Rainbow Primary School

The school continues to grow and expand in healthy ways. Our two teachers who had babies,  Divya and Sunitha, are back! Here is Sunitha in her classroom. The nonprofit partners and the local community continue to support the school. The Indian Literacy Project teacher is conducting ongoing English classes and loaning books from our new library. Very exciting! I have also heard our headmaster is energetically engaging the government to support the school alongside Kalpana Madam. I knew when I left the school in 2008 everything would work out because the teachers, the children and the parents would never let the school fail. It looks likely that the school will be awarded "Best" again for 2012-2013. I wish our sister schools, including the Madhapur Mandal School, all the best but now that Divya and Sunith are back I believe there is extra competition this year!

Preschool Report Our lovely preschool is ringed by large rocks, like the one on the right. In order to develop the land next door, the construction team needed to blast apart the big rocks into smaller rocks. Yesterday, the big rock on the left was blasted, just after the students left. No students were hurt, but as rock split it caused damage to a next door neighbor lying on the floor (she has polio) as well as our preschool.  She is fine now, but what a scare! The contractors are responding well, updates again soon. UPDATE: All is well, the little girl is healing up. The entire community flooded around the preschool with calls for the contractor to be careful.

Our annual report is available! CLICK HERE Still Top Government Primary School in Hy-Tech Area 220 Students, down from 280 in 2009 (part of the slum was torn down and not rebuilt) Challenges with high teacher turn over (expected-we have strategies in place) “B” average for nearly all the standards on Central Government Tests in 2009, “A” for fifth standard. A strong preschool program for 2 to 5 year olds. 64%+ funded by the Government of India (down from 70%) *****