Lodestar means guiding star. All children have an inner guide that directs their development. We respect the inner guide and help it towards self-regulation.
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Registration Period: 21/12/2024 - 20/12/2028 PEI Registration No.: 201622133Z
Registration Period: 21/12/2020 to 20/12/2024
30/08/2025
Happy 155th birthday, Dr. Maria Montessori!
We continue to celebrate your birthday in honour of the wisdom you've left us with for understanding the development of the human being from birth to adulthood.
17/08/2025
Montessori Education
Montessori is a method of education first proposed by Dr. Maria Montessori. This method of education relies on the child's in-built need to develop, for instance how a horse learns to recognize danger or a lion learns to recognize prey, we too as children have this need to learn and grow.
Most people only know that the Montessori method is used for children aged 3-6 or 6-12. During the ages 3-6, the child has the need to become physically independent, this means that he or she wants to do their own work; like eating by themselves, cleaning after themselves and grooming themselves. For children aged 6-12 they have the need to become mentally independent, that is they want to make their own choices and think for themselves.
Most of you don't know this but there is a 3rd plane to Montessori, for children aged 12-18. Now we must lose the word 'children' and change it to 'adolescents' for that is what they are. At this stage, adolescents have the need to become socially and economically independent. To achieve this, Dr. Maria Montessori said that they should be given an open land to build their own community. A big part of Montessori for adolescents is agriculture. They must grow their own food on the land. Maria Montessori called this plane of development as 'Erdkinder' which means 'children of the earth'.
Another big part of the 3rd plane is production & exchange (P&E). This is where adolescents use their produce to earn an income. This teaches them how to handle money.
All this prepares them for adult life. The goal for each adolescent community is to become fully self-sustainable and not to rely on any external provisions.
By Zephyr Mustansir, 14 years old.
Zephyr teaching woodworking to an elementary child.
13/08/2025
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happy 9th birthday, Lodestar Montessori School! You were a dream that became real. Thank you to all who took a leap of faith in Montessori Elementary and walked this journey with us!
24/03/2025
The children have been working hard to maintain our community garden plot and we were given the honour of taking a photo with Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong on SG60 Celebration Carnival at Jalan Selaseh park on Sunday 23/3. We would like to recognise the efforts of all our other children but could only have 2 of our elementary children to represent us.
28/02/2025
30/08/2024
“The great benefit we can bestow on childhood is the exercise of restraint in ourselves.” - Maria Montessori
Happy Teachers Day!
22/05/2024
A 7 year old child pipes up, “Did you know that all the numbers in the world can be written with the numerals 0-9?”
Another, “What about infinity?”
Another child offers, “Infinity too! as it goes 1,000,000,000…. forever”.
03/02/2024
An Elementary 1 drawing of a chart from the Great Story of the Coming of Life.
12/01/2024
First 2 weeks back at school and the new children are getting a hand from the older children with service work in school.
16/09/2023
Choose Montessori for your child!
What the Evidence Says About Montessori Education New research compares Montessori and traditional schools.
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