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Secret of the Fliers

The Little But Most Needed Attention Every Child Craves For After long time experience of being a classroom teacher in both public and private schools, as a curious and a concerned individual about the pupils’ success or failure,I tried to find out what possibly made some set of pupils unbeatable and unchallenged as they remain the highest achievers in the classroom. Through critical observation and ceaseless daily interaction with all cadres of pupils on the basis of academic success say the fliers, runners, walkers and the crawlers; I was able to establish the fact that parents, in number of ways, play significant role in the achievement of their wards.As they say a dwarf who brags at least has a shoulder of a giant to lean on. In Great Heights Academy , the total mark obtainable in each subject is 100. However, the mark is a combination of 40 marks of Continuous Assessment Tests and 60 marks of Exam respectively. The former has four sub units and each carries 10 marks. This ...

Who is an Educated Child?

Who Is An Educated Child? Nowadays, people mistake the knowledge of ABC and 123 for what education is all about. It is a very wrong notion and as such most contemporary schools emphasize more on knowledge while all other aspects of education like social behavioral patterns and values such as respect, honesty, sharing, taking turn, culture and lots more are paid less attention or completely neglected. On this ground, despite all odds, Great Heights Academy singled out of the manifolds with a paradigm shift. Unlike other schools, here every aspect of education carry’s equal weight. Therefore, a child must acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and norms of the immediate society to be considered educated. Hence, the question ‘who is an educated child?’  According to Wikipedia, education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and norms of a group of people ar...