Montessori Early Learning and Pre-School

Preparing your child for school and beyond.

Two children participating in a Montessori learning activity.

Pre-School

Children learning in a Montessori classroom.

Four year-old children in South Australia are entitled to 15 hours of early education per week with a qualified Early Education teacher. These entitlements can be used for Childcare Kindy sessions at an Early Learning Centre or for sessions at a local kindergarten. Kindy sessions at your ELC offer the option of longer and more flexible hours of care in addition to an early learning curriculum run by a qualified Early Education Teacher.

The Montessori classroom is prepared by the trained teachers with interesting activities to excite the child’s imagination. Different tasks are arranged on small trays and are accessible from the shelving around the classroom. Each tray has a hidden lesson, as it focuses on one skill or task and it may give children practice at developing and refining hand control, eye and hand coordination or problem solving.

Montessori teachers are skilled observers and each child is allocated a focus teacher who is responsible for ascertaining that child’s academic level and will then introduce specific curriculum to meet each child’s interest and ability.