Polishing a mirror develops both
concentration and fine motor skills
Our Children's House
caters for children from three to five years old.
The children follow a full Montessori curriculum,
continuing the holistic child centred approach begun
in our Toddler Community.
Children are guided through a wide
range of activities, beginning with lots of hands on learning,
and moving at their own pace towards abstract ideas and concepts.
The bells develop musicality as well as
the
ability to identify fine differences in sound
The nurturing environment
maintained by our confident team of teachers
provides the perfect conditions for children to explore, discover,
and become happy confident learners.
Our methods have proved
successful time and again,
with our children achieving both academic success
and high degrees of responsibility and self confidence.
Exploration is a key part of learning
particularly in maths activities
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The photos here
give a sample of activities across the curriculum.
To gain a better insight into how we work make an appointment
to visit our school.
In the meantime, see below the photo story called, Emelia-Mae's day,
that describes one child's day in school.
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Phonics provide a secure basis for
reading and writing skills
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Emelia-Mae's Day
This is Emelia-Mae's Day, she is four and attends our Children's House.
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In the morning I go to the window to wave goodbye to my Mummy.
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I change my shoes - I can put my slippers on by my self.
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I have chosen the cylinder blocks. I'm doing all four blocks: that's 40
cylinders to fit back in. I have to concentrate hard.
Today when I'd finished I chose to do it all over again!
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After all that work I want my snack.
This is me pouring my milk, I had yummy crackers too and sat with two of my friends while I ate it.
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Mrs Jones asked me to choose something from the language shelf. I chose the pink cards.
I like to read the words and match them to the pictures - I can do them very quickly!
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I chose the tri-nomial cube next. It's quite tricky to do and it
took me a long time to get it sorted out and to
build it back into the box but I felt really happy that I'd done it all by myself.
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I used the metal insets to make patterns.
Today I chose the circle. I coloured the shapes using bright colours.
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After that it was time for 'end group' . I got a mat and joined my friends.
Today we sang 'Incy Wincy Spider'.
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Today I was a lunch server. I helped to put the chairs round the lunch tables and to set the tables.
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It was hot today, so before I went outside I put my sun cream on!
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I spent a lot of time on the rocker today. It was really fun.
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I also found a buttercup, can you see it in my hand?
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I was tired when I came back inside. I sat in the book corner and looked at some books.
Mrs Higgins came and read one to me. I chose a book about acorns.
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Later on I pegged out some cloths on the drying rack.
The pegs are called 'cyclone pegs', I used two pegs on each cloth.
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These are the sequence beads, I'm matching my beads against the card to check I got them right.
There are lots of different shapes, colours and sizes so I have to look carefully.
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Now I'm doing the lace frame.
I was going to do the number rods but I've run out of time. I'll have to do them tomorrow.
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That was my day!
My Grandad is here now so it's time for me to say 'Goodbye'. I hope you enjoyed my day, I did!
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