Author: Rachel Glynn

  • Final Proclamation 2019

    Final Proclamation 2019

    The month of NOV is conclusive for the year long academic session and brings the most awaited Final Proclamation of the results, harbinging excitable new classes, teachers, books and everything in the school to bring life at strength twice as usual. This year too students overall splendiferous performance academically swelled the hearts of teachers and parents with joy and pride. The students were certified for their conspicuous virtues followed by distinction of the most progressive students of each class and of course the WISDOM house swept the Running Trophy and 10000/rs cash prize for the” Best House of the year” leaving all yearning for the next one in the advancing year. This red lettered day of DPKS was attended by the Deputy Chairman accompanied by the new members SMC and throng of parents.

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  • Morning Presentation

    Morning Presentation

    Life changing Mantra! BUY the rumours SELL that facts!!

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    It’s a massive happiness to witness the young students of 4th B pick up such time needed, valuable Universal message and gospel to really and truly BUY the rumours and SELL the facts! The students consciously understanding this responsibility and the essence of their finely chosen topic expressed their fear and concern about how casual gossip mongering can be poisonous and obnoxious in every sphere of human existence. The students with the complete guidance of their class teacher most skillfully and appealingly transmitted their message of the brutality of rumours and how it is most apt and virtuous to not just abstain from rumours but from the sources of rumour mongering. They intensely propagated positive thought and positive speech….resulting in positive action!! Well done and cheers to the teachers and students of std 4th B ….. You were inspirational!

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  • Blog: Fundraising Cycle Pilgrimage in France 2019

    Blog: Fundraising Cycle Pilgrimage in France 2019

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    Edwin Gruber’s cycle pilgrimage in support of the school, 5-30th September 2019

    Sixty-nine-year-old retired teacher Edwin Gruber, a dedicated supporter of the Druk Padma Karpo School, set himself the challenge of pedalling 2,500 kilometres through France in 25 days as a sponsored event for the school and made a blog of his experiences and reflections.

    Edwin set off from the Channel coast and followed ancient pilgrimage routes via the Atlantic Coast and the foothills of the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean. Edwin channelled his passion for education into purposeful action. Edwin invited people to sponsor him for each metre of ascent along his route, which was over 15,000 metres, or for the whole trip.

    Edwin first visited the school in 2001, a few months before it opened, and was enthusiastic about its educational aims and philosophy. He took four groups of pupils from St Christopher School in Letchworth, where he taught, to Ladakh, on each occasion supporting the school educationally and financially, and he has organised fundraising events while working as a teacher. He was looking forward to the cycle challenge and hoped it would provide an opportunity to actively support the school again. Edwin said of his cycle pilgrimage “Like in life, the actual journey is more important than any final destination”.

    Read Edwin’s blog of experiences and reflections here

    Please help Edwin reach his fundraising target by making a donation (with “Edwin” as the reference). Thank you so much.

     

  • Football Tournament

    Football Tournament

    It was a sheer high spirited “spectacle” to witness the football team of DPKS lift and bag all four categories of the week long inter-school tournament boys & girls under/ 13 and under 16 segments sponsored and organized by SUNFEAST ,India and supported by District Youth Service and Sports Dept. The players displayed unimaginable feat of sportsmanship and swept the audiences off their feet and also nearly all the medallions, trophies and cheque prizes for the categories below;
    1. Under / 13 Boys ,Winner
    2. Under/ 16 girls, Winner
    3. Best Goalkeeper- Stanzin Namdol
    4. Top Scorer –Dorjey Tsering
    5. Best Goal keeper, girls – Thinlay Angmo
    6. Best Goal keeper, under/ 16- Stanzin Sonam
    The school offers heartiest congratulations ! to each player of the teams and wishes them constant success in this field. Well done & Bravo !!

