Our Curriculum

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“If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole being to the world around him, he will be able in the serious tasks of later life to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.”       —Rudolf Steiner

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Young children live primarily through their senses and learn best through imitation. 

Our Kindergarten teachers provide an environment that provide respect, warmth, and loving care for each child.    They nurture each young child's development, providing gentle, yet sensory-rich environments that allow the children ample time and space to play and explore the natural world, social relationships, and expand imaginative capacities. 

Through the daily rhythm of the class, good habits are encouraged to flourish.  Through storytelling, puppetry, pretend play, painting, clay modelling, baking, and crafts, the children are allowed healthy, self-expression while they develop the foundations for future academic work.  These activities lay crucial foundations for intellectual, emotional, and physical development. 

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“The true aim of education is to awaken real powers of perception and judgment in relation to life and living. For only such awakening can lead to true freedom.”   

—Rudolf Steiner

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Between the ages of seven and 14, children learn best through lessons that touch their feelings and awaken their creative forces. 

Learning in the grade school is essentially experiential and seeks to engage the feelings of the child so that a strong personal identification with the subject matter can occur.  Our elementary (or “Class”) teachers integrate storytelling, movement, music, drama, and visual arts into their daily work, weaving a tapestry of experience that brings each subject to life in the child’s thinking, feeling, and willing.   Teachers strive to make each lesson an artistic whole where meaningful connections are made across subject areas and main lesson themes, while at the same time providing a strong foundation for academic studies through a deep understanding of the developing child.

A class teacher ideally accompanies their students from Grades 1 through 8, guiding the children's formal academic learning while encouraging the development of each child's moral values and increasing their awareness of their place and impact on the world.