Excellent education for 175 kids in Hyderabad!!

Dear All, 

Thanks for your genertous support over the last year. Our kids successfully finished an academic year and are now set for the next academic year.

Without your support, this would have not been possible. Request you to please consider supporting us as we move on to a new academic year. 

Please stay in touch. Please read below to hear what my teacher has to say about me. 

Warmly, 

Sarala

Grade 5.

Meet Sarala Sona*, one of our finest products in recent years.

Sarala is the second of four children, born to Nepalese immigrants settled down in Hyderabad. Her family of six currently lives in a small shack at the base of an apartment complex in Secunderabad.

Sarala’s formal education began as late as second grade. Up until then she spoke a little Hindi and absolutely no English. Her teachers described her as quiet, contemplative and sweet. To those who meet her now it would take quite a bit of imagination to think of her without any worldly awareness, much less academic knowledge. Her initial days at school cannot have been easy either. She didn’t speak much of the regional languages. She didn’t talk like anyone else, she didn’t look like anyone else and she didn’t think like anyone else. Her parents, while having nothing against  her going to school, took a more apathetic view towards her academic progress.         

However, during her first two years of school (Grades 2 and 3) Sarala made a steady climb, finishing grade 3 with the literacy skills of a grade 2 student. While this may be considered impressive for someone who only began learning the English alphabet only 2 years previously, what came next was something rarely seen in classrooms. In fourth grade, she really broke the ice, improving her reading comprehension by an astounding 3.5 levels. To put this into perspective, it is three and a half years’ worth of progress made in a single academic year. By the end of fourth grade she was at level 5.5.

The big question, naturally, is what makes Sarala so unique and different?  She has, what appears to be an unusual gift for making lemonade out of lemons. As her teacher, I would say that Sarala possesses three qualities that make her the outstanding student that she is: (1) A prodigious memory; (2) A great work ethic and (3) A good understanding of her areas of development.

Sarala is the kind of student who creates her own homework even when teachers haven’t given her any. She rereads and rewrites things that she has learnt in school that very day, practicing spellings, pronounciation and arithmetic until she feels satisfied with how much she knows. Whenever she hits a stumbling block in her class performance, she simply asks what she needs to do to get it right and a simple instruction puts her in the right direction. She seeks senior students’ help when she deems it a good idea, borrowing workbooks that are out of her own grades’ curriculum and completes them herself.

Sarala is also a good dancer and enjoys working in dramas and elocutions. She aspires to be a teacher herself one day - like her ‘Archana and Upasana didis’ who were her very first teachers. No one can deny that she has all the tools to make it big.

*Name changed to protect identity

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From her proud teacher Sushanth!!