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IMPORTANT PLEASE READ:
The Information below is taken from the closed (due to owner retirement) Stanger Montessori First School of Montessori in Weston-Super-Mare. It should be viewed as a good example of an established, well run and successful Montessori First School and is reproduced here so that over 20 years of Montessori teaching experience is not lost and parents can use it to benchmark against any prospective Schools they are considering for their children.
Please also click on paragraph headings & links as highlighted below for PDF copies of the original http://www.stangermontessori.co.uk website.
Notice of Closure - 22nd July 2011
After over 20 wonderful years of teaching and supporting children and their families the Stanger Montessori School in Weston-super-Mare, run by John and Jacqui Davies, is closing. Head teacher, Jacqui Stanger-Davies, will be continuing to share her Montessori experience in the community through lectures and events. Current and former children, parents and teachers wish her all the best in her future endeavours.
It is important to us that the child feels at home within the working Montessori environment; when a child is comfortable she/he excels. Each child works in small vertical groups, individually, and frequently on a one to one basis with their key worker until they are confident to work on their own. This ensures their progress is closely monitored and that the child’s individual needs are met at each crucial stage.
A strong relationship with the child’s parents is essential for her/his on-going development and well being. This approach also keeps parents up to speed with their child’s progress.
Our school offers a full range of Montessori equipment ranging from practical life to phonetic reading.
Movement is a key factor in Montessori learning and so children have the freedom to work indoors or
outdoors to suite their individual needs and to learn in their own way.
We also have a special outdoor area where children can choose to work and where we encourage the children to grown their own fruit, vegetables and flowers.
Food at Stanger Montessori is always fresh and healthy, with vegetables and fruits always on offer for both break and lunchtimes. Children are also encouraged to try “new” foods such as eddoes and “roots food” from the Caribbean, as well as religious traditional foods such as Jewish falafel.
Children are free to choose when they need a break time snack, which they select and prepare themselves. They also delight in setting up the tables for lunch and selecting and serving their own choice of food on offer.
Some snacks, meal time accompaniments and Special ‘Montessori Lunches’ are assisted by the children. For example, bread rolls, freshly pressed apple juice.
Our termly meal planner indicates the type of meals that the children will experience this term.
Students and practitioners of the Montessori Method have travelled from Poland, Africa, Russia, France, Spain, USA, China, St Lucia, and Australia to visit our school.
These students have taken the knowledge and experience gained at this school back to their own countries which has supported them to open their own schools.
Montessori teachers visit Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota, USA
Jacqui Davies, head teacher at Stanger Montessori and Sheila Richards, ex-Montessori french & music teacher, recently visited the Pine Ridge Reservation home of the Lakota and Sioux Indians, descendants of Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.
This visit was made with a view to help set up a Montessori school on the reservation, they took donations of pens, paper and crayons but quickly realised that their main priority was for food. These nations are among the poorest in the USA and these indigenous people should be treated with respect on their own land.
Jacqui and Sheila are hoping to enable some of these indigenous people to come across to the UK to be given an insight into the Montessori philosophy and method in order for them to use it alongside their own cultures and philosophies. They are working closely with people from the reservation to enable this to happen. (article originally presented in the Montessori International magazine, issue 93, Oct-Dec 2009)
More PDF links below from/of the original website
Montessori in The News
Date Media Article Title & Link
8th July 2009 Daily Mail
Government Funding for Montessori
12th March 2009 The Independent
Teachers changing to Montessori
8th January 2007
The Times
Montessori at State Primary School
28th September 2006 Dail Mail