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SNEH Pre-School Run By

SNEH FOUNDATION (Reg. No. E-5642-PUNE)

Address: C-502, The Metropolitan. Chinchwad, Pune 33. Phone: +91 9028117700 Email: snehfoundationindia@gmail.com Website: www.snehfoundationindia.org

Second Term Report 2017- 2018 (December 2017 to March 2018)

About SNEH Foundation: SNEH Foundation is a registered NGO under Bombay Public Trust Act of 1950. SNEH Foundation

was founded with a vision to provide equal means and opportunities of education to the

unprivileged children of our nation, spreading awareness pertinent to health issues and making

the underprivileged families cognizant of a nutritious meal.

About SNEH Pre-School:

SNEH Pre-school was established on January 26th, 2013 with the objective of providing education

to the underprivileged kids. Currently, we have around 55 kids in two standards Nursery and Jr. KG

and a dedicated full-time teacher and assistant teacher to teach them.

Vision:

The school has been set up with an objective to spread education and to shape the

future of our country. Our vision is to provide quality education, better health and

nutrition to underprivileged kids.

Mission:

Our vision is to reach out to the children for whom education is only a dream and to

provide quality childcare and education in a safe environment.

SNEH Pre-School in a nut shell

Key points•Around 150 kids combined in three classes Nursery/JKG/SKG

•Staff of 4 head teachers and 4 assistants to support the initiative.

•30% fees is paid by the parents and 70% is sponsored by SNEH’s change makers.

•School works on a Sponsorship model where every kid’s education is partially sponsored by a well wisher.

Unique Aspects•Activity based learning using smart tools

•Rigorous Screening process to identify most eligible(needy) kids

•Visit by SNEH volunteers every Saturday to monitor progress.

•Regular health checkups for all students.

•Admission is free for families who cannot afford the fees.

Sustainability Aspects•Parents’ counselling session to groom kids at home as well.

•Prepare parents to be knowledgeable enough to check the assignments fro kids.

•Counselling of parents for outgoing kids on RTE.

•Focused attention for tie up with schools for RTE admissions.

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Branch - RAINBOW

December Month:

Activities:

1. Nursery: - Strawberry color with finger print

2. Jr. KG: - Paper Boat making: children made origami boats.

- Reading competition.

- Red color decorative things making

3. Sr. KG: - Drawing shapes and filling them using different

patterns.

- Card Making

- Red color decorative things making

- Apple color activity

- Transport water experiment

- Story telling activity

- Paper flower making activity

Celebrations:

1. Eid Celebration Background: Celebration of Eid to respect the Islamic religion like all other religions.

Purpose: To respect other religion and understand various cultures

Activity:

- Students met each other and wished ‘Eid -Mubarak’.

- Sweets were distributed among kids

2. Christmas Day celebration and Red Color Day

Background:

- Christmas is a Christian festival, it is celebrated

by people all around the world on

Dec. 25th and is marked as the birth of Jesus

Christ.

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Purpose:

- Christmas is celebrated through carols, cakes,

candles and decorating Christmas trees.

- During the day, the family goes to church to

pray.

- The purpose of celebration was to let the kids

know about Christian culture and their rituals.

Activity:

- Decorating Christmas tree

- Singing carols

- Distribution of gifts by a Santa Claus

3. Recipe Competition Background:

- To represent the talent of mothers of our school children.

Purpose:

- To encourage the mothers to make tasty and

healthy food using easily available, low coast and

nutritious ingredients.

Activity:

- The mothers made healthy and tasty dishes using

easily available food items, labelled their items

and brought them in school from home and

served it in a beautiful manner.

- They were given suggestions by the jury about

how their recipes could be healthier and tastier.

4. Exhibition of shelters: Background:

- To show different types of houses, rooms in

house etc.

Purpose:

- To let children, understand various types of

houses for different living beings and different

types of rooms in the house.

Activity:

- Parents made different types of houses, animal

Sheds, different types of rooms in a house,

labelled them and exhibited in a wonderful

manner

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January Month:

Activities:

1. Nursery: - Big Fish race, dry your clothes

- Sorting, Running with objects race

2. Jr. KG: - Running, Lemon spoon, Bucket ball, Counting

race

3. Sr. KG: - White Kite making activity

- Cart wheel

- Burst the balloon

- Beads in necklace, Skipping

Celebrations:

1. White color day Background:

- To understand the concept of white color. Purpose:

- Identification of white color Activity:

- The children wore white colored dresses and brought white colored kites.

2. Makar Sankranti celebration Background:

- Distributing Tilgul (a sweet made with sesame seeds and jaggery) among children and Celebration of festival of kites.

Purpose: - Helping children understand the importance

of festivals. Activity:

- Made children distribute tilgul amongst

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each other. 3. Sports Day

Background: - To understand the importance of sports and

physical fitness Purpose:

- To help children understand the importance of sports, working as a team and sportsman spirit

Activity: - Various competitive games were organized

for kids as well as parents. Winners were felicitated with prizes.

February Month:

Activities

1. Nursery: - Painting with Brush

2. Jr. KG: - Making paper envelope activity

- Plantation using seeds

3. Sr. KG: - Purple color activity using Rangoli

- Plantation using seeds

- Plantation was done by children using various types of seeds (Sr. Kg).

- Importance of plants, its basic elements,

required sources for plants to survive etc.

was explained to students. Day to day

growth of the plant was also observed by

them.

Celebrations:

1. Purple Color Day Background:

- To understand the concept of Purple color

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Purpose: - Identification of Purple color.

