- Station Road, Stallingborough, Lincolnshire
- 01472 - 886000
- Station Road, Stallingborough, Lincolnshire
- 01472 - 886000
Montessori & the Early Years Foundation Stage
What Is Montessori?
Montessori education is built around respect for the child and an understanding that young children learn powerfully through active, hands-on experience.
Rather than simply doing things for children, the Montessori approach gives them opportunities to choose, try, practise and discover for themselves.
Carefully prepared environments and purposeful materials help children develop independence, concentration, confidence and curiosity. The old site uses these same core ideas in explaining its Montessori ethos.
Montessori in Everyday Nursery Life
Our practitioners observe children carefully and provide experiences that respond to their interests, abilities and stage of development.
Children are encouraged to:
Choose
Develop confidence in making decisions.
Explore
Learn through hands-on experiences.
Practise
Repeat activities and develop new skills.
Become Independent
Experience the satisfaction of doing things for themselves.
Respect
Care for themselves, other people and their environment.
The Early Years Foundation Stage
The EYFS sets statutory standards for learning, development and care within registered early-years provision in England. The current framework uses seven interconnected areas of learning and development.
Three Prime Areas
Communication & Language
Physical Development
Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Four Specific Areas
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts & Design
Two Approaches, One Child-Centred Experience
At The Children’s House, Montessori principles provide the ethos and learning environment through which children experience a broad early-years curriculum.
The result is an approach that values the whole child — their relationships, wellbeing, curiosity, communication, physical development, creativity and growing independence.
The result is an approach that values the whole child — their relationships, wellbeing, curiosity, communication, physical development, creativity and growing independence.