SOS Children’s Village Multan

In the Month of November: 2019

Total Strength of Children: 192

Total Strength of Sponsors: 192

The Beaconhouse School System was visited by the SOS Youth

Boys for the singing finale:

The youth boys of the SOS Children’s Village Multan visited the Beaconhouse School System for

the finale of the singing competition. One of the children from the village also took part in the

finale.

Jinnah Highs School System visited SOS Children’s Village

Multan on Iqbal day:

The children of the Jinnah Highs School System visited the SOS Children’s Village Multan. They

were given a tour of all of the projects and the children gave a combined cash donation to the

village as well.

The younger children of the SOS Children’s Village Multan

visited the Learner’s Castle School Multan:

The younger children of the SOS Children’s Village Multan visited the Learner’s Castle School

Multan. They spent an entire school day there and interacted with the children of that school.

The mothers of the SOS Children’s Village Multan visited the

Cantonment Garden Multan:

A trip was established by Mrs. Saima Faisal for the mothers of the SOS Children’s Village Multan.

This trip was held so that the mothers may feel refreshed and perform their duties better. They

were provided food there as well.

The Burger Station visited the SOS Children’s Village Multan:

The Burger Station visited the SOS Children’s Village Multan and distributed almost 200 burgers

among the children and staff here at the village.

The children of SOS Children’s Village Multan visited Afsaneh &

The Gelato Treat:

The elder children of SOS Children’s Village Multan were taken to Afsaneh for the purchasing of

clothes and the younger children were taken to The Gelato Treat and were given ice cream. The

entire event was held by Mr. Mian Hussain.

Village Committee Visits:

During this month, Mrs. Mahnaz Fareed Sheikh and Mrs. Haniya Shahid visited SOS Children’s

Village Multan and contacted every Committee Member that was behind their due payment and

they also contacted all of the sponsors that had due payments as well with the help of Mr.

Kamran Yousaf. Ms. Kainaat Idrees updated all of the intra records of the children in the SOS

Youth Home Multan. Mr. Ghufran Yousaf wrote the brief histories and observations of the

children of the SOS Youth Home and then sent them to Mrs. Mahnaz Fareed Sheikh for proof

reading; she then created the admission notes as well and uploaded the entire data on the intra

software. During this month, Mrs. Haniya Shahid and Mrs. Mahnaz Fareed Sheikh also checked

the entire budget and made sure that everything was in proper order. Mrs. Ayesha Najeeb, Mrs.

Haniya Shahid and Mrs. Saima Faisal took a visit of their assigned houses at the village and made

sure that everything was functioning properly, they also tried their best to solve any issues that

the house might be facing. During this month, the purchasing of new quilts and their covers as

well as the winter clothes for the girls here at the SOS Children’s Village Multan was made. A trip

was arranged for the mothers of the village at the Cantonment Garden, it was held by Mrs. Saima

Faisal; it was done in order to refresh the minds of the mothers so that they may perform their

tasks better. A meeting with the mothers of the village was held by Mrs. Rameen Anis in which

she discussed the methods of teaching that were being used in the village and on how they can

improve those methods.

Regular Hygiene Checkup of SOS Children:

A regular checkup of children hygiene and health on daily basis in the dispensary of SOS

Children’s Village Multan by the village director, Ms. Salma and the appointed dispenser is

monitoring all the children.

CSR

Activities: Monthly CSR Activities and Donation Details:

Donation in Kind From Corporate Sectors

S. No Items Company Account Off

1 Eggs Conipex Farms Donation

2 Tea & Flour Paracha Daal Factory Donation

3 Meat Hassam Paper Industry Sadqa

4 Rice J.S Enterprises Donation

5 Sugar Fazal Group of Companies Donation

6 Oil Shama Oil Donation

7 Meat Kenzo AG Sadqa

Current Strength of Students 1254 Teaching Staff 55

SOS boys 69 Admin Staff 20

SOS girls 43

Youth Home boys 31

External boys 689

External girls 422

Oxford University Press Training Session

Topic: Oxford Social Studies for Pakistan

Conducted on: 23rd November, 2019

Timing: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

No. of trainer: 01

No. of teachers participated from SOS: 02

Aim of the activity: To enable the teachers of Social Studies to understand & practice

activity based strategies for Social Studies.

Purpose of activity:

On 23rd November, 2019 a workshop for Social Studies teachers was

conducted. It was conducted by Ismat Riaz resource person from Oxford University Press

Multan.

Ms. Ismat Riaz started the workshop with introduction.

Then she introduced “Revised” fourth edition for New Oxford Social Studies for Pakistan.

Then she conducted an activity.

