Prepared Environment

The Montessori Prepared Environment offers the physical, social, and psychological conditions tailored to the physical, social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs of each stage of development. The physical environment is reflective of the local culture and integrates the indoor and outdoor space. The environment is attractive and organised, with furniture that is proportionate in size to the plane of development and materials that support developmental activity. The social environment includes a large enough group of mixed ages within a plane of development and prepared adults. The psychological environment includes consistent routines and protocols for daily living that offers the conditional of freedom necessary to follow innate developmental imperatives and a rhythm and pace that is appropriate to the plane of development. It supports a culture of stewardship, maximum effort and respect for the developmental trajectory of each individual.