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Everyday moments at Q-kid

Every photo here comes from an ordinary day at school: our little learners cooking, experimenting, painting and stretching into their morning yoga. Tap a photograph to see it full size

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A bright classroom, children at two tables, the teacher standing at the front with a bowl

Five children in a row on green chairs, one with a hand up

Three children on chairs, each holding their own cloth

Children on chairs, one holding a book and another a ball

Children sitting in a row, holding soft toys and their favourite things

The whole school sitting in one big circle, a teacher in the middle playing guitar and harmonica

Children in a row on the floor, clapping and singing, a teacher behind with one of the little ones

Two children facing each other, clapping hands together in time with the song

Children with their hands up, doing the actions to the song, a teacher sitting behind them

Children doing the hand actions, one of them up on their feet with both arms in the air

A teacher pointing at a painted map of Thailand on an easel while the children watch

Two children reaching for picture cards of Thai landmarks laid out on the floor

Two children leaning over a map on the floor, pressing shapes onto it

Seen from above, two children pressing pictures onto a painted map with their hands

Children waiting their turn beside the easel, a teacher kneeling with them

Four children reaching across a low table with the painting things on it

Children in Thai dress holding banana-leaf krathong, lined up in the hall

Two boys in gold Thai dress floating their krathong on the pool

Two teachers helping small children float their krathong

A teacher and two children in Thai dress floating a krathong on the pool

The whole school in Thai dress, holding hands in a circle in the hall

Children in Thai dress carrying their krathong across the hall

Children in Thai dress standing in a ring with a teacher in the middle

Children in Thai dress walking in a line through the covered hall

Three children playing with the model animals laid out on a white tray

Two children picking up a model animal each and playing together

Children in costume walking past the Once upon a time banner on storybook day

Children splashing in the paddling pool, coloured balls floating all around them

An upturned umbrella full of coloured balls in the middle of the room, children in costume gathered round it

Two children making a krathong out of banana leaf and marigolds

Four children in red standing on stage in front of a painted house, a teacher behind them

Two children in Chinese New Year outfits walking down the mat, friends watching from both sides

The whole class in one big ring on the floor, the teacher at the front doing the actions

Children on the grass pressing seeds into a seedling tray, one hole at a time

Children lifting toy sea creatures out of a tub of water with long tongs

Children round tubs of water outside, lifting sea creatures into a basket together

Children pouring water from a bottle into zip bags and watching what happens

Six children crowding round two glass jars on the table, each with an egg soaking inside

Two children dropping colour into a tray of milk and watching the red and blue run apart

Two children squirting water onto tissue in bowls to see how it falls apart

Children at a table, each holding a different vegetable to compare

Three children measuring water and corn kernels into clear beakers

Children with magnifying glasses, looking closely at soil and leaves in a tray on the blue mat

Three children standing under a tree, holding up butterfly cards to look at

Children pouring water into bottles layered with soil and gravel, to see if it comes out clearer

Children watching a row of bottles of blue water standing on a tray

A teacher holding up a diagram of the lungs beside a sign reading EXPERIMENT How to LUNG work

A girl squeezing a glove under a cardboard cow so the milk runs into the basin

Children dropping paper flowers into a basin of water on the lawn and waiting for them to open

Children round a tray of white foam, swirling blue colour into it with their fingers

A teacher pouring into the cup a boy is holding, small dark bottles lined up on the red tray

A balloon slowly filling on the neck of a bottle standing in a bowl of water, children watching from round the table

Two children dipping the end of a tissue into cups of coloured water and watching the colour climb

Three children watching pink spread right across the tissue laid over a bowl

Two children experimenting with a funnel, a pump and a bottle of water on the table

Two children stacking paper cups and setting the piles into a pink basket

Children around a clear box, picking out coloured bands one at a time with chopsticks

Two children using tongs to move yellow pompoms from a red tray across to a chair

Children using tongs to drop yellow pompoms into small glass jars

Children sitting in a ring putting their own shoes on, some helping a friend with the heel

Children hanging cloths on coloured hangers along a drying rack

Three children sitting on a mat, peeling the husks off sweetcorn together

Children on a mat stripping the kernels off the corn into a bowl between them

Children walking the length of a balance beam laid on the mats

Children in the inflatable ball pit, picking up coloured balls

Three children on the plastic climbing frame, one at the top of the slide

Children sitting and playing in the ball pit, the slide behind them

Three children waiting their turn at the edge of the ball pit

Children in PE kit crawling through hoops set over mats, the rest waiting their turn behind

