2010 Pune Schools Admission Workshop Nursery,LKg,JKg, DPS, StMarys,Vibgyor,VPMS,Arnold,Bishop,Vidya valley

Dear Parents, on popular request,  you  can once again avail the opportunity to meet me on a ONE-on-ONE workshop on Pune School Admission for Nursery, LKg, UKg for Pune school admissions, interview, criteria, dress code, etiquette etc.

The workshop will comprise of the following:

• Mock interview of the child
• Mock written test if applicable (Ukg only)
• Mock interview of both parents, hence both must attend
• Tips on filling the admission form (online/paper)
• Tips on answering questions
• Tips on etiquette if needed
• Ask and clarify your doubts. Kindly write and bring your questions. ( My last experience says people forget to ask all questions) 🙂

The time duration for the workshop is 1.5 to 2 hours.

Venue for the workshop:

803 A, Lunkad Sky Lounge, Lane 7, Kalyani Nagar, Opposite Gold Mariplex, Pune 411006

I am proud to share with you that the success rate of last workshop has been 100%. to date.

Starting from 20th November 2010 , I will be available on all days on prior appointments.

Feel free to mail  back to clarify about your doubts and to fix your timings and mode of payment. Remember earlier the better, as you get time to prepare before the actual interviews/ tests.
My sincere effort is that everyone gets through the schools they wish to see their kids going to.

Prepared Parents means lesser stress leading to deserving success  for you child. :).

Thank you and God Bless you.
Madhurie Singh
singhmadhuri@gmail.com

 

Pune Schools ReOpen on 31st August ST Mary’s, Bishops !

All Schools in Pune will reopen on the 31st August, Monday. ( Symbiosis International, St Helena’s School, Hutchings High School and Primrose School, St Mary’s, Bishops.)

Nearly 50% of the schools opened last Monday on the 24th August 2009. DPS, Vibgyor were included in the list of the schools that hurried to open on the 24th August. School kids going to these schools are much protected as they have their own school buses. Hence it’s safer and also easier to track kids having any swine flu related symptoms. Also DPS and Vibgyor had made their students wear mask and carry liquid sanitizers compulsory.

Bishops (all three branches) will open on Monday the 31st Aug 2009.
Nursery, LKg , UKg in Bishops will remain closed and will open on the 7th September 2009. All classes above UKg will open on the 31st August 2009.

St Mary’s will re open on the 31st August 2009.
Pre-Nursery, Nursery, Prep, Std 1 (both Boys and Girls ) will remain closed till further notice and will not reopen on 31st August 2009.
The school timings will be as follows:

Girls:
CLASSES TIME

II to VI 8.30 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. (Half Day)

VII to X 8.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.

Boys:

CLASSES TIME

II to VI 7.35 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

VII to X 7.35 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.

Mon to Sat

Interesting common factor between these St Mary’s and Bishops schools is that they do not own any school buses. The kids depend on private buses and vans which pick kids going to different schools at the same time. In my opinion, these two schools and all others who postponed their school reopening, was a wise step, as their students have more chances of spreading the H1N1 virus infection.

https://madhuriesingh.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/swine-flu-precautionary-move-st-marys-school-pune-closes/

Pune Schools Closed till 30th August – DPS,ST Mary’s,Bishops,Vibgyor..

Thankfully all schools will remain closed till the 30th August 2009.
DPS School has decided to open on Monday 24th August, but has cancelled off the monday test.
The following guidelines to be followed by students risking to go to school on 24th august to DPS .
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The school will now reopen on Monday, 24th August, 2009.
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Second set of Practice Sheets for all classes are available on the school website under SCM Section.
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There will be no Weekly Assessment on 24th August, 2009. New dates will be intimated later.
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Students to wear masks and carry small bottles of hand sanitizer liquid for maintaining personal hygiene during school hours.
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Students must carry clean handkerchiefs.
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Students exhibiting flu like symptoms to avoid attending school.
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Students to reach their designated bus stops ten minutes early.

Like I had mentioned in my last 2-3 posts, looks like better senses prevails our schools and the governing bodies.

Dear parents, it may seem that everything is cool and things have returned to normal in Pune, but it’s only because the media has been instructed not to continue focusing on the Swine Flu 24 by 7.

