We will focus on all aspects of a child’s development. Our School adopts commonly accepted measures from other ECE institutions tracking milestones of development. Getting their foundations right will ultimately result in major social and economic gains for society. Research shows that good quality early learning helps improve outcomes at all levels of education. Our School will focus on the physical & Motor Development, Language Development, Cognitive or Intellectual Development, Social Development, Emotional Development, Development of Creative & Aesthetic Appreciation.
The School
The early years are critical for growth and development in a child’s lifetime. 90% of a child’s brain develops before the age of six. Our school’s focus in the early years is on providing “experiential learning” as an alternative to text-book based rote learning commonly practiced in rural India.
Vision & Values
SUPPORT US IN OUR ENDEAVOUR
Know how you can support our school and empower our village community members with specialized skill development, to operate and run the school.
Infrastructure upgrade
Donate to upgrade our Infrastructure of the school. In the beginning, it was a small hut where around 50 kids used to come for school. From there we moved up to a 3 room structure school and even added a teachers/staff room. We want our school to expand one more floor and 3 more rooms for our students to teach.
Free workshop
If you want to engage yourself to educate kids to learn about every aspect of life, you can share your experience and journey to guide our students and teachers to build a better community. Come, teach us, educate our village kids to new ways of learning to see life and the world as they deserve.
Sponsor a teacher
Are you a teacher? Or do you know any teachers who are working on ECE and SME learning and teaching models? Please support us and join in our school venture as a voluntary teacher to educate our kids, to share your knowledge. Alongside to teach our present school teachers to learn about new methods, ideas of Early Childhood Education.
Donate Kids-education related Resources
By providing them “Vibgyor crayons” to “rainbows of dreams” you can support us. Creative learning toys always help kids to understand and respond faster. From learning toys to new ideas,or by providing laptops to educate them on computers and the internet.
Playground
By learning we teach, by teaching we learn. That’s how we have our fun.
We share our experience here which you may be able to count but the fun we get to learn will stay as inspiring memories. Check out our inspiring stories, our ideas and our learning.
The Curtain Raiser
A sneak peek into our recent transformation journey. The new facilities are adorned with art that inspires curious minds.
Our Pedagogical Vision
Our headmaster and mentor (ex-headmaster) discuss their shared vision on how to blend the proven methods of teaching with the experimental.
Inspiring Story of Dr. Asoke Mal
Assistant Professor of Oncology at the cutting-edge research hospital Roswell Park in Buffalo N.Y. recounted his early days at primary school, how his mother supported his education, and the drive to fulfill one’s dream.
Inspiring message from Rohini at RCAD
Rohini Maiti is a recent graduate in Fine Arts from Ringling College and has her roots in the village of ChauddhaChuli where our Nursery School is located.
The Tiffin Box Book - A Nutrition awareness program for parents & children of Rural Bengal
At Vidyasagar Nursery School in Khejuri – II, Purba Medinipur, we noticed a dramatic rise in the consumption of packaged Snacks and cola for tiffin. In a parent-teacher interaction, we learned that (a) mothers don’t have adequate time or ideas on how to pack a healthy Dabba (b) not everyone is aware of the ill effects of preservatives and unhygienic additives in packaged snacks (c) kids don’t like to eat so-called healthy food. The Tiffin Box Book project is an experimental intervention program to offer a solution to these challenges. Watch how we did it and comment with your suggestions and feedback.
Learning Kits help reduce the burden of Text Books in Rural Nursery
It has always been a joy working with the teachers at Vidyasagar Nursery, ChauddhaChuli. Their infectious energy and hunger to learn can put any ‘public school’ staff to shame. Every day our teachers come up with new ideas and are able to maximize the usage of kits funded by the Turiyo Foundation. We have now entrusted them with the task of churning new ideas for learning kits in vernacular and more relevant local content, so kids find it easier to relate to. One such ‘memory game’ has been produced at scale and is easily the class favorite.
Makers Camp at Vidyasagar Nursery School
Our Nursery took the bold move of organising a Winter Camp for existing students and friends from our neighbouring schools. Titled “Makers camp” we are going to have 5 days of fun as we discover the maker spirit in all the kids. This is a first of its kind initiative in our neighbourhood and possibly the entire district.
Vidyasagar Nursery Khejuri Purba Medinipur - Journey 2021-22
Founded in 2017, Vidyasagar Nursery had the vision to focus exclusively on early childhood education. With help from a few supportive women from the community, Animesh Das started this school as its founding headmaster. A struggle that lasted for 4 years and saw many ups and downs, finally came to an end when Turiyo Foundation adopted this school. The last year 2021-22 has been transformative, not just in terms of infrastructure, but also in terms of rapid adoption of an alternate form of pedagogy that is inspired by the world’s best. We are deeply engaged with the parent community and urging them to recognize the importance of play-based education and imbibing the maker culture. It is just the start of our journey.
Technology For Good: A Day with Alexa
We have broadband at school, it was but natural to try a few tricks and spice up our first spoken English class, Enter Alexa. What started as a bit of a challenge, speaking to her all ‘masked up’, soon turned into a lot of fun. Alexa will soon find a permanent place in our learning space. This is what we call #technologyforgood
A child (3+) engages with a Learning Kit, for the first time in her life
Our children have never been exposed to play-based experiences and learning kits. We wondered how they would react when exposed to such kits. So we did puzzle boxes (in Bangla) and double-sided flashcards in (English) this experiment, and were pleasantly surprised with her intuitive handling of the tasks. This is proof positive that every child has infinite potential to blossom. Early Childhood Intervention at Vidyasagar Nursery can give a robust foundation for the preparatory stage, from where the child can make a successful leap for the Secondary School. Time will tell whether we are able to make an impact.
Tiffin Box Recipes
Workshops
Classroom
Peek inside our Classroom. Here we learn our things, create our dreams and express ourselves. This is us, our classroom. We invite you to join us.
~ Kids & Teachers.
Meet the Teachers
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.“
~ Malala Yousafzai
Animesh Das
Headmaster
“All children from our village…to be precise, if they can avail the international level of education without depending on books and with the help of present technology…teaching the kids in exciting new ways, with games, with new learning methods is the way forward.”
Manjushree Maity Gayen
Teacher
“Education is everything. Only a teacher can help create a sustainable society…”
Mamoni Kar
Teacher
“In the beginning, with providing them love and care and teaching them through games, story-telling is the key…slowly when they get accustomed in a month or two then we start teaching them.”
Bakul Pramanik
Teacher
“What I have learned, that I must not forget with time…and alongside that, I have a kid whom I can also be able to teach. So, I joined school and started teaching.”
Jyotsna Maity Bera
Teacher
“Educated women shouldn’t be only a homemaker, they need to create their space of freedom.If they are educated and confident they should teach and nurture the same with the children. Education should be mandatory for everyone.”
Jhilu Khatua Sau
Teacher
“My earnest request to the parents, we are doing our best to educate your children…If you can also come forward, the children will get better attention and guidance to move forward in their life.”
Tanushree Midya Das
Teacher
“I love them like my own child and be a friend to them. Here we teach poor kids too…but they never get pressurized for the school fee.”
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