Government Higher Secondary School, Chembuchira, Thrissur, will host the State-level Pravesanotsavam on Thursday. The Pravesanotsavam this year will be historic as classes will begin the same day for all grades – from pre-school to Class 12 – in the State.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the Pravesanotsavam at a function at 9 a.m. Minister for Education C. Ravindranath will preside. The Chembuchira school has seen 60-odd students take admission to Class 1 this year. A whole lot of gifts have been lined up to welcome students who have taken admission to Classes 1 and 11.
The Minister will also be present to welcome the students. Later, he will escort the new students to their classrooms and put them at ease in a lively interaction. Then, the Minister, students, parents, and teachers will move to the main venue for the Pravesanotsavam function to be attended by the Chief Minister.
Students will present a visual interpretation of the Pravesanotsavam song. Other Ministers, MLAs, and General Education Secretary A. Shajahan will be present.
Ahead of the Pravesanotsavam, Mr. Ravindranath, in a message, said the focus this year was on ensuring maximum learning days and with this in mind, all classes from pre-school to 12 will begin on Thursday. School, till date, had never begun for Class 11 with others, but that was to change from this year. Teachers’ training had been completed and textbooks had reached schools. The stress was on taking bigger strides down the road to excellence which the State had embarked upon last year.
Academic master plan and actions planned on its basis, improvement of infrastructure, high-tech classrooms, language enhancement programmes, science lab, mathematics lab, reading programmes, talent lab for identifying talents, and biodiversity parks were some of the significant initiatives taken up in schools, he said.
UDF boycott
United Democratic Front MLAs and MPs will keep away from the school Pravesanotsavam on Thursday in protest against the government’s decision to implement “unilaterally” the Khader committee report on revamping school education despite the protests against it, Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala has said.
Meanwhile, non-Left teachers’ organisations are moving the High Court against the decision to implement the report. Aided Higher Secondary Teachers’ Association general secretary S. Manoj said their case would be heard on June 12.