Principal's Message

Dear parents and students,

When this school opened in 1993, the nearest option for most of our families was a bus ride of well over an hour, taken twice a day, in weather that does not always allow it. A good many children simply did not go. The school exists because that was not acceptable to the people who live here.

Thirty years later we teach Nursery to Class XII, we are affiliated to CBSE, New Delhi, and our senior batches go on to universities across the country. I am proud of that. But it is not the thing I would ask you to judge us on.

A school is not its results. It is what a child does on the day nobody is marking them.

Marks are the easiest thing about a school to measure and the least interesting thing to promise. What we try to build here is harder to put in a table: a child who will admit they have not understood something, who will stay behind to help clear the hall after an event, and who treats the person sweeping the corridor exactly as they treat the person teaching them physics.

We ask three things of the families who join us. Send your child on time and rested. Read what we send home — we do not send much, and we send it because it matters. And when you disagree with us, tell us early and tell us directly, rather than telling the child. We will do the same for you.

Our campus sits on twelve acres in the Garhwal hills. If you are considering this school for your child, please come and walk around it while it is running. Sit at the back of a lesson. Talk to the teachers. You will learn more in half a morning than any prospectus can tell you — including this letter.

We ask three things of the families who join us. Send your child on time and rested. Read what we send home — we do not send much, and we send it because it matters. And when you disagree with us, tell us early and tell us directly, rather than telling the child. We will do the same for you.

Our campus sits on twelve acres in the Garhwal hills. If you are considering this school for your child, please come and walk around it while it is running. Sit at the back of a lesson. Talk to the teachers. You will learn more in half a morning than any prospectus can tell you — including this letter.

We ask three things of the families who join us. Send your child on time and rested. Read what we send home — we do not send much, and we send it because it matters. And when you disagree with us, tell us early and tell us directly, rather than telling the child. We will do the same for you.

Our campus sits on twelve acres in the Garhwal hills. If you are considering this school for your child, please come and walk around it while it is running. Sit at the back of a lesson. Talk to the teachers. You will learn more in half a morning than any prospectus can tell you — including this letter.

Manoj Kumar Sharma Principal, Shri Chandrabadani Public School
What we hold ourselves to

Three things we promise

Every child known by name

Classes stay small on purpose. A teacher who cannot name every child in the room cannot tell you which one has stopped putting their hand up.

Questions before answers

We would rather a child asked a difficult question badly than repeated an easy answer well. That is harder to mark and worth more.

Parents told early

If something is going wrong for your child, you hear it from us before you have to ask. That is a promise the staff are held to.