The Montessori Cycle 1 learning program, often referred to as the Children’s House, is a holistic early childhood education curriculum tailored for children aged three to six years old. It combines three-year-old kindergarten, four-year-old kindergarten, and pre-primary.

Core Learning Areas
The program relies on specialised, self-correcting sensory materials across five structural curriculum branches:

Practical Life:
Activities like pouring, sweeping, buttoning, and food preparation that refine fine motor skills, coordination, and independence.

Sensorial:
Materials designed to isolate specific physical attributes—such as size, weight, colour, and texture—to help children classify and organise sensory data.

Language:
Integrated phonetic exercises shifting from spoken language to tactile writing instruments (like Sandpaper Letters) and progressive reading.

Mathematics:
Hands-on presentation of abstract equations using physical models, such as the Golden Bead material, to visually demonstrate units, tens, hundreds, and thousands.

Unique to Banksia Montessori School is a transition program that helps pre-primary aged children into learning activities that have been outlined by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA). Children are presented Western Australian Curriculum guided by Montessori principles and teaching materials.