Pembe Kule opened in 2013 and moved into its current building in 2016. It has worked with the same idea ever since: a school where children grow at their own pace and by their own choices.
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Where does the name come from?
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Where does the name come from?
The Pink Tower is the best-known material in any Montessori classroom: ten wooden cubes, stacked from largest to smallest by the child's own hands. The tower on the corner of our building and the blocks in our logo carry the same idea. A child builds themselves one step at a time.
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The building
Designed by Cephe Mimarlık in 2016, the building was the subject of a spatial case study in a 2019 master's thesis at Bursa Uludağ University. Wide windows, light tones, natural timber, open shelving and a year-round relationship with the garden are the basis of its design.
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Settling in
We follow the Berlin model of adaptation. The first days are half days with a parent present, and the schedule lengthens at the child's own pace. A guidance teacher and the education coordinator follow each child individually.
Founder
Selma Kuşoğlu
Selma Kuşoğlu founded the school in 2013. Her children's book, Max's Mirror, tells the story of a single day at Pembe Kule through Max's eyes: the circle-time sphere, the mirrored corridor and the garden.
Our founder's book
Max's Mirror
Max discovers his own feelings through the circle-time sphere and the mirrored corridor. Every place in the book really exists at Pembe Kule.
Librum Kitap, 36 pages. ISBN 978-625-99189-1-4
Our Team
Every class has a lead teacher and an assistant teacher.
Visit
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Meet our teachers and explore our classrooms. Let us talk together about the start you have in mind for your child.