Grade 5 - Assessing the needs of the Kallahalli Orphanage

Grade: 5A
Teachers’ names: Vimi Santos and Sanjay Prabhakaran
Date of Engagement/s: _Nov 09___ No. of visits: 01
Name of Local Community: Yarab Charitable Education Trust
or Kallahalli Orphanage
UOI Integration: Values and Beliefs

Learning Outcome: To empathize and inquiry with the children living the orphanage. Make a plan to help the children academically and otherwise.

Student Initiated Action: Varun wants to start a programe to teach the children which they could not get due to the circumstances they are in.

Evidence collected: A reflection on the visit.

Reflection

Grade 5 visited the Kalahalli orphanage to empathise with the children living in the orphanage and appreciate the gifts they had been provided with by default. The purpose of the visit was not disclosed to the children.

The visit included going around the orphanage and talking to the children, seeing how they lived and the facilities available to them.

The children were stunned to see what they saw. They had a million innocent questions about the lifestyle of the children. The questions varied from the entertainment they had to the daily schedule to what they studied.

A sense of empathy came out from within and the Indus children wanted to make a difference to these unfortunate lot. They made a plan to collect old notebooks and donate them to the orphanage. They also plan to teach them curriculum and skills, a class every week, which will help them earn money and improve their lifestyle.

This visit was teacher driven integrating with the theme “Values and Beliefs”. The action was student led.

The action has been planned to be taken into the next theme “Market place” where the Indus children will be planning to teach the Kalahalli children skills to make artifacts which will be sold during the summative assessment ‘Fete’.