Why choose The Maria Montessori School?
In the 1890s Dr Maria Montessori founded a school for underprivileged children in Rome, advocating cultural and religious tolerance and care for the environment. She realised that each child had an individual pace and capacity for learning of its own. Hence, every Montessori child is taught at its own pace, and is truly treated as an individual. Each child is on an individual work programme so they fulfil their own potential. Workbooks are used but each is carefully prepared for each child. Usually workbooks are a convenience to the teacher, pre-printed to allow many children to work on the same thing at the same time. Those children who are ready at the same time to meet a new concept may be taught in a small group, and ‘class’ teaching is introduced during the final Primary year to prepare the children for the future. No concept is introduced on an abstract level until the concrete has been understood, and the children benefit from this from the beginning in the Kindergarten until th
