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Grassroots Global School
Grassroots Global School is a small Reggio-inspired IB World School in Mahalingapuram, Chennai, focused on early years and lower primary rather than a full kindergarten-to-grade-12 programme.
In brief
Grassroots Global School is a small Reggio-inspired IB World School in Mahalingapuram, Chennai, focused on early years and lower primary rather than a full kindergarten-to-grade-12 programme.
The school opened in 2011 as a Reggio Emilia inspired preschool and was authorised to run the IB Primary Years Programme in 2019. Provision centres on children from toddler age through the early primary grades, with an early-years approach that blends Reggio practice with the PYP inquiry framework. It is a genuine IB World School, not a Cambridge or full IB Diploma campus, so families looking for a senior school or IGCSE and Diploma years will not find them here.
It is a compact operation with a low stated student-teacher ratio, in a residential pocket of Nungambakkam. Published fee figures and the current head are not confirmed on the live site, so both are best checked directly with the school.
Reviews
Parents who write about this school talk less about results and more about how their children feel walking in the door. The recurring note is small children who are happy to arrive and come home cheerful, with teachers who seem to know each child individually. Several parents draw a line between learning and studying here, crediting the play and inquiry approach for keeping young children curious rather than drilled. The flip side they live with is scope: this is an early-years and lower-primary setting, so families talk about it as the first chapter and plan where their child goes next.
Positives
- Children settle happily. The most repeated thing parents say is that their young children walk in willingly and come home cheerful, which for a toddler-to-early-years setting is the signal families weigh most.
- Individual attention. Parents credit the small size and low ratios for teachers who appear to know each child personally and tailor support to them rather than running a fixed group pace.
- Play and inquiry over rote. Several parents distinguish learning from studying, praising the Reggio and inquiry style for keeping children engaged and curious instead of drilled, which is what drew them to it over a conventional preschool.
Considerations
- Early-years scope only. Families describe it as a first stage rather than a full school, since provision runs through the early and lower-primary years only, so they go in already thinking about the next school.
Location
19, Madhavan Nair Rd, Mahalingapuram, Nungambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600094, India