Kathmandu. Students presented their talents on the 23rd Parents’ Day of Nepal Don Bosco School. In the ceremony organized on Saturday, the students from classes 1 to 10 presented dance, singing, drama, stories and poetry in front of a large number of parents and guests.
In the first phase of the program, children from classes 1 to 5 performed dances wearing costumes of different castes. Their performance mesmerized the parents present. Sometimes they used to perform anti-dance while wearing Gurung clothes and sometimes in Dhimal costumes. And sometimes they danced in Madhesh clothes and sometimes in Sherpa costumes from the Himalayas. They performed dance representing Nepali as well as Newari song, Tamang cello, Maithili song.
Similarly, the students presented the interdependent relationship between parents, children and school through drama. The students also recited the song by singing.
In the second stage, students from classes 6 to 10 performed dances with original costumes and costumes. They also mesmerized the parents and guests present through singing, drama, story presentation.
In the program, Harigobind Shrestha, the head of Lalitpur’s Mahalakshmi municipality, said that the school and the parents are equally responsible for the good learning of the students. It is important for parents to be interested in the school their children attend. Parents must pay full attention to how the child is studying and learning,’ he said, ‘and only we can move forward for quality education.’
Mayor Shrestha also informed on the occasion that the municipality is about to start the ‘Teacher-Parent Education’ training program.
Vinu Jacob, the principal of the school, said that the school started with 57 students 24 years ago and now has around 1700 students. I appreciate the role played by the parents to make this school, which was started with the aim of providing quality education, prosperous. It is our responsibility to make students excel in extracurricular activities as well as studies,’ he said. He also informed that the students of this school are getting excellent GPA (marks) in SEE and class 11 and 12 exams.
There are 80 teachers working in Nepal Don Bosco School in Sidhipur, Lalitpur, run by Nepal Don Bosco Society. It was informed in the program that the society, which is currently operating five schools in Nepal in Kathmandu, Biratnagar and Sunsari, is soon preparing to open another school in Surkhet, the capital of Karnali province.
