Supporting Parents During Uncertainty
Zebar School is a leading school in Ahmedabad with students coming from all walks of life. Backed by Udgam consultancy the school has grown by leaps and bounds in a short time of four years.
It is coincidentally one of the most sought after schools for admissions too as many parents who come to Ahmedabad after a transfer or feel to change their child’s school inquire about Zebar. While some schools in the city offer a gamut of facilities, Zebar stands out for the flexibility and support it gives to its parent community.
Flexibility in terms of academics, students are given assistance be it in the form of worksheets, notes, practice question papers and videos. They receive guidance from teachers and extra classes in the form of doubt, solving sessions and remedial classes.
Due to this crisis in 2020, the school has given free access to Extramarks to each student. Apart from Extramarks, students received free access to Byju’s for two months, complimentary MS Office and digital library.
All these additional facilities give parents complete peace of mind as they don’t have to spend on other overheads like reference books, tuitions and online subscriptions during these testing times.
Parents are provided mental, emotional and financial assistance by the school management. The school counselling department provides mental and emotional support as parents of Zebar are entitled to free counselling and guidance services by the school. They can speak to the school counsellor or grievance redressal officer for any difficulty parents are facing while raising their child at home.
The school conducts free webinars of many varying topics like parenting, health, nutrition and career guidance for students and parents.
The management has come up with several new ideas to help parents and their families. The school is currently offering a monthly fee facility to all parents. Apart from this to further support the parents, the school accepted the Government Resolution and decreased the annual tuition fees by 25%.
Zebar School has also launched one of its kind campaign where parents can feel relieved and can continue their child’s education. The campaign ‘Support a Parent’ invites parents from financially sound backgrounds to sponsor the education of those students whose parents are facing liquidity issues.
This noble initiative by the school also caught the media’s attention. Let’s have a look at the online reports published by various media houses in the city.
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Top seven reasons why Zebar School gave access to Extramarks free to students.
Online teaching is the need of the hour. Currently, schools across the world are using this method to reach out to their students. Globally there are more than 1.2 billion children out of their classrooms. Zebar School is one of the first schools in Ahmedabad to shift to the online mode of teaching.
Online learning always consists of two types of learning synchronous and asynchronous learning. To give our students the best in this situation, the school has tied up with Extramarks to fill in the gaps of online learning.
Online classes are conducted daily, but sometimes students do not attend their classes primarily due to network issues at their place. Hence sometimes students miss their lectures. In such a scenario, Extramarks comes handy to the students to cope up with their missed sessions.
Zebar School has an exclusive tie-up with Extramarks and access to Extramarks learning solutions is free on the portal as well as the app. Students and parents have to download it on their mobiles, and they can view the content on their mobiles.
The standard charges of Extramarks subscription for an entire year are more than Rs 15,000/-. This year the school has given the access free to each child. The school has paid the charges of Extramarks for the academic year 2020-21.
The school recommends that students should ideally view Extramarks on their desktops or laptops. The other main benefit of using this learning app is that it provides visual content, practice material and using data analysis techniques it accesses the performance of each child. The app also has mapped the learning journey of the child, and a parent can easily find it out by watching the learning curve.
All the learning modules in Extramarks are engaging and animated representations of textbook concepts. It helps in clearing the concepts, and thus the child remembers the content for a long time.
Toppers speak by Divyansh Bajaj & Aarya Dixit
Divyansh Bajaj is the topper of 2019-20 batch of class 10. According to him, the school offers a competitive environment which has always helped and inspired him. The incorporation of modern technology and modern teaching methods have proven to be of great help. It leads to a better analysing and understanding of concepts. I am glad to have skilled and thought-provoking teachers who have helped me throughout my journey. They helped me to overcome obstacles that came in my way. I am grateful to them for that.
Aarya Dixit has thanked all the teachers of Zebar School who have helped her achieve good score in board exams of March 2020. The school has a huge role to play in her success as they conducted many tests of different levels. Those tests motivated her to read and study more.
Teachers helped a lot in clarifying my doubts, and they also gave me their nos. I want to thank all the teachers. All of them were very supportive.
A big thank you to Mahafreen ma’am and Savita ma’am they shared their reference books. Regarding the facilities in the school, all the facilities were available. They had even counselling sessions with the Principal, and she kept motivating us to perform better in board exams.
Toppers Speak by Akshi Patel & Heer Patel
Akshi Patel scored 96% in her CBSE exams in the year 2019-20 exams. Expressing her gratitude towards her teachers, she shared how they trained her for public speaking as she was a shy and introvert child. Earlier she used to face difficulties in public speaking, but with the help of teachers of one of the best CBSE schools, she overcame her fear of public speaking.
Apart from this, teachers of Zebar School encouraged her to have a positive attitude, motivated to attend classes regularly, for homework and taught her time management skills.
Heer Patel scored 95.6% in her class 10th exams. She moved from a small town to Ahmedabad for quality education.
She was impressed with the facilities of Zebar school like creativity rooms, libraries, labs, Sports activities and training by teachers for personality development.
Teachers of Zebar are highly skilled and guided Heer in her studies. They recommended many books, provided notes and advised to solve previous years question papers.
Heer was particularly weak in Maths, teachers gave her extra time and cleared all doubts due to which she could score well in Maths.
Mother of Pranshi Gandhi (4-C)
Parents of Zebar School expressed their gratitude towards all the teachers of our school on teachers day. Appreciation and kind words motivate people to do much more than they are expected. These words of gratitude shall motivate our team to deliver quality education during these challenging times. A heartfelt thank you to all the parents who shared their testimonials with the school.
Father of Animitra Das (4-A)
These are testing times for all of us, and our teachers are no exception. However, they have once again proven their mettle from juggling between online classes, guiding parents on emails and handling their families too.
They have ensured that education doesn’t halt and the ‘academic year’ is as ‘normal’ as it can be. The challenges they faced are multifarious: engaging students, bringing out of the box ideas to make their classes enjoyable and completing the syllabus on time. Let’s hear what our parent community has to say about Zebar Teachers on Teachers Day 2020.
A total of 5100 respondents out of 7500 parents
99% of the parents have access to devices and internet
A total of 5100 respondents out of 7500 parents
92% of the parents are satisfied with online classes
