Shuru — ‘beginning’ in Hindi — ages 3 to 8
A playful, synchronised classroom-and-home learning world for preschools and the early primary years — co-designed with your early learning community.
- Play-based
- Culturally aligned
- NEP 2020 FLN
- Online or offline
Your preschools. Your culture. Your languages. Your special Shuru.
A playful world of learning
Play-based, culturally aligned, synchronised between preschool and home
Shuru is a playful, synchronised classroom-and-home learning world for preschools and the early primary years. Every story, song and activity is play-based, culturally aligned, and reflects a world of learning through the eyes of the child — their language, their community, their environment.
And what makes Shuru truly yours: we don’t hand your preschools a finished product. We lead your early learning community through a Human Centred Design journey to arrive at your special Shuru.
Play-based
play IS the higher-order thinking in early childhood
Culturally aligned
your stories, songs, art and languages
NEP 2020 FLN
directly advances Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
Online or offline
designed for real preschool infrastructure
One synchronised learning world — at preschool and at home
@class tablet app
Projected for shared, playful group learning. Guided activities, stories and songs. The teacher as orchestrator of play and discovery — one projected classroom tablet serves the whole group; no one-device-per-child cost.
@home app
Parents become confident co-educators. The same stories and songs, replayed at home — simple, joyful, in the family’s own language, synchronised with the classroom.
Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.
— Friedrich Froebel, founder of the kindergarten. Shuru is built on play as the child’s most serious work.The path to your special Shuru
A Human Centred Design journey we lead with your early learning community — so the result belongs to your preschools, not to a product catalogue.
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Immersion and discovery
We visit your preschools and listen: children, teachers, families — your stories, art, music and environment
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Co-creation with your teachers
Workshops turn what we heard into playful activity ideas your teachers shape and own
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Design and build
World Mosaic’s learning designers craft app stories, songs and games in your languages
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Launch @class and @home
Teachers orchestrate shared play in class; parents replay the joy at home, in sync
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Grow together
We measure what matters, celebrate with your community, and extend to more centres
Children
joyful FLN foundations, in their own world
Teachers
facilitators of discovery, not sole knowledge source
Parents
confident co-educators, for the very first time
Leaders
clear visibility of learning across every centre
Your team grows as your Shuru grows
Co-developing your Shuru is more than a product journey — it is a professional development program for your preschool consortium. Every workshop, visit and playback session builds enduring capacity in your educators, coordinators and leaders.
Educators learn HCD by doing
- Discovery visits and co-creation workshops are hands-on professional development
- Teachers practise observing, listening and designing playful learning — with children at the centre
Coordinators gain design and data routines
- Prioritisation frameworks and review gates your coordinators run themselves
- Simple progress views to lead centres with evidence, not guesswork
Capability that stays with your consortium
- The frameworks, routines and methods established remain yours
- Extend your Shuru to new centres with your own trained team — World Mosaic supports gently, then steps back
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.”
— Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind. Shuru grows teachers as facilitators of discovery.Proven where it matters: with real children
A vignette from South-East Asia
In 2023 our team worked intensively across rural and urban preschools in South-East Asia — 110 children observed; teachers, parents and ministry leaders interviewed. We saw earnest, orderly recital of ABCs and numbers. And we heard of children gathering stones under a tree and dividing them into little piles — mathematics blooming with no numerals in sight.
The preschool communities told us what they craved: more participation, expression and play, in the local language and culture. Shown a picture of a butterfly, they wanted to draw one — there was an opportunity to BE butterflies. Together with the teachers and ministry team, we designed butterfly play activities and a story. Thank you was the response from parents.
That HCD-led national early-learning rollout is now scaling across hundreds of preschools — the sort of journey we could lead with your community, in your own unique way.
Squarely aligned to NEP 2020
- Directly advances FLN goals for ages 3 to 8
- Play-based, activity-led pedagogy, as the NCF Foundational Stage intends
- Mother-tongue friendly: learning begins in the child’s own language
Built for real preschools
- Works online or offline — urban and rural
- Gentle teacher onboarding by World Mosaic’s India-based team
- Grows centre by centre, at your community’s pace
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
— Rabindranath Tagore. Shuru begins where the child’s life already is: their family, their language, their world.Getting started, gently
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Meet and walk
we visit your centres and meet your teachers
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Two-week discovery
listening to children, teachers and families
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Co-creation workshop
your community shapes its own Shuru
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Pilot launch
@class and @home apps live in first centres
Invite us to walk the first step with you
Your preschools. Your culture. Your languages. Your special Shuru.
Invite us to visitStart the conversation
Rajatesh Mondal · India Lead, World Mosaic
rajatesh.mondal@worldmosaic.co · +91 99103 92330
Mark Lamont · Founder and Director
mark.lamont@worldmosaic.co · +61 421 133 796
Invite us to walk the first step with your early learning community