On first entering the Montessori school children are given the opportunity to develop important life skills which will allow them greater freedom in the classroom. They learn to manage their own clothes using specially made dressing frames to practice buttons, zips, buckles and bows. They are also shown how to care for their classroom, using child-sized brushes and dusters.

Developing practical skills - like using little jugs filled with beans or rice and then water to practice pouring; they scoop, or use droppers, tweezers and even chopsticks to transfer from one bowl to another - and social skills with friends and teachers, enable them to feel capable, self-reliant members of the community.