Pooh Bear Montessori Pre-School

🐻 Pooh Bear Montessori is proudly bilingual - we teach in both Afrikaans and English, welcoming families from all walks of life into our little world.

We are now officially open for 2027 enrolments — and spaces are limited. 🍯

If you’ve been thinking about Pooh Bear for your little one, now is the time. Come and see our beautiful environment, meet our teachers, and find out what makes us different.

📋 To secure your child’s place, send us a DM or email us at [email protected] and we’ll send you a registration form.

We can’t wait to welcome your family. 🐻🌿

☀️ Term 3 is here, and we are so ready.

Swipe through for a little peek at what’s ahead this term - we have so much to look forward to together. 🐻

Here’s to another full, joyful, and memorable term at Pooh Bear. 🍯🤍

🐻 A question we get asked a lot:
“But do they just do whatever they want?”
The short answer? Not quite. 😄

Montessori gives children real freedom - but freedom with intention, with boundaries, and with a guide who knows each child well enough to know exactly when to step in and when to get out of the way.

Swipe to see what that looks like in our classroom at Pooh Bear, and then in action with our very own materials. 🍯

🌿 Another holiday tip from your Pooh Bear family.

No batteries. No screens. Just your garden, a little tray, and one very curious child. Swipe to see how to turn an afternoon walk into a full Montessori activity. 🍂🪨

Try it and show us your nature tray in the comments — we’d love to see what your little one finds! 🐻🍯

Simple setup. Zero screen time. And honestly? More focused than most adults on a Monday morning. 😄
Swipe for one of our favourite Montessori practical life activities to try at home this holiday — your little one might just surprise you. 💧🐻

Try it and drop a 💧 in the comments if it was a hit!

🐻 And just like that - the last three days of term.
We saved the best for last at Pooh Bear this week. Pyjamas and the slip ‘n slide. Hands deep in paint and mud. And today, the people who’ve loved these little ones the longest walked through our doors for
Grandparents’ Day. 🍯

There may have been some very full hearts in that room. (Ours included.) 💛

As of today, Pooh Bear is officially closed for the holidays - with the exception of holiday school, which will be running as usual for those who need it. 🌿

And while our little ones rest, the real work begins. 🐻🔨 Our renovations are officially underway - and we couldn’t do it without you. Every ticket bought, every lap run, every rand raised at Sports Day this year is going directly into making Pooh Bear an even more beautiful space. Thank you for making this possible. 💛

Follow along for renovation peeks over the break - we can’t wait to show you what’s coming.

To every child, every parent, every grandparent who made this year what it was - thank you. Rest well.

You’ve all earned it. 🐻🍯

🐻 The last three days of term just got a whole lot more fun.

Our teachers had a little something up their sleeves to close out the year in true Pooh Bear style - three special days, three big smiles.

Yesterday we kicked things off in our cosiest pyjamas and hit the slip ‘n slide. 💤🌊

Today? Things are about to get very messy. 🎨
And tomorrow we get to share our favourite people with our favourite place, Grandparents’ Day. 🍯

See you on the other side. 🐻✨

We hear a lot of myths about Montessori — so we thought we’d set the record straight. 🌿

Swipe through for 5 things Montessori IS, and 5 things it absolutely isn’t.

Save this one to share with anyone who’s been curious about what we do at Pooh Bear. 🐻🍯

The honest answer is: yes — and so much more than that.

Montessori children don’t just learn letters and numbers. They learn how to concentrate for long stretches of time. How to solve problems independently. How to care for their environment and the people around them. How to bounce back from frustration with grace.

They learn that they are capable. And that changes everything.

That is the Pooh Bear promise. 🐻🍯