So just because you are now not bombarded with continuous updates on the H1N1 flu, do not start to relax. Continue avoiding crowded public places unless very important. Leave your kids in the house or with friend’s if you must visit the malls for grocery etc.

Again a reminder , Swine flu is dangerous to younger kids who have still not strong immunity, and dangerous to people who already have respiratory, pulmonary or any other problems.

You can definitely visit your friends if no one in their house has any kind of flu.
Similarly, your kid’s friends can also visit you.

Make sure the hands and face is washed with soap whenever the kids are back home or before they eat food.

Make them use sanitizers if washing of the hands is not possible. ( Sanitizers should not be overused!)

Those kids who have any kind of flu, must wear a mask and avoid going to their friends place. Call your friend’s before you send your kids to their homes.

Eat healthy nutritious food and drink lots of water.
My kids are freaking out on chicken and chicken soup. Another very healthy complete food is Palak / Spinach soup for vegetarians. Make your kids drink lots of drinks like tang / rasna ( I have not researched them yet ). Make them drink tender coconut if they like it. Do not try to make fruit juice at home or buy juice. Give fresh raw fruits, if you want your kids to get all the nutritions in a fruit.

Be happy and keep your kids happy. I have still not started to send them to any of their extra curricular activities yet. I will start only in the middle of the September month.

Since my intuitions are working in sink with the current situation is Pune with respect to the schools and kids, I will continue to follow it and keep you all updated.

As per my intuition only, I would say 31 August our kids should be ready to go to their schools in a safe and healthy Swine flu free environment. So till then take care and be happy. 🙂

https://madhuriesingh.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/schools-in-pune-to-re-open-on-24th-august-2009/

https://madhuriesingh.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/swine-flu-all-schools-close-down-in-pune-till-16th-august-2009/

https://madhuriesingh.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/swine-flu-precautionary-move-st-marys-school-pune-closes/

Admission time for DPS, St Mary’s, Vibgyor, Loyolla, Bishops in Pune!!!

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Admission time is a big tensionful time for all parents looking to get their kids admitted to the schools of their choice.

I remember the two years I had tried to get information on the internet , from parents in my neighbourhood and from the websites of the schools!

So this is for those parents trying to get dates of the admission for each school. A lot of hardwork has gone into making this information available with surfing the sites to making calls to the school offices. But even after all that hardwork, there is still a chance of the admission dates being changed by the school authorities. 🙂

Delhi Public School(CBSE)

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Pune schools closed due to Swine Flu – How to keep kids busy !!!

All schools in Pune will be closed till 19th August 2009, in view of the current spread of the Swine Flu caused by H1N1 virus.

A lot of schools are fumigating their premises.

Both kids from St Mary’s Boys have recovered from the swine flu infection that they got in the last week of July 2009.

A request to all parents.

Keep your kids at home and do not send them to any coaching class, activity class or sports class.

I am allowing my kids to go to their friend’s place by making sure the family has no cold, cough or fever. Similarly my kids friends are also visiting my home. It’s important that kids are able to interact and play in safe environment. I plan activites for all the kids before they reach my home.

Scrabble, Word Ludo (my innovation), online games, good vcds, carrom, chess and story telling are a few good way I am keeping kids around me engaged. It’s still very difficult. 😦

I draw pictures for them and they have to colour these pictures within a time span as neatly as possible.

Another messy activity that they love is cutting aphabets and pictures from old newspaper. Then they have to make a story out of these cut outs.

Another interesting activity that I am planning is mixing the three primary colours to make secondary and tertiary colour right on the paper!

I found a set of very very informative and interesting books which keeps my kids and their friends glued to me for hours. But the only trade off for that is my time.

I would recommend all parents to get this set of books. Its from Time-Life-Warner . I will be publishing a review on it shortly.

There is another fun and engaging game, where like dumb charade, an object is drawn on the back of a kid with only a finger. The kid has to imagine and say the name of the object drawn on his back.

There are many more such avtivites that we mothers can think of and keep the kids busy at home.

If there is any interesting suggestion, you can send it to me or write as a comment.

Happy bonding ! 🙂

Swine Flu – DPS, St Marys, Bishops, Vibgyor and All schools in Pune till 16th August 2009!!!

Updated at 5:00pm on 10th Aug 2009.

DPS school Pune closed till 17th august 2009.

