Welcome to Learning Tree Montessori School
Why Montessori
Why would you opt for a Montessori school for your little one, when there are so many schools around you to choose from?
Montessori Education
It is commonly misunderstood that ‘Montessori’ is just another name for nursery or kindergarten. In reality, the Montessori system
Events
Happy to announce that we will be starting Montessori Primary for the age group of 2 to 6 years in Kottivakkam from the next academic year !
As our primary children were ready for Elementary education, with strong encouragement from our team and our parent community, we stepped into the elementary journey for Bodhana in June 2016. I completed my Montessori Elementary course at Indian Montessori Academy, Chennai. My team is my strength, and our organic growth helped us develop our own culture staying close to nature.
With a deep interest in extending Montessori beyond elementary years, I got oriented into the Montessori program for adolescents through a course offered by AMI @ IMTI, Iowa, USA.
To support the vertical growth of Bodhana Montessori, we acquired Learning Tree Montessori School in Jan 2022. In June 2024, with the support of our able team, Bodhana and Learning Tree are coming together at a larger premises at OMR, starting a new journey into the adolescent pathway.
“Development is a series of rebirth:” One of the powerful findings by Dr Maria Montessori. A child is like a plant that undergoes many stages of life. In which, every stage is a discovery of human life. She calls it “a drama of love between the child and its environment”. We, Team Bodhana and Team Learning Tree are so happy and content in doing our part in creating that healthy environment for the child and witnessing his rebirth at every stage. We thank every parent present here for having given us this opportunity to be in the service of your child. It gives me immense pleasure to invite you to meet our team and to learn more about our work through which we strive to nurture the love for learning in every child.
In the past ten years, she has been a consultant and teacher-mentor with Montessori schools in Chennai and Bangalore. She has been part of the faculty for the training of teachers for the Chennai Schools, Corporation of Chennai by the Sri Ramcharan Trust, Chennai. She has spoken at conferences conducted by the Indian Montessori Centre. She co-authored an article for the commemoration of the centenary of the opening of the first Casa dei bambini which was published in The Hindu (January 6th,2007). She has been associated with us since 2012 and has been mentoring the team in following all the tenets of Montessori.
Her proficiency lies in creating customized & robust academic and administrative frameworks within schools, particularly those affiliated with international boards like Cambridge and Edexcel. She collaborates closely with school managements and educators to streamline academic processes, enhance professional development opportunities, refine assessment methodologies, and ensure institutional quality standards. Viola's scope extends beyond international boards to encompass national curricula such as CBSE, CISCE, and various state boards, where she provides invaluable guidance on curriculum implementation and assessment protocols.
In addition to her role as an Exams Inspector with Pearson Edexcel and Standards Verifier for Pearson's BTEC qualifications, Viola serves as a trusted management consultant in the burgeoning edtech sector. She offers strategic advice to businesses on product development, service offerings, and fostering strong client partnerships.
At the helm of Scholarius EdSer, Viola extends her expertise to voluntary organizations, offering support in project funding, content management, systematization, and auditing processes. She actively engages with educators worldwide, collaborating on initiatives related to student engagement and Education Data Mining. Outside of her professional endeavours, Viola is an avid reader with a keen interest in geopolitics and public policy, dedicating her leisure time to expanding her knowledge in these areas.
Viola has been our Cambridge consultant mentoring Team Bodhana and Learning Tree.
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Pre-School Rankings
Learning Tree has been ranked 4th in Chennai for the 3rd year in succession in the preschool rankings for 2019 released by Education World in December 2019. The Times of India in a separate survey published in Jan 2019 has ranked Learning Tree 2nd among preschools in South Chennai.
Latest Events
Annual Concert Mar 2021
The children took up the challenge of performing an online concert for the parents on 27th March 2021, in which every child participated. The 2-hour extravaganza had events like group dances and even three plays. The event was viewed by parents, grandparents, relatives and some old students, and all were enthralled by the great show put up by the children.
Night Party Jan 2021
The school had an online dinner party for the children in January 2021 in lieu of the Overnight Camp held during normal years. The children had great fun meeting at night, chatting with each other and having a common pizza party.
Sports Day Dec 2020
Sports Day was conducted as an online fun day on 11th & 12th December 2020. There were endurance competitions and fun activities that kept the children excited throughout and rooting for their Houses.
Talent Day 11-12 Nov 2020
Talent Day was held online on Children's Day, on 11 and 12 November 2020. Each child displayed his or her special talent in a chosen area of music, dance, skating, martial arts, yoga, story-telling, drawing, etc. It was a fascinating day for all, and an inspiring day for the children. On the second day the children had a special treat - a play enacted by the teachers!
Project Work 11-20 Sep 2020
Project Work was done during 11-20 September 2020, wherein the children learnt and practiced life skills, physical skills and science experiments at home, and then demonstrated the same online. Cooking delicious food, ironing clothes, stitching, new yoga postures, study of plants, new skating maneuvers, and air pressure experiments were some of the favourites of the children.
Grandparents Day Jul 2020
Grandparents Day was was held online between the children and their grandparents, class-wise, from 27th July to 29th July 2020. As it was held online, almost the entire community of grandparents could attend. The children performed dances and skits for the grandparents, while the grandparents related stories and sang songs in return. In the individual skill games section the children were more than a match for their grandparents!
Annual Concert Mar 2020
The Annual Concert was held at Vivekananda Auditorium in March 2020. The children regaled the 1000 strong audience for 3 hours with songs, plays and dances.
Olympiads and Competions Jan 2020
The Olympiad results for this academic year were outstanding this year too. The school had 6 international top 30 rankers in the Math Olympiad, 3 in the English Olympiad and 1 in the Science Olympiad. Medals, prizes and certificates were awarded to these and other high-performing students.
Overnight Camp Jan 2020
The Overnight Camp was held on 31st January 2020 in the Neelankarai campus. It began after school hours with a visit to the entertainment park VGP Universal Kingdom. The exciting rides there thrilled the children. This was followed by games in school, music, dance, dinner and finally a lot of chatting till bedtime. It was a tiring but memorable day for the children.
The younger children had an outing to Guindy Park.