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LITTLE LUMENSMontessoriLittle Lumens Montessori

A founder-led Montessori in Doddakannelli

A beautiful beginning for your child's brightest journey. 

Authentic Montessori learning in a calm, caring and thoughtfully prepared environment, personally guided by a Montessori-certified educator with more than 20 years of educational leadership experience.

  • Montessori-certified guidance
  • Individual attention
  • Playschool, Nursery & Daycare

Little Lumens Montessori · Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru

A child's hand placing a coloured peg into a wooden sorting disc on a woven rug
Playschool · Nursery · Daycare
  • 20+

    Years of Educational Leadership

  • Montessori

    Certified Guidance

  • Small Groups

    So Every Child Is Known

  • 3

    Playschool · Nursery · Daycare

Our Approach

Where curiosity is nurtured into self-confidence.

Children are born wanting to understand the world. Our role is not to fill that curiosity with instruction, but to prepare an environment where it can do its work, and to stay close enough to guide it.

A child's hand setting a smooth wooden disc down on the edge of a table
Nurture minds to explore.Little Lumens

The Luminous Learning Journey

  1. Nurture

    A safe, respectful space where children build relationships, essential skills and emotional intelligence.

  2. Explore

    Hands-on experiences invite independent discovery, at a pace the child sets rather than a timetable.

  3. Understand

    Purposeful Montessori materials let abstract ideas be handled, compared and felt before they are ever named.

  4. Shine

    Confidence is built through guidance, repetition and visible progress. It is earned by the child, never awarded to them.

Why Little Lumens

A thoughtful foundation for the way children naturally learn.

Six commitments shape every day here. None of them are unusual in Montessori writing. What matters is whether a school actually holds to them, which is what a campus visit is for.

  1. Child-led Montessori learning

    Purposeful activities invite children to explore, choose and learn through active participation rather than instruction.

  2. Individual attention

    Small groups allow us to recognise each child's uniqueness and provide the right guidance and learning materials at the right moment.

  3. Practical life and independence

    Everyday activities build coordination, concentration, responsibility and self-belief: the quiet foundations of empowerment.

  4. Language and early numeracy

    Concrete experiences create a meaningful foundation for communication, literacy and mathematical thinking.

  5. Creativity, movement and sensorial exploration

    Art, music, movement and sensorial materials give children different ways to express, notice and understand.

  6. Emotional confidence and social development

    Respectful routines and shared experiences support confidence, empathy, communication and belonging.

Shashi Srinivas, Founder and Mentor of Little Lumens Montessori
Shashi SrinivasM.Sc, M.EdFounder & Mentor

Meet the Founder

To help every child love learning before they ever learn to study.

Little Lumens is personally guided by a Montessori-certified educator with more than two decades of educational leadership experience as a Principal. Our founder brings together professional expertise, a deep understanding of children and a genuine commitment to nurturing every child's individuality.

More than 20 years in education inform every aspect of Little Lumens, from the design of the learning environment and the selection of purposeful activities to the way educators support children and communicate with families.

  • 20+ years in education and school leadership
  • Experience as a Founding Principal of a Delhi Public School
  • Montessori-certified educational guidance
  • Extensive experience guiding children and mentoring educators

Education is not about filling minds. It is about nurturing the inner light within every child.

Book a Campus Visit

Book a private campus visit and discover the Little Lumens approach.

Programmes

Thoughtfully designed programmes for your child's early years.

Three ways in, depending on your child's age and what your family needs from the day.

Playschool

18 months – 2.5 years

A gentle first step into purposeful independence, with hands-on exploration, language, movement and social interaction in a calm Montessori environment.


  • Settling into routines
  • Practical-life experiences
  • Sensory exploration
  • Communication
  • Movement
  • Confidence
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Nursery

2.5 – 3.5 years

A carefully prepared programme that strengthens independence, communication, early literacy, numeracy, creativity and confidence through purposeful hands-on learning.


  • Language and expression
  • Early literacy
  • Early numeracy
  • Practical life
  • Sensorial learning
  • Social confidence
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Daycare

Available till 5:30 PM

A nurturing and thoughtfully supervised extension of the child's day, supporting rest, play, practical routines and age-appropriate engagement in a familiar environment.


  • Consistent care
  • Rest and relaxation
  • Safe play
  • Age-appropriate activities
  • Familiar routines
  • Parent communication
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The Prepared Environment

A calm environment designed for meaningful discovery.

Little Lumens Montessori offers a calm, carefully kept learning environment where purposeful materials, thoughtful routines and room to explore help children settle into deep, undistracted work.

Wooden learning materials arranged in order on open low shelving
A child working at a table beside a bright window filled with plants
An adult's and a child's hands working together in flour on a wooden board
A young child walking along a garden path between ferns and trees
  • Materials in order

    Every material has a place, and children return it there. Order in the room becomes order in the mind.

  • Practical life

    Pouring, sweeping, buttoning, carrying. Real work with real consequences, sized for small hands.

  • Language and reading

    A quiet corner where books are chosen freely and read at length, alone or alongside an adult.

  • Creative expression

    Art, music and movement treated as ways of thinking, not as rewards for finishing other work.

  • Outdoors and nature

    Growing things, observing closely, and the particular calm that comes from being outside.

Parent Assurance

Carefully considered for children. Clearly communicated to parents.

The practical questions parents ask first, answered plainly.

  • Thoughtful supervision

    Small groups and trained educators who know each child by name, temperament and stage.

  • Age-appropriate routines

    Predictable rhythms for arrival, work, rest and play, so the day feels secure rather than surprising.

  • Respectful guidance

    Children are spoken to, not managed. Correction is quiet, specific and never public.

  • Clear arrival and pickup

    Defined handover procedures, with authorised-adult verification at collection.

  • Clean, orderly spaces

    Regular sanitisation, well-ventilated rooms, daily health checks and RO-purified drinking water.

  • Open parent communication

    Regular updates on how your child is actually doing, not only when something has gone wrong.

Our Promise

Our promise to every parent.

Parents should never feel distant from their child's early-learning journey. Little Lumens is committed to open communication, thoughtful updates and a respectful partnership with every family.

  • We will respect your child's individual pace.
  • We will communicate regularly and meaningfully.
  • We will observe thoughtfully and guide, not push.
  • We will keep the environment calm and caring.
  • We will be transparent about your child's experience.
  • We will treat home and school as one partnership.

Admissions

A simple and personal beginning.

Three steps, at your pace. Nothing is committed until you are confident.

  1. Share your interest

    Tell us which programme you are exploring and how we can reach you.

  2. Visit Little Lumens

    Meet the team, experience the environment and discuss your child's needs.

  3. Choose the right beginning

    Review the programme details and complete enrolment when you feel confident.

Book a Visit

Let's plan your visit to Little Lumens.

Share a few details and our team will contact you to help you explore the right programme for your child.

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We use these details only to contact you about admissions and a campus visit. See our privacy notice.

Questions

The things parents ask us first.

If your question isn't here, ask it on a visit. You'll get a better answer in person.

Give your child a beginning filled with curiosity, confidence and joyful discovery.

Visit Little Lumens, meet our founder and experience the environment created for your child's early years.