Schools Saidabad, Hyderabad Vani High School

Grandson may join Vani High School in Saidabad for class 2. How much Telugu will he need?

cobalt_compass_876117 Sept 2026

Our son and daughter-in-law are thinking of renting on the Saidabad side next year, closer to her office, and they have put Vani High School on the shortlist for our grandson. He will be going into class 2 in June. We speak Bengali and English at home. His Telugu is a few words from the watchman and the auto driver. I will be the one sitting with him for homework on most afternoons, and I cannot read the script at all. For parents whose children are in the early classes there, or at any State Board school nearby: how much Telugu reading and writing is expected by class 2? Do late joiners manage?

3 comments

moss_camera_619217 Sept 2026
No idea about Vani specifically, we're IB and on the Attapur side. From what I understand, Telugu is taught across boards in Telangana now, so he'd meet it wherever he goes. My son started it late too and grumbled for a year. Now it's just another subject.
- quiet_pool_748817 Sept 2026
  That matches what we saw. We are a Marathi-speaking family in LB Nagar and our son's CBSE school started Telugu in class 1. The early books are mostly letters, short words and rhymes. By class 4 or 5 he was reading slowly but correctly, and his marks were never the problem we feared. The homework pages did need an adult for the first year, though. We used a neighbour's daughter for twenty minutes twice a week.
silver_drum_328317 Sept 2026
i teach (not at that school). kids who come in at class 2 with no telugu usually have the letters down within a term if someone at home spends ten minutes a day on them. worth asking the school directly whether they do anything extra for late joiners, some do, some don't
- cobalt_compass_876120 Sept 2026
  Ten minutes a day sounds possible even for me. We will ask about late joiners when we visit. I have also started on the letters myself, so that I am not completely useless at the homework table.
bronze_diary_287218 Sept 2026
which class are the other kids at in telugu by then is the real question. at class 2 i'd worry more about him being the new boy than about the script.
- cobalt_compass_876118 Sept 2026
  Class 2 from June. He is not a shy child, that part I am less worried about. It is the homework, since I will be the one with him in the afternoons.
- cobalt_compass_876119 Sept 2026
  Small update. A neighbour lent us an old class 1 Telugu workbook yesterday. My grandson learnt three letters before I had learnt one. Perhaps the worry is more mine than his.
- moss_drum_548820 Sept 2026
  Replying to @cobalt_compass_8761
  ha, that's how it'll go. our daughter is still a toddler and we already joke she'll be correcting my written Telugu, which hasn't been used since school. let him teach you, kids love being the teacher.
- cinnamon_drum_506521 Sept 2026
  Replying to @moss_drum_5488
  it works until the child decides you're the student permanently. my 6 year old now checks my handwriting on the shopping list. still worth it, he reads more when he's correcting someone.