Contact @ Pune:
Peepal Tree School, Kranti Nagar, Lane No. 1,
Opp Dhore Patil Apartment,
Pimple Nilakh, Pune, 411 027.
Teachers @ Pune:
Anjali Pargave
After finishing schooling, Anjali joined Balgangadhar Junior College in Ambejogai town. She took up arts and loved psychology. Other subjects that she took in college were Pali, Marathi and history. Her mother used to work as a cook in a hostel in Ambejogai town – and both would travel together during that time. Anjali did well in her board exams – she came first in Beed district.
She was awarded a Dhirubhai Ambani scholarship – and given the financial condition of the family at that time, that scholarship really meant a lot to her. Next, she moved to the government college in Vaijapur, Aurangabad and joined the D.Ed program there. Anjali’s dream of staying in a hostel finally came true here. Her college hostel was 2 km from the college – and she enjoyed cycling from the hostel to the college every day.
She returned home after her D.Ed – and found that her mom’s health had deteriorated. Her mom’s wish was to see Anjali settled as soon as possible. In 2012. just after finishing college, Anjali got married. Her first kid, Pratik, was born in 2013. This did not let her stop her own education. She finished her BA from a college in Latur. She joined Peepal Tree School in 2016 and has been in charge of Jr KG since then. In between, she took a 2 year break to have her second son. Apart from teaching, Anjali loves to stitch. Very soon, students at the school are going to wear uniforms that have been designed by her.
Nisha Patil
Nisha is the youngest of 4 siblings – two sisters and two brothers. She was born in 1987 – and at that time the family stayed in Fatima nagar. Education was at St. Patrick’s. She liked English and Math, but geography is something that she could not get along with. Her elder sister got married when Nisha was in grade 7. She went on to Poona Junior College and joined their arts program. Around the time Nisha was finishing college, her mom passed away. Family financial health had suffered along with her mom’s health, so Nisha decided to do a Diploma in Software testing.
Her first job was at Hotel Shriman in Bundgarden as a receptionist. She switched soon to a telephone Yellow pages company, AskMe, as a telecaller. Her career break came when she was offered a job as a technical support executive at Tata e2e services. Those were the days when the Tatas had just taken over VSNL, which was the leading Internet services provider in those days. Nisha would help trouble shoot customer complaints remotely. She worked for 6 years over there. That’s where she met with Swapnil, her soon to be better half.
The duo changed jobs together – first moving to a startup in Mumbai for a few months. Both did not like Mumbai life too much, so they shifted back to Pune and joined Synechron Technologies in the QA function. Nisha was on a roll in her career – but had to leave in 2011 – when her son, Shaurya, was born. She took a break and decided that she needed to be at a place which gave her some time to spend with her son. In 2015, she joined a teacher training program at Saraswati School in Kalewadi – and the school was so impressed with her, that it offered her a job even before she had finished the course. She stayed there for 2 years before switching to Vibgyor School, where she worked from 2017 to 2019. She joined Peepal tree school in 2019. She enjoys teaching English and Math. She is also taking care of her own education – and has enrolled for a BA (Psychology) program at IGNOU.
Komal Boke
After finishing her engineering course, she joined a US based start-up in a customer support role. To upgrade her IT tech skills, in Jan 2013, she joined a one year CDAC program after quitting her start-up job. Throughout her college days, Komal had been taking tuitions at home, and in 2014, on completion of her CDAC course, she got an offer to teach IT at Ishwar Prem Vidya Mandir in Indore. In 2015, she got married to Ritesh, an IT engineer who was then working in Indore itself. She had to take a long break from teaching starting 2016, when her son Daivik was born.
In the meantime, in 2017, Ritesh found a job in Pune. When Daivik was 2 years old, Komal shifted base to Pune along with him. They were initially staying at Baner, before the couple bought their own house in Pimple Nilakh. She came to Peepal Tree first as a parent – and though Daivik moved out after his Sr KG, Komal has stayed on. She takes the Sr KG class.
Infra @ Pune:
Located in the vibrant city of Pune, our campus offers a dynamic and modern learning environment. Equipped with cutting-edge facilities and technology, students have access to spacious classrooms and sports facilities that promote physical fitness and team spirit. Our dedicated faculty members in Pune are highly qualified and committed to providing students with a well-rounded education that focuses on academic excellence, personal growth, and character development.
The school is located in an independent house, which is about 500 meters away from the main Pimple Nilakh bus stop. The ground floor is kept open as a play and assembly area, while the classrooms are located on the first and second floors. The school has over 500 books in its library.
