Our School!
The Montessori School is a state-authorized six year primary and
intermediate secondary school (Realschule) and is privately run. At
the moment we have eight mixed aga learning groups.
We offer reliable teaching every Monday to Friday between 8.00
a.m. and 1.15 p.m. or
3.00 p.m.(Sek I until 3.15 p.m.).
It is also possible to register your child for lunch that is
delivered by Bio-Catering Dr. Hoppe,
in Waldau.
There are many different after-school activities that last until 5
p.m. at the latest.
The following activities are currently on offer: theatre, chess,
yoga, art, clarinet
and physics.
Pedagogics The Maria Montessori School in Kassel
The doors of the classroom remain open - "Help me to do it myself"
is the motto for the lesson. Children want to learn and in the Maria
Montessori School in Kassel they can do this as much as they want to.
The teachers help them to do this. The small first grader puts her
tongue between her lips. She is sitting at her place in the
classroom and is counting. The sums get harder but the girl
perseveres. She does not lose her concentration. At last, she is
ready.
She gets up, goes to her teacher that is practising reading at that
moment with another classmate and waits. The Montessori teacher
looks up, checks the exercises, praises the child and turns back to
the child reading. The girl who has been counting clears her paper
away and intentionally makes her way to a corner of the room. Here
some things are stored that at first look like toys. "But you do not
play with them", states the teacher because the lines between
playing and learning are blurred in the Montessori School. The girl
takes one of the toys -
a thread game. She goes back to her place and starts to thread. The
pedagogue:" the school girl hurt her wrist after counting for so
long. "Now she is loosening her fingers with the thread game. She is
relaxing and training her fine motor skills aswell. Teaching
assistants and volunteers work together so that the children
themselves are allowed to learn what they want and how quickly they
want it.