Freshwater Creek Steiner School

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Playgroups are held each week and provide a warm and welcoming space for carers and children. Two playgroups are offered and cater to children from birth to pre-kindergarten. Both playgroups flow to a gentle rhythm that incorporates kneading dough for honey buns, craft, indoor and outdoor free-play, singing, storytelling and fingerplays, and a shared morning tea and lunch (depending on the length of the session).'Stepping Stones' (for 3+yo) offers a longer session and is run as a Rostered Playgroup, enabling parents to leave their child if they are ready, in the care of Playgroup Leader Kelli and rostered parents. This provides an opportunity for the child to experience more independence in a nurturing environment, in preparation for kindergarten. Of course, parents may stay with their children for the duration of the session if they wish.

Freshwater Creek Steiner School is an independent non-denominational Primary School, Kindergarten, and Playgroup. We are a small, rural school situated on 12 acres within a farming community close to the tiny township of Freshwater Creek and surf coast beaches.

The purpose of Freshwater Creek Steiner School (FCSS) is to provide high-quality child-centered education in the light of the College of Teachers' interpretation of Rudolf Steiner's philosophy of pedagogy. In essence, Rudolf Steiner's education recognizes the soul faculties of the human being which emerge and develop during childhood. Our education is based on engaging the whole child working with the “head”, “heart”, and “hands”. Our curriculum and methodology use these faculties in the teaching of each subject area. In doing so, the faculties themselves are strengthened.

Here at Freshwater Creek Steiner School, we aim to provide an education of the highest quality so that our students become balanced adult individuals, having developed a clarity of thinking, the sensitivity of feeling, and strength of will to enable children to participate fully and constructively in contemporary Australian society. Our Mission

• Inspire within the children a love of learning, a morality that strives for goodness, an appreciation of beauty, and a pursuit of truth.
• Inspire a sense of wonder and a healthy positive connection to the world, arising from a knowledge of and responsibility toward the individuality of themselves and each other.
• Inspire a sense of the spiritual dimension for life as well as a healthy respect for the physical.
• Provide an education of the highest quality so that our students become balanced adult individuals, having developed a clarity of thinking, the sensitivity of feeling, and strength of will.
• Provide our students with the knowledge, skills and values, and strength which will enable them to work competently in the world and to participate fully and constructively in the society contemporary Australia.
• Develop in our students a desire to extend learning throughout their lives and values which will enable them to find a path in life.

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