Autumn Term 2017

When I'm calling you ....

Two of the girls are organising a trip, on behalf of the class, to WIndsor museum. This is not a 'going out' in the strictest of senses...

Sending you a hug

Children of elementary age are capable of great empathy - for others, for animals and for plants. The kindness and thought that the...

Organisation of labour - elementary style

Figuring out how to work with one another - both to learn and to care for our environment - is an important process in a Montessori...

We received our level 2 gardening award from the RHS!

Exciting day today - we received our level 2 gardening award from the RHS School Gardening scheme. The children were so excited to open...

'Hello neighbour, what do you say ...

It's going to be a beautiful day' If you were returning from holiday, wouldn't this be a lovely note to see as you walked through the...

A moveable feast

Autumn theme going on here - from small acorns, mighty oaks etc .... We had a great morning. Colder mornings have lent themselves to tea...

Water, water everywhere

A few of the children have been working on geography projects over the last couple of weeks. Our youngest has been recreating land and...

Fungi are fun 'guys'

There's been an explosion of mushrooms on the Home Park and the children with Swapnal, one of our volunteers, have been using our...

Ears hear .... why?

The children have been exploring sound: vibrations, making rice dance, mimicing sound waves, thinking about the ways human ears are...

The long black strip

This is the simplest of Montessori materials but such a powerful one. It summarises the Great Stories of The Coming of the Universe and...