Our Program & Schedule
Program Overviews
Grandview Montessori School is committed to providing a safe, caring, enriched and beautiful environment where children can develop to their fullest potential physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially.
Our education program contains five major components:
- Montessori Education
- Music & Dance
- Arts & Crafts
- Love of Nature
- Mandarin Class
Our Schedule
General Schedule
We are open 5 days a week from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, 10 months a year (there is no school in July and August) except for school closures.
The school is closed on the following days:
- All statutory holidays in British Columbia.
- First week of spring break (following Surrey Schools calendar)
- Pro-D day (one day per year)
- Christmas break (Dec 25th to Jan 1st)
Daily Activities
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Arrival/free play
9:00 AM -10:30 AM Montessori work
10:30 AM-11:00 AM Circle time
11:00 AM -11:45 AM Outdoor playtime
11:45 AM -12:45 PM Lunchtime
12:45 PM-1:00 PM Reading time
1:00 PM -2:30 PM Nap time/quiet time
2:30 PM -3:00 PM Circle time
3:00 PM -3:30 PM Craft/music/dance/yoga
3:45 PM -4:30 PM Outdoor play
4:30 PM -5:00 PM Get ready to go home
Montessori Education
Montessori education respects each child’s own developmental needs and interests. We treat each child as a unique individual and follow each child’s developmental pace. Our Montessori curriculum includes five major components: practical life, sensorial, language, mathematics and extension to culture and science.
Music & Movement
Children love music, songs, chants and dance movements, all of which help develop the children’s self-expression, coordination and imagination. Lively, entertaining and inspiring music will provide children with a delightful experience in their childhood. Carefully selected lyrics are helpful to develop their vocabulary skills. In dance & music time, children would be immersed in rhymes, lovely dance movements, joy and laughter.
Arts & Hand Crafts
In our program, we encourage many hands-on activities to develop children’s concentration, hand-mind coordination skills, confidence and sense of beauty. These activities include hand crafts, games and building, etc. we also incorporate BC leap’s enriched activities to our program.
Love of Nature
Children are innate scientists and love to experience the sights, scents, sounds, and textures of the outdoors. Interacting with natural environments allows children to learn by doing and experiment with ideas. Our program provides kids with opportunities to learn in nature through discovery, creativity, problem-solving, and STEM education.
Mandarin Classes
Description to come