Montessori House Brussels (MHB)
Montessori House Brussels, our sister school, offers a nurturing, child-centered environment specially designed for children under the age of 6. With its focus on independence, hands-on learning, and individual development, it provides an excellent foundation for early childhood education and smooth transition into our Primary Years Programme. We strongly encourage parents of younger children to explore this unique opportunity as a natural first step within our broader learning community.
Nursery to primary
What is the Montessori Method?
The Montessori Method takes account of the needs, talents, gifts and individuality of every child. The children learn at their own pace, in an atmosphere where their work is valued which makes learning fun, thus reaching a level of development that provides the necessary skills to have a great start in elementary.
If provided with the right kinds of activities at the right time of development in an atmosphere of respect and freedom, the child will absorb knowledge effortlessly.
There are 4 central ideas to the Montessori method which are applied at Montessori House Brussels:
- It is a method based on the universal characteristics of the child, which are that children have an inborn motivation to learn, they have an absorbent mind and they learn through sensitive periods.
- The classroom is a prepared environment, where there is freedom, structure, order, simplicity, aesthetic awareness and, above all, there is harmony.
- The guiding teacher has a professional training and deep respect for the child. When rules are needed to offer freedom, these rules are introduced and followed up with care and patience.
- To master the Montessori curriculum with its wide range of developmental areas, the child needs a period of 3 years to accomplish this to her or his best abilities.
