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. Michelle teaches on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday while Lea teaches on Wednesdays. Raelene 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 Raelene
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Science Week
Recently we celebrated National Science Week at school. Science is an integral part of the Montessori Cultural Studies Curriculum with students constantly engaging with scientific learning. For this special national week each class celebrated Science differently in their classrooms and then shared their learning with the other classes at assembly. We heard about local walks […]
Cycle 3 out and about
A key principle of Montessori learning is ‘going out’ and obtaining real world experiences to link learning. We aim to find authentic ways to provide these opportunities to enhance the student’s experiences in the classroom. Botany Our Cultural Studies topic has centered around Botany this term with investigations of the function of plants and ways […]
Oliphant Science Awards
Our school is offering students the opportunity to enter the Oliphant Science Awards. Students may enter work in one of 9 different categories: Computer Programming & Robotics Models & Inventions Posters Crystal Investigation Multimedia Science writing Games Photography Scientific Inquiry Most categories allow for group entries (2 or 3 students) as well as individual entries. […]
Professor Flint visits Cycle 3
Welcome to Term 2. We are excited about our plans for the term. Our Cultural Studies topic focusses on Botany and will involve an excursion to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens as well experiments and investigations at school. We launched this topic with a visit from Professor Flint this week where he discussed Climate Change with […]