Building & BaLA Initiatives

BUILDING AS LEARNING AID (BALA) is about developing the school’s building as a learning aid. BALA allows children to learn all the time in the school environment and make learning fun and child-centric.

Building as learning aid (BALA) is about maximising the learning value of the school space. A range of learning situations and materials can be actively used as a learning resource by innovatively treating school
spaces (classroom, circulation spaces, outdoors, natural environment) and their constituent built elements (floor, wall, ceiling, door, windows, furniture, open ground).
Dimensions, textures, shapes, angles and movement can be used to communicate some basic concepts of language, science, mathematics and environment and to make learning a truly memorable experience for children.

BaLa aims at using floors, walls, pillars, staircases, windows, doors, ceilings, fans, trees, flowers, and even rainwater, as learning aids.

For example

1. window grill can help children practice pre-writing skills or understand fractions.
2. Angles can be marked under a door shutter on the floor.
3. ceiling fans can be painted with color wheels for children to enjoy ever changing formations.
4. Moving shadows of a flag-pole can be used as sundial to understand ways of measuring time.
5. planting trees that shed their leaves in winters and are green in summers can create a cool, comfortable outdoor learning space.

In our prestigious institution we have tried to integrate BALA in every corner to make children learn in a playful manner.The different elements of BALA are located in interior and exterior spaces like classrooms, corridors and backyard to create variety of learning situations. The built structure of the school can also provide shelter to holistic educational activities. BALA has helped students and will continue to make them learn in the most beautiful manner.