Kindlehill School

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Kindlehill (a K-10 Steiner school) opened in the year 2000 and sits on a hill above Wentworth Falls lake, in the Blue Mountains, NSW. We are an independent school working creatively and in a new way, out of the foundation of Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy for education. We hold regular Fairs and Open Days to celebrate our community and to open our school to friends. Kindlehill runs programs from Playgroup through to High School (Year Ten).
Kindlehill is a social deed. Our purpose is to educate children and young people to be powerfully equipped to become individuals who contribute to creating a more compassionate and fair society for all. An understanding of the human being inspires our teaching, ideally including all the stages of individual life development and human evolution and informed by the pedagogical indications given by Rudolf Steiner and applied in a regional and contemporary setting.
We strive to bring a life imbued education to every child and young person in our care and acknowledge the gift that each individual brings as part of a diverse and respectful community. Cultivating the imagination, a sense of beauty, and the awakening of artistic feeling across the fields of human endeavor (including the arts), we support children and young people to become creative and resourceful for their lives and the lives of others. As the high school years unfold, added to this development of artistic imagination is fostering the young person’s efforts towards making active thinking their own and developing powers of sound judgment by which they can authentically discern whether something is real or not.
Kindlehill seeks an alignment of values between home and school. Teachers, parents, and students are a vibrant community that supports the flourishing of children and young people – and in doing so, contributes to what is suitable for all humanity. We support a culture of “growth” in which all community members see themselves as active, developing, and evolving human beings. In celebrating together, listening to and respecting each other, and cooperating and supporting each other, we model for our children and young people a society based on cooperation, respect, and empowerment.
We support Indigenous Reconciliation and strive to uphold the imperative of justice and equity for indigenous people. We acknowledge the traditional owners whose cultures and customs have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. We support children and young people in developing a relationship with nature that engenders freedom, nourishes well-being, and cultivates respectful interconnectedness as they live their lives. We acknowledge the inter-relationship between the personal, social, environmental, and spiritual dimensions of life. We value the integration of respectful, sustainable, celebratory, and fair actions in every dimension of our lives, for the good of our planetary being – now and into the future.

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