At the age of six or seven children enter the Lower School and stay with their class teacher ideally for eight years. The most essential difference of the Steiner approach to education is in the response of the curriculum to the various phases of child development and the crucial and changing relationship between teacher and child as the various phases are met. The class teacher takes the children for the first two hours of each day for a period referred to as the "main lesson" in which all the main curriculum subjects are taught, from English to geography, mathematics to history. After break time, specialist teachers teach French, German and eurythmy.

In classes I & II, the children learn to read and write and become familiar with the four rules of arithmetic. These subjects are taught through the telling of fairy tales, nature stories, legends and fables, and in songs and games, poetry and plays.