Our Summer Camp Programs are run by experienced Waldorf Teachers and enthusiastic counsellors. Each week will have a fun theme, daily crafts and activities, lots of free play, trips to the woods, and visits to the splash pad. Our Junior Camp Program is for ages 4 – 6 and our Senior Camp Program is for […]
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See the results of the Parent Involvement Survey that we ran May-June 2017 Trillium Waldorf School (TWS) is in the process of developing a parent involvement/volunteer program, and ran a parent involvement survey in June 2017 as part of its in-depth review of parental involvement at the school (NOTE: In this survey “parent” includes guardians).
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Waldorf schools offer a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education. They integrate the arts and academics for children from early childhood through grade twelve. Waldorf Education℠ aims to inspire life-long learning in all students and to enable them to fully develop their unique capacities. Founded in the early 20th century, Waldorf Education is based on
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Waldorf education cultivates three principal faculties in children: thinking, feeling and willing. As such, it is often described as education for the “head, heart and hands.” “Head” refers to the ability to think clearly and independently. “Heart” refers to the capacity for feeling emotionally connected to one’s work and the world at large. “Hands” refers
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We know that education is more than the acquisition of information, rigid academic curricula, and high stakes testing. In fact, the world is changing so rapidly that no one can really predict what information our children will need to know in the future. However, it is clear that intellectual flexibility, creative thinking, independent judgment, moral
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Special Subjects At Trillium Waldorf School there are six Special Subject teachers who are specialists in their own field. These teachers work closely with the Grades Faculty to synchronize and integrate their work with topics being taught during Main Lesson. Woodwork Weekly woodwork class begins in fourth grade. Students first learn to complete simple shapes
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Waldorf schools offer a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education. They integrate the arts and academics for children from early childhood through grade twelve. Waldorf Education℠ aims to inspire life-long learning in all students and to enable them to fully develop their unique capacities. Founded in the early 20th century, Waldorf Education is based on the
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Trillium Waldorf School is part of an educational community of more than 2500 schools and kindergartens that circle the globe. Among the largest and fastest growing educational approaches in the world, Waldorf schools have served students in over 70 countries for 90 years. While each Waldorf school is independent, all share an approach that is
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In a Waldorf elementary school, the curriculum is presented through extended “main lessons” which focus on one subject in depth. This approach differs from other instructional approaches that allot equal time to every subject. In a Waldorf elementary school, the approximately two-hour-long main lesson “ties one topic to as many disciplines as possible”. The main
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