Our school provides a bilingual environment where within a classroom, one guide speaks in English and the other in Dutch (Nederlands) helping children learn both languages in a natural way.

Our flexible program enables families to take vacations anytime during the year, allowing children to continue learning without interruption, ensuring education fits effortlessly around family travel. We believe holidays can be partly educational: learning about new cultures, food, history and diversity is very beneficial for kids.

There are however a few moments in the curriculum where the children are expected to be present. These dates will be provided at the beginning of the school year. Parents are requested to share holiday plans ahead of time.

Keep in mind that by law there is a minimum amount of hours a child needs to attend school, so there is a limit on holidays based on the age of the child.

Age 4-6: Pathfinders
T.B.D. (expected €15.000 to €20.000)- annual tuition fee. This includes: all needed school products, books, healthy snacks, lunch & beverages, excursions, trips and workshops. 12 installments payment plan will also be available.

We do have limited spots available and hence we ask parents for deposit fee which is non-refundable: €1500. This will be deducted from the tuition fee.

We believe that healthy food is healthy mind. Hence, we strive to provide healthy fresh ingredients for simple home-made snacks and lunch. Herein we steer clear from refined sugars and E-numbers. Children are able to snack when they want to without needing to raise a hand or ask the teacher. Lunch is a communal activity where learners will prepare and eat lunch all together.

If your child has intolerances or allergies please let us know during application processes.

Yes, outdoor time is very important for children of all ages. Outside, we have active areas with open-ended games. Our future plans include a vegetable garden where children can work closely with nature, and a school pet.

We open the school in 2025 with the age group of 4 to 6 year olds.

In the near future we aim to expand the school with a class for age group 7 to 12. Please email kamile@seeker.education if you’d like to join the waiting list for new groups.

For age group 4-6 year olds, we maintain a maximum of 24 children in the class, with a teacher and an assistant. This creates a maximum of 12 children per teacher / assistant.

Yes, if enough parents are interested in a shuttle service to and from the school, we can provide a truster driver to safely drive your children. This comes at an additional cost. Please let us know during application process whether you’d like to have a shuttle service.

This school is private (particulier), which means that the school is not funded by the government, and parents pay a school tuition. We have mixed age classes (4-6 and 7-12) instead of age based classes. We don’t have homework, we do all school work at school, because time with family, friends and playing sports is equally important. We don’t have standardized test and grades, as they set the wrong incentives. Our teachers don’t lecture to the whole class, but instead are guides to help each individual child continue their development along their unique education plan. If you’re curious to learn more, please refer to our philosophy page, or schedule a call.

Because each child is unique and has their own abilities and interests. Personalized learning is clearly more suited for anyone than following an arbitrary schedule. We’ve seen exemplary schools around the world that show curious, engaged, and responsible children who love learning. In some cases children even progress an average of two regular school years within one school year with normal school hours and no homework.

According to Dr. Montessori, children progress through four distinct developmental stages, each with unique needs and learning styles. At Seeker, our classrooms are designed to meet these developmental needs, ensuring that children are not only engaged in age-appropriate learning experiences but also supported in their emotional and social growth. We focus on fostering their independence, creativity, and character, nurturing each child’s full potential in a balanced and holistic way.

Children can learn how to learn, how to follow a curiosity, figure things out themselves. Most of the time adults stand in the way, and force on them the way that they would do it. If the adults step back, the children have the room to discover their own way. This does not mean that the children can slack off and do whatever they want. We spend great effort creating a culture of hard and smart work wherein the children are accountable to themselves and each other. They have individual trajectories, but each child’s performance reflects on the group as a whole. Our mission is that each child understands why they are at school, what their purpose is, learn how to set goals, and fuel a love for learning.

While we may start our own high school in the future, we make sure that all accomplishments of the children are easily interpretable by other schools and that at a minimum all children learn all the basic courses that are required by Dutch law. This way, would your child (or family) choose to go to another school or high school, they can make that transition.

