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2021/04/09 by R.M.S.

Join us for our next Evening Virtual Open House!

Virtual Open House taking place on Thursday, April 22nd, 2021

RMS Virtual Open House – Thursday, April, 22nd, 2021 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Have you been concerned about the inconsistency in your child’s learning over the past year due to the pandemic? Have you been researching your child’s educational options for September 2021? Join us on Thursday, April 22nd, 2021 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for our Evening Virtual Open House!

Come and discover the opportunities you can provide your child to succeed Rowntree Montessori Schools (RMS). Our Evening Virtual Open House is the perfect opportunity to learn more about our award-winning private school and how RMS can help your child reach their full potential. Discover why RMS has been voted Brampton’s Best Private School for the past nine consecutive years. This could be the first step in empowering your child’s journey towards their dreams!

Our Virtual Open House will outline our structured, academic programmes and curriculum, our extracurricular activities, our application process, and we will take you on a virtual tour of our welcoming, friendly and family-oriented campuses.

Discover the opportunity and possibilities for your child to love learning and excel. You can RSVP by clicking here.

2021/03/16 by R.M.S.

Join us for our Prep Campus Virtual Open House

RMS Prep Campuses are holding a Virtual Open House on Saturday, March 27th, 2021 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Join us on Saturday, March 27th, 2021 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. for our Virtual Open House of our Prep Campuses. Have you been concerned about the inconsistency in your child’s learning over the past year due to the pandemic? RMS is here to help! We have been Nurturing Tomorrow’s Achievers Since 1969.

Come and discover the opportunities you can provide your child to succeed Rowntree Montessori Schools (RMS). Our Prep Campus Virtual Open House is the perfect opportunity to learn more about our award-winning private school and how RMS can help your child reach their full potential. Discover why RMS has been voted Brampton’s Best Private School for the past nine consecutive years. This could be the first step in empowering your child’s journey towards their dreams!

Our Prep Campus Weekend Open House will outline our structured, academic programmes and curriculum, our extracurricular activities, our application process, and we will take you on a virtual tour of our welcoming, friendly and family-oriented Prep campuses. Campus locations included in this Virtual Open House will include:

Central Park Campus – 502 Central Park Drive, Brampton, ON L6S 2C8

Ph: 905-793-6231

Downtown Campus – 4 Elizabeth Street North, Brampton, ON L6X 1S2

Ph: 905-457-7439

Mayfield Campus – 11613 Bramalea Road, Brampton, ON L6R 0C2

Ph: 905-499-2595

Discover the opportunity and possibilities for your child to love learning and excel. You can RSVP by clicking here.

2021/03/15 by R.M.S.

Developing a love of learning

A Prep-ONE student working on place value during Math Class.

Rowntree Montessori Schools’ goal is to develop a lifelong love of learning and unlock the potential in every student that walks through our doors. RMS offers an enriching curriculum that is engaging, relevant, challenging and significant. Our Education is based on developing confident, free thinking individuals, and we pride ourselves on instilling our pupils with values and courtesy. By virtue of small class sizes, we are truly committed to individualized care. Supported by considerable teacher involvement, the children have significant opportunities to grow and develop at their own rate of progress. Staff members are in regular contact with every parent, keeping them updated on their child’s progress and well being. Ongoing communication with parents ensures that children receive the best from both home and school. The students learn in a safe, nurturing environment. The programme is filled with the challenge and success of learning new skills, discovering the world around us and experiencing positive social interaction. Many activities combine academic and social skills development. The students will be prepared for the academic-based Rowntree Montessori Schools Grade 1 programme.

The Rowntree Montessori Schools Prep-ONE Programme is a unique distinctive ethos, to challenge, nurture and develop the skills of 5-year-olds, to reach their full potential. It takes place in an innovative environment where students make an effective transition to the more traditional learning environments found in our Grade 1 to 8 elementary programmes. In addition, the programme will provide the student with the needed skills and a head start for a successful completion of Grade 1. Our Prep-ONE class develops a well-rounded student who is prepared for the RMS Grade 1 programme, and enhances the skills needed to gain the most success.

This programme includes:

Improvement of social skills, cooperation through group work

Increase of self-esteem, and development of responsibility and independence

Development of reading and writing through phonics

Development of mathematics concepts including addition and subtraction, time telling, understanding of money and measurement

Development of sportsmanship, team work, physical fitness, as well as creativity through arts, crafts and music

A richness of many opportunities to learn beyond the classroom, that provides personal challenge, teamwork and the discovery of new skills.

