Green Room – Infants
Young children need a warm and nurturing environment in which they can thrive and feel secure to explore. Our staff offer exceptional amounts of compassion and nurturing for the infants that come into our care.
Through a safe, warm and inviting physical environment, the infants who come into our care flourish as their day is filled with a rich array of age-appropriate toys to explore and develop their fine and gross motor muscles. We also work on establishing a close bond with families so that your child builds a positive attachment with us and we can then incorporate a good routine for sleeping, feeding, and playtime.
Red Room – Toddlers
Small children have many life skills that they need to learn so they can achieve independence.
In the Red Room, the educators respect the child’s desire to be independent by allowing them to dress themselves, look after their belongings, to build positive relationships and develop a strong sense of identity, which are a cornerstone of Montessori Philosophy and EYLF.
Children experience a sense of pride when they can achieve a skill on their own, which corresponds with the Outcomes:
1.1 Children feel safe, secure, and supported
1.2 Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency, EYLF (Early Learning Years Framework).
Yellow Room – Pre-schoolers
Children learn best when they engage in hands on activities. Therefore, our Montessori Curriculum consists of these areas; Practical Life, Sensorial, Language Maths and Cultural.
Children are able to explore each of these areas, which are carefully sequenced by design, so that each activity has an orderly logic to follow. In this way, children are able to innately organise their thinking in a clear way to absorb this knowledge through their senses. Thus, children are navigating and communicating with complex concepts in a concrete way that is more easily understood, by simply ‘doing’. They are therefore able to work independently with the materials in a hands-on manner that stimulates their senses, as the learning is happening.
The Pre-school setting ensures that children are actively engaged by also planning and implementing interests that children communicate to us either from family outings or something they have heard or seen in their day to day lives.
We have an active Library whereby the children borrow books in their own library bags and spend a week engaged in it, as their family helps them read it during bed time at home. Children love to come back and tell us what the story was about. This was originally a parent idea to extend on their child’s love of books and we hence incorporated it into our curriculum.
A famous quote from Maria Montessori which sums up our aim and hopes for when our children come to graduate from our care:
“These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.”
Maria Montessori
