Veena Sreenivasan is a Montessori trained teacher and this is her first year as an educator. She is deeply interested in working with children and facilitating their developmental skills within the Montessori environment. She strongly believes in the Montessori way of teaching and learning and practices the same with her children. She believes that the best way children learn is when they independently explore their surroundings and the facilitator offers help and support.
Yoga Priyanka is a passionate educator who teaches Biology for the senior classes. She believes kindling the curiosity of students and inculcating a love for learning is the best way to impart education. She also thinks that teachers should keep learning from their students, their peers and the world around them, about the new approaches and strategies that help students learn better. She has a Masters in Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology as well as in Education.
Mithali Priyaa is an engineering graduate in Biomedical sciences. She is a certified Montessori educator with a profound passion for nurturing young minds. Firmly believing in the transformative power of a caring environment, she strives to create a safe and supportive space where children can flourish. With a keen focus on meaningful learning engagements, she endeavors to instill confidence and independence in her students, empowering them to reach their full potential.
Sandhya is a post graduate in Insurance and comes from a corporate background. Her passion towards art and education motivated her to choose teaching as her profession. Having many years of experience teaching sketching and painting, she has now enrolled for Montessori teacher training too. She believes every child is unique and has various talents which can be developed by encouraging their imagination and creativity.
Anjana Varadarajan is a Business Economics graduate. She later went on to pursue her B.Ed. in Maths and English and Masters in Economics. Taking after her mother, she feels that right from a very young age, she always had the thirst to learn and impart her learnings. She feels now that her toddler has begun his schooling it’s time for her to pace it slowly and steadily back into her passion to teach.
Neetha Kaniyal is a Commerce graduate and has a Masters degree in Social work. She is a trained Montessorian with a Diploma in Montessori Education. Her admiration for the Montessori philosophy and love for children drew her towards this profession. She enjoys working with young children, nurturing them, considering this as her contribution to building a better future.
Vignesh Kumar is a Fine Arts graduate and is passionate about his work. Sculptor being his forte, he always looks for opportunities to apply his creative skills to the fullest. He is adaptable and strives to bring out the best in children with his calm demeanor. He is now working towards his bigger goal of creating more sculptors.
Ilanthamizhan is passionate about teaching and looks for interactive and practical strategies for facilitating chemistry in class. He has completed his Masters in Philosophy and Master in Chemistry. He believes that Chemistry is more interesting when students learn its application in real life. His classes include a lot of ‘How’ and ‘Why’, that kindle the young minds and inculcate an enthusiasm for learning.
The Middle School learners displayed their stewardship and entrepreneurial skills by organising a sale. Their products were the end result from various focus areas of their seva sessions. The funds raised through this sale were used for procuring a composter. This will enable the learners to be involved in sustainable practices.
The farewell was a memorable occasion for the outgoing grade XII learners to gather on campus one last time before they embarked on their new journey and pursuits in life. The graduating students reminisced and shared about the years of fun, learning and memories made at Hari Shree.
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