Kirsten Schaufele

My boys have grown in such a positive way since they started at BBMH that I can't imagine them going to any other school.When my husband and I were looking for a school for our young son to start preschool, we started looking at all the schools in the area. None of them seemed to be what we were looking for until we stumbled onto BBMH. My niece was in Montessori in Victoria and she was doing very well, but I didn't really know that much about it. We went to the school, had a talk with Liz, did some observing in both the primary and preschool classrooms and I was sold!! There was to be no other school for my boys for as long as they could be there.

My boys have grown in such a positive way since they started at BBMH that I can't imagine them going to any other school.

My oldest son has been at the school since 2006 and is now going into year 2. He is such a confident young man already that it's hard to believe that he was once a shy 3 year old clinging to me at the door to the preschool classroom. The best thing that I can think of about his learning at BBMH that I know about is how he learned to read. The words he was learning about were all action words and he would read the word and act it out: grip, trip, bend, etc. He loved it so much he didn't even realize that he was reading!

My youngest son started at the school in 2008, and because he had been going to school with his brother for 2 years, he was very excited and confident to go even on the first day - maybe a little too confident, as he started a light show with the light switch on only the 3rd day. But his shenanigans were always handled with kindness and love, and he didn't even know that his behaviour was being redirected. He never felt like he was being scolded when he was asked to stop doing whatever disruptive thing he was choosing to do at the time. When he stated at the school he was very afraid of flies because he thought all flying things were bees. When a fly entered the classroom and refused to leave and my terrified son would freeze, Jana and Carla chose to name the fly and have my son draw a picture of it. It sure seemed to help, and he now knows the difference between flies and bees.

I have so many stories that I could share, but I think you can see from what I've written that I love BBMH. My children could not have a better school, and I could not have chosen a better school for them. We kind of fell together, and landed with both feet on the ground with children who love school.