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Konkan Region
A helping hand to the flood affected brothers ............. ATSS Trust extended a helping hand to the flood affected people of Konkan. Under this, essential items worth Rs. 4 lakhs, groceries, sheets, blankets, mats, etc. were distributed to about 500 families. Expressing his feelings about this, the founder of the organization, Shri M. D. Jambhekar said that by helping our countrymen in times of calamity, we have tried to maintain social commitment.
PCMC Children Helpline
4 students and a teacher from City Pride School Nigdi are a part of WAR Room of PCMC preparations towards Wave 3! The students and the teacher have successfully completed 6 days of service I.e. 12 hours of work running the PCMC Children's Helpline and over 30 hrs of training, offline and online. The hon.Commissioner, and our school parent Mr Rajesh Patil, IAS, had started this initiative so that Children's queries, depression or all doubts can be resolved by Children themselves. Film Actress Prajakta Mali, Hon Mayor, Smt Mai Dhore and all PCMC officials inaugurated the Helpline on 5th July 2021. Since before that, 9 June onwards there have been meetings at the PCMC building and Children were trained by doctors to deal with many questions. example- What is CAB ? Covid Appropriate Behaviour? When can I travel to my hometown? How can my parents be vaccinated early? Can I order Pizza now? Is it safe? Children were also seen asking frequently on "When will schools re open??" "When is Children's vaccine coming?" At the site on duty, 1 CPS student works with other paired school in a roster system to answer all their friends. There are over 10 to 15 schools involved in this helpline and CPSN is proud to be one of the only English and CBSE schools present here! We also realize it's a good responsibility towards making more aware young citizens and create involvement with the corporation in Education sector. After All - Knowledge is only potential power, Action on the knowledge is the real power and we are glad to be giving our humble contribution. Students would continue to serve the purpose in further months as well. We would request all citizens to be attentive and Follow SMS. Sanitizer, Masks, Social Distancing.
Kalarang
City Pride School extols the artistic performances of the Municipal School students during the Pandemic. City Pride School, in collaboration with PCMC Municipal Education Department, organised a colourful online competition during the Diwali Holidays of November December 2020. The idea was to give the students of the Municipal Corporation Schools of std 1to 9 , a chance to showcase their artistic talents. About 105 students participated in this online competition called KALARANG. The idea was met with equally enthusiastic participation of children in exploring the current issues through painting, singing, oration, essay writing and so on. The award ceremony for the same was held on 19th July 2021, at 4 pm at City Pride School, in the presence of Honourable Mr. Rajesh Patil, Commissioner, PCMC. The organisers gave away useful prizes like, mobiles, synthesizers, scientific and intellectual games, drawing materials and so on to 22 winners and their mentors. In his speech, Shri Rajeshji Patil appreciated everybody’s efforts and urged teachers to give more opportunities to children. He also promised that special efforts will be made to increase the quality of schools in the corporation area and appreciating the role played by reputed schools like City Pride school, wished that more such endeavours will be undertaken. Ms. Jyotsna Shinde, Administrative Officer, Municipal Board of Education, lauded the organisers for their well planned and exemplary initiative in the corona period. She mentioned that the main objective of the competition was to give way to the latent talents in students of the municipal schools Dr. Ashwini Kulkarni, Director CPS, herself asserted in her closing speech that such programmes will be continued from henceforth and a real reformation will be sought when children and teachers from City Pride School and the Municipal schools will come together making inclusive education a reality. The ceremony was graced by Mr. M.D. Jambhekar, Chairman, ATSS, Dr. Deepali Sawai, Director, CPS, Ms. Maya Sawant, Principal, Mrs. Netre Kulkarni, Vice Principal, Ms.Jabin Shaikh, Educator, Municipal corporation School, and other teachers. Mrs Janhavi Kadlaskar and Mrs. Vrushali Dengwekar anchored the programme.
Collaboration of ZEP and CPS
We feel happy to share with you that City Pride School is starting with an new initiative.We would have special school children from #ZEP #Rehabilitation #Centre coming to our school twice a week. They would be getting engaged in the activities like Creative Art, Performing Arts and Sports at initial stage. Our dear teachers will be training them. ZEP Rehabilitation Centre is the organisation run by Ms. Netra Patkar. Centre works for special children and helps them with different therapies. Taking into consideration current pandemic situation, complete school was sanitized for the students and parents. In future also, school will take care of sanitization before the children visit the school. Today, we had a short Inaugural Function where the ZEP children and parents visited our school. The parents shared their thoughts and introduced their children. The real happiness was reflected on these innocent faces. CPS family will put all efforts to make their dreams come true.