Zhyan Kindergarten

Welcome to Montessori Kurdistan!

The first kindergarten in Erbil city based on Montessori system, has started registering children aged 4-5 years.

Some characteristics of our kindergarten:

• Member of American Montessori Society.
• Each teacher has only 12-14 children.
• Parents can watch their children through their mobile phone.
• Online daily record keeping system with parents access.
• Healthy food according to international standards.
• Focus on academic and non-academic skills: respect for self, others and environment, self-reliance...
• Kurdistani and global cultural competency.

Montessori Education is a non-traditional progressive education system based on learning by doing. It was developed over a century ago by an Italian physician: Maria Montessori. There are more than 5,000 Montessori schools in the United States and over 25,000 worldwide.

There are many famous people who have attended Montessori schools: Larry Page and Sergey Brin: founders of Google, Jeff Bezos: founder of Amazon.com, Jacqueline Kennedy: former first lady, Prince William and Prince Harry, Julia Child: author, chef, TV cooking shows, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel Prize winner for literature, Anne Frank: author, diarist from World War II and many others.