Prasiddha Model School was established by Mrs. Sauriya Khanal and Mr. Vikash Khanal with the objective of providing world-class education at an affordable price to all. Prasiddha Model School aspires to promote social justice through equal opportunity in excellent educational opportunity for all, regardless of students’ and their families’ socioeconomic and academic abilities.
Prasiddha Model School believes in the growth of children through nurturing their mind, body, and soul by immersing them in cultural, traditional, and spiritual practices whilst providing a world-class education that enables them to become global citizens, aspiring them to act locally and think globally.
Executive Summary
Objectives
· To provide an excellent world-class education at an affordable price to all.
· Have an inclusive model so that children from all social and economic backgrounds can study together.
· Be a school that has social, cultural, value, and spiritual education at the heart of its curriculum.
· Fees to be based on parental income.
· Sponsorship or fees subsidy to be offered to children from a lower-income background.
· To associate with a charity organization so the funding for sponsorship and fees subsidy is regular.
· Social justice through education.
Mission Statement
At Prasiddha Model School, we strive to provide an outstanding education to children from various social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. We ensure the holistic development of our children in a safe, loving, and inspiring environment. Children are immersed in the richness of our traditional, religious, cultural, and spiritual practices whilst receiving the best world-class education needed to become a global citizen of this century.
In or school, value education is at the core of our skills-based curriculum: we equip our children with the most essential human qualities such as, respect, relationship, responsibility, resilience, determination, humility, gratitude, love, compassion, dedication, loyalty, patriotism, generosity, faith, friendship just to name a few so that they are educated to become happy individuals. We provide all-rounded academic as well as non-academic experiences and nurture and cherish every individual's uniqueness.
Our pupils are great communicators who can put forward their views confidently and listen to the view of others’ in a respectful way. They are equipped with personal and interpersonal skills so when needed that they can disagree in an assertive way. They have due respect for the rights of others.
The whole school community embraces a 'LifeLong Learning' philosophy. 'Reading for Pleasure' and 'Learning to Learn'; this underpins the majority of our teaching and learning policy. We are proud to learn: Sanskrit, an additional regional language e.g. Newari, yoga, pranayama, and meditation as an integral part of our curriculum. We are growing to become good citizens of Nepal and the world.
Keys to Success
· Value education is at the core of our skills-based curriculum. We equip our children with essential human qualities such as respect, relationship, responsibility accountability, resilience, determination, humility, gratitude, love, compassion, dedication, loyalty, patriotism, generosity, faith, friendship to name a few. The goal of Prasiddha Model School is to raise well educated, well cultured, happy, and humble individuals who are well rounded, versatile, and good human beings, who are nurtured and cherished for their own uniqueness and abilities.
· Prasiddha recruits highly qualified and passionate graduates in every classroom to be able to provide a quality educational experience to the children Prasiddha is equally committed to fostering and grooming teachers to advance their career goals through the Teachers Training Alliance known as “Spursh Nepal’, providing teachers with their Individual Development Plan. The program aims to enhance quality education received in primary and secondary schools in Nepal by enabling passionate and dedicated teachers the art and science of excellent teaching skills. This initiative is also geared towards raising the profile of the teaching profession in order to engage and retain dynamic and passionate teachers in their respective fields.
· Our school community is extremely confident yet humble and is rooted in the core values of the community they belong to.
· The whole school community embraces a ‘Life Long Learning’ and “We are all Students” philosophy. Collaboration among the teachers and the management provides for an exemplary education and teaching experience. ‘Reading for pleasure’ and ‘Learning to Learn’ defines our teaching and learning policy. We are proud to learn Sanskrit and an additional regional language, Yoga, pranayama, and medication are an integral part of our curriculum.
· We own our own land and eco-friendly and safe buildings which provide us with a sense of security and sense of belonging in a naturally blissful environment.
· We work closely with our National and International partners, well-wishers, donors, sponsors, local community, and various members of the teaching and learning fraternity to continue to spread our inclusive model of outstanding education in all 77 districts of Nepal.
· We have become the innovative institution for trailing the best global practices in early years education and embracing the best pedagogies. E.g. Phonological way of Reading and writing of English and Singapore Maths just to name a few.
· We are the leaders in the Initial Teacher Training Programme and Continuous Professional Development Training providers for teachers and School Leaders.
· We will have our own publication house which publishes children’s Literature both in Nepali, English, and regional languages. It also publishes a Scheme of Work for Nepali, English, and Maths.
· We create our own cross-curricular model for teaching and learning of the non-statutory subjects.
· We have good relationships with various occupational and industrial sectors in order to facilitate ‘Work Experience’ opportunities for our children at various stages of their schooling years.
· We have a good piece of farming land where our children learn to grow their own.
Customers
· Pupil
· Parents
· Local Community
· Teachers
· Volunteers
· Sponsors
· Donors
· Investors
Future of the Company
- Publication of Curriculum
- Book Publication
- Teacher Training Alliance
- Interactive Online Services- subscription
- Community Services
- Agriculture, horticulture, and animal farming for vocational learning and additional income
- Continued Recruitment of sponsors/ investors and Donors
- Standardize to International Curriculum/ testing
Company Description
Company Background
Prasiddha Model School is a Secondary School, situated in Balaju Height, Bohoratar. It is tucked away from the pollution and hustle of main traffic. Located in the lap of beautiful Nagarjun Forest, Prasiddha provides an excellent premise for the learner’s mind. The area is densely populated and has great potential for enrollment. Prasiddha Model School is investing in immediate expansion and renovation plan to its physical structure. Furthermore, with a robust curriculum, passionate teachers, and a dedicated management team along with a PR department and marketing campaigns, Prasiddha hopes to attract families from the outskirts to the school. A lot of people from Gorkha, Dhading, Nuwakot, and many other districts reside here in rental accommodation for their children’s schooling and there are a lot of local residents residing here since their last generation. Currently, the school has 285 students from PG to Grade 10.
The Principal, Sauriya Khanal is a UK graduate with 14 years of experience in teaching and holding various management roles in government primary schools in London. The current Managing Director Mr. Vikash Khanal is a Software Engineer, with many all-rounded experience in International companies such as IBM. He has experience of teaching IT graduates in a London College.
Prasiddha Model School is currently under single ownership, will soon be in partnership, and aspires to be a public company in the future.
Vision Statement: Every Child is a Bright Child
To be an exemplary model of inclusive education practice in Nepal, and contribute to the actualization of the national vision of ‘social justice and a welfare society’ by providing equal opportunity in the outstanding educational experience for all children in Nepal.
Value Statement:
· Innovative
· Altruistic
· Caring
· Courageous
· Operationally Focused