Bulletin @ Pune:
Holiday List at Peepal Tree, Pune
Mon, 17-Jun Bakri Id Tue, 15-Aug Independence Day Tue, 19-Sep, Ganesh Chaturthi Mon, 2-Oct Gandhi Jayanti Tue, 24-Oct Dussehra Diwali: 10-Nov to 19-Nov Christmas: 24-Dec to 1-Jan Mon, 15-Jan Makar Sankranti Fri, 26-Jan, Republic Day Fri, 8-Mar Maha Shivratri Mon, 25-Mar Holi Tue, 9-Apr, Gudi Padwa
Biscuit Math
Children understood how to measure biscuits in grams and the my question is the -There are 21 biscuits in 100 g , so how many biscuits are there in 250
Fold pe Fold
Give the students 10 by 10 cut of newspaper …and asked them to fold it 8 timesSome were able to fold once and twiceSome just tore the paperSome folded the paper just as shownAnd measured it with scale counting the
Balanced Diet
To encourage students to eat healthy meals have students create a balanced mealof their own. They will need to search through grocery ads from newspapers and magazines to find a balanced meal for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Instruct students to cut out photos and glue them onto a paper plate.Before
Where’s the Air?
In this experiment we need a jar (10 inch) and a candle 4 (inch). Now the lit candle is placed behind the jar. Children tried blowing the candle in the jar or trying blowing from the opposite side of the
Sports Activities
Sport 1: Play Four Square! To create your playing court, draw a 2 x 2 square grid measuring 8′ x 8′ on the paved surface with the sidewalk chalk. Draw a large capital “A” in the upper left square, a capital “B” in the upper right square, a capital “C”
Music Activities
Music 1: Mini Bongo Drums Celebrate National Drum Month in November by using a couple of recycled yogurt cups and making a groovy set of bongos! This simple project encourages musical skills and uses eco-friendly magic to turn trash into treasure, teaching kids the fun in saving those empty
Craft Activities
Craft 1: Building Sand Castles First, choose your site wisely. If you build too close to the water’s edge, your castle will disappear with the first wave. Build too far back, though, and you’ll have to dig forever to reach the water table (the spot where water seeps up from
EVS Activities
EVS 1: Clean it Up Start by reading the Cat in the Hat Comes Back with your child and talking it over together. What happens when the Cat tries to clean up his mess? Now set up the game. Have your child spread the pink crepe paper around the house,
Philosophy Activities
Philosophy 1: Two Goats The starting point is always a calming down exercise. In this exercise students are first made to close their eyes. Since almost 75% of the stimulus a brain receives is visual, the eye closing serves to focus attention on the other sensory organ inputs. The teacher
English Activities
English 1: Nonsense Book Divide the cards into two sets. On each of the cards in the first set, write a sentence subject like Dad, Justin, The cat, The Hat, and so on. On each card in the other set, write a predicate like has a bath, is tired, has
Math Activities
Math 1: Play with Pulleys Run a piece of sting about 1 foot (30 cm) long through the hole in the spool and tie the ends of the string together. Slide the spool and the string onto the broom handle. Rest the handle across the two chairs with the spool
Finger Painting, 12-Jun-23
Jr KG dips its fingers into colourful stuff to make cards for our
Health Eating, 14-Jun-23
Training starts for helping mom in the kitchen. Here we make our own salad – and gulp it down. Mummy, It’s
Grade 2 does some Potato and Onion Math, 15-Jun-23
Kids learn to correlate weights to prices as they sell real potatoes and onions for mock money. Aloo-Pyaaz with a lot of
KG goes Veggies Shopping, 17-Jun-23
Where do our vegetables come from? How does a vendor ensure freshness? What happens when he is not able to sell the vegetables? Students find their answers to these questions when they walk down to the Krantinagar Lane 3 vegetable shop with Anjali
Installing a new Water Filter, 22-Jun-23
We used gravel and sand media to create a filter for our drinking water. There is also a copper sheet to reduce microbial activity. A pipe-syphon draws the water from the filtered bottom layer to the
The Palkhi Reaches Peepal Tree, 29-Jun-23
Every year lakhs of devotees set out for a walk from Alandi to Pandharpur, carrying idols of Vitthal and Rukmini. It takes about 20 days to cover the 225 km distance. Our students walked the talk – and dressed up as warkaris to celebrate Ekadashi, the day the palkhi reaches
Magic Show, 1-Jul-23
Bharat Patil is Production Manager at Forbes Marshall on weekdays – and transforms into a magician on weekends. He enthralled our kids with some amazing stuff. The best part was that kids were part of every act of his. He ended by teaching the kids a disappearing coin trick. What
Parents Talk to Students, 3-Jul-23
In this series, we get parents to come and volunteer as teachers. They talk about what they do at their workplace. In some sense, this also sets our young minds thinking about their careers. The bouquets made out of leaves and flowers picked from the neighbourhood are made by our
Diorama, 4-Jul-23
A diorama is a model representing a scene with 3 dimensional figures, in miniature. Here are some that our grade 4 students