Steiner and Montessori Schools

[*Elle*]

my ds currently attends a Montessori school, we live in SA and the one he goes to costs us about $2300 a year for primary school and about $1000 a term for pre-school which part of is claimable with in the child care rebate,
He did not go to the pre school we just could not afford it and for that I think he has suffered as all of the children in his class have been to the two's plus/playgroup and to the pre-school and have basicly grown up together so they have formed very close friendships and they found it hard to accept Peiter into their classroom as he was not one of them IUKWIM, I absolutely love the school and finaly he has settled in and has made some very good little friends his learning has excelled and he is doing so so well with his reading and maths he has become alot more attentive and is so eager to learn what ever he can,

Unfortunately we are moving into another area of adelaide and there is no Montessori primary school close so he will be entering the public system, I am a little concearned as tehy do not use school bells for lunch etc and do not have a recess time they have snack time and they are a very calm environment to be in I am truly going to miss his school so much and kinda widsh we could take it with us LOL I am sure he will be fine I just hope this change does not take all of these wonderful qualities he has developed away from him, oh yeah he started at the begining on this year so he has not been there for very long.

my advice is that if you do choose to send Kyla to one of these schools put her into the preschool as much as you can afford to so that she knows the children she is going to go to school with it makes the transition so much eisier for them, and enroll her early as they often dont have places for children that have not attened their pre-school programmes or their classes fill up really fast as they do not like huge class sizes.

good luck with your choice, I highly recomend montessori from my experiance.