Ekadaksha Learning Center

Team Ekadaksha celebrated the 16th Birthday of ELC on 4th of March 2026.

With a strong and bonded team,The journey continues and the impact grows.Ekadaksha Learning Center marked a strong footing into the 17th year with pride and joy.

This year,we sang the 'Happy Birthday' song and cut a cake. Some of our teachers spoke a few words to express their love and happiness of being at Ekadaksha.  The children came dressed up beautifully. They took individual and group pictures with their friends and teachers. 

To add more colors to the day,Holi - The festival of colours - was celebrated too.Sprinkling joy and colors everywhere,the children and teachers applied eco-friendly colors on each other with holi music playing in the back ground.

Click here to see the "Holi pictures"

They then had a small break and they enjoyed delicious cake and samosas and relaxed for a while.

Then came a beautiful "Miming performance" by Nishok Anna and Josephin Akka.They entertained the children and teachers with their mime,lovely gestures and wonderful facial expressions.A lovely musical performance was given too. It was a lovely day of celebration with colors,music and fun.

Wishing ELC a very happy birthday and many more meaningful and successful years to come!!

Click here for the "Founders day 2026" celebration pictures.

 

Sports day for the academic year 2025-2026 was held on 20th February 2026 at Wesley turf and Fitness club,Royapettah. All sports activities at ELC were supported by The 'KSN Sports Foundation' and we are extremely grateful for their support.

Sports and games are essential for both physical and mental health of the students.It keeps them active and brings good qualities like cooperation and teamwork.At Ekadaksha,utmost importance is given to physical fitness,sports and games.Children of ELC have gross motor/fine motor activities in their daily routine.Apart from that,they have an afternoon session dedicated to sports. They do drill exercises, they engage in sports like cricket,tennis,basket ball,football and they also practice various track and field events. They are aware of how each sport and game is conducted and enjoy participating.

The much awaited Sports Day began with the josh and enthusiasm of the ELC Team. 

The Chief Guest for the event was Shri.Debendra Narayan Kar, I.R.S, Principal chief commissioner of Income Tax (Retd.).He is a recipient of several accolades, including the “Distinguished Citizen Award” from the American Biographical Institute. He also encourages sports as Sir was Secretary General of Korfball Federation of India and presently Chairman of Boules Sports Federation of India.Presently he is practising as an Advocate post his retirement.

Our Guest of Honor was Mr.Murukesh Mani,an Entrepreneur and a professional squash player.He was the Former All India No1 ranking in Mens over 35 veterans category in squash in 2022.Presently All India number 7 ranked player in Mens over 40 veterans category. He has also represented the Tamilnadu squash team at Malaysian youth games in 2010 and 2011 and received Man of the series award.He has been involved in sports since young age and is a topper in fitness,discipline and life.

The day began with the welcome speech given by Ms.Archana Joshi, Director, ELC.  This was followed by the torch lighting ceremony. Every child and teacher was a torch bearer in this ceremony, as this symbolic torch was passed on from hand to hand and then given the final touch by Mr. Hiten Joshi, Trustee, Ekadaksha Trust. This symbolic torch represented the light in our lives,and every torch bearer illuminated it to make each other's lives beautiful. 

The March past was then conducted and led by Ms.Sumangali, Special educator, ELC. Pandi Ashok held the school placard followed by Pranav shiv who held the school flag. The ELC school flag is made up of 4 colours  representing the 4 houses - red, blue, green and yellow. It also represents the fact that Ekadaksha is filled with colour. The children have been doing this march past this whole year and they have understood that they need to walk and follow.They marched with confidence, pride and a feeling of belonging that they are part of this community. Once the March past was over, the National Flag was hoisted by our Esteemed guests and Trustee followed by the Flag salutation and the National anthem.

Mr.Murukesh Mani then took the Oath for our sports day and Mr.Debendra Narayan Kar "declared the sports meet open". Mr.Hiten joshi then expressed his happiness and support to the children, staff and parents of ELC.

It was then time for the performance of the Drills. Three drills were conducted. The children participated in the drills either independently or with minimal prompts. All the drills were conducted by a Main Special Educator and children were assisted accordingly. The drills had counts from 1-8 and then backwards. At the end of each drill the children made a fun formation. The first was the free hand drill conducted by Ms.Madhumitha, Special Educator, ELC. In this drill the children did hand exercises like up-down, side-down etc. Next was the hoop drill conducted by Ms.Komathi, Special Educator, ELC, in which they used hoops as props and finally made an olympic atyle formation. Finally, the dupatta drill was conducted by Ms.Akila,Special educator, ELC, in which children paired up to do different actions with colourful cloths.The sincere and tireless efforts the children gave a wonderful feeling of "wow" in all present. 

