Gandhi Primary & Middle School, Dinara

Our school is tucked away on Shampur Main Road, right near Lr Bande Road in RT Nagar. It’s a bit of a crowded area in Bangalore, so there’s always something going on outside our gates. Gandhi Primary & Middle School has been around long enough that some of the parents who bring their kids here used to be students here themselves. It’s a primary and middle school, so we have the younger ones running around mostly. The building is older, with hallways that have seen a lot of footsteps over the years. We have a routine that we stick to, starting with the morning assembly and ending with the rush at the gate in the afternoon. It gets quite noisy during recess, which is to be expected when you have a bunch of kids in one place. We don't have fancy equipment, but we have enough desks and blackboards to keep the learning going. The teachers are mostly people from the surrounding parts of Bangalore who understand the daily grind of living here. Sometimes the traffic on Shampur Main Road makes it hard for the buses to get through, but we manage to stay on schedule. It’s a simple, local school where the focus is just on the basic lessons and making sure the children behave themselves. We don’t make a big fuss about things; we just open the doors every morning and do our work as best as we can.