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The Comox Valley's first independent Montessori elementary school 🏔️
• Certified by the BC Ministry of Education
• Led by a Montessori-trained elementary teacher
• Opening September 2026 — Grades K–5
• Expanding to K–7 in coming years

08/29/2026

The hierarchical material arrived today.

It starts with a small cube, which is one. Then a bar of ten, then a square of a hundred, then a cube of a thousand. Then the pattern begins again at a larger scale, and keeps going. A million is a cube a child can barely get her arms around.

This is how the size of numbers arrives in an elementary Montessori classroom. Not as a rule about place value or a row of zeros on a page, but as something you pick up. A child holds the one, then stands next to the million, and the difference between them stops being abstract. The math that follows has somewhere to sit.

Melissa was practising the lesson this afternoon, ahead of term. Our thanks to the young helper who carried the million cube across the room with great seriousness.

📍 1829 Beaufort Avenue, Comox · Kindergarten to Grade 5

PEAK Montessori Academy
Independent elementary school | Comox, BC 🌊
BC Ministry certified | Opening September 2026

08/22/2026

Our time together begins and ends at the Marina. What a wonderful way to be together.

08/21/2026

We’re getting our pantry shelves stocked and ready for the beginning of school!

Baking and cooking skills are a cornerstone of our program as it intertwines many aspects of our curriculum, hands on learning and life skills.

What’s your favourite recipe? Share it with us below!

08/14/2026

Sanjay joins Melissa in the classroom this September as our second guide — a fully AMI-trained Montessori elementary teacher, and someone who has been in Montessori classrooms since he was four years old.

He trained at Montessori Northwest in Portland and spent five years at a Montessori school in Squamish, teaching both lower and upper elementary. He has a degree in Human Geography from UBC. He has also been a farmer, a carpenter, a trail builder, a citizen scientist and an artist. He built his own bicycle and rode it across Kyrgyzstan. He reads about 87 books a year. 🤯

We mention all of this because elementary Montessori is taught largely through stories, and it asks children to see knowledge as one connected thing rather than a set of separate subjects. Sanjay is a wonderful storyteller, and he has lived like someone who believes the world is all one story.

We had planned to open with one guide and a classroom assistant. Interest in the school was strong enough that we could bring on a second guide instead — and then Sanjay applied.

Come and say hello!

📍 1829 Beaufort Avenue, Comox

08/09/2026

"On the weekend I celebrated Georgia's birthday and helped Mom in the garden."

That is what it says. The spelling is not there yet, and that is exactly the point — with the moveable alphabet, a child can write a full sentence before they can reliably spell one. The letters are already made, so the whole effort goes into the sounds and the story rather than into forming letters on a page.

Reading and writing tend to arrive together this way. A child who can hear the sounds in a word and find them in a box of letters is doing the same work as a child sounding out a page, just from the other direction.

A few spaces remain for September.

📍 1829 Beaufort Avenue, Comox · Kindergarten to Grade 5

08/07/2026

You can now book a little tour online if you would like to see the space or chat with Melissa, our Head Guide.

The room is still coming together, which is honestly part of the fun of visiting right now — you get to see where everything is going.

A few spaces remain for September.

Book a time: https://calendly.com/admin-peakmontessori/in-person

📍 1829 Beaufort Avenue, Comox · Kindergarten to Grade 5

08/05/2026

We are excited to share some good news from PEAK!

Interest in the school was strong enough that we were able to bring on a second AMI Montessori guide, rather than have our head guide, Melissa Schwartz, working alongside an assistant. Here is why that is worth celebrating: with two guides able to give full Montessori lessons, each child gets more direct, one-on-one instruction, and it means room for a few more families than we first planned.

Melissa is at the school most days this summer, and she'd happily put the kettle on — if you have been curious about PEAK, come and say hello. 1829 Beaufort Avenue, in the heart of Comox.

We couldn't be happier about this next chapter.

08/02/2026

Each new day brings new changes!

Take a peek at PEAK and how we’re preparing for September.

08/01/2026

Heading to Nautical Days this weekend? We are just up the road.

Melissa will be at the new PEAK space on Sunday, from 10am - 2pm, with the door open. Come and have a look — the shelves are going in, the materials are arriving, and it is starting to look like a classroom.

Just wander up from the Marina and say hello.

1829 Beaufort Avenue, in the heart of Comox.

07/10/2026

Moving day is upon us!! Thanks to Rising Tide Construction and CLM Construction for helping us out.

Address

1829 Beaufort Avenue
Comox, BC

Telephone

+19058078201

Website

http://www.peakmontessoriacademy.com/

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