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The Creative Education Centre Suffolk was started in September 2014 by Eddie and Wendy Hepper. Our aim is to provide children with a creative Montessori-based element to their overall education. We are, however, an education centre not a ‘school’ since we only operate on a part-time basis. Children who attend CEC are home-educated for their main education.

 

We believe that real education begins with healthy relationships between children and adults. Our teaching style is encouraging and nurturing and it develops happy individuals within a mixed age family-like environment.

 

The skills and knowledge that children learn at this age are vital. The need to understand through reading, express ideas through writing and make sense of a world full of numbers is the foundation of primary aged learning. 

 

We follow the child’s interests rather than a prescriptive curriculum. This gives the opportunity for the children to think creatively and in an open-ended way, finding pleasure in discovery and developing their own critical thinking. Because of this, children are taught how to learn more than what to learn.

 

Children are given the stimulus for learning to motivate their independent enquiry and exploration. One way we do this is to take children out and about, learning through visiting the local area to provide a breadth of experience and cultural understanding.