Maria Nursery & Primary School

Maria Nursery & Primary School has its home at No 45/23 on Dr Janaki Narayanan Road. We are right in the middle of S S Colony here in Madurai. It’s a residential area mostly, so we have a lot of neighbors who see us every day. The school is meant for the younger kids, the ones just starting out. You can hear the singing and the alphabet being recited if you walk past in the morning. We have a small playground area where the little ones spend their breaks. Madurai gets very hot, so we try to keep the rooms as cool as possible. The staff here are mostly local women who have been with us for a long time. We know all the kids by name and we usually know their parents too. It’s a tight-knit kind of place. We don’t have a massive campus with hundreds of rooms. It’s just a simple building where we teach the basics like reading, writing, and how to share. Sometimes the kids get paint on their clothes or lose a shoe in the sand, but that’s just part of it. We keep things running smoothly as best as we can. Every afternoon, the street gets busy with parents picking up their children. It’s a familiar routine on Janaki Narayanan Road. We’ve been part of this street’s life for many years now and we just keep doing our thing.