Recent Blogs - the Montessori Elementary class

The Detective Adjective Game

Sneaky! To play the game and experience first hand the power of adjectives, we first have to know the names of the different triangles. ...

Like Something Out of a Henri Rousseau Painting

- or Our day trip to Braywick Nature Centre (Phone number: 01628 777440.) We had a wonderful day at Braywick on our delayed class trip...

'And We're Still Waiting'

To badly paraphrase a very old Diana Ross song! One of the first 'goings out' for a long time organised by the children was to do the...

Fruits of the Room

The Montessori biology curriculum is very broad. This Autumn, we have been exploring fruit in some depth using the Montessori curriculum...

Powerpoint Prowess

The children who produced our first great story presentation this term, have since had a session with a volunteer to build on their...

The Birth of the Universe - as told by the children

The more experienced children in class have heard the first of the Great Stories many times - and for some, this is likely to be their...

Magna Carta

To celebrate the final day of term, we went to Runnymede to see the site of the signing of the Magna Carta. The children had researched...

'Back on the Chain Gang'

With donations from the 4th edition of 'News for Kids' the children chose to support Ukrainian refugees via the Disasters Emergency...

'Just Messing About On The River'

One of our end of term trips was a boat ride on the river that is at the end of our doorstep - with most of the children, our wonderful...

'Feeling Hot, Hot Hot' by Wet, Wet, Wet

It was asking to happen - we have the solution, so now find a problem to make use of it. The heatwave provided just that. Our gazebo...