All malls, schools, multiplexes will remain closed for three days as per the government orders. Phew !!! Finally . Bloodshed has to happen to even save our lives. Still there are a few thick-heads who are advising the schools to remain open. We must find out if their kids are in any of the affected city or have they packed off to their kids to a monsoon break to some hill station or abroad ! Don’t they understand simple logic of quarantine?

A minimum of 7 days of total shutting down of the city is all that is needed to eradicate this H1N1 virus. So is 7 days asking too much as compared to hundreds of lives that they are staking? How much sense is lacking in the people WE have chosen?

Ok now if the govt. authorities are like duh… People , use your common sense. Choose between a week of shopping at malls / movie halls /socializing OR be ready to get infected. Is this a rocket science?

Written on 10th august at 1:05am

All schools in Pune will be closed till 16th August 2009, by the order of the Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, if the school is willing.

Thank you dear authorities for better late than never sense which prevailed to save the kids from getting infected and saving the poor parents from the dilemma of whether to send their kids to the school or not !
I wish a month back this step was taken preemptively, but Pune people learn things the HARD way always!
Anyways since I have not been sending both my kids to the school even before the schools declared to close down, I am extremely pleased for the step I took.

Sadly there are two kids infected in St Mary’s 1D and one child from DPS. The kids who did go to the school last week have been exposed to the H1N1 virus. My advice to parents of these kids whose kids went to the school until last week, kindly check your kid’s throat every morning yourself. If there is even a slightest redness or soreness visible, get him tested. This you must do till the seven days from the day your child stopped going to the school.

Read this for detailed reason. What if you came in contact with swine flu affected person ?

A few steps for all the worried parents:

*First thing first, get your kid tested.

*Avoid sending your kid out anywhere.

*Keep other members in the house away from your kid to prevent any other member getting infected, cause you still do not know if your kid is infected or not.

*Order Tamiflu online, as there is shortage of the capsules. Order Online Tamiflu.

*Make hot chicken soup with lots of whole garam masala and fresh ginger garlic for the kid to drink. This will not cure the swine flu, but will provide good strength and stamina to fight the virus.

*Do not hide the fact from anyone if your kid is infected. Its criminal offence to hide the disease and let other innocent people come in contact with the virus. On the other hand, sharing the information, keeping the kid in isolation will actually hurry up your kid’s recovery.

*If infected or have any doubt that your kid is infected, please make him/her wear Mask N95 only. The other masks are useless and do not prevent the virus from spreading. Other members in the house must also wear the N95 Mask.

*Keep all maids, drivers, workers away from your child till your child recovers.

It’s this category of people who should not get infected, else the real Pandemic will show up ! Thankfully only the upper class is infected due to their globetrotting. And since upper class have the money and resource, the disease can be controlled in Pune to the level of epidemic. If the lower class gets affected, the virus will do the deadly taandav and show its ugliest form. One maid or one driver will infect his whole family and neighbors within one single day as they live in congested rooms and slums. Definitely they will not afford Rs 5000/- worth Tamiflu! And then the result is something we don’t want to see.

SO PLEASE KEEP YOUR DRIVERS? MAIDS away from anyone infected with the Swine flu in your home. DO the cooking/ cleaning / driving for the infected kid yourself. Another option can be to see that these helpers if they are in contact with the infected person stay in the same house premise. This will at least prevent spreading of the virus. Then if any symptom arises, admit the person to the hospital that can handle swine flu.

These are all advice from non medical person, so kindly do not avoid going to the doctor if any symptom arise. You should take a doctor’s advice before taking Tamiflu.

*I pray for the speedy recovery of all the kids. May I request the parents to not send their kids to any day care, playschools, activity classes or even movies and malls.
It’s tough to keep them home, so sending to known friends who do not have any flu or running nose should be wise. Mothers at home can continue with the daily studies for an hour or two. There are several online games that you can allow kids to play to keep them busy.

You parents can use this time to bond with your children and teach all about viral flu etc. Check out good sites that easily explain it. http://www.X-plain.com. Check out online stories or activities . I like http://www.starfall.com.
Paint, draw play with your child and make the most of this break. Be thankful that you are lucky to be healthy and fit.

My kids go to different board schools, DPS and St Mary’s!!!!!!

My kids go to different schools with different education board !

