Gayatri Vidyapeeth School

Srinidhi Layout is a pretty quiet spot most of the time, and we’ve been here at No. 20, 21, and 22 for quite a while now. The 1st Cross starts getting busy right around 8:00 in the morning when the parents start dropping their kids off. You can hear the scooters and cars pulling up, and then it’s just a sea of uniforms for a bit. Inside, it’s just a regular school day with nothing too fancy going on. We have the usual classrooms and a small patch of ground where the children can run around during their break. Sometimes the ceiling fans in the older rooms make a bit of a clicking noise when it gets hot in the summer, but we’ve learned to ignore it. The 3rd Main is mostly houses, and most of the people in New Bank Colony know us because they see the kids walking home in the afternoons. We spend a lot of our time just making sure the cupboards are organized and the chalk is stocked up in the classrooms. You can hear the heavy traffic from Kanakapura Road if the wind is blowing the right way, but usually, it’s just the sound of someone reading a lesson out loud or a bell ringing. The Bangalore rain can be a bit of a pain because the playground gets a few puddles that take ages to dry. We have some trees near the fence that drop leaves everywhere, so someone is always sweeping. The staff usually brings their own lunch boxes and we eat in the small room by the office. It’s a simple, practical setup for everyone.