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Where curiosity learns its first words

Nursery, LKG, UKG, Class I and Class II, a five-step ladder that turns four-year-olds into confident, reading, writing, questioning seven-year-olds.

Young students
Our approach

Play, then structure

Children learn best when they don't realise they are learning. Our Beginner classrooms are built around play, but it's structured play, with a curriculum behind every story corner, every sandbox, every counting song.

By the end of UKG, our children read short stories, write their first sentences and count up to a hundred, not because they were drilled, but because the curriculum was patient.

Beginners classroom
The five steps

Five years that change everything

Nursery
Age 3–4
Settling in. Songs, stories, free play, motor-skill activities, basic sounds, recognition of colours and shapes. Half-day with a long break and snack.
LKG
Age 4–5
Phonics begins. Letter sounds (Jolly Phonics-style), counting 1–20, story time, art, drawing, simple craft, music and movement.
UKG
Age 5–6
First reading. Blending and decoding, sight words, simple sentences, numerals to 100, addition with objects, environmental studies through stories.
Class I
Age 6–7
The first formal year. English, Mathematics, EVS, Telugu, Hindi (oral), Art, Music, P.E. Reading independently, writing simple sentences, addition and subtraction.
Class II
Age 7–8
Building confidence. Comprehension, paragraph writing, multiplication, problem-solving, second-language reading and the first formal exams (gentle ones).
A typical day

What a Beginner's day looks like

8.30

Assembly

Prayer, news, thought for the day, a story, songs in three languages.

9.00

Core periods

English, Maths, EVS, short focused blocks with movement breaks between.

11.30

Snack & play

A long supervised break, outdoor play, sandbox, water play, story corner.

2.00

Art & music

Drawing, craft, songs, dance, drama, every day, not just on Fridays.

Activity
For parents

The first school years matter most

If a child learns to love school in these five years, the rest of their academic life is downhill. If they learn to fear it, no amount of later coaching will undo the damage.

That is why our Beginner teachers are our most experienced, many have been teaching young children for over fifteen years. They are picked for warmth as much as qualification.

  • Maximum 24 students per Beginner class
  • Teacher + helper in Nursery, LKG, UKG
  • Daily diary & weekly parent updates
  • No homework till Class II, by design

Visit our pre-primary wing

The best way to know if it's the right fit for your child is to see the classrooms and meet the teachers.