Welcome

I am pleased to introduce you to the wonderful learning community that is Oak Meadow Montessori School. Our school is based on the work of educational pioneer Maria Montessori and is founded on the belief that intelligence is not rare, and that curiosity, creativity, and imagination are born in all of us to be nurtured and inspired.

We find this to be our strength in preparing students for a challenging world of complex issues and chaotic conditions. Our classrooms are inquisitive, cooperative, nurturing environments, designed to facilitate learning through all of the senses.

Our faculty is made up of talented and highly trained

educators who creatively design inspiring learning experiences for each and every child. Our students discover how to learn and how to understand their own approach to learning. Our parents are engaged and participate in the educational process at a high level.

Our Montessori curriculum continually builds, spiraling upwards, so that the child’s discoveries in Children’s House lead inexorably to the adolescent’s intellectual engagement in Middle School. The sequential logic of learning gradually builds, year after year, to prepare the Oak Meadow student for a life of learning and the ability to judge the value of information.

   Because our students develop the ability to

   construct knowledge, they “own” what they

   learn. They are self-motivated because they

   are proud of their accomplishments and want

   to repeat their successes. They are

   encouraged to seek out the awe and wonder

   of the world around them. Our graduates are

   academically well prepared for the finest secondary schools because we are, from the youngest grades, a college-preparatory school and a life-preparatory school.

In the thirty-five years since its founding, Oak Meadow Montessori School has grown from one classroom of thirteen students in a rented room in the basement of a church to a vibrant community of 260 students in a spacious, sun-lit building owned by the school and surrounded by six acres of playing fields and playgrounds. We are accredited by the Association of Independent Schools in New England as well as the American Montessori Society. In September 2009, we celebrated the opening of our newly constructed athletics and performing arts building and the completion of a new art studio and learning center.

I invite you to take the time to get to know Oak Meadow and to understand the remarkable educational journey that we offer to children from the age of three through eighth grade. We encourage you to contact us to learn more about our wonderful community.

Sincerely,

Paul Wenninger

Head of School

- Oak Meadow Montessori School - 2 Old Pickard Lane, Littleton, MA 01460 - 978-486-9874 - F: 978-486-3269