Spots are filling quickly in our Prep-ONE classes for September 2021. To find out more about our award-wining curriculum, please complete an Enquiry Form for the Campus that you are interested in.

2021/03/11 by R.M.S.

Learning About Bullying

Two students put together and anti-bullying video for all students — Two Mayfield Campus students put together a great video on how to deal with bullying

Many children have a good idea of what bullying is because they see it every day. Bullying happens when someone hurts or scares another person on purpose. The person being bullied may have a difficult time defending themselves. It is important that everyone gets involved to help prevent and stop bullying from happening.

At RMS, our students learn about bullying and learn about the different tools that will provide them with ways to deal with bullying. Students are always encouraged to speak with their teachers when they feel bullying is occurring. All RMS students learn that bullying is wrong! It is a behaviour that makes the person being bullied feel afraid or uncomfortable. There are many ways that young people bully each other, even if they don’t realize it at the time. Some of these include:

Punching, shoving and other acts that hurt people physically
Spreading bad rumours about people
Keeping certain people out of a group
Teasing people in a mean way
Getting certain people to “gang up” on others

In this Bullying Re-Enactment video created by two of RMS’ Mayfield Campus Pre-Kindergarten and Senior Kindergarten students, the children demonstrate examples of bullying and provide advice to students on how to ask for help.

RMS not only provides a challenging, structured and award-winning academic programme, we also place a strong emphasis on character development and values education that help children develop core values such as kindness, empathy, supportiveness, honesty, responsibility etc. If you are looking for a nurturing environment, small-class sizes, and a challenging programme for your child, that meets and surpasses the Ontario Ministry of Education’s guidelines, please contact us today. Many of our programmes are already full for September 2021 so we encourage you to complete an enquiry form today.

2021/03/10 by R.M.S.

Dash and Dots robots in SK

A Prep-ONE student using a computer at our Central Park Campus — A Prep-ONE student using a computer during Computer and Robotics class

In our Prep-ONE (SK) class, students start using the Dash and Dot robots. The students learn how to control the robots, Dash and Dot, using various apps on the tablet and puzzlet. These robots help teach our students the basics of coding. By introducing coding through robotics, we work to inspire our students to explore the exciting world of engineering and technology. The interactive whiteboard in our classroom has turned our typical classroom into a fun learning environment. The implementation of these technologies definitely enhances the way our students are learning various concepts. Prep-ONE students also enjoy exploring various educational games and activities on the Chromebooks. Some of the coding games include lightbot and botlogic educational puzzle games that challenge students to tackle complex logic problems while teaching valuable coding concepts. Using simple commands (and eventually code), students program their bots to navigate through progressively challenging mazes.

If you are looking for a structured academic programme for your Prep-ONE (Senior Kindergarten) child, in a warm, nurturing and welcoming environment, that offers small class sizes, contact us today. We are experiencing an incredible demand for our September 2021 academic programmes and spots are filling fast! Call 905-790-3838 to learn how Brampton’s longest and largest serving private school can help your child reach their full potential. To complete an Enquiry Form, please click here.

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To learn more about Rowntree Montessori Schools (RMS), continue browsing our website and ideally drop by any of our welcoming, friendly and family oriented campuses for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm. If you prefer, call to book an appointment for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm.

More details about Rowntree Montessori Schools‘ approach to education can be seen by clicking here .

2021/03/05 by R.M.S.

Hands-On Materials in Math

Using Montessori materials to learn place value in Senior Kindergarten

In Montessori, our Prep-ONE (Senior Kindergarten) students use concrete hands-on materials that make an abstract concept more clear to them in math class. Students can be seen using the Montessori approach to learning fractions while using the Fraction Circle Box, which makes learning about fractions easy and fun for them. The language Montessori materials, such as the Green Series Boxes (with pictures and labels for word building) and the Small Moveable Alphabet (for creating sentences and short stories) help improve students’ reading comprehension and writing skills. Built-in ‘control of error’ in many of the Montessori materials allow children to determine if they have done the exercise correctly, and to learn from their mistakes.