Every time I mention this, I see people reacting only one way , and that is with great astonishment slowly turning to pity my state, suggestions and help never intended to give :).

But trust me, it’s not as difficult as it seems !

It has infact given me the opportunity to spend time with each of my child separately for their various needs.

I get to spend time with only the elder one (who goes to 1st std St Mary’s) in the morning as he wakes up at 5:30 am. It’s easy to get him all ready and make him eat his breakfast peacefully. He is off to bus stand at 6:45am. Now handling two of them would have driven me nuts as both are still totally dependent on me for all their chores.

The second one who goes to Nursery class, DPS, wakes up at read more

Vacation and Holiday Breaks for Dps Pune !!!!!!!

Summer Break 9th may to 21st june 2009

Dussehra Break 25th sep to 28th sep 2009

Deepawali Break 16th oct to 18th oct 2009

Winter Break 25th dec to 3rd jan 2010

SWINE flu is villainous !!!!

I have decided from today both my kids will stay at home for a week or two.

Reason, firstly , I think that’s the best way to prevent my kids from getting infected even if there is any remotest chance. They travel by school bus and definitely there is a good chance of getting in contact with dormant Swine flu virus. Since there is still no confirmed report on whether a person who has been cured of Swine flu may or may not be a carrier of the virus. What if the cured person IS a carrier of the virus? Then for next 5-10 days he /she will be easily infecting another 100 person who comes in contact. I as a mother do not wish to live in stress wondering what if’s .

In my opinion, if I were the Mayor or District Magistrate or any one in authority of Pune city, would have closed down all the schools, colleges for 15 days. Since as per the statistics the Swine Flu is infecting more kids than adults, it makes sense to keep the KIDS AT HOME. Citizens of Pune should be restricted to public places like Malls, multiplexes and restaurants as these places are the best places to get infected. Even going to the hospitals should be avoided unless emergency situation calls for going to the hospital.

My son’s classmate was down with fever for seven days. The paediatrician asked the mother to get him tested for Swine Flu. She went to the Naidu hospital which is authorised to do the test in Pune. There the hospital returned her back saying that we will not test everyone who comes here for Swine Flu ! Shocked mother came back and was very upset. Had I been there I would have taken the Naidu hospital to press and made their life hell for being negligent.

My request to all parents. Go by your instinct. If you have slightest doubt, stop your child from going to school and public places. And get him/her tested for the virus. Early detection is better than rushing in the last moment, knowing very well that Tamiflu, the only drug is not easily available in Pune, even in black.
One to two weeks of holiday from school will not matter anything. You have all the portions and books, you can very well teach at home. Working parents will have trouble taking this decision, but the trade off is between the short term trouble of taking off from the office or life long crying…

I am very upset with Dr Gosh from National Institute of Virology, Pune. In the process of calming the parents he passed an uninformed message to the parents about the Swine Flu. He may be right in saying that parents should not be panicked, but he should not have said that it’s like any other virus and getting infected is ok !

So parents without creating a havoc around you, listen to your instincts. DO not send the child to the school for a week. Wait and watch. Talk to the school is they can close down the school.

Two years back my son was suffering from fever for 10 days. I got him to Dr Sewani of Kalyani Nagar, Pune. She said, it’s nothing to worry about and sent me away. But my instincts told me some thing was not right, as my son was blabbering nonsense in his feverish sleep. I got his blood tested elsewhere. He was detected as suffering of Dengue !!!! SO my instinct did come true.

The passage below was written when we were called to the school by National Institute Of Virology ‘s talk on Swine Flu.

Today, we were called to the St Mary’s school for a presentation on SWINE FLU.
Thanks a ton St Mary’s Management for pre-emptive step taken.
DPS also had last week sent a circular about SWINE FLU and requested parents to not send their kids if any had any kind of fever. These measures are very reassuring for parents, as it proves our kids are going from one safe hand to another :). Also, it takes care of the psychology of many over protective/ carefree parents.

It’s just another variant of flu virus. It’s symptoms are all similar to the other viral flu that our kids keep encountering.

Just be careful and take the child to a good paediatrician if the child has SEVERE CHILL , shivering and redness of eyes , followed with high fever.
Else treat this poor flu like any other viral fever. Do not panic, but keep the child at home to prevent him passing on the flu to others. One can wait for 2 days of fever and if the fever does not lower on the third day, then contact the doctor around.

