The Primary Classes

There are currently classes one through three, and one special needs classroom.

In the classes, main lessons include Nepali, math, form drawing, and nature studies. The rest of the day includes additional subjects such as painting, movement, handicrafts, games, music and singing, and English and Tibetan languages.

    One of the twelve main lessons in the grades
    culminates in an end of year school play,
     which parents are invited to attend.

Classes 2 and 3 go on field trips during the school year.

Class 2 visits Namo Buddha, located 20 km from Dulikhel, a town near to Kathmandu . Namo Buddha is a stone statue that portrays a scene from Buddha's life story, where Buddha gave some of his flesh to feed a starving tigress and her four cubs. Class 2 studies this story as part of their curriculum on Buddhism.

Class 3 visits Sleeping Vishnu, located about an hour away from school in Buddhanilkantha, an area outside of Kathmandu . Sleeping Vishnu is a stone statue of the sleeping deity and a holy site of worship for Hindus worldwide. Class 3 studies the tale of Vishnu as part of their curriculum on the Hindu creation story.

Class 3 goes on a second fieldtrip, during their second term, when they study about people and occupations. The students travel to the nearby towns of Bhaktapur and Patan with their teacher, where they observe and learn about potters, woodcarvers, statue makers and thanka painters.

Class 3 students recently completed a special class project to build a larger, sturdier rabbit house for the school's two rabbits and one guinea pig.