
Therefore there is great emphasis on play and group activities.

We believe that we should provide children strong foundational education through activity-oriented pedagogy and learning labs, to help them discover the joy of learning. YGP School is a departure from existing primary schools because our emphasis is on providing globally benchmarked education. YGP School is eligible for council subsidies for student and faculty exchange trips with its partner school in the UK. As a member of the Global School Partnership (GSP) programme of the British Council, the Mrs. The distinguishing characteristic of this avant garde primary is a partnership it has signed with the Edward Richardson Primary School, Tetford, Lincolnshire (UK), under which it will import curriculum and pedagogies, exchange notes and opinions through video conferencing, and initiate cultural, student and faculty exchange programmes between the schools. YGP School, which admitted its first batch of 215 pre-KG to class III students in June 2006, has grown to 440 students (upto class V), supported by a faculty of 30 teachers even as the pre-school has been shifted to contiguous premises in the upmarket Mylapore suburb of Chennai. In the short span of two years, aggregate enrollment at the Mrs. Unsurprisingly, Chennai’s newest primary has precipitated a stampede for admissions within the city’s informed middle class, which values good foundational education. YGP’s vision of a global approach to primary education, and fulfils Madhuvanthi’s dream to name a school after her grandmother. This pace-setting primary (K-V) school, whose foundation stone was formally laid by former president APJ Abdul Kalam on December 1, 2005, embodies Dr.


YGP School was established to commemorate her on her 80th birthday (December 1, 2005). Parthasarathy, promoter-director of this southern port city’s Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan group of schools, under the aegis of Calibre Educational Foundation co-founded by the husband-wife team of Madhuvanthi and Arun Kumar, the Mrs. Promoted less than two years ago (June 2006) in honour of Chennai’s doyenne of education, Dr. YGP’s vision of a global approach to early childhood education, Chennai’s newest primary has precipitated a stampede for admissions Promoted less than two years ago to embody Dr.
