Summer Term 2019 Comes To An End
Summer Term Has Ended This summer, news from the school has been sporadic due to poor network access. So quite a lot of news to share now. Summer has passed and now students who have families, and those who can get home, have now left for a one month vacation whilst the remaining girls and staff have travelled to stay at winter school in Pokhara during the vacation time. Winter term will begin again week of 25th October 2019 at the winter school in Pokhara and we’re very much looking forwards to visiting everyone there shortly after the start of the new term. Exams before vacations...
Read MoreHolidays And Sustainability
Holidays begin for the youngsters and more news on our Apple Tree project The end of the winter term has arrived at the winter school in Pokhara and the younger girls who can get home, and those who have homes to go to, have set off for Upper Mustang for their one month holiday before the new summer term begins in May. It remains cold in Upper Mustang with snow on the hills and residual snow in the valleys as this recent photo of the school yard shows but hopefully will be warmer when summer term starts in May. Of course, before term ended it was exam time – all the students and...
Read MoreTashi Delek, Happy Losar Year of the Female Earth Pig
Today, is the beginning of Tibetan and Chinese New Year celebrations for 2146. We are entering the year of The Earth Pig. Special prayers (puja) have been recited in school to purify diseases, obstacles and misfortunes in the coming New Year. 2 days ago Gutor, the 29th Day of Tibetan Lunar Calendar, was celebrated. A special 9 ingredient noodle soup called ‘Guthuk is traditionally eaten in the evening with dumplings . The dumplings contain various ingredients like beans, charcoal (or pieces of paper containing “fortunes” or inspirational words), chilli, wool, People...
Read More2018 National and School Exams
It hardly seems anytime at all since term began and already exams are here again! This week has witnessed a very important milestone – Year 8 Basic Level Examination of Pal Ewan Namgyal Monastic School under the supervision of Lomanthamg Rural Municipality. This is such an amazing achievement and result of so much vision and hard work by all the Namgon family as the school is the first monastic school in Upper Mustang reach the standard of applying this government recognised exam. We have heartfelt gratitude for the vision and tireless efforts of our dear Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinzin...
Read MorePlease Help Us Support Our Teachers
No news for a while whilst the girls were at school in Mustang and now 2 newsletters come along in close proximity! As I mentioned in the recent blog, we are now ready to launch our latest fundraiser to help raise funds for our teachers’ salaries for next year. Due to an amazing effort by our visionary Khenpo-la and all our Namgon family, Pal Ewam Namgyal Monastic School was awarded a licence to deliver Year 8 education this year. This is an amazing achievement given that here are no other schools that have demonstrated the required standard to attain year 8 education licences in...
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