Fountain City Montessori Tawa Street

Dr Maria Montessori observed that children have distinct planes of development, and that these are in three year age groups. 

Whilst we generally have rooms that are divided like this with over three year olds in our Casa dei Bambini classroom and under three year olds in our Nido and Young Community classrooms, every child is unique.

In true Montessori style, we follow the child. Under two year olds need to develop skills to feed themselves and drink confidently from a glass, put on their own shoes and hat and sleep on a mattress in preparation for moving into our middle classroom in the Young Community.

Children transition into the Casa classroom when they are fully toilet learnt and they are normalised into the Montessori way of working, which includes making independent choices, having sustained concentration and having self-help skills. Moving into the next classroom is never a race, it is taken at the child’s pace.