THE MONTESSORI
SCHOOL IN VALENCIA
Children should be provided the opportunity to move towards individual Cosmic Task, Living with PURPOSE through hands-on and relevant learning experiences.
Everyone talks about peace but no one educates for peace. In this world, they educate for competition, and competition is the beginning of any war. When educating to cooperate and owe each other solidarity, that day we will be educating for peace.
MARIA MONTESSORI
Our Identity
The Second Body Community
Your first body is yourself. Your Second Body is another person who you look after as an extension of yourself.
The school community is guided by the concept of the ‘second body system’, as described by Thich Nhat Hahn in his book, Happiness.
He explains, “your own body is your First Body, and someone else in the community is your Second Body. Your Second Body picks someone else to be her Second Body and so on until you make a circle. In this way, everyone has someone to look after, and everyone is looked after by someone else.”
WHY THIS?
WHY NOW?
WHY US?
- We care about how our children spend their time maturing emotionally/socially and how they will develop their minds over these important years.
- To give him a vision of the universe, so that he can find himself within it.
- To prepare him with every opportunity and tool that will build his own wonder, curiosity, self-discipline for both himself and the world around him.
- To facilitate compassionate awareness of his own mind and heart and the mind and heart of the natural world and society.
- To give him the opportunity to self-construct.
- To provide him the experience that the world is full of possibility, that our will and intellect are powerful tools and that he and his collaborators will be change makers.
- To move the Montessori movement forward, particularly in Spain.
Montessori is Intentional
Our Montessori Education
We desire to create intentionally beautiful, supportive and enriching spaces for children to develop holistically.
LOWER ELEMENTARY
AGES 6-9
UPPER ELEMENTARY
AGES 9-12
SECONDARY EDUCATION
AGES 12+
What is COSMIC Education?
Children should be provided the opportunity to move towards individual Cosmic Task, Living with Purpose through hands-on and relevant learning experiences
Appreciation of Interconnectedness
Applied Learning & Lifelong Learning
Peace Education
I’M TESS
SECOND BODY MONTESSORI FOUNDER
Second Body Montessori has been a passion project for as long as I can remember and I’m more than thrilled to be creating a space devoted to lifelong learning.
