Gajdharpara Primary School

Gajdharpara Primary School is located on Kalkere Main Road in Ramamurthy Nagar. We are at No.71, right on the 5th Cross. Being a primary school, we have the younger children here, which means the place is never really quiet. There is always someone crying or laughing or running down the hallway when they should be walking. The road outside is very busy, so we have to be careful when the kids are leaving at the end of the day. We have a few small classrooms that are decorated with the kids' drawings and alphabet charts. It is a very simple building. We do not have a big playground, so we make do with the small space we have for physical education. The teachers are mostly women from the local area who have a lot of patience. We deal with the basics like learning to read and count. Lunchtime is the loudest part of the day when everyone opens their tiffin boxes. You can smell the different foods from all over the building. We do not have much in the way of fancy equipment. We use chalkboards and notebooks. It is a bit old-fashioned, but it works for us. We just want the kids to learn their letters and numbers so they can move on to the bigger schools later. It is a lot of work but it feels right. We are just a small school in this corner of the city doing our bit.