by Liz Marjot | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
Playgroup Announcement – June 2020 Unfortunately, due to a number of operational constraints, we do not foresee being able to reopen our Playgroup for the remainder of 2020. We apologise for this, as we know how much our Playgroup families have enjoyed being a...
by Liz Marjot | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
Come and turn back the pages of history with us at Treetops Montessori School over the Darlington Arts Festival weekend. Take a glimpse of the school site over the ages, from the pre-history of the current school, through three more decades, to a look to the future....
by Jayne Simpson | Aug 27, 2019 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
Treetops’ 30th Anniversary In 1989, a group of highly motivated parents sought to create a new school in Darlington. They were dedicated to what were then seen as the ‘alternative education’ concepts of meeting the needs of the child as an individual, play based...
by Liz Marjot | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
Schools have always been about so much more than education. Almost all of us have strong memories of our school years, both good and bad. It is an interesting exercise to list what memories we have retained, and why those and not others. The expression ‘it takes a...
by Liz Marjot | May 31, 2019 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
Children’s House joined Wattle in an exciting excursion to Kings Park “Naturescape”. This outing aimed to provide inquiry-based learning programs for our students, actively engaging them in the process of investigating, processing, organising and extending their...
by Stuart Harris | May 14, 2019 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
Our teaching staff have spent some time over the last few months considering what a Treetops’ graduate looks like and why Treetops is both a Montessori and an International Baccalaureate school. Montessori is an approach supporting the full development of the human...
