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. 🙂

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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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Vibgyor, St Annes, St Helena’s, DPS, Vidya Valley, Loyola High close down –Swine Flu !!!

The following schools have decided to close down in Pune in order to contain the spread of the Swine Flu.

Delhi Public School will be closed till Aug 9 2009.

St Helena’s will be closed till Aug 13 with 1 positive H1N1 cases.

St Anne’s will be closed till Aug 12 2009 with 3 positive cases.

Loyola High School will be closed till Aug 9 , 2009 with 1 positive case.

Vidya Valley will be closed till Aug 9 with 2 positive cases.

Vibgyor High has closed down till sunday the 9th August 2009 with no positive cases of H1N1 virus in Pune.

Bishops Boys and Co-Ed have also closed down from 8th Aug 2009 to 20th Aug 2009, including the holidays that were preplanned.

The first school to take this sensible step was St Mary’s when they decided to close down the school from 6th Aug to 11th Aug 2009 with two positive cases in class 1D boys section.

Today on the 9th Aug 2009, St Mary’s has declared to close down till 16th Aug 2009.

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The school management have sensibly taken this step as a precautionary measure against the H1N1 Virus on advice of the Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade of Pune.

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

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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Why Eat Curds before Exams / Interviews !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Exam times for kids are stressful, not just for the kids but more for the moms !!!

I remember my mom used to be ready with a bowl of homemade curds mixed with sugar while I was getting ready to leave the home for any of my exams.

I used to wonder why curds with sugar was so important, but never refused it as it used to part of the Prasad offered to the goddess Saraswati. Mum is very religious, so I would just gulp the yummy curds and scoot off.

But that need to know WHY behind any ritual / act had to be satisfied.

And guess what, I got hold of that real reason just this morning when I was forwarded an article on foods for brain by my SIL.

I am copy pasting the portion that is mentioned in the book  “Eat this, Not that “ by David ZincZenko  !!!!! The unbolded paragraph is an extract for the above mentioned book.

It clearly solves the curiosity as to why curds is so important just before doing anything stressful or important!

CURDS CALMS us down !!!!

 

Nuts also have the similar calming effect, to be consumed before any stressful activity !

Thanks MOM, now I know why all the MOMs do just the right thing, knowingly or not.

 

TO CALM DOWN
Eat This!: LOW-FAT YOGURT OR MIXED NUTS

Scientists in Slovakia gave people 3 grams each of two amino acids—lysine and arginine—or a placebo, and asked them to deliver a speech. Blood measurements of stress hormones revealed that the amino acid-fortified guys were half as anxious during and after the speech as those who took the placebo. Yogurt is one of the best food sources of lysine; nuts pack loads of arginine.

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“Bring me an Orange Phone”

Airtel advertisement made me realize something very profound.

I was talking to a friend who lives in Delhi. My sons were playing around me when my younger son heard me mention delhi while I was conversing.

After a while my son wanted to talk to my friend urgently. He took the phone and after a general talk I heard him say … “Bring an orange phone” !!!

“no not red only orange color phone..”

“ok bye..”

Now my friend was quite amused with a very specific request of item being asked by a 4 yr old. But I told him definitely orange was not his favorite color, it was red that he preferred. And never has he shown any keen interest of phones. He is a die hard 4 wheel lover !!!

And that’s when it clicked to me….!!!

The new Airtel advertisement. Yes that was it!
The ad showed a small kid of my son’s age being reprimanded by his mom for being naughty. She had scolded him and not allowed him to play outside with other kids. The kid then sneaks out of the home with something in his hands and goes up on a terrace. He finds a secured place and sits down to reveal an “orange phone ” . He picks up the phone and say ” Papa aap dilli gaye, Mumma ne mujhe daanta. Aap Mumma ko daantna ” . Then he rushed back to his chair where he was asked to chill out by his mom.

His mom comes up and says ” Doodh pe ke baahar khelne ja sakte ho ”

He asks his mom ” Papa ka phone aaya tha ?”

And the mom just smiles…

The kid thinks for sure that his dad had called back and scolded his mom and asked him to send him to play 🙂

So there was the clue that we needed… for my son’s special and specific request for “an orange phone” …

Btw he is still waiting … for his “Orange Phone “

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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.
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The ant and the juice !!!!!!!!!!!!!

My elder son is only 5.5 yrs and is such a cleanliness freak that I wonder why did I ever have to tell him about washing up !

 

Yesterday I gave him  a glass of chilled orange tang. He looked inside the glass, only to find a small red ant floating in the juice. He promptly showed to me the ant in his juice. I dipped a finger and took the ant out, then gave back the glass to him.

He again looked inside the glass but returned it back saying that the juice was dirty now. I knew this would happen so was prepared for the same. So I  told him that the ant is very tiny and now its out of his glass, so he can drink it off.

But my son being my son, refused to digest this simple act that removal of the ant out of the glass meant his juice was now clean enough. He had his reason too. He told me what I normally tell my kids once they are back from outside in the home.  He said ” Mamma ! this ant must have been walking out side without any shoes. So when it came and got into my juice glass, all the dirt from its legs have washed into the juice ! So all the juice is now dirty too!!!!!”

Needless to say , I had no answer but to make another fresh glass of juice for him 🙂

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My Kids and food !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My babies made my day yesterday. I normally have to sit one hour for each meal with both the kiddos every day. There are days when I am sitting patiently, telling them stories or they telling me stories. There are days when I am screaming like a witch at them, especially when there is vegetarian food on the menu.

My kids think food means chicken, mutton, fish, prawns or eggs.  Paneer is also acceptable by the young HHs. The days I make veggies only, I have to make sure I have no meeting lined up, no workshop to attend or take and definitely no calls. I am shouting screaming threatening for an hour ! At the end I do manage to make them eat what I wish but at the cost of their lov for me and my guilt towards them !

But today was different.

My friend Arun, forwarded a mail to me. I had tears in my eyes watching a kid eat from the garbage ! There was another picture of a kid drinking water along with a dog from the same puddle !

I thought of making a positive impact and use of this mail by telling a story .  So once we were back from school, my kids one 5 yr old another 3.5 yr were too eager to hear and see the picture of the boy who did not eat food ! And the kid who threw food and wasted water.

After watching the powerpoint presentation, I could see my kids watching seriously, with their expression changing. They felt sad and my elder one was convinced that no one should throw food or water, and that he will not trouble his mom any longer. I don’t know how long it will last.

At the dinner time, I was hoping to see the effect of the mail on my kids eating habit and change .

My elder son ate his food with one coaxing. I was mighty pleased and glad that the expectant result was seen.

But I was not prepared for the effect on my younger kid !

He ate a bite and threw away the whole food into the dustbin !  Shocked and angry, I was upset that my younger son was so not sensitive ! Anyways, I had to question him and make him understand the effect of bad deed done by him. So I called him and made him sit with me. We call this type of sessions as “Talk Time”, where they have to talk out their problems and anything in their minds, without me judging them! 

So I asked him the reason for his throwing away the food into the garbage bin! He answered, ” Mumma ! I threw away all the food, so that 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.

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

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

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

Which Education Board to choose for my child !!!!!!!!!!

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

DPS MANAGEMENT is Excellent !!!

PUNE St MARY’S BOYS STD 1 D are CONNECTED by YAHOO Groups !!!

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

Yippy my son got through ST MARY’S SCHOOL Pune, India !

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

Kangaroo Kids Pune India