Jigme Losel Primary
School was first started in a private building in Chubachu from 1987 to 1989
with Mr. Penjor as the Principal. There were fifteen teachers and one hundred
fifty students. The school had classes PP and I with a total of four sections.
The school was then
shifted to the present location from March 1990 with Mr. Tshewang Dukpa as the Principal. Today, the school is 26 years old and Mrs Choki Dukpa is the Principal with thirty eight teachers and eight hundred and three students. The school has classes from PP - VI, with 21 sections. Most of the students are from Chubachu community and is a day school.
Location
The school has an area
of 88 decimals and is located below Hotel Taj Tashi, next to the BPCL Head Office and between two urban roads. Within the small compound, the school actively imparts
skills on organic farming and floriculture.
Programmes
Programmes
like Mid-Day Feeding (2009), Early Child Care (2011), Clean Toilets (2011), Disaster
Management (2008), Waste Management(2009), WASH (Water Sanitation Hygiene
Programme-2009), and GNH SEED school (2009) are initiated by the school.
Extra Co-Curricular Activities
“Learning to Live
Together” is the school motto and aims to provide activities that promote
holistic learning such as Sharing Time (Life Skills Education & Citizenship
program), Buddy Interaction, Street Play, Assembly Performance, House Parent, Performing
and Visual Arts, Aerobics, Green Day, Choechey Layrim (Mind training, Prayer
Time) and Showcasing of the activities of the year.
The school caters
community services such as cleaning campaign, adoption of stream and a section of Wangchhu river,
cleaning the two urban roads which are above and below the school and tree
plantation (Social Forestry Day) and also My Tree Project.
Our special bonding
with the community led to Parent Partnership program. The parents volunteer
in carrying out the Feeding program of the school, assist teachers in the
class management & organization, conduct of cultural activities, cleaning campaigns and fund raising program. The Chubachu community also
volunteers to contribute for the feeding program in kind.
Awards
The school won many
awards at the Thromde, Dzongkhag, National and International levels. The school
contested with seventy eight contestants from twenty five countries and won the
2011 Wenhui Awards for Educational Innovation. Representatives of the school attended the Award Ceremony in China.
Vision
The foundation of the
Edu-care (Planting the Seeds for Learning) at Jigme Losel Primary School is
based on its vision.
Vision: Be
a Centre of Excellence in Primary Education.
Mission:
- To provide quality education by
balancing academic learning and extra curricular activities (ECCA)
- To offer equal opportunity to all
children regardless of age and gender
- To provide timely help and guidance to
less achieved students in selected subject on a daily basis.
- To provide extended learning activities to
students with special attention needs.
Strategies:
- Formation of committees for better
management.
- Emphasis on the conduct of co-curricular
and extra co-curricular activities.
- Promote academic learning through
various activities.
- Support academically weak students
through remedial/coaching and extra classes.
- Through students support services
identification and support of less fortunate students .
- Support quality teaching-learning by
monitoring constantly.
- Base teaching on 3Rs- Relevancy, Rigour and Relationship
- Provide quality education to students
and be responsive to the expectation of the country.
- Impart values related to education, self
and others, civic responsibilities through Curricular and Extra-curricular practices.
- Apply GHN values and be the change
- Provide quality education to students
and be responsive to the expectation of the country.
- Impart values related to education, self
and others, civic responsibilities through Curricular Practices.
Goals:
To produce Green
Students
To prepare a Green
School for Green Bhutan
JLPS stands for Learn, Value & Practice:
Allows Self-Discovery and Holistic Learning.
Value Knowledge that
is
For
Life
Of
Learning
Of
Thinking
Of Self
Of Community and
Of Environment
Practice
our
Mind (Self-Awareness)
Heart (Loving and
Caring)
Skills (Use Life
Skills Education
