About the leader

All classes are led by an experienced Montessori teacher.

Carine Robin obtained her Master's degree in Psychology in Belgium in 2002, specialising amongst other things in child psychology. She then worked for various social services including a foster care agency, a contact centre and a day centre for adults with mental deficiency. In parallelI she also worked as a private counsellor for children and their family.

In 2006, she moved to Ireland and started to work in a daycare nursery with children from birth to 5 years. This is where she discovered the Montessori education.

In December 2007 after having her first child, she started to read more about the Montessori education from birth.

She gained her Montessori diploma in 2009 and went back to work in a Montessori classroom until she moved to the UK in May 2011.

In London, she ran successfully for 3 years a Montessori based parents and toddler group then after relocation to the Bedfordshire, she opened a new parents and toddlers group in Bedford then she was the manager and Montessori lead teacher of a Montessori preschool near Huntingdon for nearly 2 years. Since September 2016, her son attends Garden City Montessori school in Letchworth and Carine ran a Montessori toddler group in Letchworth near the school for 9 months. She now run the parents toddler group from Sutton, near Biggleswade.

At Montessori-family, we believe that it's truly possible to implement the Montessori ideas at home to make your house and family life welcoming to your child, his/her needs and his thrive to independence.

Trainings:

Master degree in Psychology 2002
Montessori diploma 2009
BabyCalm and ToddlerCalm training with Sarah Ockwell-Smith 2013(author of the Gentle parentings books)
Simplicity parenting coach 2014 based on the famous book Simplicity parenting
YogaBeez: Children to teenager yoga training 2016-2017

Carine is also fully trained in Child protection, has an up to date paediatric first aid qualification and is fully DBS cleared (CRB).