The virus became a villain only because, when it was detected as a new virus in Mexico, the hosts died , but all had other major diseases to blame. Due to globetrotting, this virus reached India too, but it’s variant got diluted after it mixed with Indian viruses. But the virus is infecting kids more than adults. Hence preventing kids from becoming infected will control the disease in Pune.

How to prevent H1N1 Swine flu and any other flu :

1. Wash hands everytime you come home.

2. After kids are back from school or play give them a warm water bath.

3. Use tissue paper to wipe and throw in a dustbin.

4. DO NOT SEND YOUR KID TO SCHOOL FOR NEXT SEVEN DAYS.

That’s all it takes to prevent any virus from spreading ! 🙂

Do not try to cure any viral flu yourself, especially do not pop in any medicine yourself that is antibiotics ! Anyways no antibiotic can cure any viral flu as antibiotics are for bacterias , not for viruses :).

A good site http://www.parentree.in/Parentree-editors/journal-1302/Swine-flu–H1N1—-Babies-and-Children—Precautions–Symptoms–What-to-do—.html

To know or report about SWINE FLU contact :
www.niv.co.in

www.edc.org

Dr. Ms. Chadha
Deputy Dir- Influenza
Ph Nos – 020-26006247 / 26006217
email add – basua@icmt.org. in

Choosing Right Pencil, Eraser, Sharpner for kids !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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A pencil is a pencil is a pencil!!!!!
No! No! No! How many of us have ever paid attention to the type of pencils our kids are using when they started out to write????
Well I am a good mom, as I would always make sure the pencils were all sharpened and placed in the pencil box with an eraser and color pencils/ crayons.
But just a month back (June 2009) I realized that with respect to the pencils I was NOT a good mom !
Cuz, just placing sharpened pencils doesn’t make you a good pencil mom .
Since my son is very bright, I never paid much attention while he breezed through the preparatory class, which is very much a revision of the playschool learning. But when he reached STD 1 in St Mary’s life suddenly changes for both him and me!
No more casually sharpened pencils.
I found he definitely has my genes when it came to writing, which is quite illegible. Now I do know the importance of good handwriting now, so I started making him write every day a passage or cursive alphabets on three lined notebooks.
I found he was pressing the pencil too hard, leaving impressions on 2 sheets below! Also when he erased the marks, he would invariably tear off the sheet!
Now having an analytically gifted mind, I used it to first observe, collect related data and then analyze them.
So here are my observations which are the most important part of any analysis.
1: My son would hold the pencil too tight, which automatically led to applying too much pressure on the paper while writing. (There is a psychology of why some kids hold pencils very tightly) .
2: If the pencil has rounded smooth surface read more…
TIP of the Day:
Also after sharpening the pencil, I rub the tip off a bit before handling over to my kid. This ensures that the tip does not tear or snap while writing.

Teaching Verbs to standard 1. !!!!!!!

My son has started learning verbs in english.
He has very easily picked up the concept of Verbs as Action words !

So I thought of doing a bit of research in helping him learn better and applying the concept than just mugging up.

So I made him read a small story book and asked him to identify all the action words. And wow, he not only did underline them, he came back with a few more!

The next play exercise I did, involved my younger son who is in Nursery.
The younger one had to name any object he saw in the room. And then my older son had to speak out all the action related to that object.

So the first object uttered was “Apple”.
And now both my sons were throwing action words at me, where I was writing them down like a kid taking dictation! 🙂
So we had several action words as Verbs that we know . Eg eating, chewing, cutting, peeling and throwing was the last one added by my younger son 🙂

Similarly we moved to objects like football, eraser, rubber band, car. The last one was mother !
The notebook has two full pages of action words dedicated to the word “Mother” !

I plan to play today with them with other kids of the society and do a dumb charade of “Verbs”. Let’s see how they enjoy! 🙂

Happy teaching and mothering dears 🙂

Playschool and Kindergarten Pre Schools in Pune !!!!!!!!!!

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Living in a nuclear family has it’s merits. I have always managed easily using all my management abilities to keep the home and work balanced. But, when my one first baby was born, life became rather handful. I preferred to quit work and stay full time to nurture the life I had given birth to after six years of yearnings and physical trauma.

