News Archive

It is with heavy hearts that we share the heartbreaking news of the loss of a cherished member of our WMS family – Diane Rineer.

Through the Kindergarten Workshop, kindergartners get their first exposure to the group lessons they will experience more regularly as first-graders.

Students have been busy in the Maker (STEAM) Studios with the new 3D printers and laser cutter, creating "loose parts" for the Primary playground and preparing for an upcoming "make" sale.

This year, our middle-schoolers have chosen movement - encompassing immigration, women's rights, the gold rush and more - as the theme for their social studies curriculum.

Toddlers are getting their earliest exposure to science and technology through dissecting foods, learning about life cycles in nature and coding using the Bee-Bot robot.

In the Lower Elementary classroom, students have been honing their fine motor skills while learning more about what our earth looks like as a globe and a flat map, and its seven continents and five oceans.

In May, WMS was reaccredited for a seven-year term by the American Montessori Society and the Middle States Association for meeting the highest standards of Montessori education.

The Wilmington Montessori School Board of Directors has approved a plan to join with PRIED Middle School. The result of this combination will be an expanded Wilmington Montessori School, which will educate children from toddler age through the eighth grade, beginning at the start of the 2018-19 school year.

To ensure that Wilmington Montessori School stays at the forefront of educational excellence, the Board of Directors marked its 50th anniversary by embarking on a $3.5 million comprehensive campaign. The campaign, which concluded in August 2016, surpassed our goal, raising more than $4.5 million to help WMS move solidly into the future.

Wilmington Montessori has been named a 2016 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School.