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

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25.01.2022 On Friday, the 7th of August the Pre-IB and the International Baccalaureate students went to the Bibbulmun track to undertake maintenance activities. About ten years ago the school adopted a section of the track and the IB students look after it as part of their CAS (Creativity, Activity, Service) hours. They started at the North Bannister roadhouse and worked their way to Gringer Creek campsite. The first thing they did was to collect rubbish in plastic bags in the car park ...and around the roadhouse. They collected seven full bags. After that, they were split into two groups and the first group completed maintenance on the track from the North Bannister Roadhouse to Gringer Creek campsite which was around 3km and the second group did drive a short trip on Albany highway and started from the other side of the track so that the groups eventually met at the campsite. For maintenance, all students had a pair of secateurs to trim the side of the track so that no bushes or anything was to hang over the track and/or to be a hazard to all the walkers of the track. For lunch, the students drove about 10 minutes up Albany highway to get lunch at the Riverside roadhouse. After lunch, the students continued with their maintenance duties and at the end of the day they ended up finishing all 10km of maintenance. They all enjoyed the day out maintaining the Bibbulmun track and said they would do it again. Some students have also talked about a future camp on the track. The Pre-IB and IB students See more

25.01.2022 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

25.01.2022 Sensorial is one of the key curriculum areas in a Montessori classroom and our Pre-Primary children love exploring with the sensorial materials in order to make sense of their world. In Montessori philosophy, the child is considered the sensorial explorer and they learn to perceive qualities through developing and refining their five senses. For example, sensorial materials such as the Pink Tower, Brown Stair, Knobbed Cylinders, and Red Rods assist children to visually disc...riminate and recognise the differences in length, width, dimension, and size. Like most materials in a Montessori classroom, sensorial materials have an inbuilt control of error’’, which allows the child to independently check and assess their work without the assistance of a teacher, promoting autonomy and problem-solving. The senses, being explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. Our apparatus for educating the senses offers the child a key to guide his explorations of the world Dr. Maria Montessori

24.01.2022 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

24.01.2022 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

23.01.2022 What an amazing day yesterday was! The Lower Secondary students were the first group to partake in our newly formed partnership with Landsdale Farm. This partnership has been formed in response to the needs of the adolescent, based on the work done by Maria Montessori. Erdkinder is what Maria Montessori called adolescents on the third plane of development. It translates to earth-children, meaning that the children of this plane need to be out on the fertile soil of the farm. ...They work on and connect with the earth, making meaningful contributions to their community and integrate the farm experiences with their academic work. Yesterday we were shown many great opportunities that our students can partake. Looking after the hundreds of animals, fixing fences, fixing benches, building a space for an animal quarantine, creating farm art, and many opportunities to learn horticulture. There are work sheds full of tools that students can use to complete projects. We met the amazing volunteers and staff that keep the farm going and we will be given a list of jobs like building, feeding, watering, cleaning, planting, and weeding to do. The students immediately spent time brainstorming and planning possible projects. Followed by a classic (and apt) Long Table lunch of bangers and mash (vegetables as well!). After lunch, the group returned to their curriculum work which appropriately included eco-systems. Being on the farm will enhance this study, along with many other study opportunities. Soil samples were taken to be analysed when back at school. What a great start and a wonderful opportunity for our students!

22.01.2022 Purposeful activity is called work. Montessori observed that children learn by engaging in purposeful activity of their own choosing. When children can choose what they do, they do not differentiate between work and play.

20.01.2022 We are so privileged to be part of this truly international Montessori community. https://www.linkedin.com//association-montessori-internati

19.01.2022 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

14.01.2022 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.

14.01.2022 Last week our school held its much anticipated annual Scitech Family Night. Once a year, Scitech opens its doors exclusively for our school community, where we have endless access to all the activities, exhibits and shows in the Science Theatre in a relaxed and uncrowded family outing to Scitech. A bountiful array of refreshments donated by the parent community was available to purchase, along with our own Honkey Nuts Cafe serving up their barista quality hot beverages. Those who didn't bring their own picnic dinner could pre-order from a local Pizzaria. All the money raised on the night will go towards upgrading the School's playspace. It's always a fantastic night out for the whole family, with many students already counting down until our next Scitech Family Night. What a great community!

13.01.2022 Morning tea with the Principal for the Lower Primary students has been a feature this term. Every week a group of students are invited to have morning tea with Des. Part of the gathering serves as a Grace and Courtesy lesson focusing on, but not limited to, the ceremony of offering food, serving others, handling cutlery, passing things, pouring, asking for further helpings, refusing helpings, use of napkins and how to set a table. Also discussed is the cultural significance o...f tea; tea ceremonies from the east; high tea from the west and other such concepts. The conversation which follows usually revolves around what the students enjoy about school and if they were the principal, what would they change. Majority of the students’ remark that they love the school and would not change a thing. Some loftier ideas have been suggested like a six storey building with the principal’s office at the bottom, Pre-Primary on the first level and so on with IB on the top storey; The implementation of a flying fox from the Lower Primary building to the hard court; a tree-top walk in the bushland; a classroom near the lake; and for students to able to be the principal for a day. Such great and enjoyable conversation should be reflected in any home or circumstance where a food culture is key to developing and maintaining beneficial human relations. A child who becomes a master of [their] acts through repeated exercises of grace and courtesy, and who has been encouraged by the pleasant and interesting activities in which [they have] been engaged, is a child filled with health and joy and remarkable for [their] calmness and discipline. Maria Montessori

12.01.2022 Lower Secondary students reading to Lower Primary students can only warm one's heart.

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09.01.2022 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 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

07.01.2022 Lower Primary Every year the school donates a blanket to Aegis Care Home to commemorate our founder Mrs Dyker. The children from Lower Primary and Upper Primary work together making woollen squares using looms. This year a representative from Aegis Care Home came to the school to receive the blanket; she was very taken by the children and their beautiful environment and would like to return with some residents in the future. In German, the children put on a Kasperltheater (pu...ppet show). The children decorated socks to create socket puppets, and these were used to introduce themselves and describe likes and dislikes. It was very successful and entertaining to watch. Lower Secondary students have started coming to Lower Primary to read to the students. It is a joy to watch the effortless interaction between these age groups and both narrator and listener seem to relish the experience. A professional story-teller visited the students last week. Through music and the theme of the Billy Goats Gruff, the importance of friendship and caring for one another was conveyed and received with lively participation from the students AND the teachers.

07.01.2022 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

06.01.2022 Sadly, Sir Ken Robinson, one of the world’s preeminent educational thinkers, passed away at age 70 only a couple of days ago. Among his impressive body of work, Sir Ken delivered many witty, engaging, and insightful talks on education and its shortcomings. You could easily find many of these talks on YouTube or on Ted. In this video, he describes various issues associated with education and our society. I wonder if there is a solution? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dUNWW2D3BM

06.01.2022 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.

05.01.2022 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)

04.01.2022 Check out our school during the Term 3 Open Day, on 10 August 2020. You must book in with our office on (08) 9409 9151 or email [email protected] Alternatively, book a tour with our Principal.