Please join us for our upcoming Parent/Toddler Open Classroom on Tuesday 23rd August 2022 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm. On the day you can explore the classroom and speak to our staff who will be able to answer any questions you may have about our Parent/Toddler Program. You will need to... read more
We are excited to announce that we are transitioning to Storypark Manage to help become a more sustainable school. Storypark Manage will be connected to our families existing Storypark for Families app. Throughout term 2 each classroom will move onto the Storypark Manage system and families will now be able... read more
Hills Montessori featured in a recent article in the 29th April edition of the Hills Shire Times - "Best performing Hills Shire childcare centres and preschool". To read the article click here read more
Hills Montessori celebrated Harmony Day at school this week on 22nd & 25th March, students, staff and families were all invited to get involved. Harmony Day is a celebration of diversity, multiculturism, inclusion, belonging and respect for all members of our community. Children and staff were invited to wear clothing... read more
Please join us for our upcoming Open Day on Saturday 2nd April 2022 from 9am to 12pm. On the day you can explore the classrooms, speak to the educators and parents of current children. This year you will need to book into a session for Open Day and the link... read more
Hills Montessori celebrated Book Week at school this week from 21st - 25th June, students and staff dressed up as characters from their favourite books. We had where’s Wally, the rainbow snake, thing 1 and thing 2, little Miss Whoops, and giraffes can’t dance. Thanks to everyone for your participation.... read more
The kindergarten class had a visit from Officers from the Castle Hill Fire Station on 3rd June. The class learnt about fire safety, and enjoyed the opportunity to use the firehose and take a look inside a fire engine. read more
On Friday 5th March, Kindergarten held their annual High Tea for their parents. They were involved in the whole process from baking the scones and muffins to inviting their parent in and serving them. There is a great deal of social grace and courtesy lessons that they learn from inviting... read more
In March this year the school enjoyed participating in the Hatching Chicks program. This program provides a hands-on opportunity to learn about the life cycle of chickens from a fertilised egg to a hatchling. The program also provides information about the stages of growth that a chick goes through to... read more
Please join us for our upcoming Open Day on Saturday 13th March 2021 from 9am to 12pm. On the day you can explore the class rooms, speak to the educators and parents of current children. This year you will need to book into a session for Open Day and the... read more
Our Wildlife Garden has really taken shape over the past few months, and after some much needed rain over the summer it is looking amazing and ready for a new school year. With thanks to Bunnings Dural for their donation of plants to put in our wildlife garden and to... read more
Hills Montessori Pre-school invites you to join our Classroom Tours On Tuesday, 3rd November 2020 or Wednesday, 4th November 2020 between 4.30pm and 5.30pm For Further Details click Here read more
Over the past few months the staff and children have worked on both building and decorating our new cubby house. The children have really loved being involved in the process and they are now enjoying spending time in this new addition to our school’s playground. read more
Please join us for our upcoming Open Day on Saturday 14th March 2020 from 9am to 12pm. On the day you can explore the class rooms, speak to the educators and parents of current children. At Hills Montessori we create life-long learners by providing guidance and an environment that encourages... read more
On Thursday 20th February, Kindergarten held their annual High Tea for their parents. They were involved in the whole process from baking the scones and muffins to inviting their parent in and serving them. There is a great deal of social grace and courtesy lessons that they learn from inviting... read more
We hope all our families enjoyed their holiday breaks. Our theme for our first week in Home Environment this term was very popular with both the boys and the girls – dinosaurs. The children worked beautifully together creating a dinosaur diorama or ‘Dinosaur World’ as the children like to refer... read more
Hello Everyone! The time has come to happily announce the arrival of our little bundle. Baby Oliver arrived 2 weeks early on 2 July, weighing 3.69 kg and 52 cms long. It was a very quick delivery (2.5 hrs!) and we are both doing really well. My whole family would... read more
End of year activities As the school year draws to a close the children in Home Environment have been decorating the hall for Christmas. Each of the decorations on our Christmas Tree have been created by the Home Environment children. The tree looks fantastic with paper chains, baubles, beads, lanterns and... read more
Making Christmas Cards The children in both the Brolgas and Rosella classroom excitedly made Christmas cards to sell. The children were involved in tracing the shapes, cutting them out, and folding the cards. Don't forget to bring your money on the 27th November to buy lots of the Christmas wares. read more
Blog Training A great big thank you to Linda who generously gave up her time this afternoon to help train the staff in IT. Hopefully we will be able to post our own blogs and do updates when needed. read more
To farewell the children who are moving onto 'big school' next year the Rosellas had a special afternoon get together after school the children had a treasure hunt. The children and parents had a fun time trying to find all of the sweets scattered around the grounds. read more
Making Christmas cards The Rosellas enjoyed an afternoon putting the finishing touches to their hand-made Christmas cards. Each card is indiviually crafted by the children and have individual touches on all of them. Please support the extended day children by purchasing these cards next week. Don't forget that all money... read more
Home Environment Bakes and Creates We were very pleased to support the Extended Day's Christmas Stall. Home Environment was a hive of activity leading up to the stall. The children helped to bake and decorate Reindeer Cupcakes, they constructed and decorated the boxes for the Reindeer Cupcakes, they had a... read more
K Mart Wishing Tree Shopping On Wednesday 4th December the Extended Day children hopped on a bus and went shopping at K Mart to put presents under the wishing tree. We managed to purchase 18 gifts for boys and girls of different ages. We then wrote on the card and... read more
