Signal School | Samarth Bharat Vyaspeeth

Special Activities

Adhar cards of children

Signal Shala has made adhar cards of all children who were seeking self-identity through legal ways so that to bring them in the mainstream of society.

Reading corner

On 3rd march 2017, reading corner has been started intentionally. This ‘reading corner’ will boost the interest of extra reading and knowledge of language among children. After 4pm, at least half an hour is kept for ‘reading corner’.

Evaluation test of children

Kinjal Chandra, pehal pediatric therapy centre & her team did the quality evaluation test of children. This helps to understand the scientific reasons behind problems that are there in the view of study. As a result, this helps to bring necessary changes in the teaching methods.

Sleeping facility at school

The street life made them mandatory to sleep on footpath only. Children couldn’t able to sleep early with enough time. Thus, signal shala has provided facility to let boys to sleep safely & we also take care of girls that they will sleep with their parents only.

Participation in science exhibition

For the first time, children of signal shala took participation in the science exhibition arranged under thane municipality. The ‘floral waste to manure’ project was presented by the children.

Joyful education with the children of Lodha World School

On every Saturday, children of signal shala visit the lodha world school to get familiar & aware of outside world, the ambience, other children, bigger classes, other teachers etc. They experienced different world through interesting talks, discussion, and learning, playing & eating together. As a result, we observed confidence among children. Along with outdoor games, children also enjoyed sessions on health and communication skills. Importantly, principle of lodha world school helped in many ways to see such positive result.

Admission of babadi

In signal shala, there is lot of emphasis not only on education but also on holistic development of an individual. While teaching, babadi, a nine year old boy found distinct with the signs of slow learner. He needed special therapy. From January, 2017, special therapy was given with the help of Era Gurukul School for a year. After successful speech therapy & learning process development, competent babadi return to the signal shala.

Summer vacation activities

Now, summer vacation has been started for all schools. But here, it is exceptional for signal shala. Instead of giving holidays, we work proactively on educational quality and skill of children. The vital intention behind this is to develop helping nature, leadership qualities & awareness of personal & surrounding cleanliness through different activities like group activities, garden work etc. As a result, they are able to first listen and then follow the order of team leader in a cooperative manner which helps to shape their leadership qualities and team building skills effectively.

Painting of under bridge places

Rotary club of thane garden city Nerolac Company come forward to decorate the signal school by doing beautiful paintings at under bridge places. This painting and colouring make the world of children of signal shala so beautiful & colourful.

Sports Fest

First sports fest In 2017, first sport fest of signal shala held from 17th to 19th December. At this fest, group games like kabaddi, kho-kho along with exciting individual games like running, three legs race & spoon & marble were there. All children enjoyed lot with sportsman spirit.

In 2019, second sport fest held from 9th to 10th January among three divisions of student. The competition was there in primary, secondary & pre-primary groups. For pre- primary division, games like frog jumps, three legs race, and running were there. For secondary division, group games like kabaddi, kho-kho, langadi & individual games like long jumps & running were there. Such sports festival helps children at both mental & physical level enrichment.

Parents meeting

Monthly parents meeting is there to discuss about hygiene issues, discipline, care of school stuffs & awareness of responsibilities of parents.

Neki ka pitara

Kusharu pocha from Nagpur has brought this unique concept. What’s this concept about? In this unique initiative, anyone can add nutritious food into the fridge i.e. ‘neki ka pitara’ for malnutricious people. There is a whatsapp group to make an idea more feasible. This nutritious food includes fruits, vegetables, staple food, milk etc. This time, ‘neki ka pitara’ has come in signal shala & provided good nutritious food to the children.

Visit at Nehru planetarium

On 18th July, 2017 , the volunteers of Dan & Bradstreet company arranged ‘educational visit’ at Nehru planetarium. This golden opportunity triggers the curiosity of children to know about universe and earth we live upon.

Rehabilitation of families

Samarth Bharat Vyaspith initiates the rehabilitation of families of students who were living in unhygienic conditions on streets. Now, they have been provided with good, hygienic safe shelter. Viju Mane, a well-wisher of signal shala & citizens of thane gave big financial support for this positive step.

