Abhaya School

The Waldorf School

Where the head is held high and the mind without fear, The heart is full of joy and the hands persevere

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Early Childhood Stage

The Early childhood stage is crucial for the child to develop its physicality. Fine internal organ growth as well as neurological processes that have to be established need this period for ripening. Any formal learning during this stage of development is bound to deplete the energies of the child from ‘body building’ (building health).

It is an established fact that the myelination of the brain is a prerequisite for any work demanding intellectual participation. This is activated by natural movements of the child during the early phase of growth. The more we allow for such movements in growing children, through play and informal ways of socializing and learning, the more contributive we are towards establishing fine neurological processes.

Our Kindergarten (2.5-7)

The Abhaya kindergarten acts as a bridge between a child’s life at home and his later years in the grade school.
If you visit our kindergarten, you will notice that it looks a little different from other traditional kindergartens you’ve seen. The toys in the classroom are simple and made from natural materials – knitted or hand-sewn dolls, wooden blocks and planks, long play cloths made of cotton or silk, a set of copper or ceramic cups and bowls. Nothing, in fact, that would look out of place in a traditional household. There are no worksheets, posters, or calendars hanging on the walls. No books, no computers.
Our kindergarten is designed to respond to the developmental needs of two age groups
The 2and half to 4+ year old children-the kindergarten is often called nursery group.
The 4+ and 6+year-old children- kindergarten group

The key elements in the program are:

  • Regular daily rhythms: Predictability and repetition are profoundly soothing to children. For this reason, life in the Waldorf kindergarten follows a predictable rhythm – Monday is drawing day, Tuesday is painting day, Wednesday is handwork day, and so on – adapting the daily schedule to the changing seasons and festivals of the year. The annual cycles of the seasons like Summer, Monsoon, Winter etc and festivals like Diwali, Eid, Christmas etc are celebrated with stories, songs, and artistic activities.
  • Learning through practical activities. Young children before the age of seven learn primarily by trying things out, using their bodies, and imitating the adults around them. The Waldorf kindergarten responds to these drives by focusing on practical activities, such as baking, cooking, painting, gardening, finger knitting and other basic life skill activities. Teacher cooks and bakes the snacks or food right in the classroom. The children help by cutting the vegetables (with safe butter knives) , washing and cleaning , kneading the dough, rolling the balls and making chapattis.
  • Art. Art is a vital part of the Waldorf curriculum from the very beginning. In kindergarten, the children paint with water colors in the three primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, to learn the basic relationships between the colors. They model with beeswax and draw with wax crayons.
  • Singing, movement, and storytelling in groups. During daily circle time, the children sing, do finger plays, recite poems, and do movements that are symmetrical in nature. The teacher also tells the children fairy tales – always telling them, never reading from a book. The same story is repeated every day for as long as two weeks so the children can absorb the images deeply. At the end of the story cycle, the fairy tale is performed as a puppet show or a play with children acting out the parts and the teacher narrating the story.
  • Free play, both indoors and outdoors- Play based on the children’s own spontaneous ideas is one of the Waldorf kindergarten’s primary activities. The simple, open-ended toys in the classroom lend themselves to that kind of play. A piece of wood can become a car one minute, and a house the next. Often children will act out the fairy tales they hear during story time




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Abhaya was founded by a group of parents and teachers who had serious questions about the nature of education that is presently prevalent. The group found its inspiration in the Waldorf curriculum. The Waldorf Curriculum is a process of learning that places the growing child in the centre...

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At Abhaya teachers believe and teach a curriculum that fosters learning experiences that is an integral part of the natural environment in which they live and study. A commitment to deliver multi disciplinary learning that is underpinned by Waldorf pedagogy and the CBSE curriculum in later years is central to the core belief of our school. Lessons in Drama, Land surveying, Farming and Crafts integrate mainstream subjects such as Languages, Trigonometry, Geography, Natural and Physical sciences, holistically and allow students to connect with real life situations, in a dynamic and responsible way. They are also taught science, math, art, craft and the humanities in an age appropriate manner, enabling a natural curiosity about the world in which they live.
Abhaya has some well constructed learning spaces in a beautiful three acre campus surrounded by rice fields, green house gardens and residential villas and apartments. In the open expanse of Kompally, our school building stands facing the east and is built in such a way that all rooms get ample sunlight. The windows of all the rooms of our two storied building bring in the south west and north east winds. The school has a lovely courtyard all along the building with a lotus pond and a wooden bridge .It has the Kindergartens and class 1 to 5 on the ground floor along with the two language rooms. The older classes, laboratories, library and the auditorium (for music practice) are on the upper floor. The school kitchen, dining hall, office, guest houses are in the adjacent building. It has a large covered playground space which has a basketball court and additional spaces for various school activities such as festivals and whole school meetings. Above a compact kitchen and pantry are rooms for guests and visitors and teachers who may wish to spend their weekends on working holidays in serene and sylvan surroundings, far from the city’s maddening crowd. The pantry and kitchen are well equipped with Refrigerators,

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Abhaya, as the name suggests is about many of us who are free from fear. Fear about an increasingly questionable education system, fear about the choices we make in the interest of our Children. It is for all among us who understand that excellence has more to do with self-motivation than killer instinct; intelligence has more to do with the harmonious working of the hands, heart and head than lea… Read more
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Abhaya was founded by a group of parents and teachers who had serious questions about the nature of education that is presently prevalent. The group found its inspiration in the Waldorf curriculum. The Waldorf Curriculum is a process of learning that places the growing child in the centre. Woven around insights given by Rudolf Steiner, the curriculum nurtures the natural developmental stages of th… Read more
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Abhaya was founded by a group of parents and teachers who had serious questions about the nature of education that is presently prevalent. The group found its inspiration in the Waldorf curriculum. The Waldorf Curriculum is a process of learning that places the growing child in the centre. Woven around insights given by Rudolf Steiner, the curriculum nurtures the natural developmental stages of th… Read more
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Abhaya, as the name suggests is about many of us who are free from fear. Fear about an increasingly questionable education system, fear about the choices we make in the interest of our Children. It is for all among us who understand that excellence has more to do with self-motivation than killer instinct; intelligence has more to do with the harmonious working of the hands, heart and head than lea… Read more
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Abhaya, as the name suggests is about many of us who are free from fear. Fear about an increasingly questionable education system, fear about the choices we make in the interest of our Children. It is for all among us who understand that excellence has more to do with self-motivation than killer instinct; intelligence has more to do with the harmonious working of the hands, heart and head than learning by rote.
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Abhaya, as the name suggests is about many of us who are free from fear. Fear about an increasingly questionable education system, fear about the choices we make in the interest of our Children. It is for all among us who understand that excellence has more to do with self-motivation than killer instinct; intelligence has more to do with the harmonious working of the hands, heart and head than learning by rote.
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Monday: 9:00AM - 5:00PM
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ABHAYA SCHOOL
Gundla Pochampally, Kompally
Hyderabad, TS-500100
TEL: +91 8008222056
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    September 18, 2016 , News and Events
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