Children in PE kit moving to a rhythm, one of them pointing up at the ceiling

Children crawling under a bamboo pole laid across two chairs

A little one sitting inside a green tub with friends gathered round

Children in PE kit walking in a line, each carrying a bucket or a coloured cone

Two children with palms pressed together above their heads, balancing in tree pose

Children weaving between a line of coloured cones on the floor

A boy balancing along a blue plastic beam laid over a sea-patterned sheet

Children going through a line of standing hoops, a queue of friends waiting behind

Children bending to touch the floor, following the teacher doing it beside them

Children picking up coloured balls on the grass, red string marking out the area

Children stretching out their arms and legs on the covered outdoor court

Children kneeling in a row, raising their arms above their heads together

Three children lying on their backs on the floor, knees hugged to their chests

Two children sitting and gently rubbing their own cheeks, following the teacher's count

Three children sitting cross-legged, hands to their faces in a relaxing routine

Two children sitting with their eyes shut, practising slow breathing

Children sitting in pairs on the floor, massaging each other's legs

Children in a ring on the floor, taking turns to rub a friend's shoulders and legs

The little island the children made from green dough and dried flowers, standing in a tray of water

Children planting dried flowers into green dough at the table

Two children planting dried stems into a lump of dough together

Two children planting little trees onto their green dough island

Two children on either side of the table, decorating their island together

Two children choosing dried flowers from a purple basket on the table

Seen from above, three children around a table spraying colour into a large basin

Two children spraying colour onto cloth in a basin, friends waiting behind them

Two children leaning over two basins, spraying colour onto crumpled white cloth

Two children with spray bottles, each colouring the cloth in their own basin

A girl sticking black wool onto a paper plate face to give it hair

Two children holding up the paper plates they decorated as sea creatures

Four children around a table, gluing yellow birds onto brown card

Two children holding the big orange paper flowers they made

Two children on opposite sides of a table, taking pieces from a pink basket to stick onto round cards

Four children in a row, each holding the paper cup they turned into a lion's face

Two children holding paper astronaut helmets up to their faces and peering out

A boy grinning as he holds up the puppet he made from a brown paper bag

Children in smocks pressing green handprints onto a board, a teacher helping

Children around a big sheet on the floor, colouring in the outline of a map in blue

Two children sticking small squares of coloured paper onto a plate with a drawing on it

Two children dipping brushes in a paint pot and painting the rabbits drawn on their paper

From above: children around a table painting the figures drawn on their sheets

Two children at a table with the cotton-wool sheep they made from paper plates

Two children picking coloured paper and buttons out of a big tray on the table

Two children taking pieces from a purple basket and arranging them into a picture

Two children dabbing paint onto their cards with cotton buds

Children around a table sticking small coloured pieces onto their own card

Children tearing green paper into pieces and sticking them onto a prepared shape

Two children giving the paper children on their chairs purple wool hair

Two children cutting fruit on a board, a teacher standing behind them

Two children eating the blue jelly dessert they made, from plastic cups

Two boys holding the dessert cups they made, at a long table

Two children eating at a table, shoe racks behind them

A small child stirring red jelly in a plastic cup at the table

A boy sitting and stirring the red jelly in his own cup

Two children cracking an egg into a green bowl, a plate of eggs and some flatbread beside them

Children squeezing oranges on hand juicers, a tray of halved oranges filling the table

A girl pouring beaten egg from a blue jug into a bowl of grated carrot, a teacher's hand steadying the dish

Two children holding the same wooden spoon, stirring a mixture in a green bowl

A boy grating a carrot on a green grater while his friend watches

Children tasting the snack they made, a blue bowl in front of each of them

From above: a teacher and children in a ring on the floor, pounding som tam in clay mortars

Children eating the pizza they made at a wooden table, bowls of sauce beside them

One boy holding the blender jug while another lifts a bowl of diced mango, ready to tip it in

Two children eating from small bowls, looking up and smiling at the camera

A boy cutting carrot into strips with a plastic knife on a white board

A boy stirring a big pot of soup with a wooden spoon, small dishes of seasoning beside him

A girl spooning a mixture through a sieve into a bowl, chopped carrot on a pink board