Quality and Love - Optimizers BHIS

Where there is love and care there is no darkness.

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A student is far more responsive to a teacher who loves and cares and is, therefore, more likely to learn and engage.

Let us read the story of Raj and how his teacher’s love and caring relationship helped him to do better in school. Raj was a well-known student in his school and in the class for his outstanding commitment. All students knew that he was very helpful towards teachers and his friends. He uses to volunteer in all the school events and even waited after school with teachers, to help them out in completing the extracurricular activities. One of the teachers was a keen observer of Raj’s behaviour. He encouraged and motivated him in all the works that he does in class. But, he found that Raj was not enthusiastic in studies like the way he is good at activities. He enquired from other teachers and tried to know more about Raj. But, he did not get many details from them.

One day the teacher called Raj and had a talk with him. The teacher asked “Dear Raj I appreciate your involvement in school activities, the way you help teachers and your friends. What about your studies? You are not performing well in your academics and I would like to know the reasons for your lack of interest in studies". Raj started crying. The teacher got puzzled and asked him to share his worries with him. Raj told teacher about his family issues that included the disputes between his parents and he was feeling uncared at home due to which he felt lonely, so he spends most of the time in school and makes himself involved in some work. He doesn’t want to go home.

The teacher made him understand the importance of academics in life. Raj was given the assurance by the teacher that he will be with him in all his difficulties. This love and caring character of the teacher towards Raj continued for months which made Raj focus in his academics. One day the teacher called his parents to school. He had a separate discussion with Raj’s parents where he shared to his parents about their son’s talents and dedication towards school. An insecure Raj was in need of his parent's love and care. Tears rolled from their eyes after hearing their son’s performances in different activities that were held in the school which the parents ignored and overlooked. They hugged their son and promised the teacher that they will love and care Raj in future without giving any trouble to him.

Empathy, love and understanding, caring, all of that is so important when you're an educator. It really does shape your experience as a teacher, but also the experience of students.

Optimizer @ Billabong High International School, Thane.
- Sanket Patel, Madhubala Saji, Kshama Rajgor, Ajita Bhoir, Kalyani Chaudhari, Momita Banerji, Rupal Trivedi.

Honesty and Respect - Bloom BHIS

- Respecting someone indicates the quality of your personality. 

There was once a boy who always treated his mother horribly, shouting at her, insulting her. It didn't matter to him how sad he made her.

One day, without knowing how, he woke up in an immense desolate and lonely place. He was sitting on a rock from which four huge pillars rose up into the sky, appearing to support the entire world.

He was all alone, but soon an enormous flock of crows with beaks made of steel landed on the rock and set about violently chipping away at it.

After the crows had left, a mysterious door in one of the pillars opened, and a charmingly pretty girl came out.

"Have you come to help us? That's great! We need all the people we can get." The boy was puzzled, and spotting his confusion, the little girl explained. "So you don't know where you are? This is the centre of the Earth. These pillars support the whole planet, and this rock keeps the pillars in place."       
"And how can I help you?" said the boy, still confused.            
 "Well, to help, look after the rock. Anyone can see from your face that you're the best person for the job," answered the girl,"The birds you saw are only increasing in number, and if we don't look after this rock it will eventually crumble and everything will come crashing down.”
"And what do you see in my face?!" exclaimed the boy, surprised.
"I've never looked after a rock in my whole life!"
"But you'll learn how, even if you've never done it. Here, look in this mirror," said the girl, holding one in front of the boy's face.

The boy was astounded to see that he now had the face of a bird, with his nose gradually turning into steel. There he stood, shocked and worried, not a word passing his lips. "All those crows used to be children like you and me," explained the girl," but they decided not to look after the rock. Now that they're older they've turned into evil birds; all they do is destroy. So far, you haven't done much to look after it, but now that you know, will you help me to preserve all this?" Her face was radiant with a smile, as she took his hand in hers.

The boy still didn't quite understand anything. He looked closely at the pillars and could see that each one was made of thousands and thousands of little figurines, representing the best virtues: sincerity, effort, honesty, generosity...

Closely inspecting the ground beneath him, he could see that the enormous rock was made up of little instances of children showing respect to their parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, and the elderly.

On the other hand, the crows were trying to erase these instances of compassion by carving out scenes of disharmony - shouting and insults. Next to his feet, he could see his own little carving, representing the last time he had shouted at his mother. The image of his misdemeanour, in such a strange place, made him realise that the only thing keeping the columns standing was respect. Respect was sustaining the world.


The boy, filled with regret, stayed there and looked after the rock for many days. He carried out his task joyfully, going without sleep to repel every crow attack. He carried on until exhausted by his efforts, he collapsed; completely spent.

When he woke up he was back on his bed at home, and could not fathom whether it had all been a dream. However, of one thing he was certain that no crow would ever again get the chance to carve a picture of him shouting at his mother.

Bloom @Billabong High International School, Thane.
- Priya Wagle,  Manisha Joshi, Rinku Lapasia, Savita Rane, Ranjana Solanki, Sharanjeet Kaur, Manjit.