The Montessori School Ethos and method of education is named after the Italian physician Maria Montessori.
It emphasises the importance of the development of self-esteem.
She believed education to be a preparation for life, not a search for intellectual skills.
Through her own teachings and discoveries Maria Montessori learned that the mind of the young child is absorbent.
The environment should be prepared carefully to train senses, to stimulate curiosity, to satisfy the need to learn that is within every child.
The environment is set up as a bridge between the home and the wider world.
“The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.”
In early childhood, Montessori students learn through sensory-motor activities.
Working with materials that develop their cognitive powers through direct experience and use of all their senses.
Children move from the concrete to the abstract, developing at their own individual pace.
For over 20 years Horizons Montessori School has been nurturing children.
Directing them to develop to their individual ability in a Montessori environment that is true to the teachings of Maria Montessori.
“To serve the child is to feel one is serving the spirit of man…..a spirit which has to free itself.”
Maria Montessori
The Absorbent Mind