HAPPY TEACHERS’ DAY!

WISHING ALL OUR TEACHERS THE VERY BEST ON THIS SPECIAL DAY!

The students and management of Pelkhil School offer our deepest gratitude for the special work you do!

SCHOOL RIMDRO

The PP students have a go doing ‘chha’.

The annual school rimdro was held on campus today. The event was led by the Dzongkha Lopens Tashi Namgay and Rinzin Dorji. The captains led the students and took a large part of the responsibility of coordinating the students and serving guests.

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Cleaning toilets fair way to punish students, Cambridge college insists

Rebecca Ratcliffe guardian.co.uk, Monday 26 November 2012

Fines mean less to wealthy students so we’ve opted for community service, says St John’s college

Community service tasks such as cleaning toilets and digging trenches are the fairest way to punish misbehaving students, says a Cambridge University college.

St John’s college Cambridge has defended its decision to […]

Teacher motivation in Bhutan (by Amina Gurung on KOL)

The once elevated lopen (king of knowledge) has now fallen below the radar of societal respect

Ask a first-year teacher candidate, who is selected to be a teacher, and you might find about one or two, who will say with vigour that he is inspired to be a teacher, and that she came out of […]

FOOTBALL FRIENDLY WITH LUNGTENZAMPA MSS

Today we had a friendly football match with the school team from Lungtenzampa MSS at the school ground. It was the first of many friendlies we will organize this year. The match served as a warm up for our team which so far has no experience playing together as a team. While the Pelkhil team […]

YOUR TEEN IS CRAZY!

 

If you sometimes think your teenage child is crazy, you may be right! According to the author, ninety-five percentage of a person’s brain is developed in childhood but the last 5% aren’t developed until adolescence is over! Teenagers can therefore appear unstable, dysfunctional and unpredictable, with temporarily impaired judgment and decision-making processes. Sound […]

TOUGH LOVE IS GOOD FOR CHILDREN (BBC report)

The report said parenting style was more influential than income

Children brought up according to “tough love” principles are more successful in life, according to a study. The think tank Demos says a balance of warmth and discipline improved social skills more than a laissez-faire, authoritarian or disengaged upbringing. It says children aged five with […]

UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT ON CAMPUS

The school has hesitated to put up any report on the incident that occurred on our campus 2 days ago in the interest of providing a neutral point of view. The media have rushed in and now there is probably no person who is not aware that something happened on our campus.

The fact is […]

WALL MAGAZINE DAY

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Today was the judgment day for the inter-class Wall Magazine competition.

The judges were Lopen Tashi Namgay, Mdm Charlotte Harris, Sir Anthony Burns and Sir Mark Turner from Pelkhil and we also had guest judges from Rinchen Higher Secondary School. The results will be announced later.

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THE NIGHT THE ROBBERS CAME

Last night at around 1am, one of our faculty members was unable to sleep as his child was sick. Lying awake he was startled to hear noises in the stairwell leading to the attic above. Unsure whether new tenants had moved in, he let it be. But when the noises persisted he called the landlord […]