-	*The American Montessori Society®*Corresponding School/International Member School in HK
-	Dual registration with HONG KONG SAR GOVERNMENT
-	Established 1960's. Now operates only at G/F, No. 5 Caine Road, Mid-levels, Hong Kong (opposite HK Botanical & Zoological Gardens .Additional premises under plan)

About Our School

History & Recognition

Accreditation

Creche

NURSERY (2 - 3 years old)

Our nursery is an excellent kindergarten preparatory class.

8:30am - 11:45am

(3 or 5 times / week)

The Dynamic Difference at Montessori School of Hong Kong

Every child can be a gifted child. Every child can be a creative child. This is our belief for all the children enrolling in our school.

It Starts with the Right Environment – The 1st Step to Independence

The school Management believes that given the appropriate fostering by our early childhood education program, children can develop their independence, self-confidence, creativeness, numeric skill, language, leadership, self-esteem, social skill, etc., once they are accustomed to our school environment. In our “Learning Crèche (0-2 class)”, toddlers can assimilate quite easily and effortlessly into our group environment as our teachers/staff are well trained in handling “separation anxiety”. Only in some cases that toddlers would require the presence of their caretakers to accompanying them. But, this transitional period is usually very short term. Once toddlers get use to functioning within the class, the first trace of their independence and self-confidence of their life emerge.

Tailor-made Program is an Individualized Program

The School’s emphasis is to design a tailor-made “development appropriate curriculum” to address individual characteristics, needs, abilities, and interests of children that come from various cultural backgrounds and cognitive levels. Our individualized approach helps to develop each child’s potential to the fullest. Our approach echoes the motto “Helping children to become all they can become” of American Montessori Society®, an internationally acclaimed education institute that Montessori School of Hong Kong® has been a corresponding school for more than a decade, and now accredited as an International Member School.

The School Management ensures the effectives of the Program centered on the followings:

-	It is essential a Montessori program that has been tailor-made to meet children’s respective needs.
-	Our teaching staff is trained in-house to identify the unique characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of each child so as to decide on how the curriculum should be implemented.
-	Enrolled in our school for two years, our children generally should be able to comprehend complex ideas quickly, learn more rapidly and in greater depth, and exhibit better cognitive ability. They can manipulate ideas and draw generalizations about seemingly unconnected concepts, and they ask provocative questions. Children from our Montessori program are regarded as “life-time learns”.

“An education for life….”

The habits, skills and linguistic abilities that a child develops in our Montessori class are good for a lifetime. They will help him to work more efficiently, to observe more carefully, to concentrate more effectively, and to view other culture and people with tolerance, no matter where he goes. If he is in a stimulating environment, whether at home or at school, his self-education – which is the only real education – will continue.

- Montessori School HK -

On Parenting

“Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise….specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.”

- Allan Bloom (1930-92), U.S. educator, author -

Our Curriculum

1)	The Montessori Learning Crèche - Certified Under-2 Class (Age under 2), a program fully licensed by the Childcare Centre licensing unit of the Government that allow the School Management to administer classes for children under 2 without the presence of accompanying adults. Parents could choose to accompany the child in the classroom and abide by all instructions set by our teachers.
2)	The Montessori Preschool (English and Chinese/Mandarin) Class - Nursery (Age 2-3) – an excellent kindergarten preparatory class.
3)	The Montessori Bilingual (English and Chinese/Mandarin) Kindergarten Program (Age 3-6) - base on American and International School curriculum and also local Chinese curriculum recommended by the Education Department, and prepare the children to continue further study either in international school or local elementary school.

SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Language – English and Chinese	Art & Crafts	Daily Living Manner
Perceptual Motor Development	Cultural Awareness	Critical Thinking
Music & Creative Movement	Geography & History	Science & Nature
Percussion	Children Yoga	Outings
Children Mathematics	Ecology	Children Computer

All these programs consist of traditional classes, such as music and crafts, languages, mathematics, and also innovative experiments that are real life-based. These include cultural awareness program, international weeks, yoga, percussion, ecology, etc.