Rowntree Montessori Schools is Brampton’s largest and longest serving private school. We have been voted Brampton’s Best Private School for the past nine consecutive years and Brampton’s Top Private School for the past seven consecutive years. To learn more, please click here.

We are now accepting applications for our Prep-ONE class for September 2021. Spots are limited and are filling very quickly, so we encourage you to complete an Enquiry Form today.

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To learn more about Rowntree Montessori Schools (RMS), continue browsing our website and ideally drop by any of our welcoming, friendly and family oriented campuses for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm. If you prefer, call to book an appointment for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm.

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2021/03/04 by R.M.S.

Math in Prep-ONE

In RMS’ Prep-ONE (SK) math class, the students work on various concepts that include number representation, addition, place value, fractions, money, estimation, composing and decomposing numbers. They participate in many hands-on activities that are part of these units. Using Montessori materials really help our students master these concepts. The Large Number Cards and the Golden Beads are used to help students with written symbols and number quantities for the different place values, such as units, tens, hundreds, and thousands. The Montessori approach to learning fractions while using the Fraction Circle Box makes learning about fractions easy and fun! A variety of games and activities are also implemented through the interactive whiteboard and Chromebooks to make learning fun and exciting for our students.

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To learn more about Rowntree Montessori Schools (RMS), continue browsing our website and ideally drop by any of our welcoming, friendly and family oriented campuses for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm. If you prefer, call to book an appointment for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm.

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2021/03/01 by R.M.S.

Language Studies in Prep-ONE

A Prep-ONE student reading during Language Studies

At RMS, every day, the Prep-ONE students have language studies. Throughout the week they learn reading and writing, oral communication and media literacy. Our Prep-ONE students can be seen reading short sentences in their Phonics books. Our teachers focus on the importance of learning to read whole words, as well as identifying individual letters. Each week, the students have the opportunity to sit in the “Author’s Chair” where they read aloud their practiced book to their classmates. The children beam with pride as they share their accomplishments with the rest of their class.

We are now accepting applications for our Prep-ONE class for September 2021. Spots are limited so we encourage you to complete an Enquiry Form today.

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2021/02/23 by R.M.S.

Honouring Black History Month at RMS

Every February, students in Canada are invited to participate in Black History Month festivities and events that honour the legacy of Black Canadians and their communities. Black History Month is an important tradition at Rowntree Montessori Schools (RMS).

Black History Month is a time to reflect, honour, and celebrate the achievements of African American and Black Canadian citizens. At RMS, Black History Month is dedicated to instilling in our students the importance of recognizing the accomplishments of famous African American and Black Canadian individuals.

Recently, our Mayfield Prep-One (SK) students learned about Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama, which is recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. civil rights movement.

The Prep-One students read Rosa’s Bus; a book about Rosa Park’s journey on Bus #2857. Bus #2857 was an ordinary public bus until a woman named Rosa Parks, who had just finished her work day as a seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. This event sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a key event in the Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

After reading about this important historical event, our Prep-One students had an opportunity to re-enact the Rosa Parks Bus Protest and had a chance to present their re-enactments to their classmates. Please watch this wonderful re-enactment by one of our Mayfield Prep-One students.

Remembering Rosa Parks

This lesson allows the children to contextually experience what it is like to stand up for what is right and give them a chance to talk about things that are right and wrong. During this lesson, students learned about civil rights speeches, marches, and protests. This was a great lesson that included history and literature, character and values education, as well as public speaking skills.

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2021/02/18 by R.M.S.

Join us for our Virtual Open House!

Virtual Evening Open House — Come to our Virtual Open House and learn how we can help your child reach their full potential.

Join us on Thursday, February 25th, 2021 for our Evening Virtual Open House!

Have you been concerned about the inconsistency in your child’s learning over the past year due to the pandemic? Have you been considering your child’s educational options for September 2021? Join us on Thursday, February 25th, 2021 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for our Evening Virtual Open House!

Discover the opportunity and possibilities for your child to love learning and excel. You can RSVP by clicking here.

Please kindly SHARE this post with others by clicking onto one or more of the icons below. We would appreciate it and thank you in advance.

To learn more about Rowntree Montessori Schools (RMS), continue browsing our website and ideally drop by any of our welcoming, friendly and family oriented campuses for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm. If you prefer, call to book an appointment for a personal tour anytime Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:00pm.

More details about Rowntree Montessori Schools‘ approach to education can be seen by clicking here .