Activity: - Children made various objects using

purple color paper and rangoli

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March Month:

Activities:

- Final exams were conducted in the month of March for all standards.

Celebrations:

1. Holi celebration: Background:

- To make children understand different types of colors.

Purpose: - To explain how is Holi celebrated.

Activity: - Children enjoyed and played with

different colors.

2. RTE classes for student who qualified for RTE admissions

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Branch - RED

December Month:

Activities and Celebrations

Nursery and Jr. KG

1. Exhibition on ‘Shelters’ and parents meeting - 2/12/17

Background:

- Children were provided information on

shelters with proper resources.

- shelters have the capacity to provide the

range of protection and support services

necessary, it was an introductory session

for kids.

- We introduced them about shelters like –

human- house, birds-Nest, lion - territory,

Rabbit – hole etc.

Purpose:

- Importance of shelter was discussed and

children were explained about how difficult it is to live without proper shelters.

Activity:

- Lots of efforts were taken by parents.

- Parents made different types of shelters for the exhibition and they also presented the projects

made by them with the respective information.

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2. Healthy Recipe Session and competition (National Nutrition Day) - 21/12/17:

Background:

- Coming from marginalized communities, parents

are usually not very cognizant about importance

of nutritious food, health etc.

- Their daily challenges hold them back from

knowing about things that are crucial for their

children’s growth and development.

- Keeping the same in mind, SNEH preschool took

an initiative under which, parents were taught low

cost nutritious recipes.

- Slum’s day to day life is very different comparative

to other areas, so we taught some easy and low

cost healthy recipes to all parents.

Purpose:

- Knowledge about food that give essential nutrients

were provided to our kids.

- The purpose of this activity was to educate parents

about low cost healthy recipes that are easy to

make and are very essential are necessary.

3. Green Day - 21/12/17: Background:

- Sometimes color identification is difficult for kids.

When we celebrate color day it helps them to

identify and differentiate basic colors that are

necessary for further conceptual understanding.

Purpose: - Activity based learning is the only purpose of this

activity.

- This activity helped them to identify green color

and identify things like vegetables, trees, clothes

having green color.

- They can easily recognize green color or any green

things like green vegetables, trees etc.

Activity:

- All the students were dresses in green colored clothes and had brought green vegetables,

balloons or other green material as per the availability.

- An activity named: choose the odd color out was also taken to reinforce the concept of green

color.

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4. Christmas Celebration - 22/12/17:

Background:

- Celebration of the birth of Jesus.

Purpose:

- The purpose of celebration of Christmas was

that students must know different types of

festivals in India and the diversity of religions,

cultures etc.

- The main purpose was to educate children

about a Christian festival as we celebrate other

festivals too.

Activity:

- Distribution of gifts, chocolates, cakes children were also given an opportunity to dance, sing and

spend time with the Santa Claus.

January Month

Activities

Nursery:

- Number and letter identification, jumping on

numbers, jumping on letters.

- Coloring the picture.

Jr. Kg

- Match the capital letters with small letters with

the help of pictures, match the pairs capital to

small letters with the help of pictorial cards,

number counting game.

- Color identification

Celebrations

1. Black Day - 12/1/18: Purpose:

- Color identification.

Activity:

- All the students and wore black colored clothes

and had brought to school things that were black

in color and were easily available at home.

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2. Makar Sankranti celebration and Blue Day - 16/1/18

Purpose:

- To let the students, know the importance of

Makar Sankranti and the reason behind the

celebration.

Activities:

- Students prepared things like kites that are

significant on the day of Makar Sankranti along

with other craft work like blue colored fish,

painted pictures of sky, sea water etc.

3. Yellow Day Celebration - 24/1/18

Purpose:

- Color identification.

Activity:

- Activity based learning is the only purpose of

these types of activities, all kids and staff wore

yellow colored clothes and accessories.

- Parents made yellow colored craft samples with

yellow chart papers like sun, star, lamp, pot, ball

etc.

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4. Republic Day - 26/1/18

Purpose:

- To help the parents and students understand the

historical significance of Republic Day.

Activity: - Flag hosting with the presence of kids, parents, SNEH

staff, volunteers and community members. Sports day

was organized along with speech by parents and

teachers and prize distribution for kids.

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February month

Activities:

1. Nursery:

- In and out game

- Color identification

- Vegetable Market

- Capital Letters identification

- Thumb painting

2. Jr.Kg

- Fat and thin , tall and short, big and small, in

and out

- Gender identification

- Vegetable market & painting with vegetable.

- Small and capital leter identification

- Shape identification

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March Month:

Activities:

- Final exams were conducted in the month of March for all standards.

- RTE classes for students who qualified for RTE admissions.

Celebrations:

1. Holi celebration:

Background:

- To make children understand the significance

festival of colors.

Purpose:

- To explain how and why Holi is celebrated.

Activity:

- Children enjoyed and played with different

Natural and organic colors.

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Thank you for your generous contribution and support.

We are in process of starting 3 new preschools in 2018-19 to reach out to more communities. Given below is the flyer comprising details of sponsorship for preschool education for the coming year. We appreciate

your generous contribution and request you to spread the word about the sponsorship to your acquaintances to support our initiative.

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Address:

SNEH Pre-school, Maharashtra Nagri, Near Jeevan Jyoti Hospital, Rahatani Road,

Kalewadi Phata Pune, 411017 Ph. No.: +91 9422987709 / +91 9028117700

Time:

Monday - Saturday 09:00 A.M. - 05:00 P.M.

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March 2018