{"id":2968,"date":"2019-12-18T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2019-12-26T23:57:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T18:27:06","slug":"igniting-sparks-primary-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/igniting-sparks-primary-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Igniting the sparks in the primary school students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a festive mood for children on November 28th, 2019 at Deshpande Foundation\u2019s premises. EarlySpark initiative students were seen confident to step towards the stage for some amazing performances and they had a sense of achievement within to receive their graduation certificates.<\/p>\n<p>EarlySpark is devoted to creating optimal learning environments for young children. The experts&#8217; team of the initiative knows that quality early childhood education has lingering lifelong impacts on academic skills and social-emotional development. EarlySpark creates classroom experiences that promote confidence, independence and growth in the community. It aims to spark problem-solving abilities in children that can last for a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>EarlySpark initiative organized the &#8220;Graduation Ceremony and Felicitation Program&#8221; on November 28th, 2019 at the Deshpande Foundation\u2019s premises. From eight government schools, 412 EarlySpark students received graduation certificates and 14 teachers were felicitated for their support and participation in the teachers training program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2969\" style=\"width: 4898px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-2-_group-pic.jpg\" alt=\"EarlySpark graduation &amp; Felicitation day 2019\" width=\"4898\" height=\"3265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-2-_group-pic.jpg 4898w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-2-_group-pic-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-2-_group-pic-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-2-_group-pic-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-2-_group-pic-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-2-_group-pic-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4898px) 100vw, 4898px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Government Primary School children, teachers, Guests of the occasion and dignitaries of the foundation seen on the graduation and felicitation day ceremony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The chief guest of the event Major (Retd) Siddalingayya S Hiremath, Additional Commissioner, Public Instruction Department, Dharwad District while addressing the gathering said, \u201cImparting good education to the children is the responsibility of the entire community- the parents, people of the area, teachers. When all come together to develop a better environment for the children then children get interest to attend schools and learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis initiative has already brought positive changes among students. And from our department we are ready to support and collaborate with EarlySpark\u201d added Mr. Hiremath.<\/p>\n<p>Smita Deshpande, Founder, EarlySpark Initiative thanking the Public Instruction Department, teachers and parents for their support on the occasion stated that \u201cThis initiative has covered 20 schools so far, and the plan is to expand it to 100 Schools next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Government Schools staff where the EarlySpark interventions were held and ongoing and the parents of the children expressed their feedback during the event.<\/p>\n<p>This initiative was a ray of hope for our children and they started questioning teachers and us at home. After reaching home my son tells me the entire day\u2019s activities and leanings he had at school. His approach towards learning new things has increased, thanks EarlySpark team for bringing this change in our children\u201d said, Savitri Goudar, a parent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2970\" style=\"width: 4898px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-_1.jpg\" alt=\"Skit by EarlySpark students\" width=\"4898\" height=\"3265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-_1.jpg 4898w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-_1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-_1-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EarlySpark-pic-_1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4898px) 100vw, 4898px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EarlySpark children seen performing a skit on the stage during the graduation and felicitation day ceremony at Deshpande Foundation&#8217;s auditorium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Umesh Y Bommakkanavar, Public Relations Officer, Public Instruction Department, Dharwad District; Mr. Kishan Karikatti, Block Education Officer; Mr. Srinivas Deshpande, Retd. Labour Commissioner;&nbsp; Dr. Gururaj Desh Deshpande, Founder Deshpande Foundation; Dr. Jaishree Deshpande, Co-Founder, Deshpande Foundation; Mr. Vivek Pawar, CEO, Deshpande Foundation and other dignitaries were present.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-r-border s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/igniting-sparks-primary-school-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Igniting the sparks in the primary school students&url=https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/igniting-sparks-primary-school-students\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/igniting-sparks-primary-school-students\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/igniting-sparks-primary-school-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Igniting%20the%20sparks%20in%20the%20primary%20school%20students&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/igniting-sparks-primary-school-students\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a festive mood for children on November 28th, 2019 at Deshpande Foundation\u2019s premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[232,231,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deshpandefoundationindia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}