About Lake County Prep Academy
A HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARD
Our Philosophy
At Lake County Prep Academy, we believe in providing a high quality early education that is rooted in Montessori philosophy with a British influence. We strive to create a safe, secure, and loving environment that is child-centered, where each child is encouraged to learn and grow at their own pace. Our gifted curriculum is designed to inspire a love of learning and prepare your child for a successful future.
We believe in the process of life long learning as an exciting and enjoyable journey. All children experience periods of intense fascination with particular concepts and skills. We acknowledge these critical learning periods and their impact on the development of our students.
Academy Director, Marina Bromfield, has been providing students with a rich and diverse learning environment for more than 30 years. Her experience and unparalleled teaching methods, have fostered and continue to impact the intellectual, emotional, and social development of young minds.
Our aim is to stimulate our students natural curiosity, interest and joy of learning. We enable children to become creative thinkers, lifetime learners, team players, and ultimately happy, confident and competent individuals.
Our individualized program allows for each child's individual style of learning. Each child begins from the concrete to the abstract, the familiar to the unfamiliar and from the basic to the advanced. Our students are encouraged to work at their own pace.
Montessori Learning
The Montessori environment is both well planned and attractively designed, which the child can examine and control. The Montessori curriculum includes four basic areas- practical life, sensorial, language and math, that feature creative writing, science, cultural studies, geography, art and music within the classroom.
The focus of Dr. Montessori’s method is the individuality of each child with the goal of the child maintaining his or her natural joy of learning. Her approach was characterized by an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child's natural psychological, physical, and social development.
"The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up." - Dr. Maria Montessori
