Recent Blogs - the Montessori Elementary class - Windsor

Railway children

Every Tuesday this summer we've heard the toot and the chug of the steam train arriving into Windsor and Eton Riverside station. So,...

Montessori aids

In a Montessori classroom, the guide or teacher, is just one of many teaching aids available to the children and not the most important. ...

Kit Wright's Magic Box and our Magic Journey

Whilst we were at the Henley Museum, we came across a posed question prompted by the many different travels contained within the Wind in...

Pond Project

We are so proud of our pond and bird trough combo. We just need to let the water de-chlorinate, then we can add some water snails. As a...

A Stitch in Time

Our Tuesday story is The Year of the Book. The protagonist is defining perseverance in her essay on the making of a drawstring bag. This...

Silence is Golden

Well it is, when accompanied by deep concentration. This was such a moment. Parts of a bulb, division with stamps and preparation for a...

Time(s)tables

Over the last 3 years, we have ignored the advice from our gardening books, tried wishful thinking, throwing hard earned cash and talking...

Wind in the Willows 2

The children have had great fun in co-writing and preparing for our end of term entertainment. We chose to focus on the comparison...

From this to this

On our way back from the 'going out' organised to interview a Chinese herbologist, the girls bought a beautiful white rose for Rowan to...

The Power of Dandelions

Having reflected on the balance of work in her folder, one of the children wanted to do more work in botany and decided to study...