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SHRI B.S MOOTHA GIRLS SR SEC SCHOOL
ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21

"Necessity is the mother of invention”

The start of this academic year was nothing like previous years. In fact, it was
nothing like I have ever seen before. The pandemic has wrecked havoc in our lives.

As quoted above, necessity is the primary driving force for doing new things.
Necessity caused many bold decisions to be taken. The decision to start online classes,
very early, was one of them. It needed a little foresight from us and required a lot of
support from the management members, which I received in abundance. For that, I am
indeed grateful.

We started our first online trial class on 27th March, two days after the lockdown
started. By 1st April, we had started classes, full swing, on the Zoom Platform for
standards 5th to 12th. We also had warm up sessions with aerobics and Yoga at the start
of the day. Prior to this situation, our teachers had used mobiles for answering calls and
WhatsApp. Suddenly, they had to use it as a classroom. The teachers rose to the
occasion. They did & are doing a wonderful job.

WhatsApp groups were created for all the classes, where the timetable, different
instructions and links to the various classes were posted. In the 3rd week of April, we
shifted to Cisco WebEx. 4th std classes were started in May.

In June, by the time the classes 1 to 3 got on board, we had shifted to Microsoft
Teams.

And now, we have settled with G Suite for education.

The timetable has been framed keeping in mind the comfort level of the students
and staff, the main consideration being - exposure to screen time. Later, the MHRD rules
were sent to schools. We strictly followed the timings suggested by them.