The Montessori School Kingsley in Perth, Western Australia | School

The Montessori School Kingsley

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9409 9151

Address: 18 Montessori Place, Kingsley 6065 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: https://www.themontessorischool.wa.edu.au

Likes: 398

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• School

25.01.2022 Lower Secondary students reading to Lower Primary students can only warm one's heart.

23.01.2022 The annual City of Joondalup Community Art Exhibition will close on 20th September. If you are able, please take the opportunity to view the exhibition. As several of our secondary students chose to display their art in the show. These included Matilda, Ruby, Anisha, Jacinta, Ryan, and David. David’s Turtle in the Sea (Pastel on card), was awarded the Student Award for the most outstanding artwork by a secondary school student. An impressive achievement! The judges’ commented..., This artwork carries great sincerity and really evokes being in the place. It expresses motion in the linework. The materials used and consideration of presenting the work is also very clever. Congratulations! Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. Maria Montessori https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=onCgDbB9ahr

21.01.2022 https://wa.netball.com.au//montessori-school-kingsley-scor

18.01.2022 We are so privileged to be part of this truly international Montessori community. https://www.linkedin.com//association-montessori-internati

18.01.2022 Although only a few weeks old, the Chess Club has been an unprecedented success. Four weeks in, we have had over fifty people attend. Students from every section of the school, staff and parents have all been involved. Playing games and/or learning the basics of this ancient and beautiful game. Chess can complement fundamental Montessori concepts such as graceful movement and balance of the whole body, the courtesy of shaking hands, dusting or polishing chess pieces. Accordin...g to Susan Mayclin Stephenson, there are many known benefits of chess: It increases creativity It improves memory It increases problem-solving skills It can raise an IQ It grows dendrites It can help prevent Alzheimer’s It exercises both sides of the brain It improves reading skills It improves concentration It teaches planning and foresight These are all important results of learning chess. But in learning chess the Montessori way we can add to this list: It helps one learn patience It teaches body awareness and grace It teaches good manners It teaches cooperative problem solving It teaches how to help another It teaches one how to treat another person the way one would like to be treated And maybe you can think of even more

17.01.2022 As part of our CAS (Creativity, Activity, Service) hours (which are a compulsory part of the International Baccalaureate), we planned an art exhibition that occurred on Monday, 31 August. This date was chosen to celebrate Maria Montessori’s 150th birthday. Students of all ages were invited to contribute to the exhibition. Great excitement was experienced as each class toured the showcase in the Shamai (place of learning for the IB students). It was a great experience and we ...learned many things that we will be able to apply when we have our own exhibition as part of our IB Visual Arts. As well as our teachers and Des who helped with the process, we would also like to thank the parents who came to view the art exhibition, the teachers for organising their respective classes artwork, the students who displayed their wonderful pieces, and to the Lower Secondary students who provided delicious food and coffee by the Honkey Nuts Café, as well as the delightful music. A great way to celebrate Maria Montessori. Sincerely, The Year 11 IB students

15.01.2022 What is DNA? For the past couple of weeks, the pre-IBs (Pre Year 11-12 International Baccalaureate) have been learning about DNA. We decided to make a video about it, to celebrate science week. We then presented the video, along with some activities, to all the younger students, which were enthusiastically received. In the video, we explain nucleotides, DNA replication, and Okazaki fragments. Please enjoy!... The Pre-IB class.

13.01.2022 In each area of the Montessori curriculum, the children engage with concrete materials to learn different concepts before moving on to more abstract work. In the Pre-Primary classrooms, the mathematic materials are very concrete. This means the children can hold and feel the materials in their hands as they work on a range of concepts such as counting, addition, multiplication, fractions, length, etc. These materials are very ordered, precise and they are aesthetically pl...easing to the children. This fosters self-motivation in the children, which we observe daily. The children are always eager to receive lessons with these beautiful materials. Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves, Dr. Maria Montessori

