Maori Hill Montessori Preschool

We aim to cultivate your child's natural excitement for learning based on the philosophies of Dr. Maria Montessori.

Montessori education in Aotearoa New Zealand will emerge as a source of sanity and balance at a time when our state education system is fast becoming product orientated and market-driven, reflecting a machine and screen world where digital technology reigns. Our Montessori early learning centres and schools are places where time slows down and strong connections to people and places protected and celebrated. Digital technology will be just one of the many resources we will use. The content of our lessons will promote mindful responses to human questions and enable children to make wise and creative choices about real-life lived in community.

Our Montessori communities will be guided by clear simple human values that empower our children to become strong individuals who embrace diversity and who interact with each other and the environment with respect and responsibility. The future of our planet needs children who garden, who dream, whose lives and learning are connected to our human reality. In a time of distraction and excess, Montessori education will provide us with a way back to what is essential and sufficient.