Michael Mount Waldorf School, Author at Michael Mount Waldorf School

Sports at a Waldorf School

By Michael Mount Waldorf School | 01/03/2017

Sport is an essential part of the Waldorf curriculum. Yet the approach to sport is fundamentally different from the way it is taught at conventional schools.

Montessori and Steiner: A pattern of reverse symmetries

By Michael Mount Waldorf School | 06/09/2016 |

Both paths are brilliant, full of compassion, and honouring of the child. Each path has the same obligation.

New life, new hope – The message of Easter

By Michael Mount Waldorf School | 13/04/2016 |

What makes Easter an exceptionally unique festival in our modern world, is that it is never a fixed date in our calendar year. Easter Sunday is always the first Sunday after the full moon following the Autumn equinox.

The Seven Lively Arts

By Michael Mount Waldorf School | 26/02/2016

The Seven Lively Arts evolved from the concept of the Seven Liberal Arts of ancient times; these were the key subjects one would master to become a scholar.

The Light of St John’s

By Michael Mount Waldorf School | 11/06/2015 |

The festival of St. John takes place in the heart of winter in the Southern Hemisphere, while the earth appears to be in a deep slumber.

The message of Michaelmas

By Michael Mount Waldorf School | 19/10/2014 |

In the Southern Hemisphere, the festival of Michaelmas takes place in the heart of Spring. The Earth is awakening from its slumber, releasing an abundance of renewed energy and beauty.

Handwork in the Waldorf Curriculum

By Michael Mount Waldorf School | 04/02/2014

There are many reasons given for the importance of handwork as part of the Waldorf curriculum. Among them is that handwork gives the human being practical skills in many different directions; its purpose is to give a person an all-round understanding of life.

Teaching practical arts in the Waldorf elementary grades

By Michael Mount Waldorf School | 04/02/2014 |

The Waldorf handwork and practical arts curriculum strives to address this problem. Today’s students need to be taught to activate their full capacities to apply their thinking and to see the results.

What is Eurythmy?

By Michael Mount Waldorf School | 17/01/2014

Eurythmy is an art of movement essential to Waldorf education. Accompanied by live instrumental music or by the human voice in spoken poetry and tales, eurythmy has been called “visible song” and “visible speech”

Conscious 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.

Why Waldorf Education is Ideal for the Teenage Brain

By understanding that the teenage brain is still developing, teachers, parents and families at Waldorf schools approach adolescent education and upbringing with increased thoughtfulness and appropriate expectations. Thus, Waldorf education provides a nurturing environment that works in harmony with teens’ neurobiological reality.

Conscious Governance – the Waldorf Way

At Michael Mount Waldorf School, our governance is based on a clear commitment to human cooperation, common purpose, and shared responsibility. Rooted in Rudolf Steiner’s insights into social renewal, our structure reflects the balance of thinking, feeling, and willing.