Morningside Montessori is the first elementary in Cyprus to follow the Montessori Method, as well as the first trilingual school on the island. Morningside Montessori Elementary is a non-profit company with founding members from the fields of Montessori education, developmental psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, peace education, architecture, and business administration and accounting. We are currently creating a school which will be purpose-built as a Montessori Elementary; we are in the process of researching and designing the building. In the meantime, we are housed, as of September of 2017, at a building at Ayios Andreas. It is a fully equipped Montessori school with certified teaching personnel. Our learning environment, which is not bound within the classroom, is hands-on and child-directed. We aim to educate the whole child through a comprehensive Montessori education that cultivates outdoor learning, self-directed action, flexible thinking, creativity, and non-standardized models of problem-solving. We believe that we must embrace each other with empathy, in order to promote a culture of peace and understanding. It is for this reason that it is imperative to learn and understand each other’s language. In order to bring the two larger communities of the island of Cyprus together, both Greek and Turkish are taught.