CCE Manual VI - VIII - CBSE

Continuous and Comprehensive EvaluationAnnexure 3dManual for TeachersCENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION2, Community Centre, Preet Vihar, Delhi-110092No.D(A)/PA/CCE/2004ToAll the Heads of Institutions affiliated to CBSE15th September, 2004Circular No: 31/2004Subject:Continuous and comprehensive evaluation in Primary Classes -RegDear Principal,i) Circular No.6dt. 8.2.2003ii) Circular No.5/05dt. 5.2.04As you are well aware, the Board has been time and againdrawing the attention of the school community through thecirculars mentioned in the margin to the urgency of providinga stress free education to the students in the primary sectionsof school. While the causes that contribute to the stress aremany, some of them are quite tangible and it is possible totake such measures that would minimize the stress, if nottotally eliminate the same.One of the major contributors to the stress is the size of theschool bag. This has been brought to the attention of the entirecountry by the Yashpal Committee Report. Taking cognizanceof the increasing number of text books prescribed by certaininstitutions for the students of the I and II classes in particular,the Board has always felt that the number of books and notebooks prescribed to the classes I and II should be as minimalas possible. Even these books and notebooks have to be leftin the school classrooms so that the students do not have tocarry these books home. The schools are advised to makesuch arrangements in the school campus that there is adequateprovision for the school bags of these students being housedsafely for their daily use.In order that the psychological load of the text books is notcarried home and that the students have enough time todevelop other basic life skills and are enabled to developadequate emotional rapport with the parents, the Board hasalso recommended that no homework is given to them.125