“Childhood is a time for learning about the essentials. About the heavenly world and the earthly; About goodness, beauty and truth…” This is a beautiful time of the year. Spring has arrived! To me Spring time represents a time of new things, transformation and rebirth. By observing nature we see change in the gardens, flowers …
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This year I am strongly connected to the Old Testament stories because these are the stories we use in the Class 3 curriculum, the year in which a complete transformation of the children’s feeling life takes place.The transformation can be accompanied by feelings of loss, fear and struggle which the bible stories are a vivid …
From the grade six year a child starts to make the transition from spontaneous to more thoughtful expression. He or she now starts to form more independent judgements about their experiences and observations. This critical perspective can be balanced through the beauty of poetry and language. So when the class six’s did their main lesson, …
We have 7 openings in the head, we have 12 vertebrae in the chest region, we have 3 different bone systems in our limbs. One strong large one in the thigh and upper arm, two bones in the lower arm and leg, and many small bones in the wrist and hands and feet and toes. …
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In the times of Umar (Radiallahu Anhu) there was a severe famine. All the people of Madinah were suffering due to the shortage of food. A caravan made up of a thousand camels loaded with a large stock of food grains belonging to Uthman (Radiallahu Anhu) arrived from Syria. Several merchants offered to buy all …
Greetings dear parents, teachers and friends of Gaia Waldorf School I, along with a few Gaia colleagues recently attended the memorial service of a Miss Carolyn Holden, a parent member of my class who had passed away suddenly during our school Autumn holidays. Her friends and family had arranged her remembrance ceremony as a celebration …
Dear Gaia Community As we move into the new term it is a joyful time and I am full of grace and gratitude for everything that we are able to share on this earth and especially at our wonderful school. The children came back with wonderful holiday stories and smiles, parents are excited to be …
Snore, snore, dream, dream, tweet, tweet, chirp, chirp, tootoo-to-toot, tootoo-to-toot, awake! 5.40 a.m. Bathroom, get dressed, check school bag, feed dog a treat, out the door. 6.05 a.m. Driving along the coastal road as the day cracks its first silver light across the dark and heaving ocean. Glencairn, Fish Hoek, St James, Muizenberg. I begin …
On 27 February 2013 Gaia will celebrate the birth of the man whose ideas and thoughts manifested in the global movement in education known as Waldorf Schools. His name was Rudolf Steiner and he was born in 1861 in what is now Croatia and died on 30 March 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland. Steiner had a …
Dear Gaia Community As the fourth week of the first term comes to a close, what has been constant is the warm sunny days! The sun has greeted us a few times at seven o clock in the morning as if to say: I am here to stay! Many days it seemed that the heat …
Our dedication is to educate the whole child towards creative responsibility and freedom in an environment based on loving guidance and respect for the whole individual. And, to further the principles of education as expounded by Rudolf Steiner.
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