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The other day Pete and I moved things around in the prop tunnel. We had analysed the categories of activities in the garden this half… more

Journey and Discovery remains one of our most valued ways of sharing Montessori with parents. We are indebted to Barbara Gordon for creating this powerful… more

Dear Tracey, Stephen, Zoe and Al, I just wanted to share with you a little bit of a really wonderful experience I had on Thursday… more

Montessori said (I am paraphrasing) that in this work with children we do not believe because we see; but we see because we believe. In… more

Wilma Landauer (mum of Ethan age 6 and Emily age 4) accompanied/followed 4 of the Elementary children to the Natural History Museum, and wrote this… more

“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it.” Alfred North Whitehead, 1916… more

I’m in the middle of EO Wilson’s Letters to a Young Scientist. The book is wonderfully autobiographical, filled with delightful little anecdotes of how to make a specimen-collecting… more

Mark Treffel (Louis’ dad) sent this email out to the community – we thought it such a beautiful story and asked if we could put… more

When Maisie and Zoe wanted to visit the Natural History Museum in London as part of a research project, they asked Nuala’s mum Janette if… more