National Anthem was played and after that questions related to National Anthem were asked

like: who has written it? Who has designed its lyrics? In which language it is written? When was

it written? Through this activity she gave the concept of “Brain Stroming”.

Then she shared some salient features of student book.

After that she guided the teachers how to teach ATLAS. She shared possible ATLAS

activities.

Comparing a world map with a globe.

Finding places using the index and how to locate them.

Making a sketch map from a photographic map in an ATLAS.

Describing the general features of a region using a topographic map in an ATLAS.

Using information from statistical tables in an ATLAS.

Then she talked about;

Teaching methodology best suited to Social Studies learning.

She said activity based learning (ABL) is about using the curriculum to take a creative approach

for learning rather than a direct method or one way teaching method. It is;…..

About doing rather than listening

About active engagement rather than mindless copying of words and numbers.

In order to engage the student, use an activity.

Why activity based learning is necessary?

Educational Psychology tells us those children aged 4 – 10 years age group learn best when their

age level and cognitive development is kept in mind to make lessons relevant to their mental and

physical development. Children also need a variety of direct experiences to develop:

Cognitively

Physically

Emotionally

Socially

She also discussed deferent simple activities for History and Geography Learning.

She also explained Blooms Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.

Creating

Evaluating

Analyzing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

In the last she took feedback from the trainees about workshop.

It was very informative and interesting workshop. All the trainees learned many new, useful,

skills strategies and activities for Social Studies learning.

All the trainees were highly thankful to Ms. Ismat Riaz and Oxford University Press Multan who

conducted this informative workshop for them.

In the end all the trainees were awarded with certificate and were entertained with lunch.

Oxford University Press Training Session

Topic: Effective Teaching in Mathematics

Conducted on: 30th November, 2019

Timing: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

No. of trainer: 01

No. of Teacher participated from SOS: 02

Aim of the activity: To aware and guide the teachers of Mathematics about the changes in

curriculum books grade I – VIII and enable them to execute activity

based learning and teaching.

Purpose of activity:

On 30th November, 2019 a workshop for Mathematics teachers was

conducted by Mr. Hamid Rashid (Resource Person from Oxford University Press Multan).

Mr. Hamid Rahsid started the workshop with an activity. He gave a word problem to all the

trainees and asked them to solve it. Through this activity he gave the concept of “Problem

Solving”.

After that he played two short video clips to show that why students dislike Maths teachers?

Then he took suggestions from trainees and guided them about the ways to overcome this

problem.

After the videos, he introduced the new Mathematics curriculum applied from 2020. He said that

the new books will be more colorful, practice sheets have more word problems and answer key

will be given at the end of the books.

After that he conducted another activity to give the concept of ‘A Good Book…..’ He said, “A

good book may have the following features”:

Approach

Content

Connection

Presentation

After that he discussed different methods to solve different types of contents.

After that he guided the trainees about ‘Lesson Plan Components’. He said, the lesson plan

should have the following components’

He also discussed Mathematics Teaching Continuum through diagram.

Mathematics Teaching Continuum

Lesson Plan

Info about the

learning

Anticipated

Problem

Classroom

Management

Materials

Procedure

Content

Notes

Comments

Objectives

In the last he took feedback from the trainees about workshop. It was very interesting and

informative workshop all the trainees learned many activities, strategies and skills to make their

lesson or teaching effective.

All the trainees were highly thankful to Mr. Hamid Rashid and Oxford University Press Multan

who conducted this fruitful workshop for them.

In the end all the trainees were awarded with certificate and were entertained with lunch.

Understanding

Applying

Problem Solving

Inter-School Annual Debate 2019

Conducted on: 23rd November, 2019

Timing: 10:00 am to 1:30 pm

No. of participants: 09 Schools

1. Jinnah Highs,

2. Beaconnhouse School System,

3. Lahore Grammar School,

4. The City School,

5. Army Public School,

6. Multan Public School,

7. SOS HG School Multan,

8. Garrison Academy Multan

9. Bloomfield Hall Multan

Group Grade Topic

1 A 3 – 4

1.5 min Every house should have a pet (speech)

2 B 5 – 6

2 min

Would learning be more impactful with textbooks or

without textbooks? (Debate)

3 C 7 – 8

2.5 min

Technology is going to save the world or be the cause of its

destruction? (Debate)

4 D

9 – 10

1 min per

participant

Generations of yester years has brought about the

destruction of mother earth.

(Combined School Team)

Today’s generation is responsible for the rapid destruction

of mother earth.

(Adult team)

5 E 11 – 12

2.5 min تبد یلی ائٓی کیاخوب رنگ لائی

Aim of the activity: To enable the students to show their speaking skills and confidence.

