Queensland Montessori College
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Queensland Independent College is a private
, primary school in Merrimac, Gold Coast
, Australia
. It was founded in 2008 as the Queensland Montessori College, with a view to creating a sustainable school to replace a previous Montessori school that had closed down. The first intake of students occurred at the start of 2009.
The school is coeducational, non-denominational and emphasises specialised educational attention in a relaxed, supportive environment, largely following the Montessori method
of education, a child-centric method of teaching that focusses on independence, self discipline and thinking skills, with light external control of the children
. Currently it covers Montessori cycles 1 to 3 (up to age 12).
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
, primary school in Merrimac, Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It was founded in 2008 as the Queensland Montessori College, with a view to creating a sustainable school to replace a previous Montessori school that had closed down. The first intake of students occurred at the start of 2009.
The school is coeducational, non-denominational and emphasises specialised educational attention in a relaxed, supportive environment, largely following the Montessori method
Montessori method
Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori. Montessori education is practiced in an estimated 20,000 schools worldwide, serving children from birth to eighteen years old.-Overview:...
of education, a child-centric method of teaching that focusses on independence, self discipline and thinking skills, with light external control of the children
. Currently it covers Montessori cycles 1 to 3 (up to age 12).