The school offers education from grade one through to grade five and ECD training with students aged from 3 to 13 years. The classroom sizes are relatively large and adequately furnished with enough desks, benches, and whiteboards. 

There are 7 classes every day which are about 45 minutes each. You will be expected to teach from 10:00 AM to 4 PM with an hour lunch break and each subject period lasts 45 minutes.

NOTE: Following the devastating global crisis of COVID-19 at the end of March in Nepal, schools immediately get shut down. After precaution and a month of lockdown, this community re-opened the school where the local government provided Sanitizers and masks. 

Subjects Taught: 

All the textbooks except English are in Nepali, and the medium of instruction is also mostly Nepali. 

• Mathematics- arithmetic, algebra and geometry are more significantly divided as you go to higher grades. 

• English- stories, poems, biography and similar texts and grammar.

• Science- basic ideas like living and nonliving things, plants etc.

• G.K - General knowledge 

• of Nepali- stories, poems, biographies, grammar, and similar texts.

• Social- society issues and proposed solutions, geography, history, organization etc.

• Easy English- Grammar, stories, passages etc. 

• Hamro Serofero - Population and Health, science, surroundings education.

Level of English comprehension:

The children's education level is good but not at the required level for their age. The same class may have children of varying ages and abilities, so teaching effectively can be challenging. The children begin learning English directly with the alphabet and don't learn phonetics, so that the smaller classes might have difficulties understanding volunteers' English.

Most students in grades 4-5 can write simple sentences in good structure but mostly memorized ones and often without understanding the meaning. But the children are keen to learn, which the past volunteers have found really encouraging. The greatest contribution volunteers can make is through organizing classes in the form of conversations to encourage them to speak and introducing creative writing like poems (rather than just copying as happens typically) and in the smaller classes to carry out courses in the form of rhymes and active exercises. The children in the school, assisted by their teachers, have done a lot of artistic works, so working with them on that heading can encourage the students more and the value of their creativity.

Teacher's level of English: Two teachers speak good English, and all the teachers can communicate fairly. The teachers like communicating with the volunteers, and correcting their English during conversation can be really helpful to build up their confidence in speaking in English.  

Exams: Teachers construct questions and exercises from the textbooks. They have simple monthly tests and more important exams every 4 months. 

Resources available:

• All classrooms have whiteboards.

• A library with a variety of books appropriate for the students in all the classes. 

• Volunteers are recommended to train the teachers to use the computers. 

• Resources for extracurricular activities: Most of the time, the school only has a single set of equipment for simple games like skipping, badminton, etc., so it needs constant addition. The children enjoy engaging in sports like football, volleyball, etc. Badminton, rings and skipping are popular among girls.

• Every month school attendance award is given. 

• Building on student leadership. 

• The students enjoy drawing and colouring but most of the time, the school has limited stock of drawing papers and colours and so needs constant addition/replacement. 

• Needed papers for assessment to print and photocopy, which school has limited stock of papers and needs constant addition.

• All classrooms have whiteboards. 

• How to teach effectively:  The school owns a textbook for each subject. You can copy a list of topics from the textbooks you feel you would like to teach using the materials you have brought and/or the techniques you have acquired and teach in a preferred way. This will give the local teachers an idea of how to teach the rest of the chapters in the book in an interactive way. You can be an inspiration for the local teachers. 

• The children love doing homework, so keep giving them creative assignments every day to ensure the students are revising their lessons. Try making the students take advantage of the environment they have. E.g. herbarium, collection of wild fruits and flowers, stones, sticks or branches etc. You can bring stickers that you can paste onto the exercise books of students who do the best homework and classwork. This excites the students and adds enthusiasm to the class environment, inspiring them to learn properly and be disciplined. 

Things that could make teaching easier for you: Card games for improving vocabulary and teaching sentence structures, teaching aids to help teach pronunciation (as most of the teachers learnt English pronunciation in the wrong way, the children learn it wrong as well. It is a wonderful opportunity for you to make the children's basic English up to date). Whiteboard markers would also be useful.