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The Montessori Curriculum is developmentally based, providing equipment and activities suitable to the needs of the individual child. A child of three to six years is developing his or her personality, has an urge to acquire skills for independence, has great sensitivity to language, is developing a mathematical mind and has a thirst for knowledge about the world. The three-year programme enables all of this to develop properly, with encouragement but without undue interference.
Practical Life encourages children to be independent by learning to care for themselves, others and their environment, while also satisfying their need to co-ordinate and perfect movement.
Sensorial materials stimulate the refinement of the senses for the child who absorbs information in this manner to a great extent until about the age of six. Materials relate to sight, sound, touch, smell, taste and co-ordinated movement.
Language in the Montessori approach is multi-faceted, assisting children in areas of spoken language, reading, writing and grammar.
Mathematics focuses on the decimal system, introducing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division via a sensorial approach. The foundations of geometry are also laid.
The World is approached through sensorial keys to arouse curiosity about plant and animal life, the forms and laws of nature and human culture. We experiment, observe, classify, discuss, draw, paint and write about the many interests of the child. Different children make their individual contributions to the richness of their group. Music, movement and art are integrated into the morning with individual and group activities.