Description
The St Michael Steiner School is Independent Secondary school in Not applicable for kids aged 3 to 18 (Gender - 3 to 18 )
The first Waldorf (or Steiner) schools in the English speaking world opened in south London in 1925, Gloucester in 1927 and New York in 1928. The German and other European schools were closed by the Nazis in 1939, but many reopened after 1945. Since then this ground-breaking form of education has expanded across the globe; our movement now includes more than a thousand schools worldwide.THE ST MICHAEL STEINER SCHOOL was founded in 2001 by teachers with many years experience of living and teaching in London. Our guiding vision was, and remains: a modern, urban school; a continually evolving curriculum based on ongoing observation and understanding of child development; a flexible programme of activities that develops practical skills, imagination and thinking, and acknowledges and addresses the needs and interests of modern children; an education that will prepare children from diverse backgrounds to orientate themselves towards whatever comes to meet them in life. The St Michael High School was founded in 2012 – the first Steiner Waldorf Upper School in London since 1942. High School students are aged between 14 and18; they enter Class 9 in their fifteenth year. In the High School, the students no longer have Class Teachers, but Class Guardians and personal tutors who advise and counsel them. Lessons are taught by subject specialists.
Facilities
Kindergarten
The Early Years department is currently comprised of two Kindergarten groups and Parent & Child groups. The Kindergarten is for children from 3 and a half up to 7 years old, and runs daily from 8.30am-12.30pm, with some afternoon clubs offered as well.In Steiner Waldorf schools, like many educational systems in Europe, formal learning does not begin until the children are in their seventh year. The time when they naturally become ready for school is usually marked by the change of teeth. Before that, all of their life forces are needed to develop a strong, healthy body; to draw on these forces for intellectual work during the first seven years would be to compromise that development.
Lower & Middle School
The content of the lessons in each class is guided very much by the developmental needs – physical, emotional, cognitive – of the children in the class. The way children see the world and their place in it develops gradually, through identifiable stages, from total immersion to varying degrees of objectivity by the time they reach adulthood. If the content of the curriculum, and the method of teaching, can be aligned with the characteristics of each stage, then a wonderful symbiosis is created whereby the lesson touches on the deep concerns of the child and arouses his/her interest; and, because s/he can relate personally to it, the child is able to understand and take in the content of what is being taught.
Features
Things to note
Outdoor Curriculum
Steiner education is sometimes described as an education of ‘head, heart, and hands.’ In other words, the education of children in their thinking, in their feeling, and in their will; it is this third aspect which we strive to develop in part through our Outdoor Curriculum.What is it that enables certain people to work with determination and persistence towards their goals, whilst others give up or become distracted? We may all have good ideas and cherish valuable dreams, but without doing something about them, they will never be realised. Can this application of effort be taught? It seems rather important that it should, and in a way which will help the children to work freely in the world when they are older, without having to be compelled to work only through necessity or reward.
Extra Curricular
Please check the school website link for details.
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