David Beckham’s visit in Visakhapatnam school highlights classroom innovation

It was a peculiar time for the girls of the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Andhra Pradesh Backward Classes Welfare Educational Institutions Society (MJPAPBCWREIS) residential schoolhouse successful Kothavalasa, who recovered themselves hosting an unexpected visitant connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025).

Sir David Beckham, erstwhile England shot skipper and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, walked into their classrooms to ticker Project-Based Learning (PBL) successful motion. His accomplishment has enactment the spotlight connected a schoolhouse that has been reshaping however children larn done a concern betwixt Mantra4Change and Education Above All. The inaugural is simply a portion of a wider programme of the Mantra4Change supported by Education Above All aimed astatine improving classrooms crossed Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and Nagaland.

Mr. Beckham began his sojourn by sitting done an ongoing PBL session, wherever students led discussions and worked done tasks that required teamwork and reasoning. He past walked done a tiny accumulation created by the children, who presented projects successful English, Mathematics and Science. Each show showed however the programme asks students to analyse problems and plan solutions that bespeak situations astir them.

Students aboriginal invited him to instrumentality portion successful a tree-planting enactment and explained however saplings are scanned and labelled utilizing integer identifiers. In the library, helium joined a speechmaking ellipse and spoke with children astir the books that usher their imagination. The four-hour-long sojourn ended with a lively one-touch shot drill that drew delighted applause crossed the schoolhouse grounds.

In his Instagram post, Sir David said, “Great time successful India going backmost to schoolhouse supporting Education Above All’s task based learning initiatives truthful overmuch fun.”

“It gives america large joyousness that Sir David Beckham chose to sojourn 1 of our MJP schools,” said P. Madhavi Latha, secretary, MJPAPBCWREIS. “His beingness astatine our schoolhouse successful a spot similar Kothavalasa is simply a reminder that erstwhile we enactment with the close intent and dedication, bonzer things tin happen.”

Mantra4Change, successful concern with the MJP (Mahatma Jyotirao Phule) Society and supported by Education Above All (EAA), has redesigned teaching and learning successful 107 residential schools crossed Andhra Pradesh, reaching astir 18,000 students and gathering the capableness of 107 schoolhouse leaders. The Project-Based Learning programme has been integrated crossed English, Mathematics and Science, turning accepted classrooms into progressive learning spaces wherever students larn by collaborating connected projects and contiguous solutions to assemblage problems.

Santosh More, co-founder of Mantra4Change, said, “Sir David Beckham’s sojourn is an inspiration for each of america and a almighty awesome that innovation successful our authorities schools matters. Project-Based Learning is raising children’s aspirations, and moments similar this fortify our resoluteness to enactment with governments and communities to marque specified learning the norm.”

The sojourn besides adds caller momentum to Shikshagraha, a people-powered nationalist question being co-built by Mantra4Change that is moving to amended 1 cardinal nationalist schools crossed India.