Waterdown Montessori School

Ontario College of Health and Technology
1040 South Service Road, Stoney Creek

English Encounters
591 Brant Street, Suite A

Founded in 1979 Waterdown Montessori School is a unique educational experience for young children.

CCMA Accredited School

The Montessori Approach

Montessori offers a broad vision of education as an aid to life. Education involves more than acquiring skills in math, language, science and the arts. Education must also provide our children with deeper skills that will enrich their lives, explore the meaning of life, the caring of self and others, the emotions of love, forgiveness and understandi

ng, the ability to adapt to unanticipated developments, the fostering of curiosity and the love of learning. A Montessori education aims to develop the individual child’s potential in an environment specifically designed with hands-on materials that stimulate the child’s interest. The Three Year Cycle

Montessori classes are grouped across a three-year age span: ages 3-6, ages 6-9, and ages 9-12. This accommodates each individual child’s educational needs at each unique stage of development. Within each classroom, the younger children start off in the role of apprentice, listening carefully and learning from their older peers. Then as they get older and develop more skills, they are encouraged to act as helpers, demonstrators and eventually mentors to the younger students. This mentoring approach not only develops leadership skills and confidence, it teaches children the importance of supporting and cooperating with others. This is in contrast to an attitude of competition where in order to be a winner others must be losers. The benefits of the three-year cycle are perhaps most obvious in the Montessori preschool, or Casa program. Starting a full year or more before traditional kindergarten, in Montessori a child is given the opportunity to move from the physical world – where she can develop his motor skills, and all his senses with self-teaching, self-correcting materials – into the abstract world of ideas and concepts, all at his own pace. She must have the proper concrete preparation before she is ready to develop academically. During that critical third year of the Casa program, this transition usually happens and the Montessori Directress is trained to help the child take great advantage of these rich educational opportunities. This is the period when all the learning absorbed by the child during the previous two years of Montessori training suddenly fits together and makes sense; the child begins reading, writing, doing math and showing other spouts of intellectual growth. Some may not start reading and writing during the third year, but usually do so the following year in their elementary class, seemingly without effort because they have gained the strong learning foundation they need. The Montessori Classroom

The Montessori classroom is a child-centred learning environment where children can learn from one another, in small groups, or one on one with their teacher.

04/22/2026

A different kind of Elementary experience
Montessori Grades 1–6

Waterdown Montessori School offers an authentic, accredited Montessori education designed to support confident, capable learners.

-Inquiry-based learning
-Mixed-age classrooms
-Strong academic foundation

Toddler & Casa programs currently full
Limited Elementary (Grades 1–6) spaces available Discover WMS: www.waterdownmontessori.com

02/16/2026

A summer rooted in connection, creativity, and time outdoors 🌿

Our WMS Summer Camp 2026 offers children ages 4–7 a calm, full-day Montessori-inspired experience with:
• Time outdoors each day
• Creative arts & hands-on science
• Gardening, movement, and play
• A consistent group and gentle daily rhythm

📅 June 29 – August 14
🕣 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (8:00 a.m. before care available)
📍 Waterdown Montessori School

✨ Limited spaces available
📩 [email protected]

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12/18/2025

This week our older elementary students turned generosity into action ❤️
Through the sale of their handmade loom bracelets, they raised funds to thoughtfully purchase items at the grocery store for the Flamborough Food Bank.
Thank you to our families and community for your generosity, and to the Food Bank staff for welcoming our students and helping them understand how their work supports families in our community. 💛

11/11/2023

Waterdown Montessori Remembers.
Our students took part in the annual WMS tradition of making poppies for Remembrance Day. Our Toddler students used paint and glitter to decorate pre-cut poppies while our Casa and Elementary students traced, cut and sewed on buttons to create poppies. Our Elementary class then took on the role of selling them to our community. Thanks to your generosity, we raised $478.15 which will be donated to the local legion.

Our Elementary students also wrote peace postcards that will be given to local veterans thanking them for their service and asking what life as a soldier was like. We are hopeful they will write back!

09/24/2023

We had beautiful weather at Thursday's Back to School Meet and Greet. The children loved the fun activities like the bubble dance party, soccer, parachute games, tattoos and colouring. We enjoyed connecting with our wonderful WMS community.

09/08/2023

It is such a joy to hear the sounds of little footsteps filling our halls again! We want to wish a warm welcome to our newest families and a warm welcome back to our returning families. We look forward to a wonderful year together!

04/23/2022

What a beautiful day to celebrate Earth Day! 🌍☀️🌸Many little hands took part in beautifying our grounds today, including preparing for our school garden.

11/12/2021

WMS remembers with hand sewn poppies by our Casa and Elementary students. Thank you to our Elementary students for selling our over 100 poppies made, over the past 2 days!

10/31/2021

Happy Halloween!

A big thank you to our amazing WMS community for their contributions in making our WMS Pumpkin Trail such a successful event!

10/16/2021

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Location

Burlington

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Telephone

+19056892171

Website

http://www.waterdownmontessori.com/

Address

1921 Snake Road
Burlington, ON
L7P4Y2

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 4pm
Tuesday	8am - 4pm
Wednesday	8am - 4pm
Thursday	8am - 4pm
Friday	8am - 4pm