Mandela Day Recycling Class 7 presented their Mandela Day task to the Primary School assembly and Class 7 parents: We decided, as a class, to do a beach clean-up for Mandela Day this year. His campaign is all about the fact that each individual has the power to transform the world and we can each […]
What a surprise for all the teachers, parents and children, being told to pack up in two weeks, because the time has come for our school to move. It came as a moment of final realisation that our long term dream was actually happening. There were lots of mixed feelings, as there is with change, […]
21 years ago we began with one classroom on stilts, and the trust of the families that began it all. So many, many stories to tell surrounding that special piece of earth where Imhoff has grown up. So many footsteps in the sand. As is tradition, after the first 3 cycles of 7 years we […]
From about the age of three children begin to be full of questions, and it is sometimes a matter of great difficulty for their parents to find the right answers to them. Every question demands its own individual answer, but it can be of great value, in deciding what answer to give, to have a […]
Waldorf curriculum: An endless cycle of renewal https://www.waldorf-resources.org/articles/display/archive/2017/01/09/article/waldorf-education-a-continuous-cycle-of-renewal/9e0f434c2572b506be7c2a20bf648be8/ How ‘twisted’ early childhood has become – from a child development expert https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/11/24/how-twisted-early-childhood-education-has-become-from-a-child-development-expert/?fbclid=IwAR2hli7UqjTKrw1llAUtOkDqFbnoDyp-CoWjRDWV-vhGncvbzt9vdenjiPM&noredirect=on Is Waldorf still a school for ‘hippies’, or in fact better at preparing kids for adulthood? http://www.parent24.com/Learn/Learning-difficulties/waldorf-schools-woolly-or-wise-20171128? […]
Please join us for a talk on the “Transition from Pre-School to Primary School” at our Imhoff Waldorf School on Wednesday 31 July at 6pm in our Movement Room. Or visit our Pre-School between 9 and 11am from 31 July to 2 August. Simply call us on 021 783 3056 or email admissions@imhoffwaldorf.org to […]
There are still a few spaces available for 2019 and 2020. Simply call 021 783 3056 or email admissions@imhoffwaldorf.org Please apply before the end of August 2019.
The Waldorf Primary curriculum builds up through the years and the teachers offer challenges and opportunities that harness the growing curiosity and conceptual thinking of the children in a positive and healthy way. While the children need to increasingly understand the nature of how things work, there is still a yearning for story and […]
First Grade is often compared to as a paradise, a happy time full of those comforting surroundings created by their teacher and parents in order to hold them within a protected environment from which to begin their great journey toward adulthood. The task of the First Grade teacher is to help the children make the […]
Much of what is done in the second grade year builds upon the groundwork laid in the first grade, increasing the repertoire of knowledge and skills developed in the previous year. The second grader’s learning through imitation is still prevalent and their thinking is still very pictorial. Thus the teacher continues to present […]
The third grade is often called the turning point of childhood. The eight-year-old is going through a change that is particularly profound. Rudolf Steiner describes how the nine-year-old experiences, at a spiritual level, what the three-year-old experienced when first using the word “I”. Before the age of nine, the major part of the child’s […]
In the fourth grade, that blanket of young childhood has been tossed aside, and the child feels very separate from any of the security and comforts that previously were supportive. This is a time to look around and see how one stands in relationship to that which is near, and to find security and […]
Fifth grade is referred to as the “golden year” because students at this age are enthusiastic about learning, eager for new challenges and capable of hard work and creativity. A sense of self-consciousness emerges, yet they remain confident and harmonious with their surroundings. They develop an ordered sense of space and time, and hold […]
The children are now busy leaving the golden years of childhood behind them. They are coming out of a period of balance, ‘The Heart of Childhood’, into a phase of change. There is often a sense of sadness as they look back to the years of innocence and play as well as a feeling […]