At The Montessori Preschool of Sydney we ask one question. What is your aspiration in life for your child? We always come back to one simple answer

‘To Be Happy’

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to have the most things, but simply to be happy!

That is what we strive for here at The Montessori Preschool of Sydney. We allow the child guide us and show us how best they learn. This enables our highly educated teachers to know exactly how to engage each child differently so that each child is getting the opportunity to reach their highest potential. We do not focus solely on the academic development of the child, however that aspect is met naturally by the child’s Will to learn and need for knowledge – I’m sure we have all heard a child say “what is that?” “What’s this called?”, But we focus on the entire being of the child. Their Social and Emotional development, their Cognitive development, their Physical development. Our idea of the ‘Normalized child’ is not the most clever child or the child that can read and write before school No, it is a child who is happy within themselves, who is confident, who learns because he wants to know things, because he feels the joy of learning and this all comes right back to being happy! If we are happy, the more involved we are! These qualities make for an independent thinking man.

Happiness is the most important thing in life. There’s not ‘one thing’ that will make everyone happy and different things make different people happy. This theory reflects in the Montessori philosophy where a unique curriculum is created by following each child, rather than every child following a preset curriculum.