12.01.2022 This movie has been created by the Upper Primary students themselves. It is an authentic record of what musical explorations have begun in the UP classroom this term. The explosion of music in the Upper Primary classroom has taken us all by surprise. It all began with a request in the parent newssheet. To our delight, a generous family donated their beautiful piano, together with its reupholstered stool, and arranged its transport, too! The children were thrilled. I mean trul...y, thrilled. One could sense the joy - someone had given this wonderful thing to them so that they could play music. One child sat down and played....... then another, and another. Before long, a duet was being played, followed by one child teaching another. Even though the piano arrived in immaculate condition, one child lovingly dusted it, each day, for a week. And then a guitar arrived at school.... and the spontaneous singing erupted. Then another guitar, and a ukelele. The recorders were unearthed from the apparatus room. Then the violins arrived, with a flute. More guitars. And then a cello. A drumkit was made from recycled objects..... Now, several bands have been formed. The future is musical. All of this, spontaneous. Pure Montessori! A beautiful piece of equipment in a prepared environment has enticed children to learn, with joy. "[We] regard the child’s intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. Our aim therefore is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to tough his imagination as to enthuse him to his inmost core." (Maria Montessori, To Educate the Human Potential, p. 11)

10.01.2022 100 exuberant children dressed in their very best party outfits and accessorised with glowsticks descended on a community hall on Friday night for the annual Montessori school disco. The hall was decorated in an environmentally sustainable way thanks to our local Borrow and Share Bunting library, and an array of colourful party lights loaned from the parent community. A delicious bake sale catered to the party goers who worked up an appetite dancing the night away. Our brilli...ant entertainer from Bop Till You Drop really got the party going with 2 hours of games, karaoke and dancing to songs requests. As the sun set and the party drew to a close, the children left exhausted yet elated, a great event to celebrate the year drawing to a close. The disco was organised by a team of parents, who along with our amazing greater school community, volunteer their time and efforts into creating these fun events. All the funds raised from this event will go towards our school's playspace upgrade. Another great community event!

07.01.2022 Lower Primary classes have enjoyed reading this term, and as part of celebrating Book Week, we went to Woodvale library to participate in a presentation by Julia Lawrinson, author of many different books, Maddie in the Middle and Chess Nuts to name a couple. She introduced her novels to us and then asked the group for volunteers to act out parts of the stories. The Lower Secondary students continue reading to our children and have become a fixture within our weekly activiti...es. The beauty of reading cannot be underestimated as it is a big part of everything we do. This has helped inspire the children into literacy and using their knowledge of the written word to move forward and explore more. We have been busily rehearsing for our term four play and this is the fourth 'Great Story' The Story of Writing, so the children have been constantly exposed to reading and writing. As well as the Parent Discussion night presentation which was also the Story of Writing to help the parent community learn more about how we teach the children. As Dr Montessori wrote; The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct (their) own experiences.

07.01.2022 On the 16th of October, we (the Pre-IBs and IBs) returned to the Bibbulmun Track in North Banister. Our role was to continue the maintenance work done by our school for over ten years. We walked about 1.5 km from the North Bannister Roadhouse to the Grainger Creek Campsite, where we stayed overnight. We set up our tents, discovered lots of ticks, and cooked tacos for dinner. In the morning, we packed up and hiked back to the roadhouse. We drove to the Riverside Roadhouse to b...uy breakfast and lunch. Food sorted, we started off from an access point, and after stunning views and gravel slopes, we reached the top of Boonering Hill. We enjoyed our lunches and sat on the exposed top of the hill for a while. You could see for miles in every direction. A memorable moment along with a sense of pride with what we have contributed to the track. Thank you to Diana, Peter, and Jaromir for accompanying us. See more

06.01.2022 I dag har vi gjort noe veldig spennende! Vi har fått brev i posten helt fra Australia Der har vi en vennskapsskole The Montessori School Kingsley Vi ...har sett på globusen hvor brevene kunne reist for å komme helt til Norge, lest brevene og skrevet svar tilbake! Engasjerte barn, som syntes dette var en kul opplevelse, tenk at det går an å kommunisere via brev til et helt annet land! #montessori #vennskapsskole