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Sep 25 2024
Northern Beaches Montessori School

It’s Spring! Time to take learning outside

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It’s that time of year again. The temperature is rising ever so slowly, the daylight is gracing us with its presence a bit more each day, and it feels like the world outside is waking up.   Spring does something amazing for us all.   While we believe in the importance of finding fun ways to be outside all year round, spring seems to pull us there without the need for…
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Sep 19 2024
Peace education MOntessori

Montessori and Peace Education

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"Preventing conflicts is the work of politics, establishing peace is the work of education." Dr Maria Montessori As we celebrate the International Day of Peace this Saturday, we remind families of our mission at FMS: We are a school educating for Peace. Having lived through WWII, Maria Montessori was passionate about how to help the world towards peace. Peace is woven throughout every aspect of the Montessori curriculum. Sometimes the…
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Sep 12 2024
Baby steps to Montessori

Movement Matters! The importance of movement for babies and toddlers

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This term, Primary school students at FMS have been practising new skills, increasing their physical activity, and learning about heart health as part of the Jump Rope for Heart program. By participating in the program, FMS primary students have been jumping, skipping, hopping and moving more every day. They are also choreographing their own moves! Committing to their practice daily, out of school hours, students are spending less time on…
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Sep 05 2024
Learning at Montessori

Montessori Education: Planes of development

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Dr. Montessori recognised that childhood development is divided into four main phases which she called ‘planes of development.’     Each plane builds upon what was learned in those previously, and each plane has both an active and passive phase. By fully understanding the developmental needs of a child — wherever they happen to be on this continuum — we are better able to create an environment that will be optimal…
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Aug 29 2024
Forestville Montessori Commemorative Founatain

Honouring the legacy of our founders

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This week we celebrate the birthday of our guiding founder, the visionary Dr Maria Montessori, and take time to acknowledge our school’s own founders; the progressive families who established Forestville Montessori School (FMS) on Sydney’s Northern Beaches way back in 1981. Their vision for place where their own children could enjoy the gifts of a Montessori education continues today at FMS; one of the longest-established Montessori Schools on the east…
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Mar 28 2024

Head 2 Head Principal’s Conference: A tour of Montessori innovation and inspiration

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In a celebration of Montessori excellence, principals and leaders from across Australia, were hosted by their Perth colleagues for the MSCA Head 2 Head (H2H) conference.  This annual event, aims to build collegiality, share ideas and delve deeply into the world of leadership in a Montessori way.   The four day experience from Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 March 2024 was planned as an immersion to allow for new learning and reflection…
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Jan 18 2024

Family Holiday Rituals

By Article, Emotional Wellbeing, FMS Values No Comments
The holidays are a wonderful time to start rituals as a family. If you have a few you already practice, this read will give you some more to add to your list.The extended time we have with our children over the summer holidays is a great opportunity to create family and holiday rituals. In his book, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas explains how…
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