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Science fair, stalls and a stage

Spring Buds School in Federal B Area Block 11 keeps four traditions every session: the science fair, entrepreneurship day, parent events and outside competitions.

The rest of this page is dated. Those occasions happened in 2026, and every entry links back to the post the school published on the day. Nothing here is a plan for something that has not run yet.

Wide view of the Spring Buds garden courtyard during the Independence Day assembly
The Independence Day assembly in the walled garden, 14 August 2026.

Four traditions we keep every session

These four run every session. We publish no dates for them here, because the calendar is settled with parents each year.

Three of these we run ourselves. The fourth is run by other people, which is the whole point of entering it. The science fair and entrepreneurship day come out of the way lessons already work here, where a child builds a thing or explains it to the class before writing it up. Every level and what it covers is set out on the academics page.

The annual science fair

Every year our students plan a science project, build it, and stand beside it to explain how it works. Parents walk the tables and ask questions.

The fair sits in the same group of traditions as entrepreneurship day, our parent events and the competitions we enter outside school. Dates are confirmed with parents once the session calendar is settled.

Entrepreneurship day

Children choose what to sell, price it, make the sign for it and then stand behind their own stall for the morning. Setting the price is the part that takes the most thinking, and it is the reason the day is on the calendar at all.

We confirm the date with parents once the session calendar is settled.

Parent events

We ask parents into the building rather than only onto a WhatsApp group. A PTM is the plainest version of that: parents sit with the teacher who marks the books and hear what is actually going on, good and bad.

Other occasions are larger. The session closes in early June with a function and a prize distribution, and both of those are recorded here with the photographs the school published at the time.

Competitions outside school

Entering a competition run by someone else is the only honest test of what a school teaches. Our students sit that test.

At Create for Peace 2026, organised by MindCarver, Spring Buds students won Silver and Bronze in the Creative Writing category, and several were recognised as Young Peace Advocates for the pieces they wrote about peace. The medals and certificates were handed over at our prize distribution on 3 June 2026. We publish no names and no winner count, because the backdrops in the photographs are the only record and they do not support either.

From our Facebook page

Start with 14 August and work backwards

Five occasions from this session and the last, each published on our Facebook page on the day, with the photographs that went with it.

The photographs are ours and went up the same week. Apart from the June evening in a hired hall, everything on this page happened at our own building in Gulberg Town, Karachi. The whole set, grouped by occasion, sits on the gallery page.

  1. Independence Day 2026

    Green and white from the gate onwards. The Montessori children and the older students held separate assemblies on 14 August 2026, one after the other, in the walled garden at the back of the school.

    The rosettes and the badges were made in class beforehand. Children pleated the paper, glued the crescent and star into the middle, and wore them on the day. Teachers raised small flags on the covered porch, a line of boys saluted in front of a Pakistan Zindabad board, and students read aloud to classmates sitting on the red and blue desks that had been carried out onto the turf.

    The school published three sets of photographs from the day.

    Spring Buds students present to their classmates during the Independence Day programme
    Students presenting to their classmates, 14 August 2026.
    Handmade crescent-and-star rosettes crafted by Montessori children
    Montessori children hold Pakistan flags beside their Independence Day display board
    Students raise their hands during an outdoor Independence Day assembly in the school garden
    Three more frames from the day, 14 August 2026.

    From our Facebook page

  2. Back to school, 2026-27 session

    Maroon and blue check, back in the play area. The 2026-27 session opened in the first week of August, and the Montessori morning started the way it usually does, with everyone on their feet.

    Two teachers ran the movement session under the covered roof, in front of walls carrying paper flowers and a large pencil cut out that the children had made. The first days of a session are mostly about the shape of a day rather than the content of one: where the bag goes, when the break comes, which teacher to find when something goes wrong.

    Montessori children back at school for the new session
    Montessori children back at school for the new session
    Montessori children back at school for the new session
    The Montessori section on its first days back, 8 August 2026.

    From our Facebook page

  3. The staff meeting that opens the session

    Before the children came back, the staff did. The teaching team met on 3 August 2026 for the general meeting that opens every session, a few days ahead of the first day back.

    There was a cake, samosas and sandwiches on an orange table, which is a fair picture of how the year begins here.

    From our Facebook page

  4. Prize distribution, June 2026

    Medals, certificates and a printed backdrop. The prize distribution on 3 June 2026 closed the session, and a good part of the evening went to results from Create for Peace 2026, a writing competition run by MindCarver.

    Spring Buds students took Silver and Bronze in the Creative Writing category. Others were recognised as Young Peace Advocates for what they had written about peace.

    Names, winner counts and grades are not published here. The backdrops in the school photographs are the only record we hold of that evening, parts of them are out of focus, and children who won something are entitled to have their names stay off a public web page.

    A Spring Buds student receives a Silver award at Create for Peace 2026
    A Spring Buds student receives a Bronze award in the Creative Writing category at Create for Peace 2026
    A Spring Buds student receives a Bronze award at Create for Peace 2026
    Medals and certificates handed over on stage, 3 June 2026.

    From our Facebook page

  5. Annual function, June 2026

    A hired hall, a lit backdrop and a proper stage. On 3 June 2026 the school finished its year the way it finishes every year, with the students performing in front of their families.

    Boys in white shirts, black bow ties, braces and hats worked through their piece with wooden chairs for props. The nursery had its own turn on the same programme, so the youngest children in the school were on that stage too.

    Students perform in front of the Annual Function stage backdrop
    In front of the lit backdrop in the hired hall, 3 June 2026.

    From our Facebook page

When is the next science fair?

We have not set the date. The session calendar is agreed with parents once the term is under way, and a month printed here that later had to move would be worse than no month at all.

What the year has looked like

First week of August
The session opens and the children come back.
14 August
Independence Day, two assemblies in the walled garden.
Early June
The annual function and the prize distribution close the session.
Set each session
The science fair, entrepreneurship day and our parent events.

How an ordinary day runs is set out on the about page. Parents have written about the school themselves, and those three recommendations are quoted in full with their dates on the reviews page. Admissions for the 2026-27 session are open, and the admissions page sets out how a seat is confirmed.

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