Our Mission

Our mission is to provide a high-quality Montessori environment that enables children to begin their learning journey through life. Our undertaking is to cultivate a lifelong love of learning in our children, inspiring them to realise their full potential.   Our children will grow to be confident and knowledgeable learners who are healthy in mind, body, and spirit so that they go on to make a valued contribution to the community and the wider world.

Our Prepared Environment

The Montessori classroom provides a ‘prepared environment’ solely for children where they learn through a natural exploration process. Our classroom is atheistically pleasing, simple, clean and calm. Beautifully designed Montessori materials are placed on the low shelves, easily accessible for our children. Each material is developmentally appropriate, attractive, and incorporates the child’s need for movement, concentration, order and independence.

Montessori believes the environment plays an essential role in the development of young children. The materials, use of space and routines promote child independence and exploration, and as a result, they learn best from direct learning activities in their environment.

At Casa Montessori Preschool, the learning areas are divided into organised spaces inside and outside the classroom. These are Practical life, Sensorial, Math, Language, Arts and Science/Culture, and Outdoor/nature. We also offer extended learning classes - in Spanish each week.

What we do

We provide a well-prepared learning environment based on Montessori education methods integrated with Te Whāriki. Our preschool is an aesthetic, calm, warm and nature-friendly home-like indoor and outdoor environment with well-organised learning materials in a scientifically designed sequence that is attractive for children to work within.

The children can work and learn alongside others of mixed ages, abilities, genders, and cultures and be receptive, cooperative, warm and graceful in a positive atmosphere. We incorporate a bi-cultural approach within the preschool environment by embracing home cultures and customs.

The Guides (Teachers’) Role

The teachers are not the centre of attention; our focus is on children’s learning, not teachers’ teaching. The teachers strive to ‘follow the child’, recognising and understanding that each child is unique and has their own individual learning style and their own pace; this needs to be respected. Teachers circulate, observe and support children as required, working with them with activities and suggesting works when appropriate according to a child’s particular interests and progress.