Aberdeen Hills Montessori
Aberdeen Hills Montessori is located in Aberdeen Elementary School, nestled in the Southern Hills of Kamloops. Our classroom is a warm, caring, and inviting environment where the joy of learning comes naturally. The classroom is a prepared environment that fosters your child's potential, inspires their curiosity and nurtures respect for self and others.
At Aberdeen Hills Montessori, children learn at their own pace, in accordance with their own needs, interests and abilities. The children are given unlimited opportunities to investigate their world through direct, hands on experiences and the process of discovery. To further enhance their exploration within the classroom and community, our program offers cultural studies, guest speakers and field trips. Our classroom is equipped with self-correcting and progressively challenging materials that encourages and supports, independence, problem solving and confidence. We have an enriched and exciting outdoor environment that provides the children with opportunities to enhance their social and physical development.
The Aberdeen Hills Montessori offers two Preschool Programs; a Morning Class that runs from 8:30am- 11:00am and an Afternoon Class that runs from 12.00noon-2:30pm. We also offer Early Arrival, Lunch and After School Programs tailored to meet the needs of our working families.
Our Early Arrival Program provides a safe, supervised environment from 8:00am-8:30am, for children whose families require childcare before regular school hours. The supervised Lunch Program runs from 11:00am-12:00noon, and offers opportunities for children to engage in variety of quiet, indoor activities.
We offer an After School Program for children 5-12 years of age that runs from 2:30pm-5:00pm. The children will have opportunities to chose from a variety of art activities, outside play, and indoor games with the use of the school gymnasium.
Please feel free to call us for a tour of our classroom. We look forward to meeting you and your family.
The Teachers
Every teacher at the Aberdeen Hills Montessori Preschool is qualified and shares the Montessori Educational Philosophy. Each teacher is a skilled professional chosen for the special gifts they bring to this important work. An intuitive love and understanding of children is on the highest list of prerequisites.
Since the opening of our programs at our main campus at our Greystone location, we have expanded our programs to the Aberdeen Hills Montessori Preschool/ Kindergarten, and the Sahali Montessori Preschool and Kindergarten.
Rhonda Ward
Rhonda Ward is pleased to begin her fifth year of teaching at the Aberdeen Hills Montessori Preschool and Kindergarten.
Rhonda graduated from the Early Childhood Education Program at UCC in 1999 with honours. She has worked in the field of Early Childhood Education as a preschool teacher and as the Children's Program Coordinator for Parents Anonymous for the Kamloops Family Resource Society. In March 2008, Rhonda completed her Montessori Foundations course at the Western Montessori Teacher College in Port Coquitlam, BC.
Shalyn Goddard
Shalyn Goddard is the mother of three boys, Treysen, who is 8, and attends grade 3 in a Montessori classroom, Kaiden, who is 4, and attends Aberdeen Hills Montessori, and her newest son Gage, born summer 2010.
In 1999, she moved to Kamloops from Quesnel to attend TRU where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 2003, as well as a Bachelor of Elementary Education Degree in 2006. In March 2008, Shalyn completed her Montessori Foundations course at the Western Montessori Teacher College in Port Coquitlam, BC.
Shalyn has been teaching at Aberdeen Hills Montessori since September 2008. She loves working with the children and being a part of their development.
Contact
Phone number: (250) 372-9940
Registration Forms
Download Registration Form [PDF]
Download After School Registration Form [PDF]