Entrance: Children may start at the nursery when they are 3 years old, depending on their physical and social readiness.

Application:  Come and visit the school and, if you like what you see,  then please go to the page HOW TO REGISTER YOUR CHILD. Demand for places can be high, so early visits are recommended.

Our Morning Sessions: Montessori Children’s House is a progressive, holistic learning environment. When we offer your child a place, it is for a full place for five mornings a week from 8.00am to 2.00pm, Monday to Friday. This provides the consistency and continuity on which children thrive, and enables them to become a full part of the Montessori community.

When we built our school in 2015, it was with the aim of creating an inclusive community school, of the highest quality, in the heart of one of St Andrews’ beautiful walled gardens. The school is called Children’s House because the children are taking their first steps away from home and entering a warm, nurturing communtiy of children and families.

As can be seen in the other pages of this website, Montessori Children’s House offers children a well-established, rounded method for learning and growing. Our morning session includes the important work-cycle, which itself includes exercises of practical life, sensorial learning, mathematics, language and literacy, cultural subjects and the expressive arts (drawing, painting and music). Alongside the work-cycle, there are related activities such as garden time, Spanish, yoga, baking, outings to the woods, circle-time discussions and lunch with all the social learning that goes with it. Altogether, it’s a full development programme, with each part supporting the other.

Financial arrangements: As part of our partnership with Fife Council, all our children are entitled to the six hours in the morning free of charge. The Scottish Government’s objective is to make high-quality education accessible to all, and this is an objective we fully endorse.

Please note: children become eligible for Fife funding only from the term after they turn three. Details are available from the school.