Curious Minds, Colourful Walls: Inside Greenwood's Science & Arts Fair 2026
Last Saturday, Greenwood's corridors turned into laboratories, galleries and stages. More than 420 students from Class 1 to Class 10 showed what they had been building, painting, coding and rehearsing since July - and over 650 parents and grandparents came to see it. This is the story of the day, and of the small moments that made it ours.
A morning of curious minds
The gates opened at 8:30, and by 9:00 the science block had a queue. Class 8's water-purification model - three layers of sand, gravel and charcoal in recycled bottles - turned muddy pond water clear in under ten minutes. Their team leader, Aarav, explained the flow rate to a visiting engineer with the calm of someone who had done it forty times that morning. He had.
Next door, Class 6 ran a solar oven that baked biscuits by noon, and Class 9 measured the school's rainfall for 90 days to show which corner of the playground floods first - and how a ₹600 drain cover could fix it. The Principal has already asked the office for a quote.
What the judges looked for
A real question - something the students actually wondered about, not a textbook chapter.
Honest measurements - including the ones that did not go the way they hoped.
A clear explanation - could a Class 3 student follow it? Our youngest visitors were the toughest judges.
Care for the place we live in - extra marks for projects that help our school or our neighbourhood.
The arts wing
Upstairs, the art room became a gallery called “Our Town in Colour”. Class 4 painted the vegetable market at dawn; Class 7 built a cardboard model of the old railway station, complete with a clock that really ticks. The most-photographed piece of the day was a 3-metre mural of the school banyan tree, painted by 38 hands over six weeks.
Visitors voted with coloured stickers. The results:
Most votes: the banyan mural (Class 5 and 6 together) - 212 stickers
Runner-up: the railway-station model (Class 7) - 168 stickers
Judges' special mention: Meera's ink drawings of her grandmother's kitchen, Class 9
On the stage
At 11:30 the assembly hall filled for the cultural programme. Class 2 opened with a song about the monsoon that had half the audience clapping along, and Class 10 closed with a short play - The Last Exam - written by the students themselves, about a boy who studies for everything except the one test that matters: being kind to the new student in class.
Children do not need us to fill them with answers. They need us to protect their questions long enough for them to find their own.
Thank you
A fair like this does not happen without a hundred quiet helpers. Our thanks to:
The teachers who stayed late for six weeks and still smiled on Saturday morning
The parent volunteers who ran the water stall, the lost-and-found and the car park
Our support staff, who set up 60 tables before sunrise and cleared them by evening
Every visitor who asked a student “How did you do that?” - you made their day
Photos from the day will be shared in the parent app this week. If you would like a copy of the student-made booklet of all 86 projects, ask at the school office - it is free.
Coming up next
The Inter-House Sports Meet is on 21 November. House captains will share practice timings with their teams on Monday. Parents are warmly invited; please bring a hat and a water bottle. More details on our notice board.
With gratitude and pride,
Greenwood Academy