Many parents struggle with questions around raising healthy children in a culture of ever-accelerating change and increasing global challenge. Walking into a Waldorf school has been described by some as coming home to the educational experience they have been seeking for their children.

Waldorf Education respects childhood. It recognizes that human capacities emerge in stages throughout childhood, and each child enters the school with unique potential. The curriculum expresses a commitment to healthy development, rather than promoting early intellectualizing, high-stakes testing, and rote learning. Subjects are presented with the care and vitality of an artistic experience, weaving music, movement, visual arts, drama, and handwork into the academic life of the student.

Lessons from nature abound. Kindergarten toys are baskets of shells, sticks, and stones, while the furniture is wood, and the fabrics are cottons, wool, and silk. In the early grades’ classrooms you won’t find clocks, textbooks, or computers, but wooden recorders, beanbags, and student-created main lesson books. The middle school years bring precision and academic challenge, as the young adolescent needs to exercise newly developing powers of thought. The curriculum through the Eighth Grade revolves around the development of human civilization. Mythology, legend and historic research lay a rich foundation which supports the student’s emerging perception of self within the rich culture of our modern world.

The class teacher journeys from first through eighth grade with the same group of students. This provides an opportunity for the teacher to deeply understand the path of development and unique talents of each child. A thriving sense of community is created between teacher, students and parents. Teachers strive to be loving, trusted authorities, provide examples through their own paths of inner development and learning.

The Whidbey Island Waldorf School is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year by reaching out to our surrounding community, inviting you to experience firsthand why Waldorf Education has become the fastest growing private school movement in the world.

Please join us for our upcoming Open House on Saturday, March 19 from 10:00am - 1:00pm. Bring the whole family. We will have refreshments and opportunities to meet the teachers. Learn how the curriculum is designed to address your child’s unfolding individuality. Questions, call (360)341-5686 – We are also happy to arrange individual tours at other times.

We seek to provide a school environment that fosters love of nature, respect for one another, and fertile ground for the growth of vital, inquiring young people.



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