Montessori Farm School

 Montessori Farm School – Upper School (MFS US) – Center for Study and Work 

High School level – ages 14/15-18 

 Upper School – definition

– program: Pre-IB preparation for IB DP program as well as meeting the requirements of the Polish high school syllabus (starting with: art faculty: VA – Visual Arts and Theatre), biology-chemistry, math-physics) 

– World Languages: English (instruction) Polish (instruction), Spanish (as a second language), French or German private tutoring 

 Address

Montessori Farm School Upper School – Center for Study and Work 

Bialka 155, 21-300 Radzyń Podlaski, Poland

Work at the farm (e.g. bee keeping project, VA plenary and art exhibitions locally and globally) 

Residential: at the palace or the freshly renovated dorms 

Admissions Office 

Questions on general and particular information may be directed to the school office.

To make an appointment please contact:

Email: mfs@wmf.edu.pl  Mobile: 539 697 025 

To start the enrolment process please fill in the Application Form and send it to the email listed above. 

 Students – Interpretation of the IB Learner Profile in Montessori Terms

– International – entrance interview in English 

 – if Polish – 8th-grade exam results to be considered plus entrance interview required 

– MFS students have priority to join.

Entrance exams

 – entrance interview in English is required: both online (zoom) and on-site options possible 

– followed by a 5-day trial at our center for study and work (residential) 

– the candidate will be asked for a written review of his study and work experience at the farm 

 Our Mission Statement: 

 The mission of the Montessori Farm School Upper School (MFS US) – Centre for Study and Work is to foster a Montessori educational environment conducive to each older adolescent’s unique qualities and abilities for the development of social, emotional, and reasoning skills that are essential for a lifetime of independent, creative thinking and learning in the community, both local and global. 

Our Vision:

Dr. Montessori said that “Education is a natural process carried out by the child (adolescent) and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environment. This supports place-based pedagogy. 

At the heart of our older adolescent community and the MFS US program is the pedagogy of place, which focuses on helping students find their position within broad social, geographic, and economic contexts. 

Montessori Farm School Upper School is a center of study and work, it is the school of experience for young people who come from around the world and who are willing to participate in both practical considerations of our social organization (both local and global) and in the MFS US Pre IB educational syllabus. 

Our MFS US Plan of Study and Work is based on understanding Dr. Montessori’s principles of human development from birth to adulthood. The core of our Plan of Study and Work is the experiences of purposeful work and social organization. It is a project-based pedagogy that follows the student with his human tendencies and developmental characteristics. 

Our goal and hope are for young independent adults to enter the society with the strengths and tools to make changes both in local communities and global ones. 

Dr. Montessori makes us believe in peace as a practical principle of human civilization and social organization therefore her principles must be our guide in building a science of peace and educating adolescents for peace. 

Our Adolescent Community provides many opportunities for work and study based on education for peace. Our adolescents will leave the program with tools and strength for conflict resolution and problem-solving and will be willing and able to share their knowledge, they are therefore as Dr. Montessori said both a hope and a promise for mankind. 

International Day of Peace as well as International Celebrations (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Women’ s Day, St Patrick’s Day and many more) are opportunities for experiences of purposeful work and social organization. These are the Rituals and Traditions that we cultivate in our adolescent community. 

Our Goals: 

To educate in terms of – providing experiences of purposeful work, social community, and the educational syllabus (Montessori Plan of Study and Work) for young adolescents (ages:11/12-15) and now older adolescents who are going to stay with our adolescent community and become part of MFS US organization. 

“Psychologists interested in adolescent education think of it as a period of so much psychic transformation that it bears comparison with the first period from birth to six. The character is seldom stable at this age; there are signs of indiscipline and rebellion. Physical health is less stable and assured than before”. (The Absorbent Mind, p.19) 

„But, above all, it is the education of adolescents that is important because adolescence is the time when the child enters the state of manhood and becomes a member of society.” (From Childhood to Adolescence, p. 60) 

„The essential reform is this: to put the adolescent on the road to achieving economic independence. We might call it a „school of experience in the elements of social life.”” (From Childhood to Adolescence, p. 64) 

„The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence.” (From Childhood to Adolescence, p. 63)