Blooming Lotus English School
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The Blooming Lotus English School is a school for Bhutanese refugees at the Goldhap refugee camp
in Nepal
. The school was founded in August 1992, and educates its students in three different languages: English is the language of instruction, whereas Dzongkha
is taught from grades 3 to 8 and Nepali
is taught 40 minutes a day from pre-primary classes to grade 10.
The Blooming Lotus English School provides a curriculum including English
(all grades); mathematics (optional and compulsory courses); science; history and civics (world history); accounts; social studies; values education; Dzongkha (grades 3 to 8); Nepali
; education; economics; and health, population and environment.
In addition, the school instructs soccer, basketball, volleyball, karate, gymnastics, and marathon.
In 2010, Blooming Lotus hosted an art exhibition by the Institute of Fine Art and Commercial Art-Bhutan (IFACA), the themes of which included the experiences and conditions of Bhutanese refugees.
Goldhap Refugee Camp
Goldhap refugee camp is a small refugee camp in Nepal populated by just over 4,600 Bhutanese refugees as of 2011. Because of its dwindling population, the UNHCR is planning to merge Goldhap into the nearby Beldangi refugee camps...
in Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
. The school was founded in August 1992, and educates its students in three different languages: English is the language of instruction, whereas Dzongkha
Dzongkha language
Dzongkha , occasionally Ngalopkha, is the national language of Bhutan. The word "dzongkha" means the language spoken in the dzong, – dzong being the fortress-like monasteries established throughout Bhutan by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century."Bhutani" is not another name for...
is taught from grades 3 to 8 and Nepali
Nepali language
Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar...
is taught 40 minutes a day from pre-primary classes to grade 10.
The Blooming Lotus English School provides a curriculum including English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
(all grades); mathematics (optional and compulsory courses); science; history and civics (world history); accounts; social studies; values education; Dzongkha (grades 3 to 8); Nepali
Nepali language
Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar...
; education; economics; and health, population and environment.
In addition, the school instructs soccer, basketball, volleyball, karate, gymnastics, and marathon.
In 2010, Blooming Lotus hosted an art exhibition by the Institute of Fine Art and Commercial Art-Bhutan (IFACA), the themes of which included the experiences and conditions of Bhutanese refugees.