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The Brighton & Hove Montessori School
Brighton & Hove Montessori
We have two children at this school and we are full of praise for the school. My older child has attended for two years and my younger child for just over a year. Despite being on the special educational needs (SEN) register, my older child has gone from strength to strength. He has a real curiosity about the world around him and a great love of learning. He was reading fluently by the age of 4 and now, at aged 5, is confidently adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying numbers. He has a good understanding of fractions, can tell the time and has recently been teaching himself spanish! He never fails to amaze me on a daily basis with the things he has been studying at school - and the fact that this is all self-directed is all the more amazing. He is academically head and shoulders above his peers being educated in the state sector and is developing skills way beyond anything set out in the national curriculum. My younger child (not statutory school age) loves her time at the school each morning. She enjoys the 'grown up jobs' she has been taught - sweeping, dusting, polishing, washing up etc, which she does methodically and effectively. She has been taught beautiful, almost old-fashioned manners and is developing a real sense of empathy, for which I have the wonderful teaching staff to thank. She can recognise and name all the letters in the alphabet and is well on the road to reading. I cannot rate this school highly enough and I wish we had the finances to send them here until the age of 11.
brighton & hove montessori
