Every stage matters: How Celestiia brings NEP to life in classrooms
Indian Education is remodelled by the National Education Policy of 2020. With its emphasis on flexible curricula, experiential pedagogy, and multi-stage assessment, NEP is challenging educators to rethink how knowledge is imparted. These principles are quickly transferred into the daily classroom environment at The Celestiia School.
A CBSE school, Celestiia maps its routines directly to the NEP while incorporating character development, hands-on skills development, and rigorous scholarship as well. During routine meetings between planners, teachers, and caregivers, they discuss how each lesson plan, workshop, and home project reflects that larger vision. It is the aim of this program to give targeted support to every grade and age cohort so that learning sticks and grows. This will be achieved by continuous reflection and adapting to needs of students.
Foundational Stage: Laying a Meaningful Beginning
Research consistently emphasizes the pivotal role of the earliest school experiences. The Celestiia School setting is a joyful, safe, and warm environment where children from Nursery through Grade 2 thrive. During instruction at this level, guided play, spontaneous observation, and hands-on exploration are heavily used. As part of the daily rhythm, music, storytelling circles, picture books, open-ended art, and walks through nearby green spaces are included.
As a method of teaching phonics and preliminary mathematics, children learn through tactile, visible materials rather than abstract symbols. Children strengthen their dexterity by painting, dancing to music, and sculpting clay into imaginary creatures. Over time, they observe emerging patterns, relate new knowledge to what they already know, and speak their minds without hesitation. Questions such as why the sky changes colour and what happens to seeds when they become plants are answered thoughtfully, ensuring that curiosity remains at the core of the morning circle.
Preparatory Stage: Promoting inquiry and expression
The grades between third and fifth lays an open, exploratory foundation for formal study. Students are gently nudged to observe, experiment, and solve small-group problems. The daily tempo remains flexible, allowing teachers to move with the student’s curiosity.
As part of science, children collect leaves, construct simple models, and discuss what they observe. Math becomes increasingly focused on puzzles, games, and yardstick measurements of classroom objects. Language time alternates between a polished short story, a spontaneous skit, and a quick round of vocabulary tag. Exploration is more important than precision in these routines.
Along with reading and mathematics, there are art projects, music drills, and bursts of physical activity. In order to find connections-for example, by stacking geometry lessons on shape with collage work or by timing a history unit with a song-teachers look for links and praise students for finding them by themselves. Grading reflects comprehension first, memorization second; stickers or quick notes are often more effective than grades. Our goal is to create a class full of confident, clear-headed, creatively minded pupils.
Building Reasoning and Perspective
Students in Grades 6 and 7 shift their emphasis from engaging instruction to more in-depth investigation. They gain begin to analyse from interactive learning methods and scaffold exploration as they start to examine more sophisticated ideas.
Every day at Celestiia, the agenda is designed to provoke reflection. For example, one science unit includes model building, an energy efficiency campaign, and a plant trial. In social studies, small groups explore sources, annotate maps, and present findings to peers. Language instruction includes poetry, spirited discussion, and short films made on personal devices.
Self-Discovery and Emerging Leadership (Grades 6–7)
Students begin to take significant ownership of their educational experiences at this point. Students are given the chance to take the lead in a variety of school activities, such as clubs and assigned tasks in the classroom, as conversations get more introspective.
In Celestiia, readiness for tomorrow’s challenges happens through public speaking forums, mentorship pairings, career fairs, and team-based design sprints. Throughout the year, science nights, innovation markets, and community clean-ups put classroom theory to the test.
Group inquiry exercises, presentations, and creative journaling are among the assignments. Students begin creating a portfolio of projects that include both digital and physical records of their artwork, scientific pursuits, reflections, and other personal activities. In order to reflect on students’ learning pathways, address problems, and encourage steady growth in connection to observation metrics from courses and projects, educators and mentors hold regular progress reviews in addition to scheduled individual sessions with students.
NEP-Aligned Skill Development Across All Grades
Celestiia integrates four skill domains deemed necessary for twenty-first century learners into routine classroom activities according to the National Education Policy.
- Critical Thinking:
Beginning with logic puzzles, students move on to scenario-based quizzes, and the course concludes with project debriefs in which students challenge each other.
- Collaboration:
Learning through peer teaching, mixed-project teams, and rotating class captaincies requires learners to plan, negotiate, and celebrate joint accomplishments.
- Creativity:
With sketchbooks, tinkering workshops, and deliberately vague prompts, children are encouraged to draft, prototype, and then reconsider their own ideas.
- Communication:
Through presentation reflections, slide shows students have regular opportunities to articulate their thoughts and to listen actively to one another.
The goal of every exercise is to build intellectual courage, by collaboration form of learning students become confident and articulate thinkers.
Holistic Assessment:
At Celestiia, evaluation extends past test scores and evaluates both knowledge and character. Students are evaluated through essays, classroom dialogue, practical projects, and final reflections of the unit.
As part of student portfolios, students keep sketches, photographs, drafts, peer notes, and teacher notations. Term reports include aspects such as academic milestones, social-emotional progress, and next steps. Evaluations are phrased as suggestions for improvement, and never as a single letter or number.
The use of this approach nurtures a growth mind-set and ensures that learning is engaging, dignified, and purposeful.
- Each child, every stage, every possibility
The National Education Policy sketches a future in which classrooms are resilient, inclusive, and truly flexible. Celestiia meets that roadmap with care and conviction. Celestiia provides critical support to help seven-year-olds with phonics problems, storytelling, or building their first science models.
At every stage in education, curriculum contributes to academic insight, emotional intelligence, and genuine social growth. The classroom vibrates with activity and reflection, always focused on the learner. Parents are welcome as partners; teachers serve as facilitators and mentors. Curiosity, discipline, and responsibility are nurtured, not enforced.
Celestiia integrates the NEP into every aspect of learner life, from lessons, conversations, and milestones – so that every learner can move forward with courage, joy and purpose.