ST HELENS
MONTESSORI SCHOOL
ABOUT ST HELENS MONTESSORI
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Our Ethos
Our aim at St. Helens Montessori School is to create and sustain an optimum Montessori environment to enable each child to realize his or her richest potential and to become an independent, self-motivating, informed, compassionate and contributing member of the world community.
We aspire towards excellence in the education and inner well-being of each child.
We accomplish this by giving the child a loving, nurturing and stimulating environment. We provide a curriculum adhering rigorously to Montessori standards, informed by current thinking and the latest research on child development and learning.
Through freedom and love the child’s natural greatness flourishes.
We foster a spirit of harmony, tolerance and respect for one another. We facilitate and encourage the involvement of parents, teachers, pupils and the larger community.
We instil in the child a passion for learning.
We are a Christian school. We warmly welcome families of other faiths but we ask that you respect our distinctive Christian identity. In all our instruction we are respectful of other faiths, while humbly maintaining the truths of our Christian faith.
The Montessori Philosophy
Montessori education was formulated in 1907 by Dr. Maria Montessori, the first woman in Italy to become a physician. She based her educational methods on scientific observation of children’s learning processes. Guided by her discovery that children teach themselves, Dr. Montessori designed a “prepared environment” in which children could freely choose from a number of developmentally appropriate activities.
The well-known Montessori classroom materials are simply an implementation of one aspect of her total philosophy.
The Montessori Method is designed to support each child to become an exceptionally well-rounded, responsible and self-reliant individual who will demonstrate a love of learning, self confidence and sense of fair play throughout life.
At St Helens Montessori School we nurture each child’s desire to learn and each pupil enjoys developing high levels of concentration, motivation and self-discipline.
Every child is presented with ongoing opportunities to make individual choices that inspire new learning and each child is encouraged to take pleasure in satisfying his or her natural curiosity.
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“Education is the cultivation of wisdom and virtue through meditation on the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.”
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