Iwannabethere

Looking at The Hills Montessori School in Aldgate. I know very little about the Montessori philosophy and was looking for opinions. Particularly, the school finishes at Yr7. How easy will the transition be to a more traditional secondary school?

Thanks in advance!

Adi

Wendy

Hi there, my daughter goes to a Montessori school here in Adelaide. However she is in the mainstream classes as she started at the school mid way through year 2.

While I was researching the school I came across a few sites about the Montessori way of learning and I was pretty impressed with what I read about it - if my daughter had been younger I would have placed her in there with no problems at all.

Here's a good site to learn more about it, and also somewhere you can ask questions to other people who place their kids in these schools. http://www.montessori.org/index.html

foxall22

Hi,

As a teacher in a regular state school I had a boy join my class from Perth Montessori this year. He couldn't write his own name, and he was at an age where he should have been able to write in sentences. He REALLY struggled, and his parents attributed it to everything being so child-initiated, that he never chose to complete the literacy learning related activities. They were very unhappy with the education there, and although they said there were few discipline/behaviour problems the children were allowed to flit between activities and they felt there wasn't an emphasis on reading/writing.

Saying that his sister was better than fine, and I've taught others who have progressed well academically. Transition-wise it really depends on the kid.

Like any school it's a gamble. Go and visit like you would any school and see if you get a good vibe etc.

Geelong Gent

How have you found the children from Reggio programs?