We encourage individuality, creativity, respect and above all a love of learning and discovery and believe in developing partnerships with parents and community to aid a child’s full development.

Carnegie House Independent School incorporates the core elements of the Montessori philosophy: these include encouraging every child’s strong sense of individuality and responsibility, and the promotion of their natural strengths. This in turn leads to the development of confidence and self-esteem, two important characteristics which lead to the child’s “can do” attitude. ​

OUR SCHOOL PRINCIPLES:

• The creation of a safe, secure and empowering environment where the children can learn at the deepest possible level to believe in themselves.
• A holistic, integrated approach to education which harnesses the power of the young child’s imagination to discover how the natural world works.
• A strong focus on the development of life skills, including academic, social, emotional, physical and spiritual.  The integration of the creative and dramatic arts, leadership skills and sports into the curriculum.
• The understanding that all children have the potential to bring peace to the world.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• ​An integration of the arts, sciences, geography, history and language that evokes the child’s imagination.
• An environment that leads the way from the concrete to the abstract.
• Emphasis on open-ended research and in-depth study using materials and sources other than text books.
• A maths curriculum presented with concrete materials that simultaneously reveals arithmetic and geometric concepts ​from six years old.
• The use of resources beyond the four walls of the classroom.