Pilot Project - Pearl Valley Public School

Pearl Valley Public School, Rawalakot
Azad Kashmir

Established August, 1996

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Pearl Valley Public School, Rawalakot

A Success Story

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Pearl Valley Public School is part of pilot project of Kashmir Education Foundation. It is located at Rawalakot in Azad Kashmir for which a piece of land measuring over 3 acres was donated by the Trustees. The school started functioning from August 14, 1996.

The school currently has classes upto eleventh grade. One class (4-5 year olds) is added each year. It is a non-residential day school where talented children from Rawalakot and surrounding villages covering an area of 200 square kilometers with a population of over 100,000 people are admitted on merit basis, with girls forming over half of the total number of students. Currently the school has 300 students including over 150 girls.

Pearl Valley Public School

Initially the teachers of Pearl Valley Public School were trained in Ali Institute of Teacher Training. In 2000, KEF set up an Institute of Teacher Education at Rawalakot to train graduate.

Because of the low income levels of the parents, all children tuition fees are heavily subsidized by the Foundation at present. According to the philosophy of the Foundation, once a child gets selected on merit he or she becomes entitled to admission in the school and financially supported by the foundation to the extent his or her parents are unable to meet the school expenses.

Pearl Valley Public School has modern educational facilities for the students including library, science lab, computer lab, language lab, audio-visual lab, arts and crafts room, gymnasium, auditorium and play grounds. The auditorium and gymnasium were inaugurated on June 26, 2000.

A large number of individuals and organizations have helped the Foundation in setting up and running Pearl Valley Public School and Institute of Teachers Education. This includes British Council and the United Kingdom Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) ( www.vso.org.uk ). VSO has provided the school with highly qualified British teachers and trainers. The first three principals of the school were British volunteer lady teachers. In addition Australian Voluntary International has also provided volunteers for the School and ITE.

Pearl Valley Public School has proved to be a great success. In the Federal Board Exam. of 2005, out of 30 students appearing in Class IX and X, 19 got A+ (over 80%) while 11 secured A grade (over 70%). The School ranked 7th out of over 500 Schools affiliated with Federal Board.

The Computer Lab Science Laboratory

The teaching staff of the School was initially trained from Ali Institute of Teacher Training Lahore. Since 2000 most of the teachers were trained in the Institute of Teacher Education (ITE) which was set up adjacent to PVPS to train female graduates as English medium primary school teachers. Three diploma courses of 18 month duration have been conducted so far in which 54 girls were trained. A hostel has also been constructed near the School to accommodate the teaching staff and trainee teachers.

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Download the Aims & Objectives document of the Foundation.