An educationalist, also the proprietor of Bloom Berry School, Gbokoniyi, Onikolobo, Abeokuta Ogun State, Mrs Ogunmuyiwa Olusola has emphasised the need for young ones to under go Montessori education
She noted that Montessori education will help children to learn in different ways, and accommodates all learning styles.
Olusola disclosed this on Wednesday while celebrating one year anniversary of the School.
The proprietress submitted that she started the school with two children, saying that she now have more children in the school.
She maintained that montessori students become confident, enthusiastic, self-directed learners, adding that they will be able to think critically, work collaboratively, and act boldly
She said, “we have desire for quality and qualitative education, because they are lot of schools that are doing great so we can not bring any schools down but We feel they are lot of vacuums to be filled that is why er established this School,
“When you talk of quality education, it is not even the price stag, it is not about the school fees it has to be with the content, but it is what the school has to offer, are you touching and training the total child, like Bloom berry we try as much as possible to train our students, in the sense that we touch them all round, socially, academically, spiritually and moral rise.
”A child that will not wait untill mummy help him to wear her socks before he can wear it, a child that will be able to carry her beg, attends assignment individually it is all making the child involve in the process, it is so practical , it is fun for these children, there is no way you will take a child to Montessori we engage them in some practicals, we will make it interesting to them.
“Montessori education has large effect on young ones, in the sense that it is about raising independent child, a child that can do things for him or her self, most of the time it equips them with functional skills, Montessori is so wide, large and so effective
“Here in bloom berry we bring up a total child, we try as much as possible to develop well rounded learners by empowering them with functional skills that set them up for success now and beyond. They have etiquette class, where they learn table etiquette, party etiquette, we have a lot of Co-curriculum activities, in that Co-curriculum activities, they just don’t come and look, they participate, sometimes we even pick them up for impromptu speech, to build their vocal speech that with a lot more part of things we do,
“We appreciate God has really stood by us, today marks a year that we started this creche, to the glory of God today that we are a year old we have children in the creche, we have in kindergarten classes, nursery ,we have basic one, basic 2, 3 and 4. It is obvious that God has been good to us, so we appreciate him but for the challenges when we start something new it is the matter of baby projects in the sense that you put all, we have to sacrifice for the school to grow, we paying salaries of our staff.
