The Crayons School

The Crayons School
BR- 1, SD Block, Sadarpur, Sector-45, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301, India
https://www.thecrayonschool.com/
The Crayons School, founded in 2011, sits on a four-acre green campus on the edge of Jaipur’s fast-growing Jagatpura corridor. At first glance its low-rise terracotta-tiled buildings look almost villa-like, but step through the hand-painted steel gate and the colour starts: corridors lined in vertical ribbons of red, yellow, amber, turquoise and lime inspired by Oliver Jeffers’ best-selling book. Abstract murals of crayon tips wrap around stairwells; modular seating cubes in primary hues let children rearrange their own “classroom furniture”; and every classroom door carries a blackboard-panelled crayon silhouette where teachers chalk little messages to greet arriving pupils. Learning to recognise and take charge of their space, even at age three, is the intention.

Academically the school follows the CBSE curriculum from pre-primary through Grade VIII, yet layers it with a project-and-play ethos imported from Reggio Emilia and HighScope. Early-years classes maintain a 1:12 adult–child ratio and run Hindi-English dual immersion; from Grade III on, French becomes an exploratory option. A signature 45-minute daily “Choice Workshop” lets kids rotate between robotics, clay animation, contemporary dance, Bharatnatyam, capoeira, storytelling theatre and kitchen science. Children in Grades V-VIII complete an annual “Colour Quest” – a month-long interdisciplinary challenge in which they must design a chromatic solution to a real Jaipur problem such as heat islands or canal pollution, then exhibit prototypes to parents and city officials.

Technology sits lightly but deliberately across the curriculum. A Y-shaped “Inventor’s Dock” houses 32 Raspberry-Pi workstations and a modest 3-D printing corner; teacher tablets carry QR-coded lesson plans that children can scan at home for follow-up activity videos on the secured CrayonsCloud portal. Even assessments are visual: gradebooks issue student work timelines in colour graphs rather than numerical scores, emphasising growth over rank.

Beyond classrooms, movement matters. A shaded 200-metre “scribble track” winds round the football and hockey ground, letting toddlers ride balance bikes while older players practise dribbling. A half-Olympic pool painted in graduating blue strokes teaches water confidence, and a tented “messy yard” stocked with tyres, bamboo and mud pits nurtures loose-parts play reminiscent of European adventure playgrounds. Vegetables for the midday organic meal – dal-lentil power bowls and rainbow-vegetable wraps – grow in raised beds tended by the Eco-Rangers club.

Admission is a three-round process: exploratory play-group observation, parent–child collaborative art task, and finally a conversation with the child to gauge curiosity rather than prior knowledge. Annual fee averages ₹1,75,000 with sliding-scale scholarships for Jaipur police, transgender and single-parent households; the current roll stands at 620 children from 16 postal codes.

Output says much: last year Grade VI girls built a solar-crayon recycling oven that melted discarded stubs into new multicolour bricks now paving the kindergarten patio; meanwhile a sixteen-member theatre troupe took the original Hindi play “Rangmanch ke Rangrez” to the National School Drama Festival in Bhopal, picking up Best Costume Design for saris dip-dyed in beetroot and indigo sourced from the school garden.

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