What happens when the books stay at home, but curiosity comes to school? A Bagless Day!
A day filled with laughter, creativity, exploration and hands-on experiences, where our young learners learn by doing, discover by exploring, and create with joy. From circle time to creative activities, music, movement and more, every moment becomes an opportunity to learn beyond the books!
Come, let’s step into a day where learning is light, lively and full of fun!
The same things the timetable is aiming at, approached from the other side. Measuring water into a jug is arithmetic. Building a house out of cardboard is planning, estimating and doing it again when it falls. Selling and buying at a pretend vegetable cart is money and language at once.
What changes is the order. Instead of a concept first and an example afterwards, the child meets the thing itself and the teacher names what happened. Children who are quiet in a written lesson are often the ones leading on a bagless day, and their class teacher sees that.
A bagless day replaces neither the syllabus nor the reading.
HOUR BY HOUR
What we do on a Bagless Days?
ARRIVAL OF THE CHILDREN
Arriving with Curiosity
Stepping into school with cheerful hearts, water bottles and lunch boxes—ready for a day of exploration and discovery.
CIRCLE TIME
Connecting with Friends
Sitting together with peers, sharing thoughts, stories and smiles, and getting ready for the day's experiences.
THEME INTRODUCTION & DISCUSSION
Discovering the Theme
An engaging introduction to the day's theme followed by lively classroom discussions, questions and ideas.
HANDS-ON ACTIVITY / ART & CRAFT
Learning by Doing
Creating, experimenting and exploring through hands-on activities that turn learning into a joyful experience.
BREAK TIME
Pause, Refresh & Recharge
Taking a cheerful break to enjoy a meal, relax and spend some happy moments with friends.
DANCE • YOGA • MUSIC & MORE
Moving, Grooving & Expressing
Learning through movement, rhythm and creativity with dance, yoga, music and other engaging activities.
GOING HOME
Taking Home a Little Piece of Learning
Heading home with happy memories and something special created with their own hands—a wonderful reminder of a day spent learning beyond books.
WHAT THEY DO
What happens on the day.
Building and making
Cardboard, bottle caps, clay and tape. Children plan a thing, build it, watch it fail and build it again.
Dance and music
Drums made from tins, songs the children change as they sing, and folk steps taught by a neighbour. Nobody is graded, and the loudest corner is usually the happiest one.
Excursions
A day away from the classroom: a farm, a museum or the old stepwell in town. Children pack their own lunch, hold a partner’s hand on the road and tell the story of the trip the next morning.
Story and drama
A story told, then acted with masks the children cut out themselves. The quietest children usually speak here first.
Nature walk
Slow steps along the lane behind the school. Children stop for a beetle, a fallen nest or a leaf with holes in it, and the walk takes twice as long as planned.
Art & craft
Paper, leaves, clay and old cloth, with no model to copy. Children make what they imagine, and the teacher asks “tell me about it” instead of “what is it?”
WHY WE RUN THEM
Why Mayo runs bagless days.
Because the youngest children were carrying too much and sitting too long. A six-year-old with a full bag and six written periods has very little of the day left for the kind of learning that only happens with the hands.
Because the teacher sees differently on these days. With no book between them, a class teacher watches how a child plans, shares, gives up or keeps going — and that goes into how the child is taught the rest of the month.
Because it is easier to keep a promise that is on the calendar. Bagless days are published in the school calendar at the start of the session.
WHAT THEY TAKE AWAY
What children come home with.
Something they made
A pot, a model, a painted lantern. It goes home the same day.
An appetite to tell you about it
Parents tell us the car ride home after a bagless day is the most talkative of the month.
Hands that have done the work
Kneading, digging, pouring, tying. Small muscles and patience, both.
A lighter back
No bag in, nothing to carry out, and no homework that evening.
Practice at working with others
Groups are mixed and small. Children negotiate who does what, and fix it when it goes wrong.
A teacher who saw them differently
What a child does on a bagless day is discussed with the class teacher and used in the ordinary week.
IN THEIR WORDS
Parents and teachers on bagless days.
“My son talks all the way home on a bagless day. On an ordinary day I get "fine". On a bagless day I get the whole story of the pot he made and who broke it.”
Parent of a Class II childParent
“I was worried it was a holiday in disguise. It is not. They come back tired in a good way, and with something in their hands.”
Parent of an LKG childParent
“You learn more about a child in one bagless day than in a month of written work. I see who plans, who shares, who keeps going when it falls over.”
Class teacher, Primary wingTeacher
BAGLESS DAYS
Learning beyond the timetable.
Published Bagless Days from the school calendar, shown as dates rather than incomplete event posters.
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III April 1
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III April 2
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III May
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III July 1
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III July 2
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III August 1
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III August 2
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III August 3
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III September 1
Bagless learning
2026-27
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Bagless Day LKG-III September 2
Bagless learning
2026-27
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Bagless Day LKG-III October 1
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III October 2
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III October 3
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III November
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III November 2
Bagless learning
2026-27
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Bagless Day LKG-III December 1
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III December 2
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III January 1
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III January 2
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III February
Bagless learning
2026-27
Students
Bagless Day LKG-III February 2
Bagless learning
2026-27
PAST DAYS
Photographs from bagless days already held.
Dandiya Raas — October 2026
16 October 2026
Photographs from the Dandiya Raas on 16 october 2026
Monsoon Mania — July 2026
5 September 2026
Photographs from the bagless day on July 2026, LKG to Class III.
Ganesh Utsav — August 2026
29 August 2026
Photographs from the bagless day on 29 August 2026, LKG to Class III.
Little Scientists of Mayo — August 2026
22 August 2026
Photographs from the bagless day on 22 August 2026, LKG to Class III.
Come and see one.
The next bagless day is on the calendar. Parents considering Mayo are welcome to visit on one and watch a normal bagless morning.
Leave your number and the admissions team calls you back within one working day — seat status in your child’s class, the fee sheet and your nearest bus stop.