Because the majority of learning in our school is personalised and automated, our teachers are not actively teaching from a book to the entire class nor are they spending a lot of time on administrative work. There are also no tests to grade, nor homework to correct. This frees them up to pay close attention to the children and zoom in on one child’s particular curiosity, and guide another in a moment of struggle. 

A system based on graded tests has a too narrow developmental focus, sets the wrong incentives for children and schools, creates unnecessary administrative work, and blocks innovation in school curricula.

Our guides are trained to observe each individual child in the classroom, identifying progress and struggles per area of development. All observations are recorded in an online system that is accessible to parents as well. Furthermore, children will host showcases and update their ever evolving skill-portfolios.

Public schools are funded by the government, which understandably comes attached with many rules and regulations that would make it entirely impossible for us to create our school in this new model. Our dream is that (1) our school works, (2) we become the best school in The Netherlands and (3) our developed model becomes such a no-brainer that the government allows for public schools to adopt it as well. This will be a long and difficult journey, but we see it as the most direct way to implement change to the (in our eyes) stagnating education system in The Netherlands.

No. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that. However, our focus is on purpose, development, performance, love for learning, character and merit. Yes, our system allows for a lot of freedom where the individual child has a leading role in their own development. But we also have clear rules, and we do not allow for slacking off. Yes, we start each day with a short group meditation session. But this is to leave the hustle and bustle of a busy morning commute behind and allow us to redirect our focus on our work of the day. Even though we use arts and crafts and play as tools to accomplish our quests, we do not have an extensive focus on arts and theatre.

The first weeks of the school year we focus primarily on shaping the culture. Everyone there will present a true belief that each person there has a unique potential to make the world a better place. That means that each person’s input is valued. Through team exercises we aim to form a tight group bond.

Each child is unique, some are extraverted and outspoken, others are introverted and reserved. Not one personality trait is better than the other. We focus on each individual child’s character development. All children are continually encouraged to find and speak their true voice, in group discussions and voluntary presentations. As these contribute to a valuable skill set in life. Some children however, may take a while before they find a reason strong enough to speak their voice. No child is forced, but they are continually encouraged and invited.

Think about a child playing the computer game “Minecraft”, or building a large LEGO-set, or spontaneously developing hide-and-seek variants with their friends. You’d be able to observe hours of effortless concentration, enjoyment, problem solving, application of language, struggle, and much more.

Good games have a number features that can be very beneficial for learning situations, such as: active engagement, immediate feedback, appropriate challenges, a safe environment for failure, room for autonomy and free choice, simulation of real world scenarios, story telling, acting, and collaboration.

Thereby, we implement techniques and tools learned from game design to enhance interest and engagement within our school curriculum.

Instead of a rapport card with grades that need to be interpreted, children at Seeker continually update their skill portfolio with their latest accomplishments. Think of it as their very own LinkedIn. We believe this much more motivating and applicable to the real working world.

These portfolios include basic updates such as “I can now add and subtract numbers up to 1000”, and “I’ve learned all countries in Europe”, to projects like “I’ve sold over €100 of lemonade with my lemonade stand”, or “I’ve helped the local bakery with new pictures for their social media”.

The Montessori educational method, developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, is a child-centered approach that emphasizes independence, hands-on learning, and respect for each child's natural development. In Montessori classrooms, children are encouraged to choose their activities based on interests, allowing for intrinsic motivation while teachers act as guides. Classrooms are designed with accessible, age-appropriate materials to promote exploration and learning at each child's pace. Mixed-age groups foster peer learning and collaboration, while the focus on holistic development nurtures academic, social, emotional, and practical life skills. Overall, Montessori education prepares children for lifelong learning by cultivating self-discipline and responsibility within a structured environment.

For such specific personal cases it would be best to understand the full scope of the situation. Feel free to reach out to tim@seeker.education.