Age Groups
We are proud to announce the opening of the BUCCLEUCH MONTESSORI CRECHE CENTRE!
Our beautifully curated environment caters to babies from 4 months old to 18 months old, incorporating state-of-the-art materials and activities that are thoughtfully designed to help infants reach their developmental milestones and foster cognitive growth. With a small baby-to-carer ratio, we ensure each child receives personalized attention in a safe and nurturing environment.
Our Montessori Infant program introduces babies to sensory and motor activities in a prepared setting, encouraging the exploration and development of their emerging minds. The use of specialized Montessori materials supports infants in refining their movements and enhancing their sensory experiences. Through gentle and guided tasks, infants improve their ability to focus and engage independently, laying the foundation for future learning.
Everything in the infant environment is proportionately sized, safe, and aesthetically pleasing, ensuring a comfortable and stimulating space for your baby.
Each infant benefits from individualized attention throughout the day. When they are small, they learn from observing and interacting with one another, and so through being with peers of a similar age and stage, they are setting the foundations for their journey towards becoming social beings.
What we offer:
Class Size / Staff
We maintain a small and intimate class size, caring for a maximum of 10 babies at a time. Our dedicated team includes three full-time caregivers who provide constant attention and care for your baby.
Nutrition
Our centre is equipped with a kitchen area where we clean and sterilize bottles, prepare milk formula, and warm expressed breast milk. Each baby has a designated section in the fridge for their milk and food storage. Weaning is tailored to your preferences, and we are happy to assist with the process. Each child must bring their own prepacked breakfast/ lunch/ bottles for the day.
Schedules
All babies, especially when young, have their own schedule, and so we let them take the lead. As they grow, we encourage each child to follow a “sleep, eat, play” routine. For awake times, we follow as best we can, the awake times recommended for their developmental age and stage.
Aftercare
Our Infant Centre offers aftercare until 17h30 at an additional cost
The BUCCLEUCH MONTESSORI Toddler class caters for children from 14-months to 3-years old. Our qualified and highly experienced staff provide a safe, engaging and nurturing environment for the child. This class supports the physical, cognitive, social and emotional development of each child.
Our Montessori Toddler program introduces children to a variety of hands-on activities in a carefully prepared environment, assisting each child in developing confidence in their emerging abilities.
Through the use of real-life activities, children are offered the opportunities to gain independence in daily tasks, which promotes trust in themselves and their world. Everything in the toddler environment is proportionate to the child’s size and is designed to be accessible, safe and aesthetically pleasing for your child.
Each child receives one-on-one lessons throughout the day to ensure real understanding of each concept taught. In our multi-age classrooms, children learn from each other whilst learning to socialise.
In addition to a variety of dynamic Montessori activities both indoors and outdoors, our toddlers are introduced to art, music and physical education.
Aftercare is available until 17h30 at an additional Cost.
Our Daily Lunchbox option is available to Toddlers at an additional Cost. Please see our ‘Other Offerings’ tab for the price and Menu.
SUMMARY OF ATTRIBUTES DEVELOPED IN OUR TODDLER ENVIRONMENT
Love of work | Self-Regulation | Independence |
Initiative | Concentration | Self-Discipline |
Social Skills | Joyful learners | High level of learning |
The BUCCLEUCH MONTESSORI Preschool forms the heart of our school. Our highly experienced, qualified and very dedicated staff work one-on-one with your child, respecting each child’s uniqueness and ensuring positive progress through the Montessori curriculum.
The BUCCLEUCH MONTESSORI preschool classroom is a dynamic, prepared environment conducive to maximizing your child’s learning potential. Our environments offer opportunities for imaginative exploration leading to confident, creative self-expression.
BUCCLEUCH MONTESSORI Preschool environments foster the growth of functional independence, task persistence and self-regulation (neuroscience predictor of future success). We provide our children with an early foundation that includes a positive attitude toward school, inner security and a sense of order, pride in the physical environment, abiding curiosity, a habit of concentration, habits of initiative and persistence, the ability to make decisions, self-discipline, and a sense of responsibility to other members of the class, school, and community.
Music, art, dance and physical education are part of our integrated BUCCLEUCH MONTESSORI Preschool curriculum.
Aftercare is available until 17h30 at an additional Cost.
Our Daily Lunchbox option is available to Preschoolers at an additional Cost. Please see our ‘Other Offerings’ tab for the price and Menu.
SUMMARY OF ATTRIBUTES DEVELOPED IN OUR PRESCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
Love of work | Self-Regulation | Love of order |
Independence | Initiative | Obedient |
Concentration | Generous nature | Attachment to reality |
Joyful learners | High level of learning | Developing leadership skills |
Self-Discipline | Developed social skills |
The BUCCLEUCH MONTESSORI Primary is the natural continuation from the child’s preschool experience, into their Primary years, allowing our children to continue enjoying our forward thinking education allowing them to really connect with knowledge with our unrivalled curriculum in our carefully prepared ‘multi-age’ environments, namely Junior Primary 6- 9 years and Senior Primary 9 – 13 years.
Our curriculum offers opportunities for collaborative intellectual exploration in which each child’s strengths and interests are supported and guided and where the development of self-confidence, imagination and intellectual independence as well as their insatiable curiosity and excitement for learning is nurtured. Children in this age group are starting to realize that the world is an enormous, interesting place. They are primed to study continents, cultures, scientific concepts, and great literature. We foster an understanding of the child’s role in their community, in their culture and in the natural world where they begin to discover the interconnectedness of the universe. The world becomes their classroom.
At BUCCLEUCH MONTESSORI Primary, your child will have the opportunity to learn absolutely amazing things! Our classes are continually filled with joy, excitement and enthusiasm for learning maths, science, language, botany, zoology and geography. Our children are deeply engaged in work that they find interesting, meaningful, and often intriguing.
At BUCCLEUCH MONTESSORI Primary, we integrate art, music, computer studies and physical education into our curriculum. Our children carry their passion for school into their team sport, music and art participation. We pride ourselves in our high level of competitive interschool sports participation.
ATTRIBUTES OF OUR PRIMARY CHILDREN
Respectful | Responsible | Self-disciplined |
Independent | Creative | Innovative |
Self-Motivated | Organised | Global Thinker |
Collaborator | Leader | Love for learning |