Journey Montessori Preschool, Durbanville offers a meticulously prepared setting both inside and out, where each child is treated as a unique individual. Our focus is centred not only around the needs of the child but on closing the gap between the home and school environments, ensuring the best possible care for each and every little person at all times.
Journey Montessori Preschool is centrally located with easy access to all major routes and offers a Preschool.
Principal & Owner
After many years of diverse experience in childcare, ranging from au pairing to educare, I followed my true calling and registered with Headstart Montessori Training Centre. This journey led to me obtaining my Montessori Diploma for children aged 3–6 years in 2009.
My search for a school to complete my practical training introduced me to Montessori, where I worked as an assistant for several years before taking over the Preschool class as Directress in 2011.
My family and I live on the property, and through my ongoing commitment to the school, as well as to the children and families in my care, I was entrusted with the role of Principal of Montessori@Home Durbanville at the beginning of 2017.
In July 2018, I became the new owner of Montessori@Home Durbanville and renamed the school Journey Montessori Preschool.
My vision for our school is to guide, nurture, educate, and uplift every little person entrusted to our care.
Our exceptional team of directresses are trained to communicate and educate passively and positively while encouraging the natural development of each child’s unique needs both in the classroom and on the playground.
Our Preschool focuses on the physical, academic, social, spiritual and emotional development of the child by providing a prepared environment where the child is free to learn, explore and discover within clearly defined boundaries.
Our classroom is a holistic learning experience, which includes the following areas:
The Practical Life area enhances the development of task organization and cognitive order through the care of self, care of the environment, exercises of grace and courtesy and coordination of physical movement.
The Mathematics area makes use of didactic materials to enable the child to internalise concepts of number, symbol, sequence, operations, and memorization of basic facts.
Cultural subjects expose the child to basics in geography, history and life sciences. Music, art, and movement education are part of the integrated cultural curriculum.
Language Arts include oral language development, written expression, reading, grammar, creative dynamics and literature. Basic skills in writing and reading are developed through the use of sandpaper letters, alphabet cut-outs, and various presentations allowing the children to link sounds and letter symbols effortlessly and to express their thoughts in writing.
The Sensorial activities enable the child to order, classify, and describe sensory impressions in relation to length, width, temperature, mass, colour, sound, texture and weight.
Playball is a program that helps improve co-ordination while nurturing principals of ball and bat games from a very early age. Life skills and teamwork are part of their curriculum for children from 2 to 6 years.
Jill brings her love of rhythm into the hearts and minds of every child in her vibrant weekly classes. Through captivating stories, children are taught listening skills, rhythm, music and co-ordination.
SWIMRITE is a nationwide swimming programme for children, introducing and teaching skills needed for confident and competent participation in all water activities. The ability to swim is a very important part of a child’s development, not only for the enjoyment that it brings, but to ensure their safety.
RUGGA ROOTS is an exciting extra mural RUGBY program, focused on growing love for RUGBY, sports and participation. Boys and girls between 3 & 13 years old are welcome to join our fun-filled and structured program. Our motto “Grassroots to Greatness” will not only apply to the sports field but also in many aspects of life, as our program will address various situations and stimulate physical growth and development.
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Experi-Buddies is an educational, extra-mural science programme that uses experiments to show young children that the world of Science can be fun. This is done by means of interactive projects, exciting demonstrations and basic experiments.
Children should do experiments for the same reason that they listen to stories and do sport – experiments encourage children to be inquisitive, creative and build their self-confidence. Experiments help to teach children to observe, compare and to predict outcomes while having fun.