We bring you a warm welcome to “Robin Hood Montessori School”.
Founded in July, 2005 our school is one of the loveliest and liveliest child care facilities in our area. We like to think of Robin Hood Montessori School as a place that children and adults consider their second home… a place where they are accepted and loved … a place where laughter and play are cherished … a place where children’s rhythms are caught and given warm response.
It is our role to not only facilitate the learning of children, parents and one another, but also work as enablers to the important work of our outstanding Montessori Philosophy. We are pleased to embrace these roles.
We hope you will enjoy your visit, have all your questions answered and receive all the information you need to help you make the decision to enroll your child in our school
The Robin Hood Montessori School is a non-denominational private school serving the educational needs of children 2 ½ to 6 years. The school follows principles that develop an identifiable mark of quality and excellence in education.
We are committed to the concept of Montessori education. We believe that facilitating the intellectual, physical, emotional and socio-spiritual development of the child is essential to the harmonious development of character and the progress of the individual and therefore mankind.
The goal of our program is to nurture the unfolding of the child’s potential by providing love and security, encouragement and appreciation of the child’s efforts. We provide a specially prepared environment where the child will find stimulation and the opportunity to learn by doing. This personal involvement and experience give the child a love of learning that he/she will take with them for life. By infusing the five human values that are fundamental to all human development – truth, right action, peace, love and non violence into our curriculum we establish a foundation in character which will be expressed in ethical personality, good self-esteem and strong confidence.
Our program is geared to meet the needs of each child on an individual basis with emphasis being placed on the child’s uniqueness. We provide a wide range of activities from which the child can select, thereby developing his independence by making decisions. The child enjoys a freedom which encourages him to express his creative abilities and master the skills necessary to build self-confidence and good self-esteem. This freedom is experienced within a structured framework established by the teacher with limits to provide security for the child and ensure progress in all areas of his/her development. Discipline is established in a firm but loving way, always emphasizing the positive and by using consistency in reinforcing simple basic ground rules.
The aim of our educational program is to provide the scientifically prepared environment for the complete development of the potentiality of each individual child. Essential to this development is that the child should feel secure and at ease. For this reason the classrooms are especially adapted to the child’s size and provide and attractive, bright and warm atmosphere in which the child can feel at home.
Because human beings in the state of development, are capable of growth at four different levels: (1) motor-muscular, (2) intellectual, (3) emotional, and (4) socio-spiritual, the classroom is a prepared environment which includes all conditions, materials and activities conducive to the development of the child at each of these levels. This requires that children be grouped in what is known as “Family Grouping”. This also requires that the schedule of the day be organized as an “Integrated Day” of free activities. These lend the opportunity to the child to choose among several possibilities of being constructively and creatively active. It is through this free choice that a child develops his will power and sense of responsibility toward himself, his fellow creatures, and his environment.
The task of the teacher in our classroom is more that of guide than that of instructor. This is why the teacher is normally called “directress”. His/her main function is to be a link between the child and the Prepared Environment, by means of which the child has the opportunity to develop his individual potentialities to the utmost.
The scientifically prepared environment is adapted to the children’s age group or stage of development.
INFANT/TODDLER PROGRAM
The environment for children 3 to 24 months room is conducted by caring and fully trained teachers who offer a comfortable and loving atmosphere to our babies. We established an environment that is clean, safe, nurturing, stimulating and soothing, with plenty of hugs, cuddles, talking and listening. It is our goal to have dedicated staff pay close attention to your child’s needs, and surround him/her with feeling of warmth and security. Parents are welcome to join their children for meals, including breast-feeding. Each day the children participate in activities that stimulate the developmental process. The materials in this room will be specially designed to equip the child in their learning process. The teachers provide one on one interaction throughout the day. Our goal is to enable the peer learning, that is an essential part of the development of the child’s ability to build social relationships.
The children will spend time outdoors each day to enrich their development as well. It is a key component in our program for the child to experience the sights and sounds of the outdoor environment. The infant-toddlers are encouraged to listen to the sounds of nature and to participate in other stimulating sensorial activities while enjoying the outdoors.
An important key element to this program is our partnership with parents. Communication between our teachers and you, the parent, is essential. The child’s schedule and all of the many stages that your children go through are discussed with you in great detail. We form a partnership with you and work together in the development of the child. Each day you will receive a report which details the events of your child’s day.
PRESCHOOL/KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM
The environment for children between ages 2 to 6 consists of mainly the following areas:
Exercises of Practical Life - These are activities which satisfy the child’s tendency to imitate and develop coordination of movement, independence, self-confidence, body consciousness, self care and self awareness, the social skills of grace and courtesy, awareness of and care for the environment – indoors and out of doors – dealing with and solving of difficulties, concentration and attention, order and positive attitudes towards learning.
Sensorial Materials – These are activities for the development and refinement of the senses. The materials isolate one single physical quality from the environment (e.g. dimension, color, shape, or texture). Focusing on the use of one sense at a time, enables the child to exercise and refine each sense to the utmost. This refinement is essential for the development of the mathematical mind (i.e. the ability to discriminate differences, similarities, and identities) and for the development of the memory, understanding and will – the faculties of the intelligence – the imagination, and consequently the appreciation and interpretation of language and fine arts.
Mathematical Materials – these are activities by means of which the child does not learn mathematics, but discovers them, acquiring the necessary skills to calculate in the decimal system and in other basis by exploration, moving from concrete experience to abstraction.
Language Materials – These are activities by means of which the child acquires, phonetically, the basic skills for complete writing and reading, and at a very early age, understanding the parts of speech, oral expression, creative writing and interpretative reading and appreciation of prose and poetry. The Language area includes also what we call “keys to the cultural subjects”, because once the child is versatile in the use of all the above skills; he possesses the necessary tools to explore the world of knowledge.