Extended Day Christmas Stall Last week the Extended Day children sold the wonderful handmade Christmas goods that all of the Hills children had participated in making. The Extended Days all had a turn of 'selling' and in the end made $250!! Thank you to all of the families that supported in... read more
Making Sorbet At the beginning of the year Zach Ngyuen's family kindly donated a new ice creamer maker to the school. Last Friday the Rosella class made orange sorbet for an afternoon treat. The children enjoyed the whole process of juicing, measuring and mixing all of the ingredients together. read more
Wrapping Paper and Cards The Kookaburra and Extended Day classes have been hard at work making the wrapping paper and cards to sell at next weeks Christmas Stall. The whole experience provides an opportunity for children to see the process of production, selling and then using the profits to buy... read more
Melbourne Cup in Home Environment It was a busy afternoon in Home Environment on Melbourne Cup Day. We began the festivities by baking horseshoe cookies. The children measured and mixed the ingredients then formed the dough into horseshoe shaped cookies and decorated them with sultanas. While the... read more
Home Environment Science Experiments In weeks 2 and 3 of Term 4, the children in Home Environment observed and participated in a range of science experiments. The experiments included tea bag rockets, blowing up balloons with carbon dioxide and creating 'Elephant Toothpaste.' The tea bag rocket demonstrated that hot air... read more
Programming of activities in Home Environment is based on the children’s interests. As last week’s dinosaurs were so popular, we continued the dinosaur theme for another week. Creating dinosaurs from play dough continued to extend the children’s imagination and the dinosaur jigsaw puzzles and books were as popular as ever.... read more
When Dr. Maria Montessori designed the children’s environment she wanted to offer the children the “keys to the world”… offering them a key to the greater world outside the walls of our classrooms as well as the ‘keys’ to the cultural world enabling the children to sensorially explore essential and... read more
Term 4 Welcome back everyone and especially to our new children and families starting this term. The new children- Elodyn, Alisha and Katrina have settled beautifully into the program and quickly learning the routines of the program. Simple Science: Several months ago the children had a challenge... read more
Last week, some of the Home Environment children told Narelle and I that painting is their favourite activity. So this week, we brought out the paints, paper, smocks, brushes and other painting mediums and watched as the children stretched their imaginations and creativity to produce some amazing artworks. We began... read more
Group time: Our favourite song in the Kookaburra class at the moment is called “Chubby Little Snowman” here are the words so you can sing along with your children. “Chubby Little Snowman” Chubby little snowman, had a carrot nose Along came a bunny and what do you suppose That hungry... read more
World Teacher's Day A huge thank you to all of the parents who provided a wonderfully delicious lunch for all of the teachers last Friday. It was fabulous to try some new exotic dishes such as lamb and lentil rissoles, korean rolls as well as some favourites (sushi, samosas, cheese platters)....not to... read more
News from Kookaburra Class Wow we are already half way through term 4 and this term we have welcomed Sarah Joung and her family back to Hills. Sarah has settled in very well to the program and has had some big extended day people willing to help her out. ... read more
Extended Day Christmas Stall Starting on Wednesday 27th November and until sold out the Extended Day children will be selling Christmas products that have been made by all of the children of Hills Montessori. There will be hand made paper and tags, cards and edible gifts for sale. The Extended... read more
The Rosella class joined Home Environment recently for a visit from Trevor the policeman. Trevor engaged the children, talking in simple terms about keeping safe. This including talking about stranger danger, the importance of wearing a helmet when riding a bike or scooter and choosing safe places to ride. Trevor... read more
The Tasting Jars: The tasting jars is part of the sensorial work of the classroom and focusing on the gustatory sense which is also known as the sense of taste. The children have 3 jars filled with sweet, sour and salty liquid that they need to match to a control. Through... read more
Kookaburra News As we begin week 4 and I look around at the children working in the classroom it is so nice to see how independent they are. When they offer help to others or say the words "I can do it myself", I can't help but smile. This needs... read more
The hall was a hive of activity during Week 5 as the children became engineers, architects, town planners and builders as they designed and created amazing objects using a huge variety of Lego. We choose to host Lego Week as several children had mentioned they love to create and play with Lego. While... read more
What's Happening This Term in Extended Day? Well I am so glad you asked. We have such a fun filled busy term ahead of us. I hope you have all noticed our new scarecrow in the garden that was built by our extended days. He is still yet to be... read more
Welcome Back to Term Two in the Kookaburra Class Well we have been truly blessed with the amazing weather we have been having over the past weeks, and the children really enjoy doing outside work. I'm sure it will hit all to soon and we will be wrapped up in... read more
Photos from Home Environment Term 1 2014 read more
Extended Day News It has been a while since my last blog about what has been happening in Extended Day, so get ready because so much has happened. On Wednesday 26th February we held our Extended Day High Tea for our mums. We made orange muffins and got to serve... read more
This week the Brolga children were involved in making a deliciously refreshing drink using the mint that we have been growing in the garden. A group of children harvested the mint, washed it and then chopped it up before placing into ice trays to make "mint ice blocks." Another group of... read more
All week the children have been buzzing about the annual school disco. During group time we have dusted off our dance shoes and practised our dance moves in preparation for the disco. As part of the preparations many of the children helped clean the playground and the 'disco'... read more