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The chemistry laboratory at Sunbeam School Ballia, benches laid out with reagent shelves and gas taps.

Experiential & Inquiry-Based Learning

A topic met in the hand before it is met in the exam.

Learning by experience

Experience first.
Understanding follows.

Experiential and inquiry-based learning is the school's stated approach rather than an enrichment attached to it: a topic is met in the hand before it is met in the exam. The twelve laboratories are what make that possible in an ordinary week rather than on a special day.

The school's own account of a Gallery Walk puts it plainly — children “confidently presented their projects, charts, and models, turning the classroom into a mini exhibition hall.” The work came first; the explaining came after it.

A teacher at Sunbeam School Ballia demonstrating at the table during a cooking activity, her class in paper chef hats around her
Two students of Sunbeam School Ballia sharing a desk, each working on her own drawing

Inquiry, in three moves

Explore Question Discover

  1. Students of Sunbeam School Ballia sitting together on the floor, working on embroidery from one shared basket of thread

    Explore

    A material, a tool, a problem that has not been explained yet.

  2. A young student of Sunbeam School Ballia holding a hand-made rocket cut-out at the Star Gazing session, the night sky on the board behind

    Question

    The school calls it “sparking curiosity, scientific thinking” — the moment a child wants to know why.

  3. Children of Sunbeam School Ballia sitting in a ring inside the Taramandal planetarium dome, faces turned upward

    Discover

    The answer arrives having been looked for. That is what makes it stay.

Real learning experiences

Not a special day.
An ordinary week.

A planting plot, a planetarium and a telescope are not the decoration around the curriculum — they are where parts of it are taught. The school's record of the stargazing evening is that the campus “transformed into a window to the universe.”

  • Little Agriculturists A planting activity the youngest children dig, sow and water themselves.
  • Taramandal Show A planetarium brought to the children — eleven photographs published.
  • Star Gazing “A breathtaking view of the Moon through a telescope — a first-time experience for many.”
A young student of Sunbeam School Ballia adding kitchen scraps to the compost bin at the Little Agriculturists activity
A young student of Sunbeam School Ballia with her teacher inside a hand-made Star Gazing display
The night sky projected onto the inside of the Taramandal dome at Sunbeam School Ballia
Students of Sunbeam School Ballia seated together in the school hall

Experience it.
Question it.
Discover it.

Twelve laboratories, a planting plot and a night sky — so that what a child learns has been handled before it is answered.