Curriculum Overview
Rudolf Steiner was above all insistent that the Waldorf school pupils should be able to play a full part in the civilisation of their time, and all subjects that are necessary in other schools have their place in a Waldorf school.
It is the manner of presenting these subjects that is different. The pupils should be led to feel the living spirit which pervades the world and which humankind seek to find in all their striving after knowledge. The different subjects should not appear as separated fragments, but as different aspects of a unified world being.
Steiner Curriculum
The Steiner Curriculum originates from indications given by Rudolf Steiner to the teachers of the first Waldorf School in Germany in 1919.
Teachers working within these indications interpret them according to the needs and disposition of their class, and for children living in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, in the Twenty-First Century.
The curriculum is not, nor ever was intended to be fixed and unalterable. Instead it relies on each teacher’s curriculum knowledge, teaching skill, creative faculties, love and understanding of the children.
For the teacher, the curriculum is a vehicle for an unfolding of capacities in a timely way so that each child develops harmoniously to their fullest potential.