The Cottage Montessori, Prebyterian Church Hall, 103 Howth Road, Howth, Dublin

Our aim is to provide a “home-from-home” environment for your children, where they are cared for by a team who take a genuine interest in each child and enjoy their triumphs as much as you do. The Cottage Montessori School is a large, open-plan prepared environment with an extensive range of Montessori materials for the 2.8-5 year age range.
We have a very large, safe enclosed outdoor play area with a range of age-appropriate facilities and toys. Outdoor play is fully supervised at all times.
The Primary program is for children from 2.8 to 5 years. In this mixed-age environment, children spend two or three years in the same classroom getting to know each other and their teachers well. The continuity of returning to the same room each year makes for a strong classroom community, for children and parents alike.
Primary children learn by doing. The classroom, where everything is just their size, is full of beautiful things. The concrete materials let children explore the world through their senses, through touch and motion, and by observing and engaging with others. Teachers guide students through the curriculum as children are ready for each new challenge, introducing lessons and then letting children practice what they have learned. As children grow, the classroom materials grow with them in the sense that older children use the materials to explore the curriculum in new and deeper ways.
The 3-6 year old goes through an intense period of change, including the transition to cooperative play and more complex social interactions, a language explosion leading to beginning skills in writing and reading, the emergence of number sense and the foundations of math, and great changes in physical development. The Montessori teacher responds to these changes in social and emotional, cognitive, and physical development with appropriate lessons to support each child’s growth and emerging capabilities. Primary children come to school five days a week.