Testing times
Since CBSE’s announced its decision to cancel Class X board exams and evaluate students based on internal assessments and their performance in various tests held throughout the year, scores of parents and students have been confused and dismayed.
Worried parents have been ringing up school principals flagging their concerns about the board’s new marks distribution formula for the students.
“My son couldn’t attend most of the Class X pre-board exams conducted last year as he was down with fever. His performance in the periodic tests was not also up to the mark. If CBSE is considering the marks of those exams won’t it affect my son’s final grades? He was confident of getting good marks in the board exam, but they cancelled it,” says a parent. CBSE announced its ‘Policy for Tabulation of Marks’ on May 1 in the wake of cancelling Class X exams, entrusting for the first time schools with the final assessment of students based on internal marks and marks
Early lessons in waste management and sustainable living in Kerala schools
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A programme that teaches waste management and sustainability in school devised by a Finland-based start-up
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A programme that teaches waste management and sustainability in school devised by a Finland-based start-up
Class VII and VIII students of Global Public School, Kochi, had a unique project during the academic session 2019-2020. They had to create a working model of waste management in the school.
Until then their knowledge was theoretical, derived from text books. But now they had to rethink how they saw waste, and understand waste the kinds, segregation and disposal. They worked closely with janitorial staff, to understand how the system worked and came up with their suggestions.