by Stuart Harris | Jul 30, 2021 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
Choosing a high school can be very stressful for parents as they attempt to find the best fit for their child amongst a daunting array of options. For many children, the move from primary to secondary education can be one of their most challenging periods at school....
by Stuart Harris | Jul 21, 2021 | Community & News, Featured
When Victoria passed the Education Act 1872, it ushered in the first free and secular education to Australian parents. This Act also introduced the idea of parental choice in education. Today the concept of choice is well embedded in Western Australia with some 159...
by Kerry Raak | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog, Community & News, Featured
For many years the WACE ATAR programme has been seen as the only means of entry to university. However, the IB Diploma Programme is consistently gaining in popularity in Australian schools as a credible and preferred option. Treetops has been offering the...
by Jayne Simpson | Sep 21, 2020 | Community & News, Featured
Maria Montessori lived and worked during the time that the dropping of the first nuclear bomb forced the inhabitants of our world to collectively face, at the same time, their own mortality in becoming aware that we now have the technology that can be used to destroy...
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...
