Forestville Montessori School is celebrating 45 years of providing Montessori education to families on the Northern Beaches. The school is a not-for-profit, independent, and authentic Montessori preschool and primary school, and has programs for each developmental stage of a child from the toddler program to the upper primary program.
The Montessori education model is backed by over 100 years of practice and scientific observation, and aligns with modern education’s emphasis on engaging, personalised, self-paced learning.
Dr Montessori’s observations anticipated what science now confirms about childhood learning and the brain and that learning and environments are aligned to the science of human development.
For early learning, Montessori nurtures curiosity and imagination, independence and self-regulation, gross and fine motor skills, social awareness and interaction, early language and literacy, mathematical thinking, and practical life skills.
As children progress through Montessori preschool into kindergarten and primary, they gain core competencies that reflect the most in-demand skills of tomorrow, as identified in the World Economic Forum Future of jobs report (2023 and 2025).
These include analytical thinking and innovation, creative thinking, complex problem solving, resilience, flexibility, agility, motivation and self-awareness, curiosity and lifelong learning, empathy and active listening and leadership and social influence.
Forestville Montessori School says your child can develop these skills through the daily education they offer and invites you to visit them and learn more about the school and its vision, which is to ‘nurture capable, creative individuals who will enrich our future.’