Calorx Preschool, located at Maninagar in Ahmedabad, is an English medium co-educational school, promoted in 1995 by the Calorx Group of Companies, New Delhi and offers a series of activities in various creative areas. Calorx is a professionally managed autonomous institution focusing its activities on K-21 education.
The school focuses on literacy skills and provides experiences that enrich each child’s social, emotional, physical, cognitive, intellectual, and creative abilities.
The school campus hosts a huge sand-pit equipped with tiny toys, toy train, swings, slides, balancing and sea saw. The school also hosts a well-stocked library, specially designed activity room, audio-visual room equipped with LCD projector for children and a dance and music room.
Playway method is followed for imparting learning. The curriculum and methodology is designed by combining the traditional Montessori Method with interactive participatory approach.
The school imparts education through –
1. Visual Learning – Children learn from visual displays including pictures, power point presentations, flipcharts and flash cards.
2. Auditory Learning – Children learn best through talking things and listening to what others have to say.
3. Kinesthetic Learning – Children learn through actively exploring the physical world around them.
Jolly Phonics – This is a systematic, sequential, phonics program designed to teach children to read. Children learn 42 sounds of the English language, rather than the alphabet. This multi-sensory approach is a very effective way to reach all children.
Extra-curricular activities
Besides academics, the school encourages its students to participate in various co-curricular activities such as music, dance, art and craft, games, storytelling, public-speaking, T-shirt printing and friendship quilt.
LibraryParents can obtain information on admission from leading news paper during the months of November-December every year.
Admission Criteria
1. Age
2. Transport
3. Girl Child
4. Parent’s qualification and Occupation
5. Siblings
6. Staff wards
7. CPrS Alumni
8. Single Parent
9. Transfer Cases
10. Disadvantaged Groups
Calorx Preschool, Maninagar has been ranked as the second best pre-school in Ahmedabad by the Education World India Preschool Rankings 2013.
