Global connections

Students and practitioners of the Montessori Method have travelled from Poland, Africa, Russia, France, Spain, USA, China, St Lucia, and Australia to visit our school.  

These students have taken the knowledge and experience gained at this school back to their own countries which has supported them to open their own schools.

Montessori teachers visit Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota, USA 

Jacqui Davies, head teacher at Stanger Montessori and Sheila Richards, ex-Montessori french & music teacher, recently visited the Pine Ridge Reservation home of the Lakota and Sioux Indians, descendants of Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

This visit was made with a view to help set up a Montessori school on the reservation, they took donations of pens, paper and crayons but quickly realised that their main priority was for food. These nations are among the poorest in the USA and these indigenous people should be treated with respect on their own land.

Jacqui and Sheila are hoping to enable some of these indigenous people to come across to the UK to be given an insight into the Montessori philosophy and method in order for them to use it alongside their own cultures and philosophies. They are working closely with people from the reservation to enable this to happen. (article originally presented in the Montessori International magazine, issue 93, Oct-Dec 2009)