About
Our School
What started with a feeling, grew into a hope and has turned into a movement!
Our Identity
TWS is a school where every child discovers who they are and what they want to become. We are a wholesome learning space where every child learns to succeed and lead a fulfilled life
Our Promise
Every TWS child, by the time they complete high school, will be ready for college, ready for a career, and ready to live a good life, on their own terms and aligned to their unique potential and talents.
Our Purpose
To prepare every child to lead a fulfilled and successful life, contributing to the community and society
Our Way
Nurture the whole-child in an environment where every child is known to one another and belongs to a trusted community, with a learning culture that teaches children not just what is needed to get into college, but also what is needed to lead a good life
Our Journey
TWS is part of Potters Earth Foundation, a non-profit organization working with students and young adults to find their strengths and opportunities, and turn them into meaningful careers and decent work. Potters Earth Foundation has been working in education for 10 years, having worked with 15,000+ kids to help them make decisions about their career and life.
Through this time, we realized that kids are not equipped (and in many cases, not allowed) to make independent decisions. Later in life, these kids face the realities of a fast-moving world and find themselves ill-equipped to flourish. But are they to blame? As the seed of the school planted itself in our minds, we dreamt of creating a thriving eco-system for kids to think, learn and grow by themselves.
We wanted to create a safe space, a school that would make kids aware of their own mind, their decisions and take ownership of their actions. The Wonder School was born in early 2020 in an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What started with 4 kids has expanded into a full-fledged pre-K to Grade 8 program for 20 students in a mere 6 months. During this time, we also established our partnership with the New Nordic School, a Finnish organisation that brought the unique Finnish methodology and other global best practices to our team. We are now on an expedition to make our school an excellence driven space of happy learning for our students, where the kids’ curiosities are encouraged and their ambitions are fueled in to reality.
Values
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Learning how to learn
1. Build strong basics
2. Value experiences over grades
3. Learn from real life projects & Mentors
4. Do things first hand
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Building critical skills
1. Be curious
2. Be a team player
3. Think critically to solve problems
4. Analyze data to make good decisions
5. Manage conflict constructively
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Connecting with the whole world
1. Be inclusive
2. Be empathetic
3. Think global act local
4. Make a difference to the community
The Wonder School Team
A collective of teachers, researchers, mentalists and other significant adults, with a single-minded focus to live and breathe the philosophy and vision. The experience of the students is a culmination of their ideas, hard work, and an undeterred will to succeed, with a smile on their faces, always
ANAMIKA DASGUPTA
Founder - Director
SAURABH SHARMA
Founder - Director
Advisory Board
Vinita Khaladkar
Bimal Rath
Rajesh Kamath
Hemant Pawar
Satya Narayan