Open Tours at Steiner

Visit

When : Fridays - 5th Dec, 6th Feb, 6th Mar

Where: Edinburgh Steiner School, 60 Spylaw Rd, Edinburgh EH10 5BR

Who: Parents with children from pre-nursery age to 16yrs

Why go:

Edinburgh Steiner School follows the Waldorf educational model, a prominent movement in Scotland. The school's approach, rooted in the principles of Rudolf Steiner, emphasises a holistic education that fosters children's emotional, spiritual, physical, and academic development. With a creative and academically rigorous curriculum, the school aims to cultivate each child's potential.

Edinburgh Steiner School Says:

Pupils 6+

• We are the only school in the Capital that does not start formal learning until children are in their seventh year (the norm globally).

• Screen-free classrooms are provided for the younger years, where play is seen as central to learning and wellbeing.

• In our rapidly changing world, having the same Class Teacher through most, if not all, of their Lower School years provides a haven of stability and continuity which is extremely rare in education.

• Each Class enjoys the experience of a wide range of specialist subject teachers on a daily basis, including two different languages from age 6.

Pupils 14+

• Irrespective of whether pupils veer towards the arts or the sciences in their exam choices, they continue to receive a valuable grounding across all subjects through the rich Main Lesson programme.

• Advanced Highers across the disciplines are part of the 2024/25 ESS exams diet.

• Exam subject pupil-to-teacher ratios are typically 8:1 or lower, resulting in consistently healthy exam results. Admissions are accepted throughout the year.

• Innovative, portfolio-based, self-directed qualifications that develop eleven creative thinking skills. Equivalent to three GCSEs.

• An embracing cohort of up to 25 pupils per year. "My peers accepted me into the class," the Open Tour pupil panel replied to the most commonly asked question from parents a young person looking to change schools.

Admissions accepted throughout the year

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