Our desire is for our daughter to attend a school that maintains, encourages and grows her passion for learning and follows an enquiry based philosophy.  We strongly believe will a Montessori education will enable that. Whilst the BC Curriculum has changed for the better, it will still take much time and effort for the entrenched dictatorial approach to educating to filter out.  We do not want our daughter to have her love of learning extinguished whilst the system catches up.  

We also do not believe that technology placed in young children's hands will have lasting positive affects, in fact we believe quite the opposite.  Children need to master who they are regarding problem solving, self determination, resilience and social capabilities and this cannot be done via the use of screens.  We believe that technology is a great tool in certain circumstances, but it should not be at the core of education.

I have personally read much about the Montessori method.  We nearly enrolled our daughter in a Montessori Pre-School and the main reason we did not, is that the school where we got a spot had no outside space.  Our daughter currently attends two Outdoor Nature Schools and we feel that this has made her blossom in so many ways.  

There are many things from what I read that we put into practice from an early age such as using real life items from day one e.g. our daughter has never used plastic spoons, cups or plates and we gave her real utensils from day one.  We also encouraged her to master things for herself from a very early age in order to encourage self reliance.
