The Brighton Steiner School are holding a truly experiential Open Day on March 14th. Lots of people labour under misconceptions about Steiner Education so here’s a chance to go and find out for yourself. Parents can get hands-on and take part in lessons themselves, alongside their kids if they’re coming along. There are different programmes [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Brighton Steiner School Open Day March 14th
Posted in Education, parenting, tagged Alternative Education, Brighton, children, Education, parenting, Steiner Education on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Campaign against compulsory learning goals
Posted in OpenEYE, Parents' rights, tagged Alternative Education, Education, Home Schooling, OpenEYE, Parents' rights, Steiner Education, Waldorf Education on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are a number of websites worth visiting on the campaign for exemption from the Government’s proposed learning and development goals. http://www.savesteinerschools.org/ has up to the minute information in relation to Steiner schools, the main thrust of the OpenEYE campaign is here http://openeyecampaign.wordpress.com/about/ and the petition to the Government to reconsider is at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OpenEYE/. Please do go on [...]
Government should learn from Steiner and home schoolers
Posted in OpenEYE, Parents' rights, tagged Alternative Education, Education, Home Schooling, OpenEYE, Parents' rights, Steiner Education, Waldorf Education on February 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This according to a recent article in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/08/schools.education which says that an increase in testing and pressure to start kids in school as early as four years old are driving families away from mainstream education. A little while ago I was in the audience for a Teachers TV programme The Big Question that discussed the Cambridge review of [...]
Welcome to Steiner Dialogue
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’d like to start an open conversation with parents and teachers to discuss all aspects of Steiner education. I’m a Steiner parent myself, and one of my clients in my Communications Consultancy is a Steiner school, so I guess you could say I’m ‘pro-Steiner’ but as well as talking to people within Steiner education, I would [...]