Purpose of activity:

The debate competition is an opportunity for the students to show their

public speaking skills. This event develops a message of friendship and unity among the

participating schools.

Like last eight years, we organized our ninth (9th) Annual Debate Competition on 23rd

November, 2019 in our school premises. This year eight well renowned school of Multan city

took part in this competition. All the schools (who participated) were informed about rules and

regulations and topics 15 days before the competition.

At 10:30 am the debate competition started with the National Anthem. All the participated

students represented their school with their school flags.

After the Anthem, Darood Pak was played with slide of calligraphic Drood Pak.

Hussain Mustafa & Mahnoor Lodhi, the students of Grade XI and X anchored the competition.

They invited our worthy chairperson Mrs. Mahnaz Fareed Sheikh who officially started the

ceremony. She welcomed all judges, chief guests, parents and participants of this Mega

competition. She said “This event is pride for every Multani and ever Pakistani”. Education is the

basic right of every person and we put all the children at same platform. She highlighted SOS

projects and the cause. She acknowledged the outstanding results of our Matriculation class 2019

and the intermediate class 2019. These outstanding pupils make us proud and seem to be an asset

of country. Then Mahnoor Lodhi and Hussain introduced the chief guests and judges.

1. Our Chief Guests were;

Mr. Amir Khattak (D.C. Multan)

Prof. Dr. Rana Altaf Ahmad (Executive Director of Institute of Cardiology Multan)

2. Our Judges were;

Ms. Laila Saqib

(Ex. Principal The City School, Jinnah Highs)

(Social Worker)

Dr. Snobra Rizwan (Assistant Professor in the Department of English at BZU Multan)

3. SOS Executive Committee Members.

After that, the competition started. First of all “Group A” delivered their speeches on the topic of

“Every house should have a pet”.

Secondly, “Group B” delivered their debates on the topic “Would learning be more impactful

with textbooks or without textbooks?”

After two groups the students of SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary School Multan

Muqaddas and Sana performed a beautiful recital which showed the connection and love

between nature and human beings. All the audience appreciated the performance.

Then Madam Mahnaz invited our honourable Chief Guest Dr. Rana Altaf Ahmad to come on

stage and received his shield of Gratitude and shared his precious views about the event. He

appreciated the performances and arrangements, the most.

After that third “Group C” started their debates on the topic of “Technology is going to save the

world or be the cause of its destruction?”

All the students one by one spoke in favour and against the topic.

Then Madam Mahnaz invited our second Chief Guest Mr. Amir Khattak (DC Multan) to come on

stage and received his shield of Gratitude and shared his precious views about the event.

He said, he is feeling very glad to attend this competition and it’s beyond from his expectations.

He was very much impressed by the excellent performance of the students.

After that “Group D” started their debates. It was a panel style debate on the topic of

“Generations of yester years have brought about the destruction or mother earth. (Combined

school team).

Today’s generation is responsible for the rapid destruction of mother earth. (Adult Team).

In adult team our Executive Committee Members participated and they defended their team very

well.

in the end “Group E” performed their debates in Urdu on the topic of “تبدیلی ائٓی کیا خوب رنگ لائی”

After that the students of SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary School Multan presented a

performance on a song “بول کہ لب ازٓاد ہیں”. All the audience highly appreciated the performance of

the students.

Al last the final moments arrived and Madam Mahnaz Fareed Sheikh announced the results

collected from the judges.

In Group A

1. Wania Zaman Khan 1st Position SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary

School Multan

1. Zahra Ahmad 2nd Position Bloomfield Hall

2. Ali Javed 3rd Position Multan Public School

In Group B

1. Hoorain Zia 1st Position Beaconhouse School System

2. Ishba Khan 2nd Position Army Public School

3. Muhammad Ali Hassan 3rd Position Multan Public School

In Group C

1. Zainab Amir 1st Position Garrison Academy Multan

2. Rubab Zahra 2nd Position SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary

School Multan

2. Taha Mubashir 3rd Position Army Public School Multan

In Group D

1. Adult Team got the 1st Position.

In Group E

3. Abdullah Shah 1st Position SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary

School Multan

4. Jaria Raza 2nd Position Lahore Grammar School

She invited the worthy judges to come on stage and awarded all the winner students with medals

and trophies.

SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary School won the school trophy on the basis of getting

maximum positions.

All the judges and Chief Guests were honored with a shield of Gratitude. They congratulated the

winner participants.

It was a great event for all the schools who participated through this competition they gained a

lot of confidence and experience and raised the names of their institutes by their excellent

performance.

In the end all the judges and Chief Guests were entertained with refreshment.