| Titoki
Montessori has been part of our family’s life
for eight years. We joined other passionate parents
who shared our belief in the Montessori system and
the ideals it engendered. We all had a common bond
of wanting the best start for our children.
Through the years,
many hardworking parents and teachers have put such
an enormous amount of effort into allowing Titoki to
flourish.
We started in the
basement of a house. We had very little equipment
and couldn’t afford to order any from Holland, which
was then the only place to source specialised
Montessori equipment. A generous parent loaned us
the money, which enabled us to purchase our first
lot of equipment from Holland. We then ‘graduated’
to a tired and dismal community hall called The Hut,
which amazingly has been transformed with much love
and hard work into the warm, caring and visually
pleasing environment it is today. The Titoki tree
planted in the playground commemorated the opening
of the school.
The name of the
school, ‘Titoki’, comes from the native Titoki tree,
commonly referred to as the New Zealand Oak, which
was chosen as a symbol to encourage our children’s
growth, inner strength and independence.
Our young Titoki
sapling has been given a lot of care and dedication
to allow it to grow and prosper to what it is today.
However, we are only half way there, as our ultimate
goal was to develop into a Montessori Primary
School. That was our foundation vision.
Kevin and Sara
Joyce, Foundation Parents, 13 November 1997 |
