Tiggy's Montessori Nursery

🎉Congratulations to Lucie for completing her Level 3 Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator in Early Years qualification 🎉
She is now working alongside Charlotte, our longstanding & other fabulous SENDCO, to provide an even better service to our Tiggy’s children who need some additional support ❤️

Enjoying a picnic lunch today! 🌞

“Joy is the evidence of inner growth.” Dr. Maria Montessori

Lots of outdoor fun this week - we’ve enjoyed some muddy play in the newly improved imagination station area, and finished sowing in our veggie patch and sunflower pots. The leavers have been observing and recording the results of their seed experiment and finding out about food chains involving herbivores and carnivores. Our first parent visit to forest school saw some great trench digging! 🌳

We couldn’t agree more Sir David - happy 100th birthday! 🌱 🐞

“It is interesting to notice that where life is simple and natural and where the children participate in the adult’s life, they are calm and happy.” Dr. Maria Montessori

We spent time gardening, sowing seeds and baking this week. Often what adults see as chores, the children gain the most joy from.

Happy St. George’s Day from Tiggy’s! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

What better way to celebrate Earth Day today than erupting our own volcano! 🌍 🌱 🌋

Our Tiggy’s motto:

‘Learning through freedom, guided by connection’🧩

Choice can look deceptively simple from the outside. A child walks in, scans the shelves, selects an activity, and gets to work.
But something profound is happening beneath the surface. Every time a child chooses, they are being asked to consult an inner voice that most adults have spent years learning to ignore. What am I drawn to today? What feels right? What is alive in me right now?
For the youngest children, this is not a metaphor. It is a real and developing capacity.

The child who is given the daily practice of choosing freely is not just building independence. They are learning to hear themselves. To trust what they hear. And eventually, to live from it.

Every time we protect a child's right to choose freely, we are doing something that goes far beyond classroom management or Montessori philosophy. We are giving them daily practice in the most fundamental knowledge they must have. The knowledge of and connection to themselves.

Happy Easter to all of our families. The children have been very busy creating some unique pieces of art and craft in preparation for today. We hope that you enjoy all their efforts. 🐣 🥰

“Every child is an artist” - Pablo Picasso