Nilüfer, Bursa · Years 1–4 · Private primary school under the Ministry of National Education
Sixteen children and two teachers in every class.
Ada is a small primary school. Each term children work on a single question; they learn in the garden, the woodshop and the kitchen. The teacher at the door knows every child by name.
2026–2027 pre-registration
Places left across four classes: 7. Applications are considered in order of arrival.
ApplyThere are 16 desks in a class, no more.
64 children attend the whole school. The teacher at the morning door, the bus assistant and Aynur in the kitchen know every one of them by name.
Every class has a class teacher and a co-teacher. While one leads the group, the other can work with a child who finds reading hard or with a group moving ahead. Homework, parent meetings and project notes are shared between the two.
Get to know the school
Four classes, four doors
Each class has its own paper colour: on its door, its board and its teachers' cards. Children know the school by its colours.
Year 1
Age 6–7 · 16 pupils
Letters, numbers and the school itself.
Places left this year: 4
Year 2
Age 7–8 · 16 pupils
Measuring, counting, working in the garden.
Places left this year: 2
Year 3
Age 8–9 · 16 pupils
Asking questions and looking for answers.
Places left this year: 1
Year 4
Age 9–10 · 16 pupils
Researching, presenting, getting ready for middle school.
Full this year, waiting list
A project term, week by week
“Why does bread rise?”
The whole project-
Question · Week 1
Why does bread rise?
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Research · Week 3
Seeds in the soil
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Making · Week 7
Kneading dough
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Exhibition · Week 10
Families in class
A letter to parents
I taught in crowded classrooms for twenty-two years. We founded Ada so that it would be a school where I can call every child by name at least once a day.
In a class of thirty-four, the quietest child sometimes went a whole term without asking a single question, and I only noticed on report day. At Ada classes have sixteen children and two teachers, and no child goes unseen.
Each term begins with one question: Why does bread rise? How does the Nilüfer stream pass through our neighbourhood? Children look at that question for weeks; they read, measure, visit, make and, at the end of term, explain it to their families. Turkish and maths run through all of it, with nothing left out.
Our door is open. Come and sit in a class one morning, and have lunch with us.
Selma ErginFounder and head
Get to know the schoolParent guide
The topics our teachers discuss most with parents: settling in, reading habits, screens and homework.
School visit: next free slots
Forty-five minutes. You walk through the classes, workshops and garden while lessons are on, then sit down with our head to talk through your questions. You are welcome to bring your child.