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Wairarapa Montessori
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Pauline Harter It has been a wonderful learning journey since establishing our Montessori Centre in 1995. We moved to our present site 11 years ago, a former villa in Lincoln Rd, and this lovely home has become the ‘Children’s House’ I had dreamed of: A home for busy, confident and connected learners, teachers and children (parents too!) all learning together.
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Throughout the day the children can choose from a wide range of learning experiences, from a range of curriculum areas such as biology, botany, geography, art, and maths to practical life including food preparation, baking, washing dishes and windows.
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Tāne is working with the Binomial Cube. It is important for us to share with parents the ‘magic’ of the Montessori learning materials the children use, and to discover the philosophy that guides us as teachers. A priority for us is to communicate with parents in order to share their children’s learning at our centre. This is done regularly online as well as at our centre. We aim to follow the children’s needs and interests, nurturing their love of learning, being a friend and being part of a community.
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Our Montessori Children’s House is an inviting, peaceful learning environment carefully prepared to engage our children in purposeful activities. This leads them to become independent and responsible for themselves and each other.
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Our Montessori curriculum provides the children with specially designed Montessori learning materials and these activities are set out on open shelves to support place and order. It is this structure that enables the children to choose purposefully and maintain an orderly consistency in their learning environment. We incorporate children’s individual interests into the curriculum on a daily basis as this is
We have an established indoor-outdoor flow that follows the seasons and connects the children to daily changes in Nature. Indoor activities include children working with colourful puzzle maps, construction materials, moveable alphabets, and a ‘bank’ with thousands, hundreds, tens and units for children to manage. Model animals are classified into biological families, diurnal or nocturnal, and world geographical areas. Tamariki study life cycles of the frog, butterfly, corn and apple. Children use real tools and objects to engage in real work. Hammers and saws are for woodwork, while rakes, brooms, and spades are for the vegetable and flower gardens. Kaiako incorporate children’s individual interests into the curriculum on a daily basis. Each year we have community festivals and
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