Saving account of students

Science exhibition

Every year, signal shala participates in science exhibition at school level held by Thane municipality. Inter school science exhibition held from 8th to 10th December, 2017. Children of singal shala came forward with innovative concept called as ‘smart signal.’ Generally, we see how carelessness and negligence of traffic and signal rules brings chaos and accidents on road. Surprisingly, these children living on streets came forward with practical solutions. ‘Raddi Paper Scrub’ & Purushottam Pachpande, Robotics Lab Team helped children to present the ‘smart signal project’.

Akshaypatra

Thane municipality along with Iskon, a private social organisation planned ‘akshaypatra’, an initiative to provide nutritious food for underprivileged sections of society. Now, this scheme is also started in ‘signal shala’.

Self-reliant Shankar

On 25th January, 2017, unfortunately, Shankar Balu Pawar had major damage to his right leg in accident while crossing the road. Under guidance of Dr. Medha bhave & Dr. Subodh Mehta, a major surgery & treatment successfully done in both Param Hospital & Hospital Subodh Mehta. After recovery period of nine months, Shankar is able to walk independently.

Letter of congress president Rahul Gandhi

We received a letter from thane branch of congress party on 9th August, 2018. After his visit to ‘Signal Shala’, he praised about efforts of signal shala taking for educational rights of underprivileged children through a letter.

Diwali Festival

Unique Diwali festival at Singal Shala
On 3rd November, 2017, Signal Shala celebrated Diwali fest. The main attraction of this Diwali fest is inauguration of modern science lab, new classes & saving accounts of children in banks. This Diwali become more delicious with the feast of melody music, worship of Saraswati goddess etc. This was next successful step of signal shala after writing and reading level success stories.

On 26th October, 2019, like every year, Diwali festival celebrated to light up the dark world of underprivileged children. What was the special this time? The students of Signal Shala, presented their ideas & full-fledged capacity through the concept ‘collage for future’. There was exhibition planned and held by students. An interesting activity of puzzle solving was there for all audience to make the programme more interesting. In exhibition, some projects also there on topics like ‘Best from waste’, ‘great bath in harappan culture’ , ‘uses of clay material etc.
Another attraction of Diwali festival was visit of eminent personalities like Bhau Kadam, Kushal badrike, Atul todankar, Viju mane and Abhijit Panse. This opportunity brought open talks with artist Bhau Kadam, Kushal Badrike & Atul todankar.

Bus service

Some families at teen hat Naka Bridge migrated to the kalava place. Due to the migration, it was bit difficult for students to come in school in time. Around 18-20 students were coming from Kalava. Firstly, their parents hesitated to send their children due to long distance. Thus immediately, on 26th November, 2018, signal shala started bus services to save their time. This facility also benefited to increase the number of regular coming students.

Redcliff CBSE School, marathon

On 2nd December 2017, Redcliff CBSE School organised cyclothon & skating under marathon. On this occasion, the fund gathered for marathon was given to the signal shala run by Samarth Bharat Vyaspith. This time, Lalita Babar, an Indian runner was present to motivate the participants.

Ground Making

Playground is an indivisible part of School life. In the first week of January, playground was ready for games like kabaddi, kho-kho, langadi etc. On this playground children are enjoying learning process.

‘Mukkam Post Teen Hat Naka’ book publication ceremony

Beg to learn, under bridge ghost to robotics, container class to modern school such amazing journey is shown through this ‘Mukkam Post Teen Hat Naka’ book on 23rd December, 2018. This contains nearby twenty articles on different projects and educational experiments held in signal school along with essays, poems & drawings of students. Well known eminent personalities like Abhijit Panse, Ankush Chaudhari, Ajit Parab, Atul Parchure, Viju Mane, Shirish latkar & Jayant Pawar were present at publication ceremony. Abhijit Panse is honorary editor and Viju Mane, Shirish latkar, Jayant Pawar, Dr. Vijaya Wad, Kaushal Inamdar & Kushal badrike are guest editor of ‘Mukkam Post Teen Hat Naka’.

Project of Agriculture

On 9th February, 2019, agriculture project started to give basic education of agriculture which plays major role in Indian Economy and Diet. Every Saturday, volunteers of Cognizant Company come in Signal shala to teach lessons of agriculture to students.

