Author: Amir Davis

A year in review:-

Lets take a moment to celebrate the achievements we had throughout the year in 2019. Following are some major wins.

Securing Sponsorship for 2019:-

We secured the scholarships for the following students who are going to various private institutes this year.

• Ali Abbas Pre-Medical FSC in Aspire Collage (PVT) Gujranwala. Ali wants to be a doctor
• Aman Aslam: – Hijab Collage Pvt in Grade 10. Aman wants to be an Engineer
• Ayasha Abid: – 1st year FSC Pre-Medical Hijab Collage Pvt, Ayasha wants to be Doctor in future.
• Komal Abid: – Grade 10 Hijab Collage Pvt, Komal who is sister of Aisha also wants to pursue medical field in future.
• Rishna Nasir: – Rishna is in 3rd semester of Software Engineering in Gift Unv (PVT). She wants to be a software Engineer.

Two more 8^th graders secured the governmental scholarships later this year.

By the end of the year, We have 345 enrolled students within the school.

Board results and School Results: – APS held the record of 100% passing rate for class 5 and class 8^th Board exams in year 2019 as well. This is 7^th consecutive year producing 100% results. Thanks to our hardworking staff and students, Class 8 was graduated from the school with 73% average marks ratio this year. There are some pictures of Prize distribution ceremony below.

School Repairs and paint job:-

The walls were badly rusted as it has been good few years since the whole school was painted. Whole school was re-painted. Some repairs were carried out to fix the damage done to the roof tops of a class rooms due to the rain’s Water lodge.

School Annual Program: –

Chair APS visited the school in November and School Annual program was held on November 16th, there were different performances prepared by the school students like tablos, speeches, Stay Plays and singing. The audience and participants loved the whole pregame and enjoyed to the fullest.

Here are some pictures from the event.

 

November 18th. Meeting held with parents of the school children in Amir Public School. Feedback, the challenges, future plans and solutions were discussed. This interactive meeting would help us to align the priorities for Year 2020. Few Pictures Taken from the meeting below.

Funds: – Thanks to our sponsors, we raised 13032$ in Year 2019.

Our Sponsors: – No matter how small or big, This all became possible due to the contributions of following donners. This was because of them that we have been progressing and growing. I would like to acknowledge these supporters with huge thanks.

Adnan Naseer

Ahsan Zaidi

Asad Meer

Doc Nazia

Hannya Janjua

Intel Corp

Jamal Khan

Knaqi SHah

Naila Joseph

Rizwan Butt

Sal Yousaf

Sania Choudary

Shahan Qaiser

Shahid Bashir

Shakil Ahmed

William Bar

Thank you.

Have a blessed new Year.

Amir(Chair APS)

 

 

 

 

 

School Annual Program: – School Annual program was held on November 16^th, there were different performances prepared by the school students like tablos, speeches, Stay Plays and singing. The audience and participants loved the whole pregame and enjoyed to the fullest.

Here are some pictures from the event.

 

Meeting Parents: – November 18th. Meeting held with parents of the school children in Amir Public School. Feedback, the challenges, future plans and solutions were discussed. This interactive meeting would help us to align the priorities for Year 2020. Few Pictures Taken from the meeting below.

Meeting Staff and sponsored students: – During his visit to Pakistan, Chair APS(Amir) met the School staff and worked on various requirements, training plans and usage of technology while teaching.

Amir also met the students who passed out from APS and being sponsored in Private collage/universities currently. There was some mentorship done with students to discuss their career paths.

 

Thank you

Amir (Chair APS)

 

1st term Exams: – School 1st Term exams started in September, In October results came with ~70% marks ratio for overall school. Here are some pictures from the tests.

 

 

Scholarship Updates: – The scholarship for one remaining student was secured. Thanks to our generous sponsors. Following is the quick overview of our sponsored students.

Ali Abbas Pre-Medical FSC in Aspire Collage (PVT) Gujranwala. Ali wants to be a doctor

Aman Aslam: – Hijab Collage Pvt in Grade 10. Aman wants to be an Engineer

Ayasha Abid: – 1st year FSC Pre-Medical Hijab Collage Pvt, Ayasha wants to be Doctor in future.

Komal Abid: – Grade 10  Hijab Collage Pvt, Komal who is sister of Aisha also wants to pursue medical field in future.

Muqadas Sarfraz: – Muqadas is completing her Nursing course, and she is in her 3rd year of the studding.

Rishna Nasir: – Rishna is in 3rd semester of Software Engineering in Gift Unv (PVT). She wants to be a software Engineer.

 

Thank you

Amir

Summer Vacation: – The school is closed during the month of Summer. But let us share some news on the Matriculation results on APS sponsored students.

Aisha Abid tops the school: – Our brilliant student Aisha Abid was being sponsored for high schooling by APS donor Haroon Mirza. Aisha scored 1002 out of 1100 numbers. She has scored the scholarship for her FSC pre-Med. Aisha wants to be a doctor. Here is her little video message.

