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A multi-faith school for children from poor families in Bodhgaya, India








January 2024: Republic Day




January 2024: Visit by Vietnamese Aid Group




August 2023: Independence Day




November 2022: Sister Shobha farewell





November 2022: Farewell to Sister Shobha, principal for 13+ years. Sister Uditha on the left, taking over as principal




November 2022: Children's Day

 

October 2022: Diwali




July 2022: computers repaired, upgraded and once again in use.





April 2022: Assembly with exercises, new academic year (2022-23)



 
Children's Day celebration and prize giving ceremony, 20 November 2021





October 2021: Medical sessions at the school.




September 2021: Meeting with parents at the school.




August 2021: The school reopens for classes 1 - 10 with students wearing masks.




April 2021: The school has temporarily closed again due to the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic.



October 2020: After being closed for 8 months, school starts a limited re-opening, just for classes 9 and 10. Other classes will continue with whatsapp  groups.

The government has given strict protocols to follow, including only 20 students from each class on rotating basis, with sanitising, social distancing and masks.




October 2020: School during lockdown with green grass, due in large part to no students




Vale Bodhipala Bikkhu

July 2020: Dr Bodhipala Bikkhu, long time supporter of the Prajna Vihar School and for years member of the Prajna Vihar Inter-religious Education Society, died from COVID-19 on the 27th July 2020 in Kolkata.





























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Vale Ranji Bhandari (1929-2020)

Ranji Bhandari, president of the Prajna Vihar Inter-religious Education Society, died on the 19th July. Ranji and his wife Prema were long-term supporters of the PV School and helped in many areas including setting up the Society and the government approval for the Society to receive funds from overseas.







March 2020: The Indian Government imposed a lockdown on the 24th March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time students at the PV School had finished their exams. The school is currently closed and since it is rare for any student to have a computer at home, there is no standard online teaching, although there is some use of whatsapp.






August 2019: Independence Day Celebration




July 2019: Past students who raised funds for writing books




July 2019: Past PV students heard that there had been difficulties in getting funds for writing books for student, so they raised funds themselves and presented the books to the school




April 2019: Yoga class with Joseph Guru





April 2019: Meditation class





October 2018: Students in the collage competition




October 2018: Sr Shobha and students during visit of Australian tour group from Bellingen




September 2018: girl's cricket at the school





April 2018: Sr Rashmi handing over as school principal to Sr Shobha






March 2018: Farewell to final year students






March 2018: Farewell for Sr Preeti




January 2018: School dance group on Republic Day with Jackie Vishwakarma and Rahul Kumar



 Earlier school events: 2015 - 2017