Our China World Trade Center Campus first opened in 1992. We are a family sized school located on the first floor of The China World Trade Center North Lodge Apartments. Altogether, there are 4 working classrooms. We also have a child-sized kitchen for cooking classes, a grass meadow for playing ball, having picnics, paddling pool time and running, two large out-door playgrounds, an indoor playground and access to a ballet/PE room. The overall environment of our school is very bright and airy.
Situated in the Lufthansa Center Tower surrounded by the tranquil setting of the Kempinski Gardens our Kempinski Campus opened in early 2003. Our small but warm school consists of four classes each offering a program to the different age groups from one to six years. Our two playgrounds offer excellent space for outdoor fun and access to the Kempinski Tennis Courts for after-school activities ensure plenty of opportunity for children to exercise their gross motor movement.
Located in the tranquil gardens of Yosemite Villas, The Children’s House Yosemite Campus opened in May 2007. With a capacity for 150 children this bright and airy, two storey school has six spacious classrooms as well as a large library area and children’s kitchen. Huge indoor and outdoor play areas offer excellent space for exercising large motor skills. A beautiful school for the early years.
The Children’s House International Montessori Kindergarten was the first Montessori Kindergarten to be founded in Beijing. In 1992, we opened our doors to the children of the world at the China World Trade Center. Today, The Children’s House caters for more than one hundred and fifty children up to the age of six, who hail from every corner of our globe.
In January 2003, due to overflowing numbers, we opened our second downtown campus in the Beijing Lufthansa Center. This year we have a plan for three more locations for our ever-expanding family.
All of our campuses provide the perfect environment and dedicated staff with the aim to achieve love, growth and peace amongst our future generations.
Our philosophy is based upon the principles devised by Dr. Maria Montessori. Here at The Children’s House we are dedicated to allowing each of our children to develop his or her self. We encourage self-motivation and independent learning so that each child will solve problems, define what is important to them, assume responsibilities and continue to learn and grow.
We strive to develop a positive and realistic attitude of respect towards ourselves, others and learning. In order for us to develop these physical, spiritual and intellectual powers, our children must be given freedom, a freedom that is achieved through order and self-discipline.
At The Children’s House, our overall aim is to develop within the child a love of learning and a thirst for knowledge that will stay with him or her in the years ahead.
Maria was born in Chiaravalle, Italy in 1870. She was the first female to become a physician in Italy.
She began to work with disabled children in a way different than others did at that time, dissolving the traditional teaching method that included reading and reciting, she taught the children by using concrete materials. This proved to work very well.
Learning was not memorizing but sensing and experiencing things. Because the disabled children scored higher on the same test that the regular children took, she thought; “Why can’t the normal children benefit from the same method?” As a result she opened the first Casa dei Bambini or Children’s House in Rome.
Her method is based on the principle that the child wants to learn; order and independence is the key.
For over the last 100 years, this method has been tested and has achieved success throughout the world due to the Montessori classroom being a land of opportunity for the child.