 

Sponsor needed: – Ali Abbas passed matriculation with Grade A. Ali’s education was sponsored throughout matriculation from Primary schooling. Ali has a story full of resilience showing strong determination. Ali has taken admission into a provide collage where he was provided more than 50% discount for collage fee. Further details will be shared with the sponsor.

 

Thank you

Amir

 

 

 

 

APS Youngest teacher: – Abigail Malik from USA who is also daughter of APS chair visits the school in June and spends some time with the students. Abi is 9 years old and enjoyed her teaching experience with the students of APS. She shared her experience from American school and methodology to learn Math and science. Here are some pictures students welcoming her and a short video.

School Summer vacation: – Without a doubt, summer in Pakistan is hot & most anticipated season of the year. The Schools go on vacation in June/July and mid-august. this also gives an opportunity to the students to focus on extra circular activities and visit their distant relatives. We wish all the best to the students to spend lovely time on summer vacation.

 

Thank you

Amir – Chair APS.

 

 

Funds: – APS received annual grant from Intel corporation. This annual grant matches the volunteer hours spent by Intel employees for the cause. We received 9130$ this year.

We also received 311$ from Facebook on a birthday fundraiser appeal.  20$ from an individual Donner. Will also donated. This makes 9461$ funds raised in May 2019 and total of 1172$ raised Year to date.

Summer Vacation: – School starting the summer vacation at the start of the June.

School Annual Results: – We held the record of 100% passing rate for class 5 and class 8^th Board exams in year 2019 as well. This is 7^th consecutive year producing 100% results. Thanks to our hardworking staff and students, Class 8 was graduated from the school with 73% average marks ratio this year. There are some pictures of Prize distribution ceremony below.

 

Farewell party: – Our Volunteer and educationist Nabeela Sandhu came to the school to participate in traditional farewell party/Lunch given to Class 8 by class 7. The Students not only enjoyed the delicious food but also cherished the happy moments by singing, Poetry and off course cracking some jokes.

 

Funds:- There were 311$ raised in April through a fundraiser created on Social Media. Thanks to the contribution of generous our donors. This brings our Year to date funds raised as 2311$.

 

Appeal for Books and Uniforms: – This is the time of the year when new school year starts in Pakistan. We have an annual deliverable to provide books and uniforms to the students during this time.

To help us with this activity, I on behalf of my whole team pleading you to donate generously. We will need School syllabus and Uniforms for more than 320 students this year.

 

Thank you

Amir (Chair APS)

 

 

 

 

Paint Job:- Thanks to our regular donor Shahid Bashir, who sponsored us to paint the whole school this year. The walls were gone very rusted.

Here is the look of the new shinny school.

 

Open admission: -School new admissions are opened. The new enrollment in opened in the school for year 2019.

School results: – Stay tune for the school annual results in April’s news letter where class 5 and class 8 students appeared in Board Exams.

 

Thank you

Amir (Chair APS)

 

 

 

Paint work: – The walls were badly rusted as it has been good few years since the whole school was painted. Paint job has been started and mostly inside walls and rooms are painted by now. There were some delays to paint outer walls because of the rainy season in Pakistan.

 

Repairs: – Some repairs were carried out to fix the damage done to the roof top of a class room due to the rain’s Water lodge.

 

Annual Exams: – Annual Exams started in the school, the question papers were designed and prepared from outside of the school. The marking of the exams is also done by outside vendors. This approach helps us to measure the results quality more fairly.

 

School Admissions: – Admissions are opened for School Year 2019 by now and new classes will be starting in 1^st week of April. 20 advertising Banners were printed and places around the surrounding areas advertising the opportunity for new enrollments (Free Admissions, Free Syllabus and Free Uniforms)

Appeal for Uniforms and books: – The Free provision of uniforms and syllabus are our annual deliverable, we have been delivering successfully since Year 2008. Books distribution starts with the next session start up every year in 1^st week of April.

This year, the estimate given to purchase the books is 115K PKR. We are still waiting for Uniforms Estimates.

Thank you

Amir

 

 

 

#10YearChallenge: – We came a long way and This is how Social media Trend of 10 years challenge looks like in APS.

Funds: – Giving is not just about making a donation but making a difference. These donations are the life line for our cause which are helping us to grow and changing people lives. This was an excellent start of the year… BIG Thanks to our generous supporters who helped us to raise 2000$ in January 2019. For the sake of transparency, we will be publishing the break downs of the funds same way we have been doing last year.

 

Donor	Funds $
Doc Nazia	500
Jamal Yousaf	715
Rizwant Butt	735
Willim Bar	50
Total	2000

 

Farewell Party: – Class 8 appears in board exams in February 2019. As an ongoing annual tradition. Class 7^th gave a delicious treat to the passing out class 8^th with some exchange of presents to fellow students and teachers. Thanks to our Volunteer Mr Nabeela Sandhu to join the students on this occasion.

Paint job: – We have enough funds to start the much-needed paint job in the school. We are just waiting for rainy weather to be over. Stay tune for the new shinny look.

Thank you
Amir