Welcome to a thriving school on the Islington-Hackney borders serving the local community in all its wondrous diversity...
- French – German: From the kindergartens when songs and nursery rhymes reflect the mother tongues of the group to the early classes when languages are learnt by song and rhyme and games to the mastery of grammar in the latters years diversity of language and culture is at the core of the Steiner school. At present French and German are taught but we have interest in Italian and Spanish.
- Handwork: Manual dexterity is an essential part of developing the capacity to think, read and write. In the kindergarten before joining Class I, children begin to weave using simple frames they have made by themselves. From Class l handwork is taught as a specialist subject, with children first learning to knit on 2 needles, the crochet, crosstitch, knit on 4 needles, before moving on to more complex creative projects.
- Music including Orchesta: Music and singing are woven into the day from kindergarten with finger games and songs through to Class I, when all children start to play the recorder, and onwards to Class III, when they are encouraged to take up a 2nd instrument and join the class or school orchestra. Every morning through out the school the day is started with movement exercises and singing. A class will grow from singing unison pentatonic songs at 7 years old to accomplished part singers in the later class years. Cookery, Gardening and Woodwork are introduced from Class VI.
