We at the Waldorf International School believe parents can provide nothing of more lasting value than an education that develops a child's full potential. Waldorf education emphasizes disciplined creativity, wonder with reverence, respect for nature and for human existence. A comprehensive academic, artistic and physical education program presented in a supportive, structured and non-competitive environment is meant to help parents develop a child who will be balanced in feeling, with initiative in action and clarity in thought.
Waldorf is a successful HOLISTIC ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION model designed to provide the right stimulus at the right time and allow each child's abilities to unfold. Waldorf methods are designed to address the whole child: HEAD, HEART and HANDS. It stimulates the mind with the full spectrum of traditional academic subjects, and it nurtures healthy emotional development by conveying knowledge experientially as well as academically. It works with the hands every day, both in primary academic subjects and in a broad range of artistic handwork and craft activities.
The Waldorf International School strives to awaken and ennoble capacities, rather than to merely impose intellectual content on the child. Learning becomes an engaging voyage of discovery of the world and of oneself. A Waldorf education is meant to be the beginning of a life long love of learning.
THE CURRICULUM
The breadth and depth of the curriculum is a distinguishing feature of Waldorf education. From preschool/kindergarten through the grades, the curriculum follows the developmental stages of childhood. The curriculum mirrors the inner transformations of the child. The Waldorf curriculum awakens in the child understanding and respect for cultural origins and historical foundations, fostering a sense of world citizenship, as well as awakening spirit of scientific inquiry, which encourages a true interest in the natural world.