✦ Learning
See what learning looks like here.
Not a list of subjects. Real moments, with the time the camera caught them, and what the children and the teacher were actually doing.
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April 2026 · 11:03 – 11:15 am
One morning at the round table
The room with the alphabet mural
Twelve minutes of one real morning, in the order the camera caught it.
- The children
- Colour with crayons, sit together round the table, and count beads on an abacus.
- The teacher
- Poonam ma'am sits at the table with them and talks them through it.
FilmPoonam ma'am starts the morning at the round table. ![Toddlers colouring with crayons on sheets of paper at the blue table]()
Crayons out, a sheet of paper each. ![Poonam ma'am at the round table with a group of children under the alphabet mural]()
The whole group round the table under the alphabet mural. FilmTwo toddlers counting beads on the abacus. -
February 2026 · 12:48 – 12:49 pm
Clapping games in the playing area
The covered playing area
Two minutes on the floor of the playing area.
- The children
- Sit in a group on the floor, clap along, and hide their eyes for peekaboo.

Everyone clapping along. ![Two little girls clapping on the floor of the playing area]()
Two friends keeping the beat. ![Children covering their eyes for a game of peekaboo]()
Hands over eyes: peekaboo. -
Holi · March 2026
The whole world in her hands
At the centre
One moment, and the page it made.
- The child
- Painted her hand green and blue and pressed it onto the page.
- On the page
- “We've got the whole world in our hands.”

Her handprint on the page, and the hand that made it. -
March 2026 · 10:56 am
Putting the toys back
The yellow room
Not every lesson has a worksheet.
- The child
- Carries the toys back and puts them in the basket.
FilmToys back in the basket. -
Winter · date to confirm
A small group, up close
The room with the alphabet mural
Woolly hats on, everyone within arm's reach of the teacher.
- The teacher
- Poonam ma'am sits right at the table, among the children.

Poonam ma'am at the round table with a small group in woolly hats. -
Study time · June 2023
Books open at the round table
At the round table
A teacher goes from notebook to notebook.
- The children
- Notebooks open, working on their own pages.
- The teacher
- Sits among them, checking a notebook.

Notebooks open, and a teacher checking each one. -
Art and craft
A tree of thumbprints
At the red table
One thumb, many colours.
- The child
- Pressed a painted thumb onto the page again and again to make the leaves of a tree.
- On the page
- The leaves of a tree, one thumbprint at a time.

Thumbprint by thumbprint, the tree fills with colour.



