West Coast Steiner School is committed to being a Child Safe Organisation taking a preventative and participatory stance on child protection issues and promoting a child safe environment.
Primary
Educating the whole child.
A curriculum that balances intellectual growth and creative expression.
Primary School at West Coast Steiner School is the beginning of formal academic learning via an integrated curriculum that balances intellectual growth and creative expression. Introducing core subjects such as literacy when children are developmentally ready means they are eager and therefore enjoy learning, and equal or surpass national curriculum literacy targets by age nine or ten.
The essence of the Steiner approach is the principle that education is an art. Whatever the subject, its presentation must be alive, and it must speak directly to the child’s experience. Each child is valued as a complete individual and a caring, rather than competitive, relationship is encouraged between students.
Our approach
Our approach is centred on building strong connections between children, teachers, community and the world around us. It is holistic, relationship-based and human centred.
For that reason each class has a Primary Teacher who, where possible, stays with the children from Class 1 through to Class 6 and develops an in-depth understanding of the children, both as individuals and as a class group.
West Coast Steiner School educators are highly qualified and dedicated to creating a genuine love of learning, and to respecting each developmental stage of childhood when shaping lessons, planning activities, and creating the classroom environment.
A healthy start for a healthy future.
Steiner schools develop the student’s capacity to learn, to be open to life and to develop a sense of meaning and purpose. A non-competitive environment allows children the time to learn and develop at the pace they need and protects them from the pressure to enter the adult world prematurely.
Being part of a class community that journey together through the primary years awakens individual capacities and social awareness. In this way, not only is the individual’s development fostered, but students are encouraged to develop a genuine regard and respect for humanity and service to others.
"The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, the heart and will must be reached, as well as the mind."
Rudolf Steiner
Ready to explore our Primary School?
Book a school tour or contact our Enrolments Team today on 9440 1771 or enrolments@wcss.wa.edu.au.