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The Montessori Curriculum

In the Montessori classroom, children are given the freedom (within limits) to choose what work they will do and for how long they will engage in that activity. The room is divided into seven interconnected areas of activities to assist children in their development.

Practical life

Provides the children with practical life activities, giving the child a feeling of dignity, accomplishment, self-confidence and independence. Activities like work cycle and repetitive cycle, give children the chance to develop skills to care for themselves and their environment. They also help children to concentrate, to expand their attention span and to improve their eye-hand coordination.

Sensorial

Allows children to use their senses to learn about the world, such as colour, size, sound, texture or shape. They help to develop the child’s visual, auditory and physical senses. Some Montessori materials such as geometric solids, are concrete representations of mathematical concepts that appear in later schooling.

Language

Language activities and materials increase vocabulary and conversational skills, develop sound identification, reading and writing skills and begin an understanding of grammar. The children use simple sandpaper textured letters and the wooden alphabet to develop skills in writing and then later into reading.

Mathematics Activities

Hands on experience with maths materials give children clear, concrete impression on which to build their own abstractions. Special materials such as spindle boxes and bead bars allow the child to see what “nothing” or zero looks like.

Geography & Science

This includes lessons on geography, botany, zoology and science, where children explore puzzle maps, concepts of living vs non living things, naming parts of trees, leaves and flowers. They also learn about phases of life cycles by growing real plants, vegetables and flowers. Children explore and examine nature including rocks, shells and other specimens. Through conducting science experiments children explore concepts such as "sink and float" and "magnetic vs non magnetic". 

Art, Culture & Music

Children learn about history, cultures and art from around the world and engage in discussions about these to enhance their learning. Children are provided with a range of art mediums to explore their creativity, and are regularly exposed to musically rich learning environments through musical instruments such as the sound bells.  

Develop & learn through fun

To compliment the Montessori curriculum, we also follow the Early Years Learning Framework 2.0. The combination of these two curriculums provides a well balanced, holisitic learning program that provides a strong foundation of learning and development for each child.

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Early years learning framework

Our centres provide a holistic learning approach, that includes the Early Years Learning Framework 2.0 alongside our Montessori teaching. The combination of these two curriculums provides a well balanced, holisitic learning program that provides strong foundation of learning and development for each child.

Nature & sustainability

We are not only passionate about learning in the classroom setting, but we believe that nature and the environment plays a key role in education. Each of our centres has a sustainability plan which includes vegetable gardens, worm farms and chickens. Children are encouraged to collect eggs from the chickens, water and harvest the vegetable gardens as well as putting scraps into our worm farms which produce fertiliser for our gardens.

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The combination of our curriculum, facilities and passionate team set us apart from our competitors. We provide a holistic approach to your child’s education by combining the Montessori curriculum with the Early Years Learning Framework 2.0 (EYLF) and National quality standards.
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Acknowledgement of Country
St George Montessori Centres acknowledge all Traditional Custodians across Australia and recognise First Nations peoples’ continued cultural and spiritual connection to the land, sky and waterways that surround us. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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