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Wind in the Willows 2

The children have had great fun in co-writing and preparing for our end of term entertainment. We chose to focus on the comparison betwe...

From this to this

On our way back from the 'going out' organised to interview a Chinese herbologist, the girls bought a beautiful white rose for Rowan to u...

The Power of Dandelions

Having reflected on the balance of work in her folder, one of the children wanted to do more work in botany and decided to study poisonou...

Wind in the Willows literally

A walk down to the Thames at the end of our 'back garden', on an extremely blustery and bracing afternoon to make sketches to inform the...

Henley River and Rowing Museum

We've been working on a big project that will culminate in our end of Spring term entertainment. It's brought together work in art, bota...

Making everyday objects beautiful

To prepare for our museum visit where we have the opportunity to tour the current downstairs exhibit, we discussed the work of William Mo...

The real reason evolution started..

The 2nd Great Story in Montessori elementary is the Timeline of Life. This has prompted a great deal of sharing of fossil collections an...

The weather is trying Spring on for size

We have been taking music lessons from Uschi, one of our wonderful volunteers. It was a stunning Spring like afternoon and we decided to...

The Coming of the Universe

The Great Stories are the vital lynchpin of a Montessori Elementary setting - they provide the umbrella under which other learning can be...

STAMP, STAMP, STAMP!

...... 'See Me In My Trainers' A few of the boys have become enamoured by Michael Rosen poetry and are not just learning, reciting and ac...

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