“When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ‘I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone’.”
DR. MARIA MONTESSORI, THE SECRET OF CHILDHOOD
“When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ‘I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone’.”
DR. MARIA MONTESSORI, THE SECRET OF CHILDHOOD
To support individual cognitive development through purposeful activities in a joyful atmosphere where students learn through independent and group activities.
To foster physical development through indoor and outdoor play and activities geared at the development of large and small motor skills, coordination, and manipulation.
To instigate spiritual development through Tuesday’s chapel groups, prayers, and Bible stories and lessons with appropriate related activities.
To promote inclusion and embrace one another through love, respect, and acceptance. The staff members’ role plays an important part in this goal; together, as a team, we strengthen our ethical and moral value of empathy and respect by embracing each other and each student’s individual needs.
To nurture social development by interaction with other students and teachers. Valuable social skills emphasized include, manners, kindness, respect, tolerance, empathy, responsibility, and love for nature.
“The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.”
DR. MARIA MONTESSORI
“To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.”
DR. MARIA MONTESSORI
“Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.”
DR. MARIA MONTESSORI