DEVASHISH

So far and forward…

History

The campus since 1980s. Known as Ashish earlier

New Management takes over in 2002. Renames it toDevashish (DAS) Gives finishing touches to campus and image

GM in morning shift with over 950 students. EM with 193 students. (No Nur or Jr. Primary total 130)

2002

Additions: Façade change, Front Office, CCTV and Labs

Annual Event: Cultural Festival Aaina Principal: Ms. Meeta Agarwal and Mr.

Young for EM; Mrs. Smart for GM (since then till now!)

Mgmt: Rekha Ma’am

2003

Additions: Focused academics, Overhaul in teaching method like MCQs in EM, Scout activities, Devamrut

Annual Event: Science Fair, Rally Principal: Ms. Agarwal and Ms. Ellis for

EM

2004

Additions: AV Room, Computer Room, Eureka Software, Skating Rink, GM goes bookless, A B Group

Annual Event: Jhankar 2004 Principal: Ms. Agarwal and Ms. Purohit Highest Admissions ever- 364

2005

Additions: KG Kingdom, Conversation Classes (EM), Term-wise books, Book Reviews

Annual Event: Halla Gulla ! Principal: Ms. Purohit since then till now! Management: Enters me ! Selected at state lever for our Science fair project of KBC

2006

Additions: Vocational Science, Electives, Goshthi

Annual Event: Scholastic Expo (my fav) Greenery Awareness Drive

Patel Chirag of GM stands 7th in SSC in A’bad rural

(least admissions ever!)

2007

Additions: Website (2nd edition) Annual Event: Jhankar 2007 Patel Mansi stood 5th in A’bad Rural in

SSC

2008

Maternity Leave ! Annual Event: Garba In the newspapers for the wrong

reasons. Bad publicity Patel Chirag stood 10th in Sci Subject in

Guj state in HSC

2009

Additions: Mind Lab, Lateral Thinking, New IT infrastructure, Synchronization with SAS

Annual Event: Save Energy Rally, Cultural Festival and Sports Day

Admissions Graph

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The pillars

..and many more

Our endeavors towards students

Lesser HW: A HW book in the staff room, HW black-board

Printed Answers: A pilot project

No Note-giving for 5-7 GM

Custom Worksheets: For KG as well as primary

GM Custom KG Books: To suit our needs

GM KG syllabus on ppt; mobile PC

Focus towards Computers- Kiosk, internet in labs

Two semester exams

Unit Test to Cycle Test

Our endeavors towards Teachers

Take off clerical work- Excel, Orange and Vidhyalaya

No typing of papers etc. Scrapbook PBP Teacher’s Manual Teacher Training

PC in the staff-room; free internet 50% of training programs Recognition to Teachers- Website,

personal touch Teacher-centric attitude Freedom to explore, experiment

Devashish … what now

A small but lovely place A niche for itself, we are the Mind Lab ppl Supportive, happy teachers Brimming with innovations and

experiments A magnet for the different parent and

teacher crowd A place with a soul or at least ears !

Management is the provider 1500 students in EM Then a new campus June to Jan: a shift in attitudes