The Litchfield Montessori School’s middle school program is located in the Nepaug section of New Hartford, CT on the peaceful, 30-acre Millstream Farm, and a pristine property that includes fields and farmland, gardens, ponds, streams, forest, wetland, pasture and abuts the 2,000-acre Nepaug State Forest. The beautiful property includes an 1812 colonial farmhouse and a large, red barn that was used for cow dairying until the 1950s. The 6,000-square-foot barn now houses dairy goats, horses and chickens. The property’s natural diversity and agricultural underpinnings open up limitless possibilities for the students to work and to study amid the tranquility of a prepared farm environment.In sync with Dr. Maria Montessori’s vision and proposed syllabus, NAMTA Montessori Orientation to Adolescent Studies as well as the National Associations of Independent School’s trend schools for the 21st century, this program is a model of a “school of the future”. This land based program promotes skills and knowledge needed for the next century: global education, environmental sustainability, technology with purpose and connection and noted essential traits and skills for success in the 21st century: character, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and communication.

 

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