GKV

The Gita-Krishnamurthy Vidalya (GKV) was founded in 2009 to provide free education for children of parents who had not themselves ever been to school. It has now been running for four years and is based in two houses, one of which housed the original Sri Jayendra School. The money for the basic primary school was provided by Krishnamurthy in memory of his late wife. It shares trustees with Sri Jayendra School. 

The school itself

Some of the Emanuel students have experienced teaching at GKV. This is a free school where the children pay no money to attend which means the conditions are slightly tougher than Sri Jayendra. The students have enjoyed the mornings they have spent there and found the children were very enthusiastic and keen to learn.

As a teacher, I found it extremely hard to plan what to teach and then to teach without any resources. To have no interactive whiteboard and the children having just a pencil and a small exercise was very difficult to adjust to, never mind a class almost twice the size of mine back in the UK! I was, however, excited to get into teaching and found my first class an absolute delight! It was then straight into maths with a different class. Upon entering the classroom I was then told to do a different lesson to what I had planned and went straight into it! Luckily the children seemed to enjoy it and some good progress was made. Tomorrow will be another two maths and two literacy lessons for Year 3 and Year 4. This time I will make my planning a little more adjustable!

Miss Ellery