Montessori Sports
Newberry was selected as a global pilot school for Montessori Sport, an approach to movement, play and sport informed by Montessori principles.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
The Newberry 3E’s
At Newberry House, experience is part of the education. Children learn deeply when they encounter real people, real places and real work. Through sport, culture, service, outdoor learning and estate-based experiences, learners build confidence, judgement, skill and a stronger connection to the world around them.
SPORT
Sport at Newberry
Sport is part of daily life at Newberry. Through movement, team sport, lifestyle sport and healthy competition, learners develop skill, courage, resilience and a lifelong enjoyment of physical activity.
Sports by discipline
SoccerNetballCricketTrail RunningMountain BikingOpen Water SwimmingPre-Primary Sport
Lifestyle Sport
Trail running, mountain biking and open-water swimming on the Lourensford Estate connect our learners to the landscape and to a lifelong love of movement.
Team Sport
Soccer, netball and cricket are coached in partnership with Coerver Football and Netball Goal Getters — building skill, sportsmanship and team identity.
CULTURE
Creativity and expression
Creative and co-curricular life gives learners space to discover what moves them and to grow in focus, confidence and expression.
Chess
Strategic thinking and quiet focus, taught from Elementary upwards.
Choir
Voices come together each week to learn, rehearse and perform.
Drama Club
Confidence, expression and storytelling on and off the stage.
Art Club
Painting, drawing and mixed media in a relaxed studio environment.
Eco Club
Hands-on stewardship projects led by the learners themselves.
Music lessons
One-on-one tuition in guitar, drums and piano alongside the school day.
REAL-LIFE LEARNING
Beyond the classroom
ELEMENTARY
Going Out
Our Elementary learners regularly leave the classroom to meet the world around them.
Coffee roasting, learning barista skills and Fairtrade principles at the Lourensford Coffee Roasting Company.
Wedgewood Nougat, engaging in branding and marketing projects with a working factory.
Environmental fieldwork, clearing alien vegetation and learning responsible water use on the Lourensford and Vergelegen estates.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Middle School productions
Learners undertake projects with real-life impact, putting entrepreneurial thinking into practice.
Growing, cultivating and selling organic produce to Lourensford restaurants.
Hospitality, Catering for school events.
Building and maintaining mountain-bike trails (some used for the Cape Epic).
Enterprise, Learner-run coffee business inspired by visiting the Lourensford roastery.
Through these projects, learners experience what Montessori calls valorisation: the deep satisfaction of creating tangible value and making a real contribution to the world around them.
HIGH SCHOOL
High School enrichment
Weekly sessions and seasonal experiences broaden learners’ experience of the world and build independence.
Peer-led skills, pizza making, practical life skills
Expert sessions, tax consultants, career guidance
Annual camp, immersive outdoor experiences
Cultural outings, Maynardville theatre, museum trips
Biannual overseas trip
Community service
As members of Rotary’s Interact Club, learners volunteer at retirement homes, participate in beach cleanups and assist with community gardens.
The President's Award
The President’s Award forms part of the High School experience, encouraging self-development and active citizenship through community service, expeditions, skills and physical activity.
Community ServiceExpeditionsSkillsPhysical Activity
LIFE ON LOURENSFORD
Learning on a working estate
Newberry House sits within one of the Western Cape’s most extraordinary working estates. Lourensford is a destination in its own right, and our learners grow up immersed in its rhythms.
Recreation
Padel Hub, mountain bike trails and the Clay Pigeon Hub bring outdoor activity to our doorstep.
Culinary experiences
Millhouse, Ghenwa’s, Wedgewood Nougat and the Lourensford Coffee Roasting Company turn the estate into a working classroom for food, hospitality and enterprise.
Wellness
Life Retreat, the Fiord Plunge and Move with Suz bring wellbeing, movement and healthy living into the wider estate experience.
Art and entertainment
NV Film Studio, Artjamming, the Art Curator Gallery and the Motor Museum bring design, craft, storytelling and heritage into reach.
Estate craft
Ginologist and the Lourensford Cellar form part of the estate’s wider identity as a place of craft, quality and enterprise.
The estate is a constant source of inspiration: a living extension of the classroom where learners encounter entrepreneurship, hospitality, art and nature in the same place they go to school.
Our key partnerships
Newberry House works with partners who help turn real-life learning, service and stewardship into daily practice.
Rotary Interact Club
Our learners run community service projects and beach cleanups through the Rotary Interact Club, putting service into practice.
Indaba Foundation
We partner with the Indaba Foundation to mentor early childhood development centres, sharing expertise and resources beyond our gates.
Little Stars Creche
We support Little Stars Creche on the Lourensford Estate, a long-running partnership that strengthens early years learning in the community.
Ready to experience it for yourself?
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