Five years ago a group of parents came together with a vision to start an alternative school in the Albury/Wodonga region, the Steiner Philosophy was quickly adopted and the journey began. Initially small playgroups ran out of parents home; a natural progression in planting the seeds within the community. We've since ran playgroups out of a neighborhood house, a committee members rental property and now have what we hope to be our permanent home, IMBY House at Gateway Island on Lemke Road, Wodonga.
The natural environment en spouses the Rudolf Steiner teachings and makes a perfect home for our playgroups and the new 4-6 year old rostered playgroup. IMBY House is a collaboration among community groups where their synergies in philosophies enable them to join together in the one location. We share the IMBY House with others and therefore live a core Steiner principle, community stewardship, where we will be sharing resources, ideas and dreams.
Information about Rudolf Steiner Education
Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf) education balances artistic, academic and practical work educating the whole child, hand and heart as well as mind. Its innovative methodology and developmentally-oriented curriculum, permeated with the arts, address the child's changing consciousness as it unfolds, stage by stage. Imagination and creativity are cultivated as well as cognitive growth and a sense of responsibility for the earth and its inhabitants.
The Rudolf Steiner approach aims to support a harmonious development of the three soul faculties — willing, feeling and thinking — taking full account of the physical and emotional growth phases of the child. There is a particular emphasis on the development of the will during the first seven years of home and kindergarten education. The children learn most by what is worthy of imitation, through activities and this is practiced in the Playgroup and Preschool programs. "The uniqueness of the curriculum lies in how the children are taught. In presenting material, first comes the encounter; then encounter becomes experience; and out of experience crystallizes the concept. "
Excerpted from The Waldorf Schools: 32 Questions and Answers by Wade B. Holland
For more information on Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf) Education check out the website links below.
The Rudolf Steiner approach aims to support a harmonious development of the three soul faculties — willing, feeling and thinking — taking full account of the physical and emotional growth phases of the child. There is a particular emphasis on the development of the will during the first seven years of home and kindergarten education. The children learn most by what is worthy of imitation, through activities and this is practiced in the Playgroup and Preschool programs. "The uniqueness of the curriculum lies in how the children are taught. In presenting material, first comes the encounter; then encounter becomes experience; and out of experience crystallizes the concept. "
Excerpted from The Waldorf Schools: 32 Questions and Answers by Wade B. Holland
For more information on Rudolf Steiner (Waldorf) Education check out the website links below.
How Steiner (Waldolf) education prepares children for the "real" world.
It is easy to fall into the error of believing that education must make our children fit into society. Although we are certainly influenced by what the world brings us, the fact is that the world is shaped by people, not people by the world. However, that shaping of the world is possible in a healthy way only if the shapers are themselves in possession of their full nature as human beings.
Education in our materialistic, Western society focuses on the intellectual aspect of the human being and has chosen largely to ignore the several other parts that are essential to our well-being. These include our life of feeling (emotions, aesthetics, and social sensitivity), our willpower (the ability to get things done), and our moral nature (being clear about right and wrong). Without having these developed, we are incomplete—a fact that may become obvious in our later years, when a feeling of emptiness begins to set in. That is why in a Waldorf school, the practical and artistic subjects play as important a role as the full spectrum of traditional academic subjects that the school offers. The practical and artistic are essential in achieving a preparation for life in the “real” world.
Steiner (Waldorf) Education recognizes and honors the full range of human potentialities. It addresses the whole child by striving to awaken and ennoble all the latent capacities. The children learn to read, write, and do math; they study history, geography, and the sciences. In addition, all children learn to sing, play a musical instrument, draw, paint, model clay, carve and work with wood, speak clearly and act in a play, think independently, and work harmoniously and respectfully with others. The development of these various capacities is interrelated. For example, both boys and girls learn to knit in grade one. Acquiring this basic and enjoyable human skill helps them develop a manual dexterity, which after puberty will be transformed into an ability to think clearly and to “knit” their thoughts into a coherent whole.
Preparation for life includes the development of the well-rounded person. Steiner (Waldorf) Education has as its ideal a person who is knowledgeable about the world and human history and culture, who has many varied practical and artistic abilities, who feels a deep reverence for and communion with the natural world, and who can act with initiative and in freedom in the face of economic and political pressures.
There are many Steiner graduates of all ages who embody this ideal and who are perhaps the best proof of the efficacy of the education.
From Five Frequently Asked Questions by Colin Pricefrom Renewal Magazine, Spring/Summer 2003
Education in our materialistic, Western society focuses on the intellectual aspect of the human being and has chosen largely to ignore the several other parts that are essential to our well-being. These include our life of feeling (emotions, aesthetics, and social sensitivity), our willpower (the ability to get things done), and our moral nature (being clear about right and wrong). Without having these developed, we are incomplete—a fact that may become obvious in our later years, when a feeling of emptiness begins to set in. That is why in a Waldorf school, the practical and artistic subjects play as important a role as the full spectrum of traditional academic subjects that the school offers. The practical and artistic are essential in achieving a preparation for life in the “real” world.
Steiner (Waldorf) Education recognizes and honors the full range of human potentialities. It addresses the whole child by striving to awaken and ennoble all the latent capacities. The children learn to read, write, and do math; they study history, geography, and the sciences. In addition, all children learn to sing, play a musical instrument, draw, paint, model clay, carve and work with wood, speak clearly and act in a play, think independently, and work harmoniously and respectfully with others. The development of these various capacities is interrelated. For example, both boys and girls learn to knit in grade one. Acquiring this basic and enjoyable human skill helps them develop a manual dexterity, which after puberty will be transformed into an ability to think clearly and to “knit” their thoughts into a coherent whole.
Preparation for life includes the development of the well-rounded person. Steiner (Waldorf) Education has as its ideal a person who is knowledgeable about the world and human history and culture, who has many varied practical and artistic abilities, who feels a deep reverence for and communion with the natural world, and who can act with initiative and in freedom in the face of economic and political pressures.
There are many Steiner graduates of all ages who embody this ideal and who are perhaps the best proof of the efficacy of the education.
From Five Frequently Asked Questions by Colin Pricefrom Renewal Magazine, Spring/Summer 2003
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