The Monmouth Montessori Nursery remains true to the Montessori method where appropriate to the times we live in.

Conceived in the early part of the century, the method is based on the theory that children should learn through practical experimentation and experience.  Hence they are encouraged to place objects in order of size, hear different sounds, feel textures and so on as well as discovering how scissors and knives work through supervised activities such as cutting paper and sharing fruit with other children.

The social aspects of behaviour are also explored and encouraged from an early age.  Children learn to share, to complete a task, to put away their own toys, to wash their hands hygienically and to wash their own dishes.
Montessori equipment is used in conjunction with other resources to give the children a varied and exciting environment in which to learn at their own pace and using their own preferred medium for acquisition of knowledge.  Music and rhyme are used as well as games and physical play to encourage memory and success.

The teachers are on hand to encourage meaningful play, decent cooperative behaviour and natural learning.
The Principal, Mrs. Rosemary Whaley, is not from the Montessori tradition although she is conversant with the method.  Until August 1998 she was the Headmistress of the Garden House Preparatory School in London.  She brings to Monmouth Montessori a sound knowledge of children's academic and social needs from birth to eleven.

At the nursery we introduce a system of education called Active Performance Teaching, which is followed throughout the main school.  This is a new scheme which mixes modern teaching techniques with the best elements of Montessori, Steiner and Kinesiology; bringing traditional learning to life for children from their earliest school days.

A brochure for the main school, taking children up to the age of 11, is available on your request.