About the Teachers

The staff are chosen to enhance the friendly, family atmosphere. All have proven skills in childcare and work closely with the principal to achieve the school aims. A staff development programme is followed.

Virginia Roden started her career as a teacher in a girl’s secondary school in Guildford, Surrey. Some years later, having started her own family, she discovered the Montessori system by chance whilst searching for ways of stimulating her own young pre-school children. Before long she had signed up for the diploma course, soon became qualified as a Montessori teacher and started working in a highly regarded Montessori school in London. A move to High Wycombe in 1995 necessitated a break with London but provided a chance to develop her own schools locally. Chiltern Hills Montessori School is now a thriving school in the heart of a small village bordering on to woodlands and common land close to the Buckinghamshire town of High Wycombe. Cookham Montessori School, situated in the delightful Thames-side village of Cookham, near Maidenhead, was acquired some years later. Both provide children from near and far with a wonderful start to their school life.