Follow the child
We watch what each child is drawn to and prepare the next step before they reach for it. No two children in the room are doing the same thing at once — and that is the point.
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Our approach
The Montessori way, in a Nepali classroom
Real materials, a room made for small people, and teachers who watch before they teach. Here is what that means for your child.
Our approach
Follow the child
Dr Maria Montessori opened her first Casa dei Bambini in Rome in 1907. More than a century on, the idea holds: children learn best by doing, in a room made for them, at their own pace.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.”
Learning through the hands
Pouring, buttoning, tracing sandpaper letters. Every material is real, child-sized and made to be handled, because young children think with their hands.
A prepared environment
Low shelves, real glass and a place for everything. The room does half the teaching: children always know where the work is, and where it goes back.
Freedom within limits
Children choose their work and how long to stay with it, inside a few clear rules — we walk, we use quiet voices, we put things back. Independence and kindness grow together.
In the classroom
Five areas, one prepared room
Each area has its own shelves and its own materials, arranged from simple to hard, left to right. Children move between them freely — and a teacher notices where each one lingers.
Practical life
Pouring water, sweeping, buttoning, folding a napkin, watering the tulsi. Everyday tasks that build concentration, a steady hand and the pride of “I did it myself.”
- Pouring and spooning
- Buttoning frames
- Polishing brass
- Flower arranging
- Slicing a banana
Sensorial
The Pink Tower, the Brown Stair, colour tablets and sound cylinders sharpen each sense — and give children words for what they notice: bigger, rougher, louder, the same.
- Pink Tower
- Brown Stair
- Knobbed cylinders
- Colour tablets
- Sound cylinders
Language
Children trace sandpaper letters with two fingers while saying the sound, then build words with the moveable alphabet — often before they can hold a pencil. In Nepali too: अ for अनार, क for कमल.
- Sandpaper letters
- Moveable alphabet
- Metal insets
- Object boxes
- वर्णमाला cards
Mathematics
Quantity first, symbol second. A child holds “ten” as a bar of ten beads before writing it, and carries a thousand-cube across the room before meeting the word.
- Number rods
- Spindle boxes
- Golden beads
- Teen and ten boards
- Hundred chain
Culture and nature
The world, starting from Nepal: puzzle maps, the seasons and our festivals, seeds in the garden and the life cycle of a butterfly. Art and music live here too.
- Puzzle maps
- Land and water forms
- Seed planting
- Madal and songs
- Festival crafts
Look around
Step inside a classroom
Tap a number to see what happens in each corner. Better still, come and see it on a school morning.
Folders, crayons and trays at a child’s own height — they take what they need and put it back.
What makes it Montessori
Four things you will notice on a visit
Mixed ages
Younger children learn from older ones — and the other way round
LKG and UKG share one big room, as a Montessori classroom should. Older children teach what they have just mastered — the surest way to master it — and younger ones watch, and want to try.
The prepared environment
A room built for the child
Low shelves, child-sized chairs, real glass jugs and small brooms. Everything has a place, and every material teaches one thing. Children do not need an adult to reach, fetch or tidy — so they don’t.
Trained guides
Teachers who guide rather than lecture
In a Montessori room the teacher is a guide: she watches, notices what each child is ready for, shows a material once, clearly — and steps back. Every lead teacher here holds a Montessori certificate and trains again every year.
English and Nepali
Two languages, every day
English is the language of the classroom; Nepali lives in the songs, rhymes, stories and the वर्णमाला beside the alphabet. Children who hear both from the start move between them without effort — A for apple, अ for अनार.
School visits
See it for yourself
A Montessori classroom is easier to see than to describe. Come on a school morning and watch a work period.
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