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For the love of Origami
L to R: Adya with her origami dinosaur, Shruthi flaunting her dino and Maths teacher, Savitha, demonstrating the folds leading to the dinosaur Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn!Benjamin Franklin At ILM Montessori, we believe in...
Science Week at ILM
Aaniyah, Zuha and Anaya, working on the flyer for their experiments. “Science is magic that works” Kurt Vonnegu There is nothing more satisfying than looking at the round-galleon eyes of young children. More so when it dawns on them that what they believed to be magic...
From the Principal’s desk, concluding thoughts for the academic year
It has been a rather tumultuous year, this. In this piece, I hope to capture the highlights of the last year and shed some light on the direction forward. Change - the only constant As you are aware, some of our veteran teachers...
What’s a school without its children ?
The trees definitely missed the children too! In a time when most children in our country are left in the lurch with no schools to go to, we ought to acknowledge our privilege to be able to access schooling online. Even though, "online school" feels a lot less like...
Euphony for the teacher’s soul
We know how hard last year has been for each one of us. Towards the end of the last academic year, when we were collectively wallowing in our pool of “all that we could have done, but couldn’t", this sweet note from Vaishnavi and Harish brought great relief. Thank you...
Hero in the Shadows
By Dia Z Panakkat, The story of a local woman who fights inequality that persists even in Kerala. Society should be grateful to volunteer social workers who do good in some of the most challenging neighborhoods in our country. In places like Delhi and Bangalore,...