Ganglakhema Primary School

Block: Khoma

District: Lhuentse

Country: Bhutan

Introducing our school

Establishment: 2002It is under Lhuentse district. ( North East part of Bhutan)It is one of the remotest schools in the country.It is about 2300m above sea level.It has 5.854 acres of land.It is a day school.It has seven teachers and 80 students.It is the 2013’s winner of DFC.It is among the best performing schools of the nation in 2013 as per the Performance Management System.It is the best primary school in the District until now.

Our story of change

“Read, Read, & Read!”

Feel

We have difficulty in reading. We do not have

strong reading habits. And our parents at

home cannot support us as most of them are

uneducated. So, we felt that we needed extra

time and effort to improve our reading.

Consequences of minimal reading in school are:

We have difficulty in even reading our texts.

We remain poor in vocabulary.

We have difficulty in writing.

We have difficulty in understanding the English lesson.

We have difficulty in understanding questions in exam.

We spend too much time in reading questions in exam.

Our school library stocks too many unread books.

We loose interest in learning English.

Imagination

Therefore we discussed and came out with following strategies:

1. To make a conducive reading room.2. To get ourselves into pairs for buddy reading. 3. To have evening guided reading. 4. To start with read aloud in morning assembly.5. To have rhyme class on every Friday morning.6. To read labels that are written on every product covers and containers. 7. To read at least two books in a month from our library. 8. To have reading periods.9. To do book reviews both in Dzongkha and English.10.To display reading trees, fishbowl and reading concept maps in our

reading room after we finish reading each book. 11. To assess our reading at the end of every month. 12. To have feedbacks on our reading. 13.School will celebrate literary festival at the end of the year.

DO1. We have pairs for buddy reading every afternoon for 25

minutes.2. We now have a separate conducive reading room.3. We do guided reading for 30 minutes every evening

supported by our TODs.4. We have morning assembly reading.5. We have rhyme class on every Friday morning for an hour

allotted “zero period”.6. We read at least two books in a month from our library. 7. We have reading periods.8. We do book reviews both in Dzongkha and English.9. We display reading trees, fishbowl and reading concept

maps in our reading room after we finish reading each book. 10.Our reading is assessed at the end of every month. 11.We get feedbacks on our reading.

Buddy reading

Reading room

Guided reading in the evening

Read aloud in Morning Assembly

Rhyme class on every Friday morning

Library period

Monthly Book Review

Monthly reading assessmentMorning Reading Assessment

Benefits

1. We can read our texts.2. We feel interested in learning English. 3. We have read many books from our Library. 4. We have less problem in reading and understanding

questions during exam.5. We know many things about many products. 6. We can understand better when teachers speak in

English. 7. We make use of our leisure time fruitfully.

Sustainability of this Program

1. School will ensure that this program continue even in long run.

2. This program doesn’t require financing except for purchase of

some materials to decorate reading room.

3. School receives new books in library every year.

Challenges

1. We have to find extra time.

2. We have to put extra effort.

3. Less number of teachers in school.

4. We have to manage materials and time to make reading room.

Share

Now we carry out all these reading activities. We can see our reading improve. We can read most of the books in our library.

We share with neighbor schools and nearby monastic school about our reading strategies and outcomes during exchange programs.

Now students in monastic school also share some of our reading strategies.

Thank you ELC for making us ambassadors of positive change in our own lives and to others

through DFC