At Zippy Stars Montessori School, we put considerable effort into ensuring that our curriculum is of a high standard based on current research on preteen development, care and play.

Research shows that a greater portion of the child’s development occurs during the first five years of life, laying the basis for all skills and later learning.

The human child has an innate ability to grow and develop in relative freedom from adult interference. 

“Zippy Kids” in the beginning are natured with the Montessori skills and further enhanced into the lower primary level with the new and similar GES curriculum skills.

Our Montessori and Ghana Education Service(GES) curricula is therefore designed to create a strong physical dimension to many Montessori activities and balance between free choice and structure; meeting the specific needs of the child and his or her personal intellectual and creative abilities. 

The new curriculum for Ghana’s primary schools, dubbed ─ curriculum for change and sustainable development ─ is standards-based and provision of accessible quality education for all is non-negotiable.

It provides a set of core competencies and standards that learners are to know, understand and demonstrate as they progress through the curriculum from one content standard to the other and from one phase to the next.

The curriculum for change and sustainable development has at its heart the acquisition of skills in the 4Rs of Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic and cReativity by all learners

The Montessori curriculum also encourages dexterity, balance, appreciation of shapes, colours and sizes. It further unearths inherent curiosity and the desire to learn and aptitude for learning and playing, which gives the children the opportunity to learn social behavior through being together in varied group activities.

In Furtherance to the above we identified the under listed areas of development in which every child experiences and by which both curricula is assessed:

1. Encouraging social and emotional understanding
2. Encouraging the development of communication skills
3. Development of ideas about literacy
4. Encouraging ideas about numeracy and mathematics
5. Encouraging the development of scientific ideas and attitudes
6. Physical development
7. Encouraging creativity and appreciation and exploration
8. Encouraging the development of the desire to play and learn.
9. Encouraging dexterity, balance and appreciation of shapes, colours and sizes.