Sahyadri School: Master Planning Sahyadri school is a residential school run under Krishnamurti Foundation of India (KFI) situated in Khed taluka, and is about two hours away from Pune city. Established in 1994, it is spread over 70 acres of land on a scenic hill top. A master planning exercise is envisaged for this already …
Biodiversity If we love our children, we must love the earth with tender care and pass it on, diverse and beautiful, so that on a warm spring day10,000 years hence they can feel peace in a sea of grass, can watch a bee visit a flower, can hear a sandpiper call in the sky, and …
Western Folk Dance at Sahyadri School “How beautiful are the feet of the messengers living atop a hill, bringing good tidings, and proclaiming peace.” That’s how Mahesh Pande, Mahesh sir to us, translates the lyrics of ‘Manavu’, the Israeli folk dance that brings our Saturday Folk Dance evenings to a close. “There’s a flame burning …
A brief on the Medical Unit on the campus A ventilated Medical unit is placed in natural environment on school campus It has an outpatient facility as well as indoor facility. Routine check up of students for day to day aliments of sports injury and seasonal complaints is done regularly. Emergency services are available 24 …
The following account speaks of the rural outreach program at the Sahyadri School. The program is both simple and complex depending on the lens and depth with which we look at it. At the first glance, it is a simple natural farming program, trying to advocate the blessings of the process to the nearby farming …
“Farms on the Hill Top” – An in depth view at the Rural Outreach program Read More »
It has always been felt that lifeskill needs to be an integral part of the childrens’ growth in the school’s environment. To a great extent it gets taken care upto the middle school years as part of the curriculum and natural farming being one of the essential components of lifeskill programme.
FUSION FEST Brief History The Student Council first proposed the idea of a “Fusion Fest” in 2017 to enable students to explore subjects that are not a part of their formal curriculum in school. Preliminary discussions led to the idea of a free format platform. Under the Fusion Fest, students (singly or in small groups) …
Note on Paripoorna mandal by a Student Our last excursion was more than memorable. The different thoughts we heard from different people gave us new perspectives. This had our thoughts working on what we can do next about the things we learnt about farming and changing our lifestyles in small and big ways. But as …