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  • Nature conservation camp

    Nature conservation camp

    In the Lap of mother Nature “ NCF Camp “- 2019’

    As an ANNUAL event , NCF ( Nature Conservation Foundation ) is one of the most awaited outdoor learning experiences on the school calendar. The two days into the nature prog is a compact experiential learning for the young students and helps them to learn and know more closely of the unique native flora and fauna of Ladakh. This year around 49 students and two Subject teachers attended this prog in the Hamlet called Khatpu, Rong and the students were overwhelmed with this enriching experience.
    We thank and applaud NCF and their team members for outsourcing this very beneficial and much wanted prog to all the schools. Kudos !! to the NCF team.

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  • White Lotus Expo 2019

    White Lotus Expo 2019

    The White Lotus Expo brought in showers of fun, frolic, colour, laughter and ultimate festivity. Delightful were the different eateries, games station, haunted places , ice cream counters, snack stop and so of course not to forget our most popular “GALA SHOW”. This year our trailblazer stall was the new entry called “CHANSA” meaning Ladakhi Kitchen. The day and the event lived up to its motto and essence truly as huge swarm of people came to be a part of WHITE LOTUS EXPO: “Connecting School to the community”. It was an enamouring and captivating day!

     

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  • School exchange programme

    School exchange programme

    DPKS – Played HOST to the visiting 25 students and teachers headed by the Deputy Education Director NDMC school, New Delhi under a school exchange Prog. This is a break through Exchange Prog for the students and teachers of this Institution of the capital powered by the Prime Minister’s “Ek Bharat : Shraysth Bharat” initiative . The prog of three hours was highly substantial and ultra interactive for the host students as well as the guest students. The Dragonites proudly and gracefully presented the Ladakhi culture and forwarded the school in the most presentable manner !

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  • Continuing Work on the Dragon Garden

    Continuing Work on the Dragon Garden

    On 10th May 2019 Jennifer Chandler returned to the school, again as a volunteer, to continue her work. She was delighted to find some of the cuttings in the nursery had survived the harsh winter and seeds had been collected and stored ready for sowing this year.

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    While watching Jennifer at work some of the children became very interested and wanted to help. With her encouragement they planted cuttings and seeds in some of the many planters on the school campus.

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    During her stay, Jennifer,  continued her search in the surrounding area for idigenous  plants from which she could take cuttings. Flowers like the Himalayan Geranium, the pretty little Dasiphora Dryadanthoides, a member of the rose family, and of course the Ladakhi Rose, Rosa Webbiana.

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     The goals over the next year are to maintain existing plantings and water system, create more plant materials for planting out next spring and continue to maintain the plant nursery. To help achieve these goals Jennifer left a detailed work project calendar for Tsetan and the new nursery manager, Angmo, to follow over the summer, autumn and winter.

    Jennifer has expressed a wish to return to the school in 2020 to continue her work on a voluntary basis. She has been an inspiration to the staff and students and has helped to establish a green campus for the long-term in a high altitude desert landscape.

  • Seismic Upgrade and Mudslide Repair – year 2

    Seismic Upgrade and Mudslide Repair – year 2

    In 2018 the Seismic Upgrade & Mudslide Repair programme continued, working on the second of the eight residential buildings to be refurbished and one of the Junior School buildings.

    This work might not sound very exciting to you, as you browse through the school website, but it will increase the resilience of the buildings in the event of an earthquake which is critical for the life-safety of the students and staff. The mudslide disaster was eight years ago, but the school is still recovering from this. Funding is needed for this long-term refurbishment programme.

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    Supplies of timber and insulation in the construction compound.

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    Work also started on the two-year task of the upgrade of the large two-storey 6-classroom Junior School building. The six classes of students were housed in temporary classroom spaces in Naropa Hall, at the top of the school site, that had been partitioned into classroom-sized spaces.

    The panorama photo below shows the ground floor of the Junior School, gutted and with new timber supports being added first.

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     At the end of the construction season in October, the new upper level was covered to protect it from the elements throughout the harsh 3-month winter. 

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