A Personalized Curriculum

Our curriculum, as well as creative learning experiments, will be adjusted to suit individual child’s developmental ability through:

-	Acceleration,
-	Reconstruction,
-	Adaptable pacing, and
-	The use of individualized complex concepts, abstractions, and Montessori materials tailored made to the child’s background and aptitude.

At Montessori School of Hong Kong®, children are encouraged to learn at their own pace. If they master a particular level, they will be provided with more advanced learning activities. Real-life thematic, multi-cultural, and integrative contents at the School provide a creative and joyful environment for children from all parts of the world to develop their fullest potential. Children attending our School enjoy the advantage of learning all subjects including participating in extracurricular classes under the same approach, same environment without paying extra money.

Our Small, Mixed-age Group Approach

-	A small teacher-children ratio to ensure that teacher can identify the individual background of each child and his/her pace of development, both intellectually, socially;
-	A mixed-age group that enable the younger children to learn from the older, and the older to learn about leadership under the close supervision of the teachers.

A Creative Classroom Environment

-	Children develop their creativity best in an interested, joyful, children-centered environment that encourages inquiry and independence.
-	The classrooms at Montessori School of Hong Kong®’ with their wide variety of Montessori materials, provide a physical movement which is generally colorful, vibrant, complex, and connects the school experience with the greater world.

On Children

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our word through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) First Lady of the United States

The School Management ensures that the Montessori teachers establish a climate that encourages the children to question, exercise independence, and use their creativity in order to be all that they can be.

Benefits to Children:

-	Children are encouraged to learn at their own pace. If they master a particular level, they are provided with more advanced learning activities.
-	Real-life thematic, multi-cultural, and integrative contents in classrooms provide a creative and joyful environment for the children from all parts of the world to develop their fullest potential.
-	Children are encouraged to move through curriculum areas at their own pace. They advance constantly a new level without repetitions.
-	Small, mixed-age group interaction and simulations, flexible pacing, and guided self-management, all ensure the maximum intellectual and social development for our young learners

Teachers

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what with interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

- Maria Montessori

Constantly Improving Curriculum

Periodic evaluations of curriculum effectiveness allow corrections to be made when needed, and they are essential if curriculum is to meet the long-term needs of children for increasingly complex and challenging opportunities, whether it is in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, or a European country.

Lasting Benefits of Our Programs

The curriculum enables children to explore constantly changing knowledge and information and develop a love for knowledge.

The curriculum encourages exposure to, selection, and use of appropriate and specialized Montessori material and resources.

The curriculum promotes self-initiated and self-directed learning and growth.

It provides for the development of self-understanding and the understanding of one’s relationship to persons, society, nature, culture and the world.

A good placement, both locally and internationally, after graduation.

In sum, the Montessori curriculum at Montessori School of Hong Kong produces well educated, open-minded and knowledgeable children who love to learn, and can think clearly and critically about that knowledge.

The Montessori Philosophy and Our Prepared Environment

-	We believe every child is an individual profoundly affected by society and the immediate environment.
-	We believe in the child’s creative potential, the drive to learn and the right to be treated as an individual.
-	Harmonious surroundings – in school and at home – help to develop the child’s natural potential.
-	Children must be given freedom to work and move around, within limits that enable them to see themselves as part of a group.
-	Material must be used that aid observation and comparison and help children to master and to explore their environment.
-	Working in mixed age groups, all children are encouraged to develop a social and well rounded personality, at their own pace.

Program Emphasis at Montessori School of Hong Kong®

.To encourage intrinsic motivation, spontaneous activity and self education;
.To provide sensory education for intellectual development;
.To encourage competence through repetitive concrete experiences;
.To encourage cooperative learning through peer teaching and social integration;
.To foster a love for academic achievement

Growth in the Child – Our Approach

     . Toward independence and problem solving
     . Toward the enjoyment of learning;
     . Toward the development of order and concentration;
     . Toward skills in oral communication;
     . Toward respect for oneself, other people, and the world; and
     . Toward responsible group membership.