Our Mission Statement
At the Guelph Montessori School our Mission is to provide within a nurturing environment a well-balanced instructional Montessori program that will enable all students to reach their highest level of academic success. We’re a licensed daycare/private school offering Guelph families outstanding education for toddlers, pre-schoolers and elementary students since 1989.
The staff is committed to creating a student-centered educational environment that stresses high expectations and addresses the physical, social and emotional needs of children with a variety of ability levels and learning styles.
Our goal is to maintain an active partnership involving students, teachers, parents, community and staff to develop a love of learning while embracing our diversity and unique talents in a safe, challenging, respectful and supportive environment.
Montessori Basics
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Dr. Maria Montessori began her revolutionary work with impoverished children in Rome, Italy. As a result of Dr. Montessori's keen observation of the children as well as her background in medicine and psychology, she quickly recognized that the key formative years are those between birth and the age of six.
The Absorbent Mind
The child before six has a great capacity for mental absorption--what Dr. Montessori called the absorbent mind. The young child's absorbent mind will never repeat its extraordinary ability to:
Never will these sensitivities be more alive than in the preschool years, and never again will learning be so easy--or so much fun.
What Dr. Montessori Accomplished
Under Maria Montessori's guidance, shy and neglected children soon began reading, writing, and doing arithmetic. As well, these children were considerably more:
As educational experts constantly remind us, the early childhood years have the greatest influence on a person's development. Perhaps this is why Montessori has become so enormously popular with conscientious parents--people who want their children not simply to be educated but to have a firm foundation to life.
Montessori Method
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151 Waterloo Avenue, Guelph, ON N1H 3H9
(519) 836-3810. E-mail: [email protected]
