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EW Grand Jury India Preschool Rankings 2021-22

Design Thinking Leaders We are humbled to be awarded EW Grand Jury’s
Preschools demonstrating extraordinary capability to Design Thinking Leader Award 2021-22. This is
break away from rote learning, and adopt pedagogies “welcome recognition of the innovative 21st century
which encourage development of students’ creative skills and pedagogies that we have progressively
thinking, collaborative and problem solving skills introduced to develop the innovation, creativity,
problem-solving and collaboration skills of youngest
Rank children. Design thinking begins early at The Gaudium,
where students identify real-life problems from their
India State City classrooms. They learn to apply their learning and analyse

1 1 1 The Gaudium School, Nanakaramguda, Hyderabad information to frame
problem statements,
2 1 1 Neev Early Years, Whitefield, Bengaluru ideate, prototype and
2 1 1 Little One — The Jaipuria Preschool, Kanpur test. They also connect
3 2 2 Neldrac Early Learning Centre & Daycare, Financial with UN Sustainable
District, Hyderabad Development Goals
3 1 1 ATS Valley School (Pre-primary), Mohali while engaging in
4 2 2 Greenwood High Preschool design thinking”
Jayanagar, Bengaluru — Anjalika
4 1 1 Sunderji Nursery School, Pune Sharma, IBPYP
5 1 1 Petals Preschool, Nirman Vihar, Delhi principal of The
6 2 2 AllenKids, Swaroop Nagar, Kanpur Gaudium School,
7 1 1 Alpha Beginnings, Trichy, Tamil Nadu Nanakramguda,
8 2 2 Tic Tac Toe Preschool, Pimple Nilakh, Pune Hyderabad. (245
9 3 3 Joosten Montessori House of Children, Bengaluru students and 45
10 2 1 London Montessori School, Chennai teachers)

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little ONE-The Jaipuria Preschool, Kan- ATS Valley School, Dera Bassi, Mohali’s Alpha Beginnings, Trichy’s Harish
pur’s Pooja Sahni receives awards from Deepak Dubey (centre right), Bhavna Luharuka, director academics, Universal
educationist-author Seema Malik (left) Banga & Anushri Gupta (centre) Education
& Ashish Jain (right), director EduNext
Technologies

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Greenwood High Preschool, Jayanagar, Sunderji Nursery School, Pune’s co- Petals Preschool, Nirman Vihar, Delhi’s
Bengaluru’s Manas Mehrotra founder Masarrat Tavawalla (centre Preeti Kwatra (centre left) & Pawan
right) & Anahita Khambata (centre left) Kwatra

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