Posts by Michael Mount Waldorf School
What on Earth is Eurythmy?
This dance form is an essential part of the curriculum in Waldorf schools. Eurythmy has its echo in another topic unique to Waldorf schools, Form Drawing. This kind of drawing builds a spatial awareness in children, and leads them to know the drawing of line as movement come to stillness. In Eurythmy, many of these forms would appear on the floor if the feet were made of chalk!
Read MoreThe Science Behind Form Drawing
Form drawing is an integral subject of the curriculum at a Waldorf School. This subject, unique to Waldorf pedagogy, offers a way to develop children’s spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, and a deep understanding of shapes, patterns, and spatial relationships that goes beyond mere visual perception. Form drawing goes beyond mere drawing exercises, through this remarkable artistic and geometric practice, we lay the foundation for various academic and practical skills while nurturing our students’ wholesome and healthy development.
Read MoreThriving in a Future Driven by AI: A Tech Leader’s Reflections
Tech leader and AI entrepreneur, Rob Wray, weighs in on how we should prepare children for an AI-enhanced future. He has chosen to send his child to a Waldorf School, because he says that key traits like resourcefulness, curiosity, emotional intelligence, and creativity are things no machine can replicate. Encouraging play, experimentation, and open-ended problem-solving lays the groundwork for thriving in a future driven by AI.
Read MoreResearch on What Makes Learning ‘Stick’
In Waldorf Education, connections are constantly being made between lessons. Spanning from connections in history that cross over to movement (when students learn to throw a Javelin while studying Greek History) or connections between theatre productions that directly mirror in classroom studies. The impact? “At a neural level, the strength of a memory depends largely on how many connections are made to other memories when learning.
Read MoreAlumni Spotlight: Raidon Hunter-Swart, Class of 2023
Alumni Spotlight: Looking back, I know my Waldorf education gave me the courage and skills to step into this world. The Class 11 project, in particular, taught me that when you pursue something with passion and perseverance, doors open. To any student wondering where your journey may lead, trust the process, because it can take you further than you ever imagined.
Read MoreEducation for the Future of STEM
The human capacities nurtured during Early Childhood, the Early Grades and Middle School education have a profound, life-changing impact on every human being’s longterm success, life and impact on the world of the future. Countless components of Waldorf curriculum directly nurture problem solving, collaboration, adaptability, creativity, critical thinking and the innovation humans will need to solve the problems of the future.
Read MoreDiscover 4 Reasons for the importance of the Class Play in Waldorf Schools
In Waldorf schools, the Class Play is a central component of the curriculum. It is not treated as an extra ‘nice to have’ or as solely an entertainment piece, but rather as an integrated learning experience that supports children’s academic, social, and personal development. Each year, the play is chosen to connect with the developmental stage of the class and the themes they are exploring in their lessons. The plays are therefore pedagogic in nature, because they support the development of skills, social growth, and creativity in ways that directly complement the curriculum.
Read MoreWhy Waldorf Prepares Your Child for the Age of AI
In a world shaped by artificial intelligence, AI-proof education that develops what makes us truly human matters more than ever. The irony is profound: the very tech industry leaders building AI are choosing low-tech education for their own children. They understand that the best preparation for an AI-driven world isn’t more screens; it’s deeper humanity.
Read MoreWhat is Form Drawing – and Why Do Waldorf Children Do It?
Form drawing is unique to Waldorf education. It’s not art in the traditional sense, nor is it geometry (though it lays the foundation for both). At its core, form drawing helps children develop spatial awareness, balance, inner stillness, and the kind of focus that quietly builds the ground for later abstract thought.
Read MoreConscious Toys in Early Childhood
In the early years, children learn and grow through the senses. Touch, smell, sight, and even weight and temperature all help shape their developing bodies, brains, and inner worlds. Toys like a simple wooden castle, covered in rough bark, its grain, its knots, its weight – all quietly engage the senses. The children may consciously notice the textures, or it may occur unconsciously too, as the toy invites the children into a story, a mood, a moment of imaginative freedom.
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