Montessori Education continues beyond the age of 6. We offer a full and comprehensive education up to the age of 11 at our Elementary School, which shares premises with the Maria Montessori School Hampstead. This is open to children who have attended a Montessori Children’s House up to this point.

These children will have developed independence of thought and action, confidence, intellectual curiosity, concentration, self-discipline and enthusiasm for learning. Such traits enable them to transfer with ease to the Elementary class, where they are encouraged to build on these strengths.

Montessori Elementary meets the changing needs of the children as they grow up, and responds to their expanding view of the world around them. At this stage, children are ready for more complex work as they move towards abstract ways of thinking. Many new materials are introduced as they develop their imagination to embrace concepts beyond their immediate environment.

The curriculum is interdisciplinary and academically challenging. It covers the full range of subjects required by the National Curriculum while maintaining essential Montessori principles, and much emphasis is placed on the interconnection between different areas of study. Children work individually and in groups, on projects and themes that spark their interest. The teacher’s role is to guide them in their research, and to provide information in such a way that they learn to make full use of a library, reference books and the worldwide web.

Core subjects include English, mathematics, science, geography and history. Integrated with these are activities such as art, drama, games, and music, for all Montessorians are committed to the development of the whole child.

The Elementary School promotes a full understanding of the human, natural and scientific world. This awareness grows not only through intellectual knowledge and understanding, but through sensitivity to all manifestations of life that evoke wonder, awe and respect. Montessori education shows children how all life is interdependent, and instills in them the confidence and spirit of enquiry that lead to life-long exploration and learning.

Elementary pupils go on to both independent and maintained secondary schools where their knowledge and learning skills are valued and admired. Recent offers at 11+ have included academically distinguished London schools.