Greenvalley Kriyaalaya International School

A young, project-led Cambridge school in Pallavaram, built around personalised learning rather than a conventional timetable.

Greenvalley Kriyaalaya opened its Pallavaram campus in June 2022, founded by V. Balamurali, a former IT engineer who built the school's curriculum through his company Bodha Educational Services. It runs the Cambridge IGCSE pathway from Pre-KG to Grade 12, structured into three phases: iPlay for the early years, iDiscover for the middle grades, and iLead for the senior school. Project-based learning is the core method, with older students completing dozens of real-world projects alongside the Cambridge syllabus.

It is a small, day, co-educational setup rather than a large established campus, and parents tend to value the individual attention and the emphasis on confidence and communication. The school does not publish fee figures online, so current costs come from admission enquiries. As a recent opening it has no graduating-cohort exam record yet, and the head of school is listed separately from the founder.

Parents who have stayed a year or two describe a hands-on, project-led day that does not look like a conventional Chennai classroom: open, naturally lit rooms, journaling and reading habits, field trips, and the iPlay and iDiscover blocks coming up by name. Most talk about real gains in confidence, communication and independent thinking over a relatively short window, and several point to how reachable the founder and staff are, down to feedback by text and through the school app. Against that sits one detailed and unhappy account of management that closes ranks, and a recurring worry about whether the academic rigour holds up as children move past the early grades.