Higher Aspirations

In recent interviews for teachers, we have often met with aspirational people wanting to give something more. They come to us hungry for a holistic curriculum and the chance to actually teach rather than manage behaviour most of the time. They are enthused to have authentic and deep relationships with the children and they are fighting to break away from an assessment driven approach that can fail to “see” the humans that sit before them. 

It is a delight to be welcoming to our school the successful candidates and know that they are courageous in breaking the shackles of the ordinary to work in a unique and extraordinary way that was gifted to us by the indications of Steiner and via anthroposophy.  

One aspirant candidate said he just “wants to help students feel the awe of what the world is and their world can be and to not breed cynicism”. 

To romanticise the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world;it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

Source: Attributed to Novalis. Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, a German Romantic poet, philosopher, and author who lived in the late 18th century.

May the weeks of Advent be a chance for gracious reflection and a sense of wonder at the gifts we are given. 

Farewell Class 12

Thank you to all the people involved in the school journey of our Class 12 students. Many have been in our school or at Silver Tree or West Coast since they were very young and even before birth!

They are a great bunch of humans that we could witness on stage last week and will say farewell to at an assembly and later dinner tomorrow. Much credit and kudos to all the hard work and love that has gone into raising and supporting their development from playgroup to high school. It’s not always easy to be there for them and meet what they bring to us but it is very obvious that they have been well held and very much seen during their schooling.

Their parents and carers have carried the greatest load of their upbringing and we thank you for sharing your children with us for this time. May they fly and be free, grounded by wisdom and a certainty of soul.