The annual school project has been an important part of the KNB programme for more than a decade. Each year the entire school from standard one to nine spends two to three weeks working on a given theme. Many of these projects have dealt with themes related to Phaltan, its environment or history.
Students collect information from the library and the computer lab, interview people, visit places and make observations. Back in school, they collate the information and write it up, draw maps, charts and pictures, write poems and make models. All this material is assembled into an exhibition which is open for a week or so to parents, teachers and students from other schools and the general public.
The topic of the project this year was the Development plan of Phaltan. The older children surveyed some parts of Phaltan while the younger talked to the residents trying to know people’s expectations about the living conditions.