Free School "Helambu English School"

Jean Cloude Barthes

 

 The School "Helambu.English.School.", J.C. Barthes
(In remembrance of a lost friend)

 
 

 
Built of stones, the school is composed of 7 classrooms, 240 boys and girls from all casts and ethnic groups.

 

 

 
 The "big girls"

  We send children to school when they are 6 years old. An age when they are strong enough to walk to school and come back home, 2 or 3 hours to walk every day from their village to school.

 

 
 Classes are co-educational.  
     

 
Every year, registration of new pupils is a time of endless discussion for the children are not declared when they are born and the written age is not always the real age.  
     

 
Ever since they enter school, they learn English (Puran, on the left) headmaster of the school.  

  And Sarita (Nepali teacher).

 

     7 class have been built

 Correcting of exercises by Basant, the oldest teacher.

 
 
 

 
 -Three of the teachers

 
Free time, little girls learn local dance with the mistresses

 

The Uniforms,

 
Wearing uniforms is part of the school tradition in Nepal. (Heritage from the English?) Each school must have a uniform! Sewing machine near the school to make uniforms for the new ones.

 

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