All children in Scotland have the legal right to start school after they turn five.
In Edinburgh, this parental choice is supported by ELC funding for up to 30 hours a week during term time.
In a Waldorf Kindergarten, learning is taught by example. Soup-making Mondays provide scope for...
fine motor skills to be exercised through honing the safe use of domestic utensils like the peeler, grater and knife.
Preparing the food provides the fodder for mathematical concepts to be grasped (counting, sequencing, addition, quantity, weight, shape, subtraction, measure, more or less).
Language is broadened through discussion of ingredients, flavour and how produce is grown; individual proclivities and intolerances; and family food
culture.
Creativity is explored in food presentation; taste, touch, smell, sight; ways of cooking vs raw; differentiation in varieties; discovering colour, texture, shape, form in three-dimensions.
Social and emotional development are nurtured through contributing to the 'Stone Soup', making the meal collectively; breaking bread together.
An understanding of seasonality and a circular ecosystem are cultivated experientially through feeding the wildlife leftovers, composting, and growing their own organic vegetables.
When a child observes the perseverance of an adult completing a mundane chore with as much reverence and pleasure as the pieces of work we do enjoy, it imparts the work ethic that any task can be a job well done.
Seedlings (aged 2+) Kindergarten (3.5 years - 6 old)
Accepting Early Years applications for 2024/25 now: admissions@edinburghsteinerschool.org.uk
Up to 1140 hours met by Early Learning & Childcare (ELC) funding
