The focus is on independent thinking and learning in an environment that encourages your child’s natural curiosity and inner genius to shine through. This takes place in a supportive environment, guided by a directress to ensure that your child develops both intellectually and socially.

A directress is a ‘teacher’ except that they guide a child to develop, for example, their reasoning, logic, self-awareness, creativity ,problem-solving and decision-making skills. It goes much further than simply‘telling’ a child a piece of information, to helping them discover and explore the answers for themselves. These are valuable life skills that are not taught under traditional methods.

Montessori schools cover the same basic skills as a traditional school, but it takes a holistic approach to learning. While studying construction, for instance, your child may learn about maths, science and language. This teaches them how everything interrelates and helps them to understand the world and how it works better than artificially separating out language, maths, writing and so on into different lessons. It allows them to be totally immersed in a task, engaging their sense of curiosity and discovery.

There will be between 12 and 20 children in a class at anyone time. This allows your child to develop their social skills in a small community.

The Montessori discipline reflects the structure and order found in the real world and is, therefore, better than in a traditional classroom. This helps your child quickly understand and make sense of their environment.

As the Montessori school is child-centred as opposed to a traditional adult-led environment, children are much more immersed in their activities. A major part of their learning is self-discipline, self-respect and a respect for others, so such issues rarely occur.

It is because your child can choose an activity that engages them which results in greater motivation to learn. Subjects such as maths, writing and social skills can be developed through the activity itself. This makes it more meaningful to the child and if anything, easier to absorb and understand.

It is also important to remember that your child will be working in a prepared environment – one which has predefined activities to choose from. They have all been carefully created to help your child learn all the basic skills and more.  

The very nature of Montessori is based on learning through play. In fact, your child will find it a joyful experience, one that ignites their natural curiosity. This is more likely to have a positive influence on their approach to learning for the rest of their life.  

A Montessori directress is there to observe your child closely to see how they naturally learn. They are never on their own and will be guided over time with activities that help your child build on what they have already accomplished. It is important that your child has mastery at each level before moving onto the next stage – pushing them ahead too quickly is what really causes children to “fall behind”.

This is very unlikely. Most children go on to do very well in different learning environments, stimulated by their own genuine joy of learning and mastery of any subject matter they choose. If anything, it places them in a better position because they can bring a cross-discipline perspective to their studies.

Montessori is very much about immersive hands-on activity rather than children using computer screens. This way they better understand the relationships between activities and their real-world environment –something which is harder to obtain by looking or tapping on a screen.  

We are looking to gain full Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) accreditation. However, it is only possible once the accreditors can observe us in action. We will be affiliated with The Bilingual Montessori School of Paris to achieve this. Rest assured that all staff will be trained and accredited as Montessori directresses from day one. Our learning environment has also been developed in consultation with the highly acclaimed and accredited Bilingual Montessori School in Paris. Your child’s care and education are important and we respect that.