Bherigaon Govt. Primary School: A success story

One can say the students of Bherigaon Government Primary School are real-life heroes. Despite numerous problems, such as shortage of teachers, having no playground and being flooded during the monsoon, they have always achieved commendable grades in their exams.

The school stands near the haor of Kauwadighi in Fatehpur union in Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar.

The headmaster of the school has invented an innovative work list while the other teachers assisted him in implementing the plan. Instead of confining themselves in the conventional teaching method, they opted for a creative one.

Bherigaon Government Primary School was established in 1973, as per the locals and the school authorities. There are only five teachers to take care of as many as 347 students.

The students of Bherigaon, Chuababali, Baghmara, Mokam Bazar, Sadapur and Muniarpar villages come to this school, which stands on Kauwadighi haor. Most people here are dependent on agricultural products.

The school authorities said, they were ranked the best school in Rajnagar upazila from 2006 to 2009 and in 2018.

And the headmaster of the school, Rajab Ali, achieved the best headmaster title in the years 2010, 2016 and 2017.

The PEC examination was launched in 2009 in the country.

The success rate of the students of this school has been 100% since then. As many as 150 students obtained GPA-5 in the exams.

In 2018, a total of 50 students sat for the PEC exams. The pass rate was 100 per cent while 30 students got GPA-5. Its students have been receiving scholarships regularly since 2003.

Besides academic success, the School has been champion several times at the upazila level in the Bangabandhu Bangamata Gold Cup Primary School Football Tournament.

“It is one of the best schools in the upazila. The headmaster works very hard for the school, as do the other teachers,” Gias Khan, a local of the village, told Prothom Alo.

However, the school is laden with tonnes of problems. There are two buildings. One of them is semi-pucca with tin shed roof that was blown off during the Nor'westers on 15 April. Many important documents were left damp in rain.

The other building is a two-storey one. Its ‘guide wall’ has collapsed and the doors and windows of the small classrooms are broken.

The small classrooms with inadequate desks and chairs are too small to accommodate the students.

The school premises gets flooded during monsoon.

Upazila primary education officer Zafar Al Sadeq said, “The design of a new building for the school is underway. We are taking time to finalise the design as it will be a little different being one in the haor area.”