Cornerstoneगुरुकुल
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Learning

Root, not rote

Sport, music, making and running a stall are taught and tracked the way maths is.

Aligned to Cambridge Curriculum

What feeds one child

Nine things grow one child.

Touch one to see how it is taught, what a child does, and how we check it.

Pick a word to light up what builds it.

The child

Running today Planned

Mastery in the core

Every child can reach mastery, at their own speed.

The core subjects are the part of school we guard most. A child is taught at their own level and never moves on with a gap. Nobody is ranked. Here is the loop that runs for every child.

  1. Find where the child is

    We test at the child’s grade and also below it, because that is how we find the true floor. One question in every paper sits above grade, to find the child who is ready for more.

    Today
  2. Teach at that level

    A daily mastery block, in small groups for maths and reading. Groups are re-formed every six to eight weeks, so a child who catches up moves up. Today the teacher forms them by hand. We are building a system that forms them from the data.

    Today
  3. Idea first, then method

    Real objects, then pictures, then numbers. Sounds before letters. A child knows why a method works before being asked to do it fast.

    Today
  4. Check the exact step

    A weekly sheet and a Friday check. Every question is tagged to what it tests, so a wrong answer points at the step where the child got stuck, not just “wrong”.

    Today
  5. Close the gap

    Where a gap shows up, we teach that step again, in the school day, then test again at the same difficulty. The aim is no tutor on top.

    Being built
  6. Keep the map

    Every adult who works with a child notes what they saw that day. Over months it becomes a map of that child, on a four-stage scale from just starting to secure. Success is the child’s own line.

    Being built

No rank lists. Tests of mental maths and handwriting are always done without AI.

A parent’s view

“Character development, sports and curriculum with a focus on ‘learning to learn’ take centre stage, and children are evaluated for all these aspects every quarter.”

Kabir’s parent · Grade 3

Neev to Grade 10

One path, four stops.

Small checks every week, so a big exam is never the first time we find out.

  1. Maths and English Olympiads
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Today

Neev, the early years

Neev means foundation. Children learn with their hands first.

Morning circle, a Word of the Week and a Good Deed.

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Today

Gurukul, Grades 1 to 4

Mastery blocks at each child’s own level, workshops, class jobs, and science that asks “How do you know?”

Children are prepared in school for the maths and English Olympiads.

Visualisation: children in maroon uniforms work in three groups at different tables, each group with different work, in a bright brick classroom seen from above
The campus we’re building · visualisation

PlannedFrom 2028–29

Grades 5 onwards, on the new campus

The path we are building, on the new campus.

Wet and dry science labs, and a skill pavilion with real tools.

Visualisation: a boy in goggles, apron and gloves writes notes in a notebook beside a flask and test tubes at a lab bench
The campus we’re building · visualisation

PlannedFrom 2029–30

Grade 10: the IGCSE

Grade 10 is the IGCSE. Aligned to Cambridge Curriculum all the way up.

Grades 9 and 10 lead up to it.

A parent’s view

“I am seeing a lot of change in her. She’s playing with everyone.”

A mother in the Parent-Toddler Programme

In their words

The three founders on learning.

A child here makes things and explains them to the class. There is memory work too, but it is the small part.

Nimish ShahCo-founder · Systems, technology and brand

Sport, music and making all get real time. When we have to choose, the core subjects win, because a child here shouldn’t need a tutor on top.

Akanksha RawatCo-founder · Academic lead

Whatever we take up, we do properly or we leave alone. So the list of things children do here is shorter than you might expect, and each one is taught and tracked the way we track maths.

Aseem KhareCo-founder · Business and sustainability

See it happen

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