Our Guest of Honour, Mr. Murukesh Mani delivered his speech followed by that of our Chief Guest, Mr. Debendra Narayan Kar. They expressed their admiration and joy in watching the above programme. They appreciated the children and teachers for their wonderful involvement and interest towards sports activities. Ms.Kanaka delivered the "Vote of Thanks" thanking all the people who were instrumental in making this sports day event happen in a grand manner.

Then commenced the track and field events. There were 4 individual events and 2 relay events. The individual events included running race, cone transfer race,javelin throw and obstacle course race. The relay races were bean bag transfer using bucket and hoop transfer race. 

The winner of the Running race, the first event , was Pandi Ashok of Green house.Our Chief guest awaded him with the medal while Guest of honour, presented the winners certificate. 

It was then time for a short break. A break for our children to have their snacks and relax for a while.After the break the other events followed. 

Cone transfer game, in which the children had to take flat color cones from one end and match it over the big color cones kept at the other end.Deepak of Red house was the winner of this game. Javelin throw was a modified one to suit our children,where they have to stand inside a hoop and throw a pool noodle.Aravindh of Green house was the winner of this game.Obstacle course race in which a series of obstacles were arranged in each track, the obstacles being bricks,hoops,cones,hurdles and tyres. Aravindh of Green house was the winner of this game.

The relay races were very exciting as each house participated in its full strength. The Bean bag bucket relay in which children had to transfer bean bags from one end to the other using 1 bucket and exchanging it amongst themselves. "Green house" were the winners of this race. The Hoop pass relay wherein the children had to pass 3 hoops, 1 by 1, over eachother."Red house" were the winners of this race.

After each event,the winner stood on the winners podium and was awarded the gold medal and certificate. 

At the end,there were races for the parents too.The mothers had walking race and Ms.Sridevi(Sahana's mother) was the winner.In the walking race for the fathers,Mr.Prabhakaran(Pandi ashok father) and Mr.Vikram (Raghavan's father) were the winners.They were also awarded with gold medals and certificates.

It was a wonderful sports day with all our children participating with enthusiasm and good energy. 

Click here to see the pictures of our Sports day 2025 -2026

 

 

 

A break from the every day routine,an outing,a new travel experience – these are all welcomed by everyone and we look forward for such wonderful things to happen.When it comes to school life in particular,every child eagerly looks forward for school outings and excursions.

Children at Ekadaksha too love outings and van travel.The children are taken out for excursion every year to explore new places and gain good exposure and experiences.

This academic year,we visited the VGP Marine kingdom.Watching the colorful fishes swimming in water is always relaxing and it soothes one’s mind and soul.Many places and homes maintain aquariums for giving people a refreshing and relaxing feel.Our trip to VGP Marine kingdom was so refreshing and relaxing for the children and teachers. 

Children enjoyed the diverse range of marine species,different kinds of fish – big and small,underwater experience,walking through the tunnels,taking pictures at the selfie spots.They also had a surprise there,where few of our children – Deva and Vishal colored the fish on the paper and were surprised to see their paper fish getting transformed into colorful fish swimming on the screen.

Click here to see the lovely clicks of our children at the selfie spots.

After watching the lovely,colorful fish,they also had fun by playing a few games.Time ticked off quickly and it was a day well spent at the VGP Marine kingdom.

Right from packing their backpacks and boarding the van,enjoying their favorite songs and music in the van,experiencing the under water marine world,having lunch together with their peers and teachers,packing their bags and getting back to the center in van – the entire day was filled with memorable moments to remember and cherish forever.

Here's a video of our children's excursion

Click here for the pictures to see the lovely time everyone had at VGP Marine kingdom

A puppet show for our children,was planned and executed by Ms.Sumangali,Special educator,ELC.It was a wonderful,interactive show which all the children and teachers enjoyed.

The puppet "Benny the pig" was introduced first.Benny then brought along few of his friends - Dog,Parrot,Duck and Cows.

Benny introduced the puppets one by one.Different sounds were made for each puppet which the children repeated.

Dog made a unique "Bow..bow.." sound and sang a song too,Parrot made a "Ki..Ki.." sound and sang a song.Duck came with a "buck buck buk" sound and sang a duck rhyme. Then came two cows - chittu and chottu who interacted with each other. Chittu and chotu then interacted with a few children.They had a lively chat with chittu and chottu.

By making sounds and singing along with the puppets,children had a fun time enjoying and laughing out loud.

Here are few pictures of the interactive puppet show.