Montessori schools

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

The UK's 720 Montessori schools are to have their own national association, with Scotland the first of ten regions to be established. Philip Bujak, chief executive of Montessori St Nicholas, said unifying the movement was one of the principal aims in Montessori's mission statement and that it had been backed by 60 per cent of schools in a survey last year. 'They wanted greater unity, an all-embracing, grassroots movement for all people involved in Montessori education, not just school heads but also teachers, parents and researchers.' Rosie Pressland, principal of Yorkshire's Pocklington Montessori School, is to be the inaugural national president of the new association.