Amy Rowntree

Amy Rowntree OBE (13 July 1885 – 4 March 1962) was a Tasmanian educationist who introduced kindergarten techniques to Tasmania. She was also a writer and she and two of her sisters founded Nattyna Heritage Museum in 1957.

Life Rowntree was born in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart.

In 1912, the New South Wales government had sent Martha Simpson to Europe to learn about the Montessori Method of education from Maria Montessori. These principles were practiced at the demonstration school and in 1912 to 1913 Rowntree was at Teachers' College, Sydney learning from Simpson. Amy became ill in 1961 and after her death in 1962 her sister (and her illustrator) Fearn helped her last books to be published. Rowntree had died in Battery Point in 1962.