Golden Hill Steiner School

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Golden Hill offers your child a wonderful place to learn and grow. Whether considering Playgroup, Kindergarten, or Primary School options, you will find the environment, curriculum, and community of our school welcoming and enriching. We offer an approach to education that seeks to nourish your child physically, intellectually, and spiritually.

Our school resides in the beautiful coastal town of Denmark, WA. We welcome you to come and visit our fantastic school with warm hearts and let us share with you all we learn and do.

Discover a holistic approach to education based on a child-centered learning pathway through heart, head, and hands. Golden Hill Primary School offers a holistic learning program, which integrates academic, artistic, social, and spiritual aspects into an educational pathway designed to foster.

• Individual capability
• Confident participation
• A life-long love of learning

We are a non-denominational school, guided and supported by the Steiner Education of Australia (SEA) network, to create a child-orientated and developmentally appropriate approach to curriculum, resources, and teaching practice. We work from a longstanding commitment to values and practices that promote each child's physical and spiritual health and well-being. We work as a community to seek kindness, joy, reflective practices, and cooperation, promoting sustainable harmony and developing capabilities within each individual to prosper and thrive.

Our school staff body draws strongly on the insights of Rudolf Steiner and the Steiner Waldorf Educational Philosophy, which is based on an ideological framework that also extends into health, agriculture, therapy, and the arts. The breadth and depth of Steiner's theory of human nature and social renewal are too vast and complex to summarize quickly. However, on this page, the Educational Philosophy Overview attempts to provide a gateway of understanding into the Steiner approach to education and its realization in the classroom at Golden Hill.

At the foundation of Steiner's philosophy is a search for resilience against dogma. Steiner believed in the importance of an individual's discovery and self-discovery journey, which leads to conscious and responsible individual development and community participation. Each family at Golden Hill explores and expresses the Steiner philosophy according to their particular wishes and preferences. The school provides resources and workshop opportunities to assist each parent with their exploration of the philosophy.

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) recognizes the Australian Steiner Curriculum Framework as an alternative curriculum that offers equivalent educational outcomes in English, Math's, History, and Science, to the mainstream system. The Steiner Curriculum offers a unique educational journey based on a holistic approach and quality content.

Steiner education's central aim is to develop and integrate the faculties of thought, feeling, and willingness in the child often referred to as Heart, Head, and Hands. This holistic approach creates a beautiful foundation for your child's initiative and moral strength in adult life. Steiner Education has as its core purpose the aim to meet the child's needs in a developmentally appropriate way. This allows the child to shine.

The curriculum endeavors to meet the children's inner needs at different stages of their development, not only with a change in style and method of teaching but also with careful choice of teaching materials.

The child's development grows from an early sense of wonder to intellectual awakening and a thirst for knowledge. As the child moves from Kindergarten through the Primary years, the curriculum is designed to present one subject at a time and in a way that will best awaken the child's powers. The teacher shapes the subject matter to suit the class's experience, abilities, and individual qualities.

As in any school, the children face increasing difficulty as they grow from year to year. In Steiner schools, the children also meet particular subjects, topics, and cultures according to the development of their thought and being. After their schooling, the children will have studied many East and West cultures, both ancient and modern. Our curriculum satisfies all the WA Department of Education curriculum outcomes in all the key learning areas. The following overview will give a general picture of the main themes (main lessons) covered in the preceding years. This is not a comprehensive curriculum guide. It does not cover specialist subjects or other subjects, which are not delivered through main lessons such as social development, physical education, or visual arts.

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