Class 9
Explore before choices narrow
What students have been exposed to, what they are curious about, and what deserves exploring before the major decisions begin.
Bring the research into one of your classrooms.
One class. One period. No fee, now or later.
Project Yaadhum is a field research initiative. We are building the first working version of a student transition programme, and we are looking for a small number of schools willing to try it while it is still being shaped.
We do not arrive with a fixed programme, or a fixed answer. We begin with the problem your school is seeing
Four classes. Four different transition questions.
Across Classes 9 to 12, where do your students or parents struggle most with what comes next? We do not ask a school to fit our programme. We shape the first pilot around the problem it is already living with.
Class 10
Choose with better information
How stream and pathway decisions are actually being made, what the family knows, what is influencing it, and what is missing.
Class 11
Adjust and stay on track
Who is struggling with the transition, what sits behind a drop in performance or confidence, and where support may matter.
Class 12
Navigate exams, courses and colleges
Whether students know the pathways open to them, the examinations and eligibility involved, and what they need to do next.
A school knows the child. The decision does not.
Every school we have sat in already knows a great deal about its students. The difficulty is not effort or care. It is that what a school knows and what a family decides never meet, because they happen at different moments.
The decision · a few weeks
Everything the school already knows about the child
Class 9
Class 10
Class 11
Class 12
What would have helped the family, arriving after the choice was made
What we keep noticing
The decision arrives before the information does
Families choose in a matter of weeks. The things that would have helped them choose well often reach them months later, or not at all.
What a teacher sees has nowhere to go
Something is noticed in September. There is no place to put it, so by the time the stream form appears it has quietly gone.
Nobody goes back to check
Once a choice is made it is treated as settled. Whether it turned out to fit the student is a question almost nobody returns to.
What we would like to understand with you.
Five questions we cannot answer from outside a school. Everything we would do with you is in service of these, and nothing beyond them.
The questions
- Who actually decides, and who is in the room when it happens
- What information reaches a family, through whom, and how early
- What a school already knows that never reaches the decision
- What it costs a student when the fit turns out to be wrong
- Whether anything anyone noticed was ever acted on
And what this is not
- Nothing is being sold to your school. There is no fee, now or later
- No career score, percentage or prediction about a child
- No ranking of students against each other
- No diagnosis, and no permanent labels
- No claim that one exercise can settle a student’s future
In practice this is one class, about one period, and an honest conversation afterwards about what we both learned. Parents are informed and consent obtained before any minor takes part, and anything we publish is anonymised. A student should leave with more possibilities to explore, not another label attached to them.
Small enough to learn properly.
Six steps, start to finish. The first pilots are design partnerships rather than finished products, which is exactly why they are free.
- 01
Choose one problem
A short conversation with the school to identify one transition question worth investigating.
- 02
Choose one cohort
Usually one section, around 30 to 50 students.
- 03
Run one focused session
Around 45 minutes of student time, adapted to the question we chose together. It is not an aptitude test.
- 04
Make sense of what we find
We look for patterns, exceptions, and information that deserves someone’s attention.
- 05
Share it back
The school receives a cohort summary and the agreed findings, with a clear read of what appears to matter.
- 06
Recheck where useful
A few weeks later, where the design calls for it, we revisit what was flagged and tell you what changed.
Written as a promise to a parent, not as terms and conditions.
For a school pilot, the agreed individual findings go to the school. We do not distribute individual reports to volunteers, sponsors, other schools or the public.
Collect only what we need
Every field a programme asks for has to have a reason. We do not collect student information simply because we can.
Parents know beforehand
The programme, what is collected and how it will be used are explained before a minor takes part, and consent is obtained where required.
No ranking, no labels
A student’s responses are never used to rank them against others or to predict what they will become.
Research is anonymised
Anything used for research or publication is anonymised unless separate, explicit permission has been given.
Why are the first pilots free? Because we are still learning too.
No fee, no obligation
Project Yaadhum is studying how students in Tier 2 and Tier 3 communities actually navigate school transitions. We would rather learn from real schools than build around assumptions.
The first pilots are therefore free, with no obligation to purchase anything afterwards. If this ever becomes a paid school programme, we will say so plainly rather than quietly.
Tell us what your school is seeing.
You do not need to know whether Yaadhum is the answer. Tell us about the problem. We will call you back, and we are not going to add you to a mailing list.