Our Infant Community takes children from approximately 18 months to three years of age.
We believe early childhood should be a time of fun, warmth, security, exploring and discovery. Toddlers are curious, creative and receptive; our staff strive to nurture and encourage these qualities. Our aim is to provide a child-centred, loving and enriching environment where the child may:

• Develop a life –long love of learning
• Gain independence and self discipline
• Learn appropriate skills to move into the next phase of learning with confidence and enthusiasm
• Learn respect for himself or herself, for other people, objects and for the planet.

The first years of life are marked by amazing growth in independence. We prepare the environment to assist the very young child to create a physical and emotionally sound foundation for him/herself. Many of the activities that the child delights in and loves to do are called "Practical Life" in the Montessori environment.

The child learns self-control and develops a healthy self image by participating in real activities, such as washing and cutting fruit, sorting grains, folding cloths, sweeping and dusting. In our environment the child will discover that there is a place for everything and everything is in its place, which answers to the need of every young child - the need for order, of both time and place.

This is also a time that visual discrimination and hand/eye control needs to be stimulated. The children will find materials they love to work with ranging from simple shapes and colours, things to put into containers, knobbed puzzles and other materials that call for special finger and handgrips, which indirectly prepare them for writing and other fine muscle activities later on.

Quality and beauty is very important in the Montessori environment because children in the early years literally absorb the life around them in its detail.