can rely in times of need and also a place where you should look to help others.
Why is it important to support your local and global communities?
It’s something like “What goes around comes around”. Supporting your community will probably help you later as a lot of other people will remember your deeds and will try to repay them. And it’s not just for yourself, thinking about the long-term situation, making a community with a good base (helping/contributing to the progress of the community) will benefit the future generations because a well-knit community is able to overcome times of difficulty (such as the ongoing pandemic).
What do you feel are the greatest strengths of our 91´«Ã½ community?
I think one of the major strengths of the 91´«Ã½ community is how both the teachers and students alike look to support each other and also how they accept new members to the community. Although I had just joined 91´«Ã½ in the last year, I was never alienated by neither my teachers nor my classmates, rather I was treated with kindness and welcomed with open arms.Â
How are you aiming to strengthen the sense of community at 91´«Ã½?
I think the best way to approach this is by acting as a connection between teachers and students. By seeing and reviewing which factors the two sides are upset about and how we can work on it and improve the situation. The other would be actively checking up on students. To see how they are feeling about their studies, whether they are nervous about something, and also their well-being (if there’s anything bothering them in or outside school). Â
Harira Lim
Year 13 (2021/22)
What does ‘community’ mean to you?
The ‘community’ I have in mind emphasises on relationships. The sense of belonging regardless of how active you are in school and to be able to improve yourself through the relationships built.Â
Why is it important to support your local and global communities?
A good community is what pushes people to move forward. The support and wide range of knowledge that you can obtain within a community can challenge you to take risks in areas that you would normally be reluctant to.Â
What do you feel are the greatest strengths of our 91´«Ã½ community?
Our 91´«Ã½ community creates several opportunities where students can interact with each other in a range of different interests. This involves Sports day, FOBISIA, MUN, Theatre productions, and more. This allows students with different interests and from different age groups to come together and build their individuality through the diverse opinions and strengths each student holds.Â
How are you aiming to strengthen the sense of community at 91´«Ã½?
I want to help build a community where students can obtain a range of knowledge and skills. I want to open up diverse roads of opportunity for the students. I want more interaction between students with different interests and opinions. Most importantly, I want everyone in the community to feel welcome and comfortable enough to have a voice that is heard when decisions are being made within the school.
We had 39 amazing students apply for the Key Stage 4 Ambassador roles. We were blown away by the passion and enthusiasm demonstrated by all of the applicants. It is so pleasing to know that we have so many secondary students who want to create a positive impact within our school community. We would also like to publicly thank all students who applied and we are very proud of you all.
It is with great pleasure that I announce the Key Stage 4 Ambassadors for 2021/22:
Curriculum Ambassadors
Yang
Sridha
Ojaswi
Community Ambassadors
Ayus
Orry
Anton
Wellbeing Ambassadors
Jayantee
Himanshu
Aanavi
Creative Arts Ambassadors
Vani
Devanshi
Krrish
Sports Ambassadors
Sunit
Niyanta
Shaurya
KS4 Business and Economics Student
This week was the start of the year 11 to year 12 Economic bridging class, students were asked to think about why they have chosen this subject and why they think they would enjoy it. Their main task this week was to create a short fact file on the ‘Father of Economics’, Adam Smith. Check out some of their work below.
By Nabodita
By Issac
By Meghna
KS5 Economics Student
This week the year 12 Economics students started a project on the ‘Impact of the Corona Virus on their chosen country’s economy’.
Students have been researching key economic indicators such as unemployment and what the current rate is and the impact of inflation for their chosen country.Â
Students have used the research they have started to make predictions on what they think will happen to the rate of unemployment in the next three months.
Check out some of their predictions below,
Would you agree or disagree?
School Phone Numbers
We have now managed to connect the school phone system to reach Ms. Tamrakar, our front desk officer remotely. Therefore, you may call the usual school phone numbers for any queries you have or assistance you may need and Ms. Tamrakar will be able to guide you further. The phone numbers are active during the school hours i.e. 7:45am to 4:30pm (3:30pm on Fridays).Â
ICT Remote Support
If you have any concerns or your child needs any ICT related support for his/her learning or needs to borrow a device from school to aid their learning, please contact us at icthelpdesk@tbs.edu.np. Please also find the links to the and for your reference.
For immediate assistance please contact us at +9779851237608.
