As children live in wonder of the world and experience joy in the explorations and discoveries each new day, they rekindle in us as parents and teachers a new reverence for life. Meaningful festivals help root our children in the continuity of time and also lift us as adults out of our everyday difficulties and …
I grew up in the Klein Karoo, in the small village of McGregor where I attended the McGregor Waldorf School from class 1 to class 7. My family then moved to Cape Town where I completed high school and matriculated at Constantia Waldorf School. When I joined the Gaia community/school in August last year the …
“The healthy social life is only found, when in the mirror of each human soul, the whole community finds its reflection and when, in the community, the virtue of each one is living.” The above verse is said together at the start of our community meetings, so as to set the highest intention for the …
On Friday 18 March I will say goodbye to my beloved class and this wonderful school community to soon become a mother myself. I do this with much sadness but more so with overflowing gratitude for the gifts I have received during my time at Gaia Waldorf. ‘Where do you come from? Where will you …
Six years ago when I joined Gaia, one of the gardeners, Cederick, was raising the sweetest grey and white kitten. Every morning he would walk past the kindergarten with this tiny kitten perched on his shoulder. He clearly adored her and in time we found out that her name was “Blondie”! It was love at …
In preparing this article for the Gaia Rainbow, I pondered on the question of the relevance of Waldorf education in the new millennia. This is clearly a very relevant question – judging by the problems mainstream schools are facing with poor outcomes despite massive government investment in education. In researching this I came across an …
When I first joined the Gaia community as a class teacher back in 2006, the school was a very different place. It was much smaller in size and in numbers and the building…well, let’s just say it would be unrecognisable today! For starters, we had an uninvited resident living in both of the downstairs aftercare …
Lying on the beautiful green, grassy banks of the Breede River with only the sweet sounds of nature around, I hear in the distance a sound coming closer – a beautiful happy sound, a sound even more lovely than nature – the sound of my class 7 children. They are running toward the rafts just …
When Tariro was a toddler, we would take him to Oude Molen to feed the horses and when he was 4 years old, he told us he wanted to attend Gaia Waldorf School. In January 2010, Tariro commenced his journey in the kindergarten class with teachers Rowena and Mamoeti. Tariro remembers a lot of time …
Having just completed a class play with class four, and performing it for the parents and the Primary School, I was once again reminded of why these plays are so valuable for the children. Of course the story line of the play is itself curriculum-based and therefore inwardly supporting the children, but the entire production …
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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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Oude Molen Village, Alexandra Road, Pinelands, Cape Town
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