Montessori classrooms provide a prepared environment where your child is free to respond to their natural tendency to work. Your child’s innate passion for learning is encouraged by giving them opportunities to engage in spontaneous, purposeful activities with the guidance of a trained adult. Through their work your child develops concentration and joyful self-discipline. Within a framework of order your child will progress at their own pace and rhythm, according to their individual capabilities.

The transformation of your child from birth to adulthood occurs through a series of developmental planes. Montessori practice changes in scope and manner to embrace your child’s changing characteristics and interests.

• The first plane of development occurs from birth to age six. At this stage your child is a sensorial explorer, constructing their intellects by absorbing every aspect of their environment, their language and their culture.

• From age 6 to 12 your child becomes a conceptual explorer. They develop their powers of abstraction and imagination, and apply their knowledge to discover and expand their worlds further.

• The years between 12 and 18 see your child become humanistic explorers, seeking to understand their place in society and their opportunity to contribute to it.

• From 18 to 24, as young adults they become specialised explorers, seeking a niche from which to contribute to universal dialogue.