We offer you and your family a special and warm welcome to our Montessori Connect The Children's Workshop community and hope that your stay with us will be happy and rewarding. You have chosen Montessori Connect The Children's Workshop as your child’s first school. We are privileged to be your child’s first professional educators as they begin a long, perhaps never-ending, educational journey.

We know these first years will make a profound impact in your child’s attitude towards learning. We need your full support in a joint effort to help your child maximize their potential. We encourage you to embrace the Montessori philosophy, learn about the programme, and become clearly involved in the life of the school. We plan social events during the year, which will involve you and your child. These are a great opportunity to meet and interact with other parents in your child’s class. Montessori philosophy and methodology discussions for parents are held once a term at the school to explain and demonstrate the programme.

We urge you to make every effort to attend these evenings so that you will learn about and understand the work your child experiences daily. Parents should be fully prepared to learn about, and adhere to the Montessori philosophy in order to provide a consistent approach at home during the years their child is in our programme. This handbook offers an insight into our programme. Please read and ensure that you and other care-givers are familiar with all the information in the handbook. Some changes may be made as deemed necessary during the course of the year.

The Children’s Montessori Workshop is a Preschool situated in the residential suburb of Claremont, Cape Town, between Belvedere and Selous Roads. The Children’s Montessori Workshop is a co-educational Nursery & Pre-Primary School, embracing the Montessori system of education.

The Nursery consists of 2 classes, ensuring each child receives the attention they deserve. The adult to child ration is 1:7. These classes are for children from 12 months to 3 years old.

We have 3 Preschool classes, each class has an adult to child ratio of 1:12. The classes consist of children from 3 to 6 years of age, equivalent to a Pre Primary class and Grade R in traditional schooling.