Montessori Secondary School (22)

Primary level with all-day care

School with a particular character

e-mail: info@potsdam-montessori.de

Schlüterstraße 2-4
14471 Potsdam
Phone: 0331-2898060
Fax: 0331-2898061
Headmistress: Sebastian Raphael
Primary Level Head: Susan Langer

Education offers
Contact language: English grades 1/ 2, French grades 1/2/3
1st foreign language: English from grade 3
2nd foreign language: French

Working Groups
French, Spanish, Latin, art, cooking, dance, experimental, yoga,
Black theatre, sewing, soccer, children's choir, youth choir, children's café, textile design,
Orchestra, music lessons (guitar, recorder, flute, violin, clarinet, saxophone,
Piano and Keyboard), Go, painting, swimming, reading room.
Special features

• Mandatory all-day school from 8:30 (lessons start) to 15:30
• School with a particular character - after successfully trying out the school experiment
• MoSeS School (school experiment: model projects for the development of independance of schools)
• Participation in international student exchange programs (since 6 years annual exchange with the Montessori Earth School in Portland/Oregon, and participation in the Voltaire and Brigitte Sauzay program)
• Learning with head and hand as a general principle according to the Montessori method
• Encouraging initiative, creativity and independence, exploratoring, networked learning
• Logical extension of the free labor and special lessons by teaching projecs and epochs.
• Youth School for 12-14 aged pupils according to the “Children’s Earth Plan” on an outdoor area near Schlänitzsee.
• Verbal evaluation for the grades 1-8, marks in testimony in grades 9 and 10
• “Pens Books” for individual performance documentation
• Teaching in mixed-age groups (1/2/3, 4/5/6 and 7 / 8)
• Integration of children and youths with disabilities in common classes
• Annual parents week - parents introduce their professions and jobs
• Instrumental music lessons with music teachers supported by the Dornier Foundation
• Close cooperation with the nursery in a shared house of learning
• Themed trips in all grades
• Hospilatism observation care program by pupils, teachers and school management
• Group lunch - wholefood with a high “bio”-content
• Prepared environment in the special rooms and attractive outdoor area
• Study room for multimedia use
• all-year collaboration with external experts.
• German School Award 2007

School care for children of the Montessori Secondary School (22)
Nursery Name: Hort der Schule 22 Phone: 0331-964 917
Head: Daniela Schwarm
Schlüterstr.. 2, 14471 Potsdam
Nursery carrier: Internationaler Bund Phone: 030-2185605
Skalitzer Str. 36, 10999 Berlin peter.große@internationaler-bund.de