Welcome to Noughtcross Haus
We’re crowdfunding!
Noughtcross Haus CIC has made it its mission to not only create Sheffield’s 1st Democratic Learning Community,
but create an opportunity for alternative education
with low and eventually no financial barriers.
Our Learning Community launched on the 3rd of September 2024.
Ten children and their families have pledged their support.
Will you help us too?
We take a child-centred approach to education, which focuses on autonomy and self-directed learning. It allows young humans to set their own pace, follow their personal interests and passions and steward their own educational path.
We believe that to raise functional citizens in a democracy we have to live and not just teach values of law, liberty, duty and respect. Our learning community is encouraged to actively engage with and adapt the system that governs it to allow a continuous fair distribution and equal access to all educational resources.
We know that an indivual’s environment is a key element to their learning journey and well-being. Therefore we create, care for and interact with the spaces that we occupy – the physical ones and the social ones – with intention and consideration.
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself – that is the first duty of the educator.
Maria Montessori