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Akaisha Kapoor (Founder Member of TCG Jumeira)
Long before TCG Jumeira was launched, little Akaisha’s parents Kapil and Pia were already sold on the concept of multi-lingual education. “We rate languages as highly as any top qualification,” explained Kapil, a Chief Financial Officer himself. “I’ve seen people succeed with less knowledge per se, but purely on the basis on how good they are with languages – how good they are as speakers. If you’re a good communicator, you can be as successful as any nerd!”
| This led the Kapoors to brave the commute from their home in Jumeira and enroll Akaisha at TCG Green Community. “She started there in February 2009 as the youngest child in the school – it was her first experience of formal education. We started her on the half day (four hours per day), but the first month was very difficult and she was very unsettled. But she settled down after Spring Break and she loves it now. “As far as her sense of ownership goes, she’s very keen to tell us ‘This is MY school’ when she sees TCG or even the logo, and by the end of the last academic year she made absolutely no fuss going to school – probably because she has so much fun. She was still only doing three days a week, so from September we’ll be sending her five days a week to get used to it and feel school is a regular part of her routine. But the change we’ve seen in Akaisha over the last few months has been amazing – she blows our minds. One comment she made one day as Pia was driving her to TCG was, ‘Mamma drive carefully’ as they were approaching that awful Green Community roundabout – what a wise girl!” |
When asked why they chose TCG over and above any other nursery or pre-school in Dubai, Kapil explained, “We were sold on the multilingual and creative concept from all the interactions I had with Birgit. And then it was more than her. Whilst Pia was taking Akaisha to My Gym and interacting with other mums there, everybody heard the same positive things about TCG. They all raved about TCG. The other mothers weren’t even TCG parents – maybe only one or two, tops. They’d heard about TCG and wished it was somewhere closer, as the Green Community is just too far for young babies to travel all that way.
“That’s why when TCG Jumeira came, we felt it would fill up in no time, so we were delighted to be number one on the list! We want Akaisha to be one of the founder members of TCG Jumeira. It’s a wonderful thought to know that if she goes back there when she’s older, there’ll always be something of her imprinted in the school because she’s a founder member – which is what they do at TCG. I know I’d love to go back to MY school and see something of me still there…”
When asked what, as a family, they hope for and expect of a good pre-school, Kapil was quick with his answer: “We’d like Akaisha to be able to hold her own with kids of her own age. Confidence and communication and knowledge – if it’s not too early to say that. And the ability to retain what she’s learning. That’s what we want.”
