Montessori Academy

Founded in 2000, Montessori Academy is an educational childcare provider that delivers a high-quality alternative to play-based day care. In May 2023, their Alexandria, Barangaroo, Glebe, and Victoria Park campuses took out 4 of 15 Early Childhood Centre Finalist spots in the City Region Local Business Awards.

Montessori Academy Group prides itself on delivering a high quality and nurturing environments that allow children to grow into their best selves. Montessori Academy firmly believes that all children are born intelligent and have minds that will absorb everything like a sponge!

An educator’s role within a child’s learning journey is to guide them and Montessori takes that responsibility and more, with an emphasis on learning through hands-on experiences, problem solving and exploration.

Montessori Academy also believes that through positive interactions with their students, families and team members that children can be life-long, successful learners.

Besides being a more educational-based childcare option, what makes Montessori Academy different is the Montessori Curriculum, Montessori Materials, Prepared Environment and educator roles.

The education that children receive at Montessori Academy is purposely designed to give children a peak learning environment that will nurture and help unleash their full potential.

The Montessori-style of learning is an individually paced, active and self-correcting form that is tailor-made for each child with their interests and needs at the forefront. Each educator’s goal at Montessori Academy is to help them develop the necessary skills to become independent and confident life-long learners.

To help break it down further, Montessori Academy’s Education addresses all learning styles, with emphasis on hand-on and repetition, freedom of movement, intrinsic motivation with prepared classroom environments for the children to work in.

The individualised curriculum allows the educators at Montessori Academy to monitor and track each child’s progress and help support them when needed.

This is a massive benefit to a child’s growth and development when compared to the group paced lessons seen in traditional play-based childcare.

Motivation to learn and that it is its own reward is a key belief at Montessori Academy. Along with the Work Cycle function that sees children explore the classroom and they are encouraged to engage with their own learning process.

Montessori Academy offers four programs such as the Infant Program (0-2), Toddler Program (2-3), Preschool Program (3-6) and the School Readiness and Kinder Preparation Program.

The Infant Program helps children between 0-2 to learn, with the focus on language development, movement skills, social skills, fine motor development and tracking development milestones. The curriculum consists of practical life skills, sensorial development, movement skills, language, and wellbeing.

The Toddler Program continues on from where the Infant Program left off, with a focus on the development of confidence, independence and building an academic foundation for future learning. The curriculum continues with practical life, language and sensorial development, as well as adding mathematics, culture and a daily routine.

The Preschool Program brings in structured academics and a wellbeing program in order to help prepare children for their eventual transition into school. This program continues where the Toddler Program left off and adds the development of problem solving skills and creativity. This period in a child’s development is crucial, which is why Montessori Academy prioritises the continuation of the previously learned skills, along with the development of grace and courtesy, order, writing, music, reading and spatial relationships.

The School Readiness and Preschool Program helps to ensure that children successfully transition into any school with the solid foundation of knowledge and skills. Through the combination of school-styled workbooks and practical school readiness skills, children will be able to confidently attend school.

In 2022, Montessori Academy Group celebrated over 800 preschool graduates across their Sydney, Hunter, Melbourne, and Canberra childcares.

Families across the country have praised Montessori Academy for their supportive, loving, friendly and wonderful energy and dedication to a child’s development, as well as their clean, neat, and beautiful campuses.

Parents who wish to give their children the best education and opportunity to grow won’t find it better than Montessori Academy