Enrich your child's education

Invest in your child's education by enrolling them at Little Acorns Montessori School located in Bushey.

Our philosophy ensures your child will have an effective learning experience.

Nido
3 months - 18 months

The Nido environment is rooted in the educational philosophy of Maria Montessori. In fact, the word Nido comes from the Italian word “nest” and is meant to convey the warmth and security of a home.

At Little Acorns Montessori, we strive to create classrooms that are home-like with lovely, natural wooden and cloth materials, child-sized furniture, clean surfaces, and soft soothing music, in order for children to feel safe, cared for, loved and challenged in their ideal home away from home, their Nido. Through the environment’s simplicity and order the room is safe, secure, stimulating, and most importantly full of love.

The environment focuses on two basic needs of the infant—a safe bonded relationship between adult and child and the development of the child’s growing sense of self and independence. The simplicity and order of our Nido environment support safe discovery of the world as the child sensorially explores the environment. These spaces are then thoroughly enhanced by the tender care and developmental support offered by our staff.

The environment is spacious to encourage freedom of movement. Beautiful Montessori materials developed to entice the sense of wonder innate in children while meeting their developmental needs in the areas of movement, language, motor skills, and independence.

Infant Community
18 months - 2.5 years

The Infant Community is designed to nurture young children, while providing the physical, emotional, and intellectual stimulus to help them optimise their potential for learning and growth. It is created to enhance each child’s development through the changes and new challenges they will experience throughout the year.

The focus of the infant community is fostering basic trust in the child. The teachers’ response to the infants’ needs, both physical and psychological, conveys the message of safety and acceptance. As the child develops, enormous changes in the child’s ability, as well as an intense need to develop independence, demand a safe environment and an atmosphere that encourages and facilitates the transition from the dependent state of infancy.

High quality materials utilised in the classroom designed by Maria Montessori and other Montessori teachers to give babies and toddlers greater opportunities to explore the world safely, using their senses and learning through their experiences.

Children's House

2.5 years - 5 years

In the Children’s house, each child develops at their own pace in prepared Montessori environment with the specially designed Montessori materials. Children are encouraged not to compare themselves with others but to do their very best every day. There will be an atmosphere of calm as children concentrate on what they are doing for surprisingly long periods. Children work individually, in a group, or with a friend. The morning session should last for a full three hours in which there is no fixed time-table. Groups occur spontaneously rather than at fixed times every day.

Activities cover all aspects of child development, intellectual, physical and social. Each activity is complete in itself, and activities are inter-related. We provide the children with achievable challenges throughout their time at the school, so that self-esteem is nurtured and they are encouraged to even greater exploration and learning.