Toddler
(2 years – 2 ½ years)
Monday to Friday
10:00 am to 12:00 Noon*
*Depends on the child’s ability to let go of his/her mother
Primary
(2 ½ years – 6 years)
Monday to Friday
2½ – 3½ : 9:00 am – 12 noon
3½ – 5½ : 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
5½ – 6 : 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Elementary
(6 years – 12 years)
Monday to Friday
6-9 years : 8.30 am – 3:00 pm
9-12 years: 8.30 am – 3:30 pm
Adolescent
(12 years – 18 years)
The Adolescents or ‘Erdkinder’ will start at Kalpavriksh’s own farm land at Thamaraipakkam
Our Programmes
Toddler
Kalpavriksh Montessori Community School was started under a different name in the year 2011 by Shri Vathsan Krishnan, an engineer-entrepreneur concerned about the lack of meaningful education opportunities for children around Anna Nagar. The school was set up in Anna Nagar West under the guidance of Ms Vishnu Priya, a Montessori teacher-trainer.
In the year 2016, when he wished to return to Bangalore, the parents and teachers of the school saw an opportunity to convert a business – albeit with a service motive – into a self-sustaining, cooperative effort to provide developmental-phase appropriate learning environments and opportunities for their children, based on the Montessori method. Parents, teachers and other concerned individuals decided to come together to mobilize resources to re-equip and take over the ownership and management of the school.
Kalpavriksh is now owned and managed by the Montessori Community Initiative, a public charitable trust. We are an IMC recognised school with IMTC/AMI trained staff. Currently, there are children aged 2 years and upwards.
The school continues to grow along with its children. We have adhered to Dr Maria Montessori’s philosophy that education is not something which the teacher does, but a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Our Programmes
Primary
The Montessori method is a philosophy of education founded by Dr.Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educator. The Montessori method is born from a long and professional observation of children. It is a time-tested and wonderful educational method, deeply respectful of each child, guided at all times by trained teachers, and develops the entire being of the child addressing the physical, mental, emotional, social, aesthetic and spiritual aspects.
The system also educates parents and caregivers and helps build ideal conditions for the child’s home and external environment.
Our Programmes
Elementary
Kalpavriksh Montessori Community School was started under a different name in the year 2011 by Shri Vathsan Krishnan, an engineer-entrepreneur concerned about the lack of meaningful education opportunities for children around Anna Nagar. The school was set up in Anna Nagar West under the guidance of Ms Vishnu Priya, a Montessori teacher-trainer.
In the year 2016, when he wished to return to Bangalore, the parents and teachers of the school saw an opportunity to convert a business – albeit with a service motive – into a self-sustaining, cooperative effort to provide developmental-phase appropriate learning environments and opportunities for their children, based on the Montessori method. Parents, teachers and other concerned individuals decided to come together to mobilize resources to re-equip and take over the ownership and management of the school.
Kalpavriksh is now owned and managed by the Montessori Community Initiative, a public charitable trust. We are an IMC recognised school with IMTC/AMI trained staff. Currently, there are children aged 2 years and upwards.
The school continues to grow along with its children. We have adhered to Dr Maria Montessori’s philosophy that education is not something which the teacher does, but a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
(12 years - 18 years)
Adolescent
The Secondary level and plan for university also support exploration of the real world extending it beyond the classroom, into the community and eventually to the world at large. Because they want this discovery to include both the natural world and the world of human civilization superimposed on nature, Montessori called the adolescents ‘Erd Kinder’ or ‘Children of the Earth’ and the program for this age group goes by this name.
Montessori singled out farming activities for their benefits as farming can help students study living nature develop a clearer understanding of the basis of human commerce and economic exchange and the complex issues which they represent for modern society. To facilitate contact with nature, Montessori envisioned a rural although not isolated setting for the Erd Kinder.
In order to provide for the natural developmental needs of children right up to school finishing (adolescence) in the Montessori method, where children can engage both body and mind in an environment that continues to support customary livelihoods and practices, where they may find relatively more saner ways of relating to the land, other living things and people and where they can love what they are learning, Kalpavriksh has identified a site for the school in Pandeswaram village, past Red Hills about 26Kms from Anna Nagar. With experiments in organic farming and environmental rehabilitation being pursued seriously by young professionals from the communities of that area, the Trust believes it is an apt location for the Elementary and Erd Kinder programmes as envisaged by Dr. Montessori.
