A school founded on love for children
Yellow Train is a school, founded on love for children.
We are a school that believes in the promise of a brave new world. And we believe that the children are the bringers of that dawn. We believe in an education that is forming, life giving and nourishing.
We work towards reclaiming the sacred in education. We believe education must meet the child. And it must meet the whole child.
We are inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner and offer a Waldorf Program in our kindergarten and in the Primary Years. Our Middle School is a bridge between the intensely child centred Waldorf Program and the academically rigorous High School. Our High School and Senior School offer the IGCSE and A Levels by Edxecel. Located in an organic farm, on the outskirts of Coimbatore, the school is a growing community of teachers and parents in search of holistic education.
Yellow Train is an International School offering IGCSE and A Levels located in Coimbatore. Yellow Train is consistently ranked in the Top 10 schools in the country by many bodies such as Education World, India Today, Better India, All India Education summit and many other platforms. Yellow Train is recognized amongst the top Waldorf schools in the country and is the only Waldorf School in Coimbatore. The founder Santhya Vikram is constantly invited to speak about reforming education in many forums such as The UNESCO conference, the National Conference of CBSE Schools, Top 10 innovative schools at IIM Ahmedabad, Centre for Civil Society, School Choice National Conference etc. The building has been acknowledged and conferred with the Design and Architecture Award in 2015.
Teach the children. We don’t matter so much, but the children do.
Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones—inkberry, lamb’s-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones—rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world that is nourishing, creative. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.
Attention is the beginning of devotion.
-Mary Oliver
This film captures the Spirit of Yellow Train
10 years of Yellow Train - 2019