A home in the school, a life, work and free environment.

The path we pursue in our school is coherent with the child’s development from zero to five years old. At three years old the school is, for all intents and purposes, the child’s home, a place where they move around independently and where they can observe, explore and use spaces and academic materials freely, choosing whatever they prefer.

Hours, from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, make it possible for the school to actually become the child’s second home, with inside canteen and cooks who become familiar figures alongside teachers.

Moreover, the school day develops in a bilingual way and, based on the different moments, little ones are encouraged to understand and produce words and sentences in English, with the presence of native speaking teachers.

For Montessori, the three year old child wants to “conquer the environment, and with it the tools for their own development”. If the child had been limited to absorb the environment around them before, even though in a creative way, now they have developed their own will and they are capable to act consciously on the environment.

In this developmental phase, the child develops what Maria Montessori defined as a “mathematical mind”, characterised by the ability to realise logical processes and abstractions.

The academic material and programme of the “Home of the children” are planned for this specific developmental stage; through individual focus, in order to follow closely each student, teachers make sure that learning becomes a cognitive process, autonomously chosen, which makes the child active, always interested in what they learn and confident in themselves.

However, the environment that surrounds the child is not limited to the school grounds. Activities are always meant to satisfy the children’s natural curiosity. The project “Friendly Water”, which has brought us from the faucet to visit Polvese Island with a ferry trip, the project “Didactic Forest”, the route in the woods while observing trees, plants and flowers. But also the care we take at school while following the transformation of eggs into chickens, of caterpillars into butterflies, of tadpoles into frogs.
There are also arts activities, theatre, music, singing, all the moments where the child is the main character and is free to express themselves.

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