116 pages built around the questions parents ask before they enquire
A marketing and content platform for a Reggio Emilia inspired preschool — philosophy, curriculum, admissions, fees, guides and a parenting blog, all structured for local search.
- Client
- Little Lumos Schools
- Industry
- Schools & Preschools

What was the problem?
A genuinely differentiated teaching philosophy in a market of more than sixty local preschools where every website looked the same. Parents comparing options had no way to see what made this one different, and a template site would have made a distinctive school indistinguishable from its competitors.
What we built
A brand-led, story-driven Reggio Emilia website with a daily schedule walkthrough, philosophy-first content, custom mascot illustrations and a conversion-focused admission journey.
What it does
Philosophy and curriculum content
Reggio Emilia principles explained through the school's actual daily practice.
Early-childhood guides library
Six structured guides on approach and philosophy.
Parenting blog
Long-form articles with category taxonomy and interactive filtering.
Programme and locality landing pages
Reggio Emilia, play school and daycare pages targeted to local search.
Admissions enquiry capture
Enquiry form with transport-availability check.
Virtual tour and gallery
Visual reassurance for parents who cannot visit immediately.
Daily schedule presentation
An hour-by-hour view of what a day actually looks like.
Parent stories and events
Social proof and community activity.
Newsletter subscription
Retention channel for parents still researching.
Analytics
Google Tag Manager instrumentation.
What it was built with
- Next.js
What changed as a result?
Stands out digitally among 60+ Kakinada preschools and drives the majority of admission enquiries for the brand.
- Philosophy-first content, so the teaching approach is the first thing a parent understands
- Custom illustration rather than stock imagery
Why does this matter in schools & preschools?
School software is the combination of two things: the website that wins an admission enquiry, and the system that handles everything after it. Most of our delivered work is here. A school site is judged by parents in under a minute, and a school office runs on processes that spreadsheets stop supporting the moment you add a second campus.
Admission enquiries leak before anyone calls back
Long forms and delayed follow-up lose parents who were ready to enquire. The Little Lumos admission form was cut to ten questions and completes in under 30 seconds, which dropped drop-off and shortened time-to-first-call.
Fee collection eats an administrator's week
Manually generating fee entries per student per term, then reconciling receipts, is where school offices lose days. Automated generation and collection removes the arithmetic and leaves a single record everyone can check.
Parents and teachers have no shared source of truth
Attendance in one register, daily activities in a WhatsApp group, fees in a spreadsheet. Nothing reconciles, and every parent question becomes a search. A single portal with role-based access ends that.
Looking the same as every other school nearby
In a market with sixty-plus preschools, a template website is indistinguishable. Philosophy-led, story-driven sites give parents a reason to choose you before they ever visit the campus.
See it running
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