Michael Mount Waldorf School, Author at Michael Mount Waldorf School

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”

Why 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.

What 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.

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.