Raigad fort trip

In the third academic year of signal shala, Raigad fort trip was memorable event in the timeline of signal shala. The happiness & curiosity was doubled since preparation for the trip. On 16th February, 2019, all students & teachers enjoyed trip with great enthusiasm.

Counselling of mother parent

Why we need counselling of mother parent? In the underprivileged sections of society, lack of literacy, poverty, female foeticide, more hands to run family lead to lack of family planning. In poverty, due to major misconceptions & superstitions, they don’t have proper family planning which spread more poverty again. To stop this vicious cycle, we focus on basic important step i.e. counselling of mother parent. Accordingly, operation of mothers took place after having child in March, 2019. Time to time, we also organised necessary sessions on healthy lifestyle, hygiene & menstruation cycle. Now, Mrs Supriya Karnik has come forward to lead this initiative and counsel the mother parents.

Annual Exam

The result of academic year 2018-19 was declared on 2nd may, 2019 at school no. 18, Thane Municipal Corporation. The very positive outcome is all students passed the exam successfully.

The result of academic year 2018-19
The annual result declared on 28th April 2018. All students passed the exam successfully. Mohan Kale & Dasharath Pawar, passed the 10th std Exam. Mohan & Dasharath passed the exam with 76% & 65% respectively. Now, Mohan is taking diploma degree in engineering whereas Dasharath is taking his further education in art stream. Dasharath’s dream is to become a police officer so simultaneously he is taking police training along with study of BA.

Internship of Mohan

10th passed student of Signal shala, Mohan Prabhu Kale is now completing his further education in diploma in engineering at Rustamji Academy for Global Careers. The next part of this success story is , he completed his two month internship at Tech Mahindra company in Pune which was started from 3rd May, 2019.

Atul Pawar, Photography training

Bhel for Harmony

On 24th March, 2019 & 11th May, 2019, under the concept of ‘Bhel for harmony’, Bhel making activity was arranged at Signal Shala. In this activity, all students made bhel with maintaining the quality and quantity from self-cleanliness to the cleanliness of place. On this occasion, award ceremony also organised to award the best performers of the year. Everyone enjoyed the ceremony while taking the taste of both bhel & award.

Unique Gopalkala for strong bond making

Every year, on the occasion of Gopalkala, there is ‘PustakHandi’ programme. Every year we maintain quality & uniqueness of programme. In this activity, students enjoy the extra book reading. We are in mainstream of education that credit goes to the society who shows the path of equality & unity. On this occasion, we expressed gratitude for the supporting society. On 1st September, 2018, student along with teachers visited local police station and other local administrative officers.

Material resources at signal school

On 9th June 2019, there was an inauguration of material facilities at school. On this occasion, Bari Rasin, Dr. Ashesh Ganguli, Nilesh Puranik, Govind Khetan of Rotari Club of Thane Hills were present. This helped to make school facilitated by necessary material resources to assist progress.

Admission of Sameer Pawar & Kiran Kale

On 17th June 2019, 6th std students of signal shala, Sameer Pawar & Kiran Kale got admission in Saraswati Vidya Mandir School. To make children capable & bring them in the mainstream of education is the main aim of our Signal Shala. To achieve this target we took next step to do admission of both students in Sarswati Vidya Mandir School so that their confidence of learning at any school will increase. Both students passed the entrance exam of Sarswati Vidya Mandir. They got more than 50% in exam. From the academic year 2018-19, they continued their educational education in new school i.e. Saraswati Vidya Mandir School. To see this success, we got help of Shree. Suresh Dighe, a trusty of school.

Robotics Science

Purushottam Pachpande, teacher at famous robotics classes, took session of robotics science at Signal Shala. . Firstly we arranged these sessions for secondary division on every Friday. All students enjoyed the session as this type of session found very interesting to them. We have started this session at school to make children familiar & knowledgeable about running technology in this era.

Group discussion

Group discussion is one of study technique which helps to understand the subject in every aspect. By understanding its importance, we made groups of students to have group discussion on different study subjects E.g. While studying Geography, students asked queries about planetary system, & universe, colours of planets, human species etc further, they asked about rocket technology. It is explicit that no doubt all children have the curiosity and enthusiasm to know more and more about subjects. Group discussion helps to nurture the qualities of listening & courage to ask question. Therefore, we have initiated this activity at signal shala.