Schools Himayatnagar, Hyderabad St Anthonys Primary School

Our younger one speaks mostly Malayalam at home. Would he manage at St Anthonys in Himayatnagar?

peach_sketch_63855 Jul 2026

St Anthonys Primary School is close to us, and we're thinking of moving our younger son there next June. He's at a small preschool now, where the teachers are very patient with him. At home it's mostly Malayalam. His English is a handful of words plus whatever he picks up from cartoons. His elder brother, who is in class 10, says he'll 'be fine'. His brother says that about everything. If you have children in the early classes there: is it mostly English from day one, or is some Telugu and Hindi mixed in? And did any of you have a child join with very little English? How long did it take?

3 comments

lemon_river_68275 Jul 2026
kids that age pick up english so fast it's scary. ask the school when you go, they'll have seen it a hundred times
pebble_moon_68155 Jul 2026
Our son spoke mostly Telugu until he started preschool, and for the first two months he hardly said a word at school. His teacher told us he understood far more than he let on. By the end of the first term he was answering in English and correcting our pronunciation. Is your younger one comfortable being away from you? For us that mattered more than the language.
- peach_sketch_63855 Jul 2026
  He's fine being away, he runs into his preschool without looking back. That's reassuring, thank you. Two quiet months I can live with.
- plum_spoon_20095 Jul 2026
  same with my daughter. telugu at home, nothing at school for weeks. then one day she came home and called me 'ma'am'
amber_badminton_2105 Jul 2026
In my son's class there was always a mix of home languages. Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, a couple of Malayali kids. The children sorted it out among themselves faster than the parents did ❤