Melbourne Montessori College - Caulfield Campus
Welcome to Melbourne Montessori School - Caulfield
Melbourne Montessori College (MMC) is a highly regarded, thriving independent school with two Melbourne campuses in Brighton and Caulfield.
Our Caulfield Campus caters for children from the age of 3 years up to Grade 3.
Melbourne Montessori College has been awarded The Educator’s Most Innovative School for two years in a row.
Montessori Learning
The Montessori classroom provides children with an environment that is meticulously crafted to meet their evolving needs and where they can naturally work and explore. The classroom becomes a sanctuary for spontaneous and purposeful activities, guided by trained educators.
Through their work, children develop concentration, self-discipline and joy. Within a framework of order, they progress at their own pace, embracing their individual capabilities and rhythms of learning.
Parent and Toddler & Early Learners
Parent and Toddler Group:
This program is to cater for our youngest students and is a gentle introduction to Montessori education and practices where a parent or caregiver attends the session with the child. Each session is for 2 hours, from 9:30 - 11:30. The children work with a Montessori coordinator and parents learn to guide their child's work in keeping with Montessori philosophy. This program offers parents an opportunity to learn about Montessori education and to engage with other parents on other issues of parenting through discussion and sharing of ideas.
Early Learners:
The Early Learners Program recognises that the first three years of life are fundamental in the development of human beings and their potential. The child’s physical development is phenomenal and apparent and inspires our care and attention. Yet a profound and less obvious development is taking place within the child. Maria Montessori refers to development in this period as the spiritual embryo. She believed that a second embryonic period occurred after birth, during the first three years of life, when the child’s intelligence is formed. This is the time the child acquires the culture and language into which he or she is born. It is the period when the core of personality, social being and the essence of spiritual life are developed.
Our Montessori teachers in this area of the school are trained to understand the child’s development and the development of the human mind, which allows them to prepare the learning environment to meet the needs of the child.
Materials are set out in an ordered manner on low, open shelves. All activities aim to foster independence and support psycho-motor development and language acquisition.
Cycle 1(3and 4-year-old Kinder, Prep)
Activities in this cycle are designed to allow your child to develop concentration, coordination, order and independence.
Students work with concrete materials in tasks that include: window washing; painting; manipulation of blocks; differentiation, discrimination and classification of materials; recognition and reproduction of letters; and identification of countries, animals and plants.
Cycle 2 (Years 1-3)
Activities in this cycle are designed to allow your child to research their own questions about the world, building more complex understanding of concepts and connections.
The major themes ('Great Stories') explored in Cycle 2 investigations are the stars, the planets, the story of life, the coming of humans, language and invention.