Children's house - Montessori inštitut

Children’s House (preschool)

Our Children’s house is a place that provides children with an encouraging and respectful environment to fully develop their potential. Loving and devoted teachers help children to become more independent, and develop their skills as well as nurture their curiosity. That helps children to joyful discovery of new things.

Through their work in rich environment children build foundation of their personality to become more independent and confident individuals, stepping into life.

“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason od their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.”

– Maria Montessori

Enrollment

Enrollment process

You can submit pre-application to express their interest in enrolling your child. During the school year we will informa everyone on the list if there are any vacancies for the age group of your child, otherwise we will contact you in February, when we start with applications for the coming school year.

For school year 2022/2023 we will accept all applications received by March 15 2022 or later if there are any vacancies.

Pre-aplication can be reached by clicking on the orange button. When the form opens, you can select language, by pressing on the world icon, where is says ‘Slovenščina’ and then click on ‘English’.

Enrollment fee

When we inform you about a vacancy for the age of your child, you will confirm application by paying enrollment fee (100€).

During the enrollment process it could happen we would not accept your child. In that case we fully refund the enrollment fee. If you decide to withdraw during the enrollment process, we cannot guarantee refund of the enrollment fee.

Vacancies

At this moment all spaces in preschool are occupied. However it is still possible to submit a pre-application and we will inform you about any changes.

Currently we are in a process of enrolling children for the school year 2022/2023.

Pre-application

For more information about application process and preschool, call our office:

E-mail:

Main office: info@montessori-institut.si

Mobile number:

Main office: 0590 148 00

Observation and visiting our preschool

“Let us leave the life free to develop within the limits of the good, and let us observe this inner life developing.” (Maria Montessori)

Observation is foundation of montessori pedagogy. Using the observation, adults can discover the secret of childhood, and understand what each individual child needs.

Around 100 children visit our school daily. Our goal is to provide calm days for them and because of that we limit number of observers and available observation days.

Observations

We usually organize observations about once a month. There are some people that have an advantage at attending observations at our school:

parents od children in preschool and school at Inštitut montessori,
students that attended our paraprofesional course,
students attending our longer courses,
employees of schools that accept our students for observation.

Write to our main office (tajnistvo@institut-montessori.si) for applying for the observation. Bigger groups and institutions that are interested into short educational courses can contact our main office as well.

Open doors day

Twice a year, usually in September and January, we invite people to visit us for open doors day. We talk about our school, montessori pedagogy, see videos of our work, and take some time to walk through preschool.

Next open doors day will be on Wednesday, September 28 2022 2022 at Center montessori (Ulica Ferda Kozaka 49, Ljubljana). You are warmly invited to attend!

For further questions you can contact our main office thorugh e-mail (tajnistvo@institut-montessori.si) or call at: 064 260 142.

Next open doors day

will be on September 28 2022.

Application for Open doors day

Employees

Our Children’s houses are daily attended by 100 children and there are 15 devoted teachers taking care of them. We have some other teachers that come to our classrooms few times a week for music and sports.

Yellow House

Gjina Drejta: has M. A. in English Language and has montessori diploma for ages 0-3 and 3-6. She is a guide in 1-3 classroom and speaks to children in English.

Klavdija Kordeš Blažič: has montessori diploma for ages 0-3 and 3-6. She is a guide in 3-6 classroom and leads Cathechesis of Good Shepherd fro Yellow and Orange House.

Marjana Maslo Vidmar: has B. A. in Political Science and is in a process of completing montessori 0-3 and 3-6 courses. She is a guide in 3-6 classroom and speaks to children in English.

Blažka Sevčnikar: has M. A. in Architecture and is in a process of completing her 0-3 montessori training. She is a guide in 1-3 classroom.

Orange House

Lovro Bakšič: has montessori diploma for ages 0-3 and 3-6. He is a guise in 3-6 classroom.

Justina Bradač: has B. A. in Pedagogy and Andragogy as well as M. A. in Slovene Langugae. She finished montessori paraprofessional course and is a guide in 1-3 classroom.

Barbara Cergolj: has montessori 0-3 diploma and is finishing 3-6 course. She is a guide in 3-6 classroom and has music lessons for children in Yellow and Orange House.

Klavdija Kralj: has B. A. in pedagogy and has montessori 0-3 diploma. She is a guide in 1-3 classroom.

Green House

Manca Keršmanec: has montessori 0-3 and 3-6 AMS diploma. She is a guide in 3-6 classroom and speaks to children in English.

Kristina Lepen: has B. S. in Geography and is finishing her 3-6 montessori course. She is a guide in 3-6 classroom.

Marina Mata Soto: has B. A. in Preschool Education and comes from Spain. She is a guide in 1-3 classroom.

Gordana Vogrinc: has B. S. in Occupational Therapy and montessori 0-3 diploma. She is a guide in 1-3 classroom.

For all Houses:

Mateja Cvet: is consultant and special education pedagogue. She finished her 3-6 and 6-12 montessori course.

Tina Furlan: has M. A. in Comparative Literature, Literary Theory and Spanish Language. She finished montessori paraprofessional course and speaks to children in Spanish.

Klemen Kastelic: finished paraprofessional course and is in his 3-6 montessori course.

Maruša Lavre: has music in 3-6 classrooms for Orange and Green House. She has B. A. for Organ Pipes and montessori 3-6 and 6-12 siploma.

Helena Lavrič: is preschool teacher and is finishing montessori 0-3 course.

Milena Lipovšek: has cathechesis of Good Shepherd in Green House.

Luka Mejač: has B. S. in Sports and does sport for all 3-6 classrooms.

Head of school

Majda Keršmanec: has B. A. in Preschool Education and montessori diplomas for 0-3 and 3-6 (AMS).

Sodelavci v ozadju

Martina Zorec: is secretary in the main office. She has B. S. in Economy and finished paraprofessional montessori training, as well as 3-6 overview montessori course.

Izidor Tikvič: caretaker

Karlo Marjanovič: caretaker of the kitchen in Orange House.

Miguel Zemljič: caretaker of the kitchen in Yellow House.