But what do you do when you are blessed with another one a bit too early than expected/planned. 🙂
Well, life became a bit too tricky to handle, without help. So I had to look for any external help I could get and would accept for my darling 1.5 year old!

Calling any relative was out of question as I am totally against the thought of turning any of the older relatives in the pretext of emotional bonding with the grandparents, into unpaid baby sitters!
Well if it’s volunteered, then that’s a different question after all.

Now handling two babies with my kind of mother was not easy on poor me 😦 .
My kind means over protective, net browsing, growing babies via wikipedia and online information, ignoring all advise from oldies unless presented with logic of whys, washing toys with dettol, making guest sanitize their hands before picking kids, making maids bathe before cooking etc. etc. etc…..

I look back now and wonder how on earth and why on earth was I so finicky? Was it all my maternal instinct. Or was it my desire to be the best mom? Or was that all my hormones making me go into an invisible/visible supermom.

When my son turned 1.5 yrs, read more….

DPS MANAGEMENT is Excellent !!!

DPS school, its management and the staff never stops to amaze me !

The DPS bus which comes to Kalyani Nagar to pick and drop my child would stop at a very filthy place. At the garbage dump, right after the bridge ended . It was not just filthy but was a nuisance to be standing amongst ragpickers, truck drivers and scrap collection shop. My kid started only this year, so I was trying to bear untill the rains started this june 2009. It became a nightmare to stand in the rains, with cars splashing water, flies tickling and men staring at buffons like us waiting !
That’s when I decided, no more bearing this unwanted trauma everyday in the scorching sun or pouring rains.
I spoke to a few parents if they wanted to get the bus stand shifted to somewhere decent place. Everyone obviously nodded. SO I went to the school and spoke to the office lady, who asked me to get a letter from all the parents who wanted the same. Then my hubby darling spoke to the transport head too. He said if there was a good number of students from my society, they will defintely consider the change.
SO I again made a letter describing the situation, took names of all the kids who would come to the bus stop and gave it to the principal. I also showed the management pictures of the area in the rains with the garbage.
The principal without a single word approved the change of the stop from the shabby place to my society Lunkad Sky Lounge. Now that’s what I call quick decision and appreciate the DPS school even more.

What a SCHOOL you have madamjee ! Hats off !

Moral of the story …. When you want to get something, all you have to do is ASK ! 🙂

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DPS PUNE SCHOOL, A Benchmark !!!!!!

A critic’s critic is what I can be best described as 🙂

I have very high set of standards when it comes to kids, education, hygiene and anything to do with the tiny tots. 🙂

Since my younger son was happily going to a kindergarten school “Kider Brook” at Kalyani Nagar, I was a carefree mom with no tension of homework, timing was cool 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. Next to my home a lane far to be precise :).

So when he completed his nursery and was time for Jr Kg, I was not gonna repeat the mistake of hanging on to a kindergarten , which I did for my elder son. Read my blog on St Mary’s for more.

So come november 2008 and I started checking the DPS website for the form to be downloaded for admissions.
I was glad to find it in the second week of the month. Downloaded the form and took the print-outs. It was a pleasure to the eyes and mind to see very clear, no nonsense form with only required information that was asked for to be filled in.
There were only two things that were needed to be arranged for the registration time read more…

Schools in Pune, India DPS, ST MARY’S, BISHOPS, LEXICON, VIBGYOR…..

Admission time in Pune is harrowing experience for all parents trying to select a school for their kid. I made the blunder of not taking admissions for my kid in Jr kg = nursery.

So when Nov 2007 arrived, I was all geared to get my kid admitted into Delhi Public School, Pune. Its a Co-ed school and CBSE board is followed there. Having done the same board made sense.

The website dpspune.com did not display any information till the first week of November 2007. Then the website mentioned that admissions for all classes except above 1st STD were open.

 The forms were available in the office of DPS School, in NIBM road. When I went there sharp at 10:00 am, click here to read more

Kangaroo Kids Pune India

I am writing this as I want every parent who in interested in admitting their child to Kangaroo Kids Pune(kk) at Koregaon Park to know about the facts.

Today I had to drop my son to Nehru Memorial hall for the concert practice at 9.00am.  My son cried a little as he does not like new and strange places. I was given a card by the management ,saying that without that card I cannot pick up my son. The pick up time was written as 12.30pm.  I reach there at 12.25pm.  I am shocked to see my poor son.

