About Bridget's Montessori Pre-School
We are accredited in the Siolta Quality Assurance Programme which is managed by the Early Years Education Policy Unit (EYEPU) within the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA).
We are registered with Tusla and are guided by and’ adhere to the Child Care Act 1991 (Early Years Services) Regulations 2016. Our Inspection Reports, carried out by Tusla pre-school inspectors, are freely and openly available for viewing by all parents.
We have an open door policy and parents and families are always welcome. Parents/Guardians are kept up to date with their children’s overall growth and development by means of our observational reports, parent evenings and regular feedback from all our staff members.
We recognise that parents are the primary educators of their children, and we work alongside parents to promote their children’s overall development, through the principles of Aistear (the early childhood curriculum) the child’s Well-being, Identity & belonging, Communicating and Exploring & Thinking.


Indoor and Outdoor Play feature greatly within our curriculum and almost everything we do inside can be done outside also. We provide rain gear for the children which means we can go outside every day regardless of the weather.
Our Montessori Pre-school provides a safe, healthy, happy and prepared environment, indoors and outdoors, for all the children and adults within the setting. We provide the children with experiences, activities and materials which are appropriate to their individual age and stage of development, allowing them to progress at their own pace. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion for all Adults, Children and Families within our service and we engage with the Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) which is supported by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
About the Montessori Curriculum
Maria Montessori established her Montessori Method of Education at the beginning of the 20th century. Maria was born in Italy in 1870 and was the first woman in Italy to receive a medical degree. She worked in the fields of psychiatry, education and anthropology, and for most of her life she devoted her energies to the field of education
According to Montessori, “A child’s work is to create the person she/he will become.” She believed that the adult should “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” – Maria Montessori.
The Montessori Method is basically a teaching philosophy that gently allows the child to become responsible for his/her own learning. The role of the teacher is simply to guide and make observations and to know when the child is ready to move on to something more challenging. The activities are hand-on and meaningful for the child.
It is always a goal of Montessori education in the classrooms to make the child independent and be able to do things for himself. This is achieved by giving children the opportunity to move, to choose what they want to do, and to help the adult with tasks.
When the children are able to do things for themselves there is an increase in their self-belief, self-confidence and self-esteem which may carry on throughout their life.
Learning should be meaningful and fun. It should allow the child to make choices and learn at his/her own pace. It should boost the child’s self-esteem and promote independent thinking. It should also teach children to love themselves and in turn the world. These are the beliefs behind the Montessori Method.
Our Montessori curriculum is divided into the main areas of Montessori learning which are: Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Mathematics and Cultural Studies