Tell us about KLAY

KLAY Schools are a chain of high-end preparatory schools catering to preschoolers and providing day care and after school services. Parents choose our school because of the high quality of teaching, education, infrastructure and resources that we provide. We believe that children’s minds in their formative years are like clay (our name is inspired by this) and need to be provided the right environment to flourish. KLAY provides an environment where your child can be his/her own person, feels at home, is safe and secure and has enough avenues to explore. We have well trained teachers who provide a structure for your child to work in and are children with them to spur their curiosity. KLAY is spread across cities – Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida.

Tell us about the leadership at KLAY

Priya Krishnan is the CEO of one of the largest and most trustworthy prep school and daycare brands in India, KLAY & The Little Company. She is a business graduate from London Business School and has worked in various leadership positions with companies like Anderson Consulting, PWC and Mphasis before moving to India from the UK. Her decision to give up such a lucrative job was driven by her passion to make a difference in the educational sector along with her desire to resolve the limitations of existing daycare centres in India.

Tell us about the Daycare

Priya says, “When I was studying at London Business School, I had a 9 month old child and I was able to study, work and bring my child up because I had access to high quality care while I was studying there. I knew I wanted to come back to India, work with children and help women like myself go back to work. It all came together when there was an opportunity to set that up in India and help companies focus more on bringing women back into the workforce.”

“Traditionally in India, childcare has been taken care of by grandparents, a maid or at a crèche – a place where children eat, sleep and spend time when their parents are at work. A child should not lose out on the fact that the mother is not at home. So, we created KLAY as a structured environment with a curriculum which the children follow during the day.”

 Tell us about the team

At present, KLAY and TLC have nearly 2000 kids learning and playing in over 40 centres across 7 cities in India. Established in the year 2011 with a small team of 2 people, today KLAY-TLC employs over 500 women alone. KLAY has recently launched more centres in Mumbai at Godrej One and the Bandra Kurla complex. Each KLAY centre is run an excellent team of teachers and support staff under the capable leadership of a centre director.

Tell us about the experience at your centre – what do you definitely provide your children? 

With KLAY, you can be assured that your child would have the right learning environment with ample learning resources and qualified teachers. We ensure that your little ones will be given proper attention and that they will imbibe new things by means of various innovative learning aids.

As India’s first NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) compliant Daycare, we offer:

• Live Classroom CCTV streaming
• Teacher-Child Ratios starting at 1:3
• In-house Kitchen
• Age appropriate Classrooms
• Extended daycare till 7.30 pm

What makes you stand out as a centre? What do the kids and mother remember your centre most for?

What differentiates KLAY centres is how actively we engage with parents. We work with them on many initiatives that concern them such as their children’s nutrition and security.

Parents appreciate our centres for these advantages:

• Transparent, Responsive and Accountable Professional Service
• Preschool with extended hours of Day-care.
• Qualified teachers supported by on-job training with Asian International College, Singapore.
• Quality learning time to engage children in television-free centres with ample space for each child.

A child’s outlook is much more different. Here is what they feel about our KLAY centres:

• Feels just like home – Comfortable and safe
• Never a boring moment – lots of fun and play time
• Many friends to make – all their age
• Teachers and staff who care and play with them

Do visit this excellent school and daycare.