English Montessori Preschool
English Montessori Preschool is a special place. We are located in a quiet location south of the city center. Our beautiful classrooms and large garden together with the family atmosphere at our small preschool mean that our children feel like the preschool is their second home. We have an authentic Montessori program that ensures an individualized learning track for each child together with bilingual education in English. Our children develop bilingualism naturally through daily interaction with our full-time native speaker teachers. We invite you to book a visit to our preschool using the booking form below to learn more about how our preschool can benefit your child.
At English Montessori Preschool, children are taught in mixed-age classrooms meaning that younger children have role models to follow and older children develop leadership skills. The group of children differentiated by age leads to a strong sense of community with a focus on cooperation rather than competition. In the classroom, areas of learning are organized to form a child-centered educational environment that promotes concentration skills and uninterrupted learning periods.
Children learn through interaction with a wide variety of beautifully crafted educational materials. The materials allow for self-paced learning and provide a series of learning tasks designed to meet each child’s needs at each moment in their unique developmental path.
“Imagine a place where your child is always greeted warmly and made to feel welcome with a parent-communication experience that keeps you informed and confident that your child has fallen in love with learning.”
Our Mission
Our aim is to create a caring, peaceful, and culturally diverse educational environment in which each child can thrive and develop on the basis of the Montessori method.
Our school culture is devoted to helping each child reach their full potential, be a joyful learner and develop a life-long love of learning. Our goal is for every child to grow towards independence on a foundation of confidence and self-esteem along with respect for others.
We are dedicated to providing both bilingual education for Polish children as well as an English program for our international students.
We aim to provide as much contact and cultural exchange as possible between Polish and international children.
We are committed to building positive relationships with our children and their families and to being a supportive, cooperative school community of children, staff, and parents.
We ultimately aim to prepare children for their further education and for life.
Bilingualism at EMP
Children develop their language skills at English Montessori Preschool in the most natural way possible – through day-to-day interaction with their teachers in everyday communicative situations. Each classroom has a full-time native speaker and the Polish teacher also speaks with the children consistently in English to maximize the child’s exposure.
Children typically pick up politeness phrases in English fairly quickly, for example, ‘hello,’ ‘goodbye,’ ‘please,’ ‘thank you,’ ‘come here,’ ‘how are you?’ etc. Then, children may start singing simple songs in English at home which they have learned at preschool. After about one year of the child attending the preschool, parents often comment that their child has made significant development in their ability in English and is able to communicate with the parent in simple dialogues and are then able to interact in more complex dialogues in the later years of the program. Of course, the more you support your child’s bilingualism at home, the faster their progress will be.
When it comes to the reading program, we first teach the child letter sounds in English and the child initially learns to read words in English. We have created tailor-made English language reading materials based on best Montessori practices.
Most of our children are from Polish-speaking families, however, we also have children from mixed international-Polish families as well as international families. We offer the curriculum taught in English to international families and such children learn Polish naturally through interaction with their Polish classmates.
We invite our families to support the development of bilingualism in their child through encouraging communication in English at home and reading one book in English to their child every week. Over the three-year preschool program, that means your child will have had over 100 books read to them in English! What a rich and pleasurable language learning experience for you and your child! We have an extensive library of over 400 children’s books in English to support you with this process.
Hear it from our parents!
“Nasza starsza corka wlasnie konczy English Montessori Preschool na ul.Wspolnej. Trzy wspaniale lata spedzone wsrod przyjaznej i kompetentnej kadry pedagogicznej 😍 Stosujac metode Marii Montessori nauczyciele potrafili « wylapac » wszystkie wrazliwe okresy dla naszego dziecka dzieki czemu z przyjemnoscia nauczyla sie czytac pisac liczyc ale tez interesowac kosmosem geografia botanika historia itd. w odpowiednim DLA NIEJ momencie. Wszyscy pracownicy przedszkola sa zaangazowani w wychowanie i dobre samopoczucie dzieci i widzimy ze po prostu kochaja swoja prace. Dzieki native speakerom nawet nie zauwazylismy kiedy dziecko zaczelo rozumiec jezyk angielski a teraz swobodnie go uzywac 😊 W zeszlym roku druga corke naturalnie tez zapisalismy do tego przedszkola. Z czystym sercem polecamy!!!”
Kasia J.
Parent
“Jestesmy bardzo zadowoleni z wyboru tego przedszkola. Swietna kadra pedagogiczna, nauczanie i wychowanie metoda Marii Montessori, indywidualne podejscie do dziecka i rodzica, przyjazne miejsce, duzy ogrod… kazdego dnia odbieramy z przedszkola szczesliwe dzieci 🙂”
Sam R.
Parent
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