Lotus Leaves 2022

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Druk Padma Karpo School is affiliated with The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), a national level board of education in India for public and private schools, controlled and managed by the Government of India.

A .    GENERAL INFORMATION:

B.    DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION:

C.  RESULT AND ACADEMICS

RESULT CLASS: X

 D.  STAFF (TEACHING)

E.   SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE:

Videos of the development of the school's Dragon Garden prepared and collated by lead Landscape Architect Mr Tom Turner.

Click here to see the playlist on YouTube.

A virtual 20th birthday event celebrates the success of the school and looks to the future.

Includes performances by students and talks by honoured guests.

Click here to watch the event 

India Ahead TV picked-up the story of the school's 20th anniversary and held the following interview on 21 October 2021 with Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha, Chair of the School Management Committee, and Annie Smith, Trustee & Deputy Chair Drukpa Trust (UK):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LReZcHXxSRQ

The school celebrated its 20th anniversary on Friday 24th September 2021.

A virtual celebration took place on Sunday 26th September 2021 to mark this occasion at 09:00EST, 14:00 BST, 18:30 IST, 21:00 HKT.

To see the recording of this special event please use the link below, - the event lasts for 1 hour 23 minutes:

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/_N9sX7eHSjilttxQ93TO9Sg416vyT1g8VCkARZ7xN3jFNNxL6Q7QbppKvB4tgqh94z1xXP7v1FlVk9S8.IJZltHck3lSfCm9c?startTime=1632655173000

The event proved to be very enjoyable and many pledges of financial support were made on the day.

Last year the majority of the construction of the third and fourth new Eco-Shower buildings was completed, with some work to be completed in 2021.

This year, year 5 of the Seismic Upgrade & Mudslide Repair programme, work started at the end of April 2021, with a small team and strict adherence to the prevention of transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

Without an Arup resident engineer being on site, daily suppport from the engineers through calls and the sharing of photographs has enabled the seismic upgrade of the fourth residence, named Singeyla, to start.

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World Book Day - de-clutter your books to support us.

“Stories can change a life” Michael Morpurgo.
Celebrate the joy and power of books for World Book Day with #DeclutterAndDonate, at no cost to you.

UK supporters - turn your pre-loved:
• books
• CDs
• games (not PC games)
• DVDs
into cash donations for the Druk Padma Karpo School through the UK’s @WorldBookDayUK challenge.

Not in the UK - what is happening in your country? Perhaps there is something similar you can do to support the Druk Padma Karpo School, Ladakh?

Thanks to the @Ziffit and @VMGiving partnership, it’s easy, fast and free to clear your clutter in the UK and raise funds through Drukpa Trust.

Use the Ziffit app on your phone:
1. download the app
2. scan the barcode on your items
3. select Drukpa Trust at the checkout.

Or use the Ziffit-Drukpa Trust website link:
https://ziffit.com/en-gb/basket?charityResourceId=83192e6e-c1e6-4789-beb6-7cd38003b944

Please share this email with friends, family and colleagues and challenge them to #DeclutterAndDonate

To find out more about this UK initiative please go to:
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/worldofbooks/fundraisers/

Start a spring clear-out to support the Druk Padma Karpo School in Ladakh.

Happy decluttering for World Book Day.

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.

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.

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.

 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.

This year the apple and apricot trees bore an abundance of fruit which stayed on the trees to ripen. How much was due to the fact that there were no children about to help themselves we shall never know. The Dragon Garden did not fare so well in other respects. Some watering was done and seeds were collected for next year's planting but because of restrictions due to Covid-19 other aspects of the garden suffered. Jennifer Chandler, volunteer landscape architect from USA, was ready to spend some time at the school in June to follow up on her planting strategy but due to travel restrictions she had to cancel her plans. 

Future plans of creating a circle of poplar trees around the classroom mandala had to be put on hold. Angdus will set out the poplar circle and prepare it for autumn planting when Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.