Waterdown Montessori School

Dr. Maria Montessori started her first school in 1906, for underprivileged children in Rome, Italy. The groundwork for her teaching methodology began even earlier though, with her education in philosophy, psychology, and anthropology and her subsequent Doctorate. As the very first female physician in Italy, Dr. Montessori further showed her proficiency for learning by constantly gleaning information from the experiences of others.

This skill, further honed at the school she opened in Rome, led her to develop the revolutionary Montessori teaching method used by this school (and hundreds of others like it around the world). Dr. Montessori saw that children were learning as much through play as they were through instruction, so she designed her classrooms to stress interaction among students. The use of specially-crafted learning materials and ‘manipulatives’ allowed students to discover things without listening to lectures.

Dr. Montessori continued to fine tune her teaching methods, to phenomenal results. Scientific studies are proving today what Maria Montessori suspected all along: that children love learning, and that they learn differently as they grow. Our school feels privileged to bear the Montessori name, as our specially-trained teachers lead their students into the future with Dr. Maria’s proven methods and materials.