This program is conducted by Michelle Young and Lea Simmons. Parents are usually able to quickly catch up with teachers at drop off or pick up time. However, if you require a more formal appointment, please arrange a mutually convenient time. Teachers can be contacted by phoning the school or alternatively you may wish to email them.
Their email address is michelle@southernmontessori.sa.edu.au or lea@southernmontessori.sa.edu.au. Our teachers will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible during classroom breaks. Thank you.
Michelle and Lea teach a Cycle 3 class. Lea takes the class on Mondays and Tuesdays and Michelle teaches from Wednesday to Friday. Teresa is a classroom assistant in their class. Her primary role is to provide extra support to allow Michelle and Lea to work with children in small groups and meet their individual needs.
Our Cycle 3 teachers work closely together to plan and implement the curriculum and ensure that the children’s experiences are consistent in both classes. Our Cycle 3 classes are multi-age, allowing each child the opportunity to learn from others and the flexibility to develop, both socially and intellectually, at their own pace. Children usually stay with the same teacher for three years, developing strong teacher-student relationships and a deep understanding by the teacher of individual student needs and abilities.
We look forward to working with you this year.
Michelle, Lea and Teresa
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Coles for Schools Vouchers
The equipment has arrived! A huge thank you to everyone who helped with this campaign; from the parents who initiated our school’s participation, those who delivered collection boxes to Coles stores, those who collected and cleared our boxes regularly, those who packed the many postage bags full of vouchers, and most importantly all of you […]
Michelle and Lea’s class – Climate Change focus
Our class, along with the other two Cycle 3 classes and a group of students from Cycle 2 are involved in a project with NRM (Natural Resource Management) and the City of Onkaparinga called ‘Climate Ready Schools Initiative’. Students have participated in information sessions about the key factors involved with climate change and the 2 […]
Science Week
This year’s Science Week theme was “Game changers and change makers” and featured a timeline of inventions, discoveries, events and famous scientists. Each class took a section of the timeline to investigate and research and then presented this to the whole school at assembly on Friday. Student learning was presented in a variety of ways […]
Michelle and Lea’s Class – Term 2 Plans
Welcome to Term 2. We have had a great start to the term. Our Cultural Studies work this term comes from Montessori’s first great lesson, The Formation of the Universe. Last week we shared the story together and focussed our work around our solar system. We modelled our solar system in several different ways to […]