I was very upset and angry that a school of this stature where all hoity toities kids go, has no one to take care and wait with my 2.8 year old son!!!  There were cars whizzing in front as the main door opens right into the main road called Camp area of Pune! There were men strolling around, beggars walking past him! Any one could have taken him away in 5 sec!! 

I waited there for 5 min which was like ages to see if someone will come. Then a teacher comes out and seeing me standing with him brings his bag. No word or even a thought to the fact that he was all alone. I asked her why there was nobody with him? And the answer was blank, and then another teacher comes by, who cooks up an excuse that there must have been miscommunication.

I was livid and shaking out of shock and anger and irresponsibility of the school. I felt betrayed! I was in tears to know that the child I take care and fuss about so much, was standing all alone in the middle of the busiest part of the city by the same school that I trusted and paid 3000 bucks every month! In that cost I cud keep him a full time educated nanny who would not only teach him but feed him and care for him.

Kangaroo Kids is well known as its Mumbai branches have actors n hi-fi ‘s kids going there. But unfortunately the Pune branch has only cashed on the name. It does not care about the kids. They don’t own up their mistake ever. Several times kids are found sitting alone with no one around after school time!

A year back my son was bitten by ants at 14 places and the school refused to own up that there were ants in the premises. On the contrary they said that may be in my car I should check for ants. It’s the most irresponsible school I have ever encountered. They don’t have water back up and there were times when the toilet was full of poop. How infectious it is to send your kid to this kind of unhygienic school. Just last month my son picked up urinary infection from the school. I am so fed up and today was the last straw.

It’s been a full day now and neither the principal, owner nor even the class teacher has called to find out if my son is ok and how are we doing.

I am still shivering when I think of what if someone kidnapped him, or just took him away! World is full of maniacs, what if someone did something to him? What if he started to walk in the main street with the heavy traffic all around him? I just cannot get myself to forget this incident. Anyone who has any query u can email me here .
I am taking up this issue with the owner Lina Ashar. If they can pacify me fine, else I will be going to the newspaper and TV channels to let the poor parent be ware of Pune branch of kangaroo kids school. Don’t think your kids are in the safe hands there. Infact if u leave them there, you are at the worst risk of harming your child.

Please everyone spread the word, about this damn school, b4 u let the silly teachers harm your kid!!! And don’t forget to make comments! I have taken admission in another school for my son today.

Yesterday was the meeting with the people from KK head office Mumbai. They were very professional and knew what they were doing. To the extent that they lacked empathy. They first wanted to ”tackle” each parent separately. I was not interested in 1-1. AS there were all the parents waiting to be heard. We all went in and with the Pune management in tow. I started to explain all that I had gone thru, the carelessness of the management, the coldness from the management and all other problems.

While the meeting was nearing end, I thought that since things were accepted by the management and were ready to take corrective actions, it was my moral duty to inform them that I have emailed to hundreds of people. So they should not be surprised if someone gave the mail for print. The moment I said print , they both panicked. Instead of realizing that when I wrote the mail, by then it was more than 2 days and no one had contacted me from the school. I had out of frustration made it my agenda to write to every one I knew to circulate the mail.
As I wanted to create awareness about the incident that had happened and then beware of the school. Then the principal mentioned that there was someone who was found distributing pamphlets against KK. But instead of understanding my condition and frustration, the female rep from KK, indirectly threatens me saying that anyone who maligns the name of KK will have to face their lawyer. Not once but at least 3 times she repeated that. The male rep had his wits together and was trying to take care of the situation. While leaving the female rep mentioned another comment against me. She said that ” the way Vaundhara whose son had pushed a bead in his nose, handled the situation very nicely as compared to me” . I was again very shocked, but by this time I realized it was no use talking to the management reps, for whom one child’s case was important as his mom was very well connected politically than a child who’s mom chose to approach the management directly with no backing politically.

Also she thought that in the times of crisis like I was facing, I should have sat down to analyze and strategies how I should approach the management. So now my dear readers, u have to decide if I should let them go as they threatened me (ha-ha) or I should now give a go ahead to the 2 reporters who are waiting to go live with the story. In either case I will need your support. As this is not my fight it is a step towards making our children safer, and these school take better actions.

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