Kadam Experiential SchoolBaraut, Baghpat
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A wall in the classroom covered with photographs of the children and their drawings.
The photo wall in the classroom.

Notes from school

Things that happened, written by someone who was in the room.

“Can we stay a little longer?”

The line heard more than any other at the 2026 summer camp, from the teenagers' post.

15 September 2026

Four kinds of play

Why every day starts with an hour of Physical, and the four kinds of play it rotates through: structured, messy, risky and free.

Children digging in the sandpit under the trees, two facilitators nearby.

15 September 2026

Examination, or observation

Why we watch instead of setting a paper, what a facilitator's note notices, and an hour with each parent to read it.

Children on the mat arranging leaves on trays.

14 September 2026

How a child learns language here

Hindi first, and English after. Speech is acquired and writing is taught, once a child has run into the need for it.

Two children bent over a large picture book on the mat.

14 September 2026

How counting arrives

The 4 is a symbol. How numbers turn up in the middle of ordinary life long before counting is introduced as a subject.

A child threading yellow beads onto a wire.

14 September 2026

चटर-पटर, 2025–26

Six children, more than forty stories in Hindi, written down exactly as they were told. The book, and what we learned from making it.

A child's crayon drawing of a tree, a slide and two figures, in green.

13 September 2026

The bird's education has been completed

Tagore wrote it in 1918 and it is still the best account of what school can do to a child. Why we keep coming back to it, and what it has to do with a leaf hunt.

3 July 2026

Teenagers summer camp 2026

Ten days. A horse built from cardboard, jute and bamboo. A mural that is still on the wall. Children who would not speak in front of a group and ended up on stage. And one line we heard more than any other: can we stay a little longer?

Teenagers at the summer camp, from the post.

3 July 2026

Toddlers summer camp 2026

Fourteen children, ten mornings. Beads, clay, what a lemon smells like, how many sounds you can hear with your eyes closed, a leaf described for several minutes, and what the facilitators noticed.

A small child at the summer camp, from the post.

Coming

What we are exploring.

Twenty-one schools we have studied, from Ladakh to Bali, and what each one has taught us.

Notes from school are written by the team, whoever was in the room: facilitators, and the people who plan the week.