Primary Montessori Classes
The Weston Primary School has carefully devised its curriculum to allow a gradual progression from the pure Montessori teaching in Infant and Junior classes to the integration of a Montessori ethos and the curricular programmes prescribed by the Department of Education and Science in the senior classes.
We encourage our children to learn through peer teaching, as this is central to the Montessori method of teaching. One peer learning initiative is our reading buddies system where an older and younger child read together once a week. Both children benefit greatly from this system developing leadership, responsibility, friendships and reading skills. This will also be reflected in our school newspaper and our school tuck shop.
History, Science and Geography are taught through a project based approach, working in small groups and individually. Each cultural lesson plan projects a similar topic for all ages but the information is broader with sub-lesson plans for the older children. Our cultural group lessons are grouped appropriately in junior, intermediate and senior levels.
Our Montessori equipment and teaching methods encourage the children to discover for themselves and develop their own maps and records in a hard back copy, which builds into their own record of the subject, this method allows the child to really engage with the subject and develop a true understanding.
The children use iPads/ laptops for many subjects with appropriate, carefully chosen educational apps to supplement their class work. In our classes, we employ the Montessori principles allowing each child to progress individually at their own pace.
We follow the Curriculum from the Department of Education through the Montessori method.
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