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The early-years activity room at Sunbeam School Ballia — a painted sky ceiling, toy shelves, soft play blocks, a climbing ladder and curved activity tables.

Pre-Primary

Nursery, LKG and UKG — an early-years zone built around play, curiosity and first experiences.

The early-years kids park at Sunbeam School Ballia — a merry-go-round, seesaw and climbing rails beside the junior block
A young student of Sunbeam School Ballia in the yellow junior uniform tipping kitchen peel into the compost bin at the Little Agriculturists activity
The curved activity tables and toy shelves of the early-years activity room at Sunbeam School Ballia

Nursery · LKG · UKG

A beginningof its own.

The early years here are not a smaller version of the senior school. They are given their own grounds and their own rooms — and the school’s published description of the stage says so in one line: “the first years on campus, in rooms and grounds built for them.”

That includes a prayer ground of their own. Abhayeti belongs to the junior block and is listed separately from Naman, the senior one, so the youngest children do not begin the day at the back of somebody else’s assembly.

  • 01 Kids Park
  • 02 Sand Pool
  • 03 Water Pool
  • 04 Little Agriculture Land
  • 05 Abhayeti Prayer Ground

All five are listed on the school’s own facilities inventory.

Learning through doing

Little hands.Big first experiences.

Almost everything the school lists for this stage is something a child does with their hands, their feet and the ground under them. The learning is physical long before it is written down.

Photographs. The school’s kids park, and its Little Agriculturists session. The sand pool and the water pool are published facilities it has not photographed.

  1. The swings in the early-years kids park at Sunbeam School Ballia

    The swings, Kids Park

    01 Play

    Kids Park · swings

    Swings and play equipment, listed as the early years’ own — not a share of the senior field.

  2. The slide, tunnel and climbing frames in the early-years kids park at Sunbeam School Ballia

    The kids park slide and tunnel

    02 Explore

    Sand pool · water pool

    A shallow water play area, with sand play alongside it — “messy, and deliberately so.”

  3. Young students of Sunbeam School Ballia in gloves sorting kitchen peel for compost at the Little Agriculturists activity

    Little Agriculturists · April 2024

    03 Grow

    Little agriculture land

    A planting plot, and a hands-on farming activity the school runs under the name Little Agriculturist.

A teacher and a young student of Sunbeam School Ballia adding dry leaves to the compost bin under the hand-lettered Little Agriculturist sign
Trays of finished compost and kitchen peel on the ground beside young students of Sunbeam School Ballia

Learning with their hands

They don’t just learnabout the world.

The school’s description of the Little Agriculture Land is one sentence long, and every verb in it belongs to the child: “a planting plot the youngest children actually dig, sow and water.” Not a display bed at the gate — a plot they work.

It runs as a named activity too. Little Agriculturist is published as a hands-on farming session for the youngest children, and the frames the school released from it show composting — kitchen peel and dry leaf going into the bin, gloves on, and the finished compost coming back out in a tray.

Dig.Sow.Water.

Play is part of the place

A place tomove, playand discover.

  1. 01

    Swings

    Swings and play equipment, in the early years’ own kids park.

  2. 02

    Sand

    Sand play alongside the water pool — messy, and deliberately so.

  3. 03

    Water

    A shallow water play area, inside the early-years zone.

  4. 04

    Toys

    A toy library: borrowable toys, and a first lending system at four years old.

Junior block · prayer ground

A spaceto begin together.

The junior block has a prayer ground of its own, and the school gives it a name: Abhayeti. It appears on the facilities list beside Naman, the senior block’s ground, as a separate entry — which is the whole point of it.

A four-year-old’s first assembly is not held at the edge of a field built for eighteen-year-olds. It is held on ground that belongs to their half of the school.

The school publishes the name and whose ground it is. It does not publish what happens there, and it has released no photograph of Abhayeti itself.

Junior classes of Sunbeam School Ballia seated together on the ground facing the stage at the JOSH Sports and Spring Camp
Junior classes gathered for the JOSH Sports & Spring Camp.

The first years

Three years,counted as one stage.

  1. Nursery

    Where it starts.

  2. LKG

    The middle year.

  3. UKG

    The last before Class I.

Named for all three years

  • Play-led routine
  • Early language
  • Number sense

And one milestone

“School as a place you want to be.”

The syllabus is published class by class from Nursery, as the school’s PRECEPT document.

The SOF olympiad is sat from Nursery to Class II — the first time the work is measured from outside.

The school publishes Nursery, LKG and UKG as one stage on its academic structure. Admission ages, session hours and class sizes are not published, and are not estimated here.

The end of the early years

Three years,and then the gown.

The school holds a convocation for KG-II — a gown, a mortar board and a rolled scroll handed over on stage. It marks the last day of the early years the way a university marks its last, and it is the clearest statement the school makes about how seriously it takes this stage.

Photograph: the KG-II convocation ceremony at Sunbeam School Ballia.