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Chennai’s best franchised preschools

Rank Competence of teachers (200) Teacher welfare and development (100) Infrastructure Individual attention to students (100) Value for money (100) Parental involvement Curriculum and pedagogy (150) Safety and hygiene (100) Leadership quality (100) Online interaction (100) TOTAL SCORE (1125)

2018 2019 2020 2021 provision (75) (100)
2 2 4 1 Podar Jumbo Kids, Thoraipakkam 168 66 62 75 77 76 124 77 72 66 863
10 7 3 2 SEED School, Kotturpuram 166 65 61 71 76 75 120 76 73 63 846
4 4 4 3 Kangaroo Kids, Velachery 167 63 60 73 72 78 119 70 71 64 837
7 7 2 4 Kidzee, Anna Nagar 166 64 59 72 71 71 123 65 70 63 824
3 3 5 4 SEED School, LIC, Madipakkam 165 63 58 73 70 73 122 68 69 63 824
13 14 5 5 Arise ‘ N’ Shine, Mogappair 162 61 60 69 69 66 116 60 67 62 792
NR NR NR 6 Podar Jumbo Kids Plus, Thalambur 161 59 58 66 68 65 115 62 66 61 781
7 5 6 7 SEED School, Pallikaranai 158 58 59 68 67 63 113 63 65 60 774
6 6 7 8 Podar Jumbo Kids, Perumbakkam 159 57 57 66 67 61 111 64 63 60 765
17 17 9 9 Arise ‘ N’ Shine, Neelankarai 153 55 61 65 66 60 112 61 62 58 753
NR NR NR 10 SEED School, Medavakkam 150 53 55 64 63 62 110 61 60 56 734

We are delighted and excited that we have been We are delighted with our promotion from #4 in
given a huge promotion to Chennai’s #1 proprietary 2020-21 to #1 this year! Credit for this big promotion
“preschool in the very challenging pandemic lockdown “should accrue to our team of dedicated teachers
year! This major achievement is the outcome of extraor- who invested extraordinary efforts to ensure that
dinary efforts the management and teachers made to children learned joyfully through the virtual medium.
ensure learning continuity for our children. Through the Some credit also to our president, Dr. Swati Popat Vats,
lockdown, our teachers innovated engaging and enjoy- for her leadership and guidance in developing the PJK
able learning materials and sent parents home learning curriculum for digital teaching-learning. As in all PJK
kits to teach children at home. But as we look forward schools countrywide, the PJK-Thoraipakkam team
to welcoming children to school in January we intend to worked hard to build strong teacher-student-parent
focus on redeveloping their peer interaction and socialisa- partnerships and focused on online learning-by-doing
tion skills, and their socio-emotional rehabilitation” — activities” — n n ie A n th on y , franchisee, oda r
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