Nurture and Nature Programs
Nurture and Nature Montessori offers an innovative, proven program guided by dedicated and empathetic teachers. We cultivate a vibrant and nurturing school community where children flourish, develop a love for learning, and discover joy in every step of their educational journey.
Nurture and Nature Montessori offers a comprehensive curriculum for children from toddlers to preschool, expertly designed to harmonise academic learning with social development. This balanced approach ensures that children not only acquire essential knowledge but also cultivate important interpersonal skills in a supportive environment.
Progress through our curriculum is managed with an online application called ChildCloud, which provides parents with full transparency into their child’s daily activities and developmental milestones. This platform allows for seamless communication, including weekly updates and photos, ensuring parents stay informed and engaged in their child’s progress.
Our classrooms are thoughtfully designed environments that encourage children’s independence, celebrate their individuality, and nurture their innate love of learning. At Nurture and Nature, we believe the educational journey is just as important as the educational content itself.
Nurture and Nature learners...
- Value diversity
- Have open minds
- Think critically and independently
- Retain their natural love of learning
- Resolve conflicts actively and collaboratively
- Are active stewards of global resources
- Protect the commons for future generations
Toddler program: 18 months - 3 years old
The Toddler program, for children 18 months to 3, takes advantage of the toddler’s natural drive to act independently. Nurture and Nature Montessori advances each child’s growth and development through a rich and well-prepared environment designed specifically for toddlers. The classrooms are a special place for the young child to begin his/her steps towards independence and self-reliance.
Our curriculum spans across the following areas:
- Art, music and movement
- Geography
- History
- Language arts
- Maths
- Practical life
- Sensorial
Our dedicated, nurturing, and highly trained teachers deliver a curriculum tailored for toddlers to foster cognitive, speech, and language development, strengthen both fine and gross motor skills, introduce grace and courtesy, and encourage independence. An essential part of this journey toward independence includes self-care, as children learn to wash their hands, put on shoes, and zip jackets.
Our toddler exercises and activities embrace learning by doing. Classroom materials are always accessible, engaging, safe, and thoughtfully designed to set each child up for success. Activities are refreshed regularly to provide variety and challenge, aligning with the children’s growing curiosity and developmental needs. In a safe, loving, and gentle atmosphere, children feel at ease, allowing for a smooth and trusting transition into school life.
Toddlers attend school five days a week, with options for mornings-only or a full-day schedule. Upon completing the Toddler program, children move seamlessly into our Preschool programme, ready for the next stage of their educational journey.
Preschool program: 3 - 6 years old
Preschool children learn by doing. The concrete materials in the classroom allow the children explore the world through their senses, through touch and motion, and by observing and engaging with others. One main feature of Montessori education is its hands-on approach to learning. Students work with specially designed materials, manipulating and investigating until they master the lesson inside. Teachers guide students through the curriculum as children are ready for each new challenge, introducing lessons and then letting children practice what they have learned. As children grow, the classroom materials grow with them in the sense that older children use the materials to explore curriculum in new and deeper ways. 
Our curriculum spans across the following areas:
- Art, music and movement
- Geography
- History
- Language arts
- Maths
- Practical life
- Sensorial
- Science
Preschool children experience an intense period of change, including the transition to cooperative play and more complex social interactions, a language explosion leading to beginning skills in writing and reading, the emergence of number sense and the foundations of math, and great changes in physical development. The Montessori teacher responds to these with appropriate one-on-one lessons to support each child’s unique growth and emerging capabilities. We make use of the following elements of curriculum from a traditional school perspective:
- Bi-monthly themes allow children ample time to study the subject; utilising related arts, crafts, math and language activity which will enhance the understanding of the matter to young children. Examples of the themes are My Five Senses, Authors and Illustrators and Spring Insects.
- School readiness curriculum is introduced during the preschool phase. The curriculum covers foundations in maths, language and life skills in order to ensure the children are well prepared to integrate into a traditional school environment.
Extra-murals
Nurture and Nature Montessori Preschool has an extensive extra-mural program which is made available to children. We offer the following extra-murals:
Swimming
Nurture and Nature Montessori has partnered with Slipstream Swimming school
in an effort to bring convenience and access to necessary swimming lessons
to our parents. We offer weekly, on-site swimming lessons. Slipstream Swim
School has been operating for 20 years. The swimming pools are heated.
Little Kickers
The primary goal of Little Kickers is to use football as an enjoyable platform to instill confidence, coordination, control, and a strong sense of camaraderie in our young players—qualities we believe will serve them well in the future.
Ballet
Ballet lessons offer three key cognitive benefits for young students. First, they enhance vocabulary by introducing French terms for steps and familiarising students with musical terminology. Secondly, they nurture musicality and rhythm as children learn to synchronise their movements with music. Lastly, memorising new steps and routines strengthens memory skills in young ballet dancers.
Kindermusik
Kindermusik is a gently structured, flexible curriculum that allows children from birth to 7 years to learn and develop at their own pace. Research shows music nurtures a child’s cognitive, emotional, social, lingual and physical development.
Karate
Benefits of karate include: Self-Defence, Focusing and Listening, Teamwork and Positive Social Interaction and Self-Control and Good Decision Making.
Each branch has it’s unique blend of extra options for your child.
Afternoon enrichment program
Nurture and Nature Montessori offers an afternoon enrichment programme from 13:30 to 17:30, Monday through Friday. Designed to provide balanced and engaging stimulation, this programme focuses on activities that support both fine and gross motor development. Younger children have the option to rest after lunch, while older children engage in teacher-led activities tailored to their developmental needs. 
Aftercare activities include:
- Ball activities
- Sandpit time
- Bike time
- Gymnastic activities
- Planned art activities
- Play dough
- and more….
The children eat a healthy snack provided for by Nurture and Nature Montessori at 15:00. The afternoon enrichment program is only available to children enrolled at Nurture and Nature Montessori school.
Holiday program
Nurture and Nature Montessori follows the ISASA calendar, with three terms for our Gauteng schools and four terms for our Ballito school. We offer a comprehensive holiday programme during all school holidays, closing only from 16th December until the start of the new school year in January.
Our holiday programme provides a play-based curriculum centred around daily themes. Activities include art, baking, and visits from special guests. Highlights of our programme include animal shows, water days, puppet shows, and much more!
The holiday programme is available to